G20 protest

[Lynne]

In St. Andrews, we say "Nae Tae G20!

No to G20 neo-liberalism! No to economic exploitation! No to environmental destruction!

Yes to sustainability, community cooperation and peoples' representation!
Yes to liberation, solidarity, equality, human rights and peace!
Yes to revolution!

On the first weekend in November, the financial leaders of the world's twenty richest countries will be hosting closed door meetings in order to decide how our world should be run. The Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers have chosen to host these meetings in the town of St. Andrews, Scotland, and in response groups of residents and students have paved the way to make our voices heard.

We the residents and students of this community are coming into the streets to say loud and clear, "The G20 is not welcome in our town," or as the Scots say, "Nae tae G-20!" We are joining together to say that the neo-liberal development, trade and environmental policies furthered by the G20 will not solve the global financial crisis, not solve the global ecological crisis and do not address the ever-increasing wealth gap. We are resisting the G20 because it is a mechanism of the global ruling elite that seeks to enrich the "1st world" at the expense of increasing poverty for the "underdeveloped" and "developing" world.

There are a number of organizations making exciting plans in St. Andrews during the weekend of the G20 meeting, and while Put People First (g20standrews.org) has organized an educational event, we have set our sights on getting people into the streets to show our collective dissent. To this end we have called for two days of festive actions:

- Friday, November 6, 2009, 11:00am, join us for a protest rally at the center of town fountain, located near the intersection of Market Street and College Street.

- Saturday, November 7, 2009, 1:30pm, join us for a march, also starting at the fountain at the center of town. The march will be gathering at 1:30pm and departing by 2:00pm.

In addition to these actions, groups are encouraged to organize locally in their communities, and come to St. Andrews to share their creative resistance with us during these two days. We will do our best to support your action if you require some assistance.

This action has been endorsed locally by Stop the War, the Scottish Socialist Party, numerous St. Andrews University student societies, and assorted Scottish workers unions.

Please direct all questions, endorsements, press inquiries and hate mail to NaeTaeG20@gmail.com and for more information as it arises visit: http://naetaeg20.wordpress.com/

See you in the streets, November 6th & 7th!

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-- brought to you by Nae Tae G20, an adhoc group of St. Andrews residents who love St. Andrews and hate the G20

[Rodeta (Neus)]

There is also an alternative summit being organized with speakers, workshops and showing of "The Yes Man" movie.
For more information check out: http://www.g20standrews.org/Home.html
if you are Edinburgh University students there might be still places available in the coach some societies managed to convince EUSA to fund (you'd pay a fee of 2 pounds)
leaving at 9am and coming back at 17.30 (I think, most surely)

[swithun]

This was the scene at 11 this morning. Even the pigs couldn't be arsed to turn up. Looks like capitalism will live another day.

[Rodeta (Neus)]

On the other hand (some people held the traffic on Friday for the conference):

[ChaoticReality]

I know that guy!

[swithun]

True - they changed the location, and it was all happening round the corner. Doh.