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From: "SchNEWS"
To: "SchNEWS Subscribers"
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:48:17 +0000
Subject: SchNEWS 151, Friday 23rd January 1998
Reply-to: schnews@brighton.co.uk
Global Street Party! - 16 May 98
"Imagine the kick of taking back your street in the knowledge that
all over the world people are doing the same! A Global Street Party
has the potential to be a defining moment of resistance."
Since its first appearance in London in 1995, the street party has been
erupting across the world with its collision of love and rage, carnival
and revolution, politics and party. From Leeds to Sydney, Amsterdam to
Edinburgh, Berlin to Israel, thousands of people have banished the car,
danced defiantly, transformed private space and created their own
extraordinary local festivals of resistance. Now a proposal has come from
London and Finland to hold a Global Street Party on SAT 16th MAY `98
This date coincides with the 1998 G8 meeting in Birmingham, where world
leaders of the 8 largest economies meet to make decisions about the
future of the planet and its peoples. They will then all fly to Geneva
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of GATT. There they will sign more
agreements which enable them to wrench ever more power and control
away from local communities and siphon it into the self-appointed
dictatorship that is the World Trade Organisation. Reclaim The Streets
(RTS) want to know what you think about a Global Street Party Day? Let
them know asap!
(by the 5th Feb)
* Reclaim The Streets, PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY
* Tel: 0171 281 4621
* Email: rts@gn.apc.org
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