Resist the meeting of the international elite!
someone | 23.10.2004 18:21
A couple of groups connected to the Dissent! Network are calling for action against the "Rule Making in Global Capital Markets" conference to be held in Wilton PArk house in Styning from 5th-6th November 2004. The following is the text of the flyer. PDF versions of the flyer and poster are available from 
brightonantig8@yahoo.co.uk
brightonantig8@yahoo.co.uk
Remember, remember the 5th of November
Resist the Meeting of the International Elite!
Over the last few years, meetings of the rich and powerful – the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, the G8, NATO etc… - have been heavily contested by the world’s people. The 2005 G8 Summit, to be held in the UK, looks set to be the next focus of global resistance. The Dissent! Network in the UK is co-ordinating the anti-capitalist mobilisation against the Summit. As important as these meetings have been as focuses of resistance, the formulation of global policy isn’t limited to these Kodak moments.
On 5th and 6th November 2004 some of the worlds most powerful people are planning on meeting in the Sussex countryside to discuss “International Rule Making for Global Capital Markets”. The conference will bring together members of the US Treasury Department, the IMF, the European Commission and the German Stock Exchange with heads of business and industry and leading academics. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate informal networking and frank and “off-the-record” discussion between those with the power to facilitate the smoother management of the global economy – a system based upon the daily exploitation of the vast majority of the world’s population, the pursuit of war and the destruction of ecologies.
We have other plans!
Whilst the primary focus of the Dissent! Network is upon co-ordinating radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit, the Network is hoping to achieve far more than merely organising one spectacular day of action. We are hoping to build a lasting anti-capitalist movement in the UK and to strengthen local and global networks of struggle. As one contribution to this process, a number of groups affiliated to the Network, based in the South East of England, are calling for groups and individuals across the country to resist the meeting of the international elite planned to take place at Wilton Park in November.
The Conference commences at 14:30 on Friday 5th November and ends early on Saturday afternoon. We are calling for people to resist the meeting however they see fit. Organise yourselves into small groups, talk about what you can imagine doing, organise your own actions and communicate with others. Up-to-date information and a legal and action briefing will be available on the evening of Thursday 4th November in Brighton, the exact location of this meeting, along with maps of the area and info updates will be available at: www.freewebs.com/shuttheg8 or by calling the Info-Phone: 07837 942373. If you require accommodation in either Brighton or Worthing on the Thursday or Friday night, email: brightonantig8@yahoo.co.uk as soon as possible.
MEET 2:30pm FRIDAY 5th NOVEMBER AT PLAYING FIELDS, VICARAGE LANE, STEYNING (OPPOSITE ST. ANDREWS CHURCH, NEXT TO STEYNING COMMUNITY CENTRE)
FOR INFO ON MEETING POINT IN BRIGTHON SEE www.freewebs.com/shuttheg8 OR PHONE 0
Resist the Meeting of the International Elite!
Over the last few years, meetings of the rich and powerful – the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, the G8, NATO etc… - have been heavily contested by the world’s people. The 2005 G8 Summit, to be held in the UK, looks set to be the next focus of global resistance. The Dissent! Network in the UK is co-ordinating the anti-capitalist mobilisation against the Summit. As important as these meetings have been as focuses of resistance, the formulation of global policy isn’t limited to these Kodak moments.
On 5th and 6th November 2004 some of the worlds most powerful people are planning on meeting in the Sussex countryside to discuss “International Rule Making for Global Capital Markets”. The conference will bring together members of the US Treasury Department, the IMF, the European Commission and the German Stock Exchange with heads of business and industry and leading academics. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate informal networking and frank and “off-the-record” discussion between those with the power to facilitate the smoother management of the global economy – a system based upon the daily exploitation of the vast majority of the world’s population, the pursuit of war and the destruction of ecologies.
We have other plans!
Whilst the primary focus of the Dissent! Network is upon co-ordinating radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit, the Network is hoping to achieve far more than merely organising one spectacular day of action. We are hoping to build a lasting anti-capitalist movement in the UK and to strengthen local and global networks of struggle. As one contribution to this process, a number of groups affiliated to the Network, based in the South East of England, are calling for groups and individuals across the country to resist the meeting of the international elite planned to take place at Wilton Park in November.
The Conference commences at 14:30 on Friday 5th November and ends early on Saturday afternoon. We are calling for people to resist the meeting however they see fit. Organise yourselves into small groups, talk about what you can imagine doing, organise your own actions and communicate with others. Up-to-date information and a legal and action briefing will be available on the evening of Thursday 4th November in Brighton, the exact location of this meeting, along with maps of the area and info updates will be available at: www.freewebs.com/shuttheg8 or by calling the Info-Phone: 07837 942373. If you require accommodation in either Brighton or Worthing on the Thursday or Friday night, email:
brightonantig8@yahoo.co.uk as soon as possible. MEET 2:30pm FRIDAY 5th NOVEMBER AT PLAYING FIELDS, VICARAGE LANE, STEYNING (OPPOSITE ST. ANDREWS CHURCH, NEXT TO STEYNING COMMUNITY CENTRE)
FOR INFO ON MEETING POINT IN BRIGTHON SEE www.freewebs.com/shuttheg8 OR PHONE 0
someone
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Who do you mean by the 'international elite'?
23.10.2004 22:45
The bosses / market who control our lives, backed up by the law both criminal and civil enforced ultimately by the police.
A clear open generally understood hierarchy of power exists from those that directly control our lives and limit our choices to those that hold high executive power coming together in institutions of that power such as the G8.
Interactions between people that lead to our alienation from our own tasks are complex. We in many cases must revert to shorthand or jargon, for sake of getting task of communicating done.
A vast history of political understanding and debate has generally used the label 'ruling class' for this strata.
The above post uses the term 'international elite', which I guess is a variation on 'global elite' which was used in Dissent/PGA-e call to action, and intro to Days of Dissent booklet.
What do those that choose to use this term mean by it?
As it is a very particular term in it's ironic mocking use of word elite, which it's bearers would often be proud to label oneself: elite athletes, elite forces, an elite education.
The use of term 'global elite' with it's fuzziness around issue of direct open executive power is favoured by some of those that seek to seize power and then maintain it by justifying their power in that they are still fighting the 'global elite' on behalf of general population. Various fantasies can be projected on the vague 'global elite'. As a result I feel it is a disempowering term to be used by our movement.
An example of a particular term used in similar way by the Stalinists was 'rootless cosmopolitans'
When one picks up on such a term the term one looks to how it has been used for an understanding of what wishes of those using are, not just the dictionary definition of word used.
bunny
Homepage:
http://www.ourmayday.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Global_Elite
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24.10.2004 16:20
Anyway though, it's good to see people questioning language. There's all kinds of hidden ideology inside the words people use, so it's good to question words and make sure we're talking about things on our terms, using our frames of reference rather than those of the er... elite.
Examples would include terms such as "global south" instead of "developing world" or "third world".
Ozymandias