On 16th-17th June, 2005, the G8 justice ministers will meet in Sheffield. They will be discussing how to prosecute Bush's 'War on Terror'. They are the justice of indefinite detention without judicial review, the type of justice that takes you abroad if the local laws won't allow torture, that at Guantanamo Bay treats American citizens one way and everyone else (including British citizens) in another.

They are the people who think that inspiring a lively sense of terror in their subjects makes ID cards ok, and that keeping out asylum seekers who are not quite oppressed enough is more important than social justice for their own people. And this will be the first round of our on going resistance to the G8 in the UK that another, as we believe that a better world can, should and will be possible if only they will let it.

And so people in Sheffield are calling on the movement for action to be taken and alternatives to be presented to these people. We are offering our support for any groups coming to Sheffield, suggesting that the movement should run a week of counter conference events leading up to the summit, and offering the Sheffield Social Forum as a coordinating space for action.