SHUT THE G8

Pollution. Poverty. Starvation. War. The world's in a mess. But who put us there? Step forward the eight most powerful industrial states in the world, otherwise known as the G8.

Up until a few years ago, this unelected wannabe world government went about its business quietly and effectively. That was until people started getting wise to its agenda and turning up outside its meetings in rather large numbers.

Remember the human chain in Birmingham in 1998? The solidarity protests for the Cologne summit held in London on June 18, 1999? And who could forget the G8's meeting in Genoa in 2001 when semi-fascist Italian police smashed heads left and right leaving one young man, Carlo Giuliani, dead in the road.

None of this has swayed the G8 from its relentless march towards corporate colonisation of the planet, imposing ruthless capitalism everywhere by means of economic blackmail, corruption, state terrorism and warfare. Make no mistake these are the "bad guys" of the early 21st century.

The G8 is meeting in Gleneagles on the 6-8th of July 2005 and they are sure to 
encounter a massive wave of opposition when they come to flaunt their power on 
our shores. People are already organising to voice their anger. A national 
network, called Dissent!, has been set up. 
 
SHUT THE G8 is just one of many autonomous, non-hierarchical, local groups 
springing up to pave the way for these protests. We happen to be based in Worthing, 
West Sussex. Our aim is to educate the public as to what the G8 is, why we oppose 
it, and why they should join us on the streets in Gleneagles in 2005.
 
The website is slowly taking shape so please bear with us while we fill it with 
information and links you may be looking for. If you want to join our efforts in 
any way, just get in touch by emailing shuttheg8@hotmail.com.
 
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23TOPIA is dead! Long live 23TOPIA!

23TOPIA was never a place, never an organisation, never anything that
could be categorised, authorised, criminalised or sanctified.

23TOPIA was an act, a beautiful act of defiance, an explosive device
spraying colour shrapnel across the monotone wastelands of the great
ghetto of chronic consumerism and terminal TV dependency we know as
Worthing.

Our act of resistance had a beginning and an end, but for the most
considered and timely acts, the end is always in fact the beginning.

An act, like 23TOPIA, can never be undone, expunged or evicted. 23TOPIA
is now a reality that has forever left its imprint.

23TOPIA lives on, and will always live on, in a multiplicity of
unfathomable ways.

23TOPIA lives on in every tiny act of assertion and defiance of
arbitrary
authority, in every momentary thought-crime that passes through the
mind
of the slave who knows, deep down, that freedom can never be
eradicated.

23TOPIA lives on in the breeze on Cissbury Ring, in the spray of the
waves at Splash Point, in the ancient woodlands of Titnore, where the
birdsong even now falls silent in anticipation of the murderous
violence
about to be unleashed by the slavemasters and their money machines.

23TOPIA lives on in the nexus of new friendships and understandings
born
from its creative flash and the collective will that its alchemy has
conjured from the disparate despairs and frustrations of a small army
of
lost souls, dreamers and champions of the human spirit against the
Goliath of global greed.

23TOPIA lives on in the rising tide of certainty that another world is
not just possible, but necessary.

23TOPIA has been and gone!

23TOPIA is here to stay!