[Imc-london] London events list

[Tony]

I would like to suggest an addition to the London events list:
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For every Sunday:
Specific link: www1.atwiki.com/picnic

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September 18th 2005 	 Special Event
Title	Peoples/Creative Commons
	London
Location	Parliament Square
Phone Contact	0785 439 0408
Topic / Issue	Civil Rights
The MPs are back this week, so, please distribute widely and if you 
can - please come along. [This is an edited version of last week's 
Invitation]

12 Noon Every Sunday, Parliament Square, London
Defend the Right To Protest- Creative Commons/Picnic/Tea Party

Ladies and Gentlemen, Help Us to Reclaim the Commons!
Invitation: You are cordially invited to join us for our weekly 
People's Commons Meeting/Mad Hatters Tea Party/Picnic-Protest on the 
Green at Parliament Square, Westminster. We meet every Sunday at 12 
Noon. Help us to reclaim this symbolic space.

Background: Building on the sunny success of our previous meetings, 
initially held in response to New Labour's attempt to criminalise the 
Right to Peacefully Demonstrate [without permission] in Westminster, 
we are now striving to reclaim and create an alternative 
Creative/People's Commons.

What to Bring/Wear/Theme: Bring whatever you think will help make the 
party a success, but especially bring yourselves.Particularly useful 
are food, drink, music, banner-making materials, games (cricket, 
frissbee, croquet etc) bubbles, flowers and new ideas for the future. 
it's a party, so depending on weather conditions, please dress up! 
Edwardian/Suffragette, Keystone Cops and Robbers Doing Hard [New] 
Labour, Clowns, 60s Revolutionaries, Children, Jedis (with or without 
light sabres). Or just come as you are.

What Happens/Featuring:

Local - The Creative/People's Commons Meeting (towards a DIY, 
non-hierarchical participatory form of democracy) in which all those 
who wish to take part are invited to sit together and speaking their 
minds on whatever subject they feel moved to. One person Facilitates 
and another takes Minutes, and these roles rotate each week.

Global - Free The Tea: in which a group of revolutionaries walk down 
to the Thames and half way across the river throw tea bags (PG Tips, 
pyramid shaped) into the river in support of the proposed tax on 
international currency trade (Currency Transaction Tax or CTT) aimed 
at ring fencing billions of pounds each year for international 
development. This feature is a protest at our government's (and the 
G8's) neo-liberal attitude to Trade Justice. See early Day Motion 500 
currently before the House of Commons for more on the CTT and 
www.tobintax.org.uk. No More Corporate Representation without 
International Taxation!

Spiritual - Prayer Vigil for Justice and Peace: a silent moment 
asking for help in the battle for a better world, for individuals of 
all faiths and/or none. Takes place at/around 4pm.

Art - Banner Making: we will continue to challenge the workability 
and justness of the new law by making banners. One idea recently 
suggested - let's do a full demo but with 100% Peace and Love Banners 
and see what the Met makes of that. Sounds like a great idea.

So please do tell your friends, spread the word and if you can come 
along and join us for more creative, beautiful, peaceful acts of 
defiance, and over time we will see what is possible. For more 
details, and links to images and reports from previous weeks, please 
see www1.atwiki.com/picnic (an easily editable web page in which 
everyone is invited to contribute ideas etc regarding the 
organisation and direction of the event), 
www.parliamentprotest.org.uk (a more general site that covers all 
aspects of the Right to Protest movement), 
www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/right-to-protest.shtml 
(Liberty website's section on Right To Protest etc)

Hope to see you there! 12 Noon, on the Green, Parliament Square, 
Westminster, every Sunday, just behind Brian Haw's banners. If we can 
keep going, every week, with your help the Creative Commons will go 
from strength to strength.

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and i suppose the Anti-war demo should be up there...

cheers tony
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