The g20 police scare, issues and the reality so far.

The world is suffering from a bad case of neo-liberalism. People are up in arms at the failure of this ideology. Not surprisingly the police are being used by the state to marginalise the protesters and confuse the issues. Just as unsurprisingly the media are eating up the propaganda despite a coalition of formidable diversity; religious, development, environmental, labour and other groups all standing together for a better way of doing things.

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G20 in London: protest and propaganda

You may have heard in the news that the G20 are meeting in London in the coming week.

The main notable aspect of the runup to the meeting is the sheer quantity of negative and frankly terrifying propaganda coming out of all the 'independent' press we have here in the UK. On the basis of what the police tell them the media are out of control frothing at the mouth. It's rare to get such confusion, conflation and crap all mixed together into one basic narative. the very diversity of the views involved has caused the media to narrow it's focus to a tiny range--questions range from 'are these people dangerous' all the way to 'just how dangerous are these people'.

On the positive side:

• An awesome group of people created a special edition of the Financial Times.
• A march is being organised by Unions, green groups, religious, aid and development charities. Thats a pretty broad swathe of society. They are all very reasonable in there demands: jobs, justice, climate action.
• You can sign up for live on the day txt updates from the climate camp!
• There are loads of events planned.
  

Related:

• #g20 on twitter.
• put people first march.
• climate camp in the city.
  

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