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Home | Friday 13th March 2009 | Issue 668

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G20-20 VISION

In the build-up to the G20 Summit in London April 1st-2nd (See SchNEWS 667), this Saturday (14th) the G20 Finance Ministers are holding pre-summit talks at an upmarket holiday home in West Sussex. Finance ministers and central bank governors will be choppered in to enjoy £500-a-night rooms (which even includes a comprehensive pillow menu for you to choose from - no really!).

A badly kept secret, the location is 40 miles south of London at the South Lodge Hotel, in Brighton Road, Lower Beeding, near Horsham. It won’t be hard to spot, with roadblocks, armed police, and bridleways and footpaths in the area closed off, in a £6 million police operation on the scale of a Brighton Labour Party conference.

 


* Also, on February 28th, security at the Excel Centre in East London’s Docklands had a taste of things to come when it hosts the G20 Summit next month, after anti-arms campaigners protested at The Baby Show, being held there. This protest targeted Clarion Events, who hold this and other trade shows in London, including the DSEi Arms Fair, which is happening again this September at the Excel Centre (for previous Clarion protests see SchNEWS 655)

See also www.dsei.org

 


* There are a range of protests against the G20 Summit in London April 1st-2nd bringing together those fighting against various aspects of capitalism and climate change.

See www.g-20meltdown.org www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20 www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org

Keywords: clarion events, disarm dsei, dsei, excel centre, g20, london, sussex


 

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