Indeed. They're so opposed to any attempt to think about alternatives, that the University of East London shut itself down entirely for two days to prevent an "Alternative G20 summit" from taking place. Hadas's idea that what all we're lacking is someone who can "articulate a coherent alternative to the establishment's tattered notions" is just idiotic (and far more naïve than the G20 protesters, who realize that what we need to figure out is how to bring about an alternative).
Voyou
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This is great news. This is the kind of site specific example to show all sorts of junctures, weakness, or linkages...and make demands.
The students need to organize an on campus location, like a plaza and set up a noon rally that presents speakers who address exactly what was supposed to be presented at the alternate G20 summit.
The university will try to stop that kind of open rally somehow. Have to organize for a sound system, get the speakers together, also mass copy some of the short papers that address the economic issues and demands.
So if the University tries to make such an open rally illegal, then it also becomes a academic freedom and free speech issue. It multiplies the war front in our favor.If they bring in the cops, even better. Then it becomes a political problem, that can be turned on the political representative (MP?) which in turn feeds back to alternatives to the current G20.
I am trying to imagine this. I don't mean to lecture you. I am really explaining how the early Berkeley FreeSpeech movement got started here. That movement became the basis for much that followed.
Well, anyway. keep us (LBO) posted on development like you just noted at East London. Our press of course never covers that kind of thing.
Solidarity!
CG