WDM banned from G20 by Downing Street

e-mail sent to Green colleague of mine, Councillor Romayne Phoenix:

WDM banned from G20 by Downing Street

Dear Romayne,

Today I was going to bring you news and updates from the G20 conference
taking place in London. As the leaders of the rich countries of the
world meet, I was hoping to provide commentary and promote WDM's
message of justice for the world's poor. WDM believes that any solution
to the global financial crisis needs to put people first.

However Downing Street have other ideas. Yesterday WDM's accreditation
was withdrawn at the last minute. The reason is unclear but a member of
the accreditation team told us that the decision came after the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office had received a note from 'Number 10' to decline
my accreditation.

I am outraged that we have apparently been banned at last minute from
attending the G20 summit. I hope it's not what it appears to be - an
attempt to stage manage events and prevent voices of dissent and
disagreement from being heard.

Benedict Southworth

Please take action now:

We've collected together some online actions that you can do:

The G20 are using a system called Yoosk to ask questions - vote for our
question about why we've been banned to be answered by Gordon Brown
(this worked on Youtube before)
You'll need to register on the website - our question can be found
here (further down the page - click on the vote icon to vote)
http://www.yoosklondonsummit.com

Visit the official G20 summit website and leave feedback:
http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/

If you're on twitter, please send the following message (this informs
Downing Street, as well as the official bloggers at the summit)

@downingstreet bans @wdmuk from #g20 conference at last minute - our
#g20voice has been silenced. Why? please RT http://tinyurl.com/cofm4k

And there is the officially syndicated bloggers including the likes of
Bob Geldof (who have been funded by Downing Street) G20 Voice - please
comment and ask why we have been excluded.
http://www.whitebandaction.org/g20voice

Visit www.wdm.org.uk/putpeoplefirst for a full list and updates if we
have any.