On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> There's a G20 summit coming up in London next week, and people who work in >> or travel through the area where it's being held are being advised not to >> travel there or go to work because of the demonstrations that are expected. >> To my chagrin I have already booked time off for other reasons, so I don't >> get a freebie day off. Argh. Anyway, I mentioned to some colleagues that I'd >> photographed similar fun & games at a previous demo, in 2000, and promised >> to put up a website of the pictures. >> >> Some of the people who've been hanging around here for years have seem them >> before. Here they are: >> >> http://www.web-options.com/Mayday2000/ >> >> Enjoy - it was an enjoyable spring day, even though someone stole my MG. The >> pictures were shot with 2 MXs, a SMC P-A 24-35/3.5 lens and probably a SMC >> P-A 70-210/4. >> >> "Resistance is fertile" was a slogan of the day, which was supposed to be >> about "guerrilla gardening". > > G20? Kripes. It used to be G7. Okay, I think it used to be G6, but > our then PM Mulroney was real cozy with Reagan and we got in to make > it G7. Quite a feather in our cap, considering we had nowhere near > the power and wealth of the 6 other countries. But there we were, in > the ever-so-exclusive G7! We felt pride, we felt all tingly and fuzzy > inside - either that or it was a bit of bad sushi, one can't be > sure... > > Well, now that it's up to 20 it seems like pretty much anyone can get > in. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. > > Oh year, wonderful gallery, Bob! > > cheers, > frank >
The G20 is a different group, a rotating conference of the finance ministers of the 19 largest national economies as well as the EU itself. Canada joined the G6 under Trudeau in 76. The G8 btw is a completely seperate group, it's nominally the G7 + Russia, but is a conference of heads of government rather than finance ministers. M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
