G7 Welcoming Committee Records is an independent record label started by Chris Hannah, Jord Samolesky of Propagandhi and their friend Regal in 1997. The label is based in Winnipeg, Canada and mostly gives out artists and speakers that are for social change and have a radical point of view. The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... Propagandhi is an anti-racist, anti-fascist, gay positive, pro feminist, vegan, animal rights, anarchist, and anti-capitalist progressive punk rock band formed in Winnipeg, Canada in 1992. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada location. ...

Political Aspect

According to the G7 website, when the label was established, the founders hoped "to create a label that politically radical bands and speakers could unflinchingly support and call home; where the driving force behind the label's output was social change and radical thought; and where the structure of the organization didn't contradict itself by mimicking the structures of unbalanced power and hierarchy in the profit-driven corporate world." To this end the label incorporates the economic structure Parecon proposed by Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert. Participatory economics, or parecon, a participatory economics system proposed as an alternative to other systems such as capitalism and coordinatorism, emerged from the work of the radical theorist Michael Albert and of the radical economist Robin Hahnel, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Robin Hahnel is a Professor of Economics at American University. ... Categories: Stub | 1947 births | 20th Century philosophers | U.S. philosophers ...

The name is a reference to the G7 (latterly the G8) which brings together the world's richest and most powerful countries in yearly summits to discuss the global political and economic society and to make collective decisions. The label's website explains, "The G7 Welcoming Committee is an idea of resistance [...] A 'Welcoming Committee' to tell them, with words and actions, what we think of their power and neo-colonialism, around the world and at home, and that people are willing to fight back ..." 1983 G-7 Economic Summit in Williamsburg, Virginia (left to right) Pierre Trudeau, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Margaret Thatcher, Amintore Fanfani. ... G8 countries. ...

Bands, that have released music on G7

• Propagandhi
• The Weakerthans
• Randy
• I Spy
• Swallowing Shit
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy
• Submission Hold
• Che: Chapter 127
• Hiretsukan
• Warsawpack
• Rhythm Activism
• Bakunin's Bum
• Consolidated
• Clann Zú
• GFK
• Greg MacPherson
• Mico
• ...But Alive
• Malefaction

It also carries spoken word material by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ann Hansen, and Ward Churchill. Propagandhi is an anti-racist, anti-fascist, gay positive, pro feminist, vegan, animal rights, anarchist, and anti-capitalist progressive punk rock band formed in Winnipeg, Canada in 1992. ... The Weakerthans are a Canadian indie rock band, whose blend of punk-inflected folk rock with literate, witty, introspective lyrics have made them one of the most popular new bands on the Canadian music scene. ... The I-Spy books were spotters guides written for English children, particularly successful in the 1950s and 60s. ... The (International) Noise Conspiracy is a garage rock band from a town in the north of Sweden called Umeå. Dennis Lyxzén (vocals) used to sing for Refused. ... Warsawpack Warsawpack was a Canadian indie rock group. ... Bakunins Bum is a musical colloboration between Norman Nawrocki and Godspeed You! Black Emperor drummer Aidan Girt. ... Clann Zú is an Australian band that formed in Melbourne in 1999. ... Greg MacPherson (born 1975 in Sydney, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. ... ...But Alive was a German punk rock band, which was founded in 1992 in Hamburg. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Howard Zinn speaks at Marlboro College on February 16, 2004. ... Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist. ... Ward Churchill Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, activist, and academic. ...

See also

• List of record labels
• List of independent record labels
• Take Penacilin Now

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ... This is a list of record labels that are independent from the Big four record labels and typically specialize in different forms of indie rock, punk rock, and styles of alternative rock, electronica and hip-hop. ... Take Penacilin Now is a 2005 compilation album released on G7 Welcoming Committee Records. ...

External links

• G7 Official site
• List of bands and spoken word contributors
• List of distributors
• Propagandhi