G7 Welcoming Committee Records

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.

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.

Bands who have been on the label include Propagandhi, The Weakerthans, Randy, I Spy, Swallowing Shit, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Submission Hold, Che: Chapter 127, Hiretsukan and Warsawpack. It also carries spoken word material by the likes of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.

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 ..."

See also

• List of record labels
• List of independent record labels

External links

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