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{{Short description|Canadian independent record label}}
{{Redirect|Welcoming committee|the anarchist group|RNC Welcoming Committee}}
{{Infobox record label
| name        = G7 Welcoming Committee
| image       = [[Image:G7x.png|150px]]
| image_bg    = 
| parent      = 
| founded     = 1997
| defunct     = 2010
| founder     = Chris Hannah<br /> Jord Samolesky<br /> Regal
| distributor = 
| genre       = [[Punk rock]]<br /> [[Hardcore punk]]<br /> [[Rock music|Rock]]<br /> [[Spoken word]]
| country     = [[Canada]]
| location    = [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]
| url         = [http://www.g7welcomingcommittee.com g7welcomingcommittee.com]
}}

'''G7 Welcoming Committee Records''' was a Canadian [[independent record label]] based in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]].  The label mostly released material by artists and speakers with a radical left-wing point of view.

==History==
G7 Welcoming Committee Records was founded by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky of punk band, [[Propagandhi]], and their friend, Regal, in 1997.<ref>Heppe, Abigail. [http://media.www.berkeleybeacon.com/media/storage/paper169/news/2001/02/22/ArtsAndEntertainment/Propagandhi.Returns.With.A.VengeanceAnd.A.New.Sound-33318.shtml Propagandhi returns with a vengeance-and a new sound.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825021853/http://media.www.berkeleybeacon.com/media/storage/paper169/news/2001/02/22/ArtsAndEntertainment/Propagandhi.Returns.With.A.VengeanceAnd.A.New.Sound-33318.shtml |date=2007-08-25 }} ''The Berkeley Beacon.'' 22 Feb. 2002.</ref><ref name=globe>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/propagandhi-machine/article1155603/ "Propagandhi machine"]. Robert Everett-Green, ''Globe and Mail'', Mar. 19, 2009</ref> The label operated out of Winnipeg's [[The Old Market Autonomous Zone]].<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-comprehensive-look-at-winnipegs-rock-history-part-2/ "A Comprehensive Look At Winnipeg’s PC Punk Scene"]. ''Noisey'', Sheldon Birnie Sep 22 2014,</ref>  During its years of operation about 50 albums were released.<ref name=globe />

The label ceased operations in April 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/28427/g7-welcoming-committee-shuts-down|title=G7 Welcoming Committee shuts down|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=April 8, 2008|access-date=June 14, 2022}}</ref> although it did briefly come out of hibernation in 2010 to release a 3-track EP of [[Propagandhi]] songs from 1993 to 1996 as a benefit for [[Partners In Health]].

In early 2015, it was announced on the G7 website that none of their previous releases were available for purchase as either physical copies or downloadable albums, but that most of their catalog was available on music streaming sites.<ref>{{cite web
 
| url         = http://www.punknews.org/article/28427/g7-welcoming-committee-shuts-down
| title       = G7 Welcoming Committee shuts down
| access-date  = 21 July 2014
| work        = PunkNews website
| date = 8 April 2008
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/news/2010/02/new-propagandhi-benefit-ep-april-6th/ 
 |title=G7 Welcoming Committee 
 |access-date=21 July 2014 
 |work=G7 Welcoming Committee website 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902121224/http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/news/2010/02/new-propagandhi-benefit-ep-april-6th/ 
 |archive-date=2 September 2014 
}}</ref>

==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]].<ref>Faulkner, Robert. Agitrock rolls on; Today's groups continue a long tradition of activism, belting out songs of protest at the world's wrongs. ''Toronto Star.'' 3 Dec. 2000.</ref>

The name is a reference to the [[G7]] 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 ..."

==Associated bands==
The following artists have released albums on G7:<ref name="bands">{{cite web
 |url         = http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/bands/
 |title       = G7 Bands
 |access-date  = 16 January 2009
 |work        = G7 Welcoming Committee website
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090121223202/http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/bands/
 |archive-date = 21 January 2009
}}</ref>

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* [[Bakunin's Bum]]
* [[...But Alive]]
* Che: Chapter 127
* [[Clann Zú]]
* [[Consolidated (band)|Consolidated]]
* [[GFK (band)|GFK]]
* Giant Sons
* [[Head Hits Concrete]]
* [[Hiretsukan]]
* [[The (International) Noise Conspiracy]]<ref name=globe />
* [[I Spy (band)|I Spy]]
* [[Jamaica Plain (band)|Jamaica Plain]]
* [[Greg MacPherson]]
* [[Malefaction]]
* [[Mico (band)|Mico]]
* [[Painted Thin]]
* [[Propagandhi]]
* [[Randy (band)|Randy]]
* [[The Rebel Spell]]
* [[Red Fisher (band)|Red Fisher]]
* [[Rhythm Activism]]
* [[John K. Samson]]
* [[Subhumans (Canadian band)|Subhumans]]
* Submission Hold
* [[Swallowing Shit]]
* [[warsawpack]]<ref name=points>[http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/FromTheMagazine/warsawpack_name_names_point_fingers "Warsawpack Name Names and Point Fingers"]. ''[[Exclaim!]]'', September 2003.</ref>
* [[The Weakerthans]]
{{div col end}}

It also carries spoken word material by [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Ward Churchill]], [[Ann Hansen]], and [[Howard Zinn]].

==Compilation albums==
* ''[[Return of the Read Menace]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Take Penacilin Now]]'' (2005)

==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.g7welcomingcommittee.com G7 Welcoming Committee Records] – Official website
* [http://www.propagandhi.com Propagandhi]
* [http://www.lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=1352852217428cbaf0f1e21 Profile and interview] at ''Lost at Sea'' magazine
* [http://exclaim.ca/musicschool/labellife.aspx?csid1=70 Profile] at Exclaim.ca

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