Scotland

1.) Coulport International Disarment Camp
2.) extended Dissent! meeting Edinburgh
3.) Big Blether


1. Coulport International Disarmament Camp, north of Glasgow, 18.8. - 1.9. 2004,
The camp is sited in Peaton Wood, Coulport, on the shores of Loch Long just half a mile from the Trident warhead depot, and a few miles from Faslane naval base, home to Britain's Trident nuclear weapon submarines.

 http://www.tridentploughshares.org/coulport/


2. extended Dissent! meeting, Bilston Woods/Edinburgh, 16.-19.September 2004
The G8 (Group of Eight most industrialised nations) Summit is coming to Britain in the Summer of 2005. Their meeting will be held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland from Wednesday 6th-Friday 8th July 2005. In past years, everywhere they have tried to meet they have been met with a massive response from the world's social movements. Now, in Britain, a network of groups and individuals is emerging that hopes to resist the Summit, and build a lasting movement against capitalism.

 http://www.dissent.org.uk/


3. Big Blether, Culdee, Perthshire, 1.-3.October.2004
At the last Big Blether in 2002 around 150 people from all over Scotland and beyond came together to discuss some of the issues of the day in an autonomously organised, non-hierarchical atmosphere. We had four workshop spaces a day with up to six workshops running concurrently.

 http://www.bigblether.org.uk/







Great Britain

1.Earth First Summer Gathering
2.ESF (Autonomous Space)



1. EF! Summer Gathering, East Midlands, 4th - 9th August 2004
The Earth First! Summer Gathering is the place where people involved in radical ecological direct action - or those who want to be involved - get together for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what's going on, find out what's next, live outside, strategise, hang out, incite, laugh and conspire.

 http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/


2. ESF, London, Conway Hall 13-17 October 2004.
A self-funded project in parallel with the official ESF. We are 'horizontal' because we believe that our activism and organising must be founded on the non-hierarchical, democratic contribution of all. The European Social Forum (ESF) is part of a global movement for radical social and political change.

 http://esf2004.net/







Camps in Europe


1. NoBorder-Camp Finland
2. NoBorder-Camp France
3. PGA-Conference Belgrad
4. Anticapitalist youth camp
5. Ecotopia


1. No Border Camp in Imatra, Finland 9.-16.7.2004
Imatra is a small town with a population of 30 000 in eastern Finland, right next to the Russian border. Just beyond this division of the world's second biggest poverty gap (right after the border of Mexico and US) is another small town called Svetogorsk with population of only 15 000.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/292812.html


2. No Border Camp in Rivesaltes, France, 20.-29. 8.2004
A temporary autonomous zone against borders - Over the last few years, a series of camps against social control and in favour of the free circulation of human beings has been organized throughout Europe, notably through the No Border network.

 http://www.rivesaltes2004.org/articles/6


3. PGA conference Belgrad, post yugoslavia, 23rd - 29th of July, 2004
Peoples Global Action is a global network of local struggles, a worldwide network that works towards a durable political, social, borderless and directly democratic alternative to capitalism and all systems of oppression, far away from the logic of parties, states and ideological frameworks of the state (statist trade unions, NGO's etc.). It is a space where anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist initiatives meet.

 http://www.pgaconference.org/call/en_call.html


4. International Anticapitalist Youth Camp, Ruesta , Spain 25.th till 30th of July 2004
Following the theme : " Against a Europe of capital and war - for a Europe " from bellow " and of the people" about 500 internationial young people from whole of Europe and various political organisations of the social movements meet.

 http://www.espacioalternativo.org/node/view/419


5. Ecotopia, Staatsbosbeher, Netherlands, 9th - 23rd August 2004,
Ecotopia is an international gathering on environmental and social justice issues for young people all over Europe. Ecotopia is not a 'holliday' camp. It is a place for learning and taking action, working together and having lots of fun.

 http://www.eyfa.org/ecotopia2004intro