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Anti - G8 roadshow comes to liverpool

rsk | 14.12.2004 21:45 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Liverpool

On friday 10th December the anti - G8 TRAPESE roadshow came to liverpool as part of the Felt the Strain night at the Hevn 'n' Hell



TRAPESE (Taking Radical Action – Popular Education and Sustainable Everything) are a popular education collective who aim to provoke debate and inspire positive social change through interactive workshops and social events. They have been touring since October and plan to continue through the spring. Their current focus is informing and mobilising around the G8 (group of 8 most industrialised nations ie: global elite) who are holding their next annual meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland in July 2005.
In Liverpool this took the form of a sometimes chaotic mix of cabaret, bingo, pub quiz, karaoke and powerpoint presentation (but no trapese). The audience started off bemused but warmed to it as the evening went on, finishing in a rousing rendition of an anti-capitalist version of the bandaid 20 song (www.bandaid.dissent.org.uk)
TRAPESE are part of the DISSENT! network (www.dissent.org.uk), a network of grassroots resistance against the G8, facilitating networking and radical action. There is a an international call to converge on scotland to disrupt the summit.

rsk

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  1. Was it a secret meeting? — Annoyed
  2. Agreed — ne1
  3. "if a little soft and liberal for my tastes" ? ? ? — Mr. Holmes
  4. Concerned — Concerned
  5. You read it properly then...? — Ne1
  6. G8= international neo-liberalism+war — red letter
  7. Working together — anarchoteapot
  8. music concert sounds good to me — red letter
  9. The concert did attempt to get its funding from the G8 — Concerned Tunbridge Wells
  10. True! — I h8 the g8
  11. NOT a secret meeting — rsk
  12. Problem — Tay
  13. Genoa — Sonic
  14. A Concert is neither here nor there. — Anticapitalist
  15. advertising meetings — type
  16. Response to Red Letter — Concerned
  17. Concert — Hmmm
  18. Advertising — hmm
  19. response from someone in Trapese — kim