This is a callout for groups and individuals in the South-East, interested in actively resisting the UK presidency of the G8, and the summit of G8 leaders this year at Gleneagles in Scotland.

The G8 (8 of the world’s most powerful economies: USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada & Russia) was established to re-align national social structures in accordance with the growth & dominance of global capital. The G8 symbolises the unified face of global capital and the enforcement of state power.

In a world increasingly mediated by the commodification of images and by the omnipresence of hierarchies, leaders and celebrities, the G8 summit becomes the re-enforcement of the powers that be, which dictate and order our lives, it becomes no more than a media circus, a convenient photo shoot dominating our view and reproducing our powerlessness.

This initiative is part of an ongoing social struggle for all of us to take our lives back into our own hands. A struggle that is characterised by its self organization in the face of state repression, from occupied social centres to direct actions against war and corporate power, to mass mobilizations in opposition to international summits.

We hope that this initial meeting against the G8 summit forms a diverse and dynamic network of groups and individuals who oppose the G8.

We invite groups and individuals to shape and develop this resistance.

2pm - 6pm Saturday Jan 22nd, 2005
ROOM 3D
University of London Union
Malet Street
London

Hosted by ULU ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS
For more information about the G8 & resistance to it see: www.dissent.org.uk