Leeds Day of Dissent!
Dissenter | 28.04.2005 10:56 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Social Struggles
LEEDS DAY OF DISSENT!
SATURDAY 14 MAY
THE COMMON PLACE
23–25 WHARF STREET
LEEDS
“If you go to a demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps on building, groups that keep on doing things, people that learn from the last time and do it better next time...”
This July, the G8 — the heads of state of the world’s most powerful countries — will be meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. Whilst Blair’s government talks of tackling climate change, it’s imposing a huge new road-building programme, and massive airport expansions. While G8 leaders talk of relieving poverty in the global south, they uphold a financial system that creates global famine, military repression and social and environmental breakdown.
Tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of people will converge on Scotland to resist the G8 and the world it represents. There are plans for blockading the summit, actions on climate change, inspiring convergence spaces to meet, eat and sleep, and more...
Here in Leeds many of us have joined dozens of other grassroots autonomous groups to create the Dissent! anti-capitalist network. One of the projects of this network has been The Common Place social centre, another is on Saturday 14 May when we’re holding an open day to galvanise radical resistance to the G8 Summit here in Leeds. It’s a chance to meet people, learn skills, share information, plan, party, and get inspired about protests around the Summit.
TIMETABLE
FRIDAY 13 MAY
8–12pm Benefit for Dissent!
Bands including Leeds’ 10,000 Things...
SATURDAY 14 MAY
10.30am Welcome. Housekeeping and coffee.
11.00am What is the G8? Why resist the G8? Background to politics in Scotland
11.30am What is planned for July? Introduction to action plans and the ‘convergence spaces’
12.00pm What are people from Leeds doing/planning?
eg talk of moving The Common Place to the convergence zone, blockades, working together beyond the G8
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Parallel workshops
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) boot-camp
- direct action training, including role plays
- find out more about climate change and trade/debt from T.R.A.P.E.S.E.
3.30pm Coffee/tea
4.00pm Making it happen: action groups Time to get it together on things like, transport to Scotland, food, publicity and pre-G8 actions
5.00pm Make sure everyone knows what’s planned, how to be involved, who’s doing what
6.00pm Dissent! banquet
7.30pm Schnews show The weekly direct action news-sheet tour comes to Leeds.
9.00pm Benefit for Dissent! Bands, DJs & chaos until late
For more information, visit The Common Place or go to www.dissent.org.uk or email
leedsarc@yahoo.co.uk
SATURDAY 14 MAY
THE COMMON PLACE
23–25 WHARF STREET
LEEDS
“If you go to a demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps on building, groups that keep on doing things, people that learn from the last time and do it better next time...”
This July, the G8 — the heads of state of the world’s most powerful countries — will be meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. Whilst Blair’s government talks of tackling climate change, it’s imposing a huge new road-building programme, and massive airport expansions. While G8 leaders talk of relieving poverty in the global south, they uphold a financial system that creates global famine, military repression and social and environmental breakdown.
Tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of people will converge on Scotland to resist the G8 and the world it represents. There are plans for blockading the summit, actions on climate change, inspiring convergence spaces to meet, eat and sleep, and more...
Here in Leeds many of us have joined dozens of other grassroots autonomous groups to create the Dissent! anti-capitalist network. One of the projects of this network has been The Common Place social centre, another is on Saturday 14 May when we’re holding an open day to galvanise radical resistance to the G8 Summit here in Leeds. It’s a chance to meet people, learn skills, share information, plan, party, and get inspired about protests around the Summit.
TIMETABLE
FRIDAY 13 MAY
8–12pm Benefit for Dissent!
Bands including Leeds’ 10,000 Things...
SATURDAY 14 MAY
10.30am Welcome. Housekeeping and coffee.
11.00am What is the G8? Why resist the G8? Background to politics in Scotland
11.30am What is planned for July? Introduction to action plans and the ‘convergence spaces’
12.00pm What are people from Leeds doing/planning?
eg talk of moving The Common Place to the convergence zone, blockades, working together beyond the G8
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Parallel workshops
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) boot-camp
- direct action training, including role plays
- find out more about climate change and trade/debt from T.R.A.P.E.S.E.
3.30pm Coffee/tea
4.00pm Making it happen: action groups Time to get it together on things like, transport to Scotland, food, publicity and pre-G8 actions
5.00pm Make sure everyone knows what’s planned, how to be involved, who’s doing what
6.00pm Dissent! banquet
7.30pm Schnews show The weekly direct action news-sheet tour comes to Leeds.
9.00pm Benefit for Dissent! Bands, DJs & chaos until late
For more information, visit The Common Place or go to www.dissent.org.uk or email
leedsarc@yahoo.co.uk
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