G8 Summit: Dissent! 6th July Blockades Callout
Excited | 01.06.2005 17:43 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World
This is probably relevant for posting again today, given the now possible 1 million people travelling to Scotland for the 2005 G8 Summit.
This is apparently one of several callouts to blockade the 2005 G8 summit.
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Isolate the G8: Wednesday 6th July 2005
People in Scotland have a long history of resistance to injustice – from the highland clearances to the Poll Tax. This summer, when the rulers of the world’s eight most powerful countries attempt to meet in Perthshire, resistance in Scotland will again take centre stage. Come and help shut down the G8.
It’s time to move beyond protest to effective action. This is a call to blockade the summit, to stop the G8 functioning. We are not fooled by their promises of action on climate change and global poverty. It was formed to maintain 'business as usual': it has done nothing else for thirty years.
With so many people from so many countries against the G8, the ideas, tactics and actions used to blockade the summit will of course be diverse. The co-ordinated participation of thousands will allow us to achieve our goal: to shut down the G8 and isolate our so-called leaders from everything they need to exercise power.
Nobody asked the Scottish people if they wanted the G8 summit to happen here. However, it gives us the opportunity to challenge how the G8 exploits all of us; from the Gleneagles hotel staff cleaning up after the rich, to the Third World farmers paid next to nothing to grow their coffee.
Be part of the blockades. Be part of the global day of action in villages, towns and cities across the world. Isolate the G8!
"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…"
For all the information you need on accommodation in Scotland, camping and covergence spaces & blockading, visit www.dissent.org.uk
For all the information you need on the global day of action, visit Peoples’ Global Action at www.agp.org
Statement issued by the final plenary of the Festival of Dissent!, Lanarkshire, 9th April 2005.
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This is apparently one of several callouts to blockade the 2005 G8 summit.
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Isolate the G8: Wednesday 6th July 2005
People in Scotland have a long history of resistance to injustice – from the highland clearances to the Poll Tax. This summer, when the rulers of the world’s eight most powerful countries attempt to meet in Perthshire, resistance in Scotland will again take centre stage. Come and help shut down the G8.
It’s time to move beyond protest to effective action. This is a call to blockade the summit, to stop the G8 functioning. We are not fooled by their promises of action on climate change and global poverty. It was formed to maintain 'business as usual': it has done nothing else for thirty years.
With so many people from so many countries against the G8, the ideas, tactics and actions used to blockade the summit will of course be diverse. The co-ordinated participation of thousands will allow us to achieve our goal: to shut down the G8 and isolate our so-called leaders from everything they need to exercise power.
Nobody asked the Scottish people if they wanted the G8 summit to happen here. However, it gives us the opportunity to challenge how the G8 exploits all of us; from the Gleneagles hotel staff cleaning up after the rich, to the Third World farmers paid next to nothing to grow their coffee.
Be part of the blockades. Be part of the global day of action in villages, towns and cities across the world. Isolate the G8!
"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…"
For all the information you need on accommodation in Scotland, camping and covergence spaces & blockading, visit www.dissent.org.uk
For all the information you need on the global day of action, visit Peoples’ Global Action at www.agp.org
Statement issued by the final plenary of the Festival of Dissent!, Lanarkshire, 9th April 2005.
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bed and board
01.06.2005 21:33
This would keep many out of possible trouble - of course there will be a few who have bunked off for the wrong reason. My suggested wording for the sign:
HUNGRY ? TIRED? UNDER 18 ?
COME AND STAY WITH US, WE'LL LOOK AFTER YOU.
Hope you think this is a good idea too.
Carin
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Carin - sorry but a bad idea
02.06.2005 12:00
Re bed and board - the calls from Geldof and co for school kids to bunk off and get up to Edinburgh for the protests has caused a wave of alarm.
The calls for hundreds of thousands of people to go to endinburgh has increased the pressure on the local authorites to provide free mass accomodation (which was a process they were already invovled in). This is the best solution, along with church halls etc
Accomodation in people's houses for people attending the protests has been done in other countries, but specifying 'UNDER 18' is a really bad idea - especially in the context that you put it (kids wondering around late at night) - if you're a teacher you should understand this.
No, any kids on their own can be accomodated in safety at what will be large official accomodation centres.
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