Starhawk reminder
Faslane G8 Blockade Team | 21.06.2005 22:14 | G8 2005 | Anti-militarism
In preparation for actions at Faslane on Monday 4th July and during the G8 Summit at Gleneagles the FaslaneG8 blockade team are hosting two training sessions in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Saturday 25th June led by veteran US activist Starhawk.
STARHAWK Direct Action Training Saturday 25th June Glasgow & Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
10am – 1pm
Glasgow
Lansdowne Church, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ
2.30pm-5.30pm
Space is limited at these venues please contact
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Other trainings are being organised at various locations around the UK to prepare for the actions. There will be trainings at the convergence centres in the days before the actions. For more details, or if you would like to organise a training in your area, please contact:
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Non-violent direct action training
- How will I react if I'm arrested?
- What do we do if the police become violent?
- If someone starts to freak out, how do I calm people down, and stop things from escalating?
To answer these questions and many more, we invite you to take part in a nonviolent direct action training.
During the training we will have safe surroundings to practice how we will respond in situations that might arise during the action.
The focus of the training will be practical exercises (simulation and role playing) but the training also provides the space to discuss ideas concerning "nonviolent direct action", and to talk about hopes and fears for the action. We will also look at the tasks that can be undertaken during the action.
Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action.
A veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, Starhawk is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 35 years, beginning as an organizer in her high school during the days of the Vietnam War.
In the years since, she has organized, trained protestors, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs.
For a number of years she has traveled to the Occupied Territories of Palestine and to Israel, working for peace with local activists of both sides. A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami.
www.starhawk.org
Faslane G8 Blockade Team
e-mail:
e-mail: info@faslaneg8.com
Homepage:
http://www.faslaneg8.com
Comments
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Training
22.06.2005 08:40
The naevity of those who think they will be anywhere other than miles away from the action is amazing. Speak to some local people (as I have done) routes from the train station to the nice tidy police cage are already marked out, the itinery is written, the play is decided.
David
Good point David, why don't we all just give up!
22.06.2005 10:15
Besides, I very much doubt there's room in the nice tidy cage for more than a few of those who'll be present.
Goliath
Amendment to workshop times
22.06.2005 11:18
The full workshop times are 10am until 4pm for Edinburgh and 2.30 until 7pm for Glasgow.
Faslane G8 blockade team
Goliath
22.06.2005 11:21
David
???
22.06.2005 13:10
What are you hoping to achieve by them?
Jane
???
22.06.2005 14:34
David
Realism...
22.06.2005 14:58
Sim1
David, do yourself a favour.
23.06.2005 11:59
But David, I dispair at people like you, I really do. What exactly do you suggest we do instead?? Stay at home and watch tv? If you've got a better idea then please do let us know. You're message seems to be nothing but "there's no point in trying to change the world, there's nothing you can do, why don't you just give up".
You think you can persuade everyone to give up their struggle? THAT's hardly realism. You can think the protesters are going to listen to your pathetic nay-saying and pessismism. THAT's hardly realism. Thousands of people will descending upon the G8. And no petty-minded cynical apathetic discourager like you is going to have any effect on them at all. Why don't YOU just give up. Twat.
activist
What's in a name?
26.06.2005 18:02
It gets worse too - a respected voice in 'earth based spirituality'? give me a break! I'd be more impressed if you had a respected voice in 'outer space based spirituality' - now that would be something!
She's obviously been knocking around a while, so at her age its a shame she don't know better. Please lady - its too late for you, but don't prey (I knew the predatory bit would come in somewhere) on these impressionable youngtsers.
Mary Litiman (not my real name - work it out)