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UK G8 2005 Newswire Archive

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Dissent! A Network of Resistance against the G8 UK Gathering

10-01-2005 09:58

Glasgow Gathering 12th -13th February

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film: 'Sieze the Media', about the IMC server seizures

08-01-2005 10:13

A short film on the topic of the Indymedia sever siezures. With footage from the IMC space and the Camden Centre, one of the Autonomous Spaces around the European Social Forum.
film opens with quicktime media player. Go to the below link:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303546.html

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Pins and Noodles weekly craft session

07-01-2005 17:31

A weekly gathering to make banners, costumes, props etc for the G8 and any other actions will start this Sunday.

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RESIST G8 2005 - SOUTHEAST ASSEMBLY

07-01-2005 16:33

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A southeast regional Anti-G8 assembly is to be held in London on Saturday 22nd January, 2pm at University of London Union, Room 3D, Malet St, WC1

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"Fair and Free Trade" - Blair and Brown G8 Poverty Plan - Media Coverage

07-01-2005 08:56

With the terrible tsunami disaster giving added urgency to efforts to end poverty and reduce / cancel the debt, Blair and Brown yesterday announced their G8 presidency plans for reducing poverty.

While this is all good it's clear that along with debt reduction / cancellation and more aid, the priority is also expanding free trade, but trying to make some of it fairer.

Below are some of the key points as excerpts from the media coverage:

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Dissent!/Anti-G8 International Meeting, Feb 2005, Germany

04-01-2005 20:10

The following is a set of texts in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugese inviting people to an international planning, networking and co-ordination meeting for all those involved or interested in radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit.

As the text explain, a fuller invitation and the draft agenda will be posted to www.dissent.org.uk in the next week or so.

Please forward the following translations to the relevant e-lists and groups, post on other websites, print in publications etc...

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G8 summit 2007 takes place in Heiligendamm, Germany

29-12-2004 16:48

..it is possible to swim to the village, too...
The G8 summit will take place in the seaside resort Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany in 2007.

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Residents to Get Id Cards Ahead of G8 Summit

28-12-2004 18:36

Children as young as eight living near Gleneagles will be issued with identity cards as part of a massive security operation ahead of next year’s G8 summit, it emerged today.

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International Dissent!/Anti-G8 Meeting in Feb 2005

19-12-2004 20:28

International Planning, Networking and Co-ordination Meeting Against the 2005 G8 Summit

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G8 Road Show comes to Nottingham tomorrow! (Friday 17th Dec)

16-12-2004 11:54

Calling all those in Nottingham who want to get clued up about the G8 coming to the UK next year - this is your chance! The G8 Roadshow 'Trapese' comes to the Sumac Social Centre in Forest Fields tomorrow. From 4-6pm, there will be workshops, and from 8-11pm fun, including local band 'The Darlings.' Find out about whats wrong with the G8, how people have protested in the past,and about protests are planned for next year.

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Dissent! Receives Letter From Tony Blair

15-12-2004 17:17

Dissent! receives letter from Tony Blair inviting us to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles July 2005

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Anti - G8 roadshow comes to liverpool

14-12-2004 21:45

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

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Band Aid 20 - The Real Story

14-12-2004 16:27

Do they really give a fuck at all’ is the CD released by the Free the World Collective. The CD is a response from the anti-capitalist movement with several spoof versions of the Band-Aid 20 single, a song almost beyond parody. Diverse in their messages and themes, the songs are about understanding that we don’t exist separately from the “world outside our window”, that we are all part of that world and have the power to change it.

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Media War Against G8 Protestors Begins (secret anarchist training camps)

12-12-2004 15:40

The opening shot of a PR war on protest groups has been fired ahead of next years G8 Summit in Scotland, with an article in the usualy quite well balanced Scotland on Sunday, published Sunday 12th Dec 04.

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The TRAPESE road show

07-12-2004 18:59

TRAPESE
Take Radical Action - Popular Education and Sustainable Everything.
The Trapese Roadshow has been on the road again.

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Dissent!: Calling all Bands, Musicians, Artists and Performers...

06-12-2004 16:09

Calling all Bands, musicians, artists and performers and those of you that can provide a venue and support a benefit gig.

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Dissent! & PGA benefit gig, 20th November Hitchin, Herts.

13-11-2004 19:14

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Details of benefit gig in Hitchin Herts. Hitchin is on the main train line from Peterborough & Cambridge to London Kings Cross.

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Regular Dissent!/anti-G8 meetings in Brighton

13-11-2004 17:12

A group is now meeting regularly in Brighton to work within the Dissent! Network and organise anti-capitalist action. Come along and get involved!

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G8 2005 DISSENT NETWORK

11-11-2004 21:34

we're coming to get you :-)
G8 2005 @ GLENEAGLES
 http://WWW.DISSENT.ORG.UK

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