G8 Mobilisation Meeting- UK National Gathering
Sunday 28th January 2007, 10:30am- 5pm
The Sumac Centre, Nottingham
LOCATION:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/sumac/map.html
From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and
government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy,
Germany and Russia – are planning on meeting in Germany.
Inspired by the original aims and actions of the Dissent Network in the
UK, some of the libertarian left in Germany have adopted the same name and
similar aims:
•Stop the G8 summit
•and in order to do so create a network of ongoing solidarity on an
international level.
There is to be a Meeting to discuss G8 Mobilisation for 2007, to be hosted
by Sumac Centre in Nottingham on the 28th January. Limited accommodation
is provided for those who wish to travel from afar. In particular, those
wishing to travel to the venue on Saturday 27th to have informal
pre-meetings. Please email if you require accommodation:
sumac@veggies.org.uk
Food will be provided for by Veggies, for a small cost.
The mobilisation is committed to bottom up, decentralised organising.
Activists from the mobilisation have toured internationally to involve as
many people as possible. The tours arose from an international gathering
for the mobilisation, called Campinski, near the German G8 summit venue
last summer. The UK leg of the tour in October saw activists from the UK
2005 mobilisation, Russian 2006 mobilisation and Germany 2007 mobilisation
working together. The tour visited the Anarchist Bookfair in London,
Brighton, Reading, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool Leeds, Birmingham and
Cardiff. People at all these venues felt that it would be good to have a
one day gathering for feedback and discussions on the G8 2007
mobilisation.
This callout is in consequence to those peoples' wishes.
Please contact dissentprocess@yahoo.co.uk with agenda items.
Suggestions include
• lessons from G8 2005
• feedback on German processes and mobilisation
• future meetings in the UK
Further information on the mobilisation can be found at:
http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/49
(English language German website)
http://www.wombles.org.uk/actions/g8/g82007
www.dissent.org.uk
LETS SHUT THEM DOWN.
Sunday 28th January 2007, 10:30am- 5pm
The Sumac Centre, Nottingham
LOCATION:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/sumac/map.html From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and
government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy,
Germany and Russia – are planning on meeting in Germany.
Inspired by the original aims and actions of the Dissent Network in the
UK, some of the libertarian left in Germany have adopted the same name and
similar aims:
•Stop the G8 summit
•and in order to do so create a network of ongoing solidarity on an
international level.
There is to be a Meeting to discuss G8 Mobilisation for 2007, to be hosted
by Sumac Centre in Nottingham on the 28th January. Limited accommodation
is provided for those who wish to travel from afar. In particular, those
wishing to travel to the venue on Saturday 27th to have informal
pre-meetings. Please email if you require accommodation:
sumac@veggies.org.uk Food will be provided for by Veggies, for a small cost.
The mobilisation is committed to bottom up, decentralised organising.
Activists from the mobilisation have toured internationally to involve as
many people as possible. The tours arose from an international gathering
for the mobilisation, called Campinski, near the German G8 summit venue
last summer. The UK leg of the tour in October saw activists from the UK
2005 mobilisation, Russian 2006 mobilisation and Germany 2007 mobilisation
working together. The tour visited the Anarchist Bookfair in London,
Brighton, Reading, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool Leeds, Birmingham and
Cardiff. People at all these venues felt that it would be good to have a
one day gathering for feedback and discussions on the G8 2007
mobilisation.
This callout is in consequence to those peoples' wishes.
Please contact
dissentprocess@yahoo.co.uk with agenda items. Suggestions include
• lessons from G8 2005
• feedback on German processes and mobilisation
• future meetings in the UK
Further information on the mobilisation can be found at:
http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/49 (English language German website)
http://www.wombles.org.uk/actions/g8/g82007 www.dissent.org.uk
LETS SHUT THEM DOWN.
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lessons of 2005
17.01.2007 15:32
In other words, if we succeed beyond our wildest dreams, storm the summit with a militant 5,000-strong international black bloc, and execute the 'world leaders,' so what? We still have to get up and go to work the next day. Capitalism isn't something that exists in summits or corporate boardrooms, it's a social relationship reproduced everyday by our labour. If we're serious about anti-capitalism, we as activists should be able to reflect critically on our actions and not get stuck into spectacular rituals out of force of habit.
"Though all roles alienate equally, some are more vulnerable than others. It is easier to escape the role of a libertine than the role of a cop, executive or rabbi. A fact to which everyone should give a little thought." - Raoul Vaneigem
(A)-chris
Suspicious
17.01.2007 16:38
Stirling was good IN SPITE of those on the central commitee. ( as woz the baby bloc ). A big thanks to those who are grounded.
If me and me mates go over it won't be with any Dissnentry bollox. The people are not your CANNON FODDER.
Let's start the debate ( and less of the publishing industry ) and stop the self congratulations.
Now you have woken up?
Erik
Big up the Germans
18.01.2007 10:00
And while i'm adding a comment it's worth saying that erik does big up some of the stirling camp and the baby block, both things that would not of happened without a committed core of people organising under dissent to set up the camp in the first place.
Like it or not, a lot of the activist scene sucks because far too few people are always left to do too much of the work, and then are criticised for being too controlling. in 2005 a core of people got the camp together and it became a platform and space for things like baby block to emerge from and that's the truth of it.
And by the way, if you've taken a look at the developing german campaign against the G8 then it's quite impressive. while they have got a similar but smaller issue of the co-option of radical agendas like what happened with Make Poverty History in the UK in 2005, the whole breadth of the mobilisation is far more radical.
What's impressed me is that you have both the dissent x german networks calling for blockades, as well as the interventionist left calling for blockades. AND when you check out the main NGO platform websites they're referencing the calls for blockades, listing direct actions, and linking to the more radical sites... makes me think that this is going to be massive. amen.
hotel oscar
hotel oscar
18.01.2007 13:52
In terms of our everyday lives - what would it change?
(A)-chris
it would bring smile to yr face
18.01.2007 15:17
loserx
link - 12 km fence around the g 8
18.01.2007 19:35
x
smiles and summits
19.01.2007 09:35
I know, been there, felt the power of the crowd as we break police lines, the sense of open possibilities ... but i think that sense is misleading, the possibilities of counter-summit actions become trapped in an annual loop, with no potentiality to break out and become a threat to capital (a closed dialectic, if you like). whereas if we work to create moments of collective power in everyday life, the *potential* exists to rupture capital completely (an open dialectic, if jargon's your thing). look at the power of the anti-poll tax movement vs. the anti-summit movement, for example.
chris
(A)-chris
for fu@@ks sake
19.01.2007 20:06
chris I think we need to do live lives outside of capitalism & stop it destroying the world with action.Go live in an isolated commune if you want, cheers
trog makhnovista
@ trog makhnovista
21.01.2007 22:32
all the best
chris
(A)-chris
building towards german mobilisation
25.01.2007 01:32
bucky boy
Time and money
25.01.2007 18:02
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