The next Dissent! gathering will take place in Glasgow over the weekend of 12th - 13th February 05.
Indoor accomodation (mostly of a distinctly floor-based nature) will be available on the Friday & Saturday. (Sunday by arrangement)
If you wish to attend, please email g8gathering(at)yahoo.co.uk to let us know how many people to expect. Don't need to know names, just numbers.
Also let us know in advance of any accessibility / dietary / accomodation / medical needs.
Any questions should be emailed to g8gathering(at)yahoo.co.uk or reshape-glasgow(at)riseup.net. More details to be posted shortly.
If people need/have rides to glasgow, just a reminder that there is a ride board for this which was set up by the cambridge action network:
http://www.cambridgeaction.net/thepond
Background to the Dissent! Network
The G8 (Group of Eight, most industrialised nations) Summits are hosted, on rotation, by the group’s member states. In 2005 the Summit is to be held in the UK at Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland (around 40 miles north-west of Edinburgh). The Dissent! Network, has formed to provide a networking tool to co-ordinate radical resistance to the Summit.
The network was formed in the autumn of 2003 by a group of people who have previously been involved in radical ecological direct action, Peoples’ Global Action, the anti-war movement and the global anti-capitalist movement which has emerged around meetings of those who rule over us.
The Network has no central office, no spokespeople, no membership list and no paid staff. It’s a mechanism for communication and co-ordination between local groups and working groups involved in building resistance to the G8, and capitalism in general. It hopes to exist long after the world leaders have returned home in the early summer of 2005.
Dissent! is open to anybody willing to work within the Hallmarks of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA). The Hallmarks are as follows:
1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.
2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker.
4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximise respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism
5. An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
If you would like to get involved in the Dissent! Network contact your nearest local group, one of the working groups (please see the www.dissent.org.uk for details of local and working groups)or come along to the next bi-monthly gathering. If there isn’t a Dissent! Network group near you, set one up!
The minutes of the last gathering (Newcastle Dec 04) are available on the Dissent!
website: http://www.dissent.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/task,view_category/Itemid,34/subcat,6/catid,36/limitstart,0/limit,5/
Indoor accomodation (mostly of a distinctly floor-based nature) will be available on the Friday & Saturday. (Sunday by arrangement)
If you wish to attend, please email g8gathering(at)yahoo.co.uk to let us know how many people to expect. Don't need to know names, just numbers.
Also let us know in advance of any accessibility / dietary / accomodation / medical needs.
Any questions should be emailed to g8gathering(at)yahoo.co.uk or reshape-glasgow(at)riseup.net. More details to be posted shortly.
If people need/have rides to glasgow, just a reminder that there is a ride board for this which was set up by the cambridge action network:
http://www.cambridgeaction.net/thepond Background to the Dissent! Network
The G8 (Group of Eight, most industrialised nations) Summits are hosted, on rotation, by the group’s member states. In 2005 the Summit is to be held in the UK at Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland (around 40 miles north-west of Edinburgh). The Dissent! Network, has formed to provide a networking tool to co-ordinate radical resistance to the Summit.
The network was formed in the autumn of 2003 by a group of people who have previously been involved in radical ecological direct action, Peoples’ Global Action, the anti-war movement and the global anti-capitalist movement which has emerged around meetings of those who rule over us.
The Network has no central office, no spokespeople, no membership list and no paid staff. It’s a mechanism for communication and co-ordination between local groups and working groups involved in building resistance to the G8, and capitalism in general. It hopes to exist long after the world leaders have returned home in the early summer of 2005.
Dissent! is open to anybody willing to work within the Hallmarks of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA). The Hallmarks are as follows:
1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.
2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker.
4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximise respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism
5. An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
If you would like to get involved in the Dissent! Network contact your nearest local group, one of the working groups (please see the www.dissent.org.uk for details of local and working groups)or come along to the next bi-monthly gathering. If there isn’t a Dissent! Network group near you, set one up!
The minutes of the last gathering (Newcastle Dec 04) are available on the Dissent!
website:
http://www.dissent.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/task,view_category/Itemid,34/subcat,6/catid,36/limitstart,0/limit,5/ 
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