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.
Saturday 25th June
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
0845 458 8361
www.faslaneg8.com
Comments
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Why blockade?
13.06.2005 19:06
Michael
re: Why blockade?
13.06.2005 20:27
Anyway, all the important meetings happen before the G8 summit itself- it's a media show, and as part of that, opposition to it is equally symbolic and important. It is the policies of the G8 that keep the injustice of the world strong, and as such they have to be confronted, and blockaded, even when the whitewash is climate change/Africa.
why oh why
It's a more assertive kind of demonstration - it says we're serious
14.06.2005 15:25
in order to protest like we mean it, we must BLOCKADE
why stop the g8?
15.06.2005 10:37
We need to get rid of the G8 to be able to properly tackle climate change, attacks on our freedoms, debt in all countries, etc etc.
Asking the G8 to sort problems out is like asking the school bully to carry on bullying, except with everyones support. We should be demanding its abolition - and blockading makes this point both symbolically and possibly in practical terms as well.
See you at the blockades!
STOP THE G-HATE!
Krop
How a blockade will affect the working people of Scotland
28.06.2005 22:45
Kenny Scott