Protestors to shut top UK military base before G8 Summit
This is the first press release from the Faslane G8 TeamFestival of Dissent Press Release
Tuesday, 05 April 2005
Anti-G8 Festival of Dissent! 6th-10th April 2005
U.N.: Syria to leave Lebanon soon
Syria plans to pull all of its troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon by April 30, and a United Nations verification team will be dispatched - if the Lebanese government agrees - to verify the withdrawal, a U.N. envoy said Sunday after meeting with President Bashar Assad.Anti-G8 - Learn Skills - Network - Get Inspired - Take Action - 6-10th April
The Festival of Dissent!... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct action, and party together.G8 media monitor online
The Cambridge Action Network has set up a media monitoring project, to follow the coverage of the G8 protests.Commission For Africa Report - pdf download and some criticisms
12th March 05: Tony Blair yesterday launched the much heralded "Our Common Interest" Commission For Africa Report, put togethr by a 17-member international commission which he chaired - with Bob Geldolf providing several 4 star "Fuck" quotes (saying it would cost the United States "fuck all" to free the African continent of the shackles of war, poverty and disease).broken words
Blair to use anti-terror laws on G8 protestors
Blair refused to rule out using controversial new anti-terror laws against G8 protesters when Britain hosts the summit of world leaders in July.New Dissent Newsletter
Dissent is a new network, created to build a mobilisation against the G8. The network is based on the Peoples’ Global Action Hallmarks, rooted in local and autonomous organising and action, and aims to go beyond the G8. The PGA is
a decentralised, non-heirachical, global network of social movements, for a copy of the hallmarks visit www.agp.org
Residents to Get Id Cards Ahead of G8 Summit
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.Dissent! & PGA benefit gig, 20th November Hitchin, Herts.
Dissent Newsletter now on line
Dissent, a network of resistance to the G8 @ Gleneagles, Perthshire 2005, summer newsletter is now available. Please download and distribute.Invitation to the Dissent! Network Gathering in Edinburgh 17th - 19th September
The G8 (Group of eight most industrialised nations) Summit will be held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, about 40 miles/70 kilometres away from Edinburgh, in Scotland from 6-8th of July 2005. In past years, everywhere they have tried to meet they have been met with a massive response from the world's social movements. Now, in Britain, a network of groups and individuals is emerging that resists the Summit, and forms a lasting movement against capitalism.
The next Dissent! Gathering will take place in Edinburgh on 17th-19th September 2004.
Come along and get involved!
Sunday Herald writes about Golfing anarchists' threat
Sunday Herald20 June 2004
Golfing anarchists' threat to Gleneagles G8 summit
Protest groups publish plans to disrupt world leaders' 2005 meeting
By Stephen Naysmith
GOLFING anarchists are plotting to descend on one of Scotland's most prestigious hotels in protest at the hosting of the G8 summit of world leaders next summer.