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Get on board the train for G8! Ticket deadline June 13th!!

SE Assembly | 31.05.2005 16:46 | G8 2005

SE Assembly Transport Office now open!
Wed & Thur, 2pm - 8pm
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel E1
You can buy tickets here for cash.

Ticket deadline is June 13th so buy now!!

>>GET on board on the Resist G8 Trains!

The G8 Summit takes place in Gleneagles, Scotland from the 6th-8th July 2005. However, there will be many events, demos and direct actions around Scotland in the days leading up to the summit. The South East Assembly has chartered two trains to take people up to the protests against the G8 summit. This will also include the huge
Make Poverty History march on July 2nd in Edinburgh. Every day there will be different protests at nulcear bases (faslane July 4th), detention centres (Dungavel July 5th) and several other initiatives which need support. The trains will depart early morning from London Kings Cross and arrive in Edinburgh where accommodation (bring sleeping bags and tents!) will be provided for free.

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BOOKING A SEAT

( All trains departs LONDON Kings Cross 7am arriving EDINBURGH 1pm)

LONG STAY // Friday 1st July RTN Saturday 9th July
SHORT STAY // Monday 4th July RTN Friday 8th July

All tickets cost £50, with the view of providing a concessionary price for unemployed/low wage/asylum seeker and those traveling from Eastern Europe. If possible, please make a donation to contribute to this concession.

To book a seat on the train please download the booking form, fill it in clearly and send to BM SOUTH EAST ASSEMBLY, London, WC1N 3XX enclosed with a cheque/postal order made payable to “G.E.N.I.”

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Finalised times for departure and arrival are subject to network rail agreement but will be around 7am-ish from London Kings Cross, arriving Edinburgh at 1pm-ish.

All tickets are return but for those wanting a one-way ticket there will be an option to sell/donate your return journey at the convergence & camp sites.

If you have any spare cash then please add a donation to help a subsidised ticket being available for unemployed/low wage/asylum seekers and those travelling from Eastern Europe.

Once we recieve the order for tickets we will comfirm by email/phone.Tickets will be posted out two weeks before departure.

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Both trains are organised by the SOUTH EAST ASSEMBLY, an anti-authoritarian co-ordination of groups & individuals based in the South East.

For more info: www.resistg8.org.uk // www.dissent.org.uk

Contact the transport group for any queries:

trainforG8@hushmail.com

SE Assembly
e-mail: trainforg8@hushmail.com
Homepage: http://www.resistg8.org.uk

Comments

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But where will people stay?

01.06.2005 09:14

And where are people going to fucking stay while they are up there? Most people can't afford rip off hotel prices and given that so many people are going there wont be any hotel vacancies in Edinburgh for most people. So it will be a case of most people having to sleep in shop and office doorways in Edinburgh city centre and risk getting their heads kicked in by drunks when the pubs chuck out!

Tom

Places to stay...

01.06.2005 10:47

i guess if you'ld read the above, you would have noticed:

"The trains will depart early morning from London Kings Cross and arrive in Edinburgh where accommodation (bring sleeping bags and tents!) will be provided for free."

From my experience of the Beyond ESF, this will be the case. But, i guess it could be a problem if you are expecting hotel facillaties...

dasmian

chill winston

01.06.2005 11:24

I hear that spaces are being sorted out - so don't worry your socks off! If you want to stay at the Ritz then London might be more peaceful that Edinburgh though. I get the impression that Edinburgh is going to have a bit of a cool vibe about it that weekend.

chilled

places to stay

01.06.2005 11:40

Accomodation will be provided, but like the European Social Forum held last October in London major provision looks like a last minute affair - the local council, emergency planning officer etc are all aware of the now very pressing need to provide mass accomodation. Not to mention now that Geldof has said he's going to encourage hundreds of thousands to go there for 6th July...

Failing anything there will obviously be some kind of mass land occupation in or out of cities because so many people will be going whether there is free accomodation advertised or not... it's quite simple really.

looming issue though

Convergence sites

02.06.2005 09:53

There will be convergence space organised through Dissent in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and a rural camp site near Gleneagles. I'm sure other groups like G8 Alternatives have organised accomodation too.

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