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UK G8 2005 Newswire Archive

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Sail 8

06-06-2005 17:20

Bob Geldof has called for a modern-day Dunkirk, sailors to sail to France and bring across protestors for Edinburgh.

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G8 - Essential Things To Bring With You

06-06-2005 17:15

Apart from the obvious statement of "bring what you would expect to find" there are some key essentials that people visiting Scotland should bring:

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Daleks to take over G8 security...

06-06-2005 16:31

Daleks to take over G8 security

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Radical musicians come to Oxford! Monday 13th June 2005

06-06-2005 15:06

Radical musicians make folk music a threat again in the East Oxford Community Centre 13/06/05 from 7pm 'til late.

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Bob Geldof and Live 8

06-06-2005 14:56

Bob Geldof has come in for a lot of criticism for launching Live 8 to coincide with the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. Is the criticism justified or fair?

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The G8 - Why Be Angry?

06-06-2005 12:12

The G8 - Why Be Angry?
Author Simon Tormey
Website:  http://www.word-power.co.uk
 http://www.word-power.co.uk/platform/The-G8-Why-Be-Angry

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Direct Action Training for G8 and DSEi

06-06-2005 07:48

Sunday 19 June @ the Institute for Autonomy, 78 Gower St, London WC1 (Nearest tubes: Russell Sq, Goodge St, Warren St, Buses: Tottenham Court Rd.)

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Developing G8 Protests - G8Alternatives + Live8 - First Day of G8 Summit

05-06-2005 14:30

It's all happening!

Very quick update on recent protest news re 1st day of the G8 Summit.

Amidst the frenzy around Ure and Geldof the other protests are lacking media coverage, not least the calls by groups to blockade the G8 Summit itself.

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Advice on being approached by police to negotiate in run up to G8

05-06-2005 11:47

Article offering advice on what do to if approached by the police to negotiate protests around the G8 mobilization.

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Undercover journalist uncovered at DISSENT! meeting!

04-06-2005 16:27

Just so you don't think we can't spot journalists at our meetings. Today a women known as "Fiona" was confronted by ppl from London who had seen her at the Nottingham DISSENT! gathering and suspected her of being an undercover journalist.

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Bob the martyr

04-06-2005 15:27

Does Geldof want to make poverty History or,
Does Geldof want to make poverty His story?

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G8 film extravaganza london

03-06-2005 20:37

london rising tide presents a night of free films about G8 mobilisations past and present

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ANTI-G8 benefit Gig in Sheffield June 12th

03-06-2005 19:14

An anti-G8 benefit gig featuring live bands, Beyond TV, TrolleyD Soundsystem. All money made will go towards anti-G8 actions in Sheffield and Scotland.

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03-06-2005 16:58

fight poverty not wars...meeting in Swansea

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Faslane website relaunch

03-06-2005 10:25

Up-dated info about the Faslane G8 action

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International Anti-G8 Networking Meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece

03-06-2005 09:00

International networking meeting in thessaloniki

"We don't want to be what we are now; we want to be what we want to become!"

From 20 – 22 of May 2005 the Antiauthoritarian Movement (Assembly of Salonica), Greece hosted the International Networking Meeting in Thessaloniki to spark off Dissent against the G8.

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Dubious agenda of "Make Poverty History" backer

03-06-2005 01:53

Do all the backers of Make Poverty History really have the interests of the poor at heart?

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>>GET on board on the Resist G8 Trains!!

03-06-2005 00:17

Ticket deadline is June 13th so buy now!!

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Bristol - Grr8 picnic/funday - 4 June

02-06-2005 16:21

Flyer front
Roll up, roll up…it’s your only non-corporate, non-state funded, non-consumerist, environmentally-friendly (no generators, no sound systems – just the sound of you!), DIY indy mini-festie in Bristol this spring…this Saturday, 4 June, 12 noon, on reclaimed College Green, central Bristol. So do your sun-dance now!

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G8 protests not banned?

02-06-2005 09:44

Articles from recent Sheffield's Star newspaper say that protests will not be banned outside a security cordon for the G8 summit from 15th - 17th June.
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