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Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War
Free download of the film "Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War", a documentary about the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and its links to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization.Venezuela Solidarity Demonstration at Edinburgh Festival
A spontaneous demonstration in solidarity with the people of Venezuela took place in Edinburgh, Sunday, 15th of august, co-inciding with the simultaneous referendum against Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, and initiator of massive social reforms benefiting the poor. The Edinburgh Fringe festival also co-incided with the demonstration, lending a high profile of publicity to the cause of the demonstration, particular when the demonstration with comedian Mark Thomas accidently met the Edinburgh Samba School, the party rocked.
Edinburgh Demo in support of The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
Edinburgh Demo in support of The Bolivarian RevolutionInvitation 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!
Brazil and Argentina believe that the FTAA for 2005 is not possible
Brazilian Chancellor, Celso Amorim, and the Argentinean sub-secretary of Economic Integration, Eduardo Sigal, stated that the current situation of the FTAA negotiations makes impossible that the trade agreement will start working as it was expected on the beginning of 2005.Aboriginal resistance stopped Australian nuclear dump plan
The national Australian government has given up plans for a low-level nuclear waste dump in the South Australian desert – because it feared losing marginal seats in the imminent federal election.
American Indians Protest Scottish Power
American Indians Protest Scottish Power - July 16 - 24thSupport native American Indians from the Karuk, Yurok, Hoopa, and Klamath Tribes as they journey to Scotland to protest Scottish Power's control of the river Klamath. These tribes from Northern California and Southern Oregon evolved with Salmon, which are now being decimated because of the series of dams blocking migration. These dams are owned by Scottish Power.
Dissent! Gathering Minutes (Bradford 3rd-4th July 2004)
The minutes from the Dissent! anti-G8 Gathering in Bradford from 3rd-4th July 2004 are now available to be viewed on the enrager.net anti-G8 web forum. Visit:
http://enrager.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=67&sid=c47a1248dd6b3b3e671fdbf6cad0c37c
Who is pulling the Strings ?
This is an attempt to demistify what globalisation is all about.How does Globalisation affect Scotland?
Notes from a community education workshop about globalisation.Chavez: the FTAA is dead
Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, expressed again that US project of completing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is definitely dead. This time, the Venezuelan president made this balance at his arrival to Puerto Iguazu, in Misiones, Argentina, where he will participate on the Summit of MERCOSUR presidents.Dissent! Anti-G8 Gathering, Bradford this weekend!
The next Dissent! gathering will take place at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford from the 3rd-4th July 2004. Come along and get involved!noteworthy development scottish parliamentary political scene
the following text is not advocating parliamentary politics.
dissent! meeting in bradford July 3/4
Early notice of Bradford meeting of the UK-wide anti-G8 network dissent!
More details to come in the following days.
No G8 - not here, not anywhere!
What about the next G8 meeting - in Gleneagles in Scotland?"Anarchist Group's Gleneagles Website Exclusive!"*
Proposed G-Hate Blocks - UK 2005 Gleneagles, Scotland:
Anti-FTAA initiative in Paraguay
The anti-FTAA movement considers that this agreement will mean subdue mechanisms for our nations. The governments will be subdued to this mechanisms or game rules that respond to the interests of the big corporations and which will negatively affect the social and sensitive sectors of the national economy.
They state that the FTAA is supposed to be a stage of negotiation with low operative costs for corporations, but at the same time it impose concepts and laws that won’t allow the governments to make public policies encouraging the strength of the little and middle companies and national industries.
Breaking news - Gleneagles Hotel to host next G8 Summit in 2005
Grampian TV Confirms Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire will host next year's G8 summit.Scots police in Savannah to study G8 security
Good report from The Herald http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/17765.html
Scots police travel to America to study G8 security
LUCY ADAMS, Home Affairs Correspondent
June 09 2004
G8 Resistance Report - The Past, Present, and Future...
G8 Resistance: Past, Present, and Future...
