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05-03-2005 23:48

A STEP FORWARD FOR AUTONOMY IN THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS

The 16th February saw 1,500 people gather in the zapatista autonomous municipality of that name, to celebrate the construction of their new Autonomous Council building. Meanwhile at the same time in Scotland, supporters of Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group held an event to show solidarity with their twinned zapatista municipality.

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02-03-2005 19:52

G8 Dissent International Networking Meeting in Germany - Report

The Dissent international networking meeting was held over the weekend of 26th-27th February in Tuebingen, Germany.

Up to one hundred people from all over europe and beyond came together to continue planning protests against the G8 Summit and campaigns around the issues related to it. With people from well over 20 different countries in attendance this was a truly international event.

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24-02-2005 05:07

Report with photos of Public Rally in Glasgow on Wednesday 23rd February 2005.

From left; Tommy Sheridan MSP, Iraqi Ahmed Rustan, Chair, Writer A L Kennedy. This is a 1,300 word report with 5 photos of the Public Rally in Glasgow on Tuesday 23rd February 2005 which was to help build for the International day of action on Saturday March 19th 2005.

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22-02-2005 16:30

Make Poverty History G8 July - Travel + Accommodation Details

The Make Poverty History campaign has set up a website for booking travel, accommodation and tours of the area for its supporters who will be attending their G8 summit demonstration march and rally in Edinburgh on Saturday July 2nd.

See:  http://www.makepovertyhistorytravel.org

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21-02-2005 12:59

G8 Detention Centres, Anti-Terror Stop and Searches and Special Court Sittings!

Several press reports over the weekend and today (21st Feb) have indicated the following:

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20-02-2005 08:33

G8 and OILWATCH interview on Climate Summit Cop10

24/7 365 The Convention on Climate Change is the platform where the world decides what to do about "the Climate". Every year the climate big wigs give birth to pretty horrible things in the name of "sustainable" development. Kyoto was one of those. With russia about to ratify the Kyoto climate change agreement...

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13-02-2005 19:39

G8: Activists Being Monitored - Border Controls Considered reports Scotsman

Scotsman roundup of security measures re G8 Summit in July 05 - including assertion by Tayside Chief Constable that "known activists" were already being "monitored" by "undercover officers" both in the UK and mainland Europe, and that police are "talking to the Crown about a range of issues... ...including restricting access to Scotland". John Vine, the Chief Constable of Tayside Police said: "In extreme situations we may apply to prevent entry into Scotland".

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11-02-2005 14:09

G8: Scottish Parliament Petition re Policing + Protests

G8 Alternatives are publicising a petition in response to some of the alarming reports about policing plans for the G8 summit protests this coming July is Scotland. The petition demands that riot police equipped with rubber bullets are not used for policing, that venues be provided for protest meetings and accomodation, and that protestors creating their own spaces should be allowed to do so.

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28-01-2005 15:31

G8 in the News

frontpage of todays Edinburgh Evening News. Today the forthcoming G8 summit in gleneagles is in the news again. The Edinburgh Evening news published pictures of riots and stone-throwing, windowsmashing protesters, whileas on the radio it was stressed, that there "would be a permanent security cordon around the Scottish parliament and Holyrood Palace",
as well as 200 000 protesters expected. It was mentioned that the security forces now make preperations to draft in English police forces to Scotland, too.

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28-01-2005 12:44

cops threaten G8 repression

police are preparing to use submachine guns and rubber bullets to defend leaders of the G8 who will meet at gleeagles. they are carrying out training in a mock up village on the site of a closed down hsopital. the closed down law hospital, lanarkshire has been turned into a mock village, complete with its own names, in which to train riot squads.

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24-01-2005 17:16

G8Alternatives: Main Demo at Gleneagles Train Station 1st Day of G8 (6th july)

The last meeting of the G8Alternatives mobilisation in January 2005 agreed to call their main mass demonstration on the first day of the G8 Summit (Wednesday 6th July) with the meeting point at Midday at Gleneagles train station.

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22-01-2005 19:58

Protests and Counter-Inauguration at Bush Coronation

Heard about the protests at Bush’s inauguration this week? No? Little attention has been paid to the protests, but some ten thousand people gathered in Washington DC to register their opposition to the Texan tea-leaf, and smaller demonstrations occurred all over the US.

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14-01-2005 16:30

'Elections Furore': Second balatacamp.net film from Palestine:

Elections Furore [2005; 6min]

The Balata Film Collective have just released their second mini-documentary about the Palestinian National Authority elections.
Download it now from www.balatacamp.net

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11-01-2005 00:04

Lords of the WEF, MIttelerde schlägt zurück

dance out wef Dieses Jahr burnen wir an der anti-WEF-Demo das Gurtenfestival, das Bierhübeli und das Stadttheater gemeinsam. Deine Meinung, Dein Friede, Deine Füsse. Künstler, Musiker, Freunde für eine gerechtere Welt.
Für die farbigste aller Demos dieser Tage!!

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10-01-2005 11:50

Anti G8 meetings in Glasgow

There are several meetings taking place in Scotland over the next month to plan things for the G8.

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29-12-2004 16:48

G8 summit 2007 takes place in Heiligendamm, Germany

..it is possible to swim to the village, too... The G8 summit will take place in the seaside resort Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany in 2007.

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11-12-2004 12:21

Five go mad in Egypt - A Day in Cairo

I was part of a group of International Solidarity Movement activists who travelled to Egypt on Sunday to meet Egyptian activists preparing to take a convoy of food and medicine from Cairo to Rafah (Gaza). The activists of the Egyptian Popular Comittee in Solidartity with the Palestinian Uprising have taken 25 such convoys since the start of the intifada in an atmosphere of repression and corruption. While in Egypt activists tried to make links with broader social movements in Egypt.

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