NOTE: The links Section below should be mirrored on this newswire post here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306409.html
INTRODUCTION AND MOBILISATION BASICS
The G8 Summit itself will run 6th-8th July 2005 at Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire, Scotland.
G8 Alternatives have been planning for a large campsite, originaly to include a pop concert and space for counter conference. Negotiations with local authorities are ongoing, but urban spaces in Edinburgh seems to be there priority now.
The Dissent! network and other groups are also planning for a large rural campsite - but it's getting very late.....
Various groups are looking for urban convergance spaces.....
Common cross-group 'Welcome / Infospaces' will be set up in central Edinburgh at the university.
MAIN MOBILISATIONS
very brief basic introductions to the three main mobilisations:
DISSENT! NETWORK
International Mobilising Network
Working for 1.5yrs Plus
Anti-Capitalist
Internal Processes Important
Many Working Groups
Focus on Actions + Protests
Blockades to Community Projects
Focus on Convergence Space
Legal / Medical Co-ordination
Continues past 2005 G8
http://www.dissent.org.uk
G8ALTERNATIVES
Scottish Mobilising Network
Includes CND, Trident Ploughshares, Trade Unions, SSP + Greens, People and Planet, Free Party People and SWP elements
Focus on Counter Conference
Organising Gleneagles Demo
http://www.g8alternatives.org
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Largest Coalition of NGOs
Charities, development groups, churches etc
Focus on Aid, Trade and Debt
Part of Global Movement
Focus on lobbying Blair and Brown
Celebrity backed campaign
Organising 2nd July Demonstration
Continues past G8
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
G8 WEBSITE LINKS:
Also see Links and Resources at
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306409.html
Below are the links:
- Activist Trauma Group
- http://www.activist-trauma.net/
- Clown Army
- http://www.clownarmy.org/
- Dissent! Network Website
- http://www.dissent.org.uk
- Enrager Discussion Forums
- http://www.enrager.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=67forum
- Faslane G8 Blockade
- http://www.faslaneg8.com
- G8 Alternatives Website
- http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk
- G8 Alternatives Discussions Forums
- http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk/g8bb/
- G8 Alternatives Wiki closed
- http://g8alternatives.movingpages.org/MoinWiki/
- G8 Cycle Caravan
- http://www.g8cyclecaravan.org | http://www.g8bikeride.org.uk
- G8 Climate Action
- http://cca.movingpages.org
- G8 Feminist Action
- http://g8feministaction.frockon.org/
- G8 Legal Support Group
- http://www.g8legalsupport.info
- Make Poverty History
- http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
- Peoples' Global Action G8 Resource Pages
- http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/index.htm
- Queer G8
- http://www.queeruption.org.uk/queerg8
- Resist G8 - SE Assembly (inc train bookings)
- http://www.resistg8.org.uk/
- Trapese - Take Radical Action - Popular Education and Sustainable Everthing
- http://www.trapese.org
- Trident Ploughshares
- http://www.tridentploughshares.org/g8/ | http://www.faslaneg8.com
- UK Action Medics
- http://www.actionmedics.org.uk/
OFFICIAL SUMMIT RELATED WEBSITES:
- Official Main G8 site
- Perth & Kinross Council G8 website: http://www.perthshireg8.com
- Official UK Government G8 Website (due live december 04)
- http://www.g8.gov.uk
- University of Toronto G8 Information Centre
- http://www.g8.utoronto.ca
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