Oxford G8 2005 Newswire Archive

Think this artical by Marco of Eurodusnie is worth a look for thoughs wondering what the actavist respons to the G8 is all about.
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G8 and the comeback of the alter-globalists

Geschreven door Marco van Duijn

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

A great deal has changed since the alter-globalisation movement put itself in the spotlight during the WTO summit in Seattle. The global mobilisations against free trade summits reached a peak in Seattle and almost a year later in Prague, during the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. The end of the alter-globalisation movement was accompanied by an orgy of violence during G8 summit in Genoa (2001) and briefly following the events in New York on September 11. This summer another G8 meeting will take place in Scotland. While the world leaders of the eight most powerful countries entrench themselves in a golfing resort behind seven kilometres of fencing, the alter-globalists are preparing a comeback. Read more >>

there's a stack of several dozen bowls and plates behind the old opium den restaurant (the purple one at the bottom of george street). if anyone's going up to the rural convergence space in scotland and hasn't left yet, go get them and bring them up! Read more >>

"I will walk out against war and poverty on Wednesday 6th July but only if 50 other school students will make this same pledge."
— Alys Elica Zaerin, convenor of School Students Against War Read more >>

**********LAST CHANCE FOR TICKETS ON THE RESIST G8 TRAIN******* Read more >>

Have just been informed that police visited the home address of a member of the Bristol Indymedia Collective (BIM) late this afternoon (approx 5.30pm) armed with a search warrant.

They seized from the property the persons personal computer, as well as the Bristol Indymedia server. The member of the collective has also been taken into custody, although his partner was told this was just for a 'chat' and he'd be home soon!?
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News Release : Bristol Indymedia Server Threatened.
by imc bristol
24th June 2005

Bristol Indymedia Server Threatened
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Return & Single Fares

London to Edinburgh (Return)
Long Stay Train // 1st July to 9th July
Leaves London at 3pm arrives Edinburgh at 9.30pm. Train returns to London at 6.46pm on the 9th July.

Tickets are still £50 Rtn and £40 single (conc. fares available, Just email!) Read more >>

Activist Trauma gathering is happening now in Oxford from the 18th till the 19th June, all welcome, working on logistics of support for anti-G8 activist, and our own support. Read more >>

Several MakePovertyHistory (MPH) events are upcoming in Oxford. Read more >>

GET ON BOARD THE RESIST G8 TRAINS! Read more >>

G8 leaders were out in force on the Cowley Road carnival in Oxford taking their pro-capitalist slogans to the streets Read more >>

Make Poverty History campaigners form a human ring around Radcliffe Camera. Read more >>

This is a colourful, informative, double-sided map exposing corporate agendas at the G8 summit and Scotland Plc. Read more >>

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

G8 Network Meeting, Tuesday 14th June at 7.30pm at The Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles Street. Come and share what you are planning to do around the G8 Summit happening 6-8th July in Perthshire Scotland. Read more >>

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SAT 4TH JUNE, 7PM, READING, £4 ON DOOR, ALL AGES!
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In July the G8 will attempt to meet for their annual summit at Gleneagles, Scotland. In Reading, many groups are mobilising – with initiatives happening leading up to the summit, as well as protests during the summit itself – both here and in Scotland. Here’s a timeline of events planned so far… Read more >>

Anti-G8 Meetings are now to be held on a regular basis at the Oxford Action Resource Centre. Read more >>

A posh fundraiser for the mobilisation against the G8 summit.
Saturday June 4th, 12-9 pm
Cambridge (in the Green Area, Strawberry Fair)

Dancing, Music, Info-shop, Speakers, Frivolity
Bring masks, ball-gowns, jackets, costumes, friends Read more >>

Leaders of the powerful G8 countries ran wild in Oxford today, shaking hands, waving and dancing to samba rhythms. Read more >>