Archive - Jun 28, 2005

‘Africa needs justice not charity’

If the newspapers are to be believed, the key decades-long demand of the global justice movement -- debt cancellation -- had been agreed to, thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair’s British Labour government, leading aid agencies and pop ``legends’'' Sir (or is that Saint?) Bob Geldof and Bono.

Statement from Edinburgh Dissent Convergence Space Group

We are writing this to prepare people for the accommodation situation in Edinburgh. We want to encourage people to travel here to take part in the actions and Edinburgh convergence, but also to circulate this information as widely as possible.

List of G8 Protest Activities so far

On Tuesday, 28th of June, the Red Pepper magazine publishes "Inside the Murky World of Make Poverty History".
The Greek Union report their solidarity and participation of a delegation at the G8 protests in Scotland, whileas the School Students also call for participation in G8 protests.
The accomodation situation is Edinburgh is less than satisfying for protesters due to the Edinburgh Council policy, and the Dissent! Edinburgh Accomodation group has put out a statement, describing their difficulties in finding a self-run collective convergence centre and an "accomodation" themed meeting is called for Thursday, 30th of June, 6pm at Teviot Student’s Union, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, to discuss the issue.

On Monday, 27th of June, the Theatre of Dissent hit the Streets of Edinburgh and the Headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland was occupied for about half an hour in an anti-poverty action.
Reports with pictures about the fenced off Jack Kane Centre [1 | 2] and the fence around Gleneagles sparked off discussion about possible state repression.


A summary of all activities and events so far reported on Indymedia Scotland features, newswire and Indymedia UK G8 newswire and features in relation to the recent G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, with particular focus on recent timing, date and local location is listed below.

old reekie

Hello to you all out ther can i just say the G8 mite well be geting held in scotland but this dose not mean the pepole of scotland have anything what so ever to do with it edinburgh is a beautiful place the pepole are great and the same goes for the rest of scotland please dont break our windows and frighten our berns cos this mite provock a back lash that we do not want you to recive come party and protest but fighting is not the way forward trust me

Israelis unleash a new Weapon: Scream

Israelis unleash Scream at protest New weapon knocks crowds off feet Sound blast triggers nausea, dizziness

Urges G-8 to remember non-proliferation vows

breif article appearing on metacrawler/ NSTi news stream. peace and solidarity to all one time one earth one future

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Edinburgh G8 camp info

Rice wins G8 support to isolate Syria

The U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won support from the Group of Eight foreign ministers over Syria, as Washington stepped up its efforts to isolate Damascus on the international level.

(spoof demo) July 2nd - Make Poverty Worse

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