A-Infos (en) International Anti-G8 Meeting in Tuebingen, Germany: Press Release/reminder

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 From 26th-27th February 2005, people involved in anti-capitalist groups
and networks from twenty-three different countries, gathered in Tuebingen,
Germany to continue planning resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit.
The meeting declared, “This year’s Summit professes to address issues
important to us all, amongst them: climate change and poverty. Yet these
are issues produced by a system from which the G8 was born and which it
attempts to manage. Resistance is the obvious and growing response to the
current order. Our aim is not merely to oppose the Summit, but to
contribute to the daily struggle to create new worlds.”

A number of action plans were developed over the weekend, reflecting the
diversity of the perspectives from which those attending were coming.
Concrete action plans included:

·	Blockades of the Summit.
·	Holding a people’s golf tournament on the lawns of Gleneagles.
·	Taking direct action against the causes of climate change.
·	Actions for freedom of movements.
·	Supporting the blockades of Faslane nuclear submarine base.
·	Co-ordinating actions around the world showing solidarity with those
resisting the Summit.
·	Constructing self-managed, ecologically sustainable convergence spaces.
·	Resisting increasingly flexible working conditions being imposed in the
UK and around the world.

The meeting also commented, “Whilst the eight most powerful men on Earth
retreat behind fences and into militarised zones to pursue their policies
of war, growth and destruction, we are attempting to build new spaces,
open to everybody, and in which we can demonstrate our legitimate
alternatives: of self-management, of non-hierarchical and consensus based
decision making and of ecological sustainability.”

Notes to the Editor

1)	The 2005 G8 Summit will take place at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire,
Scotland. Gleneagles is located 70 Kilometres north of Edinburgh.
2)	Amongst those attending the meeting were people based in: Scotland,
Germany, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Lebanon,
Israel, Ireland, Finland, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Russia,
England, Belarus, the United States, Canada, Austria and Switzerland.
3)	The meeting was organised by the Dissent! International Networking
Group. For more information about Dissent! see: www.dissent.org.uk

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* Note: The event is being organised by the Dissent!
International Networking Working Group, who
work within the Dissent!** Network (which organises
non-hierarchically, is explicitly anti-capitalist
and autonomous from any political parties, trade
unions or official institutions).
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** [Ed. Note: Dissent! is antiauthoritarian anticapitalist
direct action social struggle initiative.]
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See also:
http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00150.html
(en) Germany, Tuebingen, Anti-G8 international meeting
Worker  - a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Jan 10 19:34:58 GMT 2005


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