[g8-sheffield] Festival of Dissent! 6-10th April, Lanarkshire

[festivalofdissent at riseup.net]

Dear Local Group/ Info Point

Please find below some info on the Festival of Dissent!  This is a request
to help distribute this information and let people know about this event. 
Please find flyers that can be downloaded on the Dissent! website
(document downloads).

We also wanted to find out whether you will want a space for local
groups/info points to feed back on how its all going.   Please let us
know.

We hope to have some spaces where people can meet up in terms of their
different regions and it would be really good if you could sort out a
contact person for the Festival of Dissent who can go to these session and
be a bit of a befriender and if required let others know about what is
going on in your local area.

Look forward to your response.

Festival Crew

The Festival of Dissent!

... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of
resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to
the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct
action, and party together.

The G8 is the annual meeting of the leaders of the worlds most powerful
countries. It is a major symbol of capitalism: a summit where rich
governments plan how to stay rich. Since 1998, these summits have been
resisted wherever they have attempted to meet. Protests have erupted on
every continent, fuelled by the extremes of wealth and poverty, by
military repression, and by environmental breakdown. In July 2005, the G8
comes to the UK.

Dissent! is a network made up of individuals and groups planning to use
creative direct action and civil disobedience to resist the presence of
the G8 in the UK. It has no leaders, no membership list, and no paid
staff. Ideas for action so far include targeting the oil and war
industries, the practical rejuvenation of neglected communities in
Scotland, and disruption of the summit itself. Dissent! is acting as a
focal point for coordination of resistance to the G8 and for continued
radical action against capitalism into the future. The Festival of
Dissent! will be the best chance before the Summit arrives to get
together, learn skills, share info, plan, and get inspired about protests
at the Summit.

Workshops

* Planning action at the G8 * Direct action training * Background on the
G8 * Consensus decision making * Blockading * Hill walking and navigation
* Corporate involvement in the G8 * Scottish law and legal training *
Training for trainers * Medical training * and much more.

 To get in touch email festivalofdissent(at)riseup.net
 Box 8, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham