[pagan-magik] The Festival of Dissent! 6-10th April

[Adrian Harris]

Hi all,

We're having a Pagan Cluster meeting at the Festival on Saturday 9th over
lunch. Depending on what's on that afternoon, we hope to do a ritual
together in the afternoon. This is probabaly the most important Pre-G8
gathering, so if you're going to G8, try and get to this. In addition, we
need to work towards oganising a Pagan Cluster gathering - or maybe several
local gatherings - over the coming months.

Please let me know if you're going to the Festival.
Blessings,
Adrian

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A list of some of the workshops,
plus descriptions, is now up on at:
http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/158/1/

If there is any chance you could help distribute this information that
would be fantastic.  Flyers can be downloaded from
http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/107/70/

And if possible, hope you can make it!

love The Festival Crew

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Anti-G8 Gathering - Learn Skills- Network- Get Inspired- Take Action

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 disgust at 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 *
CIRCA* Medical training * Action Information * and much much more.

For more information check out www.dissent.org.uk

To register for the festival or to offer help get in touch - email
festivalofdissent(at)riseup.net or write to Box 8, 245 Gladstone Street,
Forest