[Kiberpipa] mednarodni sestanek mreze Dissent! februarja v Nemciji - mobilizacija proti G8

[Andraz Tori]

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	Calling All Anti-Capitalists
	An Invite to an International Networking and
Co-ordination Meeting (26th -27th February in
Tuebingen, Southern Germany) for Those Wanting to
Build Radical Resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to be
Held in the UK
	
	The G8 are returning to Europe in 2005. Over the last
18 months an international network has been emerging
to ensure that their meeting will not pass by
uncontested. In the UK, a network of autonomous local
and working groups, going by the name of Dissent! (for
more about Dissent! see the end of this invite) have
been spreading news about the up-coming summit and the
planned resistance to it, pooling ideas and resources
and dreaming up ideas for action. The opportunity
provided by the European Peoples Global Action (PGA)
Conference, which took place in Belgrade in July 2004
and the European Social Forum (ESF) in London in
October, was used to begin an international dialogue
between those planning resistance to the Summit.

Ideas and inspiration have been shared, and practical
preparations have begun.

In Britain, a number of working groups have been
working on initiatives such as a website, a
newsletter, organising structures and resources for
legal support, training people as street medics and
touring the country explaining the issues being
discussed at the Summit and the realities behind them.
Across Europe and further a field, individuals, groups
and networks have been producing their own anti-G8
materials, building links with groups locally,
organising benefit parties and discussing what they
want their role to be in the mobilisation.

Preparations are well underway. However, as 2005
begins and the Summit starts to come into view, its
time to step up our efforts. If were to have a
serious possibility of disrupting the Summit, maximise
the potential for strengthening local and global
networks of struggle, and develop and collectively
express a critique of capitalism more substantial than
that which will be propagated by the mainstream of the
anti-globalisation movement, then there is no time to
waste.

	The International Meeting
As part of a discussion at the European PGA Conference
about the best way to involve people from outside of
the UK in organising resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit,
both as a means of maximising our impact upon the
Summit itself and contributing to the development of
real international networks through face-to-face
contact, it was decided to hold an international
networking and co-ordination meeting to focus upon
resisting the Summit in February 2005.

The meeting will take place in Tuebingen, Southern
Germany on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th February
2005. The meeting is being hosted by the Tuebingen
Infoladen (Info-Shop) Collective who are providing
accommodation, meeting space and food. The proposed
agenda which follows has been drafted by the Dissent!
International Networking Group. The agenda is a draft
and is open for comments, additions and alterations.
Email any comments to: 
info-g82005 at riseup.net

Come along to the meeting and get involved! We will
attempt to make translation into as many languages as
possible available. If you require translation from
English please let us know as soon as you can. Also,
please get in touch if you can offer translation to or
from any languages.

Practicalities, including more information about
Dissent!, the exact location of the meetings, where to
find accommodation and how to register are included at
the end of this document.


Brief Overview of the Weekend

Friday 25th Feb 2005
Arrivals

Saturday 26th Feb
09:30: Introductions
10:00: Whos Who in the Anti-G8 Mobilisation?
10:30: Dissent!: An Overview of the Story So Far
11:00: Questions and Discussion from the Previous
Sessions 
11:30: The Practicalities (Convergence Centre, Action
Plans etc)
12:15: Practicalities Working Groups
13:00: Lunch
14:00: Legal Advice and Police Strategies
15:15: Action Strategies
17:00: Final Plenary

Sunday 27th Feb
10:00: Opening Session
10:20: Small Group Meetings (Roadshow, Indymedia etc)
12:00: Developing a European Anti-Repression Network
Ongoing throughout the day: Follow-up Discussions and
Meetings to the Previous Day


	Draft Agenda

Friday 25th February 2005

	Afternoon and Evening: Arrival of Participants
Arrive in Tuebingen. Food will be available.

Saturday 26th February 2005

9.30am: Introductions
A brief introduction to the weekend and a chance to
agree upon a final agenda. This will also be an
opportunity for people to briefly introduce themselves
so that everyone can get an impression of the regions
people are from and the groups and networks
represented.

10.00am: Whos Who in the Anti-G8 Mobilisation in the
UK?
An introduction to the different groups and networks
in the UK mobilising against the G8. (A coalition of
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) called Make
Poverty History and a group called G8 Alternatives,
which is dominated by the Socialist Workers Party
(SWP), are organising parallel to Dissent!) Also, a
brief overview of the political situation in Scotland,
particularly in relation to the Summit. Followed by a
chance for questions of clarification.
 
10.30am: Dissent!: An Overview of the Story So Far
A presentation by someone from Dissent! about what has
happened in the UK so far in terms of developing
resistance to the Summit and formulating a framework
for action. This will include an explanation of the
current situation in terms of (potential) Convergence
Centres and other infrastructure (food, accommodation
etc) and a summary of actions currently being planned
by people in the UK. This will also be an opportunity
for groups and networks from outside of the UK to give
people an overview of any mobilising which is being
done in their areas and to present any ideas or
proposals for action.

11:00am: Questions and Discussion
A continuation of the previous two sessions. A chance
to ask questions of clarification and to discuss the
issues raised. What have been experiences elsewhere of
relations between radical mobilisations and more
mainstream ones? What co-operation has been possible
or desirable? How far can these experiences be
transferred onto the current situation in the UK and
Scotland in particular? How did groups and networks go
about providing food and accommodation for thousands
at previous mobilisations? What seems to be the most
appropriate forms and focuses for action considering
the issues addressed by the Summit and the political
context in Scotland?

11:30: The Practicalities
This session has been set aside for discussing the
practical things which need to be organised if the
current aims and objectives in terms of infrastructure
and action in the UK are to be achieved. What
practical resources are required in the UK? Which
actions require active support and involvement? What
information (legal, logistical - i.e. maps etc) do
people based outside of the UK need in order to be
able to mobilise people to come to Scotland from their
areas, and to start planning actions?

12:15: Practicalities Working Groups
A chance to break into working groups to swap ideas
and information about the practical preparations which
need to be made. Suggested working groups include (i)
The Convergence Centre, (ii) Regional and
International Networking and Outreach, (iii)
Fundraising. The people drafting this agenda felt that
dealing with issues of repression is so important, and
so often sidelined or postponed until after the event,
that we would rather discuss this issue with everyone
together on Sunday. Obviously, the list of working
groups here is not final.

13:00-14:00: Lunch Break 

14:00: Legal Advice and Police Strategies
This session will involve a presentation by people
from the UK about the legal situation in the UK and
about police strategies commonly used. It will be
followed by a chance to ask questions and discuss.
Please Note: Although police from across the UK will
be deployed in Scotland next year, Scotland has its
own police force (with its own tactics) who will be
leading the operation and its own laws (different
from those in England, Wales and Ireland). There is
very little experience of large mobilisations in
Scotland. Please accept that the advice on offer in
this session will be necessarily limited.

15:00-15:15: Short Break 

15:15: Action Strategies
Having heard which actions are being prepared (by
people in the UK and beyond) in the earlier sessions,
this will be an opportunity to break down into small
groups to discuss specific actions, how their
potential impact can be maximised and how those
currently organising the actions can be supported.
This will also be an opportunity for ideas for action
which have spontaneously arisen during earlier
discussions to be discussed with others. Current
action ideas which can be elaborated upon in this
session and which need active support include: (i)
actions around the issue of precarity, (ii) actions
about climate change - one of the main focuses of the
G8 Summit, (iii) mass blockades of the Summit
location, and (iv) supporting and initiating social
and ecological projects in the area around Gleneagles
together with local residents.

16:40: Short Break

17:00-18:30: Final Plenary 
Feedback from groups which have met throughout the day
and planning the agenda for the next day.

	Evening: Food and Party
An Anti-Repression party is planned in Tuebingen.

	Sunday 27th February 2005
It was felt that Saturday would raise a lot of issues,
ideas and plans which would need to be dealt with in
more detail on the second day of the meeting. The
agenda will, therefore, be left largely open to be
decided upon at Saturdays Final Plenary. The
following sessions are suggested however, some of
which could take place parallel to other meetings or
discussions. There are rooms booked to allow meetings
to be able to run throughout the entire day.

10:00: Opening Session
A chance to finalise the agenda for the final day.

10:20: Small Group Meetings
An opportunity for people involved or interested in
particular aspects of the mobilisation to meet, plan,
swap ideas, share skills etc Groups who have already
confirmed that they would like a session in this slot
include: (i) TRAPESE (Taking Radical Action through
Popular Education and Sustainable Everything) - the
group doing the anti-G8 roadshow around the UK; (ii)
Indymedia - this session is intended to be a planning
and co-ordination meeting for IMCistas wanting to
co-ordinate coverage of, and involvement in, the
anti-G8 mobilisation; and, (iii) Street-medics, this
session is an opportunity for people from across
Europe planning on working as street-medics in
Scotland around the time of the Summit to meet and
begin co-ordinating amongst themselves. Other possible
meetings, for example, for those wanting to
co-ordinate between different catering collectives
etc could also be run during this session. Please
email: 
info-g82005 at riseup.net if you would like to run a
workshop in this session.

12.00: Developing a Functioning Anti-Repression
Network
Anti-Repression and legal support work has all too
often been left to a small group of people and left
until after the event. This is an opportunity to
discuss how we, as a European (or even global)
movement, want to deal with repression related to the
Summit. How can we prepare? What should our response
to repression be? How can we best support those
affected?
 
Note: Sunday may also be an opportunity for regional
networking meetings to take place.


	Practicalities

The meeting is being hosted by the Infoladen
(Info-Shop) Collective in Tuebingen, one of the
PGA-Info Points in Germany. The meetings will take
place at Epplehaus in Tuebingen (a map can be found
under: www.epplehaus.de) and accommodation will either
be in the same place as the meetings or in the
"Wohnprojekt Schellingstrasse" (for more information
see: www.schellingstrasse.de)
.
Places are unfortunately limited to 100. For this
reason we would prefer it if larger groups and
networks were to send delegates. Please register for
the meeting as far in advance as possible, letting us
know:
	When you will be arriving.
	How many people you will be coming with.
	Which group(s)/network(s) you are involved with.
	The region/area that you live in.
	If you require accommodation.
No personal information (names etc) are required.
Please email this information to: 
infoladen-tuebingen at web.de For general questions and
enquiries about the meeting, comments about the agenda
or for more information about Dissent!, email:
info-g82005 at riseup.net 

More precise directions to both Epplehaus and
Schellingstrasse will be emailed to you after you have
registered and will also be available on the Dissent!
website: www.dissent.org.uk


	Introduction to Dissent!

The G8 (Group of Eight, most industrialised nations)
Summits are hosted, on rotation, by the groups member
states. In 2005 the Summit is to be held in the UK at
Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland (around 40 miles
north-west of Edinburgh). The Dissent! Network
(www.dissent.org.uk), has formed to provide a
networking tool to co-ordinate radical resistance to
the Summit.

The network was formed in the autumn of 2003 by a
group of people who have previously been involved in
radical ecological direct action, Peoples Global
Action (PGA), the anti-war movement and the global
anti-capitalist movement which has emerged around
meetings of the rich and powerful. 

The Network has no central office, no spokespeople, no
membership list and no paid staff. Its a mechanism
for communication and co-ordination between local
groups and working groups involved in building
resistance to the G8, and capitalism in general. It
hopes to exist long after the world leaders have
returned home in the early summer of 2005. 

Dissent! is open to anybody willing to work within the
Hallmarks of Peoples Global Action (PGA). 

The Hallmarks are as follows: 

1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism
and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and
governments that promote destructive globalisation. 

2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and
discrimination including, but not limited to,
patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all
creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human
beings. 

3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think
that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased
and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational
capital is the only real policy-maker. 

4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience,
support for social movements' struggles, advocating
forms of resistance which maximise respect for life
and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the
construction of local alternatives to global
capitalism

5. An organisational philosophy based on
decentralisation and autonomy.


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