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How do you fit a telephone directory onto an A5 sheet of paper? We gave up, so ------------------------------ Autonomous spaces and virtual places ----------------------------- this is a short list of the groups that are most likely to be able to direct you on 56a Infoshop: 56 Crampton St, SE17 London [email protected] to other groups and campaigns, and who publish stuff in English. If it seems a Bridge 5 Mill (MERCi): 22a Beswick st. Mancs, M4 7RH 0161 273 1736; www.bridge-5.org bit London biased, that's because it's where we're based. Other groups around The Basement: 24 Lever St (just off Piccadilly Gardens) Manchester M1; 0161 237 1832; the country will be able to tell you lots more about what's going on near them. http://shortcutz.nologic.org/thebasement/ Sumac: 245 Gladstone st, Notts. NG7 6HX. 0845 458 9595; www.veggies.org.uk/sumac --------------------------------International Network ‘Hub Points’----------------------------------- Cowley Club: 12 London Rd, Brighton - 01273 696104; [email protected]. People’s Global Action: www.agp.org www.cowleyclub.org.uk Actions and announcements: [email protected] Kebele: 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY. tel: 0117 9399 469; www.kebele.org Resources Ace: 17 Westmontgomery Pl., Edinburgh, EH7 5HA. www.autonomous.org.uk Indymedia links to worldwide independent media sites. www.indymedia.org Aspire: Locations around Leeds. email: [email protected]; www.a-spire.org.uk Reclaim the Streets links to RTS global groups. www.reclaimthestreets.net 1in12: 21 Albion St. Bradford. 01274 734160; /www.1in12.go-legend.net A-infos int. anarchist info service www.ainfos.net Lancaster Resorce Centre: 78a Penny St. Lancs LA1 1XN. tel: 01524 383 012; www.eco-action.org/lancaster/ Znet comprehensive activist resource site www.zmag.org 217 swansea: 217 High St. Swansea. tel: 01792 642404 Anarchist Yellow Pages directory of anarchist groups worldwide Colchester social centre: 87 East Hill, Colchester, Essex. tel: 0798 6565 4583 Global Resistance 2005: A call to action http://flag.blackened.net/agony/ayp/index.html ---------------------------------------- Groups and networks ------------------------------------------ Throughout 2005 the institutions of global attempting to learn from and build upon show both political and practical Earth First! Journal voices of ecological resistance PO Box 3023, Tuscon, Arizona Dissent network: www.dissent.net Indymedia: www.indymedia.org.uk capitalism will continue to meet, our collective experiences as a global solidarity with those actively resisting AZ 85702, USA email: [email protected] www.earthfirstjournal.org ism-london: www.ism-london.org.uk Risingtide: www.risingtide.org.uk attempting to manage and bring stability movement and bring us closer to creating the summits, and to organise actions Reclaim the future: www.gn.apc.org/rts Queeruption: www.queeruption.org to a system that creates war, famine and this other possible world that is so often coinciding with these events in villages, -------------------------------------------------- UK based ----------------------------------------------- Rhythms of resistance: www.rhythmsofresistance.org.uk destroyed ecologies, whilst removing any talked about. towns and cities worldwide. SchNEWS - weekly activist news sheet - c/o On;the;fiddle, PO Box 2600 Scrap the bid: www.enrager.net/features/olympics sense of humanity from all of our lives. This call is a result of a meeting at the Moreover, it is a call for this resistance Brighton BN2 0EF. email [email protected] www.schnews.org.uk Wombles: www.wombles.org.uk (also PGA info point) Over recent years, meetings of these Caracol Intergalaktika, International and these expressions of solidarity to co- Earth First Action Update! Subscription Newsletter of actions, contacts for Zapatista support group: c/o LARC Noborders: www.noborders.org institutions have been fiercely resisted by youth camp of the 5th World Social Forum ordinate and co-operate amongst groups and current campaigns c/o Manchester EF! Dept 29, 22a Beswick St, the world's people. This resistance has (Porto Alegre, Brazil) of people involved themselves, to open up spaces in which we This brief round-up of resistance has been put together to highlight the Manchester M4 7HS tel: 0161 226 6814 email [email protected] also provided much-needed spaces for in building resistance to the April 2005 can learn from one another, from our grassroots network Peoples' Global Action. more localised, day-to-day struggles to International Monetary Fund Meeting differences as much as our commonalities. Social Centres Network squatted and autonomously run social and resource We - a few people working from a small 'infopoint' resource centre in London - are not claiming PGA organised all or any of the actions and events listed converge and realise the possibilities that (Washington DC), G8 Summit (UK in July), centres c/o LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, London E1 1ES email: [email protected] within, only that we have been inspired by our involvement in the PGA can be unleashed when we begin to co- Free Trade of the Americas Agreement Let 2005 be the year in which our email list: [email protected] network to listen to, and 'make visible' locally, people taking action globally... operate. From these mobilisations has (FTAA) meeting (in Argentina in resistance becomes truly global! The Agitator! comprehensive annual booklet with contacts most radical, emerged a global 'movement of November) and the World Trade anarchist and direct action groups, publications and centres LARC: London Action Resource Centre movements' that is in many ways Organisation (WTO) Ministerial (in Hong IMF/World Bank: April 16th, Washington DC USA G8: July 2nd-8th, Scotland worldwide send £1.30 to The Agitator, c/o PO ox 2474, London N8 0HW. PGA info point: 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES, UK unprecedented. Kong in December). FTAA: November, Argentina 08 email: [email protected] web: http://www.londonarc.org tel: 020 7377 9088 In 2005, across 4 continents, resistance It is a call for people to support and Eroding Empire: gig, event, action and contact listings www.eroding.org.uk Worldwide resistance round-up inspired by Peoples’ Globalto these Action summits will continue, participate in these mobilisations, to WTO: December, Hong Kong "No Borders", what to do to oppose the G8 in the UK, how to engage As for the mainstream press..."Almost all front-pages of Serbian European PGA conference, with the London ESF in October 2004, and how to support the dailies were full of pictures of rioters (from Genoa and other places), Venezuelan social movements during the latest onslaught on their saying that 'Peoples' Global Action is training the workers, giving them Belgrade, July 2004 revolution. tips how to block roads and deal with police....'" wrote a DSMer. "PGA Vegan and vegetarian food was provided by the local Rad is, according to right-wing press, 'behind all demonstrations in Serbia.' The Drugaciji Svet je Moguc! (DSM!) coalition was the European collective, a cooperative kitchen which needed this work in order to Visibility, heh? But, more seriously, this could turn out to be a very convenor of the third European PGA conference. While many of the survive and resist privatisation. Mixed with our own "autonomous dangerous game. We'll see." Latest reports speak of an uneasy calm in groups that made up DSM are still active, the coalition itself has now kitchen", this meant we had a near-perfect combination of local Serbia, but fortunately not the repression that some predicted. dissolved. Back then, it described itself thus: solidarity and self-sufficiency. And Serbian beer is excellent. See also: A PGA Conference report, pix and comments: 'DSM is a group of groups, collective of collectives united under Workers from 7 local factories met on the PGA site with fellow www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/08/295904.html the slogan "Drugaciji Svet je Moguc!". Together, we are striving to workers from Greece and elsewhere. People attended the striking create a new political space unaffiliated with political parties or the electricity workers' protest. Rhythms of Resistance samba band and the 4th PGA Conference: so-called non-governmental sector. This new space prefers direct Roma combined to play music. We visited a group of 200 Kosovan Serb 17-21 September 2005, Kathmandu, Nepal political action to generally accepted forms of engagement, such as refugees, forgotten and ignored by the UNHCR and unvisited for two Host: All Nepal Peasants' Association (ANPA - PGA Asia Convenor) lobbying or voting.' www.pgaconference.org/call/en_call.html years. And there was a showing of the "Erased" ("rubbed out") from “The PGA process in Asia has been further strengthened and Plenty of good stuff came out of the conference: there were many Slovenia. There was an excellent gender day with participation of a consolidated due to the 2004 conference in Dhaka Bangladesh. It was What’s PGA up to? London: Clown Army closes down an Army recruiting centre interesting innovations regarding PGA structures in Europe, as well good number of post-Yugoslavian feminist and gay and lesbian groups. attended by over 150 activists from grassroots peoples' movements as a possible reformulation of the global day of action as a 'global comprising peasants, women, trade unions, fisherfolk, indigenous Samba Climatico Caravan estafette', or 'torch of rebellion'. Also, new infopoints were created, a people and youth. There are plans for a train-based caravan from Europe to the new collective (Wob Marley) was willing to organize a winter The conference saw the beginning of the grassrooting of the PGA conference, inspired in part by a desire to avoid climate-trashing meeting (http://pgaconference.org/_winter2005/) we supported process in Bangladesh, the expansion of the PGA process to SE Asia, aeroplanes. The Caravan would stop along the way to join in the local enthusiastically the plan for a global PGA conference in Nepal, and with groups from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines struggles and/or give workshops.