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Global Resistance 2005 08 Resources Worldwide resistance round-up inspired by How do you fit a telephone directory onto an A5 sheet of The Basement: 24 Lever St Manchester M1; 0161 237 1832; paper? We gave up, so this is a short list of the groups http://shortcutz.nologic.org/thebasement/ Peoples’Global Action that are most likely to be able to direct you on to other Sumac: 245 Gladstone st, Notts. NG7 6HX. 0845 458 9595; groups and campaigns, and who publish stuff in English. If www.veggies.org.uk/sumac it seems a bit London biased, that's because it's where Cowley Club: 12 London Rd, Brighton - 01273 696104; we're based. Other groups around the country will be able [email protected]. www.cowleyclub.org.uk to tell you lots more about what's going on near them. Kebele: 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY. International Network ‘Hub Points’ tel: 0117 9399 469 www.kebele.org People’s Global Action: www.agp.org Ace: 17 Westmontgomery Pl., Edinburgh, EH7 5HA. www.autonomous.org.uk PGA - European Actions and announcements: [email protected]?subject=subscribe Aspire: Locations around Leeds. email: [email protected] www.a-spire.org.uk PGA - European Process list: [email protected]?subject=subscribe 1in12: 21 Albion St. Bradford. tel: 01274 734160 www.1in12.go-legend.net Indymedia sites: www.indymedia.org.uk Lancaster Resorce Centre: 78a Penny St. Lancs LA1 1XN. Reclaim the Streets: www.reclaimthestreets.net tel: 01524 383 012; www.eco-action.org/lancaster/ A-infos int: anarchist info service www.ainfos.net 217 swansea: 217 High St. Swansea. tel: 01792 642404 Znet: comprehensive activist resource site www.zmag.org Colchester social centre: 87 East Hill, Colchester, Essex. Anarchist Yellow Pages directory of anarchist groups tel: 0798 6565 4583 worldwide http://flag.blackened.net/agony/ayp/index.html The Commonplace, (Leeds Social Centre): 23-25 wharf street, Earth First! Journal: voices of ecological resistance leeds. LS2 7EQ www.thecommonplace.org.uk 0113 246 8640 PO Box 3023, Tuscon, Arizona AZ 85702, USA email: Global Resistance 2005: A call to action [email protected] www.earthfirstjournal.org Groups and networks Throughout 2005 the institutions of global resistance to the April 2005 International Dissent network: www.dissent.net UK based capitalism will continue to meet, attempting to Monetary Fund Meeting (Washington DC), G8 Indymedia: www.indymedia.org.uk manage and bring stability to a system that Summit (UK in July), Free Trade of the Americas SchNEWS: weekly activist news sheet - creates war, famine and destroyed ecologies, Agreement (FTAA) meeting (in Argentina in c/o On-the-fiddle, PO Box 2600 Brighton BN2 0EF. ism-london: www.ism-london.org.uk whilst removing any sense of humanity from all November) and the World Trade Organisation email: [email protected] www.schnews.org.uk Risingtide: www.risingtide.org.uk Reclaim the future: www.gn.apc.org/rts of our lives. (WTO) Ministerial (in Hong Kong in December). Earth First Action Update! Subscription Newsletter of Over recent years, meetings of these It is a call for people to support and Queeruption: www.queeruption.org actions, contacts for groups and current campaigns c/o institutions have been fiercely resisted by the participate in these mobilisations, to show both Manchester EF! Dept 29, 22a Beswick St, Manchester M4 7HS Rhythms of resistance: www.rhythmsofresistance.org.uk world's people. This resistance has also provided political and practical solidarity with those tel: 0161 226 6814 email: [email protected] Scrap the bid: www.enrager.net/features/olympics much-needed spaces for more localised, day-to- actively resisting the summits, and to organise Social Centres Network: squatted and autonomously run Wombles: www.wombles.org.uk (also PGA info point) day struggles to converge and realise the actions coinciding with these events in villages, social and resource centres c/o LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, London Zapatista support group: c/o LARC possibilities that can be unleashed when we towns and cities worldwide. E1 1ES email: [email protected] Noborders: www.noborders.org begin to co-operate. From these mobilisations Moreover, it is a call for this resistance and email list: [email protected] has emerged a global 'movement of movements' these expressions of solidarity to co-ordinate and The Agitator! comprehensive annual booklet with contacts This brief round-up of resistance has been put together that is in many ways unprecedented. co-operate amongst themselves, to open up spaces most radical, anarchist and direct action groups, publications to highlight the grassroots network Peoples' Global In 2005, across 4 continents, resistance to in which we can learn from one another, from and centres worldwide send £1.30 to The Agitator, c/o PO ox Action. We - a few people working from a small these summits will continue, attempting to learn our differences as much as our commonalities. 2474, London N8 0HW. 'infopoint' resource centre in London - are not claiming from and build upon our collective experiences PGA organised all or any of the actions and events listed Eroding Empire: gig, event, action and contact listings within, only that we have been inspired by our as a global movement and bring us closer to Let 2005 be the year in which our resistance www.eroding.org.uk involvement in the PGA network to listen to, and 'make creating this other possible world that is so often becomes truly global! Autonomous spaces and virtual places visible' locally, people taking action globally... talked about. 56a Infoshop: 56 Crampton Street, SE17 London This call is a result of a meeting at the IMF/World Bank: April 16th, Washington DC USA [email protected] LARC: London Action Resource Centre Caracol Intergalaktika, International youth G8: July 2nd-8th, Scotland PGA info point: 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES, UK camp of the 5th World Social Forum (Porto FTAA: November, Argentina Bridge 5 Mill (MERCi): 22a Beswick st. Mancs, M4 7RH 0161 email: [email protected] web: http://www.londonarc.org Alegre, Brazil) of people involved in building WTO: December, Hong Kong 273 1736; www.bridge-5.org 02 Dissent Network Info points 07 Resist the 2005 G8 Summit environmentalists and all those committed to a The idea of PGA infopoints came from the Leiden struggles and triumphs. This year, the G8 will attempt to meet at sustainable, socially just world, can work conference of 2003. It was decided there that the “We are inspired by the principles, structures, Gleneagles, Scotland. Resiatance to the 2005 together over the linked issues of oil, war, most practical way to keep the European and achievements of social movements summit and the world system it represents is climate change, and use the G8 summit in the network alive and kicking was for local groups throughout the world and through popular being planned by groups and networks from UK to expose the hypocrisy of the government's and spaces happy with the PGA hallmarks to set education hope to share these dreams, lessons, around the UK, Europe and beyond. Actions on green rhetoric. up points of contact where information about and experiences with local organizers and issues of work, migration, war and ecology are We are building a network of groups and PGA could be propelled, with any luck, into their communities. Through salons, fundraisers, being planned. individuals around the country and worldwide communities. They are currently sprinkled actions, and other encounters, we will open Here are a few of the events which have who can share their inspiration and ideas for around the UK, Europe and - as of January 2005 pathways of communication to strengthen our already been confirmed: concrete plans for action around energy, climate - North America. For a hopefully soon-to-be-updated global resistance. For starters in early 2005 we are: 4 July: Mass Direct Action at Faslane Nuclear change and oil. Existing ideas for action include list, see www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/ * Facilitating a PGA workshop at the National Submarine base - a day of action against the a Critical Mass to Scotland, a mass ‘call in sick’ pgaeurope/infopoints.htm Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington, D.C. armed wing of Global Capitalism day for those working in the oil industry and <www.ncor.org> (Feb 6th). 6 July: Mass Blockades of the G8 Summit & much calling for synchronised mass and decentralised NY joins PGA! * Hosting a salon bringing together Palestinian and much more! actions on energy profiteers in Scotland and “We are popular educators, anti-war and Acehnese solidarity organizers to share strategy and 8 July: Day of action against Climate Change - around the globe.” Palestinian solidarity organizers, prison struggle (February 13th). Direct Action to tackle the root causes of the (NB. On March 14th, there will be a pre-G8 climate justice abolitionists, and anarchist academics - in short, * Throwing a benefit party for the Via Campesina biggest threat to life on earth. counter-summit. Then on March 15th, Environment and we are rebels - who are working together as... Tsunami Relief Campaign <www.viacampesina.org> For more info: www.dissent.org.uk Development Ministers meeting in London will be met by a Encuentro: a Peoples' Global Action infopoint in New (March 26th).” pots & pans noise demo ('cos the climate's going to pot!) York City. International Call to Action vs. Contact Email: [email protected] “New York City may have Wall Street, News from Canada Root Causes of Climate Change, 8th hundreds of corporate headquarters, and the A new infopoint is being set up in Montreal PGA, July 2005 Resist the World Bank & IMF, largest police force in the world, but it is also Canada, to act as a support group to reinforce the “Any claim to tackle climate change whilst Washington, 15th April 2005 home to diverse communities, beautiful cultures links between CLAC ('Anti-Capitalist fighting wars for control of the planet's “The April 2005 meetings of the International of resistance, and a legacy of radical struggle.
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