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Decaffinated protest

Click. Click. Click. The marketing people must've been smiling last night as the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh passed off with incident. In fact, it felt like the protest equivalent of decaffinated coffee. A crowd, a march route and some slogans - but nothing to keep the G8 leaders awake at night.


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Sunday, 03 July 2005 in Make Poverty History, Protest, Scotland | Permalink | Comments (0)

Edinburgh accommodation update

The Dissent! Edinburgh Accommodation Group has just released this urgent and important statement about the accommodation situation for protesters coming to Edinburgh. In short, it details how due to a variety of factors, the only legal mass accommodation secured is in assocation with the council on Hunter’s Hall Park, surrounding the Jack Kane Centre in the Niddrie estate. The group has reluctantly decided to endorse this but has reservations about a number of issues and wants to alert activists to them as well as encourage people to help create a Dissent! space within the accommodation.

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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 in Dissent!, G8, Practical info, Protest, Repression, Scotland | Permalink | Comments (0)

SpinWalk in Edinburgh announced

SpinWatch and Corporate Watch have just announced they will be putting on a guided tour of corporate Scotland in Edinburgh on Friday 1 July from 11am to 3.30pm to explore the relationship between the G8, Scotland PLC and corporate globalisation. 'SpinWalk' will visit those oil companies, banks and businesses profiteering from privatisation and PPP in Global South countries, as well as the key lobbying consultancies and PR outfits who help boost corporate power and wealth. Starting at the Usher Hall, the walk will end at the Scottish Parliament "around which the corporate lobbyists swarm to ensure that Jack McConnell and his cronies are kept sweet". Contact [email protected] to reserve a place.

Tuesday, 28 June 2005 in Africa, Climate Change, Corporations, G8, Media, Scotland | Permalink | Comments (0)

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