People involved with the Dissent! Network, organising anti-capitalist resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to be held in the UK, are organising a number of events in Porto Alegre during the World Social Forum (WSF).

People involved with the Dissent! Network, organising anti-capitalist resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to be held in the UK, are organising a number of events in Porto Alegre during the World Social Forum (WSF).

Here are the details of our workshops. We hope to see you there!

Workshop I Mobilisations Against the 2005 G8 Summit and Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA)

A meeting to discuss resistance to the G8 Summit (UK, July 2005) the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) (Argentina, July 2005), the WTO in Hong Kong, December. The meeting aims to discuss how we can use the opportunities presented by these summits to strengthen and develop local and global anti-capitalist networks? How we can connect, co-operate and co-ordinate?

Location: Caracol Intergalacktica, Salle 1 ,

Time: 13:30-16:00,

January 27th Workshop II G8 2005:

Developing Strategies for Global Resistance An opportunity for people involved or interested in building resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to meet, discuss and strategise. A short introduction to the mobilisation against the Summit by some people involved with the Dissent! Network (www.dissent.org.uk), followed by a practical discussion about how we can (potentially) realise the full potential of the mobilisation. How can the limitations of previous anti-summit mobilisations be overcome? How can we go beyond fulfilling the roles expected of us as ‘summit resisters'? How can the idea for a Global Day of Action on the opening day of the summit complement on-going, perhaps more local, struggles? How can those resisting the G8 Summit co-ordinate and co-operate with those building resistance to the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement and World Trade Organisation meetings? And, importantly, which modes of organising, means of communicating and forms of action can best be adopted to allow us to begin solving some of these problems?

Location: Carackol Intergalaktica, Youth camp

Time: 9-12am, January 30th

We'd also like to meet throughout the week with individuals, groups and networks interested in co-ordinating global resistance around the G8, Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) Summits in 2005. Come along to the workshops above, or email us and arrange a time to meet up.

Email: info-g82005@riseup.net