Dissent a network of resistance

Full details of the exciting programme of workshops, meetings, exhibitions and socials for the Teviot Building Student Union, Bristo Square, Edinburgh are now available. It opens on Thursday 30th of June read more below. You can also call 07815 973119. Welcome and Coordination meeting at 6pm on the Thursday 30th in the debating hall.

Days of Dissent/Edinburgh Convergence 2005/Turning Ideas Into Action

Running from the 30th of June the Teviot Space will be a hub of vital interaction during the week of resistance to the G8 summit. Daily plenaries to talk about actions and events, meetings, seminars, workshops, films and exhibitions to explore and highlight the diversity and strength of the movements of movements converging in Scotland. The Teviot is a free, open and autonmous space for urgently needed public debates addressing the real issues behind topics such as climate change and poverty. A space where thousands of people will converge to create, debate and question thereby celebrating that another world is not only possible - it is already living.
·         When the space is open there will be a welcome point in the foyer - everyday - with up to date information on accomadation and meetings.
·         The potterrow venue, mezzanine will be open throughout providing cheap food and beer.
·         Please respect this space!! - it has been kindly provided free of charge to the Dissent! network- anybody found using abusive, threatening or violent behaviour will be escorted out of the building immediately.
·         Rucksacks can be left at this venue on Saturday 2^nd of July but must be picked up by 6pm
·         Urgent enquiries: call the programme collective on 07815994378

· Volunteers for stewarding/room coordination and staffing of infopoint/welcome desk, please also call the above number!

· for gigs and parties see below programme

THURSDAY 3OTH JUNE 2005
12 - 10pm				Banner & Puppet Making		Under ground (Park Room)
12 - 10pm				Photo Exhibitions - Amongst others: Art not oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1 & 2 and Teviot Bar
12 - 6pm				Clown training with CIRCA (clandestine insurgent rebel clown army) www.clownarmy.org		Debating Hall
6 - 9pm				Welcome and Orientation		Debating Hall
6 - 10pm				Films: A Letter to the Prime Minister, Jo Wilding's Diary From Iraq Suits &Savages, Money Masters , Operation Soltice, RTS-The Film, Globalization & Maori, Freedom For West Papua, Storm From The Mountain -Zapatistas, The Fourth World War, Narmada- Dam India, Rising From The Ashes : Gender, Globalisation & Fisheries, Fishing In A Sea Of Greed, The Women Of Kisani Sabha, Ancient Futures -Ladakh		Terrace Bar
FRIDAY 1^ST JULY 2005
10 - 6pm				Banner & Puppet Making		Underground (Park Room)
10- 6pm				Photo Exhibition - Amongst others: Art not oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1 & 2 and Teviot Bar
10 - 6pm				CIRCA Clown Workshop www.clownarmy.org		Terrace Bar
10 - 11.30am				Welcome and Orientation		Debating Hall
12 - 1.45pm				The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Plan Pueblo Panama (PPP) Around Chiapas: Same Old Colonialism, Natural Resources, Roads and Climate Chaos!		Debating Hall
12 - 2pm				Legal Advice Workshop		Dining Room
12 - 2pm				Taking Action for Community Environmental Justice		Middle Reading Room
2 - 3.45pm				G8 Human Rights Panel		Debating Hall
2 - 4pm				Basic First Aid Workshop		Dining Room
2 - 4pm				G8 trainers collective meeting		Balcony room
2 - 4pm				Healing Activist Trauma Workshop		Middle Reading Room
4 - 6pm				Edinburgh Convergence Meeting: Information & Debates about Make Poverty History March		Debating Hall
4 - 6pm				Network of Zapatista solidarity groups - organising meeting		Balcony Room
4 - 6pm				Media Workshop - making your own radical radio programmes		Middle Reading Room
6 - 9pm				Welcome Group Meeting		Balcony Room
SATURDAY 2^ND JULY 2005
10 - 6pm				Photo Exhibition - Amongst others: Art Not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1 & 2 and Teviot Bar
10 - 12pm				Welcome and Orientation		Debating Hall
10-2pm				CIRCA Clown Training www.clownarmy.org		New Meeting Room
2 - 4pm				International Campaign Against Coca-Cola Columbia Solidarity Campaign and India Resource Centre		Terrace Bar
4 - 6pm				‘Think globally, act locally: neoliberal development plans and community alternatives' - UK Local Social Forums		Terrace Bar
SUNDAY 3^RD JULY 2005
10am - 10pm				Photo Exhibition - Art not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk ‘No Borders' Sound and Film installation		Mezz 1 & 2 and Teviot Bar
10 - 12pm				introduction to the Dissent! Network - who we are and groups involved		Debating Hall
10 -12pm				Autonomy of Migration versus Migration Management Make Borders History Network		Dining Room
10 - 12pm				Moving Beyond the Greenwash - The Climate Movement in Crisis		Middle Reading Room
10 -12pm				Building a Traveller's Support Network		Balcony Room
12 - 7pm				Films - 1. ‘Not This Time - the story of Simon Jones campaign' - film & discussion about casualisation. 2. ‘Dogs Run Free' - Tortuga Films: A film about the building of Fortress Europe (33mins) 3. ‘Leaded/Unleaded' - Indymedia Beirut: A film about the murder of 5 demonstrators by the Lebanese army on May 27^th, 2004. 4. ‘Raised Voices' - Environmental Justice Project: Film clips of people in the global south talk about what they think of the G8 & the impact of neo-liberalism on their economies & lives (to be shown in clips between other films). 5. ‘Why Close the G8' - Camcorder Guerillas (& maybe more films.) 6. Various compilations.		Terrace Bar
12 - 2pm				Precarity: Networking our struggles Carnival for Full Enjoyment		Underground (Park Room)
12 - 2pm				Exposing the Corporate Agenda at the G8 Protests with Corporate Watch and Red Pepper Magazine		Dining Room
12 - 2pm				Community Action: Organising in Our Neighbourhoods Cre8 Summat		Middle Reading Room
12 - 2pm				Climate Change: Capitalism Runs on Oil, Oil Fuels Capitalism, The Oil Runs Out: What Next?		Debating Hall
12 - 2pm				Peoples Global Action - Introduction to PGA and preparations for the Fourth Global Conference in India		Balcony Room
12 - 6pm				CND/ Faslane Workshops		Potterrow Venue
2 - 4pm				The War Isn't Over: Iraqi Oil Workers Fight Corporate Invasion		Dining Room
2 - 4pm				‘Nanotechnologies, Technology Politics, and Technologies of Control'		Underground (Park Room)
2 - 4pm				‘Where do we go from here?' - Appraisal of anti-summit mobilisations		Middle Reading Room
2 - 4pm				Anti-authoritarian International Assembly		Debating Hall
2 - 6pm				Carnival for Full Enjoyment Meeting		Balcony Room
4 - 6pm				Debate: How Can We Really Make Poverty History?		Debating Hall
4 - 6pm				‘Freedom to Protest' - Repression of Protest and its Resistance		Underground (Park Room)
4 - 6pm				‘The Real Eco-Terrorists': The Corporate Destruction of the Environment and Radical Resistance		Dining Room
4 - 6pm				The Arms Trade and the G8: Info about DSEI protests in September Disarm DSEI		Middle Reading Room
6 - 8pm				Direct Action and the G8 - Schnews		Dining Room
6 - 8pm				Social Struggles - the driving force of globalisation and inquiry and intervention - revolutionary organising within the unrest Kolinko		Middle Reading Room
6 - 8pm				Radical Resistance in the Belly of the Beast - protest and resistance in the USA from Seattle to today		Balcony Room
6 - 8pm				Edinburgh Convergence Meeting includes Faslane discussion and Carnival for Full Enjoyment		Debating Hall
7-10pm				Lost Film Fest - various films (3 hours)		Terrace Bar
8 - 10pm				For Public Transport without State or Capital: Free Riding in Stockholm (and the UK?)		Dining Room
8 - 10pm				People's Golfing Association Workshop		Middle Reading Room
MONDAY 4^TH JULY 2005
	12 - 10pm			Photo Exhibition - amongst others: Art not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1& 2 and Teviot Bar
	12 - 10pm			Banner and Puppet Making		Under ground (Park Room)
	12 - 2pm			Welcome and Orientation		Debating Hall
	12 - 2pm			Why is Organising on a European-wide basis a bad idea? West Essex Zapatistas		Dining Room
	12 - 2pm			Film series of Films made by the Palestinians living in the Balata Refugee Camp Balatacamp Film Collective		Terrace Bar
	2 - 4pm			Life Despite Capitalism - Struggles for Commons and Alternatives		Dining Room
	2 - 4pm			The smoking engines of corruption: the G8 and the myth of free trade		Debating Hall
	2 - 4pm			The Truth Behind 9/11		Middle Reading Room
	2 - 3.45pm			World Development Movement (WDM) Film Programme: The Corporation		Terrace Bar
	3.45 - 4.30pm			WDM Film Programme: Flipflotsam: Film About the Like of Flip Flops - Breaking Down the Stereotypes of Africa		Terrace Bar
	4 - 6pm			A Revolutionary Perspective on Madness and Mental Health within the Dissent Community - Mad Brighton		Dining Room
	4 - 6pm			Sweatshops in the Global Community - No Sweat		Middle Reading Room
	4 - 6pm			Empire Strikes Back: Why on Africa, Why Now?		Balcony Room
	4.30 - 6pm			WDM Film Programme: Globalisation Tapes: Sumatran Plantation Workers Union Film about the Effects of Globalisation		Terrace Bar
	6 - 8pm			Edinburgh Convergence Meeting		Debating Hall
	6 - 8pm			‘Couture Dissent' - Recontextualising Hi-End Fashion Brand Identity for Political Messaging - FOE Designs		Dining Room
	6 - 8pm			Revolutionary Philosophy and Technique - The Rub		Middle Reading Room
	6 - 7pm			WDM Film Programme: Luckiest Nut: Singing Nut Explaining Unfair Trade Rules		Terrace Bar
	7 - 10pm			WDM Film Programme: The Yes Men - Activists pretend to the World Trade Organisation		Terrace Bar
	8 - 10pm			Repression and Resistance from the Miner's Strike to the G8 - IWW Edinburgh		Dining Room
	8 - 10pm			No-one is Illegal Workshop - No-one is Illegal UK		Middle Reading Room
	TUESDAY 5^TH JULY 2005
		12 - 10pm		Photo Exhibition - amongst others: Art not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk	Mezz 1&2 and Teviot Bar
		12 - 2pm		Welcome and Orientation	Debating Hall
		12 - 2pm		Solidarity with the Communities of Atacama, Chile Colectivo Mercado Negro	Terrace Bar
		12 - 2pm		Legal Advice Workshop	Dining Room
		2 - 4pm		Preparing for non-violent Action	Terrace Bar
		2 - 4pm		Basic First Aid Workshop	Dining Room
		2 - 4pm		Pink and Silver Samba Bloc Spokescouncil	Debating Hall
		4 - 6pm		People's Golfing Association Workshop	Terrace Bar
		4 - 6pm		Healing Activist Trauma Workshop	Dining Room
		6 - 8pm		Edinburgh Convergence	Debating Hall
		6 - 10pm		Films: Building Security/Big Rattle in Seattle/Crowd Bites Wolf/Urban Wastelands	Terrace Bar
		WEDNESDAY 6^TH JULY 2005
		12 - 10pm	Photo Exhibition - amongst others: Art not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1&2 and Teviot Bar
		12 - 10pm	Legal Advice Centre		Balcony Room
		12 - 2pm	Welcome and Orientation		Potterrow Venue
		2 - 4pm	How to Support Arrested People		Potterow Venue
		3 - 6pm	Meeting and Infopoint		Terrace Bar
		6 - 8pm	Edinburgh Convergence Meeting		Debating Hall
		6 - 8pm	Media Strategy Workshop		Dining Room
		6 - 10pm	Film programme - titles tbc		Terrace Bar
		THURSDAY 7^TH JULY 2005
		10 - 10pm	Photo Exhibition - amongst others: Art not Oil - www.artnotoil.org.uk		Mezz 1&2 and Teviot Bar
		10 - 12am	Wrong Turn from Rio: How the World Bank is Fuelling Climate Change Sustainable Energy and Economy Network		Underground (Park Room)
		12 - 10pm	Legal Advice Centre		Balcony Room
		12 - 2pm	Welcome and Orientation		Terrace Bar
		12 - 2pm	The End of the Oil Industry		Under ground (Park Room)
		12 - 6pm	Meeting and Infopoint		Terrace Bar
		2 - 4pm	Climate Change Action: Discussions and getting involved in resistance beyond the G8		Under ground (Park Room)
		2 - 4pm	How to Support Arrested People		Middle Reading Room
		4 - 6pm	Banner and Puppet making for Climate Change Day of Action		Under ground (Park Room)
		4 - 6pm	The Zapatista Struggle 11 years on - First Hand Accounts from Chiapas		Dining Room
		6 - 8pm	Edinburgh Convergence		Debating Hall
		6 - 10pm	Film programme: titles tbc		Terrace Bar
		8 - 10pm	Media Strategy		Dining Room

Days of Dissent/Edinburgh Convergence 2005/Turning Ideas Into Action

Debating Hall

Terrace Bar

introduction to the Dissent! Network - who we are and groups involved

Autonomy of Migration versus Migration Management

Make Borders History Network

Moving Beyond the Greenwash - The Climate Movement in Crisis

Building a Traveller's Support Network

Debating Hall

Terrace Bar

Dining Room