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 Cabar8 - Bongo Club, 37 Holyrood Road (nr Royal Mile), Edinburgh. 9pm-3am Featuring Have I got Schnews for You?, Rob Newman, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, Dr Skip Justice, G8 slam poetry, Julie Dawid, MC's Tickle and Hasta, visuals by Global Eye, and more. Food served by the Geishas of Gaiety and dancing led by Kevy K, the lurve reaction and the disco block. All proceeds to post G8 support. Hosted by TRAPESE and SEAD, (Scottish Education and Action for Development). Bloc Aid fundraiser: An eclectic mix of techno and house DJs, indie and punk bands at 'Edinburgh Convergence 2005' (Teviot) including Conflict. 9pm till 3am. £5. Hosted by People and Planet and Dissent! Sat 2nd July Hori-zone: Dissent! rural convergence space Bands TBC G8 crasher. 9pm till 5am. £5. Edinburgh Convergence 2005. Underground special special of Industrial Breaks, Hard Techno & Dark DnB. Featuring 17 Djs and Live acts across 3 floors. All proceeds towards the fight against the G8. Tickets www.tickets-scotland.com.
Last Updated ( Friday, 01 July 2005 )

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Terrace Bar

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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