[Imc-g8-2005] G8 alternatives summit

[David Miller]

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The real battle at the G8 in July:

The G8 Alternatives Summit, Sunday 3rd July, Edinburgh, 10am - 9pm

 

On Sunday 3rd July, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh will play host to one of the
biggest days of political debate and discussion which Scotland has ever
seen. 

 

The G8 Alternatives Summit will bring together leading human rights
campaigners, political activists and environmental thinkers from all parts
of the world to do battle with the ideas and strategies coming out of the G8
Summit in Gleneagles.

 

More than 5 000 people are expected to attend 8 huge plenaries on topics
such as the future of Africa, climate change, and globalisation and
privatisation as well as more than 50 workshops and seminars on topics
ranging from the Campaign against Coca-Cola and the experience of the Chavez
Government in Venezuela to the implications of the ‘No’ vote in the French
referendum. 

 

Amongst those addressing the Summit will be figures such as Ken Wiwa, son of
the murdered Nigerian novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa; Moazem Begg, former prisoner
at Guantanamo Bay; Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; Willie
Madisha, president of COSATU south african trade union federation, Haidi
Giuliani, whose son Carlo was murdered at Genoa; Scott Ritter, former UN
weapons inspector; Bianca Jagger; and Bob Crow of the RMT union in Britain.

 

The Summit will show that the anti-G8 movement has coherent alternatives to
the policies of Blair, Bush and Berlusconi which have devastated our planet,
fuelled illegal and unjust wars in Iraq and elsewhere and are directly
responsible for the deaths of 30, 000 African children every single day.

 

For information about the Alternatives Summit, visit the G8 Alternatives
website: 

www.g8alternatives.org

 

For Tickets contact the Usher Hall Box Office

Call- 44 (0)131 228 1155
or 
Email- boxoffice.admin at usherhall.co.uk

£10 Waged
£5 Unwaged 

(price increases to £15 on the door)




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