Shut Them Down! The Global G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements (Anti-Globalization Anthology) PDF
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SHUT THEM DOWN! THE G8, GLENEAGLES 2005 AND THE MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS SHUT THEM DOWN! THE G8, GLENEAGLES 2005 AND THE MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS Edited by David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Ben Trott and David Watts AUTONOMEDIA Jointly published by Dissent! and Autonomedia December 2005 Dissent! Autonomedia 23–25 Wharf Street POB 568 Williamsburgh Station Leeds LS2 7EQ Brooklyn West Yorkshire New York 11211-0568 UK USA www.dissent.org.uk www.autonomedia.org [email protected] ISBN 0-9552065-0-2 ISBN 978-0-9552065-0-4 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share AlikeLicence. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode; or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Reproduction of the texts for commercial purposes is prohibited without express permission from the publishers. © Unless otherwise stated all photographs are copyrightof the photographers and may not be reproduced without permission. See page 366 for photo credits. Cover photo: © Paul Mattsson ([email protected]) Printed and bound in Great Britain “If you go to a demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps on building, groups that keep on doing things, people that learn from the last time and do it better next time…” SHUTTHEMDOWN! FASLANE GLENEAGLES STIRLING GLASGOW EDINBURGH DUNGAVEL GLENEAGLES THE HORI-ZONE 4 contents Introduction The Editors .............................................................................................................................................9 1 On the road The Free Association ....................................................................................................................17 2 ‘This is how we do it’ Kara N. Tina........................................................................................................................................27 3 Gleneagles: breaking time John Holloway...................................................................................................................................39 4 Reaching the parts where we fear to go AG..............................................................................................................................................................43 5 Dr. Sachs, Live8 and neoliberalism’s ‘Plan B’ George Caffentzis ...........................................................................................................................51 6 Reinventing Dissent! An unabridged story of resistance Alex Trocchi, Giles Redwolf and Petrus Alamire........................................................61 7 Free-wheeling and control-freaking Maff, Bristol.....................................................................................................................................101 8 G8 on our doorstep Sarah....................................................................................................................................................103 9 The carnival continues… Lydia Molyneaux ...........................................................................................................................109 10 Getting off the activist beaten track Members of the Trapese Collective .................................................................................119 11 Private Parts in the General Mayhem Commodore Koogie....................................................................................................................127 12 ‘It’s the politics, stupid’. How neoliberal politicians, NGOs and rock stars hijacked the global justice movement at Gleneagles… and how we let them Paul Hewson ...................................................................................................................................135 5 contents 13 The international mobilisation to Gleneagles Alex Smith.........................................................................................................................................151 14 The feeding of the five thousand Isy Morgenmuffel .........................................................................................................................163 15 Inside and outside the G8 protests Anonymous ......................................................................................................................................175 16 Diary of a compost toilet queen Starhawk ...........................................................................................................................................185 17 When the kids are united, they will never be defeated! Kate Evans........................................................................................................................................203 18 The ‘brat bloc’ and the making of another dimension Massimo De Angelis and Dagmar Diesner .................................................................207 19 Gleneagles, activism and ordinary rebelliousness Ben Trott ............................................................................................................................................213 20 Cre8 Summat: planting a garden of activism Leon Roman ....................................................................................................................................235 21 The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army goes to Scotland via a few other places Kolonel Klepto and Major Up Evil......................................................................................243 22 Operation Splish Splash Splosh Corporal Clutter of CIRCA......................................................................................................255 23 Activist trauma: mutual support in the face of repression Activist-Trauma Support.........................................................................................................257 24 Strathclyde Police slumber party Major Hassles.................................................................................................................................263 25 Notes on movement and uncertainty Werner Bonefeld ..........................................................................................................................265 6 contents 26 G8 secrets: we are more powerful than we can possibly imagine Haley Burton ...................................................................................................................................273 27 A knock at the door: Special Agent Paranoia and the G8 Info-Line Anonymous ......................................................................................................................................281 28 Anti-G8 resistance and the state of exception Stefan Skrimshire........................................................................................................................285 29 Ginger takes on the G8 The Ginger ........................................................................................................................................291 30 Nothing is what democracy looks like: openness, horizontality and the movement of movements Rodrigo Nunes...............................................................................................................................299 31 Media, movement(s) and public image(s): CounterSpinning in Scotland CounterSpin Collective.............................................................................................................321 32 From Gleneagles to Heiligendamm Some people from the No G8 Coordination Berlin ................................................333 33 After Gleneagles: where next? Simon Tormey ................................................................................................................................337 34 The end of the world as we know it Kay Summer and Harry Halpin...........................................................................................351 35 Cows are scarier than pigs Anonymous ......................................................................................................................................361 CONTACTS........................................................................................................................................364 CREDITS.............................................................................................................................................366 7
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