Shut Them Down! G8, Gleneagles 2005
by - 31.01.2006 16:26
Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements is out now!
From 6-8 July 2005, the leaders of the eight most powerful states came to Gleneagles in Scotland for their annual, set piece summit. As has come to be expected, they were met with counter-summits, protests and blockades. The focus of this book is those attempts to Shut Them Down!
Edited by a group from within Dissent!, the network which coordinated anti-capitalist resistance to the summit, the book is 368-pages long and contains 34 articles, dozens of powerful photographs and a hilarious cartoon.
As well as action stories from the frontlines of resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of how various aspects of the mobilisation were organised, and analysis of the lessons to be learned. But Shut Them Down!'s relevance extends far beyond the Gleneagles experience. It addresses issues fundamental to anyone involved or interested in social movements today such as the nature of openness and horizontality and the limits of the activist identity. Most important of all, Shut Them Down! attempts to pose the question: how do we take those new worlds we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that they make sense in the rest of our lives?
Shut Them Down! is published by Dissent! (
http://www.dissent.org.uk) and Autonomedia (www.autonomedia.org).
The book is being distributed by Dissent!, Autonomedia, Active Distribution ( http://www.activedistribution.org) and AK Press ( http://www.akuk.com). Copies can also be ordered direct from the editors at http://www.shutthemdown.org
For bulk discounts and review copies contact: editors at shutthemdown.org
To help publicise the book, download publicity from: http://www.shutthemdown.org
All of the articles in Shut Them Down! are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike licence (see: http://creativecommons.org/licence/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode) meaning articles can be reproduced at will, as long as the original source is cited and republication is done under the same conditions.
As well as action stories from the frontlines of resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of how various aspects of the mobilisation were organised, and analysis of the lessons to be learned. But Shut Them Down!'s relevance extends far beyond the Gleneagles experience. It addresses issues fundamental to anyone involved or interested in social movements today such as the nature of openness and horizontality and the limits of the activist identity. Most important of all, Shut Them Down! attempts to pose the question: how do we take those new worlds we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that they make sense in the rest of our lives?
Shut Them Down! is published by Dissent! (
http://www.dissent.org.uk) and Autonomedia (www.autonomedia.org).
The book is being distributed by Dissent!, Autonomedia, Active Distribution (
http://www.activedistribution.org) and AK Press ( http://www.akuk.com). Copies can also be ordered direct from the editors at http://www.shutthemdown.org
For bulk discounts and review copies contact: editors at shutthemdown.org
To help publicise the book, download publicity from:
http://www.shutthemdown.org
All of the articles in Shut Them Down! are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike licence (see:
http://creativecommons.org/licence/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode) meaning articles can be reproduced at will, as long as the original source is cited and republication is done under the same conditions.