Their names are John Kerr, former British ambassador to US and deputy chairman of Shell UK, also Jeroen Van der Veer, CEO Netherlands.

Also present at this meeting were Irishman Dermot Gleeson who is or has been involved with Independent News Media, has recently resigned as Chairman of AIB and is chairman of UCC governing body since 2007 and another Irishman Peter Sutherland who is worth looking at on Wikipedia as someone who has his fingers in a lot of pies.

A Guardian journalist, Charlie Skelton attempting to report on events was seriously followed and harassed over several days. ... read full story / add a comment

This is a poem made up of acrostics that I wrote after the G8 meetings last year documenting my thoughts on the indvidual countries that make up 'The Group of Eight". Feel free to add your own creative writing/work (and/or comments). ... read full story / add a comment

Available in four parts as a pretty high quality download here (for the first time I think):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The film had a complicated gestation but heavily involved the majority of the original Indymedia Ireland gang. We came back from working with Indymedia Italy in Genoa all fired up and determined to start an Indymedia in Ireland. Almost five years ago that was now.

The Protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest and most significant protests in Western Europe since the Poll Tax riots in the UK. Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal Media/Police preemptive strike on the Anti-Capitalist Movements' biggest First World mobilisation to date. When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred to as the 'Chilean Night'.

The film traces the events of the three days of protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a setup? If Seattle was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'. It is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa protests against the G8 shot by 10 members of IMC Ireland, material from the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This compelling footage combined with on the spot interviews and reenacted voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active during the protests provides a in-depth blow by blow retelling of the story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.

The film will be available on DVD in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Genoa protests. Watch this space for details. ... read full story / add a comment

In the wake of the anti-G8 protests in Gleneagles and Edinburgh Matti from the libcom.org group takes a critical look at the protests. ... read full story / add a comment

One of the problems that charities have experienced in the last twenty years or so has been what is referred to as ‘compassion fatigue’. ... read full story / add a comment

posting from indymedia uk tent. chilling out at stirling ecovillage. helicopters still overhead and everything is great. will do full updatewhen get home.in brief collectively,we blockaded the major roads to gleneagles, went through the gleneagles fence, are having a bridge party in glasgow & stirling residents over for dinner on site this eve with entertainment fron the infernal noise brigade.
the g8 summit was a disaster & we finally got asked about the issues! see the scotsman & uk dailies and for above interview with irish & english activists see ww.bbc.co.uk the interview went out live at 2:45 pm today, july 8th, directly before blair's "we failed utterly to agree on anything" " communique".
we really are winning.. ... read full story / add a comment

We are the mass.
We make our regimes.

the G8 do not lead the world.
Yet their collective malpractise and tolerance to injustice compounds the poverty which their historical exploitation began.

"Thank you Pop stars and Pop Prime Minister, you have recruited for us. We will guide these kids to political awareness" ... read full story / add a comment

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the following message is from the very nice convergence space crew:

We will be sharing the space with People and Planet, who will be hosting a student activist village and we are working alongside them to provide a safe and lovely space for all to enjoy. ... read full story / add a comment

This Sunday from 11am there will be a day of summit workshops at St Nicholas of Myras Hall of Meath St.

These will cover many topics including affinity building, past manifestations, decision making processes and much more. This will posted as soon as the programme is put together, as its growing all the time.

however for the time being here is a brief guide to various action that will be taking place in scotland around the G8

See ya Sunday ... read full story / add a comment

The dissent long bus is now full and our short bus is filling up quickly.
If enough people get in touch with us we will try to run a 3rd bus. ... read full story / add a comment

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Prisoner support is non existent in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment

When there are empowering marches and actions against the state, history can be re-written quickly, especially by the Trotskyists to reflect that nothing would've been possible without their 'Leadership'. Fortunately, due to the March on Farmleigh being organised by the Dublin Grassroots and getting little or no support from the SWP, it is going to prove a little more difficult for them to claim any part in it. In fact less than 48 hours later the Party had issued a leflet condemning us, telling us to Get Organised, and calling us 'Maggie Thatcher's Children acting like capitalist consumers'. Oooh that hurts. It has all the hallmarks of Herr Kieran Allen in one of his parental lectures to the children of the revolution. In any case, this article describes the real involvement of the SWP in the Mayday events and will hopefully pre-empt any more of their attempts to re-write history which have already begun. ... read full story / add a comment

It consists of two parts: firstly a chronicle of recent events giving rise to concern from the moment of the banning of the Farmleigh march; secondly a dossier of "dirty tricks" which we prepared before the banning of the march and released on Friday, April 30th. ... read full story / add a comment

A personal account from a member of the Black Bloc about
the events in Dublin, including anarchist and Irish history and
tactical discussion. ... read full story / add a comment

Solidairty in Dublin ... read full story / add a comment

Checking your facts...
Agent provocateurs everywhere...
Showing solidarity? ... read full story / add a comment

A lot of people can be put off by the violence that can erupt at some of these demonstrations. In contrast the front of the Irish Times on Tuesday shows a woman on at the RTS event dancing with an ice cream in one hand and 2 gardai laughing - more of this type of thing I say!! ... read full story / add a comment

This article was posted and appeared several hours ago but has been taken off from the newswire!! Can IMC ireland explain this? ... read full story / add a comment