International Anti-G8 Meeting Minutes
Tuebingen, Germany 26th-27th February 2005 – printable pdf version

Saturday February 26, 2005

• First Session: Opening Session
  Introduction to the venue, go-round for everyone to introduce themselves.
• Second Session: Introduction to the Mobilisation
  An introduction to: Dissent!; the other groups organising around this year's G8 Summit (specifically: G8 Alternatives and Make Poverty History); the political situation in Scotland; the presentation of the Summit and the protests in the UK mainstream media until now; the alternative and independent media coverage of the mobilisation; the issue of climate change and the G8 Summit.
• Third Session: Police Tactics and Legal Information
  An introduction to police tactics commonly used in the UK, and some Scotland specific legal information.
  An extensive briefing was given on this topic, followed by a question and answer session. The basis of the presentation was taken from the Legal Guide which is now available online from: www.g8legalsupport.info
• Practicalities Working Groups
  Working group sessions on various practical aspects of the mobilisation.
• Practicalities Working Group II: Refugees, Aliens and International Networking International Mobilisation - invitations to come to Scotland for G8 Summit
• Action Working Groups
  Working groups to discuss: the blockades, climate change actions and "People's Golfing Action".

Sunday February 27, 2005

• Small Group Sessions
  The day mostly consisted of groups meeting to discuss specific aspects of the mobilisation and how people from outside of the UK can feed into them. These sessions took place in two blocs. Small group meetings included: medics, roadshow, hill walking, the mainstream media, precarity, indymedia, organising against repression, preventing and dealing with trauma, overcoming problems on borders, and translation.
  — Group I: Mainstream Media Workshop
  — Group II: Medics Meeting Minutes
  — Group III: Precarity and the "Working Group Against Work"
  — Group IV: Hill Walking meeting at the Tuebingen Gathering
  — second (Sunday's) Blockades Meeting
• Final Plenary: Feedback from Small Group Meetings
  Feedback from the small groups and the working groups from the previous day about what had been discussed and decided. Evaluation of the weekend.
• Final Session: Evaluation of the Weekend

Additionally

A German-language meeting and the UK-based Dissent! International Networking Group also met.

1. Minutes of the German-language meeting (in German)
2. International Networking Meeting Minutes