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Shut them Down! Geweldig boek over G8-acties

Net uit, gratis te downloaden of goedkoop op papier, een uitgebreid boek over de protesten tegen de G8-top afgelopen zomer in Gleneagles

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Hieronder de aankondiging van de uitgevers. Je kunt op de website het hele boek gratis downloaden, en ook elk hoofdstuk apart. Het boek is zeer uitgebreid. Je kunt erin lezen hoe de activiteiten en campagnes zijn voorbereid, spannende verslagen, maar ook kritische nabeschouwingen. En ook nog fijn goedkoop. Een meer uitgebreide recensie volgt later.

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! (www.dissent.org.uk) and Autonomedia (www.autonomedia.org).

The book is being distributed by Dissent!, Autonomedia, Active Distribution
(www.activedistribution.org) and AK Press (www.akuk.com). Copies can also be ordered direct from the editors at www.shutthemdown.org

Individual copies cost 4:95/7.50Euor/US$9.95 plus postage and packing. In North America, copies should be ordered direct from Autonomedia.

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To help publicise the book, download publicity from:
www.shutthemdown.org

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