About us
Anarchists in Edinburgh are involved in a wide range of campaigns and projects, from campaigning against poverty-inducing measures imposed by the council and DWP to organising at work via the Industrial Workers of the World.
We would like to hear from any other anarchists in Auld Reekie interested in getting involved in explicilty anarchist activity in and about the city.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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In St. Andrews, we say “Nae Tae G20!
No to G20 neo-liberalism! No to economic exploitation! No to environmental destruction!
Yes to sustainability, community cooperation and peoples’ representation!
Yes to liberation, solidarity, equality, human rights and peace!
Yes to revolution!
On the first weekend in November, the financial leaders of the world’s twenty richest countries will be hosting closed door meetings in order to decide how our world should be run. The Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers have chosen to host these meetings in the town of St. Andrews, Scotland, and in response groups of residents and students have paved the way to make our voices heard.
We the residents and students of this community are coming into the streets to say loud and clear, “The G20 is not welcome in our town,” or as the Scots say, “Nae tae G-20!” We are joining together to say that the neo-liberal development, trade and environmental policies furthered by the G20 will not solve the global financial crisis, not solve the global ecological crisis and do not address the ever-increasing wealth gap. We are resisting the G20 because it is a mechanism of the global ruling elite that seeks to enrich the “1st world” at the expense of increasing poverty for the “underdeveloped” and “developing” world.
There are a number of organizations making exciting plans in St. Andrews during the weekend of the G20 meeting, and while Put People First (g20standrews.org) has organized an educational event, we have set our sights on getting people into the streets to show our collective dissent. To this end we have called for two days of festive actions:
- Friday, November 6, 2009, 11:00am, join us for a protest rally at the center of town fountain, located near the intersection of Market Street and College Street.
- Saturday, November 7, 2009, 1:30pm, join us for a march, also starting at the fountain at the center of town. The march will be gathering at 1:30pm and departing by 2:00pm.
In addition to these actions, groups are encouraged to organize locally in their communities, and come to St. Andrews to share their creative resistance with us during these two days. We will do our best to support your action if you require some assistance.
This action has been endorsed locally by Stop the War, the Scottish Socialist Party, numerous St. Andrews University student societies, and assorted Scottish workers unions.
Please direct all questions, endorsements, press inquiries and hate mail to NaeTaeG20@gmail.com and for more information as it arises visit: http://naetaeg20.wordpress.com/
See you in the streets, November 6th & 7th!
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– brought to you by Nae Tae G20, an adhoc group of St. Andrews residents who love St. Andrews and hate the G20
November 11th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
please publicise nder your anarchafeminism, the edinburgh anarchafeminist kollectiv, you can linkthis to the facebook group, we are running the femmestruation week, our email is feministanarchistedinburgh@googlemail.com and our blog is http://edinburghanarchafeminist.blogspot.com/?spref=fb
love anna lucine
November 11th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Hi Anna Lucine
Thanks for getting in touch. Have added the blog to the sidebar and am queueing up a post about the femmenstruation week.
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:45 am
Just noticed, you need to fix the link for Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty. The correct link is; http://edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/
… it currently links to the Edinburgh Chinese Association of Professionals.
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Thanks for spotting that. Bet they were confused; now fixed.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I will be staying in Edinburgh with a student group roughly the 5-15 of March. Are there any interesting collectives, bookshops, comrades I should take some time to visit. I would enjoy meeting up with some fellow anarchists. Coming over from the States, so not sure how I will contact anyone, but I will try.
sohultgren(at)gmail(dot)com
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:56 pm
You probably want to look at ACE, the Indymedia calendar and the Forest Cafe (links at side) for events. Groups you might want to contact include the student anarchist society and the local Anarchist Federation group.