G8 Alternatives was a coalition of activist groups set up to co-ordinate actions around the 31st G8 summit held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland. Official G8 2005 Portrait. ... The Gleneagles Hotel is a luxury hotel in Perthshire, Scotland. ... Perthshire is an traditional county in central Scotland, which extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ...

Supporters of the coalition included Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Iraq Occupation Focus, Muslim Association of Britain, Scottish Socialist Party, Stop the War Coalition and various trade union branches. Individual supporters included author and academic Noam Chomsky, journalist John Pilger and comedian Mark Thomas. CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is an Islamist group in the United Kingdom established in 1997. ... This article deals with the Scottish Socialist Party that was formed in 1998. ... The Stop the War Coalition (or StWC; informally just Stop the War) is a UK anti-war group, set up following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks in the USA, on 21 September 2001 at a public meeting of over 2,000 people in London. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... John Pilger John Pilger (born October 9, 1939), is an Australian journalist from Sydney. ... Mark Clifford Thomas (born 1963) is an British comedian, presenter and reporter from south London. ...

G8 Alternatives organised a counter-summit on July 3 which was addressed by a wide range of speakers. Among those in attendance were writer George Monbiot, South African anti-privatisation activist Trevor Ngwane and Philipine anti-globalisation activist Walden Bello. Nonetheless, the coalition's demonstration in Auchterader on the day the G8 summit began was perhaps their most signigicant action. The coalition had considerable difficulty getting permission for the march and indeed only got this days before the protest was to take place. Monbiot at Make Poverty History rally in Scotland George Monbiot (born January 27, 1963) is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. ...

On the day itself, police did call the march off for a time, but relented when the organisers said they would go ahead anyway. Despite this a number of coaches were turned back or temporarily detained. The march atttracted considerable media attention when a number of participants broke away from the main demonstration across a field where they proceeded to bring down a section of the fence surrounding the hotel where the summit was being held. The police responded by bringing in additional riot-police using Chinook helicopters and were soon able to clear the field. The CH-47 Chinook is a highly versatile, twin engine, twin rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ...

See Also

• Dissent!
• Make Poverty History

Dissent! is the name taken for an international network of local groups, organising to oppose the G8 meeting which will take place in July 2005 in Scotland. ... // The UK campaign A white band bilingual in Welsh and English. ...

External Links

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• Report of Glenagles demo and breakaway