DISSENT!

“If you listen carefully to the celebrating voices, those of the rich and powerful in their corporate offices and government buildings, you can pick up a nervous undertone.

If you watch the policymakers closely, you may notice that the smiles are often thin and the hands that hold champagne glasses sometimes twitch, involuntarily.

If you listen even more carefully, you can discover why. In the background, you can hear another set of voices - those from below - far, far more numerous.

These are voices the powerful do not want to hear, but they are having a harder and harder time ignoring them.”

Dissent! - the network of resistance against the G8 - is planning for the annual summit of the world's eight most powerful nations. This year, the summit is being held from the 6th-8th July at the Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, Sccotland. Alongside Dissent! will be the largest ever coalition of NGO's and church groups - campaigning on debt and trade rules under the banner 'Make Poverty History'- as well as campaigns against climate change and more.

www.dissent.org.uk