G8 COUNTDOWN

Mass mobilisations are being planned around the G8 Summit at Gleneagles on 6-8 July and Indymedia are organising a ‘convergence’ for anyone wanting to get involved in alternative media to report
the actions and protests from the G8 summit. The meeting is planned for London on 14-15 May 2005.

An Indymedia statement reads: “This convergence will hopefully involve a lot of imc-uk people (it does already) as well as many other groups and individuals. We've currently got a great place sorted out in central London as a venue, and people coming from all over Europe to plan coverage of the G8.

The convergence will be an open space where people can get together to make practical plans about editorial, radio, video and photo coverage, as well as figuring out the issues surrounding the tech setup of the media centre and a mobile media vehicle that goes where the action is.

We would very much like to see everybody from Indymedia UK plug into the convergence and help plan stuff, and it's also a great time to encourage people who aren't involved in Indymedia to check things out. This is not going to be a meeting to talk about the UK network, it's very much a
hands-dirty, practical planning meet to figure out how G8 coverage will work. We also want people from other media outfits and campaigns, and individuals with weird skills (maybe we could build a live wireless-internet video mobile unit during the weekend?)

So, it would be great if many of you can make it. If you're coming, it'd be great to know so we can get a decent estimate of how many people are coming beforehand - there's a registration form and callout available at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/convergence.html

There is also a status update available at:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/convergence.html

The infamous G8 media wiki is at:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkG8

And finally a video invitation is at:
http://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/51.shtml