In order to support our friends and comrades who are out in Hamburg July 2017 to strongly oppose the injustice system of the G20. All profit from the sale of this Book will be donated to the "ROTE HILFE e.V." Legal Action Defence Fund.

The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and The Movement of Movements by David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Ben Trott and David Watts - Shut Them Down! is an essential collection of reflections on the movement against the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.

“If you go to a demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps on building, groups that keep on doing things, people that learn from the last time and do it better next time…”

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 fundamental issues such as the nature of openness and ‘horizontality’, and the limitations of the ‘activist’ identity. Most important of all, Shut Them Down! poses the question: how can we take those worlds we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that they make sense in the rest of our lives?

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Dissent! and Autonomedia; First Edition edition (Dec. 2005)
Language: English Weight: 600g.