People from the Edinburgh Chiapas Group pointed me to a debate between NarcoNews and COHA, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, which published an odd text with academic appearance but full of distorted facts and opinionated against the Zapatistas. In return COHA received bags full of complaints and the writer had to then leave the organisation. There has also been a gathering in Barcelona of European Zapatista support groups. Report by B.A.S.T.A. and translated into english here on Indymedia Scotland. Indymedia Chiapas seems to be unreachable at the moment. Was visting AK Press and to look for books for G8 prisoners, and also found some for myself, in particular “This is Serbia calling” and “Political Film: The Dialectic of Third Cinema”, a book which defines “Third Cinema” as opposed to First Cinema alias Hollywood or Second Cinema= arty films.

The broken car has been broken into. It has been outside for nearly half a year now, but with the G8 protests and everything, there just wasn’t enough time to deal with it. As well there are always spare time mechanics promising to do stuff- and then don’t. Lack of money also contributed to the delay, as did lack of drivers. It broke down after a dog chewed the seatbelts of and jumped in front during driving on the drivers seat, the motor overheated as driver got distracted, and apparently boiled over a bit (both the driver and the engine). The dog wasn’t particularly well educated and the owner did not care – or better said does believe so much in anti-authoritarian principles that the dog actually has no training.

The G8 is over, the protests are over and everything is winding down. There are still some people in prison, but most of the people arrested on the last Monday are out now, and it seems also a lot of the others picked up on Wednesday and so on. It is not quite sure if people are continued to be arrested, now it seems that particular individuals are targeted. However, the Resist train has left Edinburgh and arrived in London without major problems. At the moment a major tidying up operation is in place – the Indymedia Centre in Edinburgh is already dismantled and the camp in Stirling has till Tuesday to clear off the land.

Just got a mail from a legal support list pointing out the Legal Advice for Bloggers on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website. http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

It is getting quite exciting now – only 2 weeks left till the G8 protests begin. Check out Indymedia Scotland and Indymedia UK! We plan to start with daily features now on Indy Scotland.