Edinburgh's Assembly Hall is host to one of the two counter-conferences organised for today to put some alternative proposals and thinking on the table for this week's G8 summit.
Its subtitle is Corporate Dreams, Global Nightmares, and it's the brainchild of the more radical wing of the non-governmental organisations spectrum – namely, War On Want, Friends of the Earth, and the World Development Movement.
The venue is an appropriate choice – a Gothic, Harry Potter-style spired church and meeting hall on the Mound in Edinburgh. The Assembly Hall is the headquarters of the Church of Scotland, but also served as the temporary home of the Scottish parliament before it moved to its new and controversially expensive building at Holyrood. What better place for a debate on the ideas and philosophies of world trade?
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