G8 Resources

Some information and PDF resources on what to expect from German police forces during the G8 summit in June 2007. more

Information on G8 border infopoint contact details, in case you have trouble crossing into Germany for the 2007 G8.  more

Summary of useful info to bear in mind on the way to Germany for the G8 summit. Includes: legal team telephone number, infopoint system, links to maps, info on the PMR radio communication system, public transport (Rostock), transport working group.  more

Contact telephone numbers for border points, city infopoints, convergence centres, camps and other vital infrastructure.  more

Telephone [Germany] 0049 - (0)3820 - 4768111 *** By this number we will be available from the 28th of May onwards. People are encouraged to call us whenever they get into conflict with police forces or witness police assaults or arrests. We will then try to take care of the persons concerned. more

from email, 23 May 2007: For the time of the protests against the G8 summit at Heiligendamm, we from the camp working group as the infrastructural basis for several thousands of activists have organised three camps in Reddelich close to Bad Doberan, in Rostock and in Wichmannsdiorf close to Kühlungsborn. A 4th camp will be announced on 2 June.  more

Information on the Resistant Art Festival, an extra camp for creativity, art and music. On the Free4 camp you will find several Sound Systems grouped in rigs, concerts, visual arts, performances, a spray wall,... But also videos and speeches about activism, repression and alternatives, an alternative media point to relate the infos on the net, an info point, workshops,... And of course food and drinks. more

The chronology below will provide a context for what has been going on and illustrates just what people are up against. The most valuable thing we can have is a context and it just such a context that the system tries to steal from us. Without a context, all we see are isolated news items, brief glimmers of hope, completely unconected to what we or anyone else is doing. more

"Within the framework of the safety measures adopted on the occasion of the G8 2007 summit in Heiligendamm/Mecklenburg Vorpommern, the Minister of the Interior Dr. Schäuble has decided on the temporary re-establishment of internal border controls between the Schengen zone and Germany..." [english / francais / castellano] more

We call on everybody to help us here in Rostock in continued construction and to help us with time, force and good mood. We depend on becoming more people at the school in order to be able to manage the tasks ahead of us. Next to supporters, we also still need material and support and tools of every kind. (en francais aussi) more

Notes from the London G8 Dissent! Meeting – Thurs 3rd May : info on camps, convergence centres, crossing borders, modes of transport to and around the summit, legal information, choreography of the events.  more

During the action days against G8 there will be "Legal Teams" (german: "ErmittlungsAusschuss"/"EA") who can be reached by telephone all around the clock. Legal Team Telephone Number for the G8 summit: 0049 - (0)3820 - 4768111

Links to the legal team web sites for the G8 summit in Germany in June 2007, plus other useful links and advice on how to use the legal support teams.  more

In the time of the G8 Summit the access and logistic way to the Summit Resort will be blocked by many of us. This can lead us possibly in the situation that the blockading people will be exposed to conditions where they are depending on support and supply from the Camps.

We try to organize the decentralized supply through sending supply teams from the Camps to the Blockades. There they will accommodate our brave combatants with necessities such as food and drinks and possibly first aid.  more

Information on the location, capacity and transport links for 2 confirmed G8 camps. The first is near “Reddelich” (for 3,000-5,000 persons) close to Bad Doberan to the west of Rostock and the other is in Rostock City: “Fish Harbour” (Fischhafen) for 6,000 people. (francais, castellano, english, deutsch) more

12.03.2007
Brandenburg police prepares for Condoleezza Rice's visit to Potsdam: even manholes are being welded shut. Berlin's black bloc, however, has not yet responded to the planned visit, but the police is worried about the 'militant group', which has been active in Brandenburg. more