G8 2007 - Germany

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

from email: The claim that life is not for sale entails the demand for a reversal of the material and resource flows from North to South, that in a first step require the unconditional cancellation of all the debts of the global South and reparation payments for colonial and imperialist exploitation.  more

from email: A report about the G8 Protests, the EU summit-attack, left mobilisation and the trials of §129a in hamburg.  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

from athens-imc: "We are not interested in a place at the table of capitalism, or in providing a human face for what we know to be an inherently flawed system. We know that there can be no 'better life' in a nightmarish reality. Our vision is different.

It is one of a society based on mutual aid and solidarity, where people are not robbed of the fruits of their labor, and where decisions that affect the whole of society are made by the whole of society, rather than by a select few. We are interested in nothing less than the destruction of the 'table of capitalism.,' more

from email: April 25 2007:
The attack on the "Hanse-Gate" office at the elbe in Hamburg seems to be in the context of the G8-summit in heiligendamm and the eu-foreign-affairs-minster summit in Hamburg.

The newspaper "hamburger morgenpost" got a declaration of "autonomous anticapitalist groups", who pointed out the bad working conditions in the shipping company which uses the attacked office and named the action as a "warm up" for the G8 and EU summit. more

While thousands of anti-G8 activists will held a mass demonstration in Rostock at the 2nd of June, the fascist party NPD announced that at the same time they are going to demonstrate in Schwerin.

Up to 1500 neo-nazis will try to present themselfes as the “only real anti-capitalists” to media and population. That has to be averted. 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

In June this year, the heads of state of the eight most powerful nations on earth will be meeting in northern Germany for the 2007 G8 Summit, and 1000's of activists from anti-war, anti-racist, ecological and anti-capitalist movements will be there to greet them, block them and shut them down.

Activists involved in the 'Dissent! Network Against the G8' are now available to give talks and workshops around the country, explaining what the G8 Summit is and why we should oppose it, what the situation of the mobilisations is so far... more

REPOST: from email - "Facing our committements to participate in the protest and actions against the G8 summit, we want to share some agreements about borders control and freedom of movement." 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

from email: The upcoming actions against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm will present considerable challenges for the creativity and stamina of activists.

After all, the idea is to effectively block all the entry points. The problem is that an enormous army of security and public order forces will be present and try to prevent the same.

But history has shown that everything can be blocked. Below you will find some useful stories about the practice of blockades. This text will be updated as new ideas pour in. more

G8, walls, wars and exclusions go together. That is why thousands from the region, from all over Germany, Europe, Israel, and Palestine will come to Rostock to protest against the meeting of those who rule the world without being legitimized +++ on the international demo block “Palestine – no wars, no walls”, June, 2nd, in Rostock, Germany +++ on the day of blockades against militarization, wars and occupations on June, 5th around Rostock-Laage airport, Germany  more

Hundreds of us met in Venice during Global Meeting. We discussed about Europe, movements and autonomous conflicts. This discussion was extraordinary thanks to everyone's contribution and to the great participation (more than five hundred activists coming from all over Europe).

We all agreed that a political Europe already exists. Multilateral Europe exists in governance and economy, in the acceptance of war and in repression. In actual Europe left wing governments violently evict social centres and the same governments oppress precarious workers' strength.

At the same time, movements are well aware that Europe is crossed by social conflicts, by autonomous struggles that lead to insubordination and to radical democracy. more