G8 2007 - Germany

repost from imc uk 08.04.2007; Rising Tide has now produced a number of flyers and posters to help publicise the 08.06.07 International Day of Action against Climate Change & G8 - availble to download from the Rising Tide website. more

The second UK wide anti-G8 mobilisation meeting was held in Reading on Sunday March 25th.

3 Convergence centres proposed, one in Hamburg, one in Rostock, one in Berlin. None sorted as of yet, having the same problems as were had in Scotland. Camp sites planned, but no set places yet. More likely to be squatted. more

Revised 12 April to include proposed timetable for discussions:

The countdown is ticking, in 2 months the summit will finally start. Therefore we invite you to the international meeting in Rostock at the 13th of april, which we decided at the warsawa meeting.

Because it will be propably the last meeting before summit, the emphasis will be on what we will do concretely in Heiligendamm and how we manage to communicate and make decisions between us. more

The Rote Hilfe Antirepression Guide "Was tun wenns brennt" in english, german, castellano and greek. More translations will hopefully follow.

It gives an overview about how to cope with police, their procedures, handling interrogations, arrest etc. more

Based on the concept of decentralised actions as well as the countrywide demand to use the anti-G8-protest for putting local political struggles into a global context, the Convergence Center Hamburg (CCH) can be another step towards a local political continuity, which enhances structures in Hamburg and transnational networking even beyond this year's summit.

Activists can arrive from the week prior to the summit to get organized and be mobilized to Heiligendamm for the days of the summit. Because of the new police law of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern we cannot eliminate the possibilty of "Gebietsverweise" (being expelled of the area), which could force many acitivists back into Hamburg or Berlin.  more

The date is now fixed: The third Action Conference will take place 13-15 April in Rostock.

The big evening discussion will take place in the city of Rostock, propably in a church. Detailed info about the places of the conference will follow in the next days. more

The 8th of June International Day of Action Against Climate Change and the G8 has been called by the International Rising Tide Network.

This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town, city, or local area. Use this international day of action to support local struggles against oil refineries, gas pipelines, strip mines and coal-fired power plants.  more

Press said that the RAF might come back for G8, it's true!! It's the Resistance Art Festival

We plan to organize an artistic Temporary Autonomous Zone near Heiligendamm during the G8 summit in June from the 2nd (evening) till the end of the blockades. We are several tekno sound systems and demonstration organizers from all over Europe and we'll bring our gigs to Heiligendamm (Free4, Fuck Parade, Ketwork32, LaHP, Systematek,...), we are all used to create Free Autonomous Spaces...  more

With blockades of civil disobedience in which thousands of people from different political, social and cultural backgrounds can participate, we will express a unmistakable “NO!” against the G8.

A radical “NO!” which cannot be ignored. A public, offensive and practical expression of the lack of legitimacy of the G8 and their policies of neoliberal, globalised capitalism; of wars; of social and racist exclusion; and of environmental destruction. more

Updated 15 May 2007, from email: The Action Plan for the period between June 2 and June 8 has been carved out. Now, we - or rather, you - have to turn ideas and plans into concrete proposals for action! Take part in the preparations! Get active! more

Recent developments in police preparations for the G8 summit in Germany in June 2007.  more

REPOST: "... Seattle, Prague and Genoa our strengths were in being inventive and surprising the police. This allowed us the freedom to stage effective direct actions and disrupt the summits. The time has come to seize back the initiative..." more

Call to action, from the International Warsaw Meeting on Preparation of the G8 protests-2007:

Capitalism attacks us on many fronts in our daily lives. We are forced to endure the current system of capitalism and its oppressive power destroys, exploits, isolates and dehumanizes us. It’s definitely time to get rid of it.

To move forward in the international struggle against capitalism, the following call goes out from the international meeting against the G8, held in Warsaw (Poland) from the 9th to 11th of February with people from more than 15 different countries. Please spread it as widely as you can. more

Here we send you a report of the police and "security"-preparations of the last 20 months in Germany, concerning G8 2007.

We will send that report from now on regularily. We are currently waiting for more translations from legal texts, such as "was tun wenns brännt" into english (how to care about police, arrests etc. on demonstrations). more

Activists are mobilizing throughout Europe for protests and counter-summit activities. To invite people in the USA to come to Germany for the G8 the Dissent! Infotour group will be traveling across the West Coast of the USA from February 18 to March 30, 2007, and in New England the first week of April 2007. more