G8 2007 - Germany

from email, 29 August 2007: "A short conclusion about the rural exchange debates in Black Block glossaries and International Brigades behalf on the eve of militant tactics in Autumn 2007!" more

from email, 10 September 2007: by Association for Autonomy, a4a - "This text provides a tactical analysis of the most crucial operation of the week of protests against the G8 in Germany: the blockades. Whilst Block G8 champions its successful mass blockades at two of the gates to Heiligendamm, the decentralised blockade concept, PAULA, seems to have vanished from the discussion..." more

from various sources, 01 September 2007: From ABC Berlin, a short overview of the last operations aimed to bring down the militant resistance.

Once again within a few months we are forced to witness the dirty movements of the BAW (General Federal Attorney): on the 31st of July, three comrades got arrested near Berlin, allegedely after having placed some incendiary devices under a few military trucks.

A fourth person has been arrested in his apartment, accused of being one of the people who wrote the communqués of the group. more

from email, 30 August 2007: Our proposal for a transspectral strategy congress already went around a couple of weeks ago. Certainly, many of us have a great need to talk about all the things that happened around Heiligendamm in order to draw consequences for our common political practice for the future.  more

from email, 22.08.2007: The following text was written by people belonging to the radical left in Germany, who, like many others, have different perspectives on and opinions about the incidents of the 2nd June 2007 in Rostock during the protests against the G8-summit. One thing we do have in common is our will to resist, which in its practical realisations, with their different means of expression, is respected by all of us. more

from email, 23 August 2007: "This report of our experiences as an international press group during the 2007 G8 protests is intended to inspire more people to do press work in the future, to try to counter the spin of the press industry of corporate capitalism to utilise the press. Just like summits, streets, neighbourhoods and workplaces, the press is a site of struggle..." more

The persons charged in the §129a (anti-terrorism) proceedings were severely beaten during their arrest and are being treated like Guantanamo prisoners. Special detention conditions at Berlin's Moabit prison involve solitary confinement.

On 31/07/2007 Oliver R., Axel H. and Florian L. were arrested after allegedly attempting to set fire to three German Army vehicles. Only now it has transpired that they experienced severe assaults during the arrest. The accused are still being detained in extreme conditions. more

from email, 16 August 2007: During the protests against the G8 in the area around Heiligendamm, sexism, sexual police violence and the threats of sexual police violence repeatedly occurred. We are looking for witnesses, on the one hand for an internal exchange and a strengthening amongst the affected persons, on the other hand so that a group of affected persons, in an anonymous form, is able to act. This is important, so that this theme will be out in the public politically, since sexual police violence is mostly not addressed, especially not in the public. more

from email, 15 August 2007: Proposal for a cross-spectral big strategy congress in Autumn/Winter 2007. Like no other event in the recent past the actions before and during the summit in Heiligendamm will whirl around the strategic coordinates ofour struggles for a different society.  more

from email, 14 August 2007: "long overdue translation - if you asked yourself again and again who they are, or better, why they act, the superfluous, here is the answer in form of their first declaration. take it as inspiration, the label is an invitation to active appropriation..." more

from email, 10 August 2007: "In danger and real trouble stearing a middle course is death" : This was the motto of a longer text the Revolutionaen Zellen wrote about the peace movement in Germany and the worldwide economical and political changes understood as globalization today. Concerning the strategy of the radical left they said amongst other things, that "we have to get out of the fatal dependency on the peace alliance, we need to open up our own fronts..." more

Updated 13/8/2007 + press release from Gipfelsoli Infogruppe, 8 Aug 2007: As of May 2007 there have been several raids following 4 investigative procedures based on paragraph 129a in Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Strausberg and Bad Oldesloe.  more

imc-de: 05.08.2007: Last Tuesday, the police arrested 4 activists in Berlin under the suspicion of being members (section 129a) or supporters of a terrorist group called "militante gruppe" (militant group). more

from email, 6 August 2007: In late May, we, as members of "No! G8 Japan" went to Germany. We first stayed at a squatter house in Berlin, and obtained necessary information and materials. Many anarchists and autonomists from all over the world gathered in Berlin... more

from email, July 18 2007: "Most of the Free Association crew have just returned from Heiligendamm and the counter-mobilisation against the G8 summit and it’s worth jotting down a few thoughts whilst the memories are still fresh. (When I say most of us have returned, I don’t mean some are still on German soil, languishing in some prison cell; just not all of us went in the first place.)..." more