G8 2007 - Germany

from imc-uk, 30.05.2007 - From now on, you can find verified, up-to-date news also via the new Timeline webpage in english and german.

Help us with the Dispatch! Call us and tell us what is happening in the streets, in the camps, near the fence and in the fields. We're collecting information, verifying and publishing them.  more

AfricaVox’s team of award-winning journalists from Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa will be among the few African journalists to attend the Summit.

For nine days starting on Friday 1 June, we’ll bring you their fresh insights, sharp reporting, and pithy analysis on HIV/AIDS and healthcare, international aid, debt relief and climate change. more

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

List of events taking place at RampARTs creative centre, London E1. Includes G8 info-nights with the latest video footage from Germany, plus presentations and discussions on energy, Palestine, InfoUsurpa and much more.  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

RamARTs will be hosting a series of G8-related films, discussions and socials throughout the G8. Each night there you can see the latest footage from Germany, find out what is going on, and discuss ways of showing our solidarity.

Throughout the period of the summit, volunteers will be downloading video footage of the demonstrations and direct action in northern Germany and of solidarity actions around the world. Come down to RampARTs (London, E1) to catch up with the latest developments on the ground. more

via email, 28.05.2007: From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8 campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once again, be revealed as already here. more

In our second podcast we cover upcoming events and background information on the G8, the opposition to it and the alternative summit. The Flash Radio repression forecast informs on the current political climate. more

Calendar to the Urban Movements at the G8 Action Week 2007. more

28.05.2007: Today is the day of the international demonstration against the ASEM summit in Hamburg. After a wide international Mobilisation and Court Appeals against the route and the organisers the demonstration starts fom Millerntorplatz , moves on along Reeperbahn, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hafenstraße, Baumwall to the Rödingsmarkt. The police protects the city centre with massive presence, media reports that appr. 4000-5000 police are in Hamburg today. 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

The urgent appeal of the Star March Coalition lodged at the Schwerin Court has been successful. The Coalition had lodged a law suit against the general demonstration ban issued by the police department. A general injunction over a 40 square kilometer area had been designated as a demonstration free zone. Such an injunction would have been unprecedented in the history of Germany. more

from Deutsche Welle, 23 May 2007: German police have collected body scent samples of left-wing activists in the lead up to the G8 summit. Some politicians accuse the government of resorting to the dubious methods of the East German secret police.  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