G8 2007 - Germany

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

On the 5th June, there will be an anti-militaristic cruising in the city of Rostock, we will visit places, spaces or offices of e.g. military infrastructure, companies etc. Come along and be creative! Meeting point: 11h at the Camp in Rostock

On the 6th June, we organize the action day and blockades at the military airport in Rostock-Laage (near the highway A19 Berlin-Rostock), which is part of the infrastructure of the G8 Summit Conference and the militaristic policies of the G8 governments. more

Fightinmg racist migration policies, neo-fascism and discrimination will be a major theme of the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Germany in 2007. Here's a selection of meetings, demonstrations and direct action on this subject.  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

Notes from the 17 May London anti-G8 mobilisation / information meeting. Updates on repression in Germany, on camps and convergence centres, on borders and actions. Next - and last pre-action meeting will be 24 May @ Ramparts, London E1.  more

During the G8 summit there will be a ten day ban on demostrations and assemblies within as well as 200 metres around the fence in Heilgendamm.

From the 5th to 8th of June, i.e. during the summit meetings, this zone will be extended to a 4km area around the fence. Demonstrations are to be kept at a 6km distance to the conference hotel. more

The Dispensables and precarious Superheroes called The Unbeatables are calling for a block at the mass demonstration and at the mass blockades against the G8 summit. Both entities are part of the ongoing struggles to understand and resist contemporary conditions of precarity of live and work. more

from email, 16 May 2007: The special police department "Kavala", responsible for the security of the G8 summit, has issued yesterday [15 May] evening a so-called General Ban. This was formally communicated to the negotiators of one of the protest marches.

In the past, "Kavala" always has denied plans of such a restriction of the right to protest. Even the website of "Kavala" has stated for months that no restrictions would be placed on demonstrations in the area of the fence.

Now it is clear that no demonstrations against the G8 will be allowed in an area of several kilometers outside of the fence. more

13.05.2007: Information about the International Demonstration on 2nd June in the city Rostock in Germany and about the mobilisation to the Leftradical, Antifascist and Revolutionary Blocs in the center of Rostock. Plus updated info on the Rostock camp site, directions to get there etc.  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

Yesterday a nationwide search of left projects and individuals was taking place in Germany. The Federal Supreme Court prosecutor Monika Harms used these searches to criminalize and split the broad resistance against the G8. The raids proved to be a total failure.

The intended intimidation of the left scene and the entire G8 protest movement did not succeed. Yesterday evening, more than 10,000 people in several German and European cities took to the streets to express spontaneously their solidarity... more

In order to coordinate the international press work with a minimal but functional structure, we would like to invite those of you that might be around or closeby to an organizational meeting. It will be in Berlin on Friday, the 18th at 18.00, in the Bethanien, Südflügel (Mariannenplatz 2). more

This morning (Wednesday May 9th) police raided about 40 buildings in Germany, including several social centres and private homes in Berlin and Hamburg, as well as the alternative web provider so36.net. Police forces searched the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg as well as parts of the "Bethanien" in Berlin. Both places are planning to be decentralised convergence centres for the G8 protests of early June.

We want to show solidarity with the German movement and express our right to protest against the upcoming G8 in June. We want to defy police repression and show we are not intimidated by it!

Friday May 11, 6pm
Kempinski Courthouse Hotel
19-21 Great Marlborough St, London, W1F 7HT 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

9 May: This morning police raided about 40 places, including social centres and several private home in Berlin and Hamburg. Police forces searched the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg as well as parts of the "Bethanien" in Berlin, both places planned to be decentralised convergence spaces for the G8 protest. more