World G8 Russia 2006 Newswire Archive

Since the heads of government of the US, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan met in 1975 for a “fireplace discussion” in Rambouillet, outside of Paris, the annual summit—called the G8 summit with the addition of Canada and Russia—has grown into a major international affair. The summit is surrounded by a range of meetings between various ministers and is planned and prepared months in advance by an army of officials.

Today a sucessfull public action against the G8 took place in central moscow.

From 15-17 July, 2006 the heads of the world's eight most powerful states will meet in St. Petersberg, Russia for the annual G8 summit. Like in previous years, their meeting will be met with resistance.

activists arrested yesterday released and then rearrested along with others.

This contribution is an audio track i have produced, dedicated to the efforts of all those participating in the 2005 protests in Scotland. It is my hope that it will remind people of efforts already made and raise spirits of participants this year.

''The members of the network that carried out last week's attacks in London had been arrested earlier last year, and were and are known to British authorities." said French minister of Interior, the head of the secret services and police, Nicholas Sarkozy in Brussels. Clarke, the UK Home Secretary, went mad.

There is a proposal to provide english language radio coverage of the G8 mobilisations next week.

For global social rights and an entirely different entirety!

August 4-13th 2006

Two medics from the UK are heading to Russia for the G8. They will be training activists there to be medics, and providing cover themselves during the G8. They still need money to help cover equipment costs (and travel if possible) - you can donate at  http://medicstastebetter.blogspot.com/

Russian police reveal the true nature of their ilk worldwide with the deliberate targetting of anarchists at a collective farm in Russia.

Now in english....

From:
 http://spb8.net/en/uncategorized/21

This bulletin is prepared by some members of Moscow group of Network Against G8 (SPB8). It is result of common discussions in inter-regional meeting of 28th of May 2006 between St. Petersburg group of Network Against G8, St. Petersburg League of Anarchists, Punk Revival, FrontAIDS, Indymedia, Indyvideo, Legal-team, Medical group, AFA St. Petersburg and individual activists, but bulletin does not necessarily reflect opinions of all members of the network. We will publish new issues as soon as there is something to tell. Please distribute it widely!

G8-Xtra was a paper produced to support the mobilization against the G8-Summit 2007 under the 'interventionist left' banner. For the European Social Forum in Athens an english version was distributed which contained an article on St. Petersburg 06 - reproduced below.

The whole pdf can be downloaded from:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm/IL/ESF_g8xtra_net.pdf

Following the St Petersburg G8 Summit in Russia in July, the international camp against the G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm, will take place from August 4th-13th 2006 at Heiligendamm, Rostock.

There is an english translation of the "First Call" here... Please read how to contact the camp working group and how to get involved.

Hi, I was trying to find this on Indymedia and could not - so it's published here. It was published at the start of May:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/Gipfelinfo/060516_St_Petersburg.html

A new bulletin is out, but only in german at the moment - english translation coming soon:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/St.Petersburg/Leaflet%202.pdf

People cam from Poland, Czech, Russia, Khazakhstan, Bulgaria and beyond to tell officials of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where they are going wrong in the mission to create democracy, human rights and sustainable development in the former Soviet regions to our east.

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Audiences in Athens and Patra
Around the European Social Forum ESF there were 4 audiences of the Infotour Group (dissent!) in Athens and Patra. In Athens there had been 3: At Autonomous Playground, Autonomous Spaces and the Antiauthoritarian, Egalitarian, Anarchist and Libertarian Forum. The Greek left is very segmented, also anarchist and autonomous groups. By this there had been a total of 4 parallel Forums against the official ESF (the fourth was the Antiimperialist Forum, where we didn`t show up). The audiences were mediocre attended, like 25 on the average. But discussions were interesting, many people are enthusiastic and like to be involved in further mobilizations. The new Anticapitalist Network for example would like to do their own presentations on G8 2007 in Mazedonia and Hungary.

July 15th will be an International Day of Action Against Climate Change. As G8 energy ministers promise trillions in new subsidies to the industries destroying our planet and our future, we will take action to shut them down! This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town, city, or bioregion.

The mobilisation against the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany is well under way! A newspaper has been produced by a number of groups involved with the Interventionist Left (IL), one of the radical networks mobilising against the summit, and is out now!

Interview with members of Network Against G8 from St Petersburg
March 13th 2006

taken from Abolishing The Borders From Below magazine ( http://abb.hardcore.lt)

People interested to take part in the protests and brave enough are welcome - Interview with anarchists from St.Petersburg