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World G8 Russia 2006 Newswire Archive

G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 3

01-08-2006 02:03 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | London | World

Saturday 15 July. My English contacts were nowhere to be found in the camp. After some searching and chasing I contacted them by phone only to find they were holed-up somewhere in the city, too fearful of a complete police lockdown of Kirov stadium, which would put a serious damper on any actions they were planning.

G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 2

30-07-2006 06:43 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | London | World

“I wish you success in your professional activity and expect the world’s leading media to provide a detailed, reliable and objective coverage of events taking place in Russia’s northern capital.”

Vladimir Putin

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Arrested anti-G8 protestors - 16 July

28-07-2006 04:08 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Video

A short video of arrested protestors being loaded on to buses outside the court in st Petersburg.

G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 1

27-07-2006 12:09 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | London | World

From London to Riga to St Petersburg, the first part of Oscar Beard's eye witness reports from the 2006 Russian G8 Summit.

RESISTANCE (July/Aug 2006) - anarchist bulletin from AF (Britain)

25-07-2006 12:05 | G8 Russia 2006 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION'S agitational bulletin Resistance no.86 is out.
IN THIS ISSUE: Trade union strikes, John Reid new Home Secretary, Armchair cops, Left-wing in South America, Russia G8, ASDA depot action, Jerry Springer Opera, General Strike 1926, plus the usual activist's events diary, industrial frontline news. Read too PDF:

http://www.libcom.org/hosted/af/res/

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Worldwide Protests Slam G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil

21-07-2006 01:33 | G8 Russia 2006 | Ecology | Globalisation | Repression | London | World

The protests included large "banner drops" in multiple cities, protests of coal and oil companies, and rallies at the U.S. embassy in London and the Washington, DC home of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. On Friday, protestors showed up at Bodman's home, demanding that the United States and the G8 abandon the focus on nuclear, coal, and on oil wars as "energy security." They chanted "No Coal, No Nukes, G-8 shut it down!" No arrests took place.

G8 2006 Repression Continues -- The case of Mihain

20-07-2006 10:51 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Translated and posted by the "G8 2006 Info and Press Group", Berlin.

Russian Authorities Target Journalists

17-07-2006 12:31 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

The following press release was issued today by the Berlin-based "G8 2006 Info and Press Group"

Updates and more info:

http://presse.gipfelsoli.org

G8 Delegates Blockaded in Hotel, Protesters Arrested

16-07-2006 17:17 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

The following is a report about actions this morning (16/07/06) in St. Petersberg.

Solidarity actions requested!

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300+ Demonstrate in Berlin Against G8 and Repression

16-07-2006 16:48 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Today, around 300 people took part in a demonstration in Berlin against the G8 and the system it represents, and demanded a release of those arrested in St. Petersberg taking part in protests against this year's summit.

(G8) blockade of hotel

16-07-2006 07:46 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | World

Today in the morning around 30 people who are involved in the Network Against G8 (NAG8) blockaded the entrance of a hotel which is used by participants of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. They blockaded the street for a while, carried banners, distributed leaflets against the policy of G8 and made noise with a trumpet and by shouting slogans like “No G8 anywhere” and “it is the end of G8 as we know it” in Russian and English.

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Small Protest Shuts Down Russian Consulate in Sydney

15-07-2006 21:54 | G8 Russia 2006 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The ongoing brutality of the capitalist system, environmental destruction and, most pressingly, attack on the human rights that the goverments of the countries in the Group of Eight perpetrate made the action urgent.

Press Release: Global Day of Action Against G8 and Repression

15-07-2006 12:08 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

The following is a press release issued by the Berlin-based G8 2006 Info and Press Group. For more information, check out our website. Also see: www.agp.org

AntiG8 Solidarity Action in Gothenberg

14-07-2006 16:39 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

The following is a report from an action outside the Swedish embassy in Gothenberg against the G8 and in solidarity with the protests in Russia.

More information about actions around the world:

http://presse.gipfelsoli.org

1,500 Demonstrate Against G8 and Bush & Merkel's pre-G8 meet

14-07-2006 13:15 | G8 Russia 2006 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

Around 1,500 demonstrated yesterday (Thursday 13 July, 2006) against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Bush's meeting in Stralsund, on the Baltic coast in north-eastern Germany.

G8 2006 -- Solidarity Demo, Berlin

14-07-2006 12:59 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Around 70 people today (Friday 14 July, 2006) took part in a spontaneously organised demonstration outside the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The protest was against the G8 meeting in St. Petersberg, and in solidarity with those protesting against the summit and the world it represents all over the world.

Global Social Rights Worldwide! Sink the G8!

14-07-2006 12:41 | G8 Germany 2007 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | World

Deregulation of finance markets leads to a concentration of power in the hands of a few banks and investment funds.. The privatization wave and bio-piracy by western corporations are the clearest examples of that expansion. Social rights gained by struggle are already sacrificed on the altar of the market.

G8 arrival - St Petersburg latest

14-07-2006 10:09 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | World

From the official G8 press office on an island off the coast of St. Petersburg.
Don't ask me how I got in here, I'm still questioning that myself. Must be the pink Hawiian shirt and the everlasting grin.

ALTERNATIVE G8 ST Petersburg DECLARATION OF COMMON SECURITY July 14, 2006

13-07-2006 19:54 | G8 Russia 2006 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Globalisation | World

The time for rhetoric is long since past. The G8 must comply with years of obligations and commitments made to “Common Security” – peace, human rights, environment and social justice. The Following is a proposed Alternative G8 St Petersburg Declaration of Common Security

Latest Updates from G8 protests in Russia

13-07-2006 17:32 | G8 Russia 2006 | Globalisation | Repression | World

The protests against the G8 in Russia have already started ahead of the Summit which takes place this weekend in St. Petersburg. Repression of political activists taking to the streets, and arriving at the Russian borders, is on the increase. More than 200 people have already been arrested in different Russian cities. Even though people are determined to make their voices heard. Demos and activist gatherings have already taken place in Moscow, and a cycle caravan has already arrived to St. Petersburg from Berlin.

See the latest updates below, from well before the mobilisations against this year's G8 summit begin in earnest, until Wedensday 12th. Today, Thrusday 13th, most activists from different parts of Russia are making their way (or trying to) St.Petersburg where the main mobilisations start tomorrow Friday 14th.

See the main IMC UK feature which is constantly udpdated with the latest reports - click at the 'Full article' link for the latest updates. Also check out the IMC-Russia (multilingual) website for news and reports.

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