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Photography Exhibition : Images from anti-G8 demonstrations at Rostock 2007

Tash [alan lodge] | 08.04.2008 22:09 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles

For all of April, an exhibition of photographs will be on display at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham. This work by photographers Guy Smallman and Paul Mattsson cover many aspects of this events, from the laughs and peaceful moments to the full on aggression displayed by law enforcement at such events. Please go and see this exhibition.






















Photography Exhibition : Images from anti-G8 demonstrations at Rostock 2007

For all of April, an exhibition of photographs will be on display at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham. This work by photographers Guy Smallman and Paul Mattsson cover many aspects of this events, from the laughs and peaceful moments to the full on aggression displayed by law enforcement at such events. Please go and see this exhibition.

On June 6 to 8, 2007, Heiligendamm's Kempinski Grand Hotel hosted the 33rd summit of G8 leaders. As a result thousands of anticapitalist activists blocked the roads to Heiligendamm and an estimated 25,000 anti-globalization protesters demonstrated in nearby Rostock.

Despite the 16,000 police and 1,000 troops, the biggest security operation on mainland Germany since the Second World War failed to stop the G8 being blockaded by thousands of protesters intent on causing maximum disruption to the summit.

Joining one of the Wednesday morning actions from a nearby protest camp the level of organisation and diversity of the participants was immediately apparent. Reds, greens, autonomists, peaceniks and trade unionists were working together along a common agreed consensus that was repeated several times over the megaphone in three different languages: “We will not be violent no matter what the provocation. We will not let them stop us!”

Paul Mattsson
07947 426567
 paulmattsson@btopenworld.com
 http://www.thebppa.com/Paul-Mattsson

Guy Smallman
07956 429059
 guy@guysmallman.com
 http://guysmallman.com

Sumac Centre,
245 Gladstone Street,
Nottingham NG7 6HX, England
0845 458 9595
 sumac@veggies.org.uk
 http://www.veggies.org.uk/sumac

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Rostock: Tens of thousands protest against the G8
 http://www.de.indymedia.org/2007/06/180311.shtml

G8: More than 10,000 block Heiligendamm
 http://www.de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183655.shtml

33rd G8 Sumit
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_G8_summit

Protesters, police clash after Rostock anti-G8 demo
 http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0116726620070602

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Tash [alan lodge]
- e-mail: tash@indymedia.org

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