UK Evian G8 Newswire Archive
The Hospitality of Swiss Police
07-07-2003 14:20
G8 - Video Interview, New Partnership for African Development
03-07-2003 11:20
Martin Shaw leaves hospital after one month
03-07-2003 07:47
Anti-G8 activist Martin Shaw was released from Lausanne hospital this morning. He has spent a month recovering from near-fatal injuries sustained from an incident on the 1st of June in which the Swiss police cut the rope that he and his climbing partner were hanging from while attempting to stop delegates from attending the G8 summit in Evian.Statement of Martin Shaw on leaving hospital
03-07-2003 07:28
Today I am leaving hospital after two operations and a month recovering from injuries that I sustained as a result of police actions in response to direct action that we took on the Aubonne bridge on the 1st of June. In this statement I wish to elaborate our reasons for making this action, and show how the extreme response to this protest fits into a wider political contextProtests against the policing of the G8 summit continue
28-06-2003 08:58
Swiss embassies world wide were targeted by activists this week in order to maintain pressure on the Swiss authorities to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human rights. After actions against the G8 meeting in Evian where met with repression and brutality. Groups presented embassies with a letter outlining contraventions to theGeneva violence: Questions for Ambassador
27-06-2003 14:19
QUESTIONS FOR SWISS AUTHORITIES.Geneva G8: At least 5 journalists wounded by police!
26-06-2003 03:47
http://www.ssi-media.com/pigbrother/Report2003Part2.htm#8 ), were in the main intentionally wounded by the police on the 1st and 3rd June - in the majority with considerable risk of long-term damages. Several clearly marked independent journalists only just escaped from another intentional "concussion grenade" - attack.
Spokesman of Geneva police: «Occupational hazard»
G8: At least 6 gravely wounded by concussion grenades!
23-06-2003 20:55
http://www.ssi-media.com/pigbrother/Report2003Part2.htm#8) in Geneva, Lausanne and Annemasse 5 more persons were partly gravely wounded by "concussion grenades":
SWISS EMBASSY IN LONDON VISITED THIS MORNING TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY
23-06-2003 14:09
As part of an international day of action against Swiss Embassies and Consulates around the world – a small (but perfectly formed) group of mixed pink and silver and black paid a visit to the Swiss Embassy in London this morning, Monday 23rd June 2003. We went there to voice our outrage at the political repression and police brutality during the recent G8 meetingFunding needed for legal action against the repression of the G8!!!
23-06-2003 13:44
We need to follow up on the general and specific cases from the G8 to ensure that the police (Swiss, French, German...) do not get away with their actions, and that their actions are seen as connected to wider global repression, by the press as well as the public.In order to do this the different legal groups need funding to initiate legal procedures. WE are calling for international support......
HANGING PROTESTER ON SWIS CONSULATE DESCEND
20-06-2003 17:59
This evening the two guys hunging from Swis embassy in Barcelona decided to come down.Pictures of Geneva, anti-g8, 1.6.2003
20-06-2003 14:32
pics of Lausanne demo 31.5.
20-06-2003 11:26
the 6pm demo trying to invade the yellow zone.
Pictures and report from Geneva protest (Oxford GR)
20-06-2003 10:52
Link to pictures and report from Geneva protest against the G8.thanks for your action
18-06-2003 22:46
Thanks for your action of solidarityOne of them who have been at Geneva
another world is possible
18-06-2003 22:04
`Another World is Possible`..reflections from anti-G8 01.03.03 Lausanne.Swiss consulate in Barcelona occupied!!!!!
18-06-2003 13:17
Call for solidarity actions!!People is being hanging 5 days already. We really need to make pressure on
them.
You´ll find a manifest to send to the consulate below.
trollyd soundsystem against the g8
18-06-2003 11:47
sheffields trollyd soundsystem joined 200,000 other activists at the french/swiss borderto quarantine the murderers and bandits of the g8
14:47 .rm file 37 megs
link:
http://www.burngreave.net/~trollyd/downloads/g8(2nd).rm
Lausanne PinkNSilver photo report
09-06-2003 22:28
on Sunday 1st June, from Pink & Silver perspective. (article 1)