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G8 Germany 2007

Protests against the G8 Summit in Rostock, Germany, June 2007.

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We are all 129a!

08-08-2007 12:33

"everyone who reads this is a terrorist"

Four German activists have been arrested on suspicion of being members or supporters of an alleged 'terrorist organisation' (the so-called Section 129a) [lawyers' press release]. The German federal police suspect that Militante Gruppe (MG or Militant Group) was behind several arson attacks against police and army vehicles since the group surfaced in 2001 [Federal Prosecution's press release]. The direct actions are said to have included an attack on German federal police vehicles to protest against their involvement in immigration deportations and another in response to the G8 raids earlier this year. If found guilty, the four could face up to 10 years in prison. Another three men have been accused but not arrested.

A number of solidarity actions have already taken place, including a demo in Berlin last Wednesday (August 1st) and another at the prison where the four are held on Sunday (August 5th). A Germany-wide protest against police repression is planned for September 15th [call], while many solidarity protests and actions are expected throughout the world.

For more information: website of the solidarity group [en] | solidarity blog [en] | Indymedia Germany.

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G8 Protest: Summit Blockaded From All Sides

08-06-2007 09:35

An improvised mobile barrier appears.

Friday 8th June:
On Friday the blockades ended and a few thousand people assembled at Rostock train station for a march down to the harbour. Many were returning from spending the night camped out around Heiligendam. It was unbelievably hot and the occasion had a party atmosphere. Following the demo a few hundred people headed down to the prison to show solidarity with those still being held. The Police stopped them from getting up close to the prison so a main road was occupied nearby for a few of hours.

[Report and Pics | Video].

To see the full picture of what happened see: Breaking News (en)

Read more for previous daily summaries, overview about mobilisations, infopoints, protest agenda etc ...

Follow the continuous flow of latest updates in english at IMC Breaking News (also available in 5 other languages: de, it, fr, es, gr) and check Indymedia Germany in English for latest reports.

Information Resources: Listen Live! - 4 radio streams | G8 TV - daily video stream | Flashradio - daily podcast (en) | G8 Global Infopoint Network | IMC UK Topic G8 2007

Websites: dissentnetwork | Dissent! UK | Interventionist Left | all for all | antig8.tk | Gipfelsoli | people global action | heiligendamm2007.de | Alternative Summit | Camps

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Nottingham G8 Delegates Report From Germany

06-06-2007 20:31

Breaking cover.

From June 6th to 8th the "representatives" of eight of the most powerful states from the global north are planning to meet in Heiligendamm near Rostock in Germany. Without any legitimacy to decide about global politics they will coordinate their decisions and therefore stand for the continuation of the state the world which for the majority means hunger, misery, war, and exclusion. Despite police repression and political propaganda, the summit will face one of the biggest mobilisations ever to shut down the G8.

People from Nottingham report:
Nottingham folk report from G8 in Germany #1
Nottingham folk report from G8 in Germany #2
Nottingham folk report from G8 in Germany #3

Recent news: Reports of over 10,000 people involved in blockades of the summit yesterday. Pics 1, 2, 3, 4

Indymedia: IMC Timeline of Events (eng) | Indymedia Germany in English | UK Indymedia feature

Links: Dissent! (Germany, in English) | Dissent! (UK) | G8-TV | Anti-G8 Action Faction

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Rostock: Tens of thousands protest against the G8

03-06-2007 14:17

In the run-up to the G8 Summit next week, tens of thousands of anti-G8 protesters, with several thousands on the Black Bloc alone, took part in the international demonstration in Rostock on 2 June, 2007. With colourful banners and puppets, protesters of different backgrounds tried to draw attention to the bigger problem of capitalism and the 'empire'. Police was very aggressive and provocative, using batons, water cannons and tear gas, not only against the 'bad protestors' but 'normal' ones as well. Violent confrontations were taking place while, on stage, the concert and speeches were trying to continue. Over 100 people were arrested and many injured on both sides.

Reports: [en] 1 | 2 | 3 | [de] 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | [it] 1 | 2 | 3]
Pics: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Video: 1 | 2 | 3
Audio: [de] 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ] | [en] 1

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Police Raids Against G8 Mobilisation in Germany

09-05-2007 08:59

police raid at "rote flora" hamburg

Police raided about 40 buildings in Germany on Wednesday morning, 9th May, including social centres and several 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 social centres are planning to be convergence spaces for the G8 protests in early June. See de.indymedia.org for up-to-the-minute info.

Reports so far on IMC-UK: 1 | 2 | 3 | press groups press release (en) | SO36.net statement
On IMC-Germany: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
On IMC Scotland: feature | call for soli-protest | paint attack statement | 4 | 5 | 6

Solidarity demonstrations and actions have taken place in several cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Berlin [more], Hamburg [more], Cologne, Goettingen, Managua, Vienna. Internet activists hacked "german-police.org" , a police bulletin board. The German consulates in Edinburgh and Amsterdam were attacked with paint. This last wave of state repression in Germany just followed a weekend of over 100 arrests in the Netherlands , where the G8 bicycle caravan was disrupted in Utrecht.

Many more demonstrations were planned and have taken place in the following days. These included one in London [Pics 1 and 2 | Video] and another one in Edinburgh [Pics], both on Friday 11th. Next G8 UK mobilisation meeting in London May 17th.

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Resistance At The Fence And Beyond

17-01-2007 16:23

From 6-8 June 2007 the G8 summit 2007 will take place in a hotel in Heiligendamm next to Rostock at the Baltic Sea, Germany. 6 month before the resistace is taking shape: Several alliances prepare carawans, blockades and other forms of direct action.

Last August about 1000 people allready gathered close to Heiligendamm in a first protest camp for 10 days. Since then numerous direct actions all over Germany. 4 numbers of a newsletter have been released in more than 8 languages. More than 400 people from NGOs to anti-authoritarian groups attended the second "G8 Action Conference" in Rostock while hundreds of people gathered at several dissent+x network meetings.Activists sucessfully used the Nuclear Waste Transport in November as a start into the protest season.

In the UK the mobilisation started with an Info night in London and a first UK-wide meeting in Nottingham on January 28th (1 | 2). Dissent! Belgium started with an action week in gent last december. The international mobilisation will continue with a gathering in Warsaw, Poland from February 10-11th. more ...

Websites: dissentnetwork.org | g8-2007.de | Revolutionary Alliance | Action Conference | Newsletter: News From The Fields And Beyond | Convergence Center Hamburg | Camp 2006 | NGO Mobilisation | gipfelsoli | moving europe | outofaction (de) | NoLager | Block G8 | Topic on de.indymedia.og | Dissent! UK | Wombles/G8 | input paper: Antiracist Perspectives in regard to G-8 Summit 2007

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Camping Against G8 And For Something Completely Different.

13-08-2006 11:41

the camp kitchen

“Camp Inski”, the preparation and information camp for the forthcoming G8 summit in Germany, took place from August 4th-14th in North East Germany. Somewhat less than one year before the G8-summit, autonomously organized resistance meets and plots for several days(en) in close proximity to the future summit location in the nearby town of Heiligendamm. Numbers are difficult to guess – several reports speak of more than 500 while others say many more came during the week. The workshops ranged from meetings about mobilisation, blockades and bike caravans to general questions of resistance and social movements.

While discussing and organizing next year's protest, various actions took place showing the wide range of activities started by the camp, including going from door to door in nearby villages and towns to inform residents of the future protests. A villa was occupied in opposition to the commercialisation of the increasingly posh seaside resort. An anti-racist demonstration (Video: 1 | 2 ) was held in the nearby city of Rostock. On friday hundreds of activists gathered at the beach outside summit venue(en), on saturday protest closed down an exhibition of the nazi artist Arno Breker while activists protested at a GMO field nearby the camp.

Video (de): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Pictures and Reports (de): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (en) | 6 (en) | 7 | 8 (en)
Camp Website: http://camp06.org

Websites about G8 2007: dissentnetwork.org (de) | g8-2007.de | gipfelsoli.org

XML UK G8 Germany 2007 Feature Archive

Image Photography Exhibition : Images from anti-G8 demonstrations at Rostock 2007
08-04-2008 22:09

Text A first shadow of G8 repression goes through Siberian Russia and Japan
10-03-2008 19:26

Image Collapsing the European security architecture
09-03-2008 20:41

Image No! G8 Japan Info Tour
27-02-2008 21:49

Text Interview with Japanese anti-G8 activist, speaking in Notts tomorrow
26-02-2008 11:30 | 1 comment

Text No G8 Japan info-tour in Cardiff: 23rd Feb
20-02-2008 20:15

Text Japanese G8 Info Tour comes to UK
13-02-2008 20:18 | 3 additions

Generic media Private Investigator, Server Threatened for serving Federal Court Judgments.
28-01-2008 04:35

Text Raids on activists prior to G8 ruled illegal by German Constitutional Court
04-01-2008 21:16

Image post-G8: Hamburg against state repression
15-12-2007 21:23 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Image Khalid Awan a victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling.
28-11-2007 17:03 | 1 comment

Image G8 TV - complete clip collection
26-11-2007 13:56 | 1 comment

Audio Olympic Fire Covers London In Smoke - sound and pictures
25-11-2007 01:10

Image We Are The History
18-11-2007 19:35

Text unknown major Babeuf manuscript discovered in Moscou yesterday
17-11-2007 03:21 | 1 comment

Text Shift articles online
16-11-2007 20:18 | 4 comments

Text Second meeting for the summit against everything, Sat 10th, 4pm at the LSE
05-11-2007 21:55 | 2 comments

Image Campaign against the “11th European Police Congress“
05-11-2007 10:52

Text reader: Why your revolution is no liberation!
01-11-2007 22:26 | 4 comments

Text "For A Summit Against Everything": First Meeting tomorrow at the bookfair!
26-10-2007 11:24 | 2 comments

Image Hey Monkey Riot comic out Saturday 27th Oct
26-10-2007 00:05 | 1 comment

Image Occupied London issue two is out!
08-10-2007 16:56

Text John Holloway and Vittorio Sergi on Black Bloc and more
06-09-2007 11:24 | 1 comment

Image Andrej is free again.. for now
23-08-2007 23:50 | 2 additions

Text G8 Heiligendamm- rostock: health update. anybody who had a tick out there...
23-08-2007 11:02 | 1 addition

Text Black Block in Rostock
23-08-2007 00:48 | 2 comments

Image Black Block in Rostock strikes back during anti-G8 protests
22-08-2007 19:33

Text Petition In Support Of German § 129a Arestees
20-08-2007 17:21 | 1 comment

Text A revolt to live: post-structuralist anarchist resistance against the G8
13-08-2007 14:27 | 5 comments

Image German activists arrested under terrorist suspicion
05-08-2007 07:01 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text Plage Sauvage 2.0 : relax, revolution just begun!
25-07-2007 13:53

Image G8 film night and benefit gig.
18-07-2007 12:21

Video Reel News G8 Special Promo
13-07-2007 16:34

Text Who Are the Interventionist Left?
13-07-2007 10:21

Image Video Anti G8 2007 Germany Documentation
10-07-2007 20:14 | 1 addition

Text G8: A tale of two victories?
09-07-2007 08:55 | 1 comment

Text Pink, Black, Pirate: Taking Stock of Rostock
08-07-2007 15:04

Text 5 Fingers Beat 16000 G8 Cops: Are we winning again?
06-07-2007 14:47 | 1 addition

Text German G8 Infotour does 1 in 12 Club Tonight
04-07-2007 22:30 | 1 comment

Image G8 Info-Tour hits Lancaster
01-07-2007 17:15

Text Spin and rumours at the G8
28-06-2007 08:54 | 2 comments

Text Autonomously Gazing After the G8
26-06-2007 17:59 | 1 addition

Text German Dissent! anti-G8 infotour
26-06-2007 15:50

Image G8 Film premiere. This Thursday, south London
26-06-2007 09:31 | 1 addition

Text DISSENT! Anti-G8 Infotour UK dates
23-06-2007 16:29 | 2 additions | 1 comment

Text DISSENT! Anti-G8 Infotour Manchester Sunday 24 June post Brown demo
23-06-2007 16:23 | 1 addition

Text Spin and rumours at the G8
23-06-2007 14:10 | 2 comments

Image Chronicle of state violence at G8 2007
16-06-2007 19:42 | 4 comments

Text G8 2007 - Been there, done that. What next? discussion - Sun 24th June @ Rampart
16-06-2007 16:26

Image No Risk - No Fun - G8 film night @ LARC Tuesday 19th June
15-06-2007 14:52

Text London G8 debrief meeting notes
15-06-2007 13:17 | 2 additions | 3 comments

Video G8: Schwerin, Caterpillar and Snatch squads
14-06-2007 22:49

Text German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism”
14-06-2007 14:06 | 2 comments

Text Not all the media was terrible!!
13-06-2007 17:47 | 1 comment

Text Again: German Police Raids 11 Homes Of Activists
13-06-2007 17:05 | 2 additions

Image G8 Media Gets the Massage - good article from 'unspin the g8'
13-06-2007 12:49 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text German G8 Police: Lies, Propaganda and Provocation (report)
13-06-2007 11:44

Image Daily Mail G8 Blockade Reporting - Atrocious Newspaper Article Shocker!
13-06-2007 11:16 | 1 addition | 5 comments

Audio Vox Pops - What was your best experience at the G8 protests 2007 in Germany ?
13-06-2007 10:30

Text Whats hot and not G8 2007
13-06-2007 10:10 | 1 addition | 7 comments

Video Video of Prisoner Solidarity March, 08/06/07
12-06-2007 23:29 | 1 comment

Text Whats hot and not G82007 Heiligendamm
12-06-2007 19:46 | 6 additions

Image Why your revolution is no liberation!
12-06-2007 16:33 | 1 addition | 11 comments

Image Aberystwyth Activists Arrested at G8
12-06-2007 15:27

Image The Tyrant Visits Tirana
12-06-2007 13:44 | 1 comment

Text Post G8 protest debrief meeting
12-06-2007 13:33 | 2 comments

Image G8 protester blinded by police
12-06-2007 13:18 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Text Europe’s carbon-trading scheme
12-06-2007 00:50 | 2 comments

Video 08/07/2007: International Shell to Sea block and shutdown
11-06-2007 20:25 | 2 comments

Image Pics of Saturday's Rostock Demo, 2nd of June
11-06-2007 17:52 | 1 addition

Text Press Release: Liverpool Demonstrator Nearly Blinded by G8 Police
11-06-2007 14:51 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Image Climate Change & G8 Day of Action - Full Action Reports
10-06-2007 19:10

Image Final demo in Rostock.
10-06-2007 17:27 | 2 additions | 1 comment

Image Laage Airport Blockade. Tuesday.
10-06-2007 17:16

Text Moving against the G8
10-06-2007 14:48 | 2 comments

Video Video Rush: 07/06/07 - East Gate Blockade Holds Firm, Protestors Take West Gate
10-06-2007 00:23 | 1 comment

Text G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts
09-06-2007 16:27

Text G8 - blockade
09-06-2007 16:23

Image G8 Flushes Climate Camp Down The Pipe
09-06-2007 13:58 | 1 comment

Image Anti-G8 solidarity action in Seoul, South Korea
09-06-2007 06:39

Image G8 - Closing march, harbour rally and prison solidarity pics
08-06-2007 22:21 | 1 comment

Image Bush's lies and cons
08-06-2007 20:50

Text German high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
08-06-2007 20:37

Image G 8: activist lost his eye due to police water cannon
08-06-2007 18:56 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Text Nottingham folk report from G8 in Germany #3
08-06-2007 17:30

Text G8 night in London tonight
08-06-2007 15:33

Text Changing the game...global action against G8
08-06-2007 14:53

Image Norwich petrol station shut down on DoA Against Climate Change and the G8
08-06-2007 13:15 | 1 addition

Image Street Rave at East Gate G8 Blockade - thursday night
08-06-2007 11:01

Text G 8 : German police boat hits Greenpeace boats
08-06-2007 10:48

Image G8 West Gate Blockade, Thursday 7th
08-06-2007 09:53

Image Barricade Blockades West Gate Area - thursday
08-06-2007 07:53 | 1 comment

Text G8: a very brief summary in pictures, videos and a few words.
08-06-2007 03:51

Text Russian G8 delegates blocked and car bashed
08-06-2007 00:04 | 2 additions | 3 comments

Video 06/06/2007: Video Rush - March to Road Blockades
07-06-2007 22:11

Text Please sign my petition in support of my right to asylum
07-06-2007 21:23

Image Barricading G8
07-06-2007 21:02

Image The blockade of the West Gate.
07-06-2007 20:07

Image Second Life Demonstrations and Cre-8 Tribute Garden
07-06-2007 19:49 | 2 additions | 5 comments

Image Heading for the blockade of the west gate.
07-06-2007 19:04

Text Global social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
07-06-2007 19:02

Text G8 fails to meet aid pledges to Africa
07-06-2007 18:58

Text Anti-G8 demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
07-06-2007 17:49 | 2 comments

Image Top 3 favourite hobbys of German riot Police.
07-06-2007 17:48 | 2 comments

Image G8 East Gate Blockade in place 24hrs and counting...
07-06-2007 15:37 | 2 comments

Text Genova (G8) Torture Cop arrested for three rapes.
07-06-2007 15:25 | 2 comments

Image G8 West Gate Blockaded - thurs 7th june
07-06-2007 14:42 | 2 comments

Image G8: Police take media bus
07-06-2007 11:08

Text Steffanshagen
07-06-2007 04:22

Text G8-Heiligendamm: State paid agent provocateur unmasked
06-06-2007 22:56 | 2 additions | 4 comments

Image G8 Police 'Almost Raid' Rostock Camp
06-06-2007 21:50

Image Blocking G8
06-06-2007 21:38

Image Pictures of Boergenende blockade, Wednesday evening
06-06-2007 21:32

Text G8 police are so Green they MOT bikes, yes seriously! (video)
06-06-2007 20:02

Text Scotts against the G8!
06-06-2007 19:10

Text Support pipeline protesters, stop G8 climate criminals!
06-06-2007 17:46

Image G8 Tuesday. MSF action Rostock harbour.
06-06-2007 17:32

Image G8 Blockade On Main Road To Heiligendamm
06-06-2007 16:33 | 4 comments

Image Cardiff solidarity with G8 protests- weds 6th
06-06-2007 16:27

Image G8 Blockade Occupies Road - (Gate 2 Shut Down!)
06-06-2007 16:13 | 6 comments

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