The second big preparatory meeting for the radical left for the G8 summit in 2007 took place the weekend 6th to 8th of january in Berlin.
Location for the summit will be Heiligendamm, part of the town Bad Doberan at the Baltic See.
Location for the summit will be Heiligendamm, part of the town Bad Doberan at the Baltic See.
About 180 people were present, and the meeting was focussed on discussions and exchanging information. Some people came from Eastern Europe, Switzerland and great Britain.
According to newest information it is considered to move the time of the summit forward into june or even may, because of "tourism".
The hotel in which the summit will take place is owned by Kempinski and his "Fundus Group" and they try to buy up as much land as possible around the hotel and the area to privatise and restrict usage and to restrict the public's right of way into trespass.
The discussions at the meeting focussed on the organisation of the mobilsation:
Are the PGA hallmarks a suitable foundation? How are decisions made? Which name will the mobilisation want to use? How is the mobilisation organised - as a network or platform for associated groups? Up to now the radical left is described as "Dissent".
Thematically the discussion seemed to focus on theory such as around the defintions of "internationalism" and "globalisation" and associated questions.
Several working groups have discussed following major points:
St. Petersburg 2006, Camp 2006, Practicalities, Trauma, legal, action, communication internally and externally, roadshow, strategies, theory.
In the summer, there will be a camp to mobilise internationally:
Dates are a bit unclear but around the first two weeks of August in the north-east of Germany, also called Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Several groups work to include migration as a major point in the mobilisation. The roadshow has started, too, with events in Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
There has been an exchange of information and networking about the G8 2006.
And in spring the legal group is starting to work with a campaign against repression.
The next meeting will be in March 2006, after that the following in May in Berlin during a major lefty event: BUKO 29.
More questions might be answered if contacting
g8-2007@riseup.net.
In the comments, following points were made:
The dates for the international summer camp vary from 7th of August till 12th to the updated version from 4th till 13th of August. Anyways, usually camps in germany start of Fridays till Sunday the following week, I would assume.
There has been a discussion about the broadness of the "Dissent" network/mobalisation/coalition, if to include trade union(ists), Attac members etc. or not.
There is already a broader network under:
http://www.g8-2007.de/
There has also already been a factual, sympathetic article in the famous TAZ:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/01/09/a0276.1/text
original:
Germany Indymedia:
http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/01/136215.shtml
According to newest information it is considered to move the time of the summit forward into june or even may, because of "tourism".
The hotel in which the summit will take place is owned by Kempinski and his "Fundus Group" and they try to buy up as much land as possible around the hotel and the area to privatise and restrict usage and to restrict the public's right of way into trespass.
The discussions at the meeting focussed on the organisation of the mobilsation:
Are the PGA hallmarks a suitable foundation? How are decisions made? Which name will the mobilisation want to use? How is the mobilisation organised - as a network or platform for associated groups? Up to now the radical left is described as "Dissent".
Thematically the discussion seemed to focus on theory such as around the defintions of "internationalism" and "globalisation" and associated questions.
Several working groups have discussed following major points:
St. Petersburg 2006, Camp 2006, Practicalities, Trauma, legal, action, communication internally and externally, roadshow, strategies, theory.
In the summer, there will be a camp to mobilise internationally:
Dates are a bit unclear but around the first two weeks of August in the north-east of Germany, also called Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Several groups work to include migration as a major point in the mobilisation. The roadshow has started, too, with events in Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
There has been an exchange of information and networking about the G8 2006.
And in spring the legal group is starting to work with a campaign against repression.
The next meeting will be in March 2006, after that the following in May in Berlin during a major lefty event: BUKO 29.
More questions might be answered if contacting
g8-2007@riseup.net. In the comments, following points were made:
The dates for the international summer camp vary from 7th of August till 12th to the updated version from 4th till 13th of August. Anyways, usually camps in germany start of Fridays till Sunday the following week, I would assume.
There has been a discussion about the broadness of the "Dissent" network/mobalisation/coalition, if to include trade union(ists), Attac members etc. or not.
There is already a broader network under:
http://www.g8-2007.de/ There has also already been a factual, sympathetic article in the famous TAZ:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/01/09/a0276.1/text original:
Germany Indymedia:
http://germany.indymedia.org/2006/01/136215.shtml 
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so.........
11.01.2006 11:01
when are we to learn that it is about time we set our own agenda in life. by manifesting against the 8 we give them credibility in our expectation that they will listen.
by ignoring them we exposev them for what they are and give ourselves both time and space to evolve our own alternatives.
summit hopping aint the way forward..........to be continued.........
no body in particuar
summer holidays
11.01.2006 12:21
It will be good fun, but everybody who doesn't want to is invited to stay at home and moan depressively, covered in English rain and fog.
Of course one of my favourite hobbies is to rake the piss on negative people, who always critisise but don't do anything better.
So I don't care if we give these clowns credability or not - I look forward to have one of the best times of my lifewith the amusing German political scene and its splinter groups.
ab
so so so
12.01.2006 22:22
agree that its looking like if there is no great joy in some act of resistance, people don't seem to bother. climate camp, iceland camp, stirling camp, no borders camp. perhaps someone will make a cartoon out of this. mum packing all back kit in kid's rucksack, ready for burgoise hollyday. like reclaim the streets, there needs to be something else behind the fun, else is just a past time. no essence. climate wise it'd have to be a serious ( open, colective, horizontal - no dark hieriarquies, u know who you are ) political strategy, and organisation and comitment... same as no borders, or even g8 (across g8 resistance groups ), else it is just an event, like the big green, which is fun and gives an impression of dissent, much appreciated by POWER ( and NGOs )
g'd luck, and look put for the zapatista camp - oh, that is an all year round camp 4 gringo kids - mas madera!
moan