Friday 11, 6pm London
This morning (Wednesday May 9th) police raided about 40 buildings in Germany,
including several social centres and 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
places are planning to be decentralised convergence centres for the G8 protests
of early June.
We want to show solidarity with the German movement and express our right to
protest against the upcoming G8 in June. We want to defy police repression and
show we are not intimidated by it!
Friday May 11, 6pm
Kempinski Courthouse Hotel
19-21 Great Marlborough St, London, W1F 7HT

The German police have used a law on suspicion of terrorism (the so-called
section "129a") to raid and search private homes and social centres all over
Germany. Police's motives appear to be suspicion of "building a terrorist
network to prevent the G8 from happening". Obviously the mobilisation against
the G8 is building up and authorities are getting more and more nervous. Dozens
of computers have been seized during the raids. Police also raided the site of
the German alternative internet provider so36.net with the intention to seize
the email data on their servers. The website gipfelsoli.org, one of the main
pages of the mobilisation against the G8, was temporarily not accessible due to
the raids.
Why at Kempinski London?
Kempinski is the Hotel Group which hosts the G8 Summit in 2007. Kempinski has
privatised large parts of the village of Heiligendamm, as well as beaches
around it. Heiligendamm is the town in northern Germany where this year's G8
summit will take place. Bacause of this, the whole area around the town is fast
becoming a no-go area even for the local people.
By choosing the symbolic site of the Kempinski Hotel in London we will protest
against the upcoming G8 in Germany and the capitalist system it represents.
Location: Google Maps
See you at Kempinski this Friday in London, and in June at Kempinski in Germany!
Info here at http://indymedia.org.uk also see http://dissentnetwork.org for G8
infos.

source: [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370167.html]