Public Statement, May 21, 2007
Critical answer to ”Art goes Heiligendamm“
by the international art project “HOLY DAMN IT: 50 000 posters against G8 – on the urgent need for radical answers“.
Up to now, the public representation and perception of the project “Art goes Heiligendamm“ has been articulated in all media reports under the same headlines “De-escalating art for the G8 summit “ or “Art project wants to de-escalate at the G-8 summit“. [more...]

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Raids against G8 opponents
"Operation aimless" by Federal Supreme Court prosecutors triggers even more mobilization capacity for G8 protests

Press release by the persons concerned
Yesterday a nationwide search of left projects and individuals was taking place in Germany. The Federal Supreme Court prosecutor Monika Harms aimed with these searches on a criminalization and split of the broad resistance against the G8. The raids proved to be a total failure. [more...]

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Gipfelsoli Infogroup/Camp Inski 9. Mai 2007
Wave of Repression against anti-G8 structures in Germany
wave of repression against anti-G8 structures
houses searched in Hamburg, Berlin, and Bremen
communication structure of anti-G8 movement targeted
Since Wednesday morning 8 am a wave of searches is taking places against left structures throughout Germany. Targeted are social projects and private persons that are organizing against the coming G8 summit - or suspected to do so.more...]

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Press work and G8
We are a press group from dissent network, doing this work against the G8 since one year now. We want to use the interest of the mainstream media in the protest against G8 to bring radical left and autonomous issues into the media. We don't want to leave this to the police, they shouldn't be the ones who inform the media about the protest in the streets around Rostock and Heiligendamm. We also don't want to leave it to the big, hieriarchical organisations or parties, to speak for us. So far we made good expierences with our work.[more...]

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