Important News and Infos

Legal Team Telephone Number for the G8 summit:
0049 - (0)3820 - 4768111


What to bring...
things that are a MUST...
things that would be good to have...
stuff that would be really wicked you could bring it... [more...]

Indymedia G8 Timeline online!
From now on, you can find verified, up-to-date news also via the new Timeline webpage:
http://de.indymedia.org/ticker/en for English and
http://de.indymedia.org/ticker for German.
Help us with the Dispatch! Call us and tell us what is happening in the streets, in the camps, near the fence and in the fields. We're collecting information, verifying and publishing them. And please don't be put off when dispatchers are sometimes insistent in their questions; this because we want to be really sure that understand, accurately, what's happening. [more...]

Public Mobile Radio (PMR)
For the purpose of distrubuting actual information there'll be a so called Public- Mobile-Radio-Info. It's part of the Infosystem an it's supposed to broadcast information concerning demonstrations, blockades and actions. It will be receivable around the area of Heiligendamm and Rostock-Laage during the probable actiondays on wednesday and thursday.
PMRs are small handy radios which can be bought and used legally.
[ read more ]

G 8 BREAKING NEWS !! police declares protest march on june 7th illegal
Incredible! As reported today on indymedia Germany a spokesman of the Einsatzleitung of the police declared the planned international anti-G 8 protest march in Rostock on june the 7th for illegal and forbidden! [more...]

PMR-Info-Radio
To spread the latest news there will be a PMR-Info-Radio. It´s part of the Infosystem and like Infopoints and Infotelephones it will inform you about the latest news about demonstrations, blockades and actions... Due to norming you can buy the PMR all over Europe for about 20 €, better quality for about 40 €, usually you get two for that price. Make sure that they have a connection for headphones. [more...]

some news about the dissent meeting held at the weekend 5th/6th of may in berlin:
plan A will be as before with one exception:
...there is one important move , because the deligates and the presidents will arrive on wednesday (6th of june) and not as expected on tuesday (5th of june), so that means the blockade of Rostock laage (military airport, where the delegates will arrive) will move from tuesday to wednesday, on tuesday will be still the global action day of antimilitaristic around Rostock and there will be planed other actions...
[more information and last schedule for the days...]

"Operation aimless" by Federal Supreme Court
International Press Group Campinski
To all editorials
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. [more...]

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...]


G8 summit / Utrecht(NL): last bicycle caravanist finally released after over 48 hours arrest
Pressrelease by the bicycle caravan info office in Rostock

After a surprising and completely unwarrented arrest of around 100 bicycle activists and members of the "Gr8chaoskaravaan" western european anti G8 bike caravan on Saturday the last arrestee was finally released last night.
Arrestees report of police violence and ill arrest conditions. Caravan protests strongly against the disproportionate police action. Legal consequences for both activists and police. [more...]


INTERNATIONALS AGAINST G8
After the first meeting during the Global Meeting in Venice (that took place at the end of March 2007), people from various Social Centers (Italy) and people from the Antiauthoritarian Movement (Greece) called the International Meeting during the 3rd G8-Action-Conference in Rostock, Germany. [more...]


[PDF...]		 den G8 Gipfel wegpusten!
From the 6th to the 8th of June 2007 the leading representatives of the seven richest countries and Russia will gather in the german state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the so called G8-Summit.
Now, for more than a year of preparations for the counter-activities were made: Radical left-wing groups, as well as other left groups, unionists, NGOs and christian people want to articulate their protest or are even heading towards restistance, with the aim to stop the summit from taking place...


Meeting regarding mobilisation against G8 in Torun - 12.05.07,
(start:10.00)
Adress: Bunker B48, Wschodnia 35 street, Torun.
On the meeting there will be activist from Germany who are engaged in organisation protests against G8.[more...]

UK Anti-G8 Mobilisation meeting: Feedback from Reading 25/04/07
The second UK wide anti-G8 mobilisation meeting was held in Reading on Sunday March 25th. [here is some feedback...]

friday 8th June 2007 International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8.
Direct Action for Climate Justice – Resistance is Self Defense!

We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future. And while the G8 continues to line their pockets, island states disappear and hundreds of thousands die as a result of the freak weather conditions caused by their irrational and uncontrollable obsession with never ending economic growth.[more...]

Eight good reasons to block the G8
(By: Affinity Group Wilnis)
An impressive number of groups in Germany and outside is currently preparing to effectively blockade the G8 summit this June. At least they will try to, they are, of course countered by a large police force that will try and stop them.
At carious info-nights about these mobilisation efforts held in the Netherlands, you often hear people voicing doubts about the use of blockades. It is sometimes claimed that they “useless”, “a ritual” and that “summits are only symbols”. Below you will find eight good reasons for taking part in the blockades and help making them successful.[more...]

Shut down G8 Summit!
Conflicts make Europe
Social centres towards Heilingendamm
Hundreds of us met in Venice during Global Meeting. We discussed about Europe, movements and autonomous conflicts. This discussion was extraordinary thanks to everyone's contribution and to the great participation (more than five hundred activists coming from all over Europe). [more...]

Invitation to the international preparation meeting on the 13th of April in Rostock//start: 10.00 am arrival : on Thursday the 12th is possible and wished for.
Dear comrades, companer@s...
The countdown is ticking, in 2 months the summit will finally start.
Therefore we invite you to the international meeting in Rostock at the 13th of april, which we decided at the warsawa meeting.[read more...]

Declaration of the federal Dissent-meeting on 2-4.3 2007 in Hamburg to the „Violence-debate“ within the G8 coordination- circle (NGO's and Attack)
1) The Dissent-meeting accepts different means of actions[read more...]

TAZ, 17th of March 2007
„Ask the opposite side“
Fire-attacks damage the G8-protest, says Attac-speaker Pedram Shahyar. He definitively rules out militance and violence in Heiligendamm.
TAZ: Herr Shahyar, according to the federal police (BKA) 72 offences have been taken place in connection with the G(. Do these kind of attacks not damage your mobilisation work?[read more...]

Call for action against G8 - Palestine: No wars – no Walls
In the first week of June the bosses of the 8 economically most powerful nations of the world will meet for a nice cup of tea in the German resort of Heiligendamm, close to Rostock. To guarantee the security of the cosy meeting, the place will be surrounded by a security fence 2 ½ meters high, 1 meter deep into the ground, and 13 kilometers long, using 12.5 million Euros worth of barbed wire and cement.[more...]

Move fast, strike harder...
G8 Heiligendamm 07: just another counter-summit?
The G8 circus is coming to Heiligendamm. As recent summits have moved to more remote areas, we have felt our strength decline, mainly because they increasingly control the playground and everything around it. In Seattle, Prague and Genoa our strengths were in being inventive and surprising the police. This allowed us the freedom to stage effective direct actions and disrupt the summits. The time has come to seize back the initiative.[more...]


Call out for Global Days of Action and Information against Capitalism in the time around the G8 summit 2007
International Warsaw Meeting on Preparation of the G8 protests-2007
Capitalism attacks us on many fronts in our daily lives. We are forced to endure the current system of capitalism and its oppressive power destroys, exploits, isolates and dehumanizes us. It's definitely time to get rid of it. [more...]

Legal Assistance needs cash!
Appeal for funds for an Lawyers Emergency Service for G8 summit
Cash is needed fort the provision of the bureaus, procurement of working materials and the preparation of accomodation. The Lawyers Emergency Service will provide service for everybody. It will only be able to work, if participation in the fundraising is high!
Funds for the Lawyers Emergency Service shall be transferred to the following account:

  • Postbank Hannover

  • Konto-Nr. 9004-301
  • BLZ 250 100 30
    international:

  • IBAN: DE17250100300009004301
  • BIC/SWIFT: PBNKDEFF
  • Keyword : Lawyers Emergency Service

[read more...]


Some News From Neo-Colonial-British-Island Activists
After recovering from the G8 in Scotland and having plenty of time to reflect on what worked and what didn't, a first nationwide meeting took place in Nottingham/Sherwood Forest to discuss how we can usefully contribute to the mobilisation against the G8 in Germany.[read more...]

International Donations to the ROTE HILFE e.V.!

The mobilisation against the G8 summit in the tiny resort Heiligendamm on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast in June 2007 has begun. As usual massive police presence and repressive measures are expected. Therefore the Rote Hilfe e.V., the preeminent radical left anti-repression organization in Germany, needs your donation. [read more...]


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