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.[more...]

5. May, 2007 The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall.[read more...]

June 2007. A never ending procession of demonstrators from all over the world, protesting against the summit of the G8 states, snakes through the streets of Rostock. Tens of thousands greet the heads of government as soon as they arrive on the airport’s runway and blockade the opulent conference location of Heiligendamm.[more...]

In early June of 2007 (06-08.06 to be precise), the leaders of the G8 nations will meet in Heiligendamm, Germany. Behind an 12 kilometer long fence and protected by thousands upon thousands of soldiers and police officers, they will intend to provide an image of transparency and accountability to the current social, political, and economic world model.[more...]

We defined three issues which we have to organize infrastructure for: visa issues, Information and Infopoints. Therefore we need a lot of support, especially from all the people in the neighbouring countries.[more...]

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...]

International Demonstration against the ASEM - Foreign Ministers Conference of EU and Asian states as an approach to the G8 summit

Just before the G8 summit the largest international conference under Germanys EU-Presidency will take place in Hamburg on the 28 /29 May. 1500 high ranking delegates and the Foreign Ministers of all EU and ASEAN members and other Asian states will hold that conference to push economic cooperation forward.[more...]

might or might not set in action

A Liberating Invasion Concerted Clown Action Aiming At Seaside Security
- Operation L.I.C.C.A.A.A.S.S. -
Invasion is Liberation!
Target point of landing: 54=B0 8' 34" N, 11=B0 50' 39" O

exact date to be scheduled

As an act of civil disobedience, we will blockade this Summit. Our reason: The politics of the G8 stand for neoliberal, globalised capitalism, which dramatically increases the gap between the rich and poor worldwide. With the "Block G8" campaign, we say "No!" and reject the legitimacy of the G8!

Different initiatives and movements are calling for resistance to the Summit. People from around the globe will articulate their protest through a diverse range of actions. The "Block G8" campaign is one part of this. Take part in the protest actions and take a stand against the politics of the G8! [read more...]

It is not only since Seattle and for sure not only within the globalization movement that we are out in the streets fighting against the destruction of our living conditions and for a self-determined life. But it is here that we do it together. When the G8 meet in 2007 in Heiligendamm to plan the next steps of the belligerent sale of the world, they will hide in a cage, as they know all too well that there are 1001 reasons to attack them for their policies. [read more...]

In the cycle of recent counter summit mobilisations we can see that each time we've‭ ‬won‭ ‬its because we invented some new tactics rather than reproducing a ritualised staged confrontation.‭
For example,‭ ‬in Seattle in‭ ‬1999‭ ‬the capitalists did not expect a large physical mobilisation of people trying to shut their meeting down.‭ ‬In Genoa in‭ ‬2001‭ ‬they expected the red zone to be the focus of action and yet we were elsewhere.‭ ‬During the G8‭ ‬2003,‭ ‬the commercial centre of Geneva could be set on fire,‭ ‬blitzed without anyone being caught because we had the element of surprise.‭ ‬Since Genoa we have had few successes,‭ ‬mainly because we were pursuing‭ ‬another Genoa‭ ‬whilst the police organised to prevent that. [read more...]

A Call for massive blockades around the Red Zone
PAULA - September 2006
Somehow the forest seemed to thicken around the guard, and also it was advancing...

It is not only since Seattle and for sure not only within the globalization movement that we are out in the streets fighting against the destruction of our living conditions and for a self-determined life. But it is here that we do it together. When the G8 meet in 2007 in Heiligendamm to plan the next steps of the belligerent sale of the world, they will hide in a cage, as they know all too well that there are 1001 reasons to attack them for their policies. [read more...]

A global call written at anti-G8 "Camp Inski", Northern Germany, August 2006

Many calls like this have been made before - for people to voice their protests against an unjust, unfair, unequal international system. The G8 summit represents just one part of this. Many have called for mobilisations and hoped networks would grow on their own. Although unsure whether or not we have the right recipe, we will try to avoid making the same mistake. We, the International Working Group on resistance against the next G8, are just a group of people sitting in a field, wanting to change the world.[ read more...]

In June 2007, the political elite of the world's strongest economies (the group of G8 states) will meet in Germany at Heiligendamm near Rostock to coordinate their politics. A basic tenet of this is the creation and widening of better conditions for profit making by transnational companies from the North. At the same time, thousands of people will gather to demonstrate global resistance to exploitation, oppression and capitalism. One topic will be the global politics of agriculture, and in particular genetic technology.[read more...]