[Onthebarricades] GERMANY: Hamburg G8/ASEM protests
Andy
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Sun Jun 3 00:41:30 PDT 2007
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Hamburg police battle protesters
Police reinforcements were deployed to block the protesters
German police have clashed with hundreds of anti-globalisation demonstrators in the northern city of Hamburg, arresting 21 people.
Police used water cannon and baton charges against protesters, who pelted them with bottles and stones.
The violence followed a march by about 4,000 activists angered by what they saw as excessive security for a meeting of EU and Asian foreign ministers.
Germany is also tightening security ahead of next week's G8 summit.
A fence has been erected around the German Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, where the summit will take place on 6-8 June. Protests will be banned from the area of the barrier.
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Report from Germany #1
Annie Nimmety (repost) 27.05.2007 13:00
Story from Hamburg
As my plane landed in Hamburg a lightning bolt almost hit it. I was looking out the window and saw the bolt streak down barely 300 feet from the plane. I landed without being blown to pieces, which was nice. However, I sincerely hope it is not an omen.
Never having been to Germany, Hamburg appeared to me as an anarchist paradise. Political graffiti was everywhere. You can identify people like you by sight. And the Rote Flora, the convergence center for Hamburg, is incredible. An old theatre from the 1800's, it is now a political center/squat with dozens of rooms all for specific things. There also a bike shop. Take the best community bike shop in the US and amplify it 100% and you will understand.
Which brings me to the Critical Mass. At first I was bummed, not having a bike. But then I learned of the bike shop and was given one of dozens and dozens of bikes. It worked too. So off I was. European cities were not built around the automobile, as ours were, mostly, thus allowing us to evade the cops ("bullen" in German, or bull) and ride for longer. There well over 200 of us, probably more. Every time I looked backwards I could not see the end. We were pursued by a dozen green vans. When they thought they had us, black and green clad cops streamed out of the vans. But we always got away, thanks to the sidestreets. The filming on the part of the cops is a lot more intense than it is in the states and it is big concern for the people in Hamburg, now that they are being called terrorists by their government, just as we will be soon. We rode for over an hour, causing joyous mischief in our wake, mischief I cannot recount because my memory is real bad.
When I got back and returned the bicycle I was dead. I hadnt slept in a couple of days. The people at the convergence center got me a place to stay which I cannot go into detail about, although I would like to. But its really great. As I passed out I heard those wonderful European sirens.
The next day, it turned out that after the St. Pauli football game there was a riot. Things were thrown, the bullen let loose the water from their cannons and there was a standoff near the Rote Flora. I wish I could have been there, but right now, typing as Peaches plays on the stereo, I am grateful for my sleep. Today there is a demonstration against the EU's desire to privatize education so Europe can have an education system as good as ours where we have to pay to work in an office or work in a kitchen with a degree in philosophy. On Monday the EU is having its Asia summit and things will get really crazy. When I can I'll get as much information out as possible.Until then, remind your friends that something is about to happen in Germany. Their biggest weapon is the suppresion of information and they use it well. The only way to counter it is to spread it all ourselves. Perhaps what is happening here can give you some form of hope. It is giving me hope.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/178714.shtml
Report from Germany #2
Annie Nimmety (repost) 27.05.2007 13:02
Another story from Hamburg
Hello,
There was a student demonstration today, protesting the EU's desire to privatize education. We all met at one of the university plazas and waited until we had enough people. On the way there I felt my weak American heart sink at the sight of 25 police vans waiting outside the university. When we marched out of there we only got a few hundred feet into the city before we were stopped. The police were saying that the permitted student march could not proceed because there were people against the G8 amongst the crowd.Eventually the let us go but we had to change our route. Soon the black clad police faded into green clad riot police with their cute little white helmets. They boxed us in completely all the way into the inner city. We passed through big commercial areas, a van with a diesel generator, speakers and mixing board spewing out energy all the while.
When we got to the inner city, where most of the tourists and monied types and big banks and shopping centers are, we found barricades and water cannons all around us. The green riot police joined up with the olive(?) colored police with shields and together they stopped us in the middle of a busy shopping area. After they let us continue we found water cannons and riot tanks blocking every side street we might want to head down.
Two people were arrested for no reason. Otherwise it was calm.
However, it revealed, to me at least, what we are going to be up against on Monday. They dont want an incident downtown where all the nice, decent people will be shopping. The German media reported that there will be snipers on the rooftops when the EU ASEM summit takes place in order to "protect the delegates". I'll try and get people out here to send video and their accounts to the US.
PS. Last night's riot, from the accounts I have heard, was unprovoked. Not that it really matters. A blast of water to the face is still a blast of water to the face.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371759.html
ASEM Demo In Hamburg - First Reports And live Ticker
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Today is the day of the international demonstration against the ASEM summit in Hamburg. After a wide international Mobilisation and Court Appeals against the route and the organisers the demonstration starts fom Millerntorplatz , moves on along Reeperbahn, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hafenstraße, Baumwall to the Rödingsmarkt. The police protects the city centre with massive presence, media reports that appr. 4000-5000 police are in Hamburg today.
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Riots at EU/Asia economic meeting
anonauton | 28.05.2007 21:19 | G8 Germany 2007 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Scotland | World
We declare war on the leaders of the world...
Rioting took place on the chaotic streets of Hamburg as the EU and Asian leaders met. After the official demonstration was over the real action started as the Black Bloc took on the cops. Bottles, paint bombs, bangers and fireworks were hurled at police lines. The bridge we stood on shook as we danced. Many people left the enclosure of the police only to then form a bloc enclosing them from behind. Having flanked them we then had an open reign on the rest of the streets. Riot vans rushed in to collect the cops and rocks and debris were hurled at them breaking windows. One van was raided by the anarchists and riot shields and some police uniforms were taken to use later as disguises. Hundreds of black bloc then reclaimed the streets and started barricading them to slow the response. Armed with mollies, fire extinguishers and rocks gangs roamed the streets, trying to avoid getting cut off and trying to find the rest. People naturally headed towards the Rota Flora G8 convergence center. Cops locked down the whole area around steinshanze with riot cops and water cannons. There is still a general chaos on the streets on Hamburg and more reports will surely come. We have erupted and Heiligendamm dam is our next target.
Those who were able to march against corporate globalization today managed to because people in the black bloc forced themselves through the police lines. Expressing an opinion out loud nowadays means we have to battle with the state apparatus simply for that expression to exist. That message of resistance must thus be embodied in physical action and confrontation otherwise it shall be crushed. We all desire peace so we must fight the warmongers and murderers who perpetuate the greatest violence and those who work for them. We must fight for a liberation where we no longer tolerate injustice, but fight it and all those who defend it. Being weak means they are more likely to oppress us, when we show force we show them what we are capable of and show them their limitations. For those who still denounce violence, get out of your seat of privilege and feel the cries of those who cannot fight and fight for them. Otherwise shut up and get out of the way and come back when you are serious about really changing things.We are taking this world back and there ain't nothing you can do about it.
We declare war
on the leaders of the world...
A war against G8
A war against borders
A war against enclosure
A war against domestication
A war against exploitation
A war against hierarchy
A war against empire
A war against capitalism
A war against the state
A war against war
Get your ass over to Germany. The biggest anti-G8 mobilization yet is going to shut these fuckers down.
anonauton
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Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg
Anti-G8 Action Faction | 29.05.2007 15:10 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation
On their way to block the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, anti-capitalists from all over Germany and the world stop in Hamburg to confront the Asian-European Meeting (ASEM).
By the Anti-G8 Action Faction
HatetheG8.blogspot.com
May 28th 2007
Finally, something was happening.
We were on the move again. It's been a while and we're a bit out of shape, but it's all coming back now. After linking arms in flanks for five hours straight in a huge, permitted march, we were getting antsy. As the first major demonstration in the lead up to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, everyone wanted to start it off right. The city of Hamburg needed to send a message to the world that they have the "violent demonstrators" under total control. The cops must maintain discipline and it will all go smoothly. The protestors wanted to tear the city apart, to show the G8 leaders that they are not welcome here, and anyone who tries to host them will have to pay. With a thousand black clad anarchists in the front and thousands of others behind, the tension was thick. Screaming "fight the system, fight the state, fight capitalism, fight G8," the demonstrators were not willing to comprise either their vision or momentum. But who would provoke who first? Would the cops use the water canons? Would the anarchists break through the lines and go off the script?
Will the G8 2007 be the opening salvo of a new cycle of struggle against capital, perhaps the final one given the scope of the current ecological crisis? For two years the German autonomous movement in general and the Dissent Network in particular has organized across the world, from the USA to Turkey, for this coming week of action. The stakes have never been higher: until now the "War on Terror" has cast a pall over the movement, yet in Germany we anarchists and autonomists could again re-seize the stage of history by scoring a decisive victory against capital.
Move swiftly. Stop. Fight a bit. Grab something. Then Run. Turn around. Watch out for the Snatch Squad. Which ones are they? Wearing all black with red diamonds on their back. Shit, there they are. They're gonna try and grab us. Move! But who are those ones? Don't worry, it's just the green team. Green team? Yeah, green uniforms, they're like the national guard. They won't arrest you, they'll just tussle a bit. And them? Who? The darker green and dark blue. Oh them, well, they're here to stop you. Be careful.
The modern incarnation of the autonomous movement is distinctly anarchist, mostly young, and quite, quite punk. Even though the movement had been ebbing over the last few years, it appears the arrival of the G8 in Germany, combined with the police raids in early May on anti-G8 centers of activity, have united the often divided and self-critical Autonomen. To the chagrin of the police, the raids also backfired in the popular press, and now it appears that most of the media, and even much of the public, are on the side of the dissidents. Furthermore, in "Red Hamburg," the home of insurrections, pirates, and a famous anti-fascist football league, it is often hard to tell the locals from the Black Bloc while in the streets.
Shhhhhhh. What? Be quiet, they're looking for us. OK, hold it . . . hold it . . . NOW!
The police are nervous, very nervous. And rightfully so! For months, the cars of the officials have been burned, and now internationals are streaming into the well-run convergence center in Hamburg, the former theatre "Rote Flora" that has been squatted for nearly two decades. The dynamic of the police is Freudian to say the least: the police would like nothing better than to release their inner fascist and ruthlessly clear the streets of all protesters. Due to such factors as public opinion and their brutality backfiring on them in the courts, they simply cannot just beat the protesters without pretext. So, instead, the officers express their frustration with an anal-retentive attention to detail about the smallest of the rules regarding banner size, demonstrators masking-up, and so on; they often stop demonstrations for up to thirty minutes or more for the most minor of infraction of the "rules."
The bridge was a trap and everyone knew it. That's exactly where they wanted us to end up and there we were. Yeah some fireworks were shot off, rocks thrown, and a couple arrests, but come on, it was their turf. We had no chance. They've surrounded the Rote Flora. What? The convergence center, you know, that huge squat. Are they going in? Not likely, I think they'll get a beating if they try. Barricades are going up, let's get behind them. The water canons are coming out. Well, move. Down this alley way! Ok. Wait, are we all together?
This leads almost any march or demonstration to be an exercise in frustration, a chess game where both sides try to bend, but not break, the rules through a strict process of negotiation. Or at least until breaking the rules is advantageous. While marching, German anarchists more or less engage with the police in careful negotiations until the permitted demonstration gets as close to the desired location as possible (such as a financial district, a fascist demonstration, or in this case the EU-ASEM Summit meeting in the town hall), and then, all bets are off. The demonstration will then generally be aggressive towards police lines, attempting to wreck havoc by escaping off the official route as a bloc, or break into small affinity groups to build barricades and attack police cars. There is also an apparent tradition of regrouping the night of the action for even more fun in the streets.
I think I'm trapped. Don't panic. Look around. They're gonna do a mass arrest. Ok, black-clad cops over there. Try this. Nope, green cops. Damn, turn around. Fuck, the blue ones. Ok. Surrounded. Where's my group? Doesn't matter, I need to find a way out. Option 1: join the bloc and fight your way out. How many of us are there? Not enough. Option 2: act stupid and sneak by. Let's see if that works.
Police tactics in Germany seem to be a combination of psychological warfare and shows of overwhelming force, with the emphasis on "show," for they seem unable to act unless provoked and do not generally mass arrest protesters, but just surround the march on all sides to maintain "order." Police can be divided into distinct groups. First, there are the local and federal police, who wear blue and green. Within this group there are inexperienced "barrack-based" police who can be identified by an "A" on their helmets. However, the real reason to be worried is the intensive surveillance done by the police (although unlike the UK, there are few CCTVs anywhere), who send undercovers to demonstrations to identify those who have broken laws, and have uniformed cameramen directly outside to tape protestors and identify them (using rather clever techniques like identifying Black Bloc members by their shoes). There is also a special police snatch-squad unit, dressed all in black like stormtroopers, who will quickly and brutally move in and make arrests like sharks. However bad this sounds, it is important to note that the procedure German police use in crowd control is actually quite predictable, and as long as one stays in tight groups, one is unlikely to be snatched. The German police are far from invincible despite their pretensions, and a victory over them should be possible.
Close, too close. I know. We were gonna go back and get you. What? That's insane, they would've grabbed you too. Hey look, they're sending in more. Did they declare a state of emergency? I heard that too. Shit, there's waves and waves of them. Back to the Flora? No, its' not safe. Ok, then, disappear.
A massive thousand person Black Bloc at ASEM, cop cars destroyed, a skirmish in front of the convergence center - not bad for a day´s work. Now, there are many debates over what exactly to do over the next few days. The demonstrations are so decentralized and yet actively planned, that it is hard for even the German anarchists to predict where the sites of intense struggle will be: there are convergences in three cities, an anti-fascist counter-protest against a thousand fascists in the streets AND a huge rally in Rostock against the G8 on the same day, decentralized blockades of roads and airport blockades, as well as countless marches and demonstrations near Heiligdamm and in Rostock. Regardless of the particulars, the energy amongst anarchists in Europe has been built to a frenzied height, and if one thing can be assured over the next week- there will be a reckoning.
Thousands of us in the march. Hundreds rampaging in the streets. About eighty-five arrested. Not bad for a start. Nope, not bad at all.
Anti-G8 Action Faction
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Rear spar: ASEM protests
Nikolaus 28.05.2007 18:22 topics: G8 G8 holy dam
28.05.07: ASEM protests in rear spar
Around 13Uhr those starts internationally demonstration against the ASEM and the lining up G8 summit. The demo was terminated prematurely against approx. 16:30 clock by the organizers. In the connection it came to isolated outer walking
28.05.07: ASEM protests in rear spar - warming up for the G8-Gipfel (Schäuble)
Around 13Uhr those started internationally demonstration against the ASEM and the lining up G8 summit in Hamburg pc. Pauli. Altogether joined approx. 4000 to 6000 humans the strong demonstration course. Stopped in the process the course several times for police-tactical and other reasons, nevertheless ran the meeting up to individual flares peacefully. Hamburg-typically the whole demonstration course was accompanied by solid police force in order/including. At the Rödingsmarkt the demonstration was explained after the conclusion demonstration terminated by the organizers with reference to the substantial handicap by the police for. The participants were requested by the police to depart toward Miller gate individually. After approximately 45 minutes followed most participants of this request, collected themselves however in loose groups on the east west road. The accomodating, empty Polizeifahrzeuge were isolated attacked. The police reacted somewhat headlessly, partially drove the vehicles without Besatungen in the circle. The quantity induced itself in the Laufschritt toward holy spirit field, team Green has trouble to mount the correct vehicles and could on approx. 1000 meters of distance not in the Laufschritt at the groups of fragments to-remain in such a way. At the Miller gate place it came to an unmethodical WaWe employment, which endangered however only normal traffic. The activists scattered itself toward digging quarters. In consequences of "warming up" the police was still another half hour later busily to lead their vehicles by the developed traffic chaos. In the eyes of the viewer warming up for the G8 summit, expected by Schäuble, was a point victory for the activists. As already the bicycle action showed to 26.5. in rear spar also the today's day, the team Green substantial logistic problems gets, if humans move fast and freely. In this sense: 2:0!
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Events to the Asem summit
Photo collection 29.05.2007 00:16
Approximately ten days before the G8-Gipfel in holy dam supplied themselves after dissolution of a demonstration of hundreds demonstrators violent arguments with that to Hamburg police with. After first peaceful protests of approximately 4000 demonstrators against the ASEM Aussenministertreffen barricades burned on Monday evening in the digging quarter of the Hanseatic city, after the organizers the elevator for terminated avowed due to police provocations.
With the political discussions for the prelude of the meeting of the external politicians of the 27 European Union states and 16 asiatic countries China rejected according to the western demands certainly more climatic protection politely however. The protests against the ASEM meeting (Asia Europe Meeting) had been announced before as a kind general sample for holy dam.
After wild pursuits by task forces of the police some demonstrators were driven in the Karoviertel, water throwers chase to demonstrators. After some brutal arrests, partially under exclusion of the press the situation escalates. The arresting now breach of the peace, attacks on policemen or the production of Molotov Cocktails (alleged at a gas station) are accused. 35 further persons were taken in safekeeping. With the arguments according to police data one civil servant and two demonstrators were hurt. Over one hundred arrests the fact-finding committee announces. A car with conference participants was allegedly blocked after rumors. According to press flew color bags, Rauchbomben and tracer ammunition.
The European Union bites meanwhile with its calls after more climatic protection in China further on granite. The Chinese minister of foreign affairs Yang Jiechi put the responsibility clearly into western hand. "Permitting it me to point out that the present conditions of the climatic change are not to due to the developing countries and what they did, said "he after a discussion with Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter stone Meier, European Union chief diplomat Javier Solana and EU-Aussenkommissarin Benita Ferrero Waldner.
The fight of the climatic change is one of the main topics that Hamburg ASEM conference. Stone Meier stressed, it acts thereby over "a range, with we unquestionably within common responsibility stands ". The European Union hopes that there can a communication in December with the UN-climate conference on Bali over the follow-up regulation 2012 of running out Kyoto minutes be, thus stone Meier.
The European Union ministers of foreign affairs are according to data of diplomats of the opinion that with a subsequent agreement China does not only have to be arranged to the reduction that greenhouse gases. Also India, which was represented for the first time as a member 1996 created ASEM, must do more. Peking and new Delhi, whose restaurant economics and energy consumption grow particularly strongly, are afraid however that their development is restrained by environmental protection editions. With the G8-Gipfeltreffen in holy dam the European Union wants to obligate also the USA, which had not ratified the Kyoto agreement, to obligatory climatic goals.
This is so far strictly rejected by Washington. The ASEM Ministers wanted to speak also about the situation in the Iraq, Afghanistan and on the Korean peninsula. The European Union wanted to affirm the demand after abolition of the only on weekend extended house arrest of the Burmese opposition guide Aung San Suu Kyi. Stone Meier had emphasized the agreement with China in many international conflicts after the discussion with Yang. In the atomic controversy with Iran is one itself united that the pressure to Teheran are increased and an in any case diplomatic solution be found must. "Military solutions must separate here. "
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Ticker-HH 28.05.07 english
28.05.2007 12:51 Themen: G8 G8 Heiligendamm Globalisierung
Today is the day of the international demonstration against the ASEM summit in Hamburg. After a wide international Mobilisation and Court Appeals against the route and the organisers the demonstration starts fom Millerntorplatz , moves on along Reeperbahn, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hafenstraße, Baumwall to the Rödingsmarkt. The police protects the city centre with massive presence, media reports that appr. 4000-5000 police are in Hamburg today.
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00:30 Some people sitting in the Prison "Stresemannstraße" are getting freed, also people who were captured in front of the convergence-center.
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23:53 From more than 90 people were arrested today, only 5 released people are yet known.
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23:08 Some people got into police-controls on their way home in Sternschanze.
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21:50 A public bus was seen at the gas-station Max Brauer Allee. There were at least 20 arrested people in it and lots of cops around.
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21:26 86 arrested people are confirmed for this day.
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21:25 Uhr An arrested woman was brought to hospital. She had been punched in the stomach.
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20:40 Uhr Two more arrested at Neuer Pferdemarkt.
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20:38 Uhr Two more arrested people confirmed at Neuer Pferdemarkt.
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20:30 situation escalates again in Sternschanze. At the end of Schulterblatt towards Neuer Pferdemarkt bottles were thrown, the police sent more troops and they force the activists to go to the Schulterblatt.
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20:25 2 people get arrested at station Dammtor on their way to their train, who were walking in a group of 25 people.
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20:08 medics report a wounded person (cutted) at Schanzenstraße.
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20:05 Schulterblatt, the street in front of the convergence-center, is free of police
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19:49 FSK-radio says that there is a small group at pferdemarkt surrounded by the police, but the people still can leave.
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19:30 30 arrested are known yet.
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19:29 situation at S-Sternschanze had gone out of control. A group of 100 people is moving towards "Neuer Kamp" (Feldstraße). The situation at Schanzenburg hasnt calmed down very much, because now the police is throwing water into the backyards.
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19:15 the police has left the Schanzenburg, but is now hunting people down the Susannenstraße with 2 watercannons and riot-police.
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19:13 bottles were thrown out of the Susannenstraße.
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19:11 200 people next to S-Bahn Sternschanze are surrounded, three watercannons in front, the police had made their 3rd awarning to move away and end the demonstration but the people are surrounded.
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19:07 in the florapark behind the convergence-center there are still some special riot police.
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19:00 Uhr The police has surrounded a group of protestors in the backyards of a house called Schanzenburg. Police closed Stresemannstraße from Neuer Pferdemarkt to Holstenstraße. The frontdoor of the convergence-center is opened again, there is no more police right next to the Convergence Center.
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18:55 In Lippmannstraße reports of several arrests. Police stops and checks identity of people around Rote Flora.
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18:46 a car with deligates was stopped by appr. eight activists in city centre (Bergstr/Mönckebergstr). One person got arrested for making photografs of the police. city centre is quiet now, situation around Rote Flora is still not relaxed.
18:00 police uses water cannons at the Rote Flora
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17:54 In front of the Flora people are moving fences on the street, a fire is burning.
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17:53 The Rote Flora (Convergence Centre) closes its doors because of the massiv police presence in the area
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17:47 Ca. 300-400 cops at Neuer Pferdemarkt with water cannons & tanks
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17:40 Another arrest near station Reeperbahn. Infront of the Rote Flora 200 people gather.
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17:37 11 police cars at Pferdemarkt, cops walk towards Rote Flora.
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17:18 Most people move towards Karolinenviertel.
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17:15 Fsk: the demonstration is scattered between St.Pauli und Sternschanze, the police as well, which moved more forces into the area because of the confusing situation.
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17:06 between Ludwig-Erhardt-Straße and Millerntor a new demonstartion is formed, cars are demaged, traffic signs destroyed. one policeman drew a gun. people are on the way to Sternschanze.
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16:48 FSK reports that most of the people are moving towards Millerntorplatz now. Some incidents between police and smaller groups were reported from Ludwig-Erhardt-Straße. In direction harbour people are able to move freely.
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16:43 The demonstration is partly penned and it is hard to leave.
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16:34 The police provocates and tries to force people to leave the demonstration into a specific direction which is not possible (because of police lines)
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16:20 the organisers of the demo declared the end of it because of constant poliuce provocation. there was another smoke bomb and radio FSK reports that the demo is penned.
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16:02 demonstration is at Rödingsmarkt
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15:35 police briefly penned some people at the end of the demonstration. nobody arrested.
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15:30 Uhr the demonstration is split up into two parts. the front part is at the Baumwall allready while the other is at the Cap San Diego (a ship in Hamburg harbour).
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15:05 the demonstration moves on towards Rödingsmarkt.
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14:45 The demonstration arrives at Landungsbrücken (St.Pauli) and makes an interim stop for speaches.
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14:19 after a smoke bomb was thrown the demonstration is still in front of the squatted Hafenstrasse-buildings. seperate sources speak of 6000 people.
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14:13 the demonstration is in the Hafenstraße. Police walks in front and at the sides of it in 3-4 rows.
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14:02 one arrest is reported.
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13.53 police stops the demo again. radio reporter reports that some riot cops who followed the demo hit demonstrators.
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13:35 demonstration stops around Talstrasse. Police has water cannons placed at the end of Reeperbahn.
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13:10: the demonstration is about to start.
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13:05: so far around 4.000 protesters at the demonstration.
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12:55: demonstration hasn't started yet, mood is good, colorful protesters, speeches are being held.
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12:24: solicitors confirm that the people who got banned from the city centre after yesterday's Reclaim The Street Party can join the demonstration.
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Hamburg protest against ASEM and the G8
by tristan
Monday May 28th, 2007 12:01 PM
5,000 people march in Hamburg against the ASEM and G8
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Energy to protest the G8 (June 6-8 summit) grows with preparatory march in Hamburg. Today there was a large march Against the European Union economics ministers and Asian economics ministers from ASEM. Their summit is today and tomorrow.
The march gathered at 12:00 and police were all around. The march was permitted and had been organized by the Autonomen or radical "black block" style activists. There had been good work with other groups and thousands of other people came. When the route was all settled with police the march started. Sound vans made constant announcements and kept us informed about what was happening. They also played music to get us pumped up.
The march had 4,000-6,000 participants and there were up to 5,000 cops. So the odds were not good of getting away with much. The march was surrounded on all side by a wall at least two thick of riot police. Dozens of water cannon tanks and armored personnel carries with bulldozer blades stood by.
The march was led by a "black block" of over 1,000. In Germany it is illegal to cover your face but everyone dressed in black with hoods, hats and sunglasses.
Police controlled the rate of the march but the marchers jumped and ran for bits and had fun. Several times flares or fireworks were shot up. At one point police tried to squeeze the march and were resisted. They peppersprayed the crowd on a street called Peper-something. The march continued and was stopped by water cannons in the road several times but then went on again. There were also stops for speeches.
The organizers finally decided to end the march early as a protest of police tactics. There had been arrests and other harassment. The march began to disperse but cops blocked the street. People tried to break through then eventually sat in the street. Others left through spaces at the sides. Several more arrests were made.
Many people headed back to the Rota Flora social center. Eventually hundreds outside built barricades. Hundreds of cops came and this led to several hours of minor barricades and some thrown objects and cops blocking streets. The police blasted with their water cannon tanks. By 8:00 the situation was calm again it seems.
Indymedia timeline: http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/178833.shtml
mainstream German news with pictures: http://www1.ndr.de/nachrichten/asem/asembilder2_org-asemindex2.html
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/179084.shtml
Police Repression at ASEM Protest in Hamburg
imc-g8 29.05.2007 13:29 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm Globalisierung
At least 5,000 people gathered on the streets of Hamburg on Monday, 28 May, to protest against the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). There was a massive police presence (almost outnumbered protesters!) and the march was surrounded by thick riot police lines. The procession was repeatedly stopped and provoked by cops, while snatch squads and other units tried to penetrate the mass. Water cannons, pepper spray, kicks and punches were used repeatedly. So the organisers eventually decided to call the demonstration off and participants then dispersed in small groups. A large part of the demonstration, however, was 'kettled' by police while others were 'hunted down' as they headed back to the Rota Flora social centre. At least 86 people were arrested, some still detained.
Complete Timeline (de) | Reports: 1 | 2 | Pics: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Audio
Following mass mobilisation and a court appeal regarding the legality and route of the demo, anti-capitalist protesters from all over the world, on their way to the G8, stopped in Hamburg to protest against the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting, an inter-regional forum consisting of the European Commission and the 27 members of the EU and the 14 members of the ASEAN Plus Three regional grouping. The the so-called 'three pillars' of the ASEM are: political dialogue; security and economy; and education and culture.
The demonstration started around mid-day at Millerntorplatz , moved on along Reeperbahn, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hafenstraße, Baumwall to the Rödingsmarkt. Reports estimated that between 4 and 6 thousand people took part, with over 1,000 "black bloc" anarchists leading the march.
Following the High Court appeal against the police changing the route of the march, the registered route was partly approved. Yet, the demonstration was 'accompanied' by a large police cordon. The police presence was so large that cops almost outnumbered protesters.
The the procession was repeatedly stopped and provoked by police for no reason. Snatch squads and other units tried to penetrate the mass but were resisted by Black Bloc linking arms. Cops also used pepper spray, and later water cannons, to stop the march, as well as attacking people with kicks and punches. According to the Media G8way press group, a correspondent of free radio station Kombinat Hamburg was punched in the face. One demonstrator was told that the reason for the assault on him was because "he took a photo of a police officer." A few people were reportedly arrested while, in response, fireworks were shot several times.
Throughout the march, 'sound vans' made announcements to keep people informed about what was happening, while also playing enthusiastic music to 'pump up' protesters. There were also occasional stops for speeches.
Fed up with continuous provocation by cops and the altered route along empty streets, the demo organisers finally decided to end the march early as a "protest against police tactics". People began to disperse in small groups but police blocked the street. People tried to break through, then eventually sat in middle of the street. Others fled through gaps in the police 'kettle'. Several more arrests were made.
Many people headed back to the Rota Flora social centre. Eventually, hundreds built barricades outside. Hundreds of cops came too and this led to several hours of minor confrontation and some thrown objects and cops blocking streets. The police blasted with their water cannon tanks. By 8pm the situation was 'calm' again.
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