[Onthebarricades] Germany G8 Blockades 14 - international actions - Greece, Brazil, Chile, global
Andy
ldxar1 at tesco.net
Wed Jun 13 07:39:34 PDT 2007
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9539
Friday, June 08, 2007 at 12:19
Subject: /Greece-Crime/G8/
ROUNDUP: Arson attacks hit German firms in Greece as G8 heads meet
Athens (dpa) - Arsonists staged attacks on five sites in the northern Greek
port city of Thessaloniki Friday which police believe are linked to the
ongoing Group of Eight (G8) summit hosted by Germany.
Officials said the attacks, using home-made gas cannisters, had targeted the
Mercedes dealership in Thessaloniki, the entrance to the Lidl supermarket
chain, a German Miele store selling household appliances and a government
state employment office.
Unknown assailants also targeted the sales branches of Opel and
Mercedes-Benz in various parts of Athens, with seven cars parked in their
lots destroyed. A bus belonging to a German-Greek school was also set on
fire.
Officials said the attacks occurred within 10 minutes of each other, causing
serious damage to at least five vehicles. No injuries were reported.
Police said the perpetrators had lashed together several household gas
cylinders and set them ablaze.
Officials said no one had claimed responsibility for the attack, but they
believed they were carried out by leftist groups in solidarity with
thousands of protestors outside the G8 leaders' summit in Heiligendamn,
Germany.
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with riot police earlier Thursday.
Arson attacks on banks and government offices and diplomatic cars are often
carried out by anarchist groups in Athens and Greece's second largest city
Thessaloniki.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183475.shtml
Bombing attacks in Greece related to G8
Armitage 09.06.2007 13:40
Bombing attacks in Athens and Salonica mainly to delegations of German cars
Several -appeared to be coordinated- bombing attacks took place on Friday in
Athens and Salonica, with objectives mainly delegations of German cars.
At 1:05 and within ten minutes bombing attacks happened in delegations of
Opel and Mercedes and in a school bus that belongs in a Greek-German school.
Seven cars were damaged.
Police made interrogations of suspect after the attacks.
In Salonica, five bombing attacks happened at 01:00.
Damages were caused in ATM of supermarket Lidle, in a shop of the Miele
company, and in three cars of two Mercedes delegations.
In 03:00 fire broke out in a garage of a Toyota delegation.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183479.shtml
Athens, GR: 2 anarchists and friend arrested
imc athens 09.06.2007 13:57
Please circulate widely
On Tuesday 5th of June, two anarchists and a friend of theirs (all 20-22
years old) were arrested after trying to attack a car of the municipal
police in the neighborhood of Paleo Faliro in Athens. During their arrest,
all three were beaten up by the police to the point of collapse.
After being beaten further and tortured (mentally and physically) at the
Police Headquarters in Athens, the Attorney General order the pre-trial
detention of all three.
The condition of the girl is particularly serious and alarming since she is
now facing health problems; the vicious attack of the cops and their severe
beatings have caused her a nervous breakdown. At dawn she was transfered to
two different hospitals in Athens, where the doctors only offered her first
aid and refused to accept her for further treatment. The doctors treating
her currently (her personal doctor together with the police doctor) both
speak of a serious psychotic-related amnesia condition caused by extreme
stress during her arrest and detention. Despite this fact the girl is still
held at the Police headquarters while her lawyers are trying to get her to
another Athens hospital. Should this not happen, she will be transfered to
and held at the mental health hospital of the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Meanwhile, the two anarchists have already been transfered to prison.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183356.shtml
Solidarity action-Thessaloniki, Greece (AK)
Antiauthoritarian Movement - Thessaloniki 08.06.2007 21:18 Themen: G8
Heiligendamm
Solidarity action in 7-6-2007 by Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki
at the regional Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki.
Thursday afternoon, 7-6-2007, Thessaloniki.
Responding to the international call for solidarity, Antiauthoritarian
Movement (greek initials: A.K.) decided to go forth... So, we were present
at the local Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki.
With banner, leaflets, etc. explaining to the people passing by the
situation in Germany and the state repression during the anti-G8
mobilizations, we were there for some hours. We will continue our actions
depending on the situation in Germany.
Resistance - Solidarity - Dignity
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183437.shtml
Fire Against the G8 in Chile
translator 09.06.2007 05:04 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm
On June 7, 2007, at the University of Santiago (USACH) in Chile, 40 masked
rebels fought police, made barricades in the street and spray-painted
slogans against the G8 Summit. Rocks and Molotov firebombs were thrown at
police and leaflets were distributed to the people.
On June 7, 2007, at the University of Santiago (USACH) in Chile, 40 masked
rebels fought police, made barricades in the street and spray-painted
slogans against the G8 Summit. Rocks and Molotov firebombs were thrown at
police and leaflets were distributed to the people.
The pigs were late in arriving because they were busy evicting students from
occupied high schools.
Nobody was arrested at the University at the end of the day.
Article in Spanish:
http://www.hommodolars.cl/e107/news.php?extend.1475
Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antitezo/tags/antig8
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183911.shtml
Fire and Tear Gas in Chile in Relation to the G8 Summit
translator 11.06.2007 03:56 Themen: G8 Repression Weltweit
On Friday, June 8, 2007, outside the Juan Gomez Millas campus of the
University of Chile in Santiago, a group of 25 masked people expressed their
rage against the noxious summit of the G8 (as was done the day before at the
USACH campus), as well as the privatization of the university, the General
Law of Education (LGE in Spanish) and the Penal Responsibility Law.
Fire and Tear Gas in Chile in Relation to the G8 Summit
On Friday, June 8, 2007, outside the Juan Gomez Millas campus of the
University of Chile in Santiago, a group of 25 masked people expressed their
rage against the noxious summit of the G8 (as was done the day before at the
USACH campus), as well as the privatization of the university, the General
Law of Education (LGE in Spanish) and the Penal Responsibility Law.
The social combatants used diverse materials to make barricades in the
street and carried torches and Molotov firebombs. A guard presented a
problem by locking the entrance gate to the university grounds with chains,
but was rebuked and made to open the gate and abandon the area.
During the blockade, the combatants made vocal the motive of the action as
part of the struggle of the proletariat.
When the cops arrived, a battle ensued for an hour, as Molotovs rained down
on the pigs, who responded with poisonous gas. A fog of tear gas came to
envelop the whole sector, leading the masked group to withdraw with concern
for their companions at the university. The cops continued shooting tear gas
despite people at the university shouting that it was unnecessary. It got to
the point that the entire sector had to be evacuated, with people coughing
and vomiting. Even people at another university campus had to evacuate, and
residents were calling ambulances and the fire department.
Those responsible for maintaining order left without offering any
explanation. The pigs turned the area into a gas chamber.
Article in Spanish:
http://www.hommodolars.cl/e107/news.php?extend.1479
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183515.shtml
Brazilian activists against G8 and Police
Giuliani, C. 09.06.2007 15:46 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm Weltweit
More than 100 activists were arrested in a protest against G8 in Brazil
In last day 07 of June, Brazilian activists had faced the brutality of the
police in the streets of São Paulo. The protest anti-G8 finished with a
destroyed McDonalds and three banks.
The police used gas bombs and rubber bullets to exhaust the activists.
A journalist and other activists were beaten and dozens were caught and sent
to jail.
SPAMSTOPPER.viva_napster at hotmail.com
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183016.shtml
[G8-Brasil] Sao Paulo protest report
imc-brasil 08.06.2007 02:29 Themen: G8
Today, June 7th, a march was called at Paulista avenue in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Around 200 people met at MASP - art museum - and march towards the Central
Bank building.The police started to attack and disperse the march after a
few people started to break the windows of Mcdonald's and banks. Around 40
people were arrested and are still at the police station.This is the
translation of a report sent by a person who participate on the protest. The
report was sent right after the protest was over.
At 3pm today, around 200 protesters, majority punks, were at the MASP museum
free area to protest against the G8, which is having a meeting at Germany.
Behind a long line of middle class visitors of the MASP museum, a circle was
madded, three protestors, two of them dressed up as clowns, facilitated the
assembly. The two clowns said: - We are here for an action, protests don't
appear in the media.
Others with their faces covered remembered the confront with the police, at
that same place, on past mayday. The tension was growing, everybody could
see that were way more police than proteters, then two women from different
groups came out with a simular argument: - I am not here to fight with the
police and my goal isn't to appear on the mainstream media.
The idea was to decide right there what they would do. After a lot of
confusion and disorder during the creation of defense for proposals, people
came out that they would march till the Central Bank. One way of the
Paulista avenue was taken, with a mass of police officers following it, some
on motorcycles tried to liberate a line on the avenue, they were able to do
it, but only for 5 minutes, the people took back all the road.
The lack of a minimal organization really madded it bad for the protest, the
march passed by the Central Bank and didn't stopped, the people who were in
the middle started to call the people from the front to come back, but in
this going and comming, people ended up marching forward.
Everybody knew how that would end up
When we passed by a Mc Donald's...guess? You right!One of the punks dressed
up as clowns in a very calm way (and I am not being ironic) broke two
windows. Then it was the happiness for the cops, they came with bombs of gas
and 'moral effect' [1].
The protesters dispersed, one part went forward through Paulista, the other
entered a mall Center 3, and the rest was devided to the lef and right side
of Augusta street. The ones who keep on going on Paulista, broke the windows
of Santander bank and almost all Sudameris bank, then later they started to
dance between the tear gas and the rubber bullets, which looked like a
mirage, you couldn't believe it, the guys dancing in a rain of rubber
bullets, I could only see that it was for real when one of them failed on
the ground.
The group who entered Center 3, together with the tear gas smoke, mixed
themselves with the customers, the police entered the mall... After every
thing was calm down, there were a lot of people mad with the police
violence.
It was unusual, to see the white middle class protesting against the police
violence, which started to grown more when the mainstream media arrived.
This one, basically, choose to interview them. A doctor who were helping the
people who were hurt, and an old man saying that the police was very brutal,
and a young guy who was saying that the police arrested people who were not
involved with the protest (the problem is that the punk style is the fashion
nowadays!).
A lot of people were arrested, more than 20 for sure, the majority are at
the 4 DP (police station), at Consolacao ave., and it looks like that the
rest are at the 76 DP, at the Jardins.
I met some punks at the bus stop and I could see what the rubber bullets can
do, they would exhibit their wounds, and they were not regretted, is part of
the life of a punk kid from the periferia.[2]
[1] What bombs of efeito moral does is to make a lot of noise and throw
little pieces of itself around while it explodes. Many of this bombs have
caused serious wound on people, who had to suffer operations and some
causing injuries for the rest of their life's.
[2] Poor neighborhoods around the city of Sao Paulo.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183024.shtml
[G8-Brasil] Torture at the jail in SP
posted by PM2 at IMC-Brasil site 08.06.2007 03:38 Themen: G8 G8 Heiligendamm
Repression Weltweit
Article translated from IMC-Brasil web site.
G8 Paulista: tortura na 4a DP
Sets of ten of protesters against the G8 who were at the Av.Paulista during
the latter afternoon today, are now arrested at the 4a Police Department of
Sao Paulo, Marques de Paranagua st, crossing the Augusta st, being tortured
and forced to sign notes that with fake information to blame them for what
is in there, on those notes they are even presenting 'white weapons'[1] as
if they belong to the protesters.
Many people have been released with serious wounds and bleeding a lot with
their self stem down not wanting to talk about the tortured they suffered.
Not all the media can have access to the place, being forced to be outside
of the police station.
During the act, the protesters heard the radio of a police officer where
they were receiving orders to take their identification (from their
uniforms) off so they could abuse and commit this atrocities. The protesters
are inside the police station still having their testimony being taken by
the cops.
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/06/384935.shtml
GLOBAL INDYMEDIA REPORT
Changing the game...global action against G8
one of the many 08.Jun.2007 14:22
Thursday 7th of June saw a series of solidarity protests and actions around
the planet to protest the unjust and unsustainable actions of the
illigitamite and unwanted body that call themselves the G8. Remember, we are
everywhere, thats where our power is. Our world is not for sale, its time to
think local, act global while also thinking global while acting local. Time
to change the way we play this game.....
Some actions were small, some large, some with only a minimal of impact.
While others, in particular Sao Paulo in Brazil, with serious property
damage, police repression and torture in police custody. Others acted with
the setting up of infopoints for live transmission of g8-tv and imc-radio
direct to their local communities in attempt to build local resistance that
might lead to further action for the G8. This year, you could say, there was
only a handful of global actions, but what if this trend were to
grow....making it evermore difficult to maintain the present hold of the G8.
June 7th, day of global action against G8 : international actions
anti g8 actions from around the planet.
--------------------Indy-Fundamentalism: Its Root Causes
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182406.shtml
--------------------Brasil -
Sao Paulo
[G8-Brasil] Sao Paulo protest report
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183016.shtml
[G8-Brasil] Torture at the jail in SP
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183024.shtml
Mais de cem ativistas anti-G8 são presos em São Paulo (images)
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/06/384981.shtml
Protesto Anti G8 São Paulo
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/06/384941.shtml
Fotos da repressão no protesto anti-G8 na avenida Paulista
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/06/384931.shtml
[SP] [G8] Protesto de punks termina em confronto com a PM na avenida
Paulista
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/06/384899.shtml
Porto Alegre
[Porto Alegre - G8] Manifestantes se reunem contra as multinacionais e o G8
Porto Against the G8
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/181846.shtml
http://sardera.blogspot.com/2007/06/o-porto-contra-o-g8-rua-de-sta_05.html
--------------------Costa Rica
Anti-G8 Aktion auch in Costa Rica
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182915.shtml
--------------------Ecuador
Día de acción global contra el G 8 en Ecuador
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183039.shtml
--------------------Austria
Anti-G8 Solidemo in Wien
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182849.shtml
--------------------Denmark
Dänemark: "Smash G8- Fight capitalism and imperialism!"
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182798.shtml
http://indymedia.dk/article/1230
http://indymedia.dk/article/1227
G8 Protest in Copenhagen
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182521.shtml
http://www.modkraft.dk/spip.php?page=nyheder-artikel&id_article=5694
--------------------Catalunya / Spain
Barcelona: manifestación contra g8
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183131.shtml
--------------------Nederlands
sabotage action against the g8, amsterdam
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182981.shtml
--------------------Australia
Melbourne
G8 solidarity speakout at GPO
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/06/146258.php
--------------------Portugal
Porto
Porto Ahainst the G8
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372667.html
http://sardera.blogspot.com/2007/06/o-porto-contra-o-g8-rua-de-sta_05.html
--------------------Germany
Bremen
Soli-Demo in Bremen am Mi., 06.06.07
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183117.shtml
Wiesbaden
Protest in Wiesbaden
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183119.shtml
G8-Demo in Reutlingen
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183018.shtml
Heiligendamm in Köln
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183003.shtml
G8-Soli-Demo auch in Oldenburg
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182912.shtml
Anti-Kapitalismus Demonstration in Oldenburg.
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182810.shtml
Demo gegen G8 und Polizeigewalt in Darmstadt
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182866.shtml
Anti-G8 Demo in Darmstadt
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182669.shtml
Blockade zu den G8 - Protesten in Plauen
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182852.shtml
spontane aktion gegen g8 in detmold
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182778.shtml
Spontandemo in Leipzig
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182691.shtml
--------------------G8 Heiligendamm
Pics + Video of blockades, street rave, thurs
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183121.shtml
Postings on indymedia uk (pics and vid) from thursday 7th july:
Street Rave at East Gate G8 Blockade - thursday night
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372979.html
G8 West Gate Blockade, Thursday 7th
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372960.html
Heading for the blockade of the west gate
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372877.html
The blockade of the West Gate
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372897.html
Barricade Blockades West Gate Area - thursday
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372949.html
VIDEO Rush - March to Road Blockades
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372920.html
Barricading G8
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372911.html
G8 East Gate Blockade in place 24hrs and counting...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372855.html
G8 West Gate Blockaded - thurs 7th june
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372850.html
Top 3 favourite hobbys of German riot Police
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372868.html
for update of vids, photos, articles see constantly upgraded link:
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/181679.shtml#berichte
------------------------------------------communication space and actions
call for global infopoint network
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/179483.shtml
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/G8-2007-GerMany
--------------------Mali
Sikasso
Contre Sommet au G8 Sikasso 2007
http://forumdespeuples.org/
http://malitchikan.org/spip.php?rubrique10
--------------------England
London
G8 INFO WEEK AT RAMPART, JUNE 2007
http://rampart.xploiting.org/wiki/doku.php/g8infospace
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371926.html
--------------------Austria
Vienna
g8 infopoint Vienna
http://raw.at/texte/sonstiges/g8infozentrum.htm
--------------------Catalunya / Spain
Mataro
Mataro Contra G8
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/MataroContraG8
--------------------Germany
Berlin
Convergence Space Berlin
http://csb.nostate.net/
Pictures and Russian article on St Petersburg and Moscow solidarity
protests:
http://piter.indymedia.ru/node/2851
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16718/index.php
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183442.shtml
Anti-G8 solidarity action in Seoul, Korea
Seoul Radical Language Exchange 09.06.2007 08:44 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm
Weltweit
Activists in Seoul, South Korea carried out a creative action in solidarity
with anti-G8 protests in Germany.
On June 6th, the first day of massive blockades of the meeting in
Heiligendamm, Germany, a roaming anti-G8 bike tour cruised through Seoul
flying anti-G8 flags.
The group joined up with others at a busy downtown intersection, to hand out
flyers and talk about the G8 to people walking by. Passersby stopped to
watch when a bunch of evil-looking masked men in suits-- the G8 leaders--
sung a song promising to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Then
small farmers, immigrants and other assorted good guys took on the G8
leaders in a short but dramatic "professional wrestling" match. The G8
leaders played dirty but it wasn't enough. They were of course thoroughly
beaten, just like in Germany...
more photos at: http://blog.jinbo.net/seoulidarity/?pid=20
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183451.shtml
Solidarity anti-G8 action in Kiew (Ukraine)
kariandr 09.06.2007 10:56 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm
Yesterday action against G8 took a place in Kiew
8th of june from 13-00 till 14-30 group of anarchists (No border initiative,
World is not for sale and MAFIA (Carroteating Autonomus federative
initiative)), leftwing activists (New leltists(Basta, Left initiative)),
antifascists carried on an solidarity action against G8 summit and
repressions in Germany. About 50 people took part in march. There were black
and red flags, many banners and posters: I :( G8, power of g8 is not
authority for the world, No privatisation of life, No borders and other.
We started with picket near Ministry of foreign affairs. We talked in
megaphone about politics of G8, about protests in Germany, repressions
against activists. One could heard slogans: No G8, G8 is illegal, there are
only 8 of them and millions of us, G8 is against us - we are against G8, and
other against G8 and capitalism.
We spreaded 2 kinds of leaflets: made by leftists and anarchists.
Many journalists were presented.
Then we moved by one busy center street to German embassy. On the way we
shouted slogans and spreaded leaflets. People reacted different, mostly
ignoring.
Near German embassy we reminded about brutal attacks and repressions in
Germany now. And swished Gute nacht G8.
Photos: http://news.zaraz.org/?n=705
In struggle!
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183424.shtml
Solidarity action in Moscow
y 09.06.2007 02:22 Themen: G8 G8 Heiligendamm Weltweit
Blockade of the German embassy in Moscow
On the 8th of June the German embassy in Moscow was blocked with lock-ons by
the group of anarchists. This action was against illegitim and inhuman G8
and against repression of German police towards protesters. Activists
managed to block the building more than an hour. Then they were surrounded
by police and brutally arrested.
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16718/index.php
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183381.shtml
Milwaukee solidarity actions against the G8
some milwaukee anarchists 08.06.2007 23:52 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm Weltweit
This morning several banners were dropped in the Milwaukee (usa) area
expressing solidarity with those protesting against the G8 meeting in
Germany this week. The policies of the G8 have a global effect and
resistance to the G8 and solidarity with its opponents should therefore also
be undertaken globally. While these actions may have no direct impact on the
meetings themselves, we hope they offer some comfort to those on the front
lines or in jail cells by letting them know they are not alone.
The banners read:
"Can't stop kaos
Fuck the G8"
and
"Solidarty[sic] with Anti-G8 Prisoners"
The first one speaks to the threat of uncontrollables to the established
order, especially during their organized conferences. The threat of
widespread disorder by those getting fucked by the system forces the state
to be on the defensive and allows it's enemies numerous opportunities for
resistance and revenge. By acting out militantly against the established
order, they can seriously disrupt the function of these meetings, both in
the media and in the closed-door sessions.
The second speaks for itself- we offer nothing but support for those
arrested in the struggle against the G8 and hope they will soon be free once
more. The state has made a significant effort to crush dissent surrounding
this G8 meeting, but their efforts thus far have failed. The anger of the
oppressed is stronger than their concrete walls.
We will continue to act in solidarity with those in Germany, and throughout
the world, who fight with their all against this social order, as well as
bring our own attacks to bear upon it.
-the uncontrolables
link to pictures:
http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/207564.shtml
This morning 4 banners were dropped and hung around the Milwaukee area with
messages reading:
"NO G8"
"END Capitalism END the G8"
"Against Capitalist war, Against Capitalist Peace"
"solidarity with anti-g8 prisoners" (was found and rehung further down the
street from where it was torn town)
We are an ungovernable force when we employ tactics that in their
decentralized and autonomous nature allow for easy replication and
modification (against the formation of experts in struggle and for
generalized revolt) for the mass of oppressed and exploited to act as they
see fit in circumstances of the least risk for themselves and most damage to
capital.
There are many cops, hit-men for the state, who professionalize the misery
of others and there are those who have internalized the master's values as
well as many varied means of surveillance to encourage the oppressed's heads
to stay firmly nuzzled beneath the state's boot. They wouldn't be on every
corner, with worried eyes fearing that even the most minute questioning and
the smallest of actions taken without their knowledge and approval will lead
to the destruction of it all.
Another cop exists within our heads, one which allows for revolt to exist
merely in concept, in image, in representation, as lifestyle, as commodity,
somewhere else (germany), but not here. Not where it matters most, in our
own lives. Is it really a minority of armed thugs with threats of violence
enforcing capitals rules that keeps this rotten world from falling apart or
this submission to authority and distance between our desires and their
fruition? The secret is to really begin. The time for waiting and empty
words is over.
We long for burning cities to call our own!
With love and solidarity for those fighting the G8 here and in Germany
With rage and plans in store for the G8 and the social order
-some more milwaukee anarchists
link to more pictures:
http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/207580.shtml
and statement made by milwaukee anarchists:
http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/207554.shtml
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183798.shtml
G8 Solidarity Event in San Francisco, USA
reZz 10.06.2007 17:06 Themen: G8 G8 Heiligendamm
On Fiday, June 8th, supporters of the protesters against the G8 meetings in
Heiligendamm and people concerned about climate change came to gether for a
heavily policed bike ride around the city, singing "We all live in a fascist
state, Fuck the G8!"
On Fiday, June 8th, supporters of the protesters against the G8 meetings in
Heiligendamm and people concerned about climate change came to gether for a
heavily policed bike ride around the city, singing "We all live in a fascist
state, Fuck the G8!"
"Direct Aciton for Climate Justice -," read one flier, "Resistance is Self
Defence!"
SPAMSTOPP.rezrezrez at fastmail.fm
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/183640.shtml
San Francisco Rides Against the G8
Bay Risinig affinity group & w at ldo pickett 10.06.2007 01:39 Themen: G8
Heiligendamm
(123K)
June 8, 2007. In solidarity with tens of thousands of activists in Germany
confronbting the repressive power of the state at the meeting of G8
governments, environmental and global justice activists in San Francisco
gather to ride through the streets demanding an end to the G8's ravaging of
the planet, and calling for political, social, and economic justice for all
people.
>From a member of Bay Rising Affinity Group
Painted yellow flags flapping in the evening sun read "V8, not G8," "No G8,
No Climate Change," "Climate Justice," "Rising Tide," "Bay Rising; Not
Capitalism, Not Rising Bay," and Flood the Streets Before the Ocean Does."
The resurgent European global justice and anti-capitalist movements
successfull battle with the G8 were being celebrated in San Francisco along
with other cities across the planet.
Towards a hundred bicyclist participated through the evening's solidarity
anti-G8 and anti-climate change ride in a winding ride through the street
and neighborhoods of San Francisco. Rising Tide, a radical international
anti-climate change network, had called for a day of action, and cites
around the US and the planet responded.
The local Bay Rising Affinity Group call read in part:
"Use pedal power to challenge oil addiction, to show solidarity with anti-G8
mass mobilizations in Germany and resist the polluting economic and
political system of the G8. This global system is at the root of our
ecological and social problems; climate chaos, lack of heath care, housing
and education, war and empire, more prisons, the rich getting richer, low
wages and lousy jobs, pollution, and attacks on immigrant, worker and civil
rights. As the megalomaniac G8 leaders meet in police-state Germany, behind
fences, cops and soldiers, intent on leading us further towards catastrophic
and irreversible climate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar 'no more'."
Occasional chants of "fight warming, not wars," Fuck the G8" and "we all
live in a police state" to the tune of the Beatles "yellow submarine" as a
heavy presence of police in cars, on bikes and on motorcycles, Highway
Patrol and Sheriffs following the ride, harassing a few band a motorcade of
block away for much of the ride. People ignored their provocations as the
mobile pedal powered festival snaked through the city. Neighbors and
tourists stopped watched, took photos or waved.
Leaflets were passed out. City busses honked support. We ended the ride with
a bike drawn soundsystem at at Dolores Park, the heart of the city and
across the street from the house where Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
contributed to "The Blast" newspaper on the verge of the worldwide
revolutions of the early 1900's.
At the beginning of the ride Bay Area anti-capitalist activists calling from
Germany described the mass blockades of all roads leading to the G8 with ten
of thousands with bikes playing a key role. Their short sentences over a
cell phone were repeated, yelled out to the assembled bike mass.
A widely circulated letter from the same activist reported on the massive G8
blockades:
Because today's planned march to the fence had been banned, blockading
the gates had been taken up again. Five hundred campers stayed at Gate
1 last night and 1200 at Gate 2. In the early morning hours,
thousands returned to the gates from the nearby camps. It's a two-hour
walk in the hot sun with limited water supplies.
We head over to Gate I on the west side of the fence surrounding Bad
Heiligendamm. Again, we bike over gentle hills, passing through wheat
fields and by farmhouses with thatched or red-orange brick tile roofs.
The towns en route - Reddelich and Steffenshagen - are home to 300
residents each. The entire way there consists of narrow country roads,
often made of cobbled stones.
Arriving at the blockade, we see a young woman being pulled through
the police lines by three cops. She has just been pepper-sprayed and
is screaming in agony and cannot stand. The police drag her over to a
nearby tree, where two medics dowse her face with water and a few
photojournalists lean in for a close up. Three, no four, green water
cannons target the crowd with highly pressurized water that emits a
low mechanical hum as it is released from the turrets. In front of the
behemoth cannons, lines of cops. Methodically, the cannons and cops
push everyone back. Spray. Push. Pause. Spray. Push. Pause. Slowly,
the police retake the hill and the road leading to the gate, which
yesterday the blockaders had occupied.
Then comes a police announcement: "Gatherings of more than two are not
allowed in Zone 2. This is an order to disperse." Numbers begin to
dwindle seriously. Should we stay or should we go? To the left, among
a cluster of trees, two squads of heavily protected police await
orders. To the right, more cops and eight mounted police horses at the
edge of the meadow. It looks as though they're surrounding us.
Water cannons again douse the crowd. People run. They wind up in the
field shivering uncontrollably, their teeth chattering loudly.
Affinity groups organize as medics quickly arrive and provide blankets
for warmth. A man stumbles past with a terrible gash on his head. A
friend tends to him.
"The battle is lost. The battle is lost," says a hippy in a tie-dye
looking up the hill toward the towering vehicles. Streams of people
flow through the fields away from the fence.
The violence has been heavy at Gate 1. Yesterday, police attacked
blockaders with clubs and pepper spray. Today, it is with water
cannons. "It was less violent today than yesterday," says a young
German woman. A protest medic sums up the day's casualties: a broken
arm, one broken shin, many concussions and broken eardrums, and
someone who lost an eye.
But as hundreds retreat, the hardcore make barricades, some five feet
high and six feet long, of logs and brush along the road leading to
the gate. A small cadre of black-blockers and some militant clowns are
making a stand. Had the past two days emphasis on non-escalation
reached its conclusion, or was this a tactic meant only to delay the
advancing cops? Before a coherent picture can emerge, squads of cops
move in, re-take the road, and dismantle the barriers. We retreat
farther back.
As we walk our bikes, we come across the woman who had been
pepper-sprayed earlier. She's putting her shoes on over a pair of
mismatched socks. Her knee is heavily bandaged and her face is red
from the burning. As she hops up to join the line of blockaders taking
up a new position down the road, she says: "Its important to give
everything you can." Undoubtedly, she'll be back tomorrow, at the
gates, like the thousands of others heading returning to the camps to get
some sleep, water, and food before coming back for another day of
blockading.
Blockade Photos/Video:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372723.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372740.html
http://g8-tv.org/index.php?play_id=1729&clipId=1734
SPAMFREI.buph at igc.org
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182981.shtml
sabotage action against the g8, amsterdam
automat 08.06.2007 00:54
on the 07.06.2007 11 cash mashines in the innercity of amsterdam got put out
of order. also stickers were put on the sabotaged cash mashines, which read:
OUT OF ORDER!
THE G8 IS REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
MAYBE YOU DON'T GET ANY THIS TIME.
on the 07.06.2007 11 cash machines in the inner city of Amsterdam got put
out of order.
also stickers were put on the sabotaged cash machines, which read:
"OUT OF ORDER!
THE G8 IS REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
MAYBE YOU DON'T GET ANY THIS TIME."
the economic sabotage was a direct action to disturb the daily money flow
and also to highlight the economic and political powers of the g8 coalition.
who are currently meeting in Heiligendam, Germany.
On this summit the 8 most powerful nations of the world come together to
"distribute" the wealth of the world. because the G8 are the most powerful
countries it is in their interest to perpetuate the poverty of the "3 world"
in order to maintain and expand the wealth an property of a small elite.
therefor the only conclusion for this coalition and all states would be to
abolish themselves and end their tyranny in form of economic globalisation.
clearly that is not in their interest, people will have to do this
themselves.
SMASH THE G8
SMASH THE STATE
SOLIDARITY WITH THE STONE THROWERS IN GERMANY
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL ACTIVIST AGAINST THE G8
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/182521.shtml
G8 Protest in Copenhagen
Copenhagener 07.06.2007 09:36 Themen: G8 Heiligendamm
On wednesday June 6, 500 G8-protesters gathered in Copenhagen.
On wednesday, 500 protesters gathered in Copenhagen against the G8 and in
solidarity with the succesful blockades and actions in Heiligendamm.
The demo payed visits to the embassies of the G8 member states.
At the US embassy, a minor confrontation with the police resulted in one
arrested activist.
The protest at the german embassy included solidarity manifestations with
the eviction threatened social centre Køpi in Berlin.
More info (Danish) and pictures on Modkraft.dk
http://www.modkraft.dk/spip.php?page=nyheder-artikel&id_article=5694
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/181846.shtml
G8 solidarity speakout at GPO
by pc Friday June 08, 2007 at 11:21 PM
It was very small, and the police horses had nothing for their trouble, but
at least the voice of protest was heard ...
click to enlarge
speaker1.jpg, image/jpeg, 600x450
There had been talk of a 'scumbag tour' which is presumably why the police
were out in numbers - anything with 'G' in front of it seems to sound alarm
bells. Other commitments, and possibly the weather, kept some away, and
instead of the tour there was a speakout, to which various activists
contributed, including two on behalf of Indigenous peoples both here and
around the globe.(Next week will see Senior-Sergeant Chris Hurley in court
over the death of Mulrunji on Palm Island in 2004 - see
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=653) Leaflets relating to
the upcoming APEC meeting in Sydney in September and the court appearance of
G20 arrestees in Melbourne on August 31 were handed out.
Contacts:
The Anti-APEC Network - phone 0401 331 850, 0402 754 818
The G20 arrestees solidarity network - http://www.afterg20.org/
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/181846.shtml
Porto Against the G8
Milé Sardera 06.06.2007 01:12 Themen: G8 G8 Heiligendamm
Report of action in Porto (Portugal), June 2nd - Saturday morning
As we are so far away from Rostock some of us thought that the best way to
show solidarity to our brothers fighting for a better world in the streets
of Germany was to tell people of Porto (Portugal) what the G8 is all about
and what are those peolple doing in the streets so that they can think a
while once they get home and watch the TV reducing the protests to a bunch
of violent thugs.
So - on the 2nd of June, in the morning - we set up a structure in the
busiest street of the city (Sta. Catarina Street), where we explained: "When
you see - on the TV - protester fighting against the police, you'll know
that the protesters are fighting against this world built by the will of the
rich. And you won't forget that it's that same world that the police so
strongly protect"
Pictures
http://sardera.blogspot.com/2007/06/o-porto-contra-o-g8-rua-de-sta_05.html
In the pictures, you'll see
- A Mc Poster saying "2006: 700 billions dollars spent in weapons. 346
billions would be enough to end world poverty. When you see - on the TV -
protester fighting against the police, think about what are the first ones
fighting against and who are the second ones protecting"
- A Mc Flyer, begining with this same question and ending with the answer
shown above (When you see - on the TV - protester fighting against the
police, you'll know that the protesters are fighting against this world
build by the will of the rich. And you won't forget that it's that same
world that the police so strongly protect)
- Pictures of the actual action
http://sardera.blogspot.com
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