A BUNCH of skinny kids piled into a Melbourne magistrate's court last Thursday to be committed for trial for their roles in the G20 demonstrations 16 months ago. They don't live up to their advance publicity. "Hardcore" was the word politicians, police and press used about them at the time: thugs linked to organised crime, inspired and perhaps led by foreign activists.

The courts will decide if any of that's true, but at a glance these 13 don't look much of a match for a few well-built police. Most are university students in their early 20s. There's also a librarian, a painter, a performer, a professional abseiler and a mother of four - by far the oldest of the bunch - who is thinking of standing for the Maori Party back home in New Zealand.

After the violent eviction of the squatted Ungdomshuset [Youth House] in Copenhagen on 1st March 2007, many streets were barricaded and disorder spread throughout the city for several days. Solidarity demonstrations and direct action has taken place around the world since then, demanding a new Youth House. There were numerous arrests at the time.

Find all Ungdomshuset articles…

250 charges dropped and 26 acquited

from dk-imc, 17 March 2008:

Recently 26 demonstrators arrested on March 1st 2007 were acquitted in the City Court. Another 250 minor charges were also dropped en masse.

One of the most interesting court cases to emerge from March 1st 2007 was against 26 demonstrators and bystanders arrested during the big demo in the afternoon.

The 26 were charged with “aiding to commit violence against the police” simply for being present at the demo. The defense has continually argued that they did not have the option of leaving because police kept turning them back at the police blocks.

For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe -A concrete proposal for the resistance movement against the G8 2009 in Italy

• german: http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Maddalena_2009/4818.html
• italiano: http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm_2007_italiano/4821.html

Each protest enables us to draw conclusions of how to do things better next time. In the same way, we can draw conclusions from the mobilisation against the G8 summit 2007 in Heiligendamm on how to achieve successful and broad resistance. Apart from three large self-organised protest camps and an international infotour in the months leading up to the summit, there were attempts to have international exchanges and establish networks beyond Germany. The decision was made not to respond to the G8 climate debate but to frame the protests in terms of other self-determined topics the movement was focussing on: migration, antimilitarism and global agriculture.

Looking ahead to the G8 2009 in Italy, this text takes up these points to propose a campaign against the new “European Security Architecture“. We outline some developments in police cooperation on a European level and call for a kind of antirepression work that goes beyond a simple critique and a scandalising police violence, and that is coordinated on a European level. Such political antirepression work would have to take new forms of social control seriously as an integral reference point for radical movements.

In a time of International repression against activists all over the globe, we are calling out for letters of support and solidarity for anarchists arrested and facing severe repression after the G20 economic forum protests of November 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.

On the weekend of November 18 and 19, 2006, the G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The G20 meeting happens annually and is attended by finance ministers from 20 nations, including the USA, the European Union and China amongst others.

The G20 of 2006 was attended by Paul Wolfowitz, former World Bank leader and well known mastermind of the 'War on Terror', and the Energy and Minerals Business Council (comprised of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and other powerful mining and oil companies) which lobbied G20 delegates over a business lunch.

It was a meeting of neo-liberals pushing its economic/societal philosophy on the rest of the world, enriching its member nations at the expense of the rest of the world, and effecting global politics for the benefit of powerful corporations. Unsurprisingly, anarchists and anti-capitalists set out to disrupt the smooth-running of this meeting.

Following a period of relative and alleged calmness, during the last months three searches throughout Northern Germany and the entire country resp. based on § 129 a Criminal Law (constitution of a terrorist organisation) against left-wing activists and structures have taken place.

On May 9th 2007, 40 objects and in total 18 suspects and so-called “witnesses” were affected by a search wave in the context of mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. According to the federal prosecution, they are supposed to have constituted a terrorist organisation to the end of implementing a militant campaign against the G8 summit. Four weeks later, on June 13th, another search action based on §129a against persons from Bad Oldesloe, Hamburg and Berlin took place. The suspects are charged with participation in anti-militarist attacks. Finally, on July 31st four persons have been arrested in Berlin because of alleged membership in the “mg” (militant group). Merely one suspect’s warrant of arrest has at least temporarily been overruled, not least due to great public pressure. The remaining three persons are still in the clink, exposed to special conditions of custody.

• OUR SOLIDARITY AGAINST THEIR REPRESSION
• AGAINST CAPITALIST NORMALITY

Against a “Global Security Architecture”, for more security-critical behaviour!

In the recent months more information about the investigation methods of security forces has been revealed: data storage, online searches, so-called “textual analysis of political pamphlets“ (used in the paragrpah 129a investigations against anti-G8 activists in Germany) and so forth. Police and intelligence services want to attain unrestricted access to personal data and internet user profiles. Internet providers are now forced to save their data traffic long-term in order to relieve the police databases.

The debate around the introduction of biometrical passports has called into attention the fact that the industry has already developed complex surveillance systems: Iris-scanning, RFID chips (e.g. for supermarkets or on ID cards) or automatic facial recognition. In the context of border control “privileged travellers” are supposed to be able to cross borders “automatically”. The new “European Agency for the operative cooperation in the field of management of external borders” (FRONTEX) is in charge of assessing permanently the risks and dangers at the borders of the EU, and to provide more coordination and control. Technological armament is at the centre of the agency’s policies.

Walking through cities connected to world distribution networks, we shift from one imaginary to the next, from Monoprix™ to UGC™, from Friskies™ to the Guggenheim™ or Pinault™ foundations to MacDonald's™. Each time we activate fields of relational, communicational or sensational possibilities, equivalent and interchangeable. The commodity-possibilities© offered by world supermarket culture are born of desires and needs conjured up by advertising and the media. They can only be actualized with the money we have at our disposal, through our work and our credit at the bank. The richest has a good chance of being right, because he's got the cash for it. He can create his own commodity-possibilities©, and impose them on everyone else. An equation associating truth, money, technology and power takes form: it allows you to work on your own indoctrination, your own subjection. Foucault speaks of "regimes of truth" by which he means the self-tightening circle in which the subjection of individuals and the production of subjectifying truths reinforce one another.

Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.

A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.

Mit einer gerichtlich verfügten massiven Beschneidung des Demonstrationsrechts wollte der Londoner Flughafen Heathrow Proteste gegen die Erweiterung des Airports verhindern. Doch die Richter ließen die Betreiber abblitzen - britische Umweltschützer jubeln über das Eigentor.

London - Hätte die British Airports Authority (BAA) mit ihrem Anliegen Erfolg gehabt, es wäre wohl die größte Beschneidung des Demonstrationsrechts in der Geschichte Großbritanniens geworden. Vor Gericht wollte die Betreibergesellschaft des Londoner Flughafens Heathrow eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirken, die Umweltschützer massiv an geplanten Protesten gegen den Ausbau des Airports gehindert hätte: Die Polizei hätte demnach Aktivisten von 15 Gruppen schon allein dafür verhaften können, wenn sie sich per U-Bahn zum Protest auf den Weg nach Heathrow gemacht und sie dies nicht 24 Stunden zuvor angekündigt hätten.

Di 31.7. 16 Uhr Russische Botschaft Berlin, Unter den Linden 63-65

Trauer um Ilya Borodayenko

Am 20. Juli 2007 haben russische Neonazis ein Protestcamp von AtomkraftgegnerInnen in Angarsk in Sibirien überfallen. Mehrere AktivistInnen wurden schwer verletzt. Ilya Borodayenko, Anarchist, Antifaschist und Öko-Aktivist, starb am nächsten Tag im Krankenhaus an seinen schweren Verletzungen. FreundInnen, GenossInnen, AtomkraftgegnerInnen in Russland und auf der ganzen Welt trauern—wir haben einen von uns verloren, sinnlos ermordet von einer verbrecherischen Nazi-Bande. Wir werden ihn nicht vergessen. Wir werden seinen, unseren Kampf nicht aufgeben.

The network peoples global action is a global project inspired by zapatista insurrection and the new forms of internationalism developed in the 90s. But what does PGA mean?

From the 23th until the 25th of February 1998, movements from all around the world met in Geneva-Switzerland to discuss the idea of a network of resistance against the global market and the WTO. PGA is a network based on decentralisation and autonomy, a network without representatives, members or juridical personality.

The PGA network in europe has allready attempted and organised 4 meetings. Several hundreds of activists, exchanged experiences and prospects, organised campaigns and actions, reclaimed the daily communication via internet and physical meetings. These meetings took place in Milan (italy) 2001, in Laiden (the netherlands) 2002, in belgrade post yugoslavia 2004 and in southern france 2006 (the centralised meeting took place in Dijon).

21. Juli 2007

Im Morgengrauen des 21 Juli um fünf Uhr morgens wurde unser schlafendes Camp brutal angegriffen.

Einige Mistkerle traten unsere Zelte nieder, brannten einige nieder, stahlen Sachen, schlugen uns während wir schliefen mit Schlagstöcken, Hämmern, Keulen und Stuhlbeinen. Gleichzeitig beschimpften sie uns hasserfüllt als Antifaschisten..

Die erschreckende und wohlüberlegte Brutalität lässt keinen Zweifel daran dass es sich nicht um die Tat gewöhnliche Hooligans handelte, sondern eine wohlüberlegter Angriff von Nazis war.

Es ist notwendig hier festzustellen, dass dies während einer langen Zeit die Polizei vom Ort des Verbrechens abwesend war (mehr als eine halbe Stunde lang), dass sie in der Folge mehrfach versuchten die Existenz von Nazis in Angarsk zu leugnen, dass Vertreter der Polizei und der Staatsanwaltschaft Druck auf Teilnehmer des Camps ausübten nicht an die Öffentlichkeit zu gehen und jeglichen Kontakt zu Journalisten zu meiden.

On 21st of July dawn at 5 am our sleeping camp was brutally attacked. Some scumbags suddenly tumbled down our tents, burned down and stole our things, beat us sleeping in our tents with bats, hammers, cudgels, legs. The same time they were spitefully swearing at Antifa. The terrible and considered cruelty of their attack makes not doubt that it was not a work of some ordinary hooligans, but a thought over action of nazis. It is necessary to note a long (more than half an hour) absence of the police at a place of the crime, and the subsequent attempts of the police to deny an existence of nazi groupings in Angarsk, and pressing requests of the representatives of the police and the Office of Public Prosecutor to participants of the camp not to make a scandal and to avoid any communication with journalists.

From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at Gatwick Airport for the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and to gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of migration controls.

Gatwick Aiport - The Border Point

Gatwick is a border in the middle of Britain. People arrive here everyday. People are forcibly deported from here everyday. It is a place where people are imprisoned for unlimited lengths of time without trial, where people are forced to hide underground and be invisible, where people are treated as criminals for the 'crime' of crossing the border.

In Britain, the government has recently announced its intention to build a new detention centre, near Tinsley House, another detention centre at Gatwick airport. This will be another in a long line of barbarous prisons across the world, imprisoning people who migrate.

Unless we stop it from being built.

Near Heathrow Airport

Join together with thousands of people from across the country and take part in low-impact living, debates, practical workshops and mass direct action to tackle the root causes of climate change.

This year, the Camp for Climate Action will pitch its tents outside Heathrow, to highlight the lunacy of the government’s airport expansion plans, confront aviation companies profiteering from the climate crisis, and raise awareness of the need to fly less. The camp will also support local residents in their long-term struggle against the building of a third runway and the destruction of their communities.

Ein Aufruf aus den USA das Treffen von IWF und Weltbank im Oktober in Washington D.C. zum Platzen zu bringen

Aufruf zur Aktion: Setzen wir Würde, Autonomie und Solidarität gegen die Gier und die Macht der Konzerne

Sprengt das Treffen von IWF und Weltbank

Am 19.-21.Oktober in Washington D.C.

Das Elend, die Marginalisierung und Verarmung, die IWF und Weltbank Millionen von Menschen aufzwingt ist nicht hinnehmbar.

Der IWF und die Weltbank geben vor, den Kampf gegen die Armut zu führen, dabei macht sie ihre Rolle als Kredithaie, ihr brutales Durchsetzen von Privatisierung und Einsparungen im sozialen Sicherungssystem, ihre Freihandelspolitik, ihre Förderung ökologisch verheerender Projekte, ihre Geheimhaltung und ihr undemokratischer Entscheidungsprocess sie zum Feind der Menschen überall auf der Welt.

Heute sind diese beiden Institutionen in der Defensive. Venezuela, Bolivien und Equador stehen in offener Revolte gegen den IWF und die Weltbank. Die BewohnerInnen der Shantytowns in Südafrika kämpfen gegen die Privatisierung ihres Wassers, ArbeiterInnen in Korea streiken gegen “Freihandel”, tausende Menschen haben in diesem Jahr den G8 in der BRD erfolgreich blockiert.

Übersetzung eines Artikels von GenossInnen, die in Kanada weiterkämpfen

Vom G8 nach Atlantica, Widerstand ist global

Während der Demonstration gegen das Atlantica Econimic Forum kam es in Halifax, Kanada zu 21 Festnahmen. Hunderte konfrontierten Atlantica und hielten die Cops am Rennen. Frühere Berichte sprechen von 16 bestätigten Festnahmen.

Washington DC, October 19-21, 2007

The misery, marginalization, and impoverishment forced on millions by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank is unacceptable.

The IMF and World Bank claim to lead the fight against poverty but their role as global loan sharks; their cruel imposition of privatization, cuts to social services, and free trade policies; their funding for environmentally disastrous projects; their secrecy and undemocratic decision making processes, make them an enemy of the people worldwide.

21 arrested in Halifax, Canada, during demonstration against Atlantica economic conference. Hundreds Confront Atlantica, Keep Cops Running by IMC Friday, Jun. 15, 2007 at 10:56 AM

Early reports indicate 16 confirmed arrests

A noon-time march drew about 400 this afternoon starting from Victoria Park. Organized as the largest anti-Atlantica event this weekend, the march included a large, direct action contingent. Speakers at Parade Square emphasized the disastrous effects that the Atlantica International Region would have upon Atlantic Canada and New England. Speakers included Joseph Jardany from the Halifax/Dartmouth District Labour Council, Brendan from the Ecology Action Centre, the Halifax Raging Grannies, Mustafa from Block the Empire Montreal, and Halifax’s own political hip-hop catastrophe EMC and the Hermit.

Most bystanders or onlookers at the event that I spoke to either had no idea what Atlantica was, or had a hazy and distrustful understanding of the proposal.

The march departed at approximately 1:30, and slowly snaked down Spring Garden, with demonstrators chanting “A-I-M-S, that’s the way you spell distress”, “BMO, Irving Oil, How many unions will you spoil” and “Atlantica: Shut it down.” As the crowd arrived near Parade Square in downtown Halifax, the anti-capitalist contingent, numbering at least 100 split off and started to run towards the World Trade and Convention Centre, the site of the Atlantica conference. A green contingent remained in Parade Square for speeches. A few paint bombs were thrown at cops, as well as one smoke bomb, after which the Anti-Capitalist contingent/Black Block turned on their heels and headed down Argyle St, away from the loose line of police that had gathered in front of the WTCC. This snake march then headed towards the Spring Garden library, where police began pushing and grabbing protestors. I witnessed one arrest, and pepper spray made a brief appearance.

Food Not Bombs is a form of protest against militarism and nuclear energy, poverty and homelessness. Hundreds of FNB groups in the world give out food for free to the people in need. It is a direct action against the capitalist system of greed and profit. FNB groups share food on the street, at protests and during actions and thus help to reclaim everyday life by building autonomous anti-authoritarian structures of self-sustainability in our communities.