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Gedrucktes zum G8 2007
Roundtable on g8 Resistance: Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings (Interventions # 1, first appeared in Issue 6 of Upping the Anti: a Journal of Theory and Action)
“Chef, es sind zu viele” (Block G8, Mai 2008)
Dazwischen gehen – Texte zur Offenen Arbeitskonferenz
der Interventionistischen Linken (ak-Redaktion April 2008)
Gewaltbereite Politik und der G8-Gipfel (Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, Dezember 2007)
Feindbild Demonstrant (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein | Legal Team, Dezember 2007)
Move into the light? Postscript to a turbulent 2007 (Turbulence, Dezember 2007)
resistance inside – Einblicke in das Innenleben einer Mobilisierung 2.0 (R.O.S.A., November 2007)
Dokumentation zu Migration und G8 (G8-Büro im Hessischen Flüchtlingsrat, Oktober 2007)
Join the winning side – Nachbetrachtung des Antifa-KOK Düsseldorf (Juni 2007)
Turbulence: What would it mean to win? (Juni 2007)
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Antikapitalismus für alle! (Mai 2007)
Guide to Resistance (Spontane Redaktionsgruppe, Mai 2007)
Guide to Protest (Hannover Kreis, Mai 2007)
Fußnote #4 (SOBI Rostock, Mai 2007)
Was ist G8? Eine kritische Betrachtung (SOBI Rostock, Mai 2007)
Make G8 History! (AG Globale Soziale Rechte, April 2007)
Stimmen von Anarchistinnen & Anarchisten zu den G8 (April 2007)
solidarität (Mai 2007)
alaska Sondernummer (März 2007)
protest. widerstand. perspektive. (April 2007)
PAULAs Manifest (März 2007)
“G8: Die Deutung der Welt. Kritik. Protest. Widerstand” (arranca! Nr. 36, April 2007)
“Göttinger Gipfelzeitung” zum G8-Gipfel im Juni 2007 in Heiligendamm (April 2007)
“Rostocker Stadtgespräche” Nr. 46/47 (April 2007)
“11. Ausgabe des Antiberliner” zum G8 Gipfel sowie dem Protest dagegen (April 2007)
“Autonomes G8-Info” (Hamburg, April/ Mai 2007)
“Junirevolte” – Zeitung gegen den G8-Gipfel (solid, März 2007)
Informationen und Positionen gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 (Kieler Netzwerk gegen den G8-Gipfel, März 2007)
“Make capitalism history!” Positionen und Informationen zum G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm (Avanti, März 2007)
“Widerstand ist fruchtbar. Analysen und Perspektiven für eine nicht-kapitalistische Landwirtschaft” (Aktionsnetzwerk globale Landwirtschaft, März 2007)
“Globalisierung und Krieg” (Informationsstelle Militarisierung/ attac, Anfang 2007)
“Politischer Reiseführer MV” (pdf, Januar 2007, 14 MB)
“dissent! Broschüre” mit (fast) allen Texten rund um die Mobilisierung (92 Seiten, pdf, August 2006)
Reader zu G8 2007 von badespasz (Herbst 2006)
attac Inforeader (2006)
“Inforeader Globalisierung”, Grüne Jugend Bundesvorstand
Thousands challenge G8 and march for peace
[Media G8way]
Press release July 5th
- 3 anti-g8 protesters, Reuters journalist arrested today in Japan
On the eve of the 2008 G8 Summit, thousands took to the streets of Sapporo, Japan, today to call for an end to the undemocratic policy-making and wars of G8 member states. The protest, which was a coalition effort of NGOs, trade unions, leftist organizations, anti-authoritarian organizers, and independent activists, culminated in the arrest of three protesters and a Reuters photographer.
“The rally today illustrated both the powerful global justice movement underway in Japan and worldwide, and the police repression that grassroots activists face,” said David Solnit, a US activist. "People are realizing that the G8 claims to be a force against hunger, poverty, and climate change, yet with each meeting, they only institute policies that perpetuate these things – “aid” packages that trap poor countries into debt, fossil fuel-based energy systems that create climate change, and war."
Protesters marched through the streets weilding signs, banners, and giant puppets, as a moving sound truck played music for the crowd. Many wore costumes or brought their own instruments to play as they marched. Police presence was strong, with two rows of riot police lining both sides of the demonstration route and attempting to force the procession into one lane of traffic. Some protesters resisted the strict police control by moving into another lane of traffic.
At one point in the march, police unexpectedly surrounded the sound truck and arrested its driver and DJ, as well as a Reuters journalist standing nearby.
“I saw the police arresting the Reuters guy. Three of the police were restraining him, then they violently took his camera,” said Marina Sitrin, a US lawyer and member of the National Lawyers Guild, an international human rights organization. “The police were using extreme intimidation to prevent people from demonstrating for democracy and human rights,” she added.
John Owens, a UK activist, said, “I saw the police smashing one of the windows of the sound truck. They pulled the driver out violently, even though he didn`t do anything.”
Photojournalist Brandan Jourdan, 29, who filmed the arrests, added, “They pulled the driver out in a headlock, but his foot got caught in the steering wheel. He was obviously in pain.”
Today`s demonstration will be followed by three days of anti-G8 protests in Lake Toya, where the Summit will be taking place.