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Lieselotte Meyer Film Productions proudly presents

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G8 2007 Heiligendamn & The German Repression

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In June 2007 representatives of the G8 states meet in the small spa Heiligendamm

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In the sparsely populated area there is already half a year before a fence erected - 

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8.2 ft high and 8 miles long - which cordons the area of the meeting.

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Anyone who wants to enter the red zone even months prior will be stopped at two checkpoints.

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For the time of the G8 Summit there are expected to come 10-20.000 governement employes and journalists 

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- and a five-figured number of counter-demonstrators

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There a plans for a counter-summit, big demonstrations, mass blockades 

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and most likely decentralized actions also.

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Chapter One: Entry

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During the time of the G8 Summit the Schengen Agreement, 

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which regulates the open borders inside the EU, will most likely be suspended.

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In case of a relevant mobilisation border controls are to be anticipated.

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In the past entry has not only been denied to individuals, 

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but to entire busloads as well.

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If you arrive by car, make sure to have a first aid box and breakdown triangle on hand 

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- and maybe leave the jerry can at home.

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Chapter Two: To take with you

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If you go to a demonstration, you should be fit and as well rested as possible.

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Write the number of the legal team on your skin, so they can't take it away.

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You should take along the following:

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Your I.D., money for public transportation and pay phones

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Food and Drink in a plastic bottle, preferably water, 

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so that you can use it to rinse out your eyes if needed.

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Medicaments and Tampons for 3 days, paper and pencil, 

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dressing material, spectacle case and a detailed map of the area.

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Consider how you are dressing - practical and in such a way that you can run fast, 

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inconspiciously and maybe with a colourful T-Shirt and a cap to change.

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A rain coat is helpful against water canons.

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Bear in mind, that the police might associate black clothes with disposition to violence.

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Better leave dogs and bycicles at home 

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and think on which actions you want to take your small children.

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If you take your mobile, bear in mind to erase the adress book 

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and be aware of the fact that a switched-on mobile can always inform the police of your position.

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The best is to take the cell phone battery out if you are not using it.

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Try to avoid wearing contacts, using skin cream and make-up. 

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These things concentrate the gas quickly.

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Stay sober during the time of G8 . 

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Whether at a demonstration or at the camp, 

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if your ability to respond and your self-control is impaired by alcohol, marihuana or other drugs, 

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you may endager yourself and the others around you.

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Chapter 3: Demo-Right

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There are special regulations in Germany concerning the conduct at demonstrations. 

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Those regulations can be interpreted to varying degrees by the police.

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It is forbidden to mask yourself or to carry items with you which could be used to conceal your identity.

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Also it is prohibited to passivly protect yourself against police operations 

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and to carry with you items for this purpose- 

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pads for legs and arms, padded cloths, shields and gas masks.

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Following this logic active weapons are also forbidden. 

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In the context of a demonstration this applys as well to 

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normal butter knives, pocket knives and sticks.

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What is seen as insulting a police officer or as an illegal patch/button depends on the individual police. 

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For a short time carrying a crossed-out swastika was persecuted - 

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because it was still depicting a visible swastika.

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If a forbidden item is found on you during a preliminary police check, 

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you can be directly taken into pre-emptive custody.

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For each demonstration there are various special police orders 

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which regulate the size of side banners and banner sticks.

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Chapter Four: Conduct

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It is extremely advisable to not go alone to a demonstration 

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but in small affinity groups with a handful of familiar persons 

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to look after one another during the demonstration.

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You should agree before on what you want to do on the demonstration 

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and when you want to leave it alltogether.

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Talk beforehand about your personal limits, fears, sicknesses and remember 

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the names, registration adresses and dates of birth of the others.

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Avoid using your real names at the demonstration. 

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The best thing to do is to give your affinity group a name, which you can call instead.

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Generally the demonstration should try to stay conjoined 

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and wait for the slower at the end.

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This way you avoid that parts are seperated and detained.

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In case of conflict, stay calm and if necessary retreat as a block.

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If somebody gets injured, call loudly for a Demo-Medic 

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- normally somebody who can help will be there fast

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If you got into contact with CS-Gas or pepper spray, change your clothes if you can.

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If you make photos or videos, keep one thing in your mind: 

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NEVER document a punishable act

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The police might take your camera  

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and your sensitive photos might get someone else in trouble. 

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Think first - then document.

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And if you want to publish pictures: 

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make faces irrecognisable - in any case.

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Chapter Five: Surveillance

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Certainly the police is filming and making photos - and in quite a massive way.

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Besides firmly installed and tiny cameras, also helicopters and normal police cars 

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can be equipped with cameras or thermal cameras.

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Chapter 6: Police

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The massive surveillance allows the police to send out small snatch troops 

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to detain potential alleged perpetrators who have been identified by a photo 

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after the demonstration is over.

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Demonstrations are often encircled by a moving police enclosure, 

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and not rarely, parts of a demonstration are detained for several hours inside the enclosure.

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The German police is not obligated to disclose their identity. 

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They have the following means for asserting their authority:

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Batons, guns, pepper spray, 

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dogs, horses, tanks for clearing, helicopters, 

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water cannons, whose water is often mixed with teargas, 

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color-coding spray, and certainly a mass of passive weapons.

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They can also walk with the demonstration as plain-clothes officers.

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At many demonstrations there have been provocateurs in police ranks 

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who commit offenses to provoke further repression 

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or to justify hard police measures.

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Chapter Seven: Detention

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In case of arrest, shout your name to the bystanders 

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so that they can inform the legal team once it is certain that you are being arrested.

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The international legal team, also called 'Ermittlungsausschuss' (EA), 

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takes care of those arrested during and after the demo.

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The legal team can procure lawyers if needed 

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and put pressure on the police so that you are released quickly from custody.

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All the information the legal team needs at the first are

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name, registered adress and date of birth of the arrested.

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Therefore don't talk about who has done what 

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because it is certain that the legal team correspondence is monitored.

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In custody you have to give following information: all what is written on a personal id

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Name, registration adress, 

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date of birth, place of birth 

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and a rough job title: student, entrepreneur, employee, artist...

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And thats about all you need to say! 

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Don't testify! don't talk to the police! Sign nothing!

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The police doesn't want to help you. 

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It is their job to investigate 

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and gather information AGAINST you and the other detainees.

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Even apparently harmless, extra false or assumed alibis can incriminate somebody else 

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- because you never know what the police is investigating at the moment, 

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what they want to get at and what is happening with your testimonies.

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The only protection you can offer yourself and others 

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is a consequential refusal to give evidence!

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As a non-German speaking person, you can ask for a translator. 

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It may take a while to get one- and you can keep silent anyway.

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During interrogation you have to anticipate with lies and half-truths, 

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apparently back-breaking burden of proof or threats of consequences.

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Very popular is the game 'good' and 'bad' police and the endless yacking, 

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hoping that you are responding without thinking.

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Don't let them madden you. 

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Switch the ears off and keep silent, 

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no matter what they are talking about, even the weather.

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or repeat monotonly the sentence: i want to make a phone call.

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Let them give you a copy of the list of confiscated items.

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You can enter an objection to everything, 

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you avoid nothing, but you create a lot of paperwork.

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But anyway, don't sign anything!

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You have the right to two phone-calls. 

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You have to pay them yourself. Therefore you need change.

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Now you can inform the legal team about your situation 

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and - in case of need - organise yourself an lawyer.

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Keep in mind that telephone calls, as talks in the cell, are monitored.

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You can be recorded /id'd, which is conducted in case of need with violence.

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Shall a police fear to contract HIV, Hepatitis, TBC or something else contagious while having contact with you, 

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a blood sample can be taken - against your will and if necessary without judicial injunction.

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This new law is practically always applicable to all of us.

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After 48 hours you have to be released from custody, or be summoned a judge.

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Under certain premises, they can in the time of seven days enforce a summary procedure (fast procedure), 

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wherein you can be convicted to a fine or up to one year of jail.

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In a summary proceeding, many of your rights are restricted, 

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the taking of evidence is heavily shortened 

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and as the case may be you don't have a lawyer on your side.

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Thatīs where the German expression comes from: "We'll make a short trial"

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A summary proceeding may not be conducted without your consent.

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You should absolutly refuse consent and insist on your refusal.

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Let your refusal be taken into protocoll.

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The court might threaten you with remand.

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Don't let them bully you, and don't believe all they say. 

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Your lawyer will get you out.

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As non-Germans, you may be deported before or after a conviction.

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You will need someone to pay bail for you to get out of jail. 

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Take into account that the police will keep all the money you have on you for cost recovery.

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If you get out of custody, please remember to inform the legal team, 

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so they will not look for you.

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In case of citation, fine or similar, consult your local antirepression structures. 

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They also collect your memory statement.

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After your release, let a doctor attest possible injuries.

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But outer injuries are not everything. 

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The experience of violence and repression be traumatic.

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Be there for each other and if required consult the activist trauma support.

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Analyse the days in your affinity groups, 

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what worked out well and what could have worked differently?

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Chapter Eight: The End

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A word to conclude: Now you know how to behave yourself and be prepared for the worst.

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But we all know how it will happen:

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We are more, the summit will be busted, the police will desert in panic 

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and we celebrate a huge beach party in heiligendamm.

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Be loud, colourful and many - see you in Heiligendamm!

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Bastards! F**cking pigs!

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Always the same...

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like the green plague every time! 

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Always the same with you!

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Bastards!

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I told you!

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I am pissed off!

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Without my rheumatism, I would have a rock in my hand!

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But clubs are enough for you.