Today 4th of july around 600 demonstrators showed their solidarity with the protests in Italy against G8 and expressed resistance against “security architectures” (see the call on http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/7241.html. With the slogan “Quake G8 – We are your crisis” the march started in Kreuzberg, passed the italian chamber of commerce and crossed the center of Berlin with russian and british embassy ending at Brandenburger Tor, next to the french and US embassy (which was abandonned because their party was shifted to western Berlin). Slogans shouted at the demonstration were like “Berlin, L`Aquila, resistance is international”, “A, anti, anticapitalista” and “G8, G8, we are here, the black block from Genoa” (that sounds more nice in german).

Several speeches were held, such as focussing on G8 and climate politics, G8 and militarism and war, the mobilization in Italy, the protests in Vicenza today and the courtcases in Genoa against activists and police. A solidarity note was sent to the big demonstration in Vicenza. Italian comrades explained some dates of the mobilization. Solidarity was shown with the two italians that were imprisoned yesterday, accusing them being part of an “anarcho-insurrectionalist conspiracy”. Police claims that they tried to sabotage a railway line by placing “iron couplers” at the electrical cables that should tear them down when a train is passing (see http://tarnac9.wordpress.com for similar investigations in France).