2008-05-22 

Report meeting on NATO summit 2009 at Buko, Sunday 11 May 2008

1. state of affairs

• April 2009: NATO 60th anniversary: summit in Strasbourg (F) and Kehl
  (D)with festivities and probably opening for review of NATO Strategic
  Concept
• start action at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin, 23-25 May
• in Freiburg a local preparation meeting already took place, with
  people from Khel
• on 7 June an Afghanistan-conference takes place in Hannover, where
  some groups (Mouvement de la Paix (F), IALANA Germany and INESAP) also
  called for a meeting on the NATO-summit
• in the near neighbourhood of Kehl there are almost no active groups.
  40 km further, an active group exists in Freiburg. In Freiburg people
  are motivated, also in Mannheim and Heidelberg.
• natogipfel2009.blogsport.de (regional website from Kehl)

• French peace movement just has a meeting where the NATO summit was
  discussed.
• in Belgium anti-militarist groups gathered after the Bombspotting action
• contacts with the anti-nuclear movement in France (Sortir de la
  Nucléaire), Les Désobéissants, group organising the No Bordercamp 2002
• ATTAC has a gathering in France. ATTAC Germany has not yet discussed
  the NATO summit.
• The Strasbourg/Kehl region is dependent on the EU and other
  institutions who have their seat there. There is also a lot of military
  infrastructure (Eurocorps) and the SIS-databank
• France has the EU Presidency in 2008.
• on which side of the Rhine do we want to make camps (only a few
  bridges!!)?

2. Communication / Logistics

• a German-language mailer already exists (“Bye Bye NATO”) which we are
  going to use from now on for further networking (E-mail adresses of the
  people present are sent to the Admin)
• how do we communicate internationally? New international and mainly
  English-language mailing-list, not the old G8-int-list (but the new list
  will be announced here).
• We make a broad coalition (how? with a clear position?)
• website? 2 languages (french-german)?

3. Public relations

schedule:

• action in Berlin: , groups check if they can sign the call and mail
  their decision.
• ESF (19-21 sept) for international mobilisation
• international action conference in autumn (see down)
• call for international action day 14-15 November against military
  infrastructure for intervention
• Peace conference Kassel (Friedensratschlag – start December)
• SiKo München (Security Conference), February 2009 as stepstone

No passive signing, but offer for active participation from diverse
groups and movements (like with G8-protest): active contacting groups
about how coalition building can look like, practically and concerning
political positions.
Political debate: collecting position papers in an english language reader?

4. International action conference

• initial launch must not be a copy of the Rostock Conference
• open invitation for preparation meeting?: this invitation will be
  prepared by a small group from diverse movements from this network meeting
• action conference preferable in Strasbourg
• include local people
• who has to be contacted: Friedensratschlag, unions, IL, Attac, MSF,
  Bundeswehr wegtreten, Antiracist and migration groups, etc, etc (no
  consensus)

next meeting, where the preparation of an action conference has to be on
the agenda

Sunday 1 June, Third World Haus Frankfurt (Dritte Welt Haus Frankfurt),
Falkstr. 74, 60487 Frankfurt (this meeting will be publicly announced)