We are a press group from dissent network, doing this work against the
G8 since one year now. We want to use the interest of the mainstream
media in the protest against G8 to bring radical left and autonomous
issues into the media. We don't want to leave this to the police, they
shouldn't be the ones who inform the media about the protest in the
streets around Rostock and Heiligendamm. We also don't want to leave it
to the big, hieriarchical organisations or parties, to speak for us. So
far we made good expierences with our work.

We see ourselves as contact and intermediary of the movement to the
media and the other way round. We are adressable for all groups, if they
want to communicate their activities to the media, now and in the days
of the summit and we send their press statements. On the other hand we
arrange contact between the press and the activists, who know things
about the special thematical issues like migration or anti-militarism.

The problem, that the press allways want to communicate with and quote
“speakers of the movement”, we reply with the sentence, that we don't
have such speakers or “bosses”. We only take responsibility for being in
contact with the journalists. We also reply to this problem by using
pseudonyms/ pen names. For that we use Lotta Kemper and Carl Kemper. The
pen names reveal: We don't have spokespersons, everone can be Mr. or Ms.
Kemper.

Contact: g8-presse@nadir.org or www.dissentnetwork.org