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we seem to have lost our activist members
two points about G8
the most powerful 8 countries in the world…
1) the cannot agree on defence
2) they cannot agree on climate change
the two most pressing subjects of the world right now
and the summit hasn’t even started
all power to everyone who is in Germany right now protesting against the power of G8
completely agree
i think someone stole your post:
http://www.squatjuice.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=94809
:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
I think a few of my friends did go up for the RAF festival thing.
TBH I would not be surprised (especially with the US/Russia conflict over missile defence!) and the disagreements over climate change if the original G8 group does fall apart anyway soon – and the World will re-align itself into two competing “superpower” type groups of nation states like how it used to be in the 1980s…
two points about G8
the most powerful 8 countries in the world…
1) the cannot agree on defence
2) they cannot agree on climate change
the two most pressing subjects of the world right now
and the summit hasn’t even started
all power to everyone who is in Germany right now protesting against the power of G8
I have a couple of friends over there, I heard there were some arrests tuesday, I havent heard from my best mate so im a little worried…
If I had a passport I would have gone too, I like a good protest
You gotta stand up for what you believe, good on all of them.
An as for SJ? immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, maybe they’re not all bad over there after all
An as for SJ? immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, maybe they’re not all bad over there after all
to be fair liaphin(e) did mention the protest on SJ months ago. Also one of the UK party crews which also has a lot of European crew people and has done a lot of Euro events had planned to take a rig there for ages.
the protest, although it will never actually disrupt the summit due to the security cordon, does serve as a reminder to the media and thus ultimately the people that this whole G8 “summit” is essentially pointless and damaging to the World.
SJ? 😉
I know tangible results mean something but for me the most important thing is to actually make the stand.
Sinner’s there too..
I’ve haven’t heard anything from him..
But he knew what he was doing,and what consequences it could have :hopeless:
these days media exposure is in itself a tangible result, especially with it being so easy to manipulate or censor anything. The protesters got a report on the BBC and on Danmarks Radio..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6714429.stm
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2007/06/06/06203336.htm
It also appears that a bus that contained equipment the protesters were using such as computers, camera equipment and two-way radios to keep people updated about what was happning has been seized by Police and the communications ministry – but updates in English directly from the protest camp can be found here..
Translation of the Danish news
German police will fear more troubles tonight outside the G8-summit in Heiligendamm in Germany. Masked autonomous have armed themselves with stone and petrol bombs according to the police’s information, and some of them have started on it 2,5 meters of hills and 12 kilometres long safety fences that encircle the top-meeting place. The goal is apparently to move in against that hotel near the Baltic-bathing place, where leaders from eight of the world’s leading industrialised countries stop to. Readiness on 16.000 men During the day had to be flown police-reinforcements in to the area ones with a helicopter, even though the safety precautions are already the largest ones in the post-war era’s Germany with a readiness on 16.000 people. The police were apparently caught, when about 10.000 demonstrators split up up in smaller groups and hiked and ran towards the control points. Four some time the approach roads were for Heiligendamm blocked, thus only the air- and the waterway could be used to call at the holiday resort, but during the day and the evening the police used tear gas and water cannons to dissolve some of the road blockades. Several wounded police officers Trod’s reports about stone throws and several wounded police officers were many demonstration groups peaceful. – We here are to make a peaceful protest and have about necessaryly intended to stay, as long as the summit lasts. Four us there is that democracy, the twenty year Osnabrück citizen Tobias said for Ritzau. The risk of violence is however increased, after the German constitution court this afternoon turned down the G8-critics’ demands for musting demonstrate at barbed wire fenced Thursday. The decision means that demonstrators have to hold it at least six kilometres from the fence, and they do not.
Thanks for the translation Angel..
that just shows how paranoid the world leaders are of facing up to their people – 6km is a very long way, it is the distance from the village I work in to the top end of the large town nearby…
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