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Attica said:
Looks as though a state provocateur was caught in the act too. Even wearing a 'slipknot' hoody to blend in it appears? Were the ones in yellow jackets too with 'legal team' printed on? As well as others facing down the guy with the scarf who tried to uncover the provocateur? Sorry my German is non-existent.
Real media file.
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MC5 said:
Always interesting when this sort of thing comes up. The Gwent/Welsh/Cardiff anarchos seem to have some gossip on this.
Its back to Italy in 2009 for the G8 summit
- will it be a hot summer of revenge for Carlo Guiliani though?
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Attica said:Always interesting when this sort of thing comes up. The Gwent/Welsh/Cardiff anarchos seem to have some gossip on this.
Its back to Italy in 2009 for the G8 summit
Just watch your back.
The Black Hand
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Yes - Italy in 2009 is going to be interesting. Where is it next year though? I forget.
More G8 news here, and uplifting headlines too;
http://www.wombles.org.uk/
More G8 news here, and uplifting headlines too;
http://www.wombles.org.uk/
cockneyrebel
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Maybe, but you always post up stuff like that and after a while I think joke or otherwise it gets a bit politically cynical. Anyway no more to say on the matter. Well until next time
Touche.
Taxamo Welf
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wtf you went to germany? same zeni i know from parties in london?!zenie said:
wtf i thought hated politics
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Here's another video of interest - watch the police smash somebodies cam (wot are they afraid of?);
zenie
>^^<
Taxamo Welf said:wtf you went to germany? same zeni i know from parties in london?!
wtf i thought hated politics
I went for a party, but changed my mind when I got there
Was good to see you @ the weekend Tax mate
G8 2008 is in Japan, not sure where it'll be in Italy for 2009 I don't suppose they release that info til a few months before or do they?
obowan
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I dont understand why the police got so annoyed by the stones being thrown! They were attacking innocent protestors [ok so some were a bit stupid but...] with those watercannons, and charges and battering them! Whilst the protestors had no protection, the police had full riot gear on!
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obowan said:
Because they could.
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zenie said:get away with it
With what? Getting annoyed?
obowan said:
I don't think the police 'got annoyed' at stones being thrown at them and decided to attack in response. I was there, and it was quite clear that the cops had a pre-decided strategy for attacking not only the demonstration, but the rally and people watching the concert at the end, the just needed a provocation to put their plans into action
The black bloc were idiots for rising to the provocation of a lone police car parked in the middle of the road, which the proceeded to smash up. Further than this, they were fucking cowardly in dealing with the (predictable) police response. Whilst a number of organisations at the front of the demo (Revolution, L5I, COBAS, ILPS, MLKP and ATIK) formed up and pushed back the police, defending the people behind us the black bloc insisted on playing their cat n mouse games with the cops: throwing bricks, then running off, often trying to use organised blocs to defend themselves and trying to break protestors lines in the process.
It really pisses me off that the black bloc'ers get described as 'the most militant' within the anti-capitalist movement: this somehow infers that they have a fighting plan and high-level of organisation. Being a militant doesn't just mean tallying up how many bricks you can throw at the cops.
biff curtains
Fred West or Fred Housego
You plum red hippy. Why the fuck shouldn't we smash up a parked cop car? As for trying to break protestor's lines! No - some of the march organisers advised people to calm down and stand and wait for the cops to attack them, most of the black block chose not to wait around to get a beating and we advised others not to as well.
How should we have defended ourselves if not by organised blocks?
How should we have defended ourselves if not by organised blocks?
Fuck me, what a bright spark. Not able to walk past a cop car in the street without feeling the need to smash it up? ...you're a policeman's wet dream mate. Grow up.
As for 'how should we have defended ourselves if not in blocks?' Good question, maybe one to ask yourself seen as the the black 'block' was all over the place. Organising defence in blocks doesn't mean spontaneously lobbing bricks at the cops without any co-ordination with protestors outside your block, then expecting everybody to adapt to your tactics and trying to break formed lines when they don't. Which did happen in Rostock ta very much.
As for 'how should we have defended ourselves if not in blocks?' Good question, maybe one to ask yourself seen as the the black 'block' was all over the place. Organising defence in blocks doesn't mean spontaneously lobbing bricks at the cops without any co-ordination with protestors outside your block, then expecting everybody to adapt to your tactics and trying to break formed lines when they don't. Which did happen in Rostock ta very much.
Squatticus
for an armed populace
Locals
In my experience the locals were very supportive of the demonstrators/blockaders. The Ford workshop in Bad Doberan fixed the exhaust on our van for free! How good is that?
BTW Red Hippy, you mean 'implies' not 'infers' - and how was the Stalinist bloc?
In my experience the locals were very supportive of the demonstrators/blockaders. The Ford workshop in Bad Doberan fixed the exhaust on our van for free! How good is that?
BTW Red Hippy, you mean 'implies' not 'infers' - and how was the Stalinist bloc?
Boogie Boy
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zenie said:I went for a party, but changed my mind when I got there
Was good to see you @ the weekend Tax mate
G8 2008 is in Japan, not sure where it'll be in Italy for 2009 I don't suppose they release that info til a few months before or do they?
Turin?
Good to see you there too.
BB
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zenie said:
That's wot i fort.
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Police Scum
14th June 2007
For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Gipfelsoli Infogroup: +49 160/ 953 14 023
Emergency legal service: +49 1577/ 470 4760 and +49 163/ 619 5151
In the days after the G8 protests more and more details of police assaults
on demonstrators are being made public. As victims describe their experiences on internet portals, it is becoming apparent that police massively assaulted, insulted, beat and abused people.
Lawyers confirm that many times arrests were brutally carried out. Police refused to tend to injured demonstrators. Instead many of them were brought
directly to mass detention centres.
A group of cyclists were attacked on their way back to the Reddelich camp on
June 2nd. In a dangerous maneuvre, 30 cyclists were stopped on the B105.
They were beaten and pepper-sprayed out of still moving police vans.
At the migration-themed demonstration on June 4th, demonstrators were
threatened by the police. “We will take revenge for Saturday if you continue to demonstrate here”, “Do you want to die?”, “Go, or you won’t see the day out!” The demonstration had been officially registered and proceeded without
disturbances on the side of the demonstrators.
Police units repeatedly tried to provoke participants. Repeatedly pepper spray was used unannounced. That afternoon, “Kavala” made false claims that stones and bottles had been thrown. However, numerous journalists who were present at the demonstration reported the opposite.
On June 5th a mother and her toddler were arrested in a shuttle bus on their
way to the demonstration at the military airport Laage. They were absurdly
accused of masking up on the bus. Even the child’s personal details were taken at the mass detention centre. This abuse only stopped when the child repeatedly turned its head as police tried to force the child to be photographed.
At the fifth police check point on the way to the airport a demonstrator’s
car was tampered with by the police. All of a sudden the fuel injection pump was missing and the vehicle would no longer start as the group of demonstrators was encircled by grinning police officers.
Water canons were often deployed at the blockades with no warning by the
police.
Some demonstrators were knocked off their feet from behind by still moving
water canon vehicles. On June 7th the operation at the “West Gate” near Hinter Bollhagen led to a number of injuries, including a burst ear drum of one
demonstrator. Two activists suffered severe eye injuries and one of them is
still in hospital. Recordings show how the police unit carrying out the
operation laugh as this happens. Eye witnesses report that the police did
not adhere to giving the 3 warnings they are supposed to before deploying water canons. Merely journalists who were standing around were informed
beforehand.
Despite repeated requests, the police did not let medics tend to the
injured. A “nude demonstration” was also attacked with pepper spray. The gas spread over their whole bodies and led to severe skin irritations.
In the whole of Rostock massive police controls took place. People were
taken into detention for having pen knives, scarfs or even G8 critical literature on them. During one police check one woman was grabbed in the crotch whilst officers made leery noises. Also near Wichmannsdorf camp demonstrators were sexually harassed. On a parking lot near the camp on June 5th, a group of women had to undress in front of all the police officers present.
During police transportation there were further abuses, as one victim
describes.
“The police took off the handcuffs cutting into my hands so that they could
take off my rucksack, threatening to beat me if I moved. To underline their
point, one of the police officers rammed my head against the cell wall. After the police finally left me and other detainees in the cell, we were told not to
speak or else he would ensure that we “would never be able to speak again”.
“In one case a police unit stormed a tram as it stopped, police beat up
everyone dressed in black and then left the tram again immediately”, the legal
investigation board wrote on June 4th.
Many received injunctions for Rostock and Bad Doberan. Often their papers
were marked with “abstained from appeal” or “lawful hearing accorded”. No
instructions were given in any of these cases.
Sources:
• Chronicle of attacks: http://gipfelsoli.org/
• Assessment of the legal investigation board:
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/184501.shtml
• Further reports: http://gipfelsoli.org/Repression
• Comments by victims: http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/184032.shtml
• Press Releases of the emergency legal service:
http://gipfelsoli.org/Presse
14th June 2007
For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Gipfelsoli Infogroup: +49 160/ 953 14 023
Emergency legal service: +49 1577/ 470 4760 and +49 163/ 619 5151
In the days after the G8 protests more and more details of police assaults
on demonstrators are being made public. As victims describe their experiences on internet portals, it is becoming apparent that police massively assaulted, insulted, beat and abused people.
Lawyers confirm that many times arrests were brutally carried out. Police refused to tend to injured demonstrators. Instead many of them were brought
directly to mass detention centres.
A group of cyclists were attacked on their way back to the Reddelich camp on
June 2nd. In a dangerous maneuvre, 30 cyclists were stopped on the B105.
They were beaten and pepper-sprayed out of still moving police vans.
At the migration-themed demonstration on June 4th, demonstrators were
threatened by the police. “We will take revenge for Saturday if you continue to demonstrate here”, “Do you want to die?”, “Go, or you won’t see the day out!” The demonstration had been officially registered and proceeded without
disturbances on the side of the demonstrators.
Police units repeatedly tried to provoke participants. Repeatedly pepper spray was used unannounced. That afternoon, “Kavala” made false claims that stones and bottles had been thrown. However, numerous journalists who were present at the demonstration reported the opposite.
On June 5th a mother and her toddler were arrested in a shuttle bus on their
way to the demonstration at the military airport Laage. They were absurdly
accused of masking up on the bus. Even the child’s personal details were taken at the mass detention centre. This abuse only stopped when the child repeatedly turned its head as police tried to force the child to be photographed.
At the fifth police check point on the way to the airport a demonstrator’s
car was tampered with by the police. All of a sudden the fuel injection pump was missing and the vehicle would no longer start as the group of demonstrators was encircled by grinning police officers.
Water canons were often deployed at the blockades with no warning by the
police.
Some demonstrators were knocked off their feet from behind by still moving
water canon vehicles. On June 7th the operation at the “West Gate” near Hinter Bollhagen led to a number of injuries, including a burst ear drum of one
demonstrator. Two activists suffered severe eye injuries and one of them is
still in hospital. Recordings show how the police unit carrying out the
operation laugh as this happens. Eye witnesses report that the police did
not adhere to giving the 3 warnings they are supposed to before deploying water canons. Merely journalists who were standing around were informed
beforehand.
Despite repeated requests, the police did not let medics tend to the
injured. A “nude demonstration” was also attacked with pepper spray. The gas spread over their whole bodies and led to severe skin irritations.
In the whole of Rostock massive police controls took place. People were
taken into detention for having pen knives, scarfs or even G8 critical literature on them. During one police check one woman was grabbed in the crotch whilst officers made leery noises. Also near Wichmannsdorf camp demonstrators were sexually harassed. On a parking lot near the camp on June 5th, a group of women had to undress in front of all the police officers present.
During police transportation there were further abuses, as one victim
describes.
“The police took off the handcuffs cutting into my hands so that they could
take off my rucksack, threatening to beat me if I moved. To underline their
point, one of the police officers rammed my head against the cell wall. After the police finally left me and other detainees in the cell, we were told not to
speak or else he would ensure that we “would never be able to speak again”.
“In one case a police unit stormed a tram as it stopped, police beat up
everyone dressed in black and then left the tram again immediately”, the legal
investigation board wrote on June 4th.
Many received injunctions for Rostock and Bad Doberan. Often their papers
were marked with “abstained from appeal” or “lawful hearing accorded”. No
instructions were given in any of these cases.
Sources:
• Chronicle of attacks: http://gipfelsoli.org/
• Assessment of the legal investigation board:
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/184501.shtml
• Further reports: http://gipfelsoli.org/Repression
• Comments by victims: http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/184032.shtml
• Press Releases of the emergency legal service:
http://gipfelsoli.org/Presse
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
red_hippy said:
Weren't you nicked on demo with pills in your pocket?
biff curtains
Fred West or Fred Housego
torres said:
lol
biff curtains
Fred West or Fred Housego
Also have I mentioned how the camp at Reddlich which was where most of the black block was based was built by members of the German Carpenter's Union?
Still we have no connection with the working class unlike the League for a Fifth International.
Still we have no connection with the working class unlike the League for a Fifth International.
zenie
>^^<
I found out yesterday that our group was infiltrated by German Police and that's how come they knew all the details about the rigs and the partys 
We thought this bird was a bit 'Gestapo' like on our first day, but just thought it was the german way My mate had to stop people kicking the fuck out of her when they found out and then she promptly vanished
We thought this bird was a bit 'Gestapo' like on our first day, but just thought it was the german way
My mate had to stop people kicking the fuck out of her when they found out and then she promptly vanished The Black Hand
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zenie said:I found out yesterday that our group was infiltrated by German Police and that's how come they knew all the details about the rigs and the partys
We thought this bird was a bit 'Gestapo' like on our first day, but just thought it was the german way
Why did your mate stop them kicking the fuk out of her? In SOuth Africa traitors got necklaced and I think such an attitude needs thinking about. If traitors get off scot free they will do it again and spoil other plans - far better to give them a 'public warning'.
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Small Sardinian island to host G8 summit in 2009
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will hold the 2009 Group of Eight summit of rich
nations at a small Sardinian island accessible only by boat, the government
said on Thursday.
The 2009 summit will be held in Maddalena, home of a U.S. nuclear
submarine base which is due to close in 2008.
Italy last hosted the G8 in 2001 in Genoa, which was one of the most
violent in the history of the summits.
One demonstrator was shot and killed in a clash with police and dozens
of others were injured in a separate incident when police stormed a high school housing protesters.
Earlier on Thursday, a senior Italian policeman said police had
"butchered" protesters at the 2001 summit and called for a parliamentary inquiry."
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will hold the 2009 Group of Eight summit of rich
nations at a small Sardinian island accessible only by boat, the government
said on Thursday.
The 2009 summit will be held in Maddalena, home of a U.S. nuclear
submarine base which is due to close in 2008.
Italy last hosted the G8 in 2001 in Genoa, which was one of the most
violent in the history of the summits.
One demonstrator was shot and killed in a clash with police and dozens
of others were injured in a separate incident when police stormed a high school housing protesters.
Earlier on Thursday, a senior Italian policeman said police had
"butchered" protesters at the 2001 summit and called for a parliamentary inquiry."
free spirit
more tea vicar?
Time for a new armada?Attica said:
*gets out pirate costume*
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