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For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe A proposal for the resistance movement: Against NATO, G8 and swedish EU Presidency 2009
- german: http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Maddalena_2009/4818.html
- italiano: http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm_2007_italiano/4821.html
Each protest enables us to draw conclusions of how to do things better next time. In the same way, we can draw conclusions from the mobilisation against the G8 summit 2007 in Heiligendamm on how to achieve successful and broad resistance. Apart from three large self-organised protest camps and an international infotour in the months leading up to the summit, there were attempts to have international exchanges and establish networks beyond Germany. The decision was made not to respond to the G8 climate debate but to frame the protests in terms of other self-determined topics the movement was focussing on: migration, antimilitarism and global agriculture. Looking ahead to the 60th NATO anniversary in Strasbourg and Kehl and the G8 2009 in Italy, but also to the swedish EU Presidency 2009, this text takes up these points to propose a campaign against the new “European Security Architecture”. We outline some developments in police cooperation on a European level and call for a kind of antirepression work that goes beyond a simple critique and a scandalising police violence, and that is coordinated on a European level. Such political antirepression work would have to take new forms of social control seriously as an integral reference point for radical movements.
Source: Update July 2008 weiter...Who is a Threat to Whom? G8 Summits and Increasing State Repression
By Jason Kirkpatrick
The heightening and virtual militarisation of domestic policing efforts against many US activists has clearly been stepped up since 911. Homeland Security is linked up in a “new and improved” information networking and cooperation system with a vast array of both foreign and domestic intelligence gathering agencies within the USA, and increasingly so, on an international level.
Source: email weiter...German Court Declares Massive Pre-G8 Police Raids Illegal
A massive police raid against globalization opponents ahead of the Group of Eight Summit in Heiligendamm was unlawful, Germany's highest court decided. The group suspected of planning attacks was deemed legal.
Car bombs do not constitute terrorist activity and are a matter for the states and not the federal prosecutor's office, Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled on Friday, Dec. 4, in Karlsruhe.
On May 9, 2007, one month prior to the G8 summit in Germany, 900 police officers searched 40 apartments, offices and left-wing meeting places in six German states, taking numerous documents into custody.
Source: www.dw-world.de weiter...Judges bail three German leftists held for fire-bombing
Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) - Three leftist radicals accused of planting incendiary devices under German army trucks were granted bail Wednesday by federal judges who ruled they were not terrorists.
The finding by the German High Court in Karlsruhe sharply reduced the powers of federal security agencies against what has been dubbed "terrorism lite."
The radicals are believed to be leading members of the Militant Groups (MG), which has been setting parked vehicles on fire and throwing petrol bombs at government offices in the Berlin area for the past six years.
weiter...Arrest warrant against Andrej H. overturned
Coalition for the Immediate End to the § 129a Proceedings
- Lawyers demand an end to the §129a proceedings
Yesterday the German Federal Court announced its decision in the case of Berlin-based Andrej H. The Court has decided that at no point there was any immediate suspicion that would have necessitated his detainment. The arrest warrant against the activist and researcher was unlawful from the beginning and has thus been overturned.
“We welcome this decision. Particularly because with this decision the Federal Court confirms that the conclusions of the Federal Prosecution were purely speculative and exaggerated,” Christina Clemm, Andrej’s legal representative said. “The various violations of my client’s basic rights that have occurred in the last months are therefore unlawful. The next step is to close the case.”
Source: Pressrelease weiter...Coalition Launches International Competition: What Exactly is Terrorism?
Berlin, 22nd October 2007
Press Release
Coalition launches international competition No terror before four—or: what exactly is an after-work terrorist?
The Federal Prosecution is after it. The red-green coalition is trying to redefine it. The Federal Court has to evaluate it and our friends are to be charged because of it.
The phantom called “terrorism” The German criminal legislation paragraph 129a enables the prosecution of terrorist activity or membership in a terrorist organisation, but even the highest judges of Germany are not quite sure what terrorism actually is. The Federal Minister for Justice doesn’t think that 9/11 was terrorism, but everyone’s scared of it. German criminal legislation, the UN and also the EU have no clear definition of the term “terrorism”. We’re now asking: What exactly is terrorism? Who is a terrorist? And what’s a terrorist act?
Source: Pressemitteilung weiter...Coalition for the Immediate End to the 129a Proceedings
Press Release
Berlin, 15th October
- Appeal lodged against the continued custodial remand of Axel H., Oliver R. and Florian L.
- Federal Court to take no decisions before 18th October
The German Federal Court of Justice has yet again postponed its deadline for deciding on the Federal Prosecution?s appeal against the release of Andrej H. on bail. “We cannot expect a decision before October 18th”, commented Cristina Clemm who is legally representing Andrej H.
The Court has announced it will make a categorical decision with respect to the current case against the “mg” (militant group). In light of this, the lawyers of three further accused, Axel H., Oliver R. and Florian L., have now lodged an appeal against the continued custodial remand of their clients.
Source: Pressrelease weiter...A letter by one of the prisoners of the current proceedings under section 129a in Germany.
Dear comrades and friends,
As a 129a-prisoner in the mg-case I want to send to you greetings of solidarity and fighting spirit from the rotten prison in Berlin-Moabit, that is so ready to get wrecked.
After 5 minutes in my 7 square meter “luxury accommodation” I fully became aware of our good old, but abstract slogan “Tear down the walls of all prisons and coercive institutions”. The best thing to do! As you probably have heard, Axel, Flori and me, as well as four others are accused by the the Chief Federal Prosecutor to be members of the militant group (mg). According to the Chief Federal Prosecutor this group politically claimed responsibility for 25 militant attacks since 2001. Targeted were institutions and vehicles of imperialist war politics, of institutionalized state racism, capitalist exploitation and the preventive security state. Which are “issues relevant to attack” we all know *.
Source: email weiter...Solidarity with Andres and Raul
The last June 2nd a large demonstration took place in the German town of Rostock where the G8 summit was being held. Some 80.000 people from different places and ideologies showed their rejection against they way the most powerful politicians are ruling our world.
During the demonstration there were no serious incidents except for the provocative attitude of the police. The protest ended with some riots between the demonstrators and the police, after which about 500 people were detained. Four of them (according to the newspapers) were taken to court and sentenced after remain in prison for five days. Quick trials very much put into question by independent organizations and even the media because the detainees did not have the chance of a fair trial.
Source: www.nodo50.org weiter...red pepper: Terror laws hit German left
The past few months have seen a wave of repression unleashed in Germany. Houses, offices, social centres and bookshops have been raided by police and several people accused of ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ – sometimes for as little as having written academic texts about ‘gentrification’. Frank Meyer reports from Hamburg
The mobilisation around the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, on Germany’s Baltic coast, marked a highpoint for the left and radical-left in Germany. Some have described the event as the return of the counter-globalisation movement as a social force in Europe.
The protests around the 2005 G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland saw the institution develop an almost unprecedented level of legitimacy in the world’s eyes. By asking it to ‘make poverty history’, an unlikely coalition of pop stars, politicians and parts of global civil society managed to obscure the fact that the G8 – and the system for which it stands – are in fact the root cause of poverty, not its eliminators.
Source: einstellung.so36.net weiter...