A BUNCH of skinny kids piled into a Melbourne magistrate's court last Thursday to be committed for trial for their roles in the G20 demonstrations 16 months ago. They don't live up to their advance publicity. "Hardcore" was the word politicians, police and press used about them at the time: thugs linked to organised crime, inspired and perhaps led by foreign activists.

The courts will decide if any of that's true, but at a glance these 13 don't look much of a match for a few well-built police. Most are university students in their early 20s. There's also a librarian, a painter, a performer, a professional abseiler and a mother of four - by far the oldest of the bunch - who is thinking of standing for the Maori Party back home in New Zealand.

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After the violent eviction of the squatted Ungdomshuset [Youth House] in Copenhagen on 1st March 2007, many streets were barricaded and disorder spread throughout the city for several days. Solidarity demonstrations and direct action has taken place around the world since then, demanding a new Youth House. There were numerous arrests at the time.

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250 charges dropped and 26 acquited

from dk-imc, 17 March 2008:

Recently 26 demonstrators arrested on March 1st 2007 were acquitted in the City Court. Another 250 minor charges were also dropped en masse.

One of the most interesting court cases to emerge from March 1st 2007 was against 26 demonstrators and bystanders arrested during the big demo in the afternoon.

The 26 were charged with “aiding to commit violence against the police” simply for being present at the demo. The defense has continually argued that they did not have the option of leaving because police kept turning them back at the police blocks.

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For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe -A concrete proposal for the resistance movement against the G8 2009 in Italy

• 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 G8 2009 in Italy, 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.

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In a time of International repression against activists all over the globe, we are calling out for letters of support and solidarity for anarchists arrested and facing severe repression after the G20 economic forum protests of November 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.

On the weekend of November 18 and 19, 2006, the G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The G20 meeting happens annually and is attended by finance ministers from 20 nations, including the USA, the European Union and China amongst others.

The G20 of 2006 was attended by Paul Wolfowitz, former World Bank leader and well known mastermind of the 'War on Terror', and the Energy and Minerals Business Council (comprised of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and other powerful mining and oil companies) which lobbied G20 delegates over a business lunch.

It was a meeting of neo-liberals pushing its economic/societal philosophy on the rest of the world, enriching its member nations at the expense of the rest of the world, and effecting global politics for the benefit of powerful corporations. Unsurprisingly, anarchists and anti-capitalists set out to disrupt the smooth-running of this meeting.

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Following a period of relative and alleged calmness, during the last months three searches throughout Northern Germany and the entire country resp. based on § 129 a Criminal Law (constitution of a terrorist organisation) against left-wing activists and structures have taken place.

On May 9th 2007, 40 objects and in total 18 suspects and so-called “witnesses” were affected by a search wave in the context of mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. According to the federal prosecution, they are supposed to have constituted a terrorist organisation to the end of implementing a militant campaign against the G8 summit. Four weeks later, on June 13th, another search action based on §129a against persons from Bad Oldesloe, Hamburg and Berlin took place. The suspects are charged with participation in anti-militarist attacks. Finally, on July 31st four persons have been arrested in Berlin because of alleged membership in the “mg” (militant group). Merely one suspect’s warrant of arrest has at least temporarily been overruled, not least due to great public pressure. The remaining three persons are still in the clink, exposed to special conditions of custody.

• OUR SOLIDARITY AGAINST THEIR REPRESSION
• AGAINST CAPITALIST NORMALITY

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Against a “Global Security Architecture”, for more security-critical behaviour!

In the recent months more information about the investigation methods of security forces has been revealed: data storage, online searches, so-called “textual analysis of political pamphlets“ (used in the paragrpah 129a investigations against anti-G8 activists in Germany) and so forth. Police and intelligence services want to attain unrestricted access to personal data and internet user profiles. Internet providers are now forced to save their data traffic long-term in order to relieve the police databases.

The debate around the introduction of biometrical passports has called into attention the fact that the industry has already developed complex surveillance systems: Iris-scanning, RFID chips (e.g. for supermarkets or on ID cards) or automatic facial recognition. In the context of border control “privileged travellers” are supposed to be able to cross borders “automatically”. The new “European Agency for the operative cooperation in the field of management of external borders” (FRONTEX) is in charge of assessing permanently the risks and dangers at the borders of the EU, and to provide more coordination and control. Technological armament is at the centre of the agency’s policies.

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Walking through cities connected to world distribution networks, we shift from one imaginary to the next, from Monoprix™ to UGC™, from Friskies™ to the Guggenheim™ or Pinault™ foundations to MacDonald's™. Each time we activate fields of relational, communicational or sensational possibilities, equivalent and interchangeable. The commodity-possibilities© offered by world supermarket culture are born of desires and needs conjured up by advertising and the media. They can only be actualized with the money we have at our disposal, through our work and our credit at the bank. The richest has a good chance of being right, because he's got the cash for it. He can create his own commodity-possibilities©, and impose them on everyone else. An equation associating truth, money, technology and power takes form: it allows you to work on your own indoctrination, your own subjection. Foucault speaks of "regimes of truth" by which he means the self-tightening circle in which the subjection of individuals and the production of subjectifying truths reinforce one another.

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Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.

A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.

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Mit einer gerichtlich verfügten massiven Beschneidung des Demonstrationsrechts wollte der Londoner Flughafen Heathrow Proteste gegen die Erweiterung des Airports verhindern. Doch die Richter ließen die Betreiber abblitzen - britische Umweltschützer jubeln über das Eigentor.

London - Hätte die British Airports Authority (BAA) mit ihrem Anliegen Erfolg gehabt, es wäre wohl die größte Beschneidung des Demonstrationsrechts in der Geschichte Großbritanniens geworden. Vor Gericht wollte die Betreibergesellschaft des Londoner Flughafens Heathrow eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirken, die Umweltschützer massiv an geplanten Protesten gegen den Ausbau des Airports gehindert hätte: Die Polizei hätte demnach Aktivisten von 15 Gruppen schon allein dafür verhaften können, wenn sie sich per U-Bahn zum Protest auf den Weg nach Heathrow gemacht und sie dies nicht 24 Stunden zuvor angekündigt hätten.

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Di 31.7. 16 Uhr Russische Botschaft Berlin, Unter den Linden 63-65

Trauer um Ilya Borodayenko

Am 20. Juli 2007 haben russische Neonazis ein Protestcamp von AtomkraftgegnerInnen in Angarsk in Sibirien überfallen. Mehrere AktivistInnen wurden schwer verletzt. Ilya Borodayenko, Anarchist, Antifaschist und Öko-Aktivist, starb am nächsten Tag im Krankenhaus an seinen schweren Verletzungen. FreundInnen, GenossInnen, AtomkraftgegnerInnen in Russland und auf der ganzen Welt trauern—wir haben einen von uns verloren, sinnlos ermordet von einer verbrecherischen Nazi-Bande. Wir werden ihn nicht vergessen. Wir werden seinen, unseren Kampf nicht aufgeben.

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