[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] March 1st, Heiligendamm

[International Newsletter]

March 1st, Heiligendamm

- Overview of the Protests Against the G8 Summit
- Invitation for coordinating our moves towards the mobilisations against G8
- First Interplanetary Rebel Clown Army Mobilisation
- GDAY
- Convergence Center Hamburg
- Dissent Preparation Meeting! // Sunday 11th of March // Gent (B)
- Global Invitation and Call for alternative G8-radio-coverage!

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Overview of the Protests Against the G8 Summit

Resistance to the G8 summit in Rostock in June 2007 is taking shape. Capitalism,
the imperialist wars of the US - with the active help of the EU -, the Hartz IV
unemployment reforms, tuition fees and more all form part of the
anti-capitalist protests. The Action Plan for the period between June 2 and
June 8 has been carved out. Now, we - or rather, you - have to turn ideas and
plans into concrete proposals for action! Take part in the preparations! Get
active!

The main planning meetings for the protests against the G8 summit were two
"Action Conferences" that took place in Rostock in March and November 2006.
See: www.heiligendamm2007.de. Several hundred people from Austria, Belgium,
Bolivia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Nigeria, Poland,
Sweden, the USA and other countries gathered at each conference.

The participants were from all areas of the left. There were representatives
from anarchist and communist groups, leftist unions, Attac, various NGO's,
environmental and ecological groups, socialist parties (Linke.PDS),
anti-fascists, anti-racists and other groups from the social movements.

The conference resulted in the formation of Working Groups ('Arbeitsgruppen', or
AGs in German), which are preparing specific actions separately. Some of the
more important are the following:
1. AG Mass Demonstration - Saturday, June 2, 2007
2. AG G8, Agriculture and Genetic Technology - Sunday, June 3, 2007
3. AG Migration Action Day - Monday, June 4, 2007
4. AG Against Militarism, War and Torture - Tuesday, June 5, 2007
5. AG Mass Blockades - Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Additionally, there are various working groups that are dealing with practical
themes, for example the AG Camp(s), AG Nazis/Extreme Right-Wing and the G8, AG
Culture/Concerts, AG Alternative Summit.

1. AG Mass Demonstration - Saturday, June 2, 2007
The date for the mass demonstration in Rostock is Saturday, June 2, 2007. We
want to create a broad international mobilization and to lay the necessary
foundations for it. The mass demonstration should be an element of the summit
mobilisation that brings together all participants across the political
millues. It should express the multiplicity of the protest and of the
resistance against the G8.
Therefore, there should be political and organisational unity in the
demonstration, expressing mutual solidarity. On the one hand, this means that
we want a demonstration in which everyone - including families with kids if
possible - can participate and feel safe. On the other, it means that the
demonstration will react together and in solidarity in response to any possible
(police) attack against part of the demonstration.
Contact and further information: www.heiligendamm2007.de

2. AG G8, Agriculture and Genetic Technology - Sunday, June 3, 2007

The working group "G8, Agriculture and Genetic Technology," expanded at the last
conference in Rostock. Here are the planned actions:
- Beginning in March, an Info-Tour will head from Austria to Rostock. In the
cities in which the tour stops, actions will take place in public spaces and
information events will be held.
- On April 17, 2007, we will participate in the global day of action of "Via
Campesina" about land rights.
- On May 22, 2007 we will organize a day of action around the topic of "Seeds
and Biodiversity."
- On Sunday, June 3, 2007, we will call for a day of action. We will mobilise in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern but are also calling for solidarity action in other
localities and for an International Day of Action. Actions around the topic of
genetic technology have already been planned. We want to harvest the fields of
genetically modified produce around Rostock with as many people as possible.
- On Monday, June 4, 2007, actions in front of supermarkets are planned around
the topic of groceries.
Contact and further information:
dissentnetzwerk.org/wiki/Arbeitsgruppe_G8_und_Landwirtschaft
www.dosto.de/gengruppe/g8_2007/index.php
www.gendreck-weg.de
g8_landwirtschaft at yahoo.de

3. AG Migration - Monday, June 4, 2007

The following actions are planned:
- Before the G8 summit:
- Numerous information tours with activists from Eastern Europe, Africa and the
US
- Cooperation with EuroMayDay events (Hamburg, Berlin, Hanau and other places)
- Thematise the relationship between migration and precarity
- Caravan tour starts 1-2 weeks prior to the G8 summit and visits sites of
resistance
• During the protest in Rostock
- Bloc particularly dedicated to migration at the large demonstration on June 2.
- Transnational networking meeting on June 3
- Migration day of action on Monday, June 4 - decentralized actions,
demonstration and event in the evening
- Speakers and workshops at the alternative summit
Contact and further information: www.nolager.de

4. AG - Against Militarism, War and Torture - Tuesday, June 5, 2007
A central part is the blockade of the military airport of Rostock-Laage where
the politicians, advisers and other participants in the G8 summit will arrive.
In the summer of 2006 President Bush already traveled to Rostock through this
military airport.
Further dates:
• May 31, 2007 - Arrival at the camp of the "Euro-March" and the "Caravan for
the Rights of Immigrants"
• June 1, 2007 - Occupation of the "Bombodrom" land, in connection with the
actions at Rostock-Laage military airport. (The "Bombodrom" refers to a very
large military base in northern Germany between Berlin and Rostock, which is
used by NATO for exercises. It is the largest area in Europe for military
training with bombs and missiles.)
Contact and further information:
www.freieheide.de
www.g8andwar.de
www.freieheide-nb.de
g8undkrieg at so36.net

5. AG Blockades - Wed., June 6; Thursday, June 7; Friday, June 8 (beginning
Wednesday)
The Working Group was prepared by the Block G8 Coalition.
Block G8, first of all, presented the basis for the mass blockades:
-Effective blockades
-Open for activists with no experience
-Based upon mass participation
-To be followed through in a transparent way

The concrete realisation of this is still in process within the Coalition.
Independent of the concrete planning by Block G8, the fact remains: Lots of
different blockades by different milieus will happen. Block G8 is just one
amongst many. As a result, there is a necessity to co-ordinate and network
different blockade concepts.

Contact and further information: www.block-g8.org

[http://www.g8-2007.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=21]


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Invitation for coordinating our moves towards the mobilisations against G8

Invitation for coordinating our moves towards the mobilisations against G8 We
've already being in contact with various comrades from different groups in
Germany about organising public meetings with the aim of informing people in
Greece about the upcoming mobilisations in Germany against the summit of the
group of the 8 most powerful states of globe. The result until now is very
confusing for us... We are told of two groups coming on different dates in
Greece (one in March and the other in April), but we do not have a clear and
straightforward answer until now. We have expressed our will to organise such
public meetings in order to mobilize people from Greece to come in Germany.
This means that we can undertake the propaganda material for the meetings, the
spaces (usually university buildings or social centres), the internal traveling
and hospitality etc. The success of such public meetings is a prerequisite for
us in order to be able to undertake the work for mobilizing people to travel
organised in Germany, and not just as individuals which is possible without any
political and practical preparatory effort. And by traveling organised we mean
that after the end of the meetings and up until the summit we can use the
centres of our local assemblies as infopoints for the counter-summit, and then
if we manage to mobilise enough people to organise the means to travel
collectively (the last time this happened was in Genoa where there was a convoy
of 17 buses from Greece, organised by an array of different groups,
organisations and parties).
Our immediate goal is a collective coordination with our international comrades
for the success of blocking the G8 during this specific summit. But we have to
stress once more that our long-term aims are going beyond the spectacle of a
countersummit. These aims were already expressed in a previous email we've sent
out:
"The moments of direct action and confrontation in Prague, Genoa , Brussels ,
Seville and Evian were not adequate for us. There we didn't have enough time
for dialogue and future organising. We believe that the increasingly global
shape of totalitarianism cannot be combated by organising the Resistance only
on a national basis. That's why we would like to see something international to
be organised, not just a good demo and some street battles.
In this context we would like to invite people from different "political
platforms" in Germany so as to come here in Greece and have a series of public
discussions all over Greece (at least in the six cities where we have local
assemblies) about the situation in Germany with the G8 mobilisations, and about
any plans on coordinating on a permanent basis. Furthermore we believe that this
will mobilize more people in order to travel to Rostock."
We would like to know if there are any groups, organisations or alliances which
share common political intentions, and could send some people.

You can contact us either to this email or to the following phone numbers:
0030 6934506680 Fani
0030 6947739316 Danis
In solidarity,
AK Assembly of Salonica

[http://www.vision07.net/drupal/node/45]


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First Interplanetary Rebel Clown Army Mobilisation

Dear Clowns!
It is with great pleasure that we launch this call for an *interplanetary rebel
clown army* mobilisation around the G8 summit that will take place in Germany
at the start of June 2007.

The Summit will take place in *Heiligendamm*, Germany from 6th to 8th Germany.
It brings together the leaders of the 8 self-decalred most powerful nations on
Earth. They will plan the further domination of people and the planet...

This mail sets out a *timetable* for the events where you might be able to find
other rebel clown army gaggles, and other events that you might want to get
involved with!

It also includes a couple of ideas for a "*clown logic*" that we might use as
the basis for actions. Feedback is very welcome, before the call gets spread
much wider (once some practical things are known).

There are is some practical information, but more news will come on that.

This is not the final plan for the clowns at the G8.
It is a first attempt.

*Be creative. Send us your ideas. Tell us if you're interested in coming!

General contact point for actions:*
- beaclown at online.de
- lt_fox at gmx.net

In the run up to the summit, there are *many actions* being planned in the
region.
Here is a proposal for how clowns might get involed.

*Clown Caravan*
The G8 mobilisation begins with a caravan of Rebel Clowns from Wendland to
Heiligendamm. The caravan begins on 28th May, and will arrive at the Bombodrom
in time to prepare the actions there. If you're interested in joining, contact:
traumzirkus at web.de or +49 (0)175 9620785

*1st June: Bombomdrom
*An action is being prepared for 1st June at the Bombodrom, an area of land that
NATO wants to use as a bombing practice area. If the plans go ahead, it will be
the largest and most important military area in Europe. There has been
resistance against this plan by local people for many years, and the action is
supported by many non-violent action groups, under the slogan: "From Bombodrom
via Rostock-Laage to Heiligendamm"

This will be a great place to bring rebel clowns/clown army together, especially
people who want to get to the area before the start of the summit to make some
plans. The goal is a mass mobilisation of clowns.
The practical details (meeting point and time, accommodation etc.) should be
known soon.

We would like to plan some common elements for this action, that bring clowns
together, including some common manouvres that we can do, and common visual
aspects.

A couple of ideas for Clown Logic:

*The Clown's BomBomDrom!*
Well, dear Clowns, the actual, bad and awful B is situated in Brandenburg,
nearby Wittstock, about 80 km in the NorthWest of Berlin (and about 100km away
from Rostock). That is an area of the former GDR. You should like to know that
the 1st of June, the main Action Day at Bombodrom, was the International Day of
Children or "Children's Day" for forty years - and a lot of people are still
celebrating this special day up to now. So, there will be involved some local
groups to offer something special for the little participants at this Action
Day - for example the "Commitee for Basic Rights" with an international
collection of signatures of children which is called "Holidays from War"; or a
music group called "Lebenslaute" - Sounds of Life what means also Lute of
Life... That means, on one hand, the Clowns do not have to fear to become the
FunProgramme for kids - and: We have to make sure that they will not stick to
the lovely Clowns, because there are some "Blindgänger" (explosive rests of
military stuff) on the area of the real Bombodrom which was used by the Soviet
Army till 1989! (You will get strategic maps of the area...)

The Action Day is announced as the Day of New Settlement and of Civil
Re-Occupation. So, on the other hand: Let us use this chance to build our own
Clown's BomBomDrom! Our own playground and airport... - We could construct our
own TargetPyramides. The Army set one big pyramide at their B - as the target
for their destructive power - and a local female artist prepared similar wooden
models of it to spread the protest wider by using this symbol: "Every target is
a home" is the slogan of the protesters - and the aim is to make as much as
possible of these pyramides pink!
The Clown's Bombomdrom pyramides could be of shimmering and brilliant colours
and will be best scaffoldings for climbing! And - we might have our own bombs:
*WaterBombs, StinkBombs, IcecreamBoms, Bonbons, ColourBombs, ConfettiBombs,
SmokeBombs...*

It is also advantageous that the 1st of June is a Friday- so that people who
will not have the time and space to attend the following days of the G8-Protest
could also come just for that action day. And, for those Clowns who will have
the energy, time and possibility: It might be the best to meet a few days
before the first of June in case we will have the better accomodation together
then - and to get the chance to prepare something in advance...
Two of the BicycleCaravan have also announced they are coming - the G8-Bikeride
Karawane will arrive there at 24.5. and the Gr8Chaoskaravaan at 30.5.07...

*First Interplanetary Rebel Clown Army Mobilisation*
Rebel clowns from of the other 8 planets in the solar system (the P8?) are upset
with the direct that the Earth is taking, and have decided to visit the G8
meeting in Heiligendamm to make their objections clear. They are especially
unhappy with the emerging threat from the self-proclaimed leaders of the "rogue
planet" earth, as the rest of the galaxy is organised non-hierarchically.
It is clear that "resistance from below" needs a bit of help with some
"resistance from above".

The mobilisisation of an interplanetary rebel clown army obviously needs a
parking space for rebel clown army space ships. And *what better place to park
your space ships than the Bombomdrom*?

The pink pyramids (already a symbol of resistance at the Bombodrom) are a great
"beacon" to guide the spaceships.
We can call for rebel clown army gaggles from Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn,
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Bring something to show which planet your gaggle is from.

[ g8andwar.de | freieheide.de | freieheide-nb.de | sichelschmiede.org |
euromarches.org]

*2nd June: mass demonstration in Rostock.
*We don't propose a mass clown call for the big demonstration in Rostock, as it
is too soon after the Bombomdrom action.
But, it would be good to make plans for clowns who want to go there, and to the
other actions.
[ g8-germany.info | attac.de/heiligendamm07 ]


*3rd June: Agriculture action day; Start of an international week of actions
against G8
*[ gendreck-weg.de | dosto.de/gengruppe/g8_2007]

*4th June: Migration action day
*[ gendreck-weg.de | dosto.de/gengruppe/g8_2007 ]

*5th June: Action at Rostock-Laage Airport
*On 5th June there will be an anti-militarist action at Rostock-Laage military
airport, where many of the G8 leaders will arrive.
Clowns may move there on the way to Heiligendamm.
We could use the idea of the interplanetary rebel clown army again here.
This action (and the other actions before the G8) can be put in the context of a
"sightseeing tour" for visitors from the other planets.

[ g8andwar.de | dissentnetwork.org | freieheide.de | www.freieheide-nb.de |
sichelschmiede.org ]

*Blockades are being planned for the 4th-7th, autonomous rebel clown army
actions are possible.
*[ http://kreativerstrassenprotest.twoday.net/ | www.x-tausendmalquer.de |
clownarmy.org ]

*7th June: Star March to Heiligendamm, from Nienhagen, Kühlungsborn, Bad
Doberan, Kröpelin
*What could be a better place for our interplanetary rebel clown army guests
than a "Star March"?
The clowns will pick an arm of the "Star-March", for a mass mobilisation of the
clowns.
The exact plan for of action can be planned by clowns who arrive in advance.

Information on the camps and more practical info will come later via the general
contacts (they have contact with camp working group), let them know if you want
to receive this info! There are plans for two (or more) camps - and it is quite
important which camp the clowns would chose (see the websites about the
different groups and movements which are in with the preparation of the
protests...)

We also plan to work out a standard training for new groups and existing groups
who want to prepare for the G8.
This still needs to be worked out, but there are people who have been trained to
be trainers in Gent. People from this group may be willing to travel to your
region, to give this training.

*And Now... some questions for you!
*We want to know if clowns are willing to come, and with how many?
Does this action idea interest you?
What support do you need?
What support can you give? (people willing to do "office" support or practical
support in the area before the action)
What format should the international call take?
Please give feedback within 2 weeks, as we plan to send an international call
more widely, once more practical info is known

[http://wendlandclown.twoday.net/]


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GDAY

ON THE BALTIC SEA INVASION
BY THE CLOWN LIBERATION NAVY
Clown Liberation Navy
Koalition der Willenlosen
might or might not set in action

A

Liberating Invasion Concerted Clown Action Aiming At Seaside Security

Operation L.I.C.C.A.A.A.S.S. Invasion is Liberation!

Target point of landing: 54° 8' 34" N, 11° 50' 39" O

exact date to be sceduled

[http://wendmark.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/clownarmyinvasion.pdf]


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Convergence Center Hamburg

dear people,

in the context of the mobilisation against the G8 summit from the 6th to the 8th
of June in Heiligendamm we plan to set up Convergence Centers ("places to
gather") in Rostock, Berlin and Hamburg. In addition to the camps we want to
create solid spaces for those arriving and a platform for open participation of
activists from other cities and countries.

Why do we need a convergence center in hamburg during the of 26th of may and the
10th of june 2007? Since the Worldbank summit in Prague in 2000 Convergence
Centers have been set up by local structures to support protests against events
of symbolic concentration of power.

Expecting the G8-Meeting close to our city a local anti-G8-structure developed
during the last years (particularly after the G8-summit in 2005 in Scotland)
and led after the Camp Inski in summer 2006 to the idea of a Convergence Center
in Hamburg in the Rote Flora. Based on the concept of decentral actions as well
as the countrywide demand to use the anti-G8-protest for putting local
political struggles into a global context, the Convergence Center Hamburg (CCH)
can be another step towards a local political continuity, which enhances
structures in Hamburg and transnational networking even beyond this year's
summit. Activists can arrive from the week prior to the summit to get organized
and be mobilized to Heiligendamm for the days of the summit. Because of the new
police law of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern we cannot eliminate the possibilty of
"Gebietsverweise" (being expelled of the area), which could force many
acitivists back into Hamburg or Berlin. Therefore the CCH will not close with
the end of the summit, but stay open for a few more days and enable a wrap-up
of the days of protest. Of course we hope that the Convergence Centers
generally offer spaces to react solidly on repression.

An important factor for choosing this time-period is also the ASEM-meeting of
EU-mininsters of foreign affairs with their counterparts from 16 asian
countries, which will take place in Hamburg on th 28th and 29th of May. This
meeting - like other EU-meetings- is directly connected with the G8-summit,
which amongst other things can be seen in the topics of the meetings:
Privatisation, extension of the fortress europe, preparation of wars, cutback
of data protection, patents and and the renaissance of nuclear power. Fitting
into the context of local struggles and anti-G8-protest, the planned days of
action in Hamburg and a big demonstration in those days can also be understood
as a warm-up for the G8-summit.

As part of the Anti-G8-Mobilisation there will be several caravans passing and
stopping in Hamburg. The bicycle-caravan will already arrive in the CCH on the
23th/24th of May. So how will it look like here? An infopoint connected with
Rostock and Berlin will inform you about actions, camps and demonstrations. You
can find places to sleep in the beds-bourse, have food for action in the 'vokü',
recover in a relaxation room and find First Aid support. Furthermore there will
be several workshops of which "paramedic" and "legal support" are already
organized. Indymedia will supply technical equipment to spread and translate
news and interpreters of preferably many languages will provide information and
plenaries for everyone.

For all of this we need your advice, contacts, ideas and help from now on. The
preparation takes a lot of energy and work and it has become clear that
criminalization cannot be ruled out. Even more important it seems to us, is
that many different political groups and individuals join this project.

The Convergence Centers play a basic role in the coordination of protests. They
are not only a solidary contribution especially for international activists,
but are themselves spaces in which protest and another form of collectivity can
be experienced. The legitimate resistance against the G8-policies has a global
claim and cannot be halted through local repression. As an open space organised
autonomously and democratically the Convergence Center offers room for
discussions on chances and problems of the protest-movement, motivation and
direct exchange with people we cannot meet every day.

We still need: • Action-Food-Groups • Interpreters (for internet and during the
summit) • places to sleep • donations of material (textiles, pencils, colours,
umbrellas, dishes, bicycles etc) • Transport for Shuttle to Mecklenburg
Vorpommern • people to placard and spread flyers • Workshops for the CCH •
Donations of money on the account: Netzwerk Selbsthilfe e.V., Konto 740 388
7000, BLZ 100 900 00, Berliner Volksbank IMPORTANT: Subject "Convergence
Center" Please contact us • www.hamburg.dissentnetzwerk.org • Email:
convergence-hh[AT]nadir.org • Or put messages in the CCH-Postbox in the Rote
Flora

Every 2. sunday of the month the Anti-G8 Info-Café takes place in the Hafenvokü
(Hafenstraße). Different themes and forms of protest concerning the G8 are
introduced and discussed, there is an information-wall of the CCH and there is
space for exchange whilst having coffee and cakes.

So join in and contribute, help us with the preparation, ask us, be solidary and
come together...good night G8!

[www.hamburg.dissentnetzwerk.org]


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Dissent Preparation Meeting! // Sunday 11th of March // Gent (B)
(the preparation meeting adjoins to the Alternative Bookfair to be held on
Saturday 10th in Gent)

>From 6th till 8th of June, 8 leaders from the 7 richest countries (+ Russia)
will come together for their annual meeting. This year, the summit is to be
held in Heiligendamm, in the North East of Germany. They will transform the
small coast village into a fortified fort: submarines, a security fence and
massive police force/army presence will 'shield' the leaders from the outside
world. Although uninvited, we will also be happy to be present to convert the
region into an oasis of resistance! Not only from 6th till 8th, but we will be
present from 28th of May till 9th of June. Ten days long we will let them and
the world know that we would rather prefer their meeting not to happen.

Stop G8 / BLOCK G8 / Another world order, NOW!

On Sunday 11th of March, Dissent Belgium (www.dissent.be *) will organize a
concrete action and preparation meeting in Gent (B). We are convinced that if
we want better chances for successful actions, we should prepare ourselves well
and well in advance. The meeting will bring together people who are interested
to take part in the protests (both locally as well as in Germany). It will be a
place where actions can be planned, affinity-groups can be formed and people can
get into contact with each other. We strongly encourage people from other
countries to come as it will enhance our strength, networking and concrete
plans for the future.

On Saturday 10th of March, an anti-g8 info-session will also be held at the
alternative bookfair: (http://www.spin.be/aboekenbeurs). We will be present
there with a booth.

PROGRAMME:

SATURDAY 10 th OF MARCH

6th International Alternative Bookfair and Art happening
(http://www.spin.be/aboekenbeurs )

LECTURE AT 14:30 (in red room)

On June 6, 7 and 8, the leaders of the eight richest countries meet at the G8
summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. On the official agenda the core-business of
the G8: the crisis in the Doha-round of trade liberalisation, intellectual
property rights and the climate and energy issue. The Dissent! network
mobilizes for radical direct action against the summit. Kriss Sol, active in
the preparation of the actions, speaks about what there is to happen and local
Dissent! groups present us their plans. http://dissentnetwork.org //
www.dissent.be // www.dissent.nl // www.gipfelsoli.org

SUNDAY 11th OF MARCH

START AT 2 PM

14h00 till 15h30: Workshop session 1

A close look at the G8
What the hell are the G8 countries doing? We take a close look at discriminating
policies from the richest industrial countries: Canada, France, Germany, Russia,
US, Italy, UK and Japan. Get to know the facts: big military budgets, not
respected Kyoto norms, high poverty rates in the home country, limited
development budgets, etc..

(Il)legal in Germany
What are the legal certainties and uncertainties for activists during the coming
G8-summit in Germany? What are the possibilities and limits in June...

16h00 till 17h30: Workshop session 2

Building websites
This workshop focuses in the first place on the Belgian Dissent website. We need
more people to update and to work for the website. The workshop gives an easy
introduction to make people able to work for it. Furthermore the workshop will
of course be useful for other web-projects in the future.

How blockading?
This workshop wants to give a complete overview of different possible blockading
techniques. The speaker will specifically focus his workshop on the protests
against the G8.

18h00: Soup
18h30: DISSENT INTERREGIONAL MEETING
20h00: Food
21h00: Anti-g8 café (with movies/games)

Other suggestions for workshops are always welcome!

PRACTICAL:
Where? @ AC: Sparrestraat 1A, 9000 Gent. Easily reachable from the railway
station Gent-Sint-Pieters with: Tram 4 (Stop: Brugsepoort) and change to bus 3
(stop: Bevrijdingslaan) or straight with: bus 9 (stop: Biezenstuk)
(www.delijn.be ?reisinfo ? routeplanner or www.map24.be)

Registration? Not obligatory, but would be nice! stopg8 at gmail.com

Sleeping places? No problem: please e-mail us or come forward to the
Dissent-booth at the Alternative bookfair

[stopg8 at gmail.com]


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Global Invitation and Call for alternative G8-radio-coverage!

[german - francais - catalan - italiano below]

On the occasion of the G8-summit 2007, various counter-events and actions are
scheduled to take place in Northern Germany. At the start of a week of protests
(2nd to 8th June) approx. 100.000 people are expected in Rostock and the
surrounding area of the official venue of the summit (Heiligendamm). This will
include a large number of journalists and media activists.

The German association of Free Radio Broadcasters (BFR) and the european branch
of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-Europe) are
issuing a global call to participate in alternative G8-radio-coverage!

We want to create a jointly organised and co-ordinated program of different
radios and radio groups to broadcast in as many languages as possible. The
basis of coverage is non-commercial and emancipatory. This also means critical
self-analysis of activities by the movement of those who are opposed to
globalisation in its current form.

The purpose of the coverage is to have continuous production of short
radiosegments and (live)broadcasts. The program developed on the spot will be
streamed via internet by as many radio stations as possible and transmitted
locally. The broadcast location will most likely be in an independent media
centre in Rostock. Four or five internet-audio-streams are planned to allow
simultaneous multilingual broadcasts. Depending on needs and possibilities,
there will be additional production sites. (Please bring your own notebook
computers, recorders and equipment.) In order to allow "correspondents" or
interested private individuals to participate, we advise registering by April
30th (see below). Broadcasts and segments can also be produced in advance. The
deadline is April 30th. Prior to the start of the protests, a multilingual
"raise your voice" - program will inform people about the impact of neo-liberal
politics on the local context of your radio stations. The goal is also a
critical examination of (new) social movements. We are interested to see what
social struggles have produced what experiences? What role does / did your
radio station play in this process?

We also aim to make this co-operation a space for social interaction and to
provide an opportunity to reflect on the different practice of free radios.
Active co-operation during such major events means creating (counter-)
publicity. This can be achieved by using structures and means of production
that reach beyond the influence of money and goods, e.g. horizontal
organizational structures, co-production, copyleft (free of copyright
restrictions). We want self- responsibility to create non-discriminatory
broadcasts! No racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, war-mongering or other
misanthropic content will be broadcast.

You are heartily welcome!
We need your support!
You can also participate by:

- circulating this announcement
- pers. / techn. commitments, setting up g8-editorial staff
- taking responsibility for many little duties in Rostock
- participating in a preparatory conference Rostock III 13.-15.04.07 -
www.heiligendamm2007.de (ger../engl.)

contact (engl./span./french/ger.): g8 [at] freie-radios.de
Internet: www.freie-radios.de / www.amarc.org

Support for travel costs can not be guaranteed for the moment. Perhaps with the
help of donations? (see account details below)

Bundesverband Freier Radios
c/o Radio Unerhört Marburg
R.-Bultmann-Str. 2b
35039 Marburg
Germany

Donation-account:
Bank: OSPA Rostock
adr.: Am Voegenteich 23
acc.-name: RadioForum
IBAN: DE22130500000200068180
SWIFT: NOLADE21ROS
(tax-deductible)
catchword: broadcasting
or: legal aid
or: travel costs

supported by:
World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi, Kenya

P.S.:
If this invitation serves for applications of visas: The BFR is not responsible
for travel or stay of participants.


The call in German
http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr-aktuell/deutsch-BFR-AMARC-Aufruf1.pdf,
http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr-aktuell/Oesterreich_Schweiz-BFR-AMARC-Aufruf1.pdf
Catalan:
http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr-aktuell/espaniol-BFR-AMARC-llamamiento1.pdf
Francais:
http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr-aktuell/francaise-BFR-AMARC-appel1.pdf
Italiano:
http://www.freie-radios.de/bfr-aktuell/italiano-BFR-AMARC-Invito1.pdf