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- Verfassungsschutz MV, 18.08.2005
- Police Seize G8 Disorder Tapes
- Call for witnesses: Were you treated by street medics at the Carnival for Full
Enjoyment?

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Verfassungsschutz MV, 18.08.2005

Linksextremisten rufen zu gemeinsamen Aktionen gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 in
Heiligendamm auf (18.08.2005)

In jüngster Zeit wurde u.a. auf der eigens eingerichteten Internetseite
www.g8-2007.de ein mit "Diskutieren, Protestieren, Umzingeln, Blockieren"
überschriebener Aufruf zu gemeinsamen Aktionen gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 in
Heiligendamm veröffentlicht. Darin wird nachdrücklich die Notwendigkeit betont,
bereits jetzt gemeinsame Vorraussetzungen für "kraftvolle Tage des Widerstands"
zu schaffen.
Das "Gesamtprojekt G-8-Mobilisierung 2007" sei insgesamt so bedeutsam, dass
einzelne Strömungen oder Organisationen damit überfordert seien. Allein das
"Zusammenwirken Aller" eröffne die Möglichkeit, dass aus der angestrebten
Mobilisierung "mehr als ein einmaliges Ereignis" entstehe, nämlich ein
"Aufbruchsignal für eine sich neu formierende Bewegung", die wieder Kraft und
Selbstvertrauen besitze. Vor diesem Hintergrund werben die Verfasser für ein
unter möglichst großer Beteiligung gebildetes "Gesamtbündnis" gegen den
G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm. Als Unterzeichner des Aufrufs treten unter der
gemeinsamen Projektbezeichnung "Für eine interventionistische Linke" sowohl
Gruppierungen des militanten autonomen Lagers wie auch
revolutionär-marxistische Organisationen und Einzelpersonen auf. In den
vergangenen Monaten ist es im Lande bereits zu einzelnen themenbezogenen
Aktionen gekommen.

[http://www.verfassungsschutz-mv.de/pages/start.htm]


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Police Seize G8 Disorder Tapes

Police investigating disorder at the time of the G8 summit have used a court
order to seize TV footage from BBC Scotland and Scottish Television.
It is understood they also have a warrant to take tapes from Sky.
Police viewed the footage in advance and then took 15 tapes from the BBC offices
in Edinburgh on Monday morning and 10 from STV.
Demonstrations and violent clashes over the week of the G8 summit at Gleneagles
in July led to 358 arrests.
Some 10,000 officers from across the UK were drafted in as world leaders met in
Perthshire.

Safety concern
The week of the summit saw running battles on Edinburgh's Princes Street, on the
streets of Stirling and Bannockburn and at the summit security fence near
Auchterarder.
BBC Scotland lawyer Alistair Bonnington said that the corporation objected to
the breadth of material being requested.
He said: "We were successful in taking it right down to the minimum and also we
managed to get the powers of search taken out of the warrant."
Mr Bonnington said there was only so much that could be done in the face of a
warrant but he backed the idea of a stronger industry-wide strategy.
NUJ spokesman Paul Holleran told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme:
"It needs to be seen that the press is at arms-length from the state and
shouldn't be seen as a body that hands over material for information to the
police just willy-nilly."
Mr Holleran called on stronger criteria to protect the press in such cases.
"That's the second part of our concern, the health and safety aspect of
journalists who could be seen as being used by the police," he said.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4217096.stm]


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Call for witnesses: Were you treated by street medics at the Carnival for Full
Enjoyment?

We are two medics seeking the people we treated in Edinburgh on the 4th July, to
help with our forthcoming court case.

My medic partner and I were arrested at the Carnival For Full Enjoyment in
Edinburgh on the 4th July 2005, as part of the G8 protests. We had spent the
day working as street medics, treating about 15 injured people, and providing
water and food.

We were violently arrested by a snatch squad at about 5pm that day, and have
both been charged with Breach of the Peace. We are due in court in October.
When we were arrested we were inside a pen, watching for injuries and people in
distress.

The Crown has called three policemen who were part of the snatch squad to
testify against us, and it is up to us to find witnesses for our side.

Therefore, this is a call out for the following people:

Any of the 7 or 8 people we treated for spike wounds in Princes Park

Anyone we treated for other injuries, including two men with head wounds

Anyone who witnessed the arrest of two medics on Princes Street at around 5 o'
clock.

details - We are both women, I have an English accent and am reasonably short, I
was wearing a red tshirt or hoodie, black jeans with a studded belt, a medic kit
over my chest and another medic kit on my belt. I was clearly marked as a medic,
and was wearing a red headscarf and a red armband. I was also wearing a small
khaki canvas backpack.

My partner is taller and was wearing a black shirt. Her medic kit was a large
pack around her waist, and she wore a yellow backpack. She has dreadlocks and a
New Zealand accent. She was also wearing a red headscarf.

Our arrest took place on Princes Street, on the corner of the park. We were
surrounded by a snatch squad so probably not that visible, but we were both
screaming in pain, and my medic partner was shouting "we are not resisting".
Prior to this we had been standing together in the pen, and at one point I was
kneeling close to the line of riot police to try and see an injured man who was
handcuffed on the floor behind police lines.

If you saw us treating people, or we treated you or a friend, or you saw us in
the pen, or being arrested, please contact me at dr_abcde at hushmail.com. Your
evidence could be really helpful in this travesty of a court case - please help
show the courts that the police cannot brutalise and arrest clearly marked
medics and get away with it.

For more details of what happened, this is an interview we gave after being
released from custody.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/317485.html

many thanks, solidarity to all those arrested at the G8

medic on bail e-mail: dr_abcde at hush.com

[dr_abcde at hush.com]