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- IMPORTANT information for G8 defendants with trial dates
- Updated summary G8 summit in Petersburg

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IMPORTANT information for G8 defendants with trial dates

>>PLEASE CIRCULATE TO RELEVANT LISTS >>

This is IMPORTANT information for G8 defendants with trial dates due soon to
make sure that they check their dates have not been changed or cancelled!

The legal support group has been contacted by some defendants whose trials were
due to begin to say that they were not informed of the change and had already
paid in advance for transport. This will obviously be *particularly important*
if you were planning to attend a trial and are coming from outside the UK.

The daily court rolls can be checked online at;
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/locations/index.asp?crt=per&val=rolls
though defendants should also check with their solicitor or the court to be
sure.

[international-g82005]


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Updated summary G8 summit in Petersburg

Cheers to everyone!

Here is an updated summary of some discussions concerning the resistance to G8
summit in Petersburg.

Keep in touch and best wishes
Zhenya, Petersburg

Updated version - 19th of September 2005.

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Some questions of resistance to G8 summit in Petersburg - as discussed in
Otradny protest camp and in Petersburg (August-September 2005)

Please note that we are just in the beginning of our discussions so nothing is
decided clearly yet!

1. It was proposed to create a Russian-language e-mail list, moderated and not
open for just everyone.
There already exists an international English-language list -
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/g8-2006 - but nothing much has happened there
yet - as you can see (as of mid-September).

2. There is a proposal to start a campaign against Russia's entry into WTO
(which might happen already in December 2005 in Hong Kong) and then "transform"
this campaign into anti-G8 one.

3. We should think of the goal of protests - should we try to disrupt the summit
or just express our disagreement with G8 authorities' policies? There is also a
proposal to demand Russia's exclusion from G8.

4. We should also think how to mobilise local (Petersburg) people for the
actions.

5. Technical question - we will need our own printing facilities. We also suffer
from lack of space for our meetings (there is now a new small squat, but it
doesn't solve the problem).

6. Most probably some DISSENT-like network will be created in Russia. Most of
the people who participated in the discussions are in favor of autonomous
antiauthoritarian organising and are against cooperation with political parties
like communists of all sorts or National-Bolshevik Party, who are sure to plan
some anti-G8 actions by themselves. We need to come up with some name for this
network, not necesarily copying something like DISSENT. (Comment from
compilator: anyway, most people are not very familiar with practice of DISSENT
and PGA due to language barrier etc.) This year we plan to organise again a
festival called "Black Petrograd" (on November 11-13th), and not later than
this date this "national" network should be created.

7. While we have no plans to cooperate with political parties etc., we should
somehow be in contact ith them and exchange informations on what's going on.
E.g. if our actions take place simultaneously, they should be in different
locations or we shall somehow discuss such things with them (communists etc.)
in advance.

8. An idea for international networking - as Ukraine canceled visas for EU and
US citizens, there is a proposal to organize some sort of international
netorking meeting(s) there (Russians need no visas as well).

9. Information for the activists from other countries who need a visa to Russia
and would like to come to the protests. Making invitations, visas and
registrations through commercial touristic firms is recommended. E.g. personal
invitations from Russian citizens are processed NOT LESS than one month, if not
done through touristic firm. Invitations from organisations like NGOs etc. could
worsen their relationship with Russian authorities if things go wrong.

10. During the summit in Petersburg any street actions most probably WILL NOT
not be permitted / sanctioned by the city authorities. We shall be ready to
make non-sanctioned demostrations, small-scale (simultaneous) actions in
different parts of the city, maybe some conference etc. Being repressed and
detained by the police will be very possible for the protesters in most cases.

11. During the summit itself we will probably need the following groups to be
active: human rights / legal advice group (this is probably the most difficult
task); street medics group (there are already some people ready to deal with
this question); public relations group; informaton work group.

12. Most probably there will be no centralised convergence center or a camp,
because such things are easily controlled and blocked by cops.

Text compiled by Evgueni Oregon (Petersburg; zilonis at newmail.ru), with the much
appreciatd help of Uliana and Russian Indymedia collective.

Many of the above mentioned questions were discussed in protest camp in Otradny
(Samara region) by members of Rainbow Keepers (radical environmentalist
network) and other activists from Russia, Belarus and Germany. Further
discussions took place in Petersburg in September, more than 30 people from
local anarchist scene participated in them.

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