[gipfelsoli] St. Petersburg

[gipfelsoli-l at lists.nadir.org]

The Group for Legal Support of the Network Against G8 (NAG8)

The Group for Legal Support of the Network Against G8 (NAG8) was founded at the
international coordination meeting of NAG8 in february 2006. The main tasks of
group are: - information gathering about repression against people and groups
who are suspected of protests preparing for the summit G8 in St.Petersburg -
legal and informational support of people who are aim of repression - spreading
information about cases of persecution of participants of protests and
participants of protests preparation process. We completely share foundations
of Network Against G8. We need help of professional lawyers and translators.

Contact: piter.legal [at] yahoo.com (russian, english and / or german)

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At 15th of July the first G8 summit in russian history is starting in
St.Petersburg. 3 years ago the city was allready crowded by police because of
300. anniversary, happenings were not allowed and one month befor the
celebration visa were no longer available. This meant, visa-needing foreigners
were not able to get shorttimed access to russia regulary. Similair strategies
can be expected by russian gouverment for the G8 summit. On an international
coordination meeting of anarchist and libertarian structures in Kiev a legal
support group was founded, which wants to deal with concrete antirepression
activism and international publicity the next months. In detail it is about
questions about laws in russia, about the installation of legal observers, who
should support against estatal violence and about border caused problems.
Additionally we want to build up an distribution to inform sympatising groups
and media about our work and about concrete repression of state while the
summit takes place and for solidarity-appeals. we need utterly people, who can
translate different languages quickly and who are easy reachable via mail. We
collect media contacts, search for potentional legal observers and groups, who
can share their experiences (f.e. written material) with us. In russia there is
no comparable structure like f.e. at the summit in Scottland, we need medical
first aid groups and best professional doctors or ambulance skilled people, who
could help local people with skillsharing. Our aim is, to demand freedom of
opinion and to work against repression with international solidarity. Therefor
we need a lot of support, especially meanwhile the summit in St.Petersburg, but
also while the planned "warm up" week befor in moscow takes place. Even if you
are not able to come to russia at all, there are options to support. At the
14th of July there will be a global action day, which is planned to take place
decentral around the world. We will need your solidarity eventhough in front of
russian embassies in as much cities as possible.