[Pressrelease] G8: Bicycle Caravan reaches polish-german border

[Presswork G8 2007 (english)]

*Press release* 

May 13th 2007 

ShakeG8! Bikeride reaches polish-german border 

On Wednesday, 16th May 2007 at 2 pm the ShakeG8! Bicycle Caravan will dance 
down the polish-german border Krajnik Dolny / Schwedt. With an uncontrolled 
border crossing the activists are declaring their belief in  total freedom 
of movements for all people. 

The members of the bike caravan are against borders and nations in general 
as well as their implications. 

"While the average German can just hop over to Czech Republic quickly to  
fill up on fuel, there are people dying daily, attempting to cross the 
fences of Fortress Europe" says Paolo, one of the Cyclists. In capitalism, 
borders serve as arbitrary constructs in order to maintain the divides  
between rich and poor, Winners and Losers, exploitables and the superfluous. 
Moreover, borders would deprive the majority of humanity of the essential 
right of free movement, their self-determination. 

The bikers see the summit of the G8 states in Heiligendamm as a symbol for 
the direction of global developments according to capitalist interests. For 
example, the lowering of trade duties only to the benefit of the  global 
players, whilst the outside borders of for example the European Union would 
be hermetically sealed against the unwanted. For Paolo, these developments 
are closely linked, "The actions of the G8 such as  overflowing the african 
markets with cheap agricultural products or the privatisation of natural 
resources such as water are some of the reasons for people being forced to 
flee their homes." 

In Krajnik Dolny/ Schwedt the caravan is going to cross the fourth border  
since it started in Budapest on the 1st of April. The activists want to use 
the two months of their journey to create a space which is poor in 
hierarchies and in which everybody can contribute and express 
himself/herself freely. The ShakeG8! - Bikeride is one of six bike  caravans 
which are on their way to Heiligendamm from all over Europe. They expect 
problems when entering Germany as the Schengen treaty is going to be 
suspended before and during the G8 summit. Paolo, who himself is not  from 
Europe, points out: "The border police will notice the different colours of 
our passports pretty quickly. We don't really care about that - after two 
monts of cycling all feet are stinking equally." 

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