[imc-presse] [Int-press-g8] PRESS ADVISORY: Today's Protests Against G8

[int-press-g8 at lists.nadir.org]

For Immediate Release

Media G8Way - International Press Group
g8-press-int at nadir.org
49 16092437902 (Alex Smith)
49 015774630348 (Jo Smith)

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Daily Advisory for the Week of Protest Against G8

Information about the June 2nd Demonstrations

Two major demonstrations are planned for June 2nd; a mass march against
the G8 in Rostock and an Anti-fascist mobilization in Schwerin to
counter a Neo-Nazi march lead by the German Nationalist Party.

Demonstration in Rostock:

The Demonstration will begin at 12pm. It will start in two different
places, following separate routes before uniting at the harbor for a
final rally. The rally will include speeches and a concert. The first
branch starts directly at the Central Railway station at the "Platz der
Freundschaft” and will march through the center of the city. The second
branch of the demonstration starts at Schutower Kreuz / Hamburger Strass
and will follow a route through industrialized areas of the city.

Demonstration in Schwerin:

Beginning at 10 am antifascists from Germany and beyond will mobilize
against a right-wing extremist march which has been registered by the
German Nationalist Party (NPD). Also against the G8, the NPD hopes to
promote its own self interest and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories by
manipulating the public fears and growing insecurities created by
neoliberal economic policies.

Anti-fascist activist Gerhard Hahn: “This development has to be stopped.
On June 2nd we will hold a resolute demonstration to prevent
nationalists, anti-semitists and Holocaust revisionists from spreading
their misplaced anticapitalism to a broad public...Our aim is to make
visible the anti-fascist character of the alterglobalization movement
and our ideas for an emancipatory society.” Although the march had been
officially banned by the police due to an insufficient police units, a
court ruled Thursday that the demonstration will be allowed to take place.

The meeting point for the antifascist demonstration is at 10am at the
Spieltordamm (the north shore of the Pfaffenteich).

Contact: Antifascist Alliance Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
0176-76067918
www.demo-schwerin.tk

Background: At the beginning of June 2007, the governments of the seven
most important industrialized countries and Russia will meet for the ‘G8
Summit’ at the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany. In recent
years a rising tide of international resistance against this
self-appointed informal world government and its agenda of neoliberal
globalization has forced it’s meetings into further secluded areas,
employing security forces of historical proportion.

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Contact:
Alex Smith +49 16092437902
Jo Smith + 49 015774630348
g8-press-int at nadir.org
http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/2669