G-8 Protesters Block Roads to Summit

[Joanne98]

Source: Spiegel

Police in Germany experienced a setback on Wednesday as thousands of G-8 protesters made their way through fields and forests to penetrate security lines to demonstrate near the massive security fence erected for the event. Protests had been prohibited from taking place near the fence.

Months prior to this year's G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, anti-globalization activists said they wanted to blockade the event. On Wednesday, despite security precautions the likes of which Germany hasn't seen in decades, they did. With street blockade after sit-in protest after march, thousands of protesters managed to block a number of the roads leading in to the Baltic Sea resort, even succeeding in marching right up to the fence surrounding the venue.

In the end, the authorities had no other choice than to shift to plan B. While the world leaders arriving at the summit flew comfortably to the Kempinski Hotel at Heiligendamm in helicopters, hundreds of journalists were unable to get anywhere near the site. For hours, they waited for streets to be cleared. Even the train intended to take journalists from the press center in Kühlungsborn to the summit venue was blocked. Ultimately, ships were brought in to ferry them the final stretch to the G-8 meeting.

"The plan was civil disobedience and to block access to the G-8," said 38-year- old protester Andreas, shortly after he was dragged from a street just east of the summit venue by riot-gear-clad police. "I think it was a success. It was a clear message that there are many of us who disagree with the G-8 and with their policies."




Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,487113,00.html

[EFerrari]

1. Good.

[EClark5483]

2. It's war over there

At least that is the words from a German on a site I visit often.

He has posted some pretty good pictures of the scenes.

http://www.newsucks500.com/viewtopic.php?t=637

and

http://www.newsucks500.com/viewtopic.php?t=682

Edit: I of course, do not recommend any other reads on THAT particular site. :-(

[deutsey]

3. You mean they didn't follow a pre-determined protest march route?

:sarcasm:

[cyberpj]

12. Or stay in their designated protest pens?

[goclark]

4. Tucker and Wolfie must not have gotten the news

I haven't seen anything but a blink of the eye clip.

[0007]

5. ....as always

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,887752,00.jpg

Police in Germany experienced a setback on Wednesday as thousands of G-8 protesters made their way through fields and forests to penetrate security lines to demonstrate near the massive security fence erected for the event. Protests had been prohibited from taking place near the fence.

Outwitting the police: protesters at the G-8 summit in Germany managed to sneak past officials to the security fence at Heiligendamm. Germany's highest court on Wednesday reaffirmed a ban on protests in the area.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,887019,00.jpg

[EClark5483]

6. I wonder why

this doesn't get more news covereage.. I mean yeah, you have some of the things, but not the real stuff going on.

[0007]

14. Guess who owns the media.....guess who support the fat cats

that get rich beyond the imagination on war and fucking third world counties in the name of democracy?

[lovuian]

7. They don't have enough prisons or police to contain

thousands and soon to me more and more....
Germany and the World got a wake up call

[Eugene]

8. (Thursday) German police capsize protesters' boats at G8

Source: Reuters

German police capsize protesters' boats at G8
07 Jun 2007 12:06:24 GMT
Source: Reuters

-snip-

By Knut Engelmann

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 7 (Reuters) - Police rammed two
inflatable boats that breached a security zone around a Baltic
sea resort where world leaders were meeting on Thursday,
capsizing the rubber dinghies and injuring three activists.

A spokesman for environmental pressure group Greenpeace said
the boats had attempted to deliver a message to Group of Eight
(G8) leaders gathered in a luxury hotel in Heiligendamm to commit
to measurable targets for cuts in greenhouse emissions.

Four protesters ended up in the Baltic waters after a high-speed
sea chase by police boats, while police helicopters clattered
overhead. The protesters' boats were impounded.

Greenpeace said it had put 11 rubber boats in the waters around
Heiligendamm, but none had managed to reach the summit venue.
Several of its activists had been detained by police.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07748143.htm

[annabanana]

9. Corpomedia insist on saying "about a thousand" protesters

at the G8 Summit.

I would love to see some overheads from less compromised sources..

[Supersedeas]

10. and now back to Paris and Lohan

[gorbal]

11. I know, lets talk about the REAL news

Who cares about important subjects that effect us all when sociopathic socialites are having a bad day.

[HonorTheConstitution]

13. No, It's NOT war over there...

For the small minded brain washed and from real news deprived American who only watches Faux News it must look like war: But it is NOT:

- Most demonstrators are peaceful and their make use of their constitutianal rights: To congregate and to demonstrate! This is normal for Germans contrary to the normal belief that they are only followers and I not expressing their opinions. Later the stupid MSM in this country wants to make us to believe that.

Another Spiegel.De snipped where they say that at one check point there was tonight the atmosphere of a country fair and a few policemen were playing volleyball with the demostranters:

+++ Volksfeststimmung an der Galopprennbahn +++
<17:30> Am Kontrollpunkt Galopprennbahn, der Zufahrtsstraße nach Heiligendamm, entwickelt sich eine Art Volksfest. Die Rockband "Obadja" spielt auf, Demonstranten spielen Volleyball, einige Polizisten spielen mit.


They would be fired in this country right away. Thanks to the f@#$ repuks and their pResident.

Sorry, I hate too see what wrong picture Americans get of other countries.

[Tom Joad]

15. This is wonderful work. Let's give them our full support.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

16. I've got friends there!

The anarchist contingent from Lyon is well-represented. These are really imaginative, resourceful folks - the flic don't have a prayer of stopping them. And get this - alot of these protesters live on pennies a day - have dropped out of the capitalist system entirely, and are doing just fine, thank you!

It takes commitment and dedication to mount an opposition like this - we should be taking notes.

[pacalo]

17. Looks like a good crowd...

[John Kerry VonErich]

18. I gotta feeling

that Black Bloc will start being armed in the future.