G8

The strikes have also spread to a team wiring up services for officials and the media at the G8 summit next month on the Baltic coast.

Shortly after Bob Geldof called for a million people to converge in Edinburgh for the opening day of the G8 summit, Midge Ure, the co-organizer of Live 8, was asked if he was worried about the events being hijacked by anarchists. His response was that Live 8 was, in fact, hijacking the anarchists' event.

Now, tactics of police intimidation are being used in an attempt to shut down the centre's social events and political organizing, particularly around the upcoming G8 summit.

Following is a statement from the Köpi, a legalized squat in Berlin currently home to about sixty people and a number of autonomous political and cultural projects.:

Eyewitness reports and images from St. Petersburg 2006:
This July, activists from Cardiff and Newport took part in protests against the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. They will be talking about their experiences whilst there, giving eyewitness report and showing images from the protests. see: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/g8/

Archived libcom.org web feature on the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Gleneagles.