G8
Over 10,000 Deutsche Telekom workers walk off the job
More than 10,000 Deutsche Telekom employees refused to turn up for work last Friday to protest the company's plans to outsource 50,000 jobs.
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.
Intakes - Inside & outside the G8 protests
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.
Berlin squatted community space under attack
The Köpi, a legalised squat and cultural center in Berlin, has been under attack from political and police forces for some time - as are many other such spaces in Berlin's "New Mitte."
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.:
Where Next for the fight Against the G8? Meeting, 16 Aug 2006, Cardiff
Submitted by Col Buendia on Aug 15 2006 21:11
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/
Resist G8 2005
Archived libcom.org web feature on the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
