“Victory: The G8 has been blocked in!”

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More positively here is the news from the G8:
June 07, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“Victory: The G8 has been blocked in!”

Now, with the help of the wind, one of the main goals of the anti-G8
activists will be reached. The G8 leaders have been confined inside
their own fence. German newspaper Die Zeit has reported that no ships
can land at Heiligendamm. With ten thousand protestors currently
blocking the two gates into the resort, the heads of state and their
baggage are effectively locked in.

“This is a true success,” explains Lotta Kemper from the G8
resistance-based Campinski Press group. “We have denied the legitimacy
of the G8 for us and the rest of the world. We said we would use
decentralized blockades to surround and blockade them, impede their
infrastructure and enclose them within their own fence. This strategy
has been successful for the past two days.”

All day Wednesday and today, protestors blocked entrances to
Heiligendamm, Germany where G8 leaders were meeting. Despite having to
move through fields, forests, and police lines, over 10,000 thousands of
protesters succeeded in blocking both the east and west gates, forcing
G8 organizers to call “Plan B,” moving delegates to the conference by
boat and helicopter.

Yesterday afternoon more than 5,000 protesters settled down at the
police controlled eastern “Gate 2,” successfully blocking all traffic
through the gate. Hundreds spent the night at the blockade, and as of
18:30 today more than 1,000 remain on location. “The atmosphere is very
festive,” said one activist, returning from the blockade. “People from
the neighborhood have been visiting and there are children and families
sitting down with the blockaders.”

Gate 2, which is the eastern entrance to Heiligendamm, is located at the
perimeter of the 12 kilometer long razor wire security fence and inside
of the “red zone,” an area declared illegal for protest by the German
government.

At the western “Gate 1” at least a thousand protestors also gathered
yesterday afternoon setting out from the protest camps in Wichmansdorf
and Rostock. They remained, peacefully, until finally being dispersed
by water cannons and riot police sometime in the evening. Today around
9:00 approximately 500 people left the camp in Reddilich to retake Gate
1. They succeeded for most of the day, but as of 18:40 have been
reporting violence from police, and excessive use of water cannons.

Other smaller groups of demonstrators also moved autonomously through
the region today and yesterday blockading roads with a variety of
methods. Altogether, tens of thousands of protesters participated in the
blockades, arriving from over 30 countries.

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