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About how to handle numbers of injured people during the G20 Protest. Statement of the Autonomous Medic-Coordination G20 (eng)

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About how to handel Numbers of injured people during the G20 Protest.
Statement of the Autonomous Medic-Coordination G20 (eng)

Two weeks after G20 summit in Hamburg, a lot of things are still unclear. Also the Number of injured people. But it is not going to be possible to find out this Number, even if it would be tryed. It is simply not possible, as the Protests have been divers and restless.

The daily rising Number of injured Cops awakes the strong wish for a Counterstatement: ‘Also on the Activist Side there been this and this many injured.’

But we are not going to give in to this game. It is clear, noone knows an exact Number and it can not be the goal to invent one. To publish numbers of treatments would be misleading too. Even though many injuries where aided through our Structures, most help came from Comrades and First-Aiders in solidarity. Most injuries where treated at Home or in the next Bar.

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3/9/2017 JVA Billwerder: United we stand! Free them all

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Sunday 3. of September 2017
2pm at S Bahn station Billwerder/Moorfleet
Demonstration to and Manifestation at JVA Billwerder

On sunday the 3rd of september we want to go again to the prison JVA Billwerder to visit our friends who are hostaged by the City of Hamburg behind high walls.

Our friends inside could quietly hear us even though the yard time was changed so they would not notice much from our to hold them back from our solidarity. One reason more to visit our NO G20 brothers loudly and with a huge crowd at the Prison in Billwerder.

Come with us, with cake and coffee, music and speeches, Sunday the 3rd of september, JVA Billwerder.If you write or visit someone in the Prison, please let us know their music wishes in advance.

United we stand!

Statement of the EA (legal team) Hamburg on 6th of August in Billwerder

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(Solidarity Demonstration infront of the Prison Billwerder)

Currently there are 160 preliminary Investigations going on, 32 people are still in pre-trial Imprisonment.

Around the G20 the Police Agency acted and still acts: with political motivation, illegal, autocratic and willfully violent. Politics and Judiciary are willingly having their back.
The Police already rigurously tried to prevent the setting up of camps. Goal seemed to be that a prohibiton of sleepingplaces would demobilise and the violence used during their operations would be scaring. But this plan failed and everyone who searched for a place to sleep expirienced great solidarity.

The exaggerated operations at ‘Grüner Jäger (Arrivati-Park)’ and at other places, with more injured, got the cops critized in international media. Solidarity among each other on the streets just got bigger. However, the intensity of the Police violence grew. A peak was the attack on the ‘Welcome-to-Hell’ Demonstration: with a lot of beating, liters of Pepperspray, Watercannons and Clearing-Tanks the Cops intentionally directed a situatuon of extreme panic. In the frame of this operation several hundered where injured, a person had to be reanimated due to hittings with a police bat.

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Letter of a G20 french prisoner in the prison of Billwerder 14.08.2017

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HAMBURG SUMMER 2017: I AM THERE, I STAY THERE!

It’s been almost a month and a half since I was imprisoned during the twelfth G20 summit in Hamburg, in a city that was besieged and taken in hostage by the security forces, but which also saw an important local and popular protest.

Tens of thousands, if not more, flocking from all over Europe, and even beyond, converged, met, organised, debated and demonstrated together for several days in a great surge of solidarity. At all times aware of the possibility of suffering the violence and the repression of the police. A huge prefab police court had been built for the occasion, to punish any dissent against this international summit as quickly as possible.

My arrest, like that of many comrades, is based only on the sacred word of the police, of a brigade sent to infiltrate, observe and follow their “prey” (during forty-five minutes in my case, for a supposed throwing of a projectile…). Once isolated, they sent colleagues to arrest them, intervening quickly and violently, and leaving no loop-holes. So, here I am, locked up in these places primordial to the proper functioning of a global social order, these places that serve as a tool for the control and management of poverty, essential to the maintenance of their “social peace”. Prison acts like a sword of Damocles hanging above each and every individual so that they are petrified by the idea of ??deviating from the codes and dictates of an established order: “working, consuming, sleeping”, from which no dominated individual may escape, so they alienate themselves through work and the life that goes with it, to be on time, without ever flinching, and not only during the second round of the presidential elections, where we have been required to be “En Marche” “in operation”, Macron’s slogan and name of the party in power right now or to die, preferably slowly and silently. Since the law has no vocation to guarantee the general interest, nor to be neutral, it is the expression of an increasingly institutional domination by the most powerful in order to guarantee their property and security and thus paralyse, sanction and marginalize anyone who does not see things the same way or who will not submit.

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6.8. JVA Billwerder – a report

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On 6th of August we went with around 200 people infront of the Gates of the Prison in Billwerder. Almost 30 G20-Prisoners where still hold here. At a good-weather day, loud and colourful, we went with music from S-Bahn Moorfleet to the Walls of the Prison. For 2 hours there where speaches hold in many different languages among it enlish, spanish, italian, basque, russian and czech. The microphone was ‘open’ so relatives aswell as varying political groups where speaking. As people brought coffee and cake to support the demonstration a swiss newspaper called the Demonstration a ‘promotional trip’. We happily will continue this. On Sunday 03.09 we will start again! Come all!

Solidarity Contribution at Demonstration to JVA Billwerder 6.8.17 (IT)

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Il 7 di Luglio dell’anno 2017 iniziava il G20, l’ennesimo summit internazionale come ormai molti se ne tengono durante l’anno in cui un manipolo di padroni del mondo si incontra per sedere ad un tavolo, compiacersi a vicenda sorseggiando vini pregiati, disquisendo di come spartirsi il saccheggio del pianeta esanime nel quale viviamo. Capita così che il neoliberista di respiro europeo Macron stringa la mano del dittatore genocida Erdogan in un salotto ben arredato mentre ci si accorda sulle strategie di soppressione e violenta repressione delle rotte migratorie di transito in Turchia verso l’Europa occidentale, succede che la conservatrice simpatica ai progressisti Merkel sorrida alle battute del razzista stupratore Trump mentre si decide su come devastare l’ecosistema ed avvelenare l’atmosfera oltre il punto di non ritorno, accade che l’oligarca autoritario nazionalista Putin riceva una pacca sulla spalla dal fantoccio Gentiloni mentre concede qualche metro cubo di metano in più in cambio del silenzio in occasione della prossima Crimea o della prossima legge omofoba ed omicida. Succede tutto questo, per tutti i giorni dell’anno tutto l’anno.

On July 7, 2017, the G20 was launched, another international summit, as many are taking place during the year when a handful of world masters meets to sit at a table, please each other sipping expensive wines, discussing about how to split the plunder of the dying planet where we all live. So it might be that in these occasions the european neo-liberal Macron shakes hands with the genocidal dicator Erdogan into a well-furnished living room while agreeing on the suppression and violent repression of migratory transit routes passing in Turkey directed to western Europe, it happens that the conservative Merkel smiles at the jokes of the racist rapist Trump as he decides on how to devastate the ecosystem and poison the atmosphere beyond the point of no return, we could see the authoritarian nationalist oligarch Putin gets a pat on the back from the puppet Gentiloni while giving some more metric cubes of methan gas in exchange for silence on the upcoming Crimea or next homophobic and homicidal law. All this happens all year round throughout the year.

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Solidarity Contribution at Demonstration to JVA Billwerder 6.8.17

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“The sleep of Men is more sacred than life for the plagued; You should not stop the good people from sleeping. It would require bad taste, and good taste is to not insist, it’s something everyone knows. The bad taste remained in my mouth and I did not cease to insist, thus to think about it”

Albert Camus, The Plague

On July 7, 2017, the G20 was launched, another international summit, as many are taking place during the year when a handful of world masters meets to sit at a table, please each other sipping expensive wines, discussing about how to split the plunder of the dying planet where we all live. So it might be that in these occasions the european neo-liberal Macron shakes hands with the genocidal dicator Erdogan into a well-furnished living room while agreeing on the suppression and violent repression of migratory transit routes passing in Turkey directed to western Europe, it happens that the conservative Merkel smiles at the jokes of the racist rapist Trump as he decides on how to devastate the ecosystem and poison the atmosphere beyond the point of no return, we could see the authoritarian nationalist oligarch Putin gets a pat on the back from the puppet Gentiloni while giving some more metric cubes of methan gas in exchange for silence on the upcoming Crimea or next homophobic and homicidal law. All this happens all year round throughout the year.

The Plague is spreading, while the good people sleep.

Since the revolts of Genoa, Seattle, Heiligendamm many years have passed, there is nothing to fear. That protest movement is dead, they say. The notorious ‘globalization’, which in those years was scornful of an uncertain future, is today the present, so present in our lives it’s almost impossible to imagine to live without it All we use, what we eat, what we drive or dress is produced in slavery elsewhere, by others that we do not perceive and recognize as people whose destinies are not cared for and that they can not take hold of our sleeping consciences. This time however, the world’s masters choose to meet in the center of Hamburg almost as a challenge. A city whose history is full of struggles for social justice, celebrating the autonomy of some neighborhoods with protests and riots periodically. And it is in one of those neighborhoods, the Schanzenviertel, that the powerful will meet to celebrate their farce.

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UNITED WE STAND (EN)

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Summit of resistance – Summit of repression – Solidarity is our weapon

The G20 is over, but the work is not and there is no let up.

More than 100,000 people from all different backgrounds took part and made their way to Hamburg to protest against the G20 summit. Throughout the preparation against the G20 we faced constant repression; Camps were prohibited, demonstrations banned, houses and flats raided. It came to the point that people were approached and given verbal warnings, taken into custody or even received travel restrictions. Not only before but throughout the days of protest there were unprecedented levels of repression, uncountable numbers of protesters injured by the cops, hundreds taken into custody or arrested. 36 from which are still imprisoned, most of whom travelled from other countries to take part in the protests.

Those imprisoned comrades who took to the streets with us to fight against the G20 and it’s ridiculous and inhuman policies are now in need of our support. We’re not just thinking about here and now we still await repression in the coming weeks and months and those who might be affected. Our solidarity and resistance must be diverse. We will of course need a substantial amount of money not only for the lawsuits, but also for the campaigns publicity. The support from individuals is encouraged but it’s is also important that we fight against the repression collectively! Our goal is a international far-reaching campaign in which many people can contribute.

Despite all the attempts from the media and security forces before, during and after the summit they didn’t manage to split us, we still stand together and will continue to do so together with our imprisoned comrades! The summit is over but our fight for a better world without war, exploitation, oppression and prisons goes on!
United we Stand!

What can be done:

  • Collecting money and donations for people in prison. Also for the lawyer fees, the upcoming trials and to support the campaign…
  • Info events with the theme of anti-repression after the G20
  • Soli-concerts and parties
  • Publicity work ( poster, flyers, t-shirts etc…)
  • Organising Demonstrations and manifestations
  • Organising support for the relatives and friends of those imprisoned
  • Writing letters to those imprisoned

 

Donations:
For the lawsuits:
Rote Hilfe e.V.
Keyword; „G20“
IBAN: DE25 2605 0001 0056 0362 39
BIC: NOLADE21GOE
Sparkasse Göttingen

To support the campaign:
Rote Hilfe e.V.
Ortsgruppe Hamburg
Keyword; „United we stand“
IBAN: DE06 2001 0020 0084 6102 03
BIC: PBNKDEFFXXX