[alt-media-res] Fw: [knowledgelab] Summary of the G8 events in pictures, videos and a few words..

zoe zoe at esemplastic.net
Fri Jun 8 09:10:16 BST 2007


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Subject: [knowledgelab] Summary of the G8 events in pictures,videos and a
few words..


> FYI:
>
> This is posted with pix etc. at:
>
http://colonos.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/summary-of-g8-events-police-brutality-business-as-usual/
>
> ...a very brief summary -in pictures, videos and a few words- of the G8
> events of late, beriddled as they have been by police brutality[videos
> below], agent provocateurs[1] (which in any decent journalism would have
> entirely overshadowed a few radicalised, state repressed groups'
> retaliation for the violence commenced by the authorities[2]) and the
> completely distorted "journalism" by the corporate press:
>
> An intro for those who can read German:
>
> "ORDNUNG MUSS SEIN - Merkelst dir dass!"
>
> Image in universal language:
> http://media.de.indymedia.org/images/2007/06/182901.jpg
>
> The Art of Policing and Protesting:
> http://media.de.indymedia.org/images/2007/06/182862.jpg
>
> ....and just to make sure that you know: the police will hit anyone - i
> repeat anyone:
>
http://images.bt.dk/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=BT&Dato=20070602&Kategori=KRIMI&Lopenr=602001&Ref=PH&Item=7&Maxh=320&Maxw=482
>
> ...even if you are a mainstream organisation like Greenpeace, the global
> police state will attack to kill:
>
http://www.dailymotion.com/search/g8/video/x273z9_antig8-2007-police-attack-to-greenp
>
> Creative, uplifting images:
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372920.html - Way to go, comrades!
:)
>
> In conclusion, although not very good quality video, sarcastically
> presented in German text, but the images speak for themselves: police
> brutality with thick, weapon-like gloves[3], business as usual:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqIvShEZ4Po
>
> Finally, this video with German text and speech where in the final
> interview a bystander notes that the autonomous groups were attacked by
> the police without any prior provocation - and "strangely" the attack
> came right when the autonomous groups were passing a construction site
> where stones and other material were abundant (we're talking about a
> police operation that costs millions and millions of Euros and a legal,
> declared march with a predecided route - yet there is a whole street
> fight arsenal freely available in the very moment that the police
> attacks unprovoked???):
> http://www.dailymotion.com/search/g8/video/x25wag_g8proteste
>
> Further info available at:
> http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371754.html
>
> And live video at:
> http://g8-tv.org/
>
> The struggle continues
>
> [1]: This is the only "proof", so far, but there is surely more to come:
> http://media.de.indymedia.org/rtsp/2007/06//182489.rm - the incident was
> distorted by German ZDF into a case of "peaceful protestors distancing
> themselves from a violent one", rehearsing the old familiar divide and
> conquer strategy of the state and the pseudo-state NGOs:
> http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/16/0,4070,5548496-6-wm_dsl,00.html
> +
> mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/zdf/070607_protest_h17_h.wmv
>
> At the Genoa, 2001 G8 - the proof was quite clear:
> http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/genova/images/civilcops1.jpg
>
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/genova/images/imc/civilcops.jpg
> More at: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/genova/pics1.htm
>
> [2]: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370112.html
>
> [3]: The gloves, which are reinforced with metals and presumably space
> age things like kevlar, look something like this:
> http://www.kenmax.com.au/products/images/KSP-G6.gif
> ===================================================
>
> Police brutality/violence/repression:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vv12NSSZ4
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkjc51WJSU
>
> Collection:
>
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+g8+police+violence&search=Search
>
> For the historical view of brutality:
>
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rostock+police+brutality&search=Search
>
> - and a previous violent raid in connection with G8:
> http://kanalb.de/spezial-evian2003/20030604-usine_raided.ram
>
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/evian/reports/0602eyewitness_usine.htm
>
> - and the murder of Carlo:
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/actions/2001/genoa/
>
> - and the general state of affairs in Genoa:
> http://www.starhawk.org/activism/genoafacism.html - which will be
> repated again and again and again and again and again and again and
> again...........
>
> WATCH A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE G8 2007 CALLED 'genova citta aperta':
> http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/21
>
>
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