July 14, 2006 was a Global Day of Action against the G8. July 15, 2006 was an International Day of Action for Climate Justice, and against Climate Change and the G8. Below is a partial list of anti-G8 actions that happened on these days around the world, and on other days in St. Petersburg and elsewhere during the past week. A number of actions against climate change (including many Critical Mass bike rides) also occurred on July 14. We continue to receive information about additional actions — stay tuned to www.rtc.revolt.org and int.ru.indymedia.org for updates! Contact g8@risingtidenorthamerica.org if you have an action to report!

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July 14, 2006 was a Global Day of Action against the G8. July 15, 2006 was an International Day of Action for Climate Justice, and against Climate Change and the G8. Below is a partial list of anti-G8 actions that happened on these days around the world, and on other days in St. Petersburg and elsewhere during the past week. A number of actions against climate change (including many Critical Mass bike rides) also occurred on July 14. We continue to receive information about additional actions — stay tuned to www.rtc.revolt.org and int.ru.indymedia.org for updates! Contact g8@risingtidenorthamerica.org if you have an action to report!

Yesterday afternoon around 5p.m. an anarchist pink demonstration started on Vasilysv island in St. Petersburg. With banners, black flags and slogans against the G8 summit around 70 activists walked on the streets for a little while until the police reached them and started to arrest people. More than 30 people have been taken to the police station. Today except two of them (one under 18) all have been released.

LINK ("Libertarian News and Information Collective") of the Anti-G8 Network (SPB8).

Press-release no. 10
July 16th, 2006

Contact to LINK: spb8media (at) riseup.net

LINK is not an official media representative of the SPB8 network.

ACTION OF ANARCHISTS FROM THE NETWORK AGAINST THE G8: BLOCKAGE OF THE RADISSON HOTEL ON NEVSKY PROSPECT IN PETERSBURG
JULY 16, 2006

Today, July 16, 2006, at 8.30 in the morning a group of anarchists – participants of the network against the g8 www.spb8.net) from different cities and countries blocked Nevsky prospekt in Saint Petersburg as a sign of protest against the neoliberal policies of the G8.

The traditional anti-war picket in Saint Petersburg against the war in Chechnya, which since 6 years is held every Sunday on Malaya Konyushennaya str. near to the Nevsky Prospekt has been broken up by the police on July 16 at 14.30.
At least 8 of about 20 participants have been arrested, according to other sources - 12. The Police refused to tell to which police department the arrested have been brought, but it is assumed that they are in the same 28 department where in the morning 36 arrested from the Nevsky prospekt blockade had been brought.

Press Release
15/07/06
G8 2006 Info and Press Group

Global Day of Action Against the G8, Solidarity Shown with Protesters in St. Petersberg Worldwide
(For immediate release)

On Thursday 13 and Friday 14 July, 2006, people took to the streets worldwide to show solidarity with those facing repression in St. Petersberg in the run up to this year`s G8 summit and to say that „another world is possible!“

dj lotu5 plays anarchist hip-hop and raggae from Germany and talks about the g8, which is meeting in st. petersburg this year, and the solidarity actions in berlin and washington, dc. he also talks about the anti-g8 camp in germany this year.

music from: Anarchist Academy, Jan Delay, Seeed, Too Strong, BC400

download & listen: <

Today the 13th of July, The Swedish Anarchosyndicalist Youth Federation in
Gothenburg held a protestmeeting outside the russian generalconsulate at S:t
Sigfrids plan in Gothenburg on account of the G8-meeting in S:t Petersburg
and the repression of activists there right now. We stood there for a half
an hour and handed out leaflets as we held a speech about the persecution of
people that have gone to the city for the purpose to take part in the

Yesterday a sucessfull public action against the G8 took place in central moscow.
At the Libertarian Forum (see: g8-2006.plentyfact.net/LibertarianForum )
some days ago workshops took place with the topic of organising creative forms of protest like pink silver and radical cheerleading. The preperation for the action was organised mostly by local groups, which tried some actions of that kind befor in russia. There was scepticism about polices reaction on such dancing crowd, but today there was no police present at all, just in small parallel streets someone saw two riotpolice vans but nobody was getting in contact with them.

yesterday evening in St. Petersburg on their way to a shop two german persons
from bike caravan and russian guy were stopped by
police to check their passports. germans had passports with them but anyway
there were taken to the police station for identification on the reason of
the g8 summit. they still are at the police station.
i have just called to this police station and was told that they're suspected
in making some provocational actions at the territory of russian federation.
cops didn't reach the german embassy:
Petersburg, Furshtadtskaya street 39
phone +7 (812) 3202400
fax +7 (812) 5793242
cops try to find the translator at the moment to find out what these gemans were doing in Russia.

the phone number of the police station #36 is
+7 (812) 553 3602,
fax +7 (812)293 57 02,
address: Esenina street 2.