Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

G8- news from th aubonne group

digicam | 14.06.2003 17:23

We got a cool lawyer !!! and other good news

Hers a short update of the situation.........

First, internationally, the Swiss consulate was occupied in barcelona friday,
the 13.6., but evicted at two am. Saturday however, the climbers are still
there at lunch time, so the banner still hangs as a message over a twelve
lane motorway. And this is just the last of a whole bunch of solidarity actions, other occurred in Berlin, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, London, Luxemburg, Mancherster and Oslo.

Also on Friday, here in Laussane, we retained a really groovy lawyer, who,
asides from being generally charming and schmoove, also seems to be a bit
of a legal mover and shaker.
Within seconds of meeting him, he had lept into action and sorted all sorts
of things out, papers were flying all over the hospital room, and martin
was under strict instructions to stop upsetting the nurses, who are 'the
exploited not the exploiters'.

So, thats looking really good, today we will transfer loads of files etc
to him, so that he can start to build the charges and strategy.
As for Martin, more good news. His balls are back to normal!
No really, good news...
On monday he goes for a second operation, to remove the metal bolts that
are holding his ankle and foot together. They will replace the enourmous
bolts for some smaller, internal ones, and cover it all in a nice plaster
for us to write on.
The hospital says it is possible that they can discharge him in two weeks
already! This dosent mean the end of the road, more the begining of the
road to recovery, but it is still really good news.

As for us, the bridge support group, we are ok. people are very tired and
emotionally drained, especially those who are still here and were present
on the action. But this news, and the temporal arrival of Jo, has made
a big difference.
Also, all the international support is incredibly inspiring. It is great
to see a living international community in action, working effectivly and
flexably in times of crisis, and at a time when we were all already totally
knackered and looking forward to a bit of a break.
We have also started to work much more closley with the local anti repression
group, and are manouvering to change a bit our press message, to show how
this was not an isolated incidednt, but instead a single incident in an
overall and persistant trend of violent repression against the diverse
anti neo liberal social movements.

On the fund raising side, they also need abit of help, so we shall endevour
not to isolate all avilable resources for the bridge action.

One last thing. Switzerland is still prooving to be a very funny country.
Today the local and very friendly squatters (they put us up, put up with
us, feed and water us etc) are installing a wirless intenet and laptop
into martins hospital room. Tommorow, you will be able to email him!


ok, love to you all
sunny vibes from a dark sweaty office

digicam
- e-mail: dontletmedown@web.de

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech