Malmö: 300 on Street party against the G8
mal | 21.05.2007 07:34 | G8 Germany 2007 | World
May 21, 2007
Indymedia Germany
Saturday, May 19 three hundred young people took over the centrally located spot Triangeln and placed a great party right in front of shopping avenues and luxurious hotels. Hip hop acts with local bands from Rosengård (a part of the city which has the most poor of which the big share are immigrants) was mixed with mobilising speeches about the G8-meeting. Participants from Mexico, Germany, and the USA, who stopped in Malmö on their way to Rostock, used the microphone to announce why everyone should go to Germany in the beginning of june to block the meeting.
Indymedia Germany
Saturday, May 19 three hundred young people took over the centrally located spot Triangeln and placed a great party right in front of shopping avenues and luxurious hotels. Hip hop acts with local bands from Rosengård (a part of the city which has the most poor of which the big share are immigrants) was mixed with mobilising speeches about the G8-meeting. Participants from Mexico, Germany, and the USA, who stopped in Malmö on their way to Rostock, used the microphone to announce why everyone should go to Germany in the beginning of june to block the meeting.
- We will celebrate that we are many that say no to the destructive politics that the G8 stand for. With the party as our menas we can spread the word and become many who will go to Germany in thebeginning of June. Many of us will block the meeting with our own bodies, it is legitimate to resist this inhuman system and we have succeeded earlier, says Alex from the party organising group Malmöbor mot G8 (Malmöresidents against the G8).
- It is now obvious for the whole world that the G8 has lsot all it´s legitimacy. Vi start something new as we demand a world where peace is the prevailing and where there is room for everyone. Vi have a vision of a world that is ecologically sustainable and where the workers can work in their own interest, not to create profit for a small elite, says Gunilla from Malmöbor mot G8.
The party started around seven in the evening, with spontaneous soccer and street art, but it really took another turn when the darkness fell as the heavy techno beats made everyone dance. On another part of the party films were shown for the crowd, that told stories about the struggle in Christiania in Copenhagen, on the other side of the bridge. During the evening the party got more and more a great mix of möllevången (a central place for the leftwing people) residents and people from rosengård. The suburbian conflicts moved into the city centre: banners, speakers, and rappers took up the police violence in the city. Inspired by france, there were banners saying "Police everywhere, justice nowhere" (Poliser överallt, rättvisa ingenstans; police partout, justice null part) and as well"every state is a police state" could be seen on banners hanging down from the shopping street. But thepolice was hardly seen. Despite the huge police mobilisation, they stayed hidden several blocks away and avoided harassing the people for the whole of the night. The party was ended at 23 0´clock and the participants made it´s way to möllevångstorget, where the film group continued to show movies outdoors until late in the night.
- It is now obvious for the whole world that the G8 has lsot all it´s legitimacy. Vi start something new as we demand a world where peace is the prevailing and where there is room for everyone. Vi have a vision of a world that is ecologically sustainable and where the workers can work in their own interest, not to create profit for a small elite, says Gunilla from Malmöbor mot G8.
The party started around seven in the evening, with spontaneous soccer and street art, but it really took another turn when the darkness fell as the heavy techno beats made everyone dance. On another part of the party films were shown for the crowd, that told stories about the struggle in Christiania in Copenhagen, on the other side of the bridge. During the evening the party got more and more a great mix of möllevången (a central place for the leftwing people) residents and people from rosengård. The suburbian conflicts moved into the city centre: banners, speakers, and rappers took up the police violence in the city. Inspired by france, there were banners saying "Police everywhere, justice nowhere" (Poliser överallt, rättvisa ingenstans; police partout, justice null part) and as well"every state is a police state" could be seen on banners hanging down from the shopping street. But thepolice was hardly seen. Despite the huge police mobilisation, they stayed hidden several blocks away and avoided harassing the people for the whole of the night. The party was ended at 23 0´clock and the participants made it´s way to möllevångstorget, where the film group continued to show movies outdoors until late in the night.
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