Solidarity with German Free Spaces Raided By Police

CAMP expresses solidarity with the free/autonomous spaces that were raided last week [1][2][3][4][5][6] by German police under specious accusations of organizing violent protest against the G-8 summit to be held in Heiligendamm in June 2007. Similar police raids against the housing cooperative, the Bolozone, and our community center occurred in 2003 in St. Louis.

These raids were justified by a broad-ranging resolution adopted by the German legislature (paragraph 129a) that outlaws the formation of "terrorist organizations," which in many ways resembles this country's Patriot Act in vagueness and bias against civil liberties. State-perpetrated violence to crackdown on free speech and free assembly is reprehensible. In particular, CAMP expresses solidarity and sympathy with Rota Flora (Wikipedia) in Hamburg and with free spaces in Bethanien in Berlin.

Biodevastation 2003 Protests/Raids:

The Biotech Industry And Repression In St. Louis (Z Magazine)

Police Attacks Against Activists, Indymedia in STL and UC (Global Indymedia)

Post-Dispatch Clips (biodev.org)

Back to the Bolozone (RFT)

Police & Monsanto Fail to Intimidate Activist Gathering in STL (org consumer assoc)

Police make preemptive arrests at STL bio-tech conference (Asheville Global Report)

St. Louis Gestapo... er, Cops, Make Pre-Emptive Raids on St. Louis Indymedia & Other Collective Spaces (Mediageek.org)

Protester = Criminal? (The Progressive)

Cyclists Arrested for Riding Without a License (Bikeforums.net)

(Sorry, STLIMC archives from '03 still unavailable. Please contact if you have experience with the old imc-active codebase!)

Background/Add'l Reading:

German Indymedia on G8 Protest (in English)