With under a month to go now, the StopG8 mobilisation is gathering speed both in the UK and across the Channel. The StopG8 infotour moves on to the Netherlands today (Saturday 18 May), with a talk this afternoon (16.15pm) at the Pinksterlandaddagen Festival
More Dutch dates: Monday 20th – Wageningen: Droevendaal, Droevendaalsesteeg, 16:00; Tuesday 21st – Groningen: Kale Kip; Wednesday 22nd: Nijmegen, 19:30-20:00 at de Klinker (van broeckhuysenstraat 46.)
Elsewhere in mainland Europe, a group in Germany is mobilising under the banner “Fight G8“. They are supporting the J11 carnival in London, and also calling for actions back in Germany between 14-18 June.
In Italy, StopG8 appeared on Rome’s free radio station Radio Ondarossa to talk about capitalist London, the carnival and the action week. You can listen to the programme (in English and Italian) here. We are also organising solidarity events during the action week to support the Italian comrades imprisoned just last year with 10 year plus sentences for so-called “devastation” during the 2001 G8 in Genoa. More info on that soon. For now, you can read about them here. Love and solidarity to Marina and Alberto!
The StopG8 international call-out is now online in 18 languages: click on the العربية, Türkçe, ελληνικά… tab above to check them all out. If you can help make it 19+, or can help translate the new information text on crossing the UK border, please sign up for the translation list by going to this site and clicking “subscribe”. There will also be a general legal guide for people coming to the UK which will be ready and need translating in the next few days.