Here is some Engl. audio up at Flash Radio: http://flashradio.wordpress.com/ There is some more audio up for non-commercial=community radio use, partly in English, at: http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/index.php More radio streams at: http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/179702.shtml G8 TV: http://g8-tv.org/

As usual, it is very hectic during activist camps and big protest events. This hasn’t been helped much by a lack of internet connectivity and computer access. This Sunday morning we went up to the building at the end of the camp where some computer and the wireless network is located and as i was the first one there, people came up to me the whole day and asked for help. I was disappointed that some of the demands were just so unrealistic, some were not that politely formulated either, and some people did not show much regard for the work I was concerned with, like picture editing, following the news dispatch or writing a paper dispatch for all the people demanding information about thde outcome of yesterdays events.

We arrived at midnight yesterday (well Friday) and after a pleasant arrival at the Independent Media Centre in pretty central located Friedrichstrasse we went to the convergence centre in Evershagen to crash out for the night. It was pretty crowded and hard to find a space to put down our sleeping bags. We woke up early in the morning – at about 7 am – and were shocked to find the police already totally blocking access to the city centre but for pedestrians and cyclists. After we made our way to the campsite, we were pleasantly surprised with the camp, which is also at least today in danger of being overcrowded and is very well situated in walking distance of a train station and the city centre and the IMC and not too far from the convergence centre.

Mike Small, fellow activist, has got his first blog entry in The Guardian (Unlimited) this weekend. Preperations for the forthcoming G8 protests are frantic, here are two brilliant personal accounts of activities in Hamburg. Am not sure, but could even be by a friend of mine – maybe, maybe not; the only indication being the sentence: “I hadnt slept in a couple of days.” I only really know one person, who regards protesting against the G8 and associated police repression as a relaxing and unwinding holiday activity, compared to the day-to-day job. Which says probably a lot about the state of trade unionism in this world.

This weekend we were away to give a talk at Projectile in Newcastle. What I did not realise beforehand is that they run the Star and Shadow Cinema amazingly well as a collective. Our rant about Indymedia luckily clashed with Jamie’s “Why is it so hard to love” workshop and we also had to wait till the Argentinian video “(((i))) – the movie” finished. Surprisingly it went quite well with connecting the laptop to the projector and getting the internet on screen and we could show people the websites and how to post and how to set up an IMC, which I was told by the organisers they would want to.