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Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell was in Hamburg for the G20 Summit, covering the events for Indymedia. There were impressive demonstrations and riots throughout the summit including a Block G20 action that managed to delay delegations arriving and disrupt events, including stopping Melania Trump attending a G20 leader's spouse event.

Saturday saw an estimated two hundred thousand people take to the streets for the Solidarity Without Borders demonstration.

Raymond spoke to a number of people taking part in the demonstrations as well as organizers such as Jana Schneider from Block G20 who we hear from first in this piece from the streets of G20.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Timon Simons on the social strike that shut down Hamburg's port.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Robert Borba from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in the USA about why they are demonstrating at the #G20 summit in Hamburg.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to organizer Andreas Blechschmidt about the anti-capitalist movements who are taking direct action against #G20 in Hamburg.

https://g20tohell.blackblogs.org/international-anticapitalist-demonstration/

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Jana, an organizer with the Block G20 demonstration that aims to shut down the city and creatively but militantly stop delegates arriving to the G20 conference in Hamburg.

www.blockg20.org

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Max from sea rescue organization Sea Watch. The group engage in direct action to rescue refugees and migrants in the mediterranean sea. Max discussed the relevance of G20 and why the organization are demonstrating in the protests.

More about Sea Watch:

Since the year 2000 more than 23.000 people died trying to reach Europe’s shores. After the end of the Mare Nostrum operation in the Mediterranean Sea three business partners from Germany decided to found the nonprofit NGO Sea-Watch.

https://sea-watch.org/en/

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Britta who is organizing one of the camps at the global G20 summit in Germany. There has been heavy police repression of camping in the city with police removing protesters from established camping spots. Ray spoke to Britta as they were building a new camp in the grounds of a church.

Karun Cowper spoke to Sally Hunter, human rights activist and member of the magnificent WACA (Whistleblowers Activist Citizens Alliance) about their action on Friday hanging a banner reading “Border Force Tortures Refugees - Deportations = Death” off the Channel 7 building in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. The building was in a direct line of sight of the Border Force headquarters in Customs House, where operational matters in Manus Island and Nauru refugee detention camps are managed.

WACA spokesperson Zianna Fuad said on Friday “The federal government and its refugee detention industry contractors have again sought to avoid being held to account with their proposal to settle the Manus class action compensation case out of court. WACA has staged this action to call on the Federal Government to repeal the Border Force Act, evacuate the camps immediately, bring them here and end the illegal indefinite detention of refugees”.

In a week where Treasurer Scott Morrison has been accused of blackmailing his state and territory counterparts after threatening to cut their GST share for placing restrictions on fracking, Karun Cowper spoke to local Lock the Gate regional campaigner Simone Van Hattem.

Apart from these very concerning noises on a federal level, there are some equally concerning developments from the newly elected WA Labor government on the fracking front.

To stay in touch with the Lock the Gate campaign here in WA head to http://www.frackfreefuture.org.au/.

Last weekend a group of concerned citizens conducted a tour of US/Australia military facilities in WA such as the spy base near Geraldton, in order to raise awareness of the role these facilities play in US hegemony.

The trip coincided with a National Day of Action to ban nuclear weapons ahead of UN negotiations to develop a ban treaty.

Indymedia's Karun Cowper joined the group who travelled over the weekend to visit the US/Australia spy base.

On location, in close proximity of the base, he spoke to local veteran anti nuclear and peace activists Mia Pepper, Bilbo Taylor, Marcus Atkinson and K A.