arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

11:30 Geneva Demo has grown to 30000 and is moving towards the border with lots of soundsystems, rhythms, dancing.

11:30 Lausanne The demo is slowy being moved back towards the villages

10:45 Lausanne Police is moving in aggressively now, with concussion granades. People are being wrestled to the ground.

10:30 Geneva10 000 people are walking from the english garden. Everything is calm.

10:30 Lausanne Pink & Silver, Anthrax and Aqua blocs are regrouping in the roads leading to the ferry point. They are in high spirits, lots of dancing boys'n girls, confetti, samba rhythms.

10:00 Lausanne Demo is being dispersed, shopkeepers are giving out free evian water, while people are regrouping

9:30 The official Lausanne demo was cancelled.

9:30 "March on Evian" Local residents support demonstrators who are struggling against water canons, tear gas and stun grenades. They are using hockey sticks to push back the gas canisters or picking them up using gloves. (report | timeline)

9:30 Lausanne Pink and Anthrax bloc have joined up. Police uses water canons and heavy teargas against both. The crowd retreats slowly, still dancing. Some people dressed in black are setting up baricades

9:00 Geneva All major bridges are blocked

8:20 Lausanne demo on the move again, dancing, passing the heavily guarded museum olympique (riot police and soldiers) and "playing with barbed wire".

8:30 Lausanne Pink & Silver stopped at intersection. A line of riot cops is blocking one lane, pink temporary barricades the other. Actors in g8-leader-costumes sit in front of a riot truck.

8:15 Lausanne ...pink bloc destroyed some surveillance cameras

8:00 "march on Evian" About 300 people built barricades near St. Cergue. Dutch Journalists confirmed that the G8 is late, since G8 translators are blocked on their way to Evian.

7:45 Lausanne The demo is holding a roundabout. Pinks still advancing, dancing forward. Ca 20 riot cops guarding the philip morris building have all been showered in confetti and had pink hearts stuck on their shields.

7:15 A radio (web and fm) is reporting on the blockades - 107.9 FM.

7:00 Lausanne: Intersection near the "villages" has been blockaded. A soundsystem, an "anthrax bloc" and lots of pink and silver are out in the sunshine.

7:00 "march on Evian" stopped at St. Cergues, being heavily gassed (report)

6:30am Geneva: activists have blocked main bridge, no police in sight.

5:30 "march on Evian": 3-5000 people are marching from Annemasse towards Evian. They will try to block the junction of the two major roads that lead to Evian. The march assembled at 4 am, and has travelled 3 km so far. This will likely be the key confrontation of the G8 summit