Who needs civil disobedience?

Opposition to the G8 summit has brought together all parts of the alternative spectrum. Nowhere can this better be seen than at the international tent camp Reddelich. Let’s have a look!

In the pouring rain, two girls are commanding a group of masked young people with a megaphone. All are wearing neon masks and superman capes, which can be bought for 5 euros. “Super-Power-Block-G8-It’s-our-Hour!” they yell. The crowd is applauding.

It’s one of the many performances in Camp Reddelich, a gathering place for around ten thousand anti-G8 and anti-globalization demonstrators.

“Here you find all kinds of people”, says Jane Farley. “Eco-freaks, punks, hippies, but also old-fashioned communists, radical anarchists and new age groupies. They belong together in their rebellion against G8. And everybody shows in his own manners that another world is possible.”

Farley, a "thirty-something" from London, is watching over the press, who shouldn’t walk around in the camp without permission. The so-called ‘Black Block,’ she says, doesn’t really like that. Any photographer that makes some snapshots gets hit in the face.