Convergence Center

A Convergence Center (CC ) ( German: " place of coming together " ) since the 1990s, temporary furnished central place for knowledge sharing, communication, and action preparation of individuals who, to protest against a summit or conference of an international military or economic organization arrive as NATO.

Tasks

A Convergence Center primarily serves as a central location for the arriving a major event activists from around the world. In addition to providing and arranging beds and meals other tasks are supply of information and means of communication. " The rooms of the CCs provide a platform for inter alia Discussion, information, coordination and action. So you serve the international exchange, networking about the protests out. " Booklet for brochures and leaflets provide information on the respective place, various planned actions, regional police and demonstration law, lawyer contact information, the establishment of reference groups and more important for activists topics. CCs organize and convey medical first aid, provide interpreters and driving courses for action ready, give psychological support in " trauma groups " and provide space for self-organized workshops. After the end of the event, the Convergence Center is dissolved.

Place

A Convergence Center is located mostly in alternative residential and cultural projects. Thus, the meeting of the furnishings in Hamburg in the red flora and in Berlin in Bethany as well as outdoors, the Görlitz Park, Convergence Centers G8 2007. In Rostock, a town near the summit meeting Heiligendamm, a former school was rented by Attac, which was left to the self-administration of the CC.