Documenting Revolution - Against NATO!
Am 3. und 4. April - direkt nach dem G20-Treffen in London - findet in Strasbourg und Baden-Baden ein Gipfeltreffen der NATO-Staaten aus Anlass des 60-jährigen Bestehen der Allianz statt. Dabei soll es um nicht weniger als die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Kriegsbündnisses. Mit breitem Widerstand und vielfältigen Aktionen von Friedensbewegung, über Gewerkschaften bis hin zur außerparlamentarischen radikalen Linken ist zu rechnen – ebenso mit heftiger staatlicher Repression.
In Strasbourg wird ein Protest Camp aufgebaut, während im Convergence Center in Freiburg bereits AktivistInnen den anstehendnen NATO-Protest vorbereiten. Ein weiteres Convergence Center wird in Strasbourg am 31. März eröffnen. Die Infopoints veröffentlichten eine Broschüre um die Koordination der Proteste zu unterstützen.
Um die 30.000 Polizisten werden erwartet um das Kriegstreibertreffen zu beschützen. Der Verfassungsschutz versucht agressiv Aktivisten für seine Dienste zu rekrutieren (1 | 2 | analysis). Das Legal Team wird die Porteste von beiden Seiten der Grenze aus begleiten.
Der Auftakt für die Anti-NATO Proteste findet am Montag den 30.03 mit einer unangemeldeten Demonstration in Freiburg statt. Im Vorfeld der Demonstration versuchte die Polizei die vermeintlichen Organisatoren der letzten Demonstration aus der linksradikalen Szene zu kriminalisieren.
desperate
irrelevant 01.Apr.2009 04:52
too bad people try to undermine n.a.t.o. while drugs force the artificial hugs as a favor to pharmacuetical companies who pay shareholder dividends to haters who offer bogus agendas to redirect blame ,as if the 3rd world doesnt do it to itself when an arab gets a billion dollars and only shares the money if your daughter gives her self as a slave, or a billionaire in India financing blame on 1st world for his reasons to refuse proper investments in own country becuz he has no compassion....
Indymedia, news or views?
Duncan Lithgow 01.Apr.2009 10:55
This looks more like a call to arms than a news article. Is Indymedia.org about reporting what happens or trying to make things happen - it can't be both.
news and views
IMCista 01.Apr.2009 21:29
We're going on 10 years of news and views. Don't like the news? Go out and make it yourself!
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what?
whr 02.Apr.2009 19:55
EVER SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ARAB GETS A BILLION DOLLARS AND REFUSES TO INVEST IN 1ST WORLD LIVING WHILE GIVING THE THIRD WORLD MORE SEXPLOITATION INFILTRATION TO THE INNOCENCE?
STOP THE 3RD WORLD INDUSTRIALIST WHO WENT FROM A MILLIONAIRE TO A MULTI BILLIONAIRE ALL WHILE ADDING TO WORLD PROBLEMS WITH THEIR DECADENT IMPLOSIVE LIVING THAT STATUS QUO'S THE 3RD WORLD CONDITIONS ON MORE AND MORE...?? (INDIA , CHINA )STOP THE SEXPLOITATION THAT FUELS TREASONOUS TRADE DEALS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL NON ESSENTIAL PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP BACKSTABS THAT INDEBT LOCAL ECONOMIES WHILE OFFSHORE COMPANIES ARE WHOREDING CURRENCIES TO PUT OUR CURRENCY IN :"CHECK"!!!!!!
Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky on the Uses of NATO
dn! 03.Apr.2009 19:56
April 03, 2009
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/3/noam
Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine
We speak to Noam Chomsky, prolific author and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As NATO leaders gather for a sixtieth anniversary summit in France, Chomsky says, “The obvious question is, why bother celebrating NATO at all? In fact, why does it exist?” Chomsky also analyzes the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghanistan occupation and reacts to the new Netanyahu government in Israel.
[includes rush transcript]
collection of URL's
A 05.Apr.2009 13:06
about dead man at G20 protests:
Police 'assaulted' bystander who died during G20 protestsMark Townsend and Paul Lewis
The Observer, Sunday 5 April 2009
The man who died during last week's G20 protests was "assaulted" by riot police shortly before he suffered a heart attack, according to witness statements received by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Investigators are examining a series of corroborative accounts that allege Ian Tomlinson, 47, was a victim of police violence in the moments before he collapsed near the Bank of England in the City of London last Wednesday evening. Three witnesses have told the Observer that Mr Tomlinson was attacked violently as he made his way home from work at a nearby newsagents. One claims he was struck on the head with a baton.
Photographer Anna Branthwaite said: "I can remember seeing Ian Tomlinson. He was rushed from behind by a riot officer with a helmet and shield two or three minutes before he collapsed." Branthwaite, an experienced press photographer, has made a statement to the IPCC.
Another independent statement supports allegations of police violence. Amiri Howe, 24, recalled seeing Mr Tomlinson being hit "near the head" with a police baton. Howe took one of a sequence of photographs that show a clearly dazed Mr Tomlinson being helped by a bystander.
A female protester, who does not want to be named but has given her testimony to the IPCC, said she saw a man she later recognised as Tomlinson being pushed aggressively from behind by officers. "I saw a man violently propelled forward, as though he'd been flung by the arm, and fall forward on his head.