Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchistfaq.org
"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners." - Edward Abbey ----- Original Message ----- From: <MillerMemorials at aol.com> To: <syndicalists at flag.blackened.net> Cc: <ait-iwa-talk at list.uncanny.net> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:18 PM Subject: [syndicalists] Fwd:(en) Message from Gothenburg - URGENT!!!!
> Subj: (en) Message from Gothenburg - URGENT!!!!
> From: pomminheittaja at hushmail.com
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> Please distribute widely
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> PEOPLE FROM ACROSS EUROPÉ TAKE REFUGE FROM THE TERROR TACTICS OF THE
SWEDISH
> POLICE
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> We are people who have travelled from across Europé to protest against the
> European Union Summit, and the visit of the illegitimate president of the
> United States, George Bush, which are taking place in Gothenburg over the
> following days.
>
> We are being forced to abandon the place where we have been staying, the
> Hvitfeldska Gymnasium, as this morning there was an unnannounced attempt
> to forcefully enter the building by several hundred fully equipped and
armed
> riot police. We do not consider ourselves to be safe in this building, as
> it is the site of intense political repression on unarmed individuals and
> groups who are coming to assert our political views. We do not believe
that
> we are safe in this school, as we are isolated from wider societey there.
> Neither do we believe that we will be allowed to exercise our right to
> protest
> tomorrow at the EU summit, if we remain. As such, we are political
refugees,
> and have no other option but to leave.
>
> The police are attempting to label us as terrorists, but we are simply
> attempting
> to exercise our political rights, and seeking to build alternatives to the
> current genocidal capitalist world system. We are not armed, but actively
> exert the right to protecting our bodies and property from police attacks.
> It is the police who are the terrorists. An essential part of the current
> global order, defined by the EU and George Bush, and other institutions,
> such as the Word Bank, the World Trade Organisation and NATO, is to
attempt
> to criminalise dissent, through repression and violence. State repression
> is an essential part of this system, and we do not accept it.
>
> As a result of this, we are going to sleep in a public place in the centre
> of Gothenburg, and we call upon people in Gothenburg to offer us active
> protection from the political repression we are suffering. We also call
> on social movements, the media and other groups to support and protect our
> and your political rights to organise politically.
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