Antiglobalization webs criminalized in spain

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 18 23:07:52 PST 2002


At 01:22 AM 1/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>don't know much about this

you don't know and i don't either since you didn't give a cite where this material came from.

R


>- just noted that one of the criminalized groups
>is spanish indymedia -
>
>
>january 18, 2002
>
>Antiglobalization webs criminalized in Spain
>
>The spanish police starts an operation of spionage and criminalization
>against the anti-globalization movement on the internet as a start of
>their period in the Presidence of the European Union.
>
>What was a voiced secret has now been acknowledged the last two days
>by the spanish National Police and spread by various press agencies -
>EFE and COLPISA- as well as several newsmedia -El Norte de Castilla,
>Ideal, Las Provincias, La Verdad-. The information services of the
>National Police and the Civil Guard have revealed that since
>December '01 they spy and track the alternative information networks
>on the Internet with the aim of facing the ati-globalization movement.
>
>"Information and pervention are our two main weapons," has been the
>excuse of the experts of the National Police according to news agency
>COLPISA. The sources counted eight alternative web servers which they
>have criminalized as "main resources of anti-system elements to spread
>all over Europe schedules of the main protests as well as urban
>guerilla warfare tactics."
>
>The criminalized webs are, according to informations offered by police
>services, Barcelona Indymedia, Observatorio Global, International
>Protest Action, Nodo50, Acción Internacional de Estudiantes, Rebelion,
>La Haine and Sin Dominio.
>
>Without any judicial cause or legal action against these alternative
>collectives, the police services have started a campagin of
>criminalization. The sources of the police defend their spionage
>saying that these media organize sabotages against planned activities
>and "promote street-fighting." The security experts of the Ministry
>of the Interior, without giving any detailed informations or proof,
>say that they have detected urban guerilla warfare tactics and
>sabotage methods to provoke and face the security forces deployed
>under the demonstrations. <snip>



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