[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] L'Aquila
International Newsletter
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Mon Jul 6 17:27:40 CEST 2009
- G8: Wave of arrests in Italy
- New map of the practicability in the days of the G8 and alternative ways
- Vademécum Antirepression G-8, July 2009
- Clashes at Italian anti-US demonstration
- Six police hurt in clashes at Italian anti-US military base demo
- Against the master's G8 on July The 10 th Aquila
- L'Aquila - Let's illuminate the truth
- Direct fighting & peering informing
- 35th G8 Summit
- 600 people demonstrated against G8 in Berlin
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G8: Wave of arrests in Italy
[Gipfelsoli]
Press release 6th July 2009
* At least 21 activists in various cities affected
* Universities occupied for protest
At least 21 italian activists were arrested by political police Digos this
morning. 16 were taken to prison, five have to stay under house arrest.
The police attack affected activists from Torino, Padova, Bologna and Naples,
among them known members of social centres. One of the arrested was followed by
the police up to LAquila, where the G8 summit should take place. In Naples
several objects were raided and searched.
Under the pretext of preventive arrests the police used the heavy protests
that were organized against the G8 university summit in may in Torino. The
measures hit members of the so called Area Antagonista.
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7439.html
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New map of the practicability in the days of the G8 and alternative ways
Download NEW MAP WITH the RESTRICTIONS OF the ROADS DURING the G8:
http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/attachments/jul2009/nuova_ordinanza_di_restrizione_stradariosfondo20090703_22.pdf
(pdf)
LAQUILA. With the G8 Apex some measures arrive in order to facilitate the
organization and for the emergency of the participants and the citizens.
The limitations to the traffic are narrow to the necessary, from the 7 on Sunday
5th July to the 12 of 11th Saturday July.
The circulation is limited or only prohibited in the roads near the School of
the Financial Police, G8s Building, and to the airport of Preturo and it does
not regard the near hosting camps.
Residents, traders and whoever guarantees the essential and public utilitys
services, after having taken a permission card at the Carabinieris Station of
Sassa, can however keep moving in the interested areas. For the movements in
these zones there is a bus service shuttles managed from AMA and the Police
forces, with changing stops to the hospital San Salvatore.
For not authorized persons, the police has individuated alternative roads around
the area of the G8. Moreover the ordinary transports of AMA will work regularly,
except for some small variation.
More: http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/111
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Vademécum Antirepression G-8, July 2009
Legal Infopoint open at the days of protest against G8 in Rome
c/o casa dei diritti sociali
via giolitti 225
infoline:
06491563
3395930900
for ultimate info:
www.legalteamitalia.it
Download Legal Guide:
http://www.gipfelsoli.org/static/Media/L_Aquila_2009/vadecum_G8_2009.pdf
(english, pdf)
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Clashes at Italian anti-US demonstration
Protesters have pelted riot police with rocks during an American Independence
Day demonstration against the $US500 million ($A632.27 million) enlargement of
a US military base in Italy.
An AFP photographer says youths among hundreds leading a march on the base on
Saturday hurled bottles at police who responded with tear gas on the approach
to the construction site at a former airport in northern Vicenza.
The work at the base - which has a current troop capacity of 2,750 - will enable
1,800 soldiers presently based in Germany to be stationed there.
More:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/833879/clashes-at-italian-anti-us-demonstration
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Six police hurt in clashes at Italian anti-US military base demo
VICENZA, Italy (AFP) Six policemen were hurt in clashes late Saturday with
demonstrators at a rally of more than 3,000 people against the
500-million-dollar enlargement of a US military base in Italy, police said.
Some 300 youths, wearing helmets and carrying plexiglass shields, pelted riot
cops with rocks and bottles during the American Independence Day demo. The
police replied with tear gas and baton charges, AFP photographers said.
The work at the base, a former airport in northern Vicenza -- which has a
current troop capacity of 2,750 -- will enable 1,800 soldiers currently based
in Germany to be stationed there.
More:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmox3kr9gLrmGupDEHZcHOcHhH9A
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Against the master's G8 on July The 10 th Aquila
WITH THE POPULATION OF ABRUZZO!
TOGETHER AGAINST THE MASTERS G8 ON JULY THE 10TH!
More than two months have gone by since the devastating earthquake in Abruzzo
and less than a week divides us from the conclusive meeting of the G8 in
LAquila but the situation of the thousands of evacuees is not getting better.
The people who lost everything with the quake have to bear a very hard
repression and controls and forbiddances in the camps are always more:
leafleting ban, limits to the circulation among the various camps, the
institution of real red zones and of a curfew at 8 pm which prohibits to get
out and enter your own tent. And the government obstructs the circulation of
information and news in order to pursue its own interest.
More: http://www.indymedia.org/de/2009/07/926357.shtml
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L'Aquila - Let's illuminate the truth
Torchlight procession -- 6th July, at night
Leaving from the Castle at midnight and reaching piazza Duomo at 3:32 a.m.
Three months have passed since the catastrophe struck our land.
We have long felt the need for a moment of sharing through which we could
remember our dear ones.
More: http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/60
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Direct fighting & peering informing
We do not pay your crisis!
We would like to introduce the initiatives against the G8 scheduled in Italy
starting from the 8th July.
Let's start from the assumption that this G8 is the crisis G8 under the G8's
governance system crisis.
Bush fell, the USA unilateral management system fell, the credit system under
the dollar and monetarism rules fell and no other governance system is already
in place.
Under this sky we had a radical assumption: we do not pay their crisis.
We encourage to accelerate the protests, to put in places self managed actions,
to connect the resistance experiences and to share opinions and related
information.
More:
http://www.globalproject.info/it/in_movimento/Direct-fighting-peering-informing/1117
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35th G8 Summit
By Ben Trott
Next week, the eyes of much of the worlds media will be focussed on LAquila,
Abruzzo, for the 35th G8 Summit. Responses to the current global economic
crisis will be high on the agenda. As ever, protests are expected albeit
unlikely of the international order often seen over the last decade.
Eight years ago, the breadth, scale and militancy of the Genoa G8 protests, as
well as the polices brutal reaction, garnered global coverage. The event
formed part of a global cycle of struggles that included protests against other
summits elsewhere in the world, as well as simultaneous demonstrations during
the Genoa Summit itself. Since the turn of the Century, millions have taken to
the streets against the doctrine of neoliberalism a programme of
privatisation, deregulation and financialisation with the claim that another
world is possible.
More: http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21833
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600 people demonstrated against G8 in Berlin
Today 4th of july around 600 demonstrators showed their solidarity with the
protests in Italy against G8 and expressed resistance against security
architectures (see the call on http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/7241.html. With
the slogan Quake G8 We are your crisis the march started in Kreuzberg,
passed the italian chamber of commerce and crossed the center of Berlin with
russian and british embassy ending at Brandenburger Tor, next to the french and
US embassy (which was abandonned because their party was shifted to western
Berlin). Slogans shouted at the demonstration were like Berlin, L`Aquila,
resistance is international, A, anti, anticapitalista and G8, G8, we are
here, the black block from Genoa (that sounds more nice in german).
Several speeches were held, such as focussing on G8 and climate politics, G8 and
militarism and war, the mobilization in Italy, the protests in Vicenza today and
the courtcases in Genoa against activists and police. A solidarity note was sent
to the big demonstration in Vicenza. Italian comrades explained some dates of
the mobilization. Solidarity was shown with the two italians that were
imprisoned yesterday, accusing them being part of an anarcho-insurrectionalist
conspiracy. Police claims that they tried to sabotage a railway line by placing
iron couplers at the electrical cables that should tear them down when a train
is passing (see http://tarnac9.wordpress.com for similar investigations in
France).
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7404.html
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