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- TURIN SHERWOOD CAMP '09: WORTHY RAGE STARTS OFF!
- Krisismap.info
- G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'

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TURIN SHERWOOD CAMP '09: WORTHY RAGE STARTS OFF!

PETITION AGAINST NEXT G8 UNIVERSITY SUMMIT IN TURIN

We are a group of students sensitive to environmental topics. During the
mobilization against the Italian Law 133, we felt the need to start a more
continuous coordinate action. Throughout the experience of these months of
mobilization, we realised that the current crisis is not cyclic: is a
dimensional crisis, and a symptom of the more general political, social,
cultural and environmental degeneration. Capitalism, based on the exploitation
“ad infinitum” of natural resources, human work and environment is not
sustainable any more. The recession affecting all the “big” of the earth
clearly speaks of the absurdity of an economical system based on a boundless
increase of consumption and production. That machine is, by now, worn out. It
is very simple, even too simple, to understand that we live in a limited planet
that imposes physical limits to the economic growth (for further information:
Rapporto sui limiti dello sviluppo, Club di Roma, 1972).

More: http://www.sherwoodcamp.net/en/index.php


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Krisismap.info

Krisismap.info is a tool to share information and develop interactive maps of
the crisis which is haunting the entire globe.

The idea of Krisismap.info has been shaped by Transform!Italia and comes from
our research about using maps as cognitive, communicative and organizational
devices, in a wider research on new techno-political tools.

Though the project construction will take longer and the portal is at its first
steps and still underway, we decided – in collaboration with the network Time
For Change Europe (http://www.time-for-change.net/) and with the network “Labor
and Globalization” – to put online this first prototype for testing its use in
view of the mobilizations and actions which are going to take place around the
G20.

More: http://www.krisismaps.info/map


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G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'

An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an
investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the
crowds.

Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes
police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.

Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near
Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was
informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at
the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed
through the cordon.

More: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/429811.html