[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] Ontario -- London -- Genoa -- Copenhagen -- L'Aquila

Fri Apr 9 20:09:52 CEST 2010

- What to do if the police come knockin?
- Anti Prison Demo during G20 in Toronto (Canada)
- Local councillor criticized for saying too much about G20 summit
- Diplomatic immunity doled out to thousands of Toronto visitors as  
G20 approaches
- Met police to pay G20 protest compensation
- Metropolitan Police admit G20 unlawful arrests
- REMARCABLE APPEAL SENTENCE IN GENOA: THE RIGHTS OF BOLZANETO VICTIMS  
RECOGNIZED
- Tragicomical trials after COP15
- Stop Harassing Our Italian Comrades

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What to do if the police come knockin?

Movement Defence Committee: 416 833 6137

If the police question or search you:
- You do not have to identify yourself unless under you are under  
arrest (except when driving a motor vehicle) and you do not have to  
answer any questions

- Simply ask the police if they have a warrant; if they do not, tell  
them you are not going to talk to them. Remember anything you say to  
police can be used against you, even at a later date. As well, though  
they may present themselves as wanting to assist with demonstrations  
and organizing, they are also gathering intelligence to use against  
our movements. It is best to simply avoid talking to police.

- If they persist, call the legal number and tell the officer you are  
contacting a lawyer.

- Send an email to us (lawunionMDC at gmail.com) and include details,  
especially the time, date, location officer?s name or badge number and  
what they asked.

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Ontario_2010/8330.html

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Anti Prison Demo during G20 in Toronto (Canada)

On Sunday, June 27 2010 at 5pm there will be a Demonstration Against  
Prison in Toronto. Anarchists are organizing the demonstration as a  
part of the larger mobilization in opposition to the G20 meetings.

This is a statement of our perspective and intention for the demo,  
more details to come soon.

Prison is everywhere. It is nothing more than a reflection of the  
society in which we live. A society that resembles an open prison in  
which the majority of the population is locked up because of the  
necessity to find money, because of the lack of purpose in life,  
because of the roles of submission and servitude that are imposed by  
the ruling values. It is a daily threat and reality that has permeated  
every facet of society.

Source: http://fireworksforprisons.wordpress.com

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Local councillor criticized for saying too much about G20 summit

Adam Vaughan tells police board residents come first

Police board member and local councillor Adam Vaughan received a light  
reprimand from Board Chair Alok Mukherjee for saying too much to his  
constituents about plans to police the G20 summit this summer.

The summit, which is to take place in June in Toronto?s downtown core,  
will involve a massive police presence, and residents and businesses  
in the city core will be impacted by heightened security.

As a member of the Toronto Police Services Board, Vaughan, the  
councillor for Trinity-Spadina (Ward 20), has been involved in  
briefings about how the security will work.

Source:  
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/cityhall/article/654638--local-councillor-criticized-for-saying-too-much-about-g20-summit

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Diplomatic immunity doled out to thousands of Toronto visitors as G20  
approaches

While Torontonians will be subject to rigorous security measures for  
the upcoming G20 summit, it?s a different story for foreign diplomats,  
for whom the city could become a hedonistic party ground, if they so  
choose. Hundreds of G20 representatives and their  
entourages?potentially thousands of people?have just been granted  
formal diplomatic immunity from now until July 4. That means they can  
enter the country without having their bags checked, and while here,  
they can?t be arrested or detained.

Source:  
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/summit-survivor/2010/04/03/diplomatic-immunity-doled-out-to-thousands-of-toronto-visitors-as-g20-approaches

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Met police to pay G20 protest compensation

The Metropolitan Police are facing a compensation bill of £250,000,  
after admitting a raid on a climate change group the day after the G20  
protests in London last April was illegal.

Police burst into the Convergence Centre in east London carrying taser  
guns, and handcuffed protesters face down.

The Met Commissioner admitted it was unlawful to arrest, search them,  
and force them to be recorded on film, but he refused to apologise to  
the protestors.

This was the day after the big city G20 demonstrations. A large convoy  
and a heavy handed police presence took up positions around a disused  
office block.

Source:  
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/met%20police%20to%20pay%20g20%20protest%20compensation/3587057  
weiter...

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Metropolitan Police admit G20 unlawful arrests

By Dominic Casciani

The Metropolitan Police has paid damages to protesters it unlawfully  
arrested during the G20 protests.

The force paid £6,000 in damages to Hannah McClure and Andrew Rubens  
who were held during a raid on a squat.

The arrests came about when officers in riot gear broke up a meeting  
of some 60 climate camp activists during the April 2009 global summit  
in London.

Solicitors for the pair said that others demonstrators held during the  
same operation would now sue.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8580344.stm

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REMARCABLE APPEAL SENTENCE IN GENOA: THE RIGHTS OF BOLZANETO VICTIMS  
RECOGNIZED

By AED ? EDL (European Democratic Lawyers)

The AED-EDL greets with satisfaction the sentence of the Appeal Court  
in Genoa recognizing the criminal responsibility of all 44 accused of  
violence and acts of torture committed against the detainees in the  
Bolzaneto barracks during the G8-summit in 2001 in Genoa.
Due to the prescription of the crimes, only 8 detainees have been  
condemned to detention and the accused have not suffered an effective  
punishment for Italy has not yet adopted a law to punish torture in  
violation of international agreements.
All the accused have been condemned to compensate the civil parties,  
amongst them also the parents of some victims, as well as according  
them important provisional sums. The ministry of Interior, of Defense  
and Justice have been condemned together with the accused.

Download statement (pdf, 67 KB):  
http://www.gipfelsoli.org/service/get_file?file=Bolzaneto_EN.pdf

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Tragicomical trials after COP15

At the centre of the trials in Copenhagen against the spokes persons  
of Climate Justice Action this week is a two meter long bolt cutter.  
The prosecutor is very upset. Here we have the ultimate proof of the  
planned violence against the police. By wire tapping telephones and  
emails and taking note books from the accused it is now possible for  
the Danish state to tell the truth and threaten people with prison for  
many years and then expulsion out of the country even if they live or  
work there. A bolt cutter have been mentioned by one of the accused in  
a preparation of one of the actions during COP15 to protect the rights  
of climate refugees. And what can be done with a bolt cutter if not  
being violent against the police. Is this not what we often see,  
demonstrators running around in the streets chasing the police while  
swinging the bolt cutters over their heads.
And it was really true. A bolt cutter, even a huge bolt cutter as long  
as two meters have been used in a Danish action against the treatments  
of refugees. A red bolt cutter of paper glued together with wall paper  
paste. In the eyes of the Danish state the symbolic cutting of the  
border fences might be considered as violent. To open up the country  
for such oddities as refugees or, god forgive us, people, or to put it  
more exactly foreigners, that want to come and express their opinion  
about a UN Summit, is this not a violent threat against the Danish  
nation? So why not let the courts see it the same way?

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Copenhagen_2009/8312.html

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Stop Harassing Our Italian Comrades

a group of moscow anarchists attacked cars Italian embassy outside  
italian school for children of diplomats

Stop Harassing Our Comrades

Since Genova 2001 we have come to understand the oppressive and  
pro-nazi nature of Italian authorities. The events of this fall-winter  
once again demonstrate that this is still true. Good and decent  
people, who have come to protest the anti-human and planet-hostile G8  
summit in Italy 2009, became subjects for police repressions a year  
later (www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009).

As a follow-up, a march against world-wide economic crisis was  
violently beaten by italian blackshirters riot cops  
(roma.indymedia.org/node/16959). To add up the pressure on social  
initiatives and people who try to speak out against the policy that  
Putin and Berlusconi seem to have agreed upon (i.e., that poor have to  
pay for the crisis so that rich get richer still), turin police raided  
local independent media  
euro-police.noblogs.org/post/2010/02/23/turin-police-raided-radio-blacko.

Source: http://roma.indymedia.org/node/18258