[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] Genoa -- Ontario -- Heiligendamm -- Strasbourg/ Baden-Baden
International Newsletter
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Fri May 21 11:06:45 CEST 2010
- Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8
protesters
- Diaz Sentence 18th May 2010
- Italy backs convicted Genoa G8 police
- ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE 2010
- Direct Action in Ottawa
- Ottawa police have suspects in firebombing
- G20 will give homeless the heave-ho
- Cops ask truckers to act as 'look outs' during summits
- If CSIS comes knocking
- DLR maps for G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, June 6 to 8, 2007
- NATO summit in Strasbourg/France
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Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8 protesters
Sentences suggest appeal judges accept that 2001 night raid when many
were savagely beaten was planned and covered up
Some of Italy?s most senior police officers have been given jail
sentences of up to five years for what the prosecution called a
?terrible? attack on demonstrators at the 2001 G8 meeting in Genoa and
an attempted, subsequent cover-up.
Victims of the attack, who included several Britons, expressed delight
at the ruling, which overturned many of the conclusions reached by the
judges at the original trial in 2008. Mark Covell, aged 42 from
Reading, who was beaten into a coma, said: ?This is beyond my wildest
expectations. The Italian judiciary has recognised the truth of what
happened. Human rights have finally been respected here. Italians will
now recognise their cops do not have immunity. But it has taken nine
years, and I was at the end of my tether.?
It is highly unlikely that any of the officers will actually go behind
bars. The case has taken so long to reach this stage that most of the
offences of which they were accused have since been ?timed out? by
statutes of limitations.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/19/g8-italian-police-sentenced
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Diaz Sentence 18th May 2010
On 18th May 2010 the court in Genoa sentenced 25 members of police
authorities.
In the 2nd instance the court found also high officials guilty that
were discharged before in 2008.
Find the sentence as pdf here:
http://www.gipfelsoli.org/service/get_file?file=diaz_dispositivo.pdf
More: http://www.processig8.org/Udienza_018_Diazap.html
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Italy backs convicted Genoa G8 police
Italian officials say they have full confidence in policemen convicted
by an appeals court over violence at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
The officers, who were sentenced to up to five years in prison, are to
remain in their posts pending a final appeal.
In an original trial in November 2008, 13 officers were convicted,
while 16 ? including the most senior officers ? were acquitted.
The case concerns a raid in which dozens of protesters were injured.
?These men continue to have the full confidence of the security
services and the interior ministry,? said Alfredo Mantovano, the
interior ministry?s under-secretary.
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10132208.stm
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ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE 2010
Against the crisis here! Against the crisis everywhere! Let?s unite!
ATTACK THE G20 ? TORONTO, JUNE 25-26-27 2010
Montreal, February 2010 ? We won?t pay for their crisis! A new
anti-capitalist alliance calls for mobilization against the ?Group of
20 (G20)? summit attended by leaders of the planet?s 20 largest
economies next June 25, 26 and 27.
Under the auspices of this type of criminal institution, the rulers of
this world decide how to perpetuate the current system of economic and
political domination to benefit a handful of rich bankers, financiers,
businessmen and politicians, all over a few bites of caviar. In the
meanwhile, they keep exploiting and starving the remaining 99 percent
of humanity, repressing populations and groups that resist, destroying
millions of lives with impunity and devastating the planet.
In Canada, various governments have taken advantage of the economic
crisis to further slash social programs, to raise user fees, to
transfer the burden of unpaid work to women and to make the poor and
the working class pay for the debts that they?ve incurred by handing
out subsidies to businesses, whose bosses have been stuffin their
pockets laughing. As thousands of workers lose their jobs or their
pensions, as women and undocumented migrants are pushed further into
precariousness, as hundreds of migrants live in fear of repression and
deportation, the ruling class still goes out of its way to convince
the populace that it has some sacrifices left to make!
More: http://www.clac2010.net/call
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Direct Action in Ottawa
The Vancouver Olympic games are over, but a torch is still burning.
Download Video: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2010/05//11234.avi (15MB)
Royal Bank Canada was a major sponsor of the recently concluded 2010
Olympics on stolen indigenous land. This land was never legally ceded
to colonial British Columbia. This hasn?t stopped the government from
assuming full ownership of the land and its reMores for the benefit of
its corporate masters and to the detriment of aboriginal peoples,
workers and the poor of the province. The 2010 Winter Olympics
increased the homelessness crisis in Vancouver, especially the
Downtown Eastside, Kanada?s poorest urban area. Since the Olympics
bid, homelessness in Vancouver has nearly tripled while condominium
development in the Downtown Eastside is outpacing social housing by a
rate of 3:1. The further criminalization and displacement of those
living in extreme poverty continues apace.
More: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2010/05/11233.shtml
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Ottawa police have suspects in firebombing
By Gary Dimmock and Tony Spears, Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA ? Police detectives investigating Tuesday?s bold firebombing of
an uptown Ottawa bank have now identified suspects, all of whom live
in Ottawa and are linked to an anti-establishment network.
The firebombing by anarchist group FFFC-Ottawa was filmed and posted
online, and seasoned detectives have collected trace evidence from the
burnt-out Royal Bank of Canada branch.
The police department has also retrieved security video from
storefronts along Bank Street and First Avenue, including
high-definition images.
The homegrown terrorists, who attacked the bank because it sponsored
the Vancouver Olympics, made their getaway in an SUV.
They are believed to comprise a group of at least four people, linked
to an online independent media site and an anti-establishment network
which organizes protests against G8 and G20 Summits, unfair trade and
government cuts to welfare.
More:
http://www.vancouversun.com/Ottawa+police+have+suspects+firebombing/3054901/story.html
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G20 will give homeless the heave-ho
Security forces must keep the downtown core clear
By TOM GODFREY
Some homeless men and women will be moved out of downtown as part of a
security crackdown by Toronto Police for the G20 summit next month,
officers and protesters say.
Members of 10 anti-summit groups ? including anti-poverty, gender,
environment and native activists ? vow to wreak havoc when the world
leaders meet June 26-27 at the Metro Convention Centre. The G8 takes
place in Huntsville June 25-26.
The groups have refused to reveal their tactics or if they?re linked
to a cell that firebombed a Royal Bank in Ottawa Tuesday.
John Clark of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty said some homeless
have complained of being pressured by police to move from the area
where the summit is taking place.
More: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/20/14025981.html
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Cops ask truckers to act as 'look outs' during summits
TORONTO -- Federal police are urging truckers to report irregular
activity or other suspicious behavior in the run up to the G8 and G20
Summits in Huntsville and Toronto in late June.
The RCMP met with the Canadian Trucking Alliance to discuss the
valuable role carriers and drivers can play in assisting security
during these events, which take place June 25, 26 and 27.
CTA says RCMP officials are appealing to all Canadian carriers to keep
an eye out for and immediately report suspicious behavior, including
thefts, as potentially dangerous activities aimed at the G8 and G20
Summits.
More: http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=24013
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If CSIS comes knocking
[français: www.peoplescommission.org/fr/csis/whattodo-csis.php]
[Arabic: www.peoplescommission.org/en/csis/whattodo-csis_ar.php]
[español: www.peoplescommission.org/en/csis/whattodo-csis_es.php]
A community advisory from the People?s Commission Network
Since the fall of 2009 there have been ongoing visits by members of
the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) to various local
social justice organizers and activists. These visits are in addition
to CSIS? ongoing harassment of targeted communities. This community
advisory is in response to those visits.
Visits by CSIS and the RCMP to activists are nothing new; they have
taken place before around specific events or projects. In general,
these visits can have different purposes: they are not only about
information-gathering but can also be attempts to create or exploit
divisions between activists, plant misinformation, intimidate, develop
psychological profiles, and recruit informers.
If CSIS comes knocking, we strongly encourage total and complete
non-cooperation. A CSIS visit to your home or workplace will be a
surprise, but we encourage you to be ready to not cooperate with them
in any way, which means not speaking with them or listening to them.
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Ontario_2010/8380.html
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DLR maps for G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, June 6 to 8, 2007
From June 6 to 8, the G8 leaders met for their annual summit in
Heiligendamm, Germany. The area of Heiligendamm was spaciously
protected for security reasons and the inner security zone was
confined by a fence. Many governmental and non-governmental
organisations were involved in the logistical organisation and
implementation of safety and security for both the official summit and
the protest activities.
In the context of research activities for satellite based event
monitoring, ZKI of DLR processed and analysed satellite data of June
01 and June 07, 2007, before and during the G8-Summit. The satellite
based information was transmitted in near real-time to the local THW
headquarters near Heiligendamm via satellite communication. DLR used
the satellite communication that was provided through the ESA research
project ARTES 3, to collect experiences in the interaction between
satellite image analysis and satellite communication. These
experiences will be integrated in particular in the EU research
project LIMES.
More: http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2007/heiligendamm/135_en.html
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NATO summit in Strasbourg/France
On April 4 2009, the leaders of the 26 NATO countries met in Kehl and
Strasbourg. Extensive security measures were being implemented in both
cities. In the course of the ARGOS project, satellite images of both
cities on that day were taken to provide examples for the
possibilities and limitations of satellitebased analyses of
large-scale events.
More: http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2009/germany/170_en.html
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