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Swedish Embassy solidarity protest

Ivan Agenda | 18.06.2001 22:38

The Swedish Embassy was the target for a solidarity action on Monday afternoon, as protesters gathered outside to voice their anger at the shooting of 3 people in Gothenburg last weekend.

Swedish Embassy solidarity protest
Swedish Embassy solidarity protest


Actions have occurred outside Swedish Embassies across Europe, as one protester remains critically injured after he was shot in the back. Tony Blair backed the Swedish police saying the protesters were “an Anarchists travelling circus”. One protester who had only arrived back one hour from the plane said, “I was there because of the third world debt…. George Bush and his Environment policy and the European Union’s Neo-Liberal policy are all reasons why I was there”. A large amount of police remained behind the back of the embassy as various chants were aimed at those inside, one man who came to voice his concerns said “The Swedish police used barbaric practices”. When asked if there was any message he would like to pass onto the European policy he stated “We’re getting closer”. The Swedish have so far not issued an apology.

Ivan Agenda

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Callous & Ignorant

19.06.2001 10:55

Blair offered his sympathy to police and the city of Gothenburg, but not the people shot, or their families.

electorate

Blair - how did we end up with such a $%(

20.06.2001 17:43

How the hell have we ended up with such people as Blair in charge? It really sends me into dispair.

Tony Blair is turning our children into drug addicts - because they can't cope with the world that Tony and similar business clones are trying to create.

How can we win, when they have the "legitimate" right to use violence against us, no matter what we do. We can't even express ourselves without getting assaulted by police!

They fight stones with guns, tanks, helicopters, heat seeking missiles and tell you it is right, and you have to be tough with "dangerous anarchists". It is the same the world over.

What have we got left to fight with?

Pretty soon the only form of democratic expression available to the public will be extreme forms of terrorism. It still won't match what governments and businesses are doing to the worlds poor and environment.

Quickly, someone suggest something that isn't filled with dispair!

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solidarity Geteborg activists, Thessaloniki

25.06.2001 13:43

on thursday 21st of june a demonstration against the police brutality took place in Thessaloniki, Greece orginised by a an anarchist squatted social centre "black cat". The demo passed in front of the swedish embassy and the 120 people continued shouting agaist the culture of economy and the dictatorship of the state and representative democracy. in Thessaloniki wiil be held in 2003 the top-meeting of the E.E.

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