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Put pressure on the UK Govt. to condemn the Police violence in Genoa

net activist | 28.07.2001 15:55

Lobby your local MP and the Govt. to condemn the Police violence and brutality in Genoa. Here's how:

Put pressure on the UK Govt. by emailing your local MP
'representative'. Tell your MP to instruct the UK govt.
to fulfill the following demands:

* A formal condemnation of the Police violence and police
procedures in Genoa, Italy.

The UK govt. must also:

* Insist on an independent, parliamentary inquiry into the
Police violence and brutality, and who was responsible.

* Insist on an apology for the way peaceful, non-violent,
UK citizens were misretreated.

* Insist that any and all remaining protesters in Italy,

a) Be accounted for

b) Be allowed access to legal council, health provisions,
relatives and visitors, and the media.

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Here is a link to a web-page containing contact email addressess
for members of Parliament, along with other ways of contacting
the Govt.

 http://ukgovinfo.about.com/blmpmail.htm

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Please distribute this around the UK as widely as possible.

net activist
- Homepage: http://ukgovinfo.about.com/blmpmail.htm

Comments

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Error

28.07.2001 17:35

After hearing suggestions from other activists, perhaps a call for an 'independent international' inquiry would be better.

net activist


See Skys posting above

28.07.2001 19:49

Sky is calling for pressure to be put on the Italian Government to rescind the deportation orders against other activists from the raid, who weren't charged with anything, so that they can give evidence to the magistrates who are investigating the brutalisation at the two schools where indymedia and other activists were based

Robin


Demands?

28.07.2001 21:42

The only demand I feel worth making of 'our' governments is for all our comrades to be released, as most of the demands above will just re-enforce the overall system as it is.
Other than that we should escalate the class struggle, and overthrow capitalism the only solution.

For a world human community.

Black Dog
mail e-mail: blackdog1926@yahoo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.motkraft.net/prol-position/


Tony Blair's Responsible

29.07.2001 18:42

It would be a mistake to believe that what happened in Italy happened because Berlusconi and his fascist friends are in power.
The policy consisting in putting the cities where EU, IMF or G8 meetings are held under a state of siege, organising wide police co-operation all over the Schengen area to hunt down anti-globalisation activists, preventively arresting people at the borders or in the places where alternative summits are held (i.e. the arrest of people who have not yet but are suspected to plan to demonstrate), then the en masse deportation of peaceful demonstrators back to their home countries by planes, trains or busses, without any charge being proffered and therefore illegally. All these practises have been consistently implemented since the Amsterdam Summit in June 1997. And that was long before any violent groups were present during the demonstrations !
Such repressive policies contradict basic Human Rights as acknowledged by the European States (such as Right to Demonstrate, Assemble and freedom of movement for EU citizens), the European Charta and the Convention on Human Rights, as well as the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Such contraventions to these basic rights were registered by the thousands since 1997, with the additional use of firearms in Göteborg and now Genoa.
We believe it is essential to understand that it is a concerted and deliberate illegal policy consisting in doing the maximum to prevent the would-be demonstrators to get to the summits, and later attempting to discredit them by association with the violence orchestrated for a good part, as we have seen in Genoa, by police provocators.
The Berlusconi government applied all these measures in accordance and with the support of the other EU Heads of State, but somehow botched it all by over-doing it.
Still there is a deliberate policy to repress by any legal and illegal means the anti-globalisation protests. Including by means of terror (how else can one describe the repression in Genoa, Salzburg or Göteborg ?).
The death of Carlo Giuliani is the result of four years of planning: it is the logical if terrible outcome of a policy of repression involving G. Schröder, T. Blair, G. Persson among others.
They should be held responsible !

sebastien springborn
mail e-mail: pointvirgule@hotmail.com


Tony Blair's Responsible

29.07.2001 18:48

It would be a mistake to believe that what happened in Italy happened because Berlusconi and his fascist friends are in power.
The policy consisting in putting the cities where EU, IMF or G8 meetings are held under a state of siege, organising wide police co-operation all over the Schengen area to hunt down anti-globalisation activists, preventively arresting people at the borders or in the places where alternative summits are held (i.e. the arrest of people who have not yet but are suspected to plan to demonstrate), then the en masse deportation of peaceful demonstrators back to their home countries by planes, trains or busses, without any charge being proffered and therefore illegally. All these practises have been consistently implemented since the Amsterdam Summit in June 1997. And that was long before any violent groups were present during the demonstrations !
Such repressive policies contradict basic Human Rights as acknowledged by the European States (such as Right to Demonstrate, Assemble and freedom of movement for EU citizens), the European Charta and the Convention on Human Rights, as well as the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Such contraventions to these basic rights were registered by the thousands since 1997, with the additional use of firearms in Göteborg and now Genoa.
We believe it is essential to understand that it is a concerted and deliberate illegal policy consisting in doing the maximum to prevent the would-be demonstrators to get to the summits, and later attempting to discredit them by association with the violence orchestrated for a good part, as we have seen in Genoa, by police provocators.
The Berlusconi government applied all these measures in accordance and with the support of the other EU Heads of State, but somehow botched it all by over-doing it.
Still there is a deliberate policy to repress by any legal and illegal means the anti-globalisation protests. Including by means of terror (how else can one describe the repression in Genoa, Salzburg or Göteborg ?).
The death of Carlo Giuliani is the result of four years of planning: it is the logical if terrible outcome of a policy of repression involving G. Schröder, T. Blair, G. Persson among others.
They should be held responsible !

sebastien springborn
mail e-mail: pointvirgule@hotmail.com