10.30am Embarrasingly - we went to the Italian Consulate in Birkenhead (Hamilton Square) to occupy it and demand internal Italian officals be contacted about the treatment and imprisonment of our comrades still in prisons in Italy - and to get a furthur response from our occupation carried out on 26th July. But the consulate was closed for summer holidays!!!!!!!!! how embarressing..
So we stapled info to the door left leaflets etc and left
( The main police station is next door)
We then held a demo in the city centre of Liverpool from 12 noon until 2.30 with about 15 of us, played drums, talked with lots of people and distributed over 2000 leaflets - getting a generally postive repsonse from the public. Here is the statment passed in to the consualte and is lamost the same as the leaflet.
Seize the time
Power to the people.
People Not Profit



Statement 20 August 2001.

From Liverpool, England.


Between July 19-21 between 200,000 & 300,000 people gathered in Genoa, Italy to protest against the G8 summit. Including trade unions, socialists, environmentalists, 3rd world debt campaigners, anarchists and human rights campaigners from around the world. They united against the leaders of the 8 richest countries, to put an end to the suffering of millions under global capitalism and corporate rule

The Italian state reacted violently to the demos, shooting dead one man on the protest, killing a young women on the border and hospitalizing over 500. Only last week one Italian woman who went missing after the protests was found drowned in the Padua river, she had been strangled so severally that all the bones in her neck had been broken. Of the 400 arrested, most were beaten many were tortured, threatened with rape, and denied legal rights and over 100 people were deported. Now as of today ‘officially’ there are still 17 people in prison and many more are still missing. On a day of global solidarity actions we demand the release of the remaining prisoners, the destruction of records of those released without charge and a proper, public, independent investigation of both the police violence and their role in deliberately escalating the violence.

“The gate opened constantly, the people got out of the trucks and were beaten up. They had to stand against the wall. Inside, they smashed their heads against the wall. The Police urinated on some of them. A young woman threw up blood while the chief of the GOM (special unit of the department for domestic affairs) watched. They threatened the woman with raping her with their clubs.”
Italian police officer in an interview with “La Republica” Inside Genoa