Barcelona breaking news
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Police have arrested four people at the crossing between avenida diagonal and via gandeza. The demonstrators, who were simulating a car crash, are from a collective supporting basque political prisoners. They were simulating a car accident because road accidents routinely happen when the families of basque political prisoners go to visit their relatives detained in Spanish prisons.
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Victory to the Anti Capitalists
15.03.2002 16:35
Griersoncat
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quick thinking needed
15.03.2002 17:20
The anti-capitalist movement is young and developing, but it must think quickly about how to create these alternative solutions. We must think carefully about how we protest and
what exactly we are trying to achieve.
Most importantly we must do all this quickly. It would be all too easy for the anti-terrorist measures to turn into real anti-dissent measures and silence us all in an instance.
I am at university and so many people here don't realise the issues surrounding the anti-capitalist movement. If the few is silenced then the movement will die and the ideas that made it important will be lost to history. It really would be all too easy.
Protest with courage but protest with wisdom. Do not allow yourselves to be branded as extreme because you really do represent the mainstream of human dignity.
Good luck to all the protesters in Barcelona. I hope that you all remain safe and well.
Peter