There's a demo outside italian embassy on fri 19th july - it's at 4.30pm in grosvenor sq london.

What about the thousands of people who die every single from AIDS, hunger, civil war and disease? I know, I know, it's not as sexy as Western anarchists, but I always had the strange idea that all human life is equally valuable.

Carlo was a punk kid who had the bright idea of throwing a fire extinguisher at someone armed with deadly force, in the middle of a huge riot. Of course he didn't deserve to get shot, but if you play with fire, sometimes you get burned.

I'll save my sympathy for the faceless, nameless thousands who are blameless and hopeless, who aren't martyrs to Western protestors who fetishize riots.

chris

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"What about the thousands of people who die every single [Day? Hour? Minute?] from AIDS, hunger, civil war and disease?"
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That's why we were in Italy: protesting against the dictatorial policies of the G8, trying to prevent them from wreaking further damage on the world, trying to reverse the destruction....
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"I know, I know, it's not as sexy as Western anarchists, but I always had the strange idea that all human life is equally valuable."
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"I'll save my sympathy for the faceless, nameless thousands who are blameless and hopeless, who aren't martyrs to Western protestors who fetishize riots."
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Maybe... but I'm going to share my empathy with the blamed and the foresaken; I'm going to get up and make my voice heard when I say, 'Enough!' Carlo Guiliani was murdered by a power designed to protect an 'elite,' a self-serving group of individuals with no concern for the rest of the ecosystem. And so, too, are the millions of others who have died and will continue to die under this capitalist nightmare murdered.

But it won't stop if we all stay at home. It won't stop if people continue to only read their newspapers and watch their televisions and see the same old logos on their trips to the same old shops... It is up to all of us to get out and spread the news that we CAN change the world - all of us - to make it better, to enable it to function in an horizontal way.
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"There's a demo outside italian embassy on fri 19th july - it's at 4.30pm in grosvenor sq london."

Yes - but this is a) NOT the anniversary of the date that Carlo Guiliani was murdered on; and b) likely to be an ineffectual opportunity for flag-waving on the part of Monopolise Resistance and the SWP - fully expect lots of pigs and 'pens.' We shall make our ideas known in other ways...
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UNDERGROUND
Horizontal organisation, consensual decision making, anti-authoritarianism and anarchist autonomy.

OVERGROUND
Protected by our garments, shields and each other, a wall of maximum visibility is constructed and combined with maximum effectiveness against that which attempts to restrict our movement of freedom.

WOMBLING FREE
Through mutual respect for the diversity of our desires, we become a clenched fist of solidarity. There is nothing to lose; no direction to go but forward.

Let's fucking go.

WOMBLES

Hey well wombles, I agree with the points you make about the comments from chris, but disagree about the comments about the demo this friday 19th:

Re: genoa / carlo / sexy western activists / faceless ones

For me it's the anniversary of GENOA that's important. Carlo was the most tragic of casualties, there were many more over the genoa days, including those were not actively protesting when they got beaten to a pulp in the bloody Diaz school raid - really just not very sexy at all, more the bloody harsh truth of challenging the system. Then there were the many people brutally tortured and beaten inside the so called detention centres and prisons - these are also the faceless.

It's the same system that fosters then fails to tackle the AIDS crisis, hunger, civil war and disease, that in Italy executed a calculated strategy of political cover-up and obstruction of the enquiries following the events in genoa.

Some of the fascist lies and propoganda has began crumble in Italy. One ongoing enquiry recently got closer to the truth around the Diaz raid, hearing evidence like the petrol bombs the police showed on tv the next day as having been 'seized' at the school, had in fact been found earlier in the day by the side of the road in the centre of town, and other evidence casting the utmost doubt on the police claims that one of the carabiniari was stabbed. But there's a long way to go before the real facts are accepted.

And this is why it's important that people mark the passing of a year since these events in what ever way they can.

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"There's a demo outside italian embassy on fri 19th july - it's at 4.30pm in grosvenor sq london."

"Yes - but this is a) NOT the anniversary of the date that Carlo Guiliani was murdered on; and b) likely to be an ineffectual opportunity for flag-waving on the part of Monopolise Resistance and the SWP - fully expect lots of pigs and 'pens.' We shall make our ideas known in other ways..."

Yes it's about Carlo, it's also about a lot lot more. Not everyone is up for going and doing their own small protest, and some would prefer to go along to an advertised demonstration, just as was the case in Genoa. Sure there will be police there and they will set up fences for people to stand behind, but there will still be a demo outside the embassy on a week day, exactly a year after the main protests started, and this is as it should be given everything the Italian governement has done. There should also be similar protest in other cities around the world.