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Demonstration at swiss embassy tomorrow against police repression in G8 protests

shaun dey | 05.06.2003 10:52

demo called for 5:30 pm tomorrow outside the swiss embassy against police repression in geneva and lausanne during the G8 protests. address:16-18 Montagu place, W1. tubes: baker st, marble arch or marylebone.

A demo has been called outside the Swiss embassy on Friday June 6 at 5:30 pm to protest against the police repression during the G8 protests, particularly the horrific injuries sustained by Martin Shaw in Lausanne and Guy Smallman in Geneva, and the police raid on the Independent Media Centre in Geneva. Details:

Friday June 6 5:30 pm
Swiss Embassy
16-18 Montagu Place (off Gloucester Place)
London W1
nearest tubes: Baker St, Marble Arch, Marylebone

numbers for the embassy : phone 7616 6000
fax 7724 7001

get in as many complaints and statements as possible and please encourage everyone you know to come tomorrow - we've had to wait over two years now to get justice over genoa, we don't want to have to wait another two years this time!

shaun dey
- e-mail: captainscarlet@artserve.net

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well done?

05.06.2003 21:47

well done to the swiss police? i wasn't in geneva, but i can clearly see that the levels of repression and brutality were akin to that in genoa (without the brutal murder of course). You are congratulating a group of people for effectively silencing the opinions and right to protest of thousands of people. how can anyone condone this, let alone praise it? is it any surprise that the protests were violent when the "important people" were 20 odd miles from the protesters, protected by anti aircraft batteries and rings of troops. repression by police occurs whenever protest does, peaceful or otherwise. The anti-war marches in london were good examples of this. I have tried to protest my anger at what happens in this world, by marching, shouting and sitting. the world hasn't changed. it is they, by their actions, that have forced me into believing that the placard must be combined with the molotov in order to not only get attention, but to actually change this fucked up world we call home.

dissolusioned with peaceful protest

Disillusioned with peaceful protest

05.06.2003 21:50

well done to the swiss police? i wasn't in geneva, but i can clearly see that the levels of repression and brutality were akin to that in genoa (without the brutal murder of course). You are congratulating a group of people for effectively silencing the opinions and right to protest of thousands of people. how can anyone condone this, let alone praise it? is it any surprise that the protests were violent when the "important people" were 20 odd miles from the protesters, protected by anti aircraft batteries and rings of troops. repression by police occurs whenever protest does, peaceful or otherwise. The anti-war marches in london were good examples of this. I have tried to protest my anger at what happens in this world, by marching, shouting and sitting. the world hasn't changed. it is they, by their actions, that have forced me into believing that the placard must be combined with the molotov in order to not only get attention, but to actually change this fucked up world we call home.

Ben