Swiss Embassy Call for Protest of the season
Friends of Phil and Toby | 05.06.2003 19:22 | Evian G8 | Oxford
Proposal for the demo at the Swiss Embassy on Friday
The world has been sheltered from the brutality of the Swiss police in Lausanne. This media blackout cannot go unchallenged. They did not show the true picture in Lausanne, so this is a proposal for us to show the world what happened.
The mother of all street theatre: Re-enactment of the battle of Lausanne.
Pink-and-silver bloc (with samba)
Black bloc
Police bloc
Rope blockade bloc
Aqua bloc
Bring dressing up clothes: bandanas, pink-and-silver clothes, black clothes, drums and percussion, dancing shoes water-pistols for the police. Prepare for a (mock)-riot; let the battle of Lausanne be seen!
Bring yourself, your friends, your grandmother, your pink tutus, your samba, your barricades, your batons, your tear gas, your goggles, your rage, your laughter.
Let the shout of “ASSASSINI!!!” ring out across the streets of Lausanne, the streets of London and across the streets of the world!
Location: the Swiss Embassy in London
16-18 Montagu Place
LONDON
W1H 2BQ
Tube stations: Baker Street, Edgeware Rd, Marble Arch
Time: 5.30 pm
Link to map:
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Johnny
Oxford Pink-and-silver and Human Being
The Oxford pink-and-silver massive
The world has been sheltered from the brutality of the Swiss police in Lausanne. This media blackout cannot go unchallenged. They did not show the true picture in Lausanne, so this is a proposal for us to show the world what happened.
The mother of all street theatre: Re-enactment of the battle of Lausanne.
Pink-and-silver bloc (with samba)
Black bloc
Police bloc
Rope blockade bloc
Aqua bloc
Bring dressing up clothes: bandanas, pink-and-silver clothes, black clothes, drums and percussion, dancing shoes water-pistols for the police. Prepare for a (mock)-riot; let the battle of Lausanne be seen!
Bring yourself, your friends, your grandmother, your pink tutus, your samba, your barricades, your batons, your tear gas, your goggles, your rage, your laughter.
Let the shout of “ASSASSINI!!!” ring out across the streets of Lausanne, the streets of London and across the streets of the world!
Location: the Swiss Embassy in London
16-18 Montagu Place
LONDON
W1H 2BQ
Tube stations: Baker Street, Edgeware Rd, Marble Arch
Time: 5.30 pm
Link to map:
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Johnny
Oxford Pink-and-silver and Human Being
The Oxford pink-and-silver massive
Friends of Phil and Toby
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Wicked I'll be there
05.06.2003 19:46
I'll definitely be coming with some mates.
See you all there.
Fuck police oppression
oh yeah...
05.06.2003 20:59
it ain't over till the fat capitalist sings
jk
Swiss embassy response
06.06.2003 12:50
Dear Sir
Thank you for expressing your concerns about the case of Mr Martin Shaw, a British national who was injured during a protest organised in Switzerland against the G8 Summit in Evian.
The Swiss authorities are concerned about the tragic incident. In accordance with the Swiss Penal Code, an investigation has been launched ex officio by the Examining Magistrate of the district in question in order to establish the responsibilities of all the persons involved.
Mr Shaw, who fell some twenty metres into the riverbed, was immediately rescued, treated on the spot and then transported to the University Hospital of Canton Vaud. According to the medical services he is seriously injured,
but his life is not in danger.
The demonstration in which Mr Shaw was participating was not authorised. The Cantonal Police was obliged to intervene to disperse the crowd, inasmuch as it was disrupting the traffic on the motorway. The investigation now in progress will last for several weeks and will also consider the responsibility of the demonstrators who took considerable risks and also potentially endangered the lives of others by blocking the motorway traffic.
The findings will be published on the website of the Cantonal Police of Vaud
(www.police.vd.ch) .
Yours sincerely
Marie-Claude Meylan
Mark
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