Indymedia ESF Newsblast 1
imc'ista | 22.10.2004 17:25 | European Social Forum | Globalisation | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London
Indymedia UK ESF NEWSBLAST #1
This is a listing of some of the reports posted around the European Social Forum and the Autonomous Spaces in London, October 2004.
There were still serious problems with the Indymedia webserver after the seizure of the servers in London, so many people had problems posting reports. If you have unublished reports of events please post them to Indymedia or to the text reporting database @

This listing is not complete, there's still a lot of content to come in and be tracked down - another updated version will be released soon including links of other media coverage.
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The Assembly of the Social Movements Call

Final Text on official esf website

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MAJOR ESF REPORT PAGES ON INDYMEDIA UK:
Indyemdia UK Precis Feature

Indymedia UK ESF Section

IMC ESF Thursday Reports

IMC ESF Friday Reports

IMC ESF Saturday Reports

IMC ESF Sunday Reports

Also see:
Indymedia Ireland Feature and Reports

Indymedia Belgium Reports [NL] [FR]
[Overview] ESF2004 | London | FSE2004

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GENERAL ESF PICTURES:
Pictures of Alexandra Palace ESF

Belgium Delegation and Registration

First impressions of the ESF

Some more impressions of the ESF

Stalls At Alexandra Palace

Art and Banners At Alexandra Palace

General ESF Pictures

Speaker Portraits

Photos of the speakers at "GM-Free Europe" and
"A Trans-Atlantic GMO Trade War" (+relevant links)

Photos of the speakers at "Developments in Human Genetics " and
"Beyond GM: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture" in Bloomsbury (+relevant links)

Photos of the speakers at
"Resisting corporate monopolies and new enclosures",
"Prenatal screening: eugenics or women's rights?" and
"Human cloning and genetic engineering: what's at stake?" in Bloomsbury (+relevant links)

Autonomous Spaces Newspaper Pics


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INDYMEDIA CENTRE PICTURES
Indymedia Centre @ Camden Centre (pics)

IMC Centre / Indymedia on the streets / Party

IMC and European Forum On Communictaion Rights

Phone Pics of Indymedia Flags

Have Nots / No Vox Party at IMC (Friday)

Pictures from the Penelopes who worked out of the centre

Indymedia Madiaq Tee Shirt Picture

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THURSDAY 14TH OCTOBER REPORTS
ESF registration in chaos

PICTURES: Police at ESF registration at Conway Hall

VIDEO: Arrest at ESF Registration

Women's Open Day Autonomous Space

PICTURES: Beyond ESF Autonomous Space

No Borders Waterloo Action Reports


No Borders Waterloo Action Statement

Pictures: Waterloo station No Borders Action


Evening Standard: "Protesters to defy Canary Wharf ban"

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FRIDAY 15TH OCTOBER REPORTS
Fairford coach kidnap High Court appeal hearing:
Samba action, police harrassment and arrest

Pictures Outside Royal Courts of Justice

G8 Climate Criminals Critical Mass Action Report

European Social Forum Starts!

Canary Wharf Banned Protest Goes Ahead - Report and Pics


Pictures: Global warming G8 protestors halt traffic



Pre-event G8 Climate Criminals Press Release

Evening Critical Mass Ride

Pictures and Report: LAB Action Against CCTV

Tube Party Reports


IMC Breaking News Timeline: Police surround and close off Victoria station after tube party

News of Arrests after Tube Party

Pictures: Tube Party, Reclaiming Public Transport + Repression

Beyond ESF: Grassroots movements against the Clash of Civilisations Report

Beyond ESF: Caracoles, Zapatismo and the Piqueteros

Beyond ESF: Swapping lives - Social Centres Discussion

Beyond ESF: G8 Scotland Sessions

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SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER REPORTS
Police Film and Video Autonomous Spaces



Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination : Action Reports

Actions Against Consumerism Reports


Street Theatre: 'The Chaps' out in force 'civilising the city'

Worldwide Anti-McDonalds Day - mass leafleting event

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SATURDAY 17TH: INTERVENTION AGAINST KEN LIVINGSTONE / GLA / ESF PROCESS
(otherwise knows as 'storming the palace')
IMC Feature

IMC Breaking News and Timeline

Babels Coordinators Statement, 7pm, October 16 2004

Storming the Palace (report and pic)

Assembly of Social Movements And Anti-Ken Livingstone Intervention

Storming Palace visual report

The storming of the palace - criticism

Middle class white kids playing at politics AKA the anarchists

PICTURES:
Livingstone AllyPally speech replaced by protest

storming the palace (more pics)

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FOLLOWING CONTROVERSY
A letter condemning the takeover of the ESF stage in protest against the lack of democracy of the ESF organsing process was published in the Guardian. It accuses protesters of being white anarchists, denies that the intervention had anything to do with the ESF process and implies a racial attack. Here are some of the letters and exchanges:
Ken Livingstone's Special Advisor Accuses White Anarchists of Racial Violence



REPLY: Anti-Racist Groups Accuse Lee Jasper of Playing 'Race Card' re ESF

Stop using race to smother dissent: another Letter to The Guardian

Collection of Letters sent to the Guardian and other articles

IMC Lancaster Open Letter to the European Anti-Social Forum

Alex Callinicos blames violent "Black Bloc"

GR Scotland tries to capitalise on disruption re G8 Organising

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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER - KINGS CROSS DETENTION REPORTS
People detained in king kross ldn, sunday 14:03

Preventitive arrests, police violence

PICTURES:
75 police at King's Cross surrounding about 15 peaceful protestors

Kings Cross Detention of anti-capitalist block - Pics and Report

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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION REPORTS
Report of anti-war march and rally in London October 17th 2004

Photo Essay: A protestor's eye view

Clowns versus Pro Capitalists at Leicester Square

Police Shut Down Bicycle Sound System

VIDEO:
Sunday march, ECF Carnival bus video (1.7mb wmv video)

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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION PICTURES
The main ESF demo

StopWar March and Arrests - Pix and Report

70,000 demonstrate against war in london

Photos from the ESF march / Arrests and Kings Cross / Surveillance

Samba against war in london

Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 1 of 5

Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 2 of 5

Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 3 of 5

Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 4 of 5

Pix of ESF 2004 (Pro-Capitalist Bloc), Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 5 of 5

Banners and General Demo Pics

Photos from the anti-war march at the end of the ESF

More Demonstrations Pics and Portraits

Diversity at the London ESF demo

Indymedia takes to the streets

Stop The War Demo Pics

Backwards Intelligence Team (FIT surveillance cop piss take)

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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION MAIN STAGE AUDIO:
Main Stage: Lee Jasper, Secretary of National Assembly Against Racism speaking on behalf of Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
MP3 at 1.5 mebibytes (3.18 mins)
AUDIO LINK:

Main Stage: Venteran Campaigner Bruce Kent
MP3 at 2.6 mebibytes (5.35 mins)
AUDIO LINK:

Main Stage: Ismail Patel, Chairman Friends of Al Aqsa, speaking on Palestine
MP3 at 2.1 mebibytes (4.32)
AUDIO LINK:

Main Stage: Paul Mackney, General Secretary of NATFHE Union
MP3 at 2.5 mebibytes (5.25 mins)
AUDIO LINK:

Main Stage: Rose + Maxine Gentle, relatives of Gordon Gentle, a 19-year-old Glaswegian soldier killed in Iraq, plus Tommy Sheridan , Scottish Socialist Party MSP
MP3 at 6.2 mebibytes (13.36 min)
AUDIO LINK:

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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER - ARRESTS BACKSTAGE AT ESF DEMO RALLY
Anti- ESF process action at Trafalgar Square report, Sunday, 17th of October

stage storming attemt at Trafalgar square

ESF: arrest at stage at Trafalgar Square - eyewitness report

COBAS Union condemns UK ESF organising committee (swp/sa/gla)

Clown Army Show Solidarity at Charing Cross Police Station

VIDEO: Clown Army Show Solidarity at Charing Cross Police Station

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ARRESTS REPORTS
Arrests reports (at least 8 on sunday, and more from before)


Arrested for 'molotov cocktail' - turnS out to be bottle of whisky

VIDEO

QuickTime movie at 18.6 mebibytes

QuickTime movie at 9.3 mebibytes

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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: INDYMEDIA RADIO LONDON
Post ESF Show: Wednesday 20th October (58 mins long)
Indymedia Radio London Weekly Show on Resonance FM

MP3 at 40.1 mebibytes

MP3 at 13.4 mebibytes

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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: FROM GENOA TO GUANTANAMO
Human Rights Discussion Held at the IMC - Friday 15th October

Speakers include a campagning journalist , a diaz school (Genoa) survivor, the mother of Tom Hurndall (shot dead by the IDF), the mother of Carlo Guiliani, and one of the UK Guantanamo detainees released this year:

Introduction audio: MP3 at 10.3 mebibytes

Diaz_lawyer audio: MP3 at 6.8 mebibytes

Palistine_audio: MP3 at 6.6 mebibytes

Campaigning_journalist audio: MP3 at 2.8 mebibytes

Human_rights_journo audio: MP3 at 6.2 mebibytes

Questions_to_the_panel audio: MP3 at 15.6 mebibytes

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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: European forum on communications rights
Raw Stream Archives (patchy):

Some short excerpts from the audio of the sessions at the Indymedia Centre and European Forum of Communication Rights (www.efcr2004.net) - an autonomous space around the European Social Forum in London, October 2004
1) Gus Hossein - Privacy International on Communication Rights Challenges to civil society post 911 (2.59mins)

2) Indymedia Server Seizure I (2.41 mins)

3) Indymedia Server Seizure II (1.06 mins)

4) Corporate Media + Propaganda Against Dissent in UK (4.02 mins)

5) Corporate Media and Dissent in Ireland (6.51 mins)

6) Steve Buckley - AMARC - Corporatisation of The Media + Community Media (3.34 mins)

7) Institute of Race Relations and and Communication Tools + Strategies (4.25 mins)

8) Justice for Janitors and Communication Tools (4.30 mins)

9) Electronic Security Issues and Politics (5.48 mins)

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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: Interview with Marcelo Andrade
(director of "Venezuela Bolivarian: People & Struggle of the 4th World War") 2004-10-15 in Caracas by phone (recorded & uploaded at indymedia ESF-media centre, king's cross, london)

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ADDITIONAL VIDEO:
Gonzalo Gomez - editor and founder of aporrea.org an independent news wire in Venezuela talks about the situation in Venezuela

MPEG at 36.5 mebibytes (7.06 mins)
VIDEO LINK:

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COMMENTS REPORTS CRITIQUES AND ANALYSIS
Babels Coordinators Statement, 7pm, October 16 2004

MY ESF EXPERIENCE

European Social Forum events - short report and thoughts on lack of media coverage

IMC Solidarity Missing From ESF Assembly of Social Movements Declaration!

Hacking networks of power: Report on the contrast between the 'official' ESF and autonomous spaces

A discussion for the autonomous movement networks about the ESF and the N/europa challenge

The European Social Forum: time to get serious

Precarity: New forms of exploitation, new forms of resistance at Beyond ESF

ESF Coverage - Mainstream & Indymedia Criticism

Anti-SWP posting is killing indymedia

The Trots will destroy ESF

This is all desparately sad. We can not let it end like this.

ESF future: We should go deeper, to find more links between movements

Changes Must be Made for the Next ESF - Greece 2006

Some comments on ESF

Last word from the ESF

Litter at ESF

TUC leader calls for closer links between unions and social movements

General Motors strike - Tues 19 October - European day of solidarity action!


What's Hot and What's Not at the ESF 2004

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OTHER REPORTS:
Female Media Network - The Penelopes ESF Reports [FR]

Red Pepper ESF Blog

Other Red Pepper Coverage

Open Democracy Cover Social Forums

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