“Seven winds in the lower calendars and geographies: first wind, a worthy and angry youth”.
Subcomandante Marcos, Ezln, Chiapas, Mexico.
L'Aquila is translated into 'Eagle' town.
Subcomandante Marcos, Ezln, Chiapas, Mexico.
L'Aquila is translated into 'Eagle' town.
Arrests in Torino - May 2009
Artwork
A24 Blockade 7th July Rome
A24 Blockade 7th July Rome
A24 Blockade 7th July Rome
University takeover - Rome July 7th
candlelight assembly- L'aquila- July 6th
'The Eagle's Nest'
On July 8th, 9th and 10th the president-master of the italian government, Silvio Berlusconi, will host the summit of the “Big Eight” of the Planet. The summit will take place in the fortress of a State Police Corps, in Coppito, a town close to L’Aquila, a city where people and land are still devasted by the earthquake of the 6th of April 2009. The president moved there the summit from its original destination: a luxury liner off the sardinian coast of La Maddalena.
On the runup to this year's G8 a highly restrictive G8 mashal Security Paln has been put in place to restrict the movement of the population through Borders and within Italy.
A couple of days ago, the preventive arrests began of activists all over italy.
At least 21 italian activists were arrested by political police "Digos" this morning.
16 were taken to prison, five have to stay under house arrest.
The police attack affected activists from Torino, Padova, Bologna and Naples, among
them known members of social centres. One of the arrested was followed by the police
up to L'Aquila, where the G8 summit should take place. In Naples several objects were
raided and searched.
Under the pretext of "preventive arrests" the police used the heavy protests that
were organized against the "G8 university summit" in may in Torino. The measures hit
members of the so called "Area Antagonista".
To protest and show solidarity, students occupied the rectorate of the university in
Venice, followed by an occupation at the Sapienza university in Rome.
"We will not go", explaines Francesco, one of the activists, "until our university is
not positioning itself towards the arrests".
Meanwhile the militarization of the "red zone" started. With army jets and
surveillance drones ("Predator") the police tries to control and handle protest and
resistance.
16 roads in the area of the summit are equipped with checkpoints of Carabinieri,
police, army and Guardia di Finanza. The road between the airport Preturo and the
police barracks Coppito, where the summit should start on wednesday, is blocked.
On friday the police arrested two men near Viterbo, that were accused of being member
of an "anarcho-insurrectionalist movement". They should have been planning to
sabotage trains by placing "horse shaped iron bars" at the railway cables to bring
the locomotives to halt.
On saturday 700 people demonstrated in Berlin against G8. The demonstration was
attacked by the police, at least four activistswere arrested. The organizers
critizise in a press release, that the police "searched the escalation".
AGNOLETTO: 'THE SECOND PUNATIVE SUPPRESSION AFTER VICENZA.
THE GOVERNMENT feeds a climate of tension.
WHAT IS NOT TO FILL THE FAILURE OF SUMMIT ANNOUNCED.
Milan, 6 July 2009 - "The arrests today are intolerable - said Vittorio Agnoletto, outgoing MEP, spokesman of the Genoa Social Forum at the time of the G8 in Genoa - have never seen precautionary measures preventive, aiming apparently to criminalize an entire movement.
Stop the wave of protesters two days after the G8 de L'Aquila is a clear message from the government, that in so doing feeds and exacerbates the climate of tension to the event (as he had done at Genoa, eight years ago). It is the second episode of what happened the other day in Vicenza, where I participated in the march against the Dal Molin base and where demonstrators have done everything to not fall into the trap of the forces order.
http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/222
Rome: [07/07] This morning's mobilisations: a report
Following yesterday's arrests - of twenty one people from four different cities, Turin, Padova, Bologna and Aquila - there was a wave of university occupations across Italy. Today, the groups in Palermo and Bologna have also occupied the university directors' offices, as part of the first official day of action vs the G8.
This morning, a group of activists from Rome have used a huge gate to block the slip-road onto the A-24 motorway (which runs from Rome to Aquila), hanging banners and erecting tents. The blockade ended at approx 11.30am, and we learnt that at least three of the activists involved had been stopped by the police.
Meanwhile, 500 people from the "V Strategy" group had left the university occupation in order to block traffic in Via Ostiense (a major thoroughfare in central Rome). The demo has suffered baton charges by riot police and "guardia di finanza" (the police that are responsible for border control). Some of the activists were then followed by the cops all the way back to the occupied university building, where the entrance is guarded against police incursion. Seven arrests have been confirmed from the motorway blockade, apparently this includes four people from other countries.
Since 12 noon, there has been a demonstration on the campus of La Sapienza university, in solidarity with those arrested yesterday morning, and today.
A crowd at least a hundred-strong, has come out of the university and blockaded the Via de Lollis, then processed towards San Lorenzo.
News is coming through that at the A-24 bloockade there have been seven arrests including 4 swedish, 2 german, 1 swiss, 1, french, i polish.
27 arrests, possibly more have been made by Guardia De Finanze Police on the VIa Ostiense blockade in Central Rome
http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/65
ON THE 10th JULY, LET'S MARCH FOR L'AQUILA
FOR SOCIAL AND SOLID RECONSTRUCTION,
AGAINST THE G8 SUMMIT, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL CRISIS
We are against G8 and we have made it clear in the last few months -- starting from the national demonstration of 28th March in Rome, through Siracusa, Turin, Rome and Lecce --, protesting against each of the focused G8 meetings, which are attended by those same people who caused the global crisis and who would now like to keep pushing the world towards the same apocalyptic edge.
This undisputed rule of profit and total marketization -- contrasted by the anti-global movement for at least a decade -- is the origin of a world crisis which does not only pertain to economy and finance, but also to environmental, climatic, energetic, food and war issues. In the last few months we have been declaring that we peoples of the earth refuse to pay for the crisis that has been brought about by the masters of the globe: from Belem to Athens, from London to Strasbourg through the many anti-G8 Italian cities, we have suggested an alternative plan for getting rid of the crisis by means of fair, egalitarian, peaceful tools that are friendly to workers, the environment, the peoples of the earth, the weak, and the helpless.
We are especially adverse to the G8 summit in l'Aquila -- a petty attempt by Berlusconi's cabinet to exploit the city of Aquila and the hardships of its people in order to avoid legitimate protests against the summit and against the huge fraud of the profit-driven reconstruction that is being forced upon the population through a dictatorial and military management of the camps for earthquake victims.
The government is trying to turn Aquila's tragedy into a gigantic property speculation (with a draconian ministerial decree that has been passed as a law after every amendment had been rejected), and to redraw the territory in favour of the powerful ones, as well as to obscure the wider economic crisis affecting the whole region and to impose a dramatic standard of living upon the earthquake victims -- thus suppressing any drive to participation and to a grassroots reconstruction that is social and solid. They even stopped assemblies and meetings in the camps and prevented activists from spreading informative leaflets.
Berlusconi wants to exploit the G8 summit in order to suppress the growing dissent in Aquila -- that has been clearly expressed by both city demonstrations and by the initiative organized on the 16th June in front of the Parliament, and is now strengthening around the 100% CAMPAIGN. With this campaign we demand: 100% RECONSTRUCTION with state contributions that cover all the damage suffered by homes and businesses; 100% PARTICIPATION, because cities and villages must be reconstructed by their inhabitants; 100% of THE POPULATION IN AQUILA, because everybody must go back to their homes and especially in September all students have to attend their classes in their living place.
In the framework shared by the national assemblies that took place in Aquila on the 1st and 21st June and of the nation-wide anti-G8 mobilisation -- with protests in many Italian cities from the 2nd to the 7th July, in particular in Rome on the 7th July with the "welcoming day" -- we are launching a national initiative allowing everybody to express their outrage against those who are responsible for the global crisis and against the looting of post-earthquake property speculation in a place as close as possible to the places that have been struck by the recent catastrophe and by the current G8 summit.
We therefore call for a "March for Rebirth" on Friday, 10th July, starting at 2 p.m. from the railway station of Paganica and moving to the city of Aquila in support with the people struck by the earthquake and of the social and solid reconstruction demanded by the 100% Campaign against the G8-driven global crisis.
On July 8th, 9th and 10th the president-master of the italian government, Silvio Berlusconi, will host the summit of the “Big Eight” of the Planet. The summit will take place in the fortress of a State Police Corps, in Coppito, a town close to L’Aquila, a city where people and land are still devasted by the earthquake of the 6th of April 2009. The president moved there the summit from its original destination: a luxury liner off the sardinian coast of La Maddalena.
On the runup to this year's G8 a highly restrictive G8 mashal Security Paln has been put in place to restrict the movement of the population through Borders and within Italy.
A couple of days ago, the preventive arrests began of activists all over italy.
At least 21 italian activists were arrested by political police "Digos" this morning.
16 were taken to prison, five have to stay under house arrest.
The police attack affected activists from Torino, Padova, Bologna and Naples, among
them known members of social centres. One of the arrested was followed by the police
up to L'Aquila, where the G8 summit should take place. In Naples several objects were
raided and searched.
Under the pretext of "preventive arrests" the police used the heavy protests that
were organized against the "G8 university summit" in may in Torino. The measures hit
members of the so called "Area Antagonista".
To protest and show solidarity, students occupied the rectorate of the university in
Venice, followed by an occupation at the Sapienza university in Rome.
"We will not go", explaines Francesco, one of the activists, "until our university is
not positioning itself towards the arrests".
Meanwhile the militarization of the "red zone" started. With army jets and
surveillance drones ("Predator") the police tries to control and handle protest and
resistance.
16 roads in the area of the summit are equipped with checkpoints of Carabinieri,
police, army and Guardia di Finanza. The road between the airport Preturo and the
police barracks Coppito, where the summit should start on wednesday, is blocked.
On friday the police arrested two men near Viterbo, that were accused of being member
of an "anarcho-insurrectionalist movement". They should have been planning to
sabotage trains by placing "horse shaped iron bars" at the railway cables to bring
the locomotives to halt.
On saturday 700 people demonstrated in Berlin against G8. The demonstration was
attacked by the police, at least four activistswere arrested. The organizers
critizise in a press release, that the police "searched the escalation".
AGNOLETTO: 'THE SECOND PUNATIVE SUPPRESSION AFTER VICENZA.
THE GOVERNMENT feeds a climate of tension.
WHAT IS NOT TO FILL THE FAILURE OF SUMMIT ANNOUNCED.
Milan, 6 July 2009 - "The arrests today are intolerable - said Vittorio Agnoletto, outgoing MEP, spokesman of the Genoa Social Forum at the time of the G8 in Genoa - have never seen precautionary measures preventive, aiming apparently to criminalize an entire movement.
Stop the wave of protesters two days after the G8 de L'Aquila is a clear message from the government, that in so doing feeds and exacerbates the climate of tension to the event (as he had done at Genoa, eight years ago). It is the second episode of what happened the other day in Vicenza, where I participated in the march against the Dal Molin base and where demonstrators have done everything to not fall into the trap of the forces order.
http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/222 Rome: [07/07] This morning's mobilisations: a report
Following yesterday's arrests - of twenty one people from four different cities, Turin, Padova, Bologna and Aquila - there was a wave of university occupations across Italy. Today, the groups in Palermo and Bologna have also occupied the university directors' offices, as part of the first official day of action vs the G8.
This morning, a group of activists from Rome have used a huge gate to block the slip-road onto the A-24 motorway (which runs from Rome to Aquila), hanging banners and erecting tents. The blockade ended at approx 11.30am, and we learnt that at least three of the activists involved had been stopped by the police.
Meanwhile, 500 people from the "V Strategy" group had left the university occupation in order to block traffic in Via Ostiense (a major thoroughfare in central Rome). The demo has suffered baton charges by riot police and "guardia di finanza" (the police that are responsible for border control). Some of the activists were then followed by the cops all the way back to the occupied university building, where the entrance is guarded against police incursion. Seven arrests have been confirmed from the motorway blockade, apparently this includes four people from other countries.
Since 12 noon, there has been a demonstration on the campus of La Sapienza university, in solidarity with those arrested yesterday morning, and today.
A crowd at least a hundred-strong, has come out of the university and blockaded the Via de Lollis, then processed towards San Lorenzo.
News is coming through that at the A-24 bloockade there have been seven arrests including 4 swedish, 2 german, 1 swiss, 1, french, i polish.
27 arrests, possibly more have been made by Guardia De Finanze Police on the VIa Ostiense blockade in Central Rome
http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/node/65 ON THE 10th JULY, LET'S MARCH FOR L'AQUILA
FOR SOCIAL AND SOLID RECONSTRUCTION,
AGAINST THE G8 SUMMIT, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL CRISIS
We are against G8 and we have made it clear in the last few months -- starting from the national demonstration of 28th March in Rome, through Siracusa, Turin, Rome and Lecce --, protesting against each of the focused G8 meetings, which are attended by those same people who caused the global crisis and who would now like to keep pushing the world towards the same apocalyptic edge.
This undisputed rule of profit and total marketization -- contrasted by the anti-global movement for at least a decade -- is the origin of a world crisis which does not only pertain to economy and finance, but also to environmental, climatic, energetic, food and war issues. In the last few months we have been declaring that we peoples of the earth refuse to pay for the crisis that has been brought about by the masters of the globe: from Belem to Athens, from London to Strasbourg through the many anti-G8 Italian cities, we have suggested an alternative plan for getting rid of the crisis by means of fair, egalitarian, peaceful tools that are friendly to workers, the environment, the peoples of the earth, the weak, and the helpless.
We are especially adverse to the G8 summit in l'Aquila -- a petty attempt by Berlusconi's cabinet to exploit the city of Aquila and the hardships of its people in order to avoid legitimate protests against the summit and against the huge fraud of the profit-driven reconstruction that is being forced upon the population through a dictatorial and military management of the camps for earthquake victims.
The government is trying to turn Aquila's tragedy into a gigantic property speculation (with a draconian ministerial decree that has been passed as a law after every amendment had been rejected), and to redraw the territory in favour of the powerful ones, as well as to obscure the wider economic crisis affecting the whole region and to impose a dramatic standard of living upon the earthquake victims -- thus suppressing any drive to participation and to a grassroots reconstruction that is social and solid. They even stopped assemblies and meetings in the camps and prevented activists from spreading informative leaflets.
Berlusconi wants to exploit the G8 summit in order to suppress the growing dissent in Aquila -- that has been clearly expressed by both city demonstrations and by the initiative organized on the 16th June in front of the Parliament, and is now strengthening around the 100% CAMPAIGN. With this campaign we demand: 100% RECONSTRUCTION with state contributions that cover all the damage suffered by homes and businesses; 100% PARTICIPATION, because cities and villages must be reconstructed by their inhabitants; 100% of THE POPULATION IN AQUILA, because everybody must go back to their homes and especially in September all students have to attend their classes in their living place.
In the framework shared by the national assemblies that took place in Aquila on the 1st and 21st June and of the nation-wide anti-G8 mobilisation -- with protests in many Italian cities from the 2nd to the 7th July, in particular in Rome on the 7th July with the "welcoming day" -- we are launching a national initiative allowing everybody to express their outrage against those who are responsible for the global crisis and against the looting of post-earthquake property speculation in a place as close as possible to the places that have been struck by the recent catastrophe and by the current G8 summit.
We therefore call for a "March for Rebirth" on Friday, 10th July, starting at 2 p.m. from the railway station of Paganica and moving to the city of Aquila in support with the people struck by the earthquake and of the social and solid reconstruction demanded by the 100% Campaign against the G8-driven global crisis.
