http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english Feed from Gipfelsoli GNU FDL - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html 240 http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Heiligendamm_2007/G8_2007_english/G8_2007_Texts/8894.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 _This article has been written for the Italian anarchist monthly “Invece” (“Instead of”) in April 2011, aiming to offer a view about some episodes - despite the vast nature of the theme - which happened during the last years which have contributed to the revival of the debate concerning the funeral march of the German military machine and not only. Episodes which are linked together through a red (and black) thread: that show that today like yesterday it remains possible to be sand in the cogs of militarism._ On how a repressive coup can be transformed into counter-attack... In July 2007 three comrades have been arrested. Oliver, Axel and Florian are brutally stopped by police special forces units in Brandenburg/Havel, near Berlin, just after they left some incendiary devices under some trucks which belonged to the German army. Since a long time there had been an investigation mounting against them - and four other comrades, from which one is going to get arrested on the same day - conducted by the federal criminal police (BKA) : all of them have been accused of membership within the “Militant Group” (MG), a clandestine formation which had been active since 2001 mostly in Berlin and which has carried out a couple of dozen incendiary attacks against symbols of repression (courts and police) and capitalist exploitation (different kind of enterprises). http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/8766.html Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 !>http://breakout.blogsport.de/images/2jahre.jpg! *…and still no end of the repression* 2 years after the protests against the NATO summit in Strasbourg a new trial against a former arrested person is going to begin. After 4 months in jail, Jan was acquitted by the appeal court in Colmar. Shortly after the verdict, the chief prosecutor appealed. After this was accepted by the Paris court of appeal, the process will be reopened. The charges made by the french state still remain: carrying a weapon of the 6th category and being part of an unlawful assembly. Also the prosecutors are going to try to construct a membership of the so called “Black Bloc”. Jan threaten up to three years detention without probation again. Also Matthias got his verdict of his civil process not long ago. Because of his entry ban he couldn´t personally appear to his trial. The amount of the required sum is 6000 euro. With this verdict the court clearly differs from the first claims of the plaintiff. At the beginning of the trial, the plaintiff wanted to have around 30000 euro. Given that the concerned police officer fell during the detention without the assistance of Matthias, this verdict is a cheek. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/8376.html Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 On April 4 2009, the leaders of the 26 NATO countries met in Kehl and Strasbourg. Extensive security measures were being implemented in both cities. In the course of the ARGOS project, satellite images of both cities on that day were taken to provide examples for the possibilities and limitations of satellitebased analyses of large-scale events. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/7630.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 !>http://natowc.noflag.org.uk/banner.gif! Welcome to the website of the NATO Welcoming Committee. The committee is linked to the Anti-Militarist Network. In November the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Edinburgh. As anti-militarists we aim to shut it down. We are calling for a mass demo to try and shut down NATO on Friday the 13th of November, the first day of the assembly. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/7020.html Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 *Police tactics at the G20 demonstrations reflect an Europe–wide trend to conflate terrorism and protest as equal threats to security* _Tony Bunyan_ The death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protest adds another name to the sad list of those who have died as a result of police tactics at protests. In 1974, Kevin Gateley died in Red Lion Square, during a protest at a National Front meeting. Blair Peach was killed in April 1979, by members of the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group (SPG). Peach was protesting the National Front's decision to march through Southall. One SPG officer told a judicial inquiry led by Lord Scarman that his unit had cut through the demonstrators "like knife through butter". In Italy, Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by police at the G8 protest in Genoa on 20 July 2001. Fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot in Athens in December 2008. The deaths of protestors at the hands of the police are still rare but worryingly they are occuring more frequently and the number of injuries protestors suffer is also on the rise. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6961.html Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Riot police have fired tear gas at guards blocking France's biggest prisons in a dispute relating to overcrowding By Henry Samuel in Paris Warders blocked the exits of several jails in a bid to stop prisoners being transferred to law courts. The guards are furious with Rachida Dati, the outgoing justice minister, who they accuse of failing to take their grievances seriously over the past year. Miss Dati is expected to leave the government next month to become a MEP, and unions fear she no longer has sufficient clout to make any firm commitments. Under French law, guards have no right to strike, but those on days off have set up barricades to demand more staff and better working conditions in prisons that have reached bursting point. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6936.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 May 5, 2009 at 12am the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Strasbourg The "Legal Team" of Strasbourg invites everyone to gather for a picnic (remember to bring your food) in front of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Strasbourg to support the accused of the NATO summit. That day the stakes are high: at 2pm there will be the trials of some of the arrested. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6866.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 BERLIN/BADEN-BADEN (GFP report) - The reporting on the NATO summit at the beginning of April was controlled centrally, and coordinated by arrangement with the agencies of repression of the state, as evidenced by statements by staff of the Südwestfunk (SWR) [the state broadcasting corporation in Baden-Württemberg]. According to this, the declared objective was to make the "official images" the "dominant images". The journalists accredited with NATO were prepared for their job by a trained war reporter, in close collaboration with the Baden-Württemberg police. The man in charge runs a private "security" company which trains the managers of German firms for secondment to war zones, and, he himself says, includes members of "police and military special units" among his trainers. He recently proposed that a "Special Forces Command" of government-paid press spokesmen be deployed in "cases of crises", such as terrorist attacks, which the authorities did not preclude on the occasion of the NATO summit. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6850.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 “The more violence, the less revolution,” Bart de Ligt wrote in The Conquest of Violence in 1936. If we accept this, then there was very little revolution in Strasbourg, despite all the romantic revolutionary rhetoric from certain groupings. I put this first in order to make it clear that this is a critique from a revolutionary perspective, and not a criticism of violence from a Green or Left-Party state-reformist point of view which accepts the state's monopoly on the use of force. But as grass-roots revolutionaries, as nonviolent anarchists, we must also deal with violence from the ranks of social movements, for this violence is counterproductive from our perspective on revolution. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_Evaluation/6828.html Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Dear Friends, I am forwarding some of the comments I received following the eye-witness report that I wrote on April 5th, the day after the demonstration in Strasbourg. ("NATO Demo in Strasbourg ends in disarray following attacks by 'hooligans' and police" "http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6706.html":http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/NATO_2009_english/6706.html) The comments I received suggest that we ought to consider analyzing what happened in Strasbourg within an international and historical framework. For a more detailed and reflective report on Strasbourg that raises some of the same issues, see "Ingredients for a Disaster: NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block" by Diana Johnstone ("http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone04072009.html":http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone04072009.html). Maybe she, also, has received some interesting comments?