http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english Feed from Gipfelsoli GNU FDL - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html 240 http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7574.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 On 16 and 17 July [2009], three German comrades were summoned by judges in Berlin and Hamburg, in the framework of the "Tarnac Affair." In Berlin, following a gathering in front of the French Embassy, they were brought before a judge to whom, in conformity with what they said, they made no statements. The German authorities were responding to the rogatory commission launched by Judge Fragnoli, who based his suspicions about the two Berliners on the fact that, ten years ago, they had been arrested and released following a campaign that sabotaged train lines to protest against the shipments of nuclear wastes over them. Two weeks ago, in Perouse [Italy], two companions were thrown in jail, following a vast operation by the media and the police that merits attention. While the newspapers (Le Nouvel Observateur in France and all of the Italian press) congratulated themselves that two dangerous terrorists had been arrested at the moment they were trying to sabotage train lines, it came out that, in fact, it was 16 months ago that the two companions had been spotted by the Italian federal police not far from a railroad line and that the police didn't arrest them so as to be able to continue to surveill them. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7550.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 To: Procura di Torino Call in solidarity with the students arrested the 6th of July in Italy In the night between the 5th and the 6th of July, 21 students were arrested in a sweeping police operation. They were charged with being involved in the mobilization of the 19th of May in Turin against the G8 University Summit. On that day more than 10,000 undergraduate and PhD students, as well as precarious researchers, took public voice in a huge demonstration to express another time – after the mobilizations of last fall – their opposition to the dismantling of the public university. These charges are not usually cause for preventive arrest, almost two months after the events. There is a clear disproportion between the supposed charges and the use of a heavy juridical tool. This disproportion risks erasing democratic principles, which must on the contrary be reaffirmed. The twenty-one arrested – fifteen are in jail, six under house arrest – are young students, almost all with clean records. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7537.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other world leaders have been forced to abandon a traditional "family" photo at the G8 summit in Italy amid fears a protester had infiltrated their gathering. The 39 leaders, including the US President Barack Obama, were lined up in front of the military barracks in the Abruzzo town of L'Aquila when the informal photo call with the world's media was hastily called to a halt. No explanation was provided but security men huddled around Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was also standing nearby, was also whisked away. Not long after, official visits to the earthquake-devastated town piazza were cancelled by the Italians and reports began to emerge of a vocal anti-globalisation protest in the town centre. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7536.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 L’AQUILA (AFP) - Around 5,000 anti-globalisation protesters and local residents marched Friday on the G8 summit in the quake-hit Italian town of L’Aquila. Marchers set off from one of dozens of tented camps near the mountain town set up to house victims of the devastating April 6 earthquake, watched by a large force of police. The protest was originally organised by local citizens’ groups to draw attention to the slow progress of reconstruction three months after the quake, which killed 299 people and left some 70,000 homeless. However, anti-globalisation groups comprised the vast majority of the marchers, AFP photographers said, after insisting in the run-up to the summit on taking part in the peaceful protest. Tempers were strained as the sun beat down on the marchers along the seven-kilometre route and demonstrators shouted slogans at police. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7531.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 L'AQUILA, Italy -- Hundreds of protesters are gathering in L'Aquila to march against the Group of Eight summit held in this quake-hit central Italian town. Anti-globalization activists carrying red communist flags and wearing "No G-8" T-shirts were bused in from across Italy to set out from the L'Aquila suburb of Paganica. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7534.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Thousands of protesters gathered near the central Italian town of L'Aquila on Friday, as the Group of Eight summit came to a close. A crowd of anti-G8 protesters, including local residents and various international groups, has gathered at a railway station in the quake-hit town's suburb of Paganica. "We do not want the G8 leaders to search for the ways to overcome the crisis that they started. We want the demands of the affected people to be considered in the restoration of L'Aquila," Paolo Ferrero of the Communist Refoundation Party said. Participants are protesting against the stalling of restoration work in L'Aquila, where almost 300 people died, 1,500 were injured and about 50,000 left homeless in April's earthquake. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7533.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Protest outside CIE Ponte Galeria During the protests against the G8 in Italy, some 400 people protest in front of the CIE Ponte Galeria, Rome. A few days ago Berlusconis government released a so called Security Act (pacchetto sicuezza). From now on the unauthorized stay on italian ground is a crime. People caught can be inprisoned for a period of up to six months under worst conditions. On July 9, more than 400 people were demonstrating in front of such a "Lager", the Identification and Expulsion Center (CIE) in Ponte Galeria, Rome. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7513.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Students from Sapienza University yesterday began the occupation of a residential house in Pigneto, Rome, as part of the direct actions being taken against the G8. More than 80 students occupied the space and will hold an assembly tomorrow where they will invite the University authorities and muncipality to hear their request to live in the building, which has been empty for more than 10 years. The occupiers intend to turn the building into a self-organised student house for 20 people to live in, since the rent in Rome is considerably disproportionate to the financial support available to students, and less than 4% of the 180,000 students at Sapienza are able to receive housing support from the University. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7517.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Yesterday a sit-in was held in Regina Coeli to express solidarity with the activists jailed in the last days, another demo was held outide Rebibbia simultaneously with the autonomous protest of the female detainess. Today demos were held in L'Aquila, Salerno, Ancona, Turin, Rome and Naples. In L'Aquila, a symolic squatting of an abandoned building took place [pics and reports], besides that a 200 people demo took place, starting from Via strinella towards the "villa comunale" were a sit-in will be held. http://www.gipfelsoli.org/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7509.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000