2009-05-12
- TURIN SHERWOOD CAMP '09: WORTHY RAGE STARTS OFF!
- Krisismap.info
- G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
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TURIN SHERWOOD CAMP '09: WORTHY RAGE STARTS OFF!
PETITION AGAINST NEXT G8 UNIVERSITY SUMMIT IN TURIN
We are a group of students sensitive to environmental topics. During the mobilization against the Italian Law 133, we felt the need to start a more continuous coordinate action. Throughout the experience of these months of mobilization, we realised that the current crisis is not cyclic: is a dimensional crisis, and a symptom of the more general political, social, cultural and environmental degeneration. Capitalism, based on the exploitation “ad infinitum” of natural resources, human work and environment is not sustainable any more. The recession affecting all the “big” of the earth clearly speaks of the absurdity of an economical system based on a boundless increase of consumption and production. That machine is, by now, worn out. It is very simple, even too simple, to understand that we live in a limited planet that imposes physical limits to the economic growth (for further information: Rapporto sui limiti dello sviluppo, Club di Roma, 1972).
More: http://www.sherwoodcamp.net/en/index.php
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Krisismap.info
Krisismap.info is a tool to share information and develop interactive maps of the crisis which is haunting the entire globe.
The idea of Krisismap.info has been shaped by Transform!Italia and comes from our research about using maps as cognitive, communicative and organizational devices, in a wider research on new techno-political tools.
Though the project construction will take longer and the portal is at its first steps and still underway, we decided – in collaboration with the network Time For Change Europe (http://www.time-for-change.net/) and with the network “Labor and Globalization” – to put online this first prototype for testing its use in view of the mobilizations and actions which are going to take place around the G20.
More: http://www.krisismaps.info/map
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G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds.
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.
Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon.
More: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/429811.html