The 5th gathering of Peoples Global Action in Europe this time will take place in Greece. A responsibility of organizing and coordinating the discussion that opened in the last meetings of PGA europe has taken by a decentralized network of activists and collectives in Balkans. Thats exactly and the essential advantage of this initiative. The convenor is not a local collective like other conferences in the past but a vital balkan decentralized network. On the preparation all of these months several questions , problems as well as ideas for taking action are allready mentioned by all of us who involve with a conference here!!! Again in the Balkan region! We would like to open a long discussion about local activism in combination with a global perspective. In other words we want to discuss about the future of the PGA network and its process as well as the various projects , topics and ideas for action.
PGA - People's Global Action - started in 1998, it has been a tool and a diffuse structure coordinating groups and people sharing common struggles and practices, in accordance with various anticapitalist and anti-authoritarian principles (see the hallmarks). PGA initiated the Intercontinental caravan in 1999, as well as international action days of actions against the G8, the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF... In Seattle, Genoa, Prague, and in a number of less popular events, PGA was a driving force behind numerous actions and reflections. At the convergence of international initiatives and local struggles, groups close to the PGA are now looking for new drives to challenge stagnation.
At the PGA-conference in Dijon a need for a non-digital communication-tool was mentioned. There was an idea to refresh a printed newsletter. We would like to continue the project with this call. Our aim is to continue using this newsletter as forum of debates, different project, actions and struggles of collectives, related to PGA. The newsletter does not speak in the name of the network, but is inspired by PGA.
Romanian Gendarmerie contends that anti-NATO anarchists that came out foundering from the police station have "tormented themselves", bumping against the walls.
The representatives of the Romanian Gendarmerie have crossed the senseless line when they claimed that the striplings that came out of the police stations with black eyes and with their faces hurt have "tormented themselves".
"This is the one that has been the most riotous, this moldavian guy who accuses. There are also other stuff, if i may use a pretentious term, it's called self-tormenting. These guys have started bumping against the walls and screaming "Ouch! He's hitting me." But they weren't hit. We picked the men that were starting to make a scandal from the group and we imobilized them quickly, so that they don't spread and so that the others don't start also. And the other started screaming as if they were hit, to mislead to a hectic state. That's when we started to be ferm and to get those out.", Marius Militaru said. Of course, there is no proof that sustains the explanations of the Gendarmerie.
In preparation for the NATO summit and during the period of the NATO Summit in Bucharest, the Romanian state and Bucharest city government may have violated all or more than the following Romanian Constitutional articles:
1. Article 21 Access to Justice 2. Article 23 Individual Freedom 3. Article 24 Right to legal counsel 4. Article 25 Freedom of movement 5. Article 29 Freedom of conscience 6. Article 30 Freedom of expression 7. Article 39 Freedom of assembly 8. Article 40 Right of association
"Hasotti about the case of the anarchists:An eventual injustice is better than tolerating a total mess
The vicepresident of PNL , Puiu Hasotti , believes thatthe intervention of the policeon the group ofanti –NATOmilitantsfrom Timpuri Noi hall is oportune , stating that “An eventual injustice is better than tolerating a total mess”
The liberal chief said in a pressconference that took place on Thursday in Constanta , that the men of law interfered promptlyand prevented some eventual problems that could have appeared during the Nato summit in Bucharest.
“The intervention of the police was a response to therequest of the owner, who had been agressed . We have a greatresponsibility. And maybe, sometimes, in very special cases, it would be better to make an eventual injusticethen permitting an obvious disorder “ , declared Puiu Hasotti.
He also commented upon the request of PSD who wanted the secretary of state , Cristian David ,to apologise to the young people who were agressed by the forces of opression.
“In the first place, PSD should apologise for the “mineriade” which have thrown Romania 20 years behind and then to requestsuch demandsthat have no connection with reality” explained the vicepresident of PNL.
Finally, he wanted to specify that the point of view reffering to the intervention on the anarchists is apersonal one , and has no connection with the party itself.
Not far from the centre of Bucharest, near the Timpuri Noi factory, a group of young people rented a space, but following some misunderstandings with the director of the space, they were forcefully thrown out.
Several policemen that came to verify them have found out that these young people were planning to protest against Nato.
One of the people that observed this incident is a woman. She lives near the rented space.
“They took some young people that were inside. That’s all I saw. Nothing else. They threw theminside their two police vans and left. I can’t tell you anything else”, says a nearby witness.
But one of these young people, Rares, who did not enter the rented space together with his collegues, explained to BBC what they were up to:
“This space was supposed to be a space for criticizing the war, the Nato politics, and for promoting peace. Inside there were supposed to be talks, some workshops, readings and concerts, as far as I know”, says Rares.
Tens of masksed policemen have intervened, on Wednesday, at aproximately 14.00 o’clock, to evacuate 46 anti-nato militants from the Timpuri Noi area in Bucharest, where they had rented a building.
The evacuation operation has been executed by camouflaged policemen and workers of the fast intervention police unit, the militants beeing taken to Police stations 10, 11 and 12 in Bucharest.
The Bucharest Police spokesman, commisioner Cristian Ciocan, declared for Mediafax, that 46 persons that were in a rented space in the Timpuri Noi area on Wednesday, have been taken to four police stations in Bucharest for identification, after which they will be released.
12 people have been taken to police station no.23, among which 4 german citizens, a czech citizen, a spanish citizen and six romanian citizens, and 13 persons have been taken to police station no.12, among which four german citizens, a czech citizen, a moldavian citizen and seven romanians of which one was a romanian citizen with residence in Holland.
Also, 11 people have been taken to police station no.10, among which 8 germans, a portuguese and two romanian, and 16 people were taken to police station no.11, a polish citizen, 6 germans, 5 romanians and four swiss citizens.
“The four swiss citizens taken to police station no.11 have been retained before the incident from the Timpuri Noi area, for identification”, commisioner Christian Ciocan stated.
Two romanian journalists, wanted to test the freedom of expression and their constitutional rights during NATO Summit in Bucharest. They simply decided to wear on their back a piece of paper with the message "No NATO -- No WAR". In some minutes they were stopped, checked and arrested. The piece of paper was confiscated by the police.
solidarity from vienna with a spontenous demonstration to the romanian embassy
On the 4th of april around 30 people gathered spontanously to march from schwarzenbergplatz to the romanian embassy to show their solidarity with the people struggling against the nato in bukarest. although there was no public annoucemnet made befors, the police were awaiting us. at the embassy we shouted slogans against repression and the nato and enrolled three transparents.(2 in german, 1 in romanian) officials from the embassy came out to tell the police, that the repression has nothing to do with the state of romania, but only with the nato. they have nothing to do with it. after a while we left. it was only a small sign of solidarity, we made, but it was us important to make. even if you are alone facing repression, in our mind we are with you
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demonstration in Bern
On the 5th of april at 18:00 o´clock 30 people gathered at Helvetiaplatz in Bern, to protest against the Repression during the NATO-Summit, in Romania. The people went to the romanian embassy, were they showed their meaning against the things that happened. The romanian Police jailed also 2 people from Bern.
The Common Voice from the anarchists and anti-militarists who gathered in Bucharest in April 2008 to protest against the NATO summit.
As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception.
In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest.
The mainstream media bombarded the Romanian population with an image of the anti-militaristic activists as careless, terrorists, hooligans and enemies of the common Romanian people, who were only coming to destroy the city. This was all absurd and obviously fabricated as most of the mass media never even bothered to try and find any information from the anti-militarist side.
The 5th gathering of Peoples Global Action in Europe this time will take place in Greece.
In preparation for the NATO summit and during the period of the NATO Summit in Bucharest, the Romanian state and Bucharest city government may have violated all or more than the following Romanian Constitutional articles:
The vicepresident of PNL , Puiu Hasotti , believes that
Not far from the centre of Bucharest, near the Timpuri Noi factory, a group of young people rented a space, but following some misunderstandings with the director of the space, they were forcefully thrown out.
Tens of masksed policemen have intervened, on Wednesday, at aproximately 14.00 o’clock, to evacuate 46 anti-nato militants from the Timpuri Noi area in Bucharest, where they had rented a building.
The Common Voice from the anarchists and anti-militarists who gathered in Bucharest in April 2008 to protest against the NATO summit.
