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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:57:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Sendic Estrada Jimenez <sestrada-AT-fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-NEWS: E/F;Deportation Europe, Jun 17 (Fwd)


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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:40:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chiapas95 <owner-chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
To: chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu
Subject: E/F;Deportation Europe, Jun 17

This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of
Accion Zapatista de Austin.

NB:This is a report about the demo in Amsterdam that Marcos sent a message
to just recently.

Harry

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:55:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
To: aut-op-sy-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu,
    Accion Zapatista de Austin <accion-zapatista-AT-mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu>,
    Zapatismo Communications Network <zapatismo-AT-mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu>,
    Chiapas 95 Moderators <chiapas-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>, encounter2-AT-tao.ca
Cc: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
Subject: E/F; L'Europe de la deportation, Jun 17

Folks:

Here's an account of the police blockage of an Italian train full of
protesters headed for Amsterdam for a European wide protest.

The writer discusses the refusal to pay (in solidarity with the
undocumented and as an expression of the demand for free movement) and the
sending of money instead to Chiapas!  It is clear that lots of different
kinds of struggles were being mingled here, which makes sorting out state
motives difficult. Certainly, the state would have reasons for opposing
virtually every action and motivation involved in these efforts.

Towards the end of the article is a discussion of the way the protestors
used mobile phones to provide real-time accounts to comrades at the free
radio stations and the European Counter Network which uploaded the story
hour by hour to the air-waves and Internet.

They argue that this real-time reporting permited mobilization of equally
rapid protests at various consulats and other actions which supported the
protestors on the train. 

This account will appear, I hope, in English and should give us
considerable food for thought about just how immediate and effective our
actions on the Net can be. Here too is a partial answer to the question I
posed on the Aut-op-sy list about how our friends in Europe would respond
to Europe-wide repression of freedom of movement: an escalation of their
own struggle through Europe-wide coordination of diffused action in
support of concentrated group effort. The similarities to the
world-wide mobilizations which have occurred in support of the Zapatistas
should be obvious.

In another posting, Franco suggested that just such police action might be
forthcoming this summer at the time of the 2nd Encuentro in Spain if large
numbers of participants from other European countries went to the meetings
together. It would be good, I think, to contemplate just such a
possibility and ask what preparations we might want to take in advance. It
provides us with one more reason why we need to get our Internet resources
geared up in advance of the Encuentro and to talk about what kinds of
actions those of us dispersed around the world might take if the Spanish
police follow the Dutch, German and Swiss examples. As Franco mentioned,
the Spainish police have a reputation far worse than those in Northern
Europe. (In fact, it might not be a bad time to go back and reread
Federico Garcia Lorca's poem on the Civil Guard).


Harry

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:16:12 +0200
From: ludo <ludo-AT-ecn.org>
Reply-To: a-infos-d-AT-tao.ca
To: a-infos-AT-tao.ca
Subject: (fr) L'Europe de la deportation

Les voyages forment la jeunesse et permettent de rencontrer d'autres
personnes et d'autres cultures, comme il est convenu de dire et d'entendre.

Pour nous, les trois mille jeunes et moins jeunes, membres de l'association
Ya Basta, des centres sociaux, des organisations de base, du monde
associatif, chomeurs, precaires, travailleurs, etudiants,..., ce voyage a
plus ressemble a une deportation collective!!!
Il est vrai que nous avons recontre diverses cultures et nationalites...de
flics, mais on ne peut pas dire qu'ils soient reellement differents dans
leur essence (pas celle qui brule a l'interieur des bouteilles). Changent la
couleur des uniformes, la taille des matraques et de leurs proprietaires
(disons que celles des corps speciaux anti-emeutes hollandais sont
proportionnelles a leur gabarit, tous peuvent appartenir a un pack de
rugby...hommes comme femmes). Ces memmes hollandais n'ont pas hesite de nous
envoyer la cavalerie et les blindes pour nous disperser.

Reprenons la chronologie des faits.

Le vendredi matin, un millier de romains et napolitains prennent d'assaut
deux trains afin de se rendre a Milan, point de rencontre de tous les
manifestants en partance pour Amsterdam.
L'apres-midi, tous ceux du Nord-Est de l'Italie mais aussi du Centre de la
peninsule, agissaient pareillement.
Il faut dire que depuis 3 semaines nous avions annonce publiquement notre
volonte de participer a la manifestation d'Amsterdam du 14 Juin en occupant
les trains, revendiquant notre droit a participer a la manifestation et ce
bien evidemment gratuitement, n'ayant pas les moyens de payer le billet mais
aussi affirmant qu'avec tous les moyens financiers mis en oeuvre pour
l'organisation des differentes rencontres pour les grands de ce monde, nous
simples citoyens, nous exigions la gratuite des transports. Notre deuxieme
revendication se basait sur le fait que nous passerions a travers les
differents pays sans devoiler notre identite et ce par solidarite avec les
sans papiers et pour affirmer le droit a la libre circulation des individus

   

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