[fse-esf] Actions against the Olympic Games

[Mirek Prokes]

Dear Attilio,

if you like to exchange your professional career for that political 
gesture please feel free to do so but do not make others fulfill your 
proposals, especially not sportsmen who have signed the Olympic Charter 
prohibiting them such political demonstrations under high penalties.
BTW 1: As an anti-racist activist, I do not see any reason to support 
ethnical pogroms. I would suggest to protest against ANY violation of 
human rights according to the reports of AI, not to media campaigns.
You could also try to listen up to HH Dalai Lama asking his followers 
not to use violence.
BTW 2: Cui bono ? What do you think is the interest of financial groups
and multinational corporations in this conflict ???

Friendly from Prague,

Mirek Prokes



Attilio Galimberti napsal(a):
> I let you know a proposal for an alternative campaign that I read on a 
> italian news paper :
>  
> A possible boycott action could be that any game winner ( or, even 
> better, all the medal winners , i.e, the first, second
> and the third to each competition) wear a Tibetan flag with a sentence 
> for this country freedom when on the podium to
> receive the medals
>  
> The protest visibility would be larger 
>  
> Attilio Galimberti 
>  
>  
> 
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>     Almpanis
>     *Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2008 10:39 PM
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>     *Subject:* [fse-esf] Actions against the Olympic Games
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>     Actions against the Olympic Games
> 
>     Several actions of protest haven take place during the Olympic torch
>     relay in Greece. Yesterday March 30, pro-Tibet activists tried to
>     hold banners with the slogan 'Stop the genocide in Tibet'. Greek
>     police violated their constitutional rights and arrested 19 people
>     for a few hours.
> 
>     http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EC603DBF-8892-4F0E-81C2-910693C24A9E.htm
> 
>     On March 28 and on March 29, members of the Network for Political
>     and Social Rights http://diktio.org/taytothta.htm
>     held protests against the Olympic Games. The Network's activists
>     tried to disrupt  the torch relay.  On their banners it was written:
>     'No to the Games of multinationals, doping and blood'. The police
>     attacked them as well and one activist was also arrested for a few
>     hours
>     http://www.indy.gr/newswire/parembasi-toy-diktyoy-gia-ta-politika-kai-koinonika-dikaimata-stin-poreia-tis-olympiaks-flogas/Pesimo.jpg/view
>     In a press release the Network (Diktio in Greek) not only condemned
>     the Chinese dictatorship but also the Olympic Games as a festival of
>     multinational capital, useless waste of money and doping. It also
>     made an appeal to organize actions wherever the torch relay is
>     transfered.
> 
>     The Olympic flame didn't ever existed in ancient Greece. In reality
>     it was conceived by the Nazis in 1936 ('this fine idea of Dr
>     Goebbels') closely related to racist and antisemitic ideology.
> 
>     The Athens Olympic Games of 2004 were a major ecological and
>     financial disaster for Greece.
> 
>     Yannis Almpanis
> 
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