[fse-esf] Report from the Repression Network meeting in Berlin

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Dear All,

here's the 

Report of the Repression Network Meeting at the Berlin EPA
 

We had a useful discussion about the repression measures throughout Europe. Many of these measures are initialized by the European authorities/bureaucracies (and/or the G8) and then adopted and used by the various European governments. 

 

We achieved consensus that our main task for Malmö is to show how the repression works against the movements - repression against social movements, against political movements, against movements, which are based on the right of national self-determination. 

 

1.      We want to speak about the repression against the anti-globalization movements (Gothenburg, Genoa, Rostock etc.). We want to inform about the trials in Italy, in Germany, in Turkey, in Belgium, in Denmark, where the ruling classes use the clubs of the so-called anti-terrorist laws. In short: We want to speak about the practical results of the repression policies in Europe.

 

2.      But we also need to speak about the "preventive" or "proactive" measures that are introduced in the European repression policies. It is not widely known that the ruling classes prepare - today already - for facing bigger and stronger resistance against their neoliberal policies. The Pruem treaties with their control orders against all kinds of mass resistance, "terrorisms" and disobediences are only one example. We believe that the ESF should be aware of these measures, which will be practiced if mass resistance gets stronger and more radical.

 

3.      We should speak about the struggle of the Basque and the Kurdish people to achieve a status where they can decide about their future by themselves.

 

4.      And we finally think that it is absolutely necessary to speak about torture, rendition flights etc. in Europe. Torture is not a taboo anymore in the public discourse; most of the European governments not only knew but helped the US with their rendition flights to Guantanamo, Arab countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. They helped although they knew that the captives would be tortured there. 

 

The fight against the various forms and measures of repression is a constituent part of the "Building a democratic and rights based Europe, against "securitarian" policies. For participation, openness, equality, freedom and minority rights" (3rd axis of the Program framework decided in Berlin; see the Berlin newsletter). 

 

Themes and titles of seminars as well as possible speakers will be discussed through our repression mailing list within the next weeks.


Achim
Network for Political and Social Rights, Athens


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mariangela 
  To: fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.org 
  Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:27 PM
  Subject: [fse-esf] second newsletter from berlin


  dear friends I send you the newsletter

  My proposal is to keep the 4 pages format
  the 5 page attached has an information passed to me during the meeting and the guidelines of the facilitating of the meeting which were already in the first newsletter.
  Up to you anyway as to use and circulate it

  I will give everybody one week to send me feedback if there are things to be changed, written in a better way and so on ....

  After this week I will reedit the newsletter according with the suggestions

  bye and thankyou to everybody

  mariangela casalucci
  bellaciao greece 


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