S26 Global Protest Reports
http://pages.hotbot.com/edu/stop.wto/S26Update.htm

A compilation of grassroots reports of protests that occured on, or in solidarity with, the September 26th Global Day of Action is being prepared.

If you were involved with such a protest or demonstration please email:
anro0002@stud.uni-sb.de ; prahamobilisation@hotmail.com ; resistance@x21.org with details of the events you participated in. You should also send your reports to: imc_prague@ziplip.com ; (Praha Independent Media Center). Please label your messages with "[global]" in the subject line to facilitate the processing. You can also use the following phone number: 00420-604-336158

Thanks a lot!


Praha Jail Solidarity
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jailsolidarity

A new web site has been set up to for those imprisoned by the Czech Police after the S26 protests in Prague.

The aims of this site are to:

- Provide a permanent record of the police brutality that followed in the wake of the protests in Prague on September 26th 2000.
- As a rebuttal of the absurd claims by the Czech Minister of the Interior that the brutal behaviour of the police is just a story invented by protestors.
- To inform and coordinate action directed at freeing the remaining prisoners and pressurising the Czech Government into taking action against those responsible for the brutality suffered by protesters while in police custody.
- To provide the latest news from the OPH legal team who are working on those still imprisoned and trying to locate missing persons.

YOUR HELP is needed. There are still about 25 people in prison that we know of and many are missing. Check the latest info on the OPH page of the site to see if you can help update our information. If you were, or know of anyone who was arrested at Prague we are trying to collect people's stories to be published online. This is in addition to the OPH release forms that the legal team would like everyone to fill out. If you haven't filled out one yet this form can be found at: http://www.inpeg.org/Jailform.htm OR http://www.crosswinds.net/~jailsolidarity/jailform.htm

Finally please forward this message to any persons, lists etc. which might reach those imprisoned.

For info or contributions for the web site send e-mails to: jailsolidarity@yahoo.com

For info for the OPH legal support team send e-mails to: praguelegalsupport@purpleturtle.com

Many thanks from, Jail Solidarity and the Legal Support team.


Call to Action Against the Criminalisation and Repression of Our Movements
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From Prague - Call to Global Action

Activists from different countries who are still together in Prague send you this call for action to propose a global campaign against the criminalisation and repression that is affecting our movements all over the world. It is a long and dense document, but we think that it is important that it is distributed and discussed locally, and we hope that these discussions will result both in local actions and in collective reflexions about the consequences of different forms of action, in a context of increasing interdependency between autonomous collectives and activists.

The introduction presents our perspective about the general process of criminalisation at a global level of our movements. The next paragraphs explain what has happened and is still happening in Prague, as an example of what we perceive as a long term strategy, similar to the one used against the countercultural movement about 30 years ago, and relating it to the increasingly hard context that affects those who cannot or do not want to participate in the dominant culture. Following that, and on that basis, we express in general terms the call for global action, and as part of that general formulation we clarify our opinion about 'violence'. The first part of this document finishes explaining what we see as the long term aim of this call. In the second part of the document we describe the concrete action proposals and the short and medium term objectives of the actions of civil disobedience that we will do in Prague.

Call to Action to Global Action

Desde Praga - Llamado A Las Accion Global

Activistas de varios países reunid@s aún en Praga os hacemos llegar este llamado a la acción para proponer una campaña global contra la criminalización y la represión que está afectando a nuestros movimientos en todo el mundo. Es un documento largo y denso, pero creemos que es importante que sea difundido y discutido localmente, y esperamos que esas discusiones tengan como resultado tanto acciones locales como reflexiones colectivas sobre las consecuencias de diferentes formas de acción, en un contexto de cada vez mayor interdependencia entre colectivos y activistas autónom@s.

La introducción presenta nuestra perspectiva sobre el proceso general de criminalización a nivel global de nuestros movimientos. Los siguientes párrafos explican lo que ha sucedido y aún está sucediendo en Praga, como ejemplo de lo que percibimos como una estrategia a largo plazo, semejante a la utilizada contra el movimiento contracultural hace unos 30 años, y relacionándolo con el contexto cada vez más duro que afecta a quienes no pueden o no quieren participar en la cultura dominante. A continuación y sobre esta base expresamos en términos generales el llamado a la acción global, y como parte de esta formulación general, aclaramos nuestra opinión respecto a la 'violencia'. La primera parte de este documento termina explicando cómo vemos el objetivo a largo plazo de este llamado. En la segunda parte del documento concretamos las propuestas de acción y los objetivos a corto y mediano plazo de las acciones de desobediencia civil que vamos a realizar en Praga. El anexo presenta en detalle un caso bien documentado de violaciones de derechos humanos fundamentales en Praga.

Llamado A Las Accion Global

Da Praga - Appello All’azione Globale

Attivisti da tutto il mondo che sono ancora uniti a Praga mandano questo appello all'azione per iniziare una campagna mondiale contro la criminalizzazione e la repressione di cui siamo oggetto in questa citta' e di cui sono oggetto i nostri movimenti in tutto il mondo.

E' un documento lungo e denso ma riteniamo importante che sia distribuito e discusso a livello locale, e speriamo che queste discussioni risultino in azioni e riflessioni in un contesto in cui esiste un interdipendenza sempre piu' elevata fra collettivita' autonome e attivisti.

L'introduzione presenta la nostra prospettiva circa il processo generale di criminalizzazione a livello globale dei nostri movimenti. I prossimi paragrafi spiegano cio' che e' avvenuto e sta ancora avvenendo a Praga, come un esempio di cio' che vediamo essere una strategia a lungo termine simile a quella utilizzata 30 anni fa, e relazionandola al contesto sempre piu' duro che tocca coloro che non possono o si rifiutano di partecipare alla cultura dominante.

In seguito, su queste basi, esprimiamo l'appello per un'azione globale, e come parte di questa formulazione, chiarifichiamo la nostra posizione sulla "violenza".

La prima parte del documento si conclude coll'esprimere gli obbiettivi a lungo termine di questo appello. Nella seconda parte del documento descriviamo delle proposte d'azione concrete e gli obbiettivi immediati delle azioni di disobbedienza civile che avverranno a Praga.

Da Praga - Appello All’azione Globale

Aus Prag--Globaler Aktionsaufruf

AktivistInnen aus verschiedenen Laendern die nach wie vor in Prag zusammen sind schicken euch diesen Aktionsaufruf, um eine weltweite Kampagne gegen die Kriminalisierung und Repression, die unsere Bewegungen in der ganzen Welt angreift, vorzuschlagen. Es ist ein langes und dichtes Document aber wir denken, dass es wichtig ist, dass es lokal verbreitet und diskutiert wird und wir hoffen, dass diese Diskussionen einerseits in lokalen Aktionen muenden und andererseits in kollektiven Reflexionen ueber die Auswirkungen verschiedener Aktionsformen, im Kontext einer wachsenden gegenseitigen Abhaengigkeit zwischen autonomen Kollektiven und Aktivistinnen. Die Einfuehrung praesentiert unsere Perspektiven zum generellen Prozess der weltweiten Kriminalisierung unsere Bewegungen. Die naechsten Absaetze erklaeren was bis jetzt in Prag passiert ist und passiert, als Beispiel was wir als Langzeitstrategie erkennen aehnlich der die gegen die Gegenkultur vor ungefaehr 30 Jahren angewandt wurde und setzten es in Zusammenhang mit dem haerter werdenden Kontext, der die angreift, die nicht an der dominanten Kultur teilhaben koennen oder wollen. Dieses weiterverfolgend und auf dieser Basis erklaeren wir allgemein unseren Aktionsaufruf; und als Teil dieser allgemeinen Formulierungen stellen wir unsere Meinung zu "Gewalt" klar. Der erste Teil dieses Dokuments endet mit der Erklaerung, was wir als Ziel dieses Aufrufes sehen. Im zweiten Teil des Dokuments beschreiben wir konkrete Aktionsvorschlaege und kurz- und mittelfristige Objektiven der Aktionen zivilen Ungehorsams, die wir in Prag machen werden.

Aus Prag--Globaler Aktionsaufruf



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