At 03:00 PM 08/06/01 -0400, Magic Circ Op Rep Ens wrote:
> It might have
>helped if these folks had gone to Nabucco first and learned what song to
>sing while the Italian police beat them about the heads. That would have
>meant that they understood Martin Luther King and that great Italian Master
>of public disagreement Giuseppe Verdi. They might have lost this battle
>but great songs create great Myths and move the souls of your oppressors
>especially if they are Italian and you are masterful about it. It also
>would have helped if they had gotten a few Opera Singers with great voices
>to join them. The Italians are about good voices they way the French are
>with you being willing to struggle with their language. Applause is
>often an Italian response to disagreement well sung.
Re: first statement of the imprisoned PublixTheatreCaravan
http://www.noborder.org/noprison
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>This is a text written in the jail in Alessandria/Italy. It is autorized
>from
>all the imprisoned aktivists of the PublixTheatreCarwan in the jails of
>Alessandria and Voghera .... please spreed out widley - put it on
>websites and mailinglists, thank you.
>
>Florian & Geert
>
>NoBorder - NoNation - NoPrison
>http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour
>
>Cultural stiff 01
>29/07/2001
>
>
>
>"freedom of movement" is the main concern of the european
>NOborder-network and the Publixtheatrecaravan - Volxtheaterkarawane
>which is embedded in the network in the summer of 2001.
>
>We are on tour from Nickelsdorf over Salzburg, Lendava (Slo),
>Eisenkappel (A), Genova (I) to Frankfurt/Main (D), where we never
>arrived because of our arrests after the G8-summit in Genua. Tourdiary:
>http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour
>
>So far we felt like air castles builder, cyberartists, jugglers and
>scrutinizing nomads. As a theatregroup we feel obliged to the tradition
>of improvisation and we dont let put ourselves in costumes which try to
>knit makeup out of woolen hats.
>
>About our arrestment:  3 hours in front of shtoguns and MG4's
>pointing on us - finger on the trigger  records about us were
>made by the italian police - hittings, kickings and humiliations
> no sleep (under threats)
>
>Later (after 30 hours) in prison:
>
>- no telephone calls
>- until now nearly no contact to lawyers
>- bad interpreters (during the time while they proved the reasons for
>our arrestments)
>- no access to media
>- for six days nothing to write
>- nektor, z nas nemali ziaden kontakt s konzulatum
>- nothing to read or juggle
>
>Although we have been split - without reason - from the arrested women,
>from the outside world and therefore from information we try to take a
>stand with following demands:
>
>- Our protest and our political claim
>- no matter which time and which place - will carry our specific
>cultural expression which we will develope
>- we demand to stop the classification of people in "wanted" and
>"unwanted" and the stop of the restriction of the freedom of the
>movement like f.e. the duty of residence for people seeking for asylum
>or the producing of lists about political unwelcomed people.
>- we demand the stop of all proceedings concerning the G8-protests and
>the freedom for all prisoners who were arrested because of G8-protests
>and the solving of the happenings in Genua in particular the death of
>Carlos Giuliani and the storming of "Scuola Diaz"
>- we want to leave the prisons together with our dog Pogo, with our
>theatre props, our kitchen, our vehicles, computer, cameras and our
>stinkin' socks.
>
>We are not swedes, australians, americans, slovacians, germans,
>austrians - we are Publixtheatrecaravan
>
>We work out a play in which we take a stand to everything that happened
>during our tour. For us theatre is an important political expression.
>This play should help to clear and digest all the happenings we are
>confrontated with now.
>Working title: Genova
>Premiere: uncertain
>
>PS: Greetings to the bordercamp at the airport in Frankfurt/Main and to
>all people outside there who declared their solidarity! Abolition of
>internment and deportation - worldwide NOborder - NOnation - NOone is
>illegal
>
>The Imprisoneds of the PublixTheatreCarawan . in the jail of Alessandria
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
