STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:22 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Capitalist class trembles at wrath of people The Observer. 17 June 2001. Europe puts up anti-riot barricades. Excerpts. European leaders are to introduce Draconian measures to deal with the growing threat of violence from anti-capitalist protesters. They are bringing forward plans to stage all European summits in Brussels behind tough new security barriers. And in an extraordinary response to the massive disturbances in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Italian government is planning to seal off the major city of Genoa for next month's G8 world economic summit, closing airlinks, railways and roads. The plan follows the increasingly violent protests which have characterized gatherings of international leaders since Seattle, and which left three people with gunshot wounds after riots in Gothenburg on Friday night. The government of the new Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is to shut down Genoa for four days in an unprecedented security crackdown on anti-globalisation protesters. Italian anarchist groups have vowed to wreak havoc at the summit. The airport, main train stations and key motorway junctions will all be closed from 18 to 22 July in an attempt to restrict access to tens of thousands of demonstrators who plan to converge on the city. 'The airport is shut to all civil and commercial air traffic. It sounds like a pre-emptive state of emergency,' said Dave Timms of the World Development Movement, whose flight to the city has been cancelled by BA. Anti-debt campaigners were told late last week that their flights had been cancelled or diverted to Turin. 'We can't quite believe it. There are certain issues regarding security, but we wouldn't have thought they were serious enough to close the airport,' said a spokesman for Ryanair. Road junctions and train stations will shut with entry to Genoa restricted to a small number of access points, policed by the paramilitary carabinieri. Genoese working in the controlled zones near the conference centre have been told to stay at home. Italian newspapers speculated that the main talks might be moved to a more secure venue such as a castle, or even a cruise liner. In a series of statements, the European Union made it clear that there would be a 'fortress' approach to the next summit in Belgium in an attempt to kill off future protests. After 2002 formal summits will only take place in Brussels where experience of dealing with protesters is much greater. Huge security cordons will be thrown up around the summit centre. An emergency meeting of Home Office and Foreign Office ministers is to discuss new security measures with British intelligence services. Mr Blair said the riots had nothing to do with allegations that the EU had become detached from the people it was supposed to be serving. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
