STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 23/06/01 13:00:01 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > ________________________________________________ > A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E > http://www.ainfos.ca/ > ________________________________________________ > >Press Relaese: >AntiFascistisk Aktion's role in the events that occurred on Gotheburg's > >Anti-Fascist Action's role in the events on Kungsports Avenyn in >Gothenburg on 15 June 2001 have been exaggerated to a point beyond >recognition in the general media. For this reason, we want to make it very >clear that AFA has neither arranged, nor planned, these riots. We regard >that which occurred on Avenyn as a symptom of a world, and society, >where segregation is steadily increasing. > >These events are the result of wealth and power being concentrated more >and more into the hands of the few - a few who no longer represent the >people they claim to represent. These are results, not only for Avenyn and >the businessmen there, but more importantly for the large groups of people >who live in exclusion and disenfranchisement. > >The inherent powerlessness of facing a degrading living situation with no >future, coupled with alienation and discrimination, creates frustration. We >maintain that it is this frustration that exploded on the Avenyn. > >These events were not caused by conspiring German terrorists, >well-trained AFA-activists or a naive police leadership. They were a logical >conclusion to deep segregation and a power structure that is maintained >and strengthened through an increasing repression against an >ever-growing resistance. This is why AFA, neither can nor will, distance >itself from these events. > >We would also like to point out that the events on the Avenyn the morning >of 15 June are not isolated. Everywhere in our world, there exists, and is >growing, a struggle for a humane life and an insurgence and resistance >against injustice and degradation. We see this in different forms, >sometimes structured and clearly visible, sometimes unstructured and blind >with rage. > >In conclusion, the events on the Avenyn were not caused by AFA, except >by the neo-liberal new order which the powers that be in the EU have >adopted as a common ideology, as well as the injustices that this new order >create and the institutionalised, structural and direct violence that its >continuation demand. >This is the type of violence that AFA distances itself from! > >21 June 2001 >AntiFascistisk Aktion-G�teborg > > > >-- >Anti-Fascist Action-Sweden >AntiFascistisk Aktion-Sverige >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.motkraft.net/afa >[PGP key available at website] > >Against sexism, racism, capitalism and homphobia. >Mot sexism, rasism, kapitalism och homofobi. >-- > >_ > > > ******** > ****** The A-Infos News Service ****** > News about and of interest to anarchists > ****** > COMMANDS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > REPLIES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HELP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/ > INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org > >-To receive a-infos in one language only mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message: > unsubscribe a-infos > subscribe a-infos-X > where X = en, ca, de, fr, etc. (i.e. the language code) > >> ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ________________________________________________ > A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E > http://www.ainfos.ca/ > ________________________________________________ > >Press Relaese: >AntiFascistisk Aktion's role in the events that occurred on Gotheburg's > >Anti-Fascist Action's role in the events on Kungsports Avenyn in >Gothenburg on 15 June 2001 have been exaggerated to a point beyond >recognition in the general media. For this reason, we want to make it very >clear that AFA has neither arranged, nor planned, these riots. We regard >that which occurred on Avenyn as a symptom of a world, and society, >where segregation is steadily increasing. > >These events are the result of wealth and power being concentrated more >and more into the hands of the few - a few who no longer represent the >people they claim to represent. These are results, not only for Avenyn and >the businessmen there, but more importantly for the large groups of people >who live in exclusion and disenfranchisement. > >The inherent powerlessness of facing a degrading living situation with no >future, coupled with alienation and discrimination, creates frustration. We >maintain that it is this frustration that exploded on the Avenyn. > >These events were not caused by conspiring German terrorists, >well-trained AFA-activists or a naive police leadership. They were a logical >conclusion to deep segregation and a power structure that is maintained >and strengthened through an increasing repression against an >ever-growing resistance. This is why AFA, neither can nor will, distance >itself from these events. > >We would also like to point out that the events on the Avenyn the morning >of 15 June are not isolated. Everywhere in our world, there exists, and is >growing, a struggle for a humane life and an insurgence and resistance >against injustice and degradation. We see this in different forms, >sometimes structured and clearly visible, sometimes unstructured and blind >with rage. > >In conclusion, the events on the Avenyn were not caused by AFA, except >by the neo-liberal new order which the powers that be in the EU have >adopted as a common ideology, as well as the injustices that this new order >create and the institutionalised, structural and direct violence that its >continuation demand. >This is the type of violence that AFA distances itself from! > >21 June 2001 >AntiFascistisk Aktion-G�teborg > > > >-- >Anti-Fascist Action-Sweden >AntiFascistisk Aktion-Sverige >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.motkraft.net/afa >[PGP key available at website] > >Against sexism, racism, capitalism and homphobia. >Mot sexism, rasism, kapitalism och homofobi. >-- > >_ > > > ******** > ****** The A-Infos News Service ****** > News about and of interest to anarchists > ****** > COMMANDS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > REPLIES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HELP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/ > INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org > >-To receive a-infos in one language only mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message: > unsubscribe a-infos > subscribe a-infos-X > where X = en, ca, de, fr, etc. (i.e. the language code) >
