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IMC NEWS BLAST | GENOA G8: What happened?
by Indymedia News Blast Team Thursday, Jul. 26, 2001 at 6:01 PM mail:

A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound from the Independent Media Center network, http://www.indymedia.org.

IMC NEWS BLAST | Tuesday, July 24, 2001

GENOA G8: What happened?


A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound from the Independent Media Center network, http://www.indymedia.org. (Links to various sources of IMC coverage of Genoa G8 are at end of this blast.)

by Indymedia News Blast Team


CONTENTS
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A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS
B. ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS
C. BACKGROUND AND COMMENTARIES
D. PHOTOS AND VIDEO
E. AUDIO
F. PRINT
G. THE GENOA SOCIAL FORUM (GSF)
H. SELECTED ALTERNATIVE PRESS LINKS
I. CONTINUING IMC COVERAGE


A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS

Over 200,000 people converged on Genoa, Italy this past weekend to express dissent against the closed meetings of the Group of 8 and the policies they espouse and to discuss alternatives to the current undemocratic nature of global social and economic planning. The 'G8' - leaders of the world's most economically powerful countries - meet yearly to discuss general international policy directions.

Solidarity demonstrations against the G8 summit and the police violence that has characterized it, have been organized worldwide in Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Finland, Greece, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Madison, WI, Manchester, Melbourne, Miami, Milan, Montreal, Naperville, IL, New York, Oslo, Paris, Peru, Philadelphia, Portland, Rome, Salzburg, São Paulo, San Francisco/Berkeley, Stockholm, Sydney, Toronto, Turkey, Urbana, IL, Vancouver, Vienna, and Washington DC and in many other cities in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, UK, USA, and elsewhere. A call for further solidarity protests is here: http://www.geocities.com/protest666/protest.htm and listing of some of the protests here: http://www.geocities.com/protest666/planned_actions.htm

Please see IMC NEWS BLAST on Genoa from Saturday, July 21, for earlier, additional coverage focusing on events from July 19 and 20, Thursday and Friday last week: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=4526.

Another IMC NEWS BLAST will be prepared later this week to summarize news on emerging stories, including details of the Sunday morning raid, jail situation, and solidarity protests.


B. ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS

Violence against protesters in Genoa continued to escalate on Sunday, July 22. Numerous personal accounts of demonstrators being gassed, chased through the streets and beaten by police, despite participating only in non-violent marches, fill the newswires. Seemingly no one was immune; reports came of beatings of women and men, young and old alike. An IMC newswire story Monday noted that a confirmed 500 protesters remained missing.

Reports are coming in of very bad treatment of protesters in jails. Sunday, in the early morning hours, police carried out a vicious raid against the GSF offices (Genoa Social Forum, http://www.genoa-g8.org), the Italy IMC and the protest legal offices, with extremely brutal actions directed at sleeping protesters in the GSF. Reports have come in of over 70 injuries in this assault alone and of as many as 26 of these people taken to the hospital after being severely beaten. Amnesty International is investigating human rights violations.

1. FROM JUNE IN GENOA (English)
by June Terpstra
Eyewitness accounts from Italian-American June C. Terpstra. This series of stories from streets of Genoa are full of color, front line reporting, critical insight, and revolutionary passion.
7/24: Visions of Liberation and Love: Real Revolutionaries:

http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3708
7/23: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3662
7/21: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3567
7/20, late: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3563
7/20: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3554
7/19: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3514
7/18: http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3500

2. REPORT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE JAILS AND POLICE STATIONS IN GENOVA (English)
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54924
by Pet Kuna 2:06am Tue Jul 24 '01
From article: "On monday, july 23rd, a group of media activists were allowed to visit some of the Imprisoned in the jails and prisons in Genova. Report from the jail "Vercelli": The media activists could speak to three women, five minutes each. The women declared that they all have been beaten, when they were arrested and/or in jail/at the police station. The wounds at their heads and in the faces emphazised the reports. The situation of the men seems to be much more serious. The three women told that they could hear the men beeing tortured and "punished" throughout the whole night."

3. RESPONSE TO POLICE RAID ON GENOA SOCIAL FORUM AND IMC ITALIA OFFICES (English)
by by IMC Ad Hoc Genoa Solidarity Committee
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=7092
This offers a summary of the brutal raid of GSF offices and the destruction confiscation of property at the IMC press offices. Mission and nature of IMC are discussed. History of state attempts to suppress IMC and some of IMC successes are summarized.

4. GSF PRESS CONFERENCE, GSF, 22 JULY 2001 (English)
by IMC reporter 11:03pm Sun Jul 22 '01
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=6282
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54549
Notes from press conference by the Genoa Social Forum, Sunday, July 22, 2001. The conference was broadcast live by RadioGap and simultaneously translated by several people from Italian to English in an irc chat room.

5. HORRIFIC RAID ON GSF AND IMC GENOA: REPORT (English)
by IMC reporter on scene 6:29am Sun Jul 22 '01 http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5539
From this article about the GSF building raid, "Later after more arrests in the street the police and fleet of ambulances departed, ... [we gained] access to the building. Inside the sight was sickening. There was thick dark blood all up the walls, over the floor and at the bottom of stairs. It looked like several people had been beaten while on the ground from the blood patters low down on the walls. The scene was horrible. Even the ambulance staff were obviously shocked. ... The local media and other reports have said police where there searching for weapons or drugs. No, it is obvious why they were here. The testimonies of people in both buildings, the blood on the street and inside the school and the number seriously injured in this so called search tells the true story." (Followed by forty comments after the article.)
Brian offers this report of raid on Monday: http://italia.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6869

6. GENOA. MANY EYEWITNESS REPORTS FOR POLICE RAID OF IMC ITALIA GSF
by Independent Media SF. July 21 2001, Sat, 8:39pm
http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102064
This article offers list of eyewitness reports of July 22, 2001 police raid (around midnight) on Italy Indymedia Center and also other Genoa Social Forum buildings nearby and across the street in Genoa, Italy.

7. STARHAWK'S REPORTS (English)
by Starhawk
second report. http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2587
first report. http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2576
Starhawk is a noted author and organizer who was in IMC offices near the time of the raid.

8. FATHER OF DEAD PROTESTER 'SORRY' FOR POLICEMAN (English)
by by Matthew Campbell and John Follain, London 1:40pm Sun Jul 22 '01
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54540
This article shares the reaction of parent's of Carlo Giuliani to death of their son, reactions of protesters, and summarizes some of events of Saturday.

9. REPORT FROM BLACK ACTION 7/20 (English)
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=4636
by alien8 2:19pm Sat Jul 21 '01
During the past two days, the expression "Black Block" has been linked to mindless destruction, splits in the movement, and even "agents provocateurs". This is a report of a Black Block demo early on Friday, July 20th, which was part of the numerous attempts to breach the red zone.
(Followed by 29 comments after story.)

10. G8 MEDIA WATCH
http://www.indymedia.org/feature.php3?category=NEWS&feature_id=G8-MediaWatch
Seeing what the corporate media covers...


C. BACKGROUND AND COMMENTARIES

Some writers in the movement see Genoa as a crossroads for the alternative globalization movement, facing fragmentation from internal differences or increasing influence in challenging global forces of domination. Although most reports from the corporate media focus on the violence, some have begun to consider the movement's positions and question the legitimacy of the extensive, repressive police build-ups in response to popular protest.

1. DON'T LET THEM REVERSE OUR MOMENTUM
Posted by Aggie, Written by Michael Albert
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=6967
"We must attract and sustain ever wider and more lasting support. Our demonstrations must include so many people, with so many backgrounds, from so many parts of society and so many societies, that the effect of elites utilizing wild and intimidating repression will not be to diminish our size and capacity, but to enlarge both. We must make Bush and Berlusconi's favored tactics benefit us, not them. That is the road to victory."

2. FROM SEATTLE TO GENOA AND BEYOND
by Lauren Langman 9:16pm Mon Jul 23 '01
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=7023
Lauren Langman shares insights from his study of the growing alternative globalization movement. He is a Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He is also chair of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, co-moderator of the Progressive Sociology Network, past organizer of several Radical Scholar's Conferences, author of a number of papers on the alternative globalization movement, and currently co-editing a book on same.

3. THE ROAD FROM GENOA: WHERE TO NOW? (English)
by workers power global 7:41pm Sun Jul 22 '01
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54617
They write, "Genoa represents a crossroads for the movement. It can become - as the radical movements of the late 1960s did - a detonator for mass working class resistance. Or it can suffer the fate of the US Black Panthers, who were systematically hunted down and imprisoned in order to strangle a potential mass revolutionary movement."

4. DECLARATION OF WAR IN GENOA
by Josef 3:03pm Sun Jul 22 '01 (Modified on 8:51pm Sun Jul 22 '01)
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5897
Josef starts, "G 8 has declared war on us the people. If it was still necessary to clarify, after similar facts in Seattle and Montreal [sic, Quebec City], now there is no doubt: The G 8 leaders have declared war on the people in the streets..."

5. ANARCHIST/BLACK BLOC MOTIVATION EXPLAINED
by James Anon 11:54am Sun Jul 22 '01 (Modified on 7:01pm Sun Jul 22 '01)
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5726
By explaining the motivation behind using these street fighting tactics, especially from the Black Bloc perspective, this article hopes to sooth some of that anger and suggests some ways we as a movement can move forward concerning the disagreement over forceful or non-violent direct action. (Over ten comments follow article.)

6. GOTHENBURG TACTICS USED IN GENOA (English)
by Tord Björk 6:35am Sun Jul 22 '01
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5543
New methods of repression against Summit protesters used at the EU-US Summit in Gothenburg 14-16.6. They include shooting at activists, container walls and storming of schools, etc.

7. COMMUNIQUE FROM NYC-YA BASTA! & NYC-DAN IN GENOA
by NYC-Ya Basta! & NYC-DAN 10:30am Mon Jul 23 '01
http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8871
Concerning the attack on the Independent Media Center and Fascist/police coordination during the G8 Summit.

8. BABELE A GENOVA / BABEL IN GENOA (Italian, English translation in comments)
by Eleanor Chiari 3:21pm Sun Jul 22 '01
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54559
Commentary on TV media and other coverage of G8 in Genova.

9. WHAT THE PROTESTERS IN GENOA WANT (English)
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, 6:42pm Fri Jul 20 '01
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=53964
By best selling authors of recently released _Empire_, a call for global democracy. They write: "We see seeds of that future already in the sea of faces that stretches from the streets of Seattle to those of Genoa. One of the most remarkable characteristics of these movements is their diversity: trade unionists together with ecologists together with priests and communists. We are beginning to see emerge a multitude that is not defined by any single identity, but can discover commonality in its multiplicity."


D. PHOTOS AND VIDEO

On Friday, July 20, Carlo Giuliani, a 23-year-old activist, was shot and killed by police and then run over by a police vehicle. Outrage over Carlo's death and the reported injuries to over 500 people from police wielding batons and ramming by police vehicles has generated severe criticism of the Italian government and G8. While Government officials point the finger at protesters linked to the black block, whose tactics include property destruction of selected targets, such as bank windows, numerous accounts of police in disguise committing the most violent acts continue to come into the newswire and have even filtered into the corporate news. Photo, video, and audio reporting from the protests tell a different story from that in most of the mainstream press.

1. GSF AND IMC RAID
by IMC
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5448
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5464
http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5486
Photos of the raid.

2. SEQUENCE OF PHOTOS OF THE SHOOTING OF CARLO GIULIANI, WITH NARRATION
by R. Alford 12:52am Mon Jul 23 '01
Summary article: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=6359
Powerpoint file: http://italy.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/giuliani_sequence.ppt
A sequence of the photographs from multiple sources in a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation with narrated observations about the images. Alford suggests that the photos support the position that the shooting clearly does not qualifiy as justifiable homicide under the Italian legal codes. Size: 0.5MB.
Note: See alternative press section below, link 5., for website with photo gallery of the shooting of Carlo.

3. STOP G8! MORE PICS FROM GENOVA
by csoa molino 12:50pm Mon Jul 23 '01
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54773
Link to site with 16 webpages of photos from Genoa: http://www.ecn.org/agp/index1.html

4. SEVERAL CLIPS (Italian)
by kanalB
http://www.indymedia.org/video/italy.ram
Short recordings of a speech/talk and an interview segment.

5 POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST YA BASTA! MEMBER
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/italy/polizia_brutality_on_ya_basta.ram
Runs 49 sec.

6. Collections of Genoa photos and videos:
http://belgium.indymedia.org/
http://www.jellhead.com/~genoa/
http://www.yellowtimes.com/genoa/


E. AUDIO

1. BLICERIO - THE DAY AFTER (English, mp3)
by Wankstor X. Muzzlebutt 4:42pm Sun Jul 22 '01
Audio file: http://www.freeteam.nl/blicero.mp3
Summary: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=5987
Blicero, a coordinator with IMC Italia, reflects on what Indymedia must do to continue to resist increasingly repressive regimes around the world. He also provides a first-hand reaction to last night's police violence at the IMC and the school across the street. Runs 5:24 min.

2. RADIOGAP DURING THE STORMING (Italian)
http://dyne.org/sgombero-radiogap.mp3
Runs 4:42 min.

3. BBC REPORT OF IMC/GSF RAID BY EYEWITNESS (English)
Realaudio file: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1450000/audio/_1450876_raid_hayton0200.ram
Link at article: http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=102117
Sympathetic report by Bill Hayton of the BBC, who was in the IMC-Italy building as it was raided, and saw the aftermath of the GSF beatings. (mp3 audio)

4. REPORT ON THE RAID, G8 MEETING, AND ALTERNATIVE GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT (English)
http://buffalo.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/patrickbeckettj22.mp3
Account of raid by Patrick Beckett, and American reporter with Free Speech Radio News who was in the IMC-Genoa as it was raided on Sunday morning. He shares some general thoughts on the movement, state response, and G8 meeting. Runs 16:51 min.

For more information, see: http://radio.indymedia.org/ and http://www.radiogap.net


F. PRINT

See Indymedia print summaries (in distributable newsletter/flier format)
The following issues are available at: http://print.indymedia.org

special edition: 22 July 2001
· Violent raids on journalists, sleeping protestors in Genoa
· G8 leaders fail to solve climate negotiations

special edition: 20 July 2001
· Italian police shooting to kill
· 100,000 take to streets to protest G8 summit in Genoa, Italy

Flier promoting Indymedia coverage:
http://struggle.ws/pdf/genoa_poster.html


G. THE GENOA SOCIAL FORUM (GSF)

In addition to the marches and rallys, the GSF hosted a week-long counter summit that brought together organizations and groups from around the world who are seeking alternatives to the current destructive policies pursued by Western governments. They hold that "The international importance of this summit represents a challenge to [work] with different methods and priorities - principles of social justice, solidarity, and just and sustainable development."

Like other recently created forums, the GSF was inspired by the World Social Forum (http://www.worldsocialforum.org/) which was held earlier this year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Similar people's forums have occurred at all major global justice/alternative globalization mobilizations since Seattle.

Topics last week included discussions on fighting global poverty and inequality, globalization and work, and mechanisms for global democracy. The GSF website (http://www.genoa-g8.org) offers important articles, logistic advices, legal information and news updates. (Main website is in Italian with links to pages in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German)

Program of Demonstrations for July 19-21
http://www.italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3154
This post includes 1. Complete program of the demonstrations on 20th July; 2. Proposal of the development of the Manifestations of Public Square of the GSF in Genoa, 19-20-21 July 2001; 3. Complete program of Genoa Social Forum


H. SELECTED ALTERNATIVE PRESS LINKS

1: PROTEST.NET
http://www.protest.net/
Lists upcoming protests including:
World Bank / IMF - 9-28 to 10-4, "The IMF and World Bank are principle agents of corporate globalization. Their large fall meeting in Washington DC will be met with a convergence September 28th - October 4th."

2. THE BATTLE OF GENOA (English)
by Walden Bello, Friday July 20, 2001
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=bello20010721
Walden Bello attended the GSF educational activities early last week in Genoa and the later protests. This is his account. He is professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines and executive director of Focus on the Global South, a research and advocacy institute based at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

3. IT'S A WAR (English)
by Geov Parrish, July 21, 2001
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11596
With brutal killing of protester, depths of division are clarified. Parrish writes, "Genoa is reminiscent of nothing so much as Kent State, where, after hundreds of thousands (at least) of deaths in Southeast Asia, it took the deaths of four young students on a Midwest campus to galvanize opposition..."

4. INTERVIEW OF A SYNDICALIST WITH IG METAL (English)
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/belgium/igmetal.ram
About general experience and reasons for G8 protest by German worker. Runs 3:12 min.

5. PHOTO GALLERY OF THE MURDER OF CARLO GUILIANI (English)
by Storm Bear Williams 8:19pm Sat Jul 21 '01 storm@nauseamanifesto.com
http://www.nauseamanifesto.com/genoa/index.html
A 21 image photo gallery, with commentary, of the murder of Carlo Giuliani during the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy.

6. INFOSHOP NEWS AND PHOTOWIRE (English)
http://infoshop.org/news6/genoa.html
This infoshop page has over a dozen Genoa demonstration photo thumbnails with descriptions, linking to full photos. This page also has links to articles on solidarity demonstrations from around the world and a variety of articles on the Genoa protests.

7. PEACEFUL PROTEST IN GENOA, 21-07-2001
http://ghanima.org/resist/genoa21072001.htm
Pictures captured from the Journal de 20h on France2, on 21/7/2001. Various crowd shots.


I. CONTINUING IMC and MEDIA COVERAGE

Stay tuned to IMC Italia, http://italia.indymedia.org, and global IMC, http://www.indymedia.org, for up-to-the-minute news on the G8 protests.

IMC radio: http://radio.indymedia.org/
Indymedia print summaries (in distributable newsletter/flier format): http://print.indymedia.org

Other IMCs that have provided detailed coverage include (see left columns at IMC websites for links): France, UK, Belgium, Barcelona, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Brasil, Argentina, Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.

Please see IMC NEWS BLAST on Genoa from Saturday, July 21, for earlier, mostly different additional coverage: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php?article_id=4526.

This IMC NEWS BLAST has been submitted to the IMC Translation list. Translations will be created and posted to the IMC network.

Another IMC NEWS BLAST will be prepared later this week to summarize news on emerging stories, including details of the Sunday morning raid, jail situation, and solidarity protests.

The opinions expressed in the media referenced in this IMC NEWS BLAST do not necessarily represent the opinions of the IMC network.

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