environmental
groups concerned of European Union's course of
development to a new neo-liberal militaristic superstate.
Most extreme
action of police was shooting of a "Reclaim the city"
carnival in the
evening of Friday 15th of June. Three persons were wounded,
one
critically and it is still unknown will he survive or
not.
However
this was only a peak of the violence during the week,
which
has led Swedish human rights and other concerned
organizations to
raise 20 complaints against violent behavior of the police.
Series of
police provocations started 14th of June when Swedish
police
surrounded Hvitfeldtska secondary housing peaceful
protesters school
with containers, armed with police horses, dogs and a
helicopter.
Police attacked people with horses and dogs, at least one
demonstrator
was bitten to face by a police dog. During actions of the
weekend,
police continuously escalated violence by attacking
demonstrators with
dogs and horses unprovoked. Some non-uniformed police
provocateurs
destroyed private property in order to discredit
demonstrators. In
Saturday 16th of June a group of masked police armed
with
submachineguns invaded another school in which people were
staying,
claiming to search "arms and terrorists" which they never
found. Some
demonstrators did involved themselves in fighting with
police, but
vast majority of the demonstrators were calm even when
police behavior
was endangering their lives.
25000
persons from all around the West and East-Europe came to
Gothenburg to demonstrate against imperialistic and unequal
policies
of the European union. One target of the demonstrations was
American
president George Bush JR visiting Gothenburg, which has
lately
scrapped both Kyoto protocol against global warming and
anti-ballistic
missile treaty of 1972, declaring both a new cold war and a
war
against global environment. Officials of the European Union
are ready
to go to the very extreme in order to create a new global
superpower.
Sweden, mostly known as an example of social peace, has
adopted brutal
strategies seen only in South after fall of the iron
curtain.
We,
friends of Artem Chlenov call us to react to attack against
of
human rights in the European Union. We call to organize
actions
demanding freedom to Artem Chlenov and all other 40 persons
arrested
in Gothenburg in 1st of July all around CIS, in front of the
Swedish
consulates, and Swedish companies, such as IKEA. In Moscow,
we will
organize action 12.00 in Swedish embassy, Mosfilmovskaya
street 60.
Please also write to Swedish embassy, and demand freedom to
Artem and
stopping violence against protests of the people.
More
information about campaign: http://www.tao.ca/~dikobraz/freeartem
(web site will be opened in Friday 22nd of June) %...%
P.O.
Box 13 109 028 Moscow Russia Currently Rainbow Keepers and
Autonomous
Action of Moscow participate to campaign. If you want to
join
campaign, write us!
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