2009-06-06

6th June 2009 L'Aquila -- London -- Strasbourg/ Baden-Baden

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Document of summit protest against G8 economy in Lecce, June 12-13 2009

In 2001 G8 met in Genova.
They were violent days of the suspension of civil rights that still weigh on the collective consciousness, along with the memory and sorrow for the death of Carlo Giuliani.
They were also days in which the "greatest men of the earth" developed the new creed of liberal globalization as it was a new universal religion.
In their view, the world seemed to start towards a triumphal economic and political march: the new transnational capitalism would guarantee profits for all of those who had wanted to get rich, thanks to the opportunities of globalization.
The recipes that were proposed welcomed the idea to relocate production where the workers were paid less, weakening the rights acquired in the occident through a policy of destabilizing job insecurity (They call it "flexibility").

More: http://www.nog8lecce.org/home/modules/contents/getfile.php?pid=9

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Roundup: G8 justice, interior ministers define measures to combat global crime

ROME, May 31, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- by Silvia Marchetti Justice and interior ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) on Saturday agreed on a series of measures to beef up the global fight against terrorism, organized crime and illegal immigration while promoting and respecting human rights.

According to the final communique of the two-day ministerial meeting, an important tool in fighting criminal groups is the confiscation of their financial and other material assets based on the Italian anti-Mafia model.

Hosted by Italian Justice Minister Angelino Alfano and Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, the meeting kicked off in Rome on Friday amid tight security measures due to activists' protests.

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7212.html

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G8 ministers target global crime in Rome meeting

Rome - Justice and home affairs ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) on Saturday adopted a series of proposals aimed at combating organized crime, child pornography, human trafficking, terrorism, piracy and internet fraud. A "critical tool" in fighting criminal syndicates is the confiscation of their financial and other material assets, participants said in a final declaration at the end of their two-day meeting in Rome.

More: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/271043,g8-ministers-target-global-crime-in-rome-meeting--summary.html

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New evaluations of G20 protests available

Shift Magazine have put all their reports, interviews and analyses of the G20 London protests online.

Editorial: Summer of Rage?

The G20 protests haven’t shut down a summit nor have they been a threat to business-as-usual in the City. What they have done, however, is to kick-start a far-reaching and at times exciting discussion on the role of police during protest events. It is entirely unsurprising nonetheless that this debate is carried out within a liberal framework which does not question the role of the police as an institution or the state’s self-granted ‘monopoly of violence’.
http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=275

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/London_2009/7220.html

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Improving exchange of information on persons disturbing the public order and/or endangering public security by using SIS

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

from Presidency
to SIS/SIRENE Working Party (Mixed Committee EU/Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, Liechtenstein)

The need to share information on people endangering security of Schengen Area has been discussed for many years at various levels of the Council. The SIS was recognized as a possible tool for the mentioned sharing of information and therefore the SIS/SIRENE Working Party has been involved.

So-called “violent troublemakers”

One specific issue has been the exchange of information concerning persons such as sport hooligans, rioters and other persons violently disturbing the public order for whom the term “violent troublemakers” is used. Already the term itself raised many concerns and the discussions encountered the problem that so far there had not been a general agreement on how to define “violent troublemakers” and also what should be the required “action to be taken”.
Since then has not been an agreement concerning even the operational need and solutions for exchange of this sort of information. Therefore, the Police Cooperation Working Party concluded that an agreement on making data on violent troublemakers permanently available was not likely in the short term.1

On the other hand the latest incidents during the NATO summit again showed in a drastic way that there is an urgent need for the exchange of data on persons disturbing the public order and/or endangering public security.

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Strasbourg_Baden-Baden_2009/7219.html