From: luka23@hushmail.com
Date: 08/15/00
Hoi!
I am representing of the coallition (www.ecn.cz/inpeg) who are attempting
to mobalise actions and resistance to the IMF and world bank conferences
in Prague, which are taking place in septmeber 22-28 this year.
We are planning a seven day festival of resistance, which will include:
Arts of Resistance Festival ( a festival which will include techno parties,
hardcore bands, gallery exhibitions, public cinema, and generally bizzare
stuffs, and will also be used during the big street protests.) A Political
Counter Conference, which is organised (as everything here) at the grass
roots level, and will thus have speakers from Zapatistas, SemTerra etc,
and also clever bastards such as Noam Chomsy. There will be demos and
street protests all week, alongside plenty of autonomous direct actions,
sabotage, blocakades, power cuts, performed by people from all round europe
and beyond.
On septmeber 26 (S26), all those in Prague will lead the world into another
GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION.
So far we have confirmed actions taking place in over 40 countries. (www.s26.org)
]
Estimates vary about how many protesters will come to Prague, some in the
mainstream media say
50, 000, and, although we are a litlle more modest, there will undoubtably
be a shit load of us there!
Why do I write this then? Well, a request has come from Prague for
solidarity fom the Dutch squatters. Many of the Czech activitst have been
in A*dam, and several of us inetrnational brigade live or have lived in
the Netherlands. We are all amazed by the dedeictation and organisation
of the movement, and basically, there is consensus that people here know
what thier about, how to Kraak a squat, how to defend a squat, and how
to organise a longer term squatting movement, that can grow and become
a genuine political force.
We woulkd like as many sprekuers, breakers, barricaders, defenders, contenders,
all round
mal- contenters, to organise and come to Prague in septmber, in order to
help us kraak several warehouse spaces, which we can then defend and use
as places for all the visiting protesters to stay, for spaces where we
may all prepeare for the demos, places for the concerts etc basically safe
autonomous zones. With a longer term view, the Czechs have expressed
a desire for some lessons on how in the following years they might take
lessons from the dutch kraaking model, and build a stronger movement. (
for example there only are two squats in Prague at the moment, and both
are facing imminent eviction).
So.....I will leave it here. All those interested can reply to this
address......or, ideally, talk about it with each other and then email
the contact address on the INPEG website and say..."this this this and
this )
Time is important, only an month and a bit to go.
In solidarity
Luka+
(CiA cafe)
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