G-8 in Genoa - 100,000 seek justice - Mainstream media in US ignore it...


September Issue: In These Times - G-8 photos and on the ground reports
---Among the Thugs - David Graeber - Genoa and the new language of protest
---One Dead in Genoa - Geov Parrish - The Movement and its Martyr


The Road From Genoa By Boris Kagarlitsky - Perspective on the anti-globalization effort after the G-8  8/17


GENOA LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES--- Compilation of events and updates 7/31/01

In the Days After Genoa . . . . 7-28-01

Visit the IMC-Italy site for up-to-date information on those arrested, injured and still missing. IMC-UK has updates on injured IMC journalist.

News of the protest and its aftermath appear in US media.  But what was it all about? Why were these people from all over the world risking their lives? Why do we need to go to the European press or the internet to find out what's going on?  Does anybody remember "Radio free Europe" in WWII countering Nazi propaganda ... and in the Cold War countering  Communist propaganda?  We need a radio free America now.  So what next? 

A word for activists from Michael Albert of Z Magazine.  

7-26-01 The massive street protests in Genoa, Italy, this weekend have ended. Most of the estimated 200,000 to 300,000 who participated this weekend in demonstrations against the closed meetings of the G8, leaders of eight of the world?s most powerful nations, have returned to their communities. People around Europe and the world are debating what the protests meant, why they happened, what inspired such harsh reaction by the Italian police and where we all go from here.
From Italy-IMC:
"280 arrests in the three days; between 500 and 700 injured (both hospitalized and healed by the Genoa Social Forum doctors on the field and in the raided school); more than 100 persons still disappeared; denial of the right to talk to a lawyers until being moved to jail (up to 96 hours); secure wards in the hospitals; a wall of silence ordained by media and institutions . . . "

 

 

Many 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. All are in Genoa, Italy. Genoa ... is the site of the G8 (Group of 8) meeting, and mass protests of over one hundred thousand people from over a thousand groups. A broad spectrum of groups seeking economic, environmental, and social justice. 
IndyMedia/Italia   www.indymedia.org

On Friday, July 20, and Saturday, July 21, an estimated 100,000 people were in the streets of Genoa, Italy, to express dissent against the closed meetings of the Group of 8. The 'G8' - the leaders of the world's most economically powerful countries, meets yearly to discuss general international policy direction. Demonstrators from all over Europe have converged on Genoa to present alternative visions of the way the world's population could organize to undo poverty, inequality and environmental disintegration. ... More...

Solidarity expressed around the world:

 Protests at the G8 meeting mark a climax of the European Summer of Resistance which has included festivals and demonstrations accross Europe in places including Goteborg, Sweden, Barcelona, Salzburg, Austria and Bonn, Germany, ... to express dissent against the current form of 'globalization' and to move towards different forms of global unity

(all articles and images on this page are from indymedia centers from around the world)

 

 
BREAKINGNEWS - 20/07/2001 Jul 20 2001
Ultime / Up to date news

iniziative del 20 luglio : (july 20 planned actions)

1:57: there are around 100 people injured in clashes in front of IMC building - several black bags containing the bodies have been taken out of the school opposite the IMC.
media are reporting 3 persons dead.
there is no more internet connection inside imc. police is reported to be washing away blood from streets quickly.
situation is EXTREMELY tense and violent. there are sirens to be heard all the time, and helicopters are flying over the scene continuosly.
our reports inside the building are schocked by the violence of police.
1:17: 01:14: !IMC RAIDED BY POLICE USING TEAR GAS AND BATONS. IMC ATTEMPTED TO BARACADE BUILDING. HEAVY INJURIES TO SEVERAL PEOPLE SEEN MOTIONLESS BEING WHEELED OUT ON STRETCHERS. CARRIED AWAY ON STRETCHERS. BLOOD THAT WAS SEEN ON THE FLOOR HAS BEEN WASHED AWAY.

[en] 20 July, 6,17 pm,Carlo Giuliani dies, killed by two shots in the middle of his face coming out of the gun of a policeman on a jeep. One of the 15.000 "controllers of the order" that were in the streets. The homicide was the conclusion of a day prepared for months. A day that had to see thousands of people demonstrating in lots of different ways. The demonstrations never started, police-forces charged even during the gatherings, even though no one had moved yet. This happened after different months of terrorist campaigns set up by authorities and media (do you remember the frequent publications of - top-secret - dossiers about the "People of Seattle"?) with the aim to create a climate of tension ready to be spectacularized.

 
 
A word for Activists from ZNet Update 

- Genoa Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001

 
Hello.
 
As most recipients of ZNet Updates likely know, July 20 began a series of demonstrations in Genoa Italy against the G8 (major industrialized nations) meetings. As with demonstrations in Seattle, Prague, and Quebec, activists seek to explain and reveal global institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO and to reverse worsening rules of international cultural and economic exchange, as well as address domestic sexist, racist, statist, and capitalist injustice. And, indeed, our steadily growing opposition to "globalization" has brought world leaders and corporate heads to fear for their most revered agendas. Bush, Berlusconi, and cohorts know that if a huge mass of humanity gains sufficient knowledge, hope, and confidence, we will force new and more participatory relations against the tide of their preferred elitist globalization. Bush, Berlusconi, et. al. have therefore decided to try their usual recourse, violence.
 
In Genoa they sought to send a message. Oppose us and you will pay a high price. And the simple fact is that we need to recognize that if the context of our actions leaves world rulers the option to do so, they most certainly have the military means to make good their threats. In Genoa they set loose their police, aroused beyond even normal levels of violence by grotesque fascist imagery, to brutalize dissent via torture and shooting. They seek to intimidate not solely the dissenters on the scene from even conceiving of disobeying further, but also the broader public. Bush, Berlusconi, et. al., are trying to ensure, for example, that in the next go around in Washington DC, from September 28 to October 4, there will be a small showing of manageable proportions rather than the feared immense outpouring of dissent and resistance they fear. Corporate elites want to reverse our momentum, pure and simple.
 
So what is our response to their violence?
 
Fear will exist. It is human. To read about what the police have done in Genoa can't help but arouse concerns about safety. And it ought to. We should not be ostriches about their vile capacities. But trembling should also not exist. Passivity should not exist. And we should not do their work for them, dwelling so insistently on our physical pains as to disrupt our mental focus and interfere with our broader messages. Nor should we react in a kind of dance of danger, thinking we must escalate our actions in the same terms they think about escalating theirs. The compelling and powerful answer to addressing state violence rarely varies from a simple logic. Given our resources and means, we must educate about the issues at stake more widely. 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.
 
If the state can enter our organizational centers, like the Italian Indymedia and organizing offices, and can beat to physical submission our members, if the state can assault our marches and rallies, and if it can do all this with impunity and without a cry of outrage not only from us but from much wider circles threatening to join us, then the state will do so.
 
In coming days and weeks, our discussion about tactics at our demonstrations needs to keep forefront a simple logic. What choices on our part will best widen our base of support and thereby grow our size and deepen our commitment and knowledge, entrenching our dissent and even threatening its percolation into other dimensions of social life? And what choices, at the same time, will best restrain the military capacities of the state by creating conditions under which for them to unleash their dogs of war costs them more in lost public support then it costs us in harshly broken bodies?
 
This is not a pretty cnor even a humane calculus, but it is the logic of dissent against monstrous violators of human civility. We need to make known the state's violence against our dissent, of course. But we need to retain our priority focus on globalization and capitalism, and on the vastly more widespread and deeper violence of these ubiquitous systems. We have to achieve growing popular support, growing movement commitment and insight, and to simultaneously saddle the state's preferred repressive options.
 

Michael Albert Z Magazine / ZNet sysop@zmag.org  www.zmag.org
 

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Here then are a number of sources of direct reports from Genoa...and there is more online on ZNet...at http://www.zmag.org
 
The most complete reporting now coming from Italy seems to be that which is made available by the Italian and the international Indymedia Sites. Already, in the short history of emergence of these movement institutions, they have become critically important and powerfully influential vehicles of our efforts to speak truth to the powerless and simultaneously confront those with military and economic power with our even greater people's power.
 
 
 
There have additionally been numerous reports emerging from Genoa, including from people affiliated with ZNet sending us materials. What follows are three links to essays by ZNet folks from on the scene.then the full text of a collective statement emerging from Genoa on the 22nd.
 
 
 

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State terrorism in Genoa International action appeal
 
Genoa, early morning 22nd July 2001
 

We write from the building of GSF and Indymedia in Genoa after witnessing the worst human rights violations in the short history of the young movement against capitalist globalisation. Two people were killed by the police on the 20th, one in Genoa and one at the border, and someone else might have been killed in the most outrageous display of fascist state brutality that all of us have seen in our lives, just a few hours ago in front of this building.
 
This night the police broke into the school Diaz (across the road), one of the accommodation places of GSF were people were sleeping at that moment, and beat up everyone to the extent that most of the people could not walk out and had to be carried in stretchers out of the school. We don't know how many people were badly injured because we lost count of the amount of stretchers carried out of the school, but they brought about 30 ambulances for the injured people. The police also brought at least one body bag outside, maybe two, but we don't know yet whether there was a corpse inside either or both of them. Everybody was either arrested or taken to hospital. According to the testimony of one person who could escape before being arrested, people were lying on the floor saying 'no violence' when the police broke into the first floor where he was, and they battered people so badly that one of the officers had to intervene to stop the massacre. In one of the pictures taken by Indymedia (http://italy.indymedia.org) you can see a plank of wood with nails covered with blood lying next to a corner with big patches of blood on the walls.
 
The police also broke violently into the GSF and Indymedia building at the same time, but here they only destroyed and stole materials. They did not attack anyone (although in part of the building it was difficult to breathe due to the tear gas). Italian parliamentarians were also struck by policemen while they were trying to enter the school Diaz while the police was beginning to remove the injured.
 
On the 20th and the 21st the police terrorism in the streets was unprecedented in recent Western European history. On the 20th they murdered a young protestor from Genova, who was shot once in the forehead and once in the cheek, and drove backwards over his corpse. A young french woman was killed in the Ventemiglia border on the same day, while the police was preventing her and other people from entering the country. Police attacked and teargassed all the different groups that took part in the action. For instance, they threw tear gas from helicopters into the assembly point of the pacifist march, charged against the tutte bianche and the Network for Global Rights before they even started their actions, and injured a still unknown number of people. They deliberately mixed the different sorts of political expression, trying to create conflicts (for instance by pushing part of the black block into the pacifist assembly point). On the 21st they massively attacked part of the demonstration for absolutely no reason, teargassing the whole area (including the parking lot that served as the GSF convergence centre and a nearby beach) and some people were forced to jump into the sea just to escape from them - only to find police boats facing them in the water. Both on the 20th and the 21st there were riots all day, all over the city, which were clearly provoked by the police. The forms of provocation were diverse: the television showed images of a group of people dressed in black going out of a police van and breaking windows, and the black block was visibly infiltrated throughout these days. We respectfully ask our friends from the black block to reflect on the meaning of this fact, not just for them but for everybody else. This request is not meant to imply that they should not be present in large collective actions, but merely that we encourage them to rethink their role and choices in them. One possible way would be to play a role focused on solidarity and defense of other groups, similar to the one so successfully carried out by the black block in A16.
 
People who are taken to the hospitals are arrested immediately after receiving first aid, unless they are in an extremely bad condition. One person, a member of a nonviolent group, who was horribly beaten up while sitting on the floor with his hands up, went through that experience. In the police station he was repeatedly tortured like everyone else there. The police was hitting the already wounded areas of his body and battering him for no reason. Another person who was arrested and released says that they were beating everybody and forcing them to scream 'viva il duce', which means long live Mussolini.
 
The police terrorism started well before the actions. The last weeks were characterised by police searches all over Italy, followed by what everybody here considers to be a reproduction of the strategy of tension used by the Italian state in the 70s to crash social movements. Letter bombs were sent (by whom?) to policemen, the police exploded a car in the centre of Genova because it was parked in the same place for several days, and they alleged in the media that bombs had been planted in several places (including one of the accommodation spaces of the GSF) - all of these in order to create an atmosphere of paranoia, fears about demonstrators and social terror. They also arrested several people before the actions, including a particularly brutal case of a young woman who was kept in isolation for four days for having a van (which they claimed would be used to break into the red zone) where she kept a hatchet for camping purposes. The people who were arrested with her report that they were also tortured physically and psychologically, including forced exposure to a succession of three posters: a pornographic one, followed by one of Mussolini and then one of the Nazi Army in action.
 
We know that many solidarity and denounciation actions have already taken place all over the world and that many more are being planned (see http://italy.indymedia.org). We encourage all the groups that have not planned actions yet to do so, and to prepare for sustained actions to continue until those responsible for these outrageous human rights abuses pay the full price for their actions. We suggest to these groups that their minimum demand would be the resignation of the Berlusconi government. There is a list of Italian embassies at http://www.ethoseurope.org/ethos/embassies.nsf/ (go down to the link Embassies of Italy).
 
We think that we need to turn this situation into a serious international problem for the Berlusconi and the other G8 governements, not just due to a basic sense of justice but also because we feel that the survival of the movement and of many of us might depend on it. This brutality shows the actual panic with which the rich and powerful are reacting to the clear fact that the world is beginning to listen to us. Seeing that they can no longer write us off as a marginal, temporary phenomenon, they are now removing all masks of ostensible democracy and showing their real face - one of oppression, violence and terrorism.
 
Por todos nuestros muertos, ni un minuto de silencio. Toda una vida de lucha. To honor our dead, not a minute of silence. A whole life of strugge.


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by Indymedia News Blast Team  -- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:24:22 -0400 (EDT)



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

Online version of this IMC NEWS BLAST with clickable links: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56210


CONTENTS ----------------- A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS B. GENOA LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES C. ACCOUNTS AND ACTIONS D. PHOTOS, VIDEO, AND AUDIO E. PRINT F. OTHER PRESS COVERAGE G. ADDITIONAL IMC COVERAGE


A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS

Over 200,000 people converged on Genoa, Italy this past weekend to express  dissent against the closed meetings and polices of the Group of 8, and to discuss alternatives to the undemocratic nature of current global social and economic planning. Solidarity demonstrations against the G8 summit and the police violence were organized in over 200 cities worldwide, with more planned (see http://g8solidarity.protest.net).

Many see Genoa as a crossroads for the alternative globalization movement--particularly regarding the growing difference of opinion as to various strategies and tactics.  A future NEWS BLAST will present a selection of strategy and tactics articles.


B. GENOA LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Over 500 demonstrators were injured last weekend. Carlo Guiliano was killed and scores of protesters were brutally beaten while in police custody, with approximately 50 protesters still in jail and 80 missing. See update on Genoa prisoners: http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56168

Human rights and press freedom organizations such as Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, Reporters Sans Frontieres, FAIR and various other organizations and prominent individuals have protested human rights abuses during the protests. There have been calls in Britain, Germany and other European countries for an international inquiry into the summit. Three Italian inquiries are under way and legal actions are being taken against Italian authorities.

Note from IMC Italia: Anyone with video footage or eyewitness accounts of recent arrests that might be of legal help please send an email to J21@indymedia.org.

1. GENOA INDYMEDIA LEGAL FUND by AndiArbeit Wed Jul 25 '01 http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=7847 IMC UK has set up a legal fund to help with the legal work for the Genoa prisoners.

2. EOSC CRITISIZES ITALIAN POLICE (German) http://italia.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9463 Translated paragraph: "The European Organization for Security and Cooperation also has criticized the rough behavior of the police against journalists. In a letter addressed to foreign minister Renato Ruggiero, the EOSC person in charge of the media, Freimut Duve, has demanded explications as to why the police dead break by night into the officially recognized Indymedia press center and has hit and arrested journalists, and confiscated their working material and tools in the process."

3. NOBORDER-NONATION PUBLIXTHEATRE CARAVAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE GENOA http://www.noborder.org/index.html Report and updates on 25 arrested theatre activists. There is alleged police abuse of these nonviolent theatre activists who are in jail on trumped-up charges of black block participation.

4. POLICE FACE SACK FOR GENOA 'BRUTALITY' http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56062 by Rory Carroll Fri July 27 '01 "Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday acknowledged international outrage over police brutality at last weekend's G8 summit by hinting he would purge the commanders responsible."

5. ITALIAN TRADE UNION CLAIMS CARLOS GUILIANO WAS A POLITICAL TARGET FOR EXECUTION (English) by alphonse Wed Jul 25 '01 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55385 Article suggests that the death of Carlos Guiliani, son of a labor union employed television host who is an opponent of current administration, was a politically planned murder.

6. UPDATE PRISONERS GOTHENBURG by mst Sun Jul 29 '01 http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56176 Genoa was not the first place where demonstrators were shot at and charged with things they did not necessarily do. This post is an update on the situation of protesters in prison in Gothenburg, Sweden.

7. THE IMPORTANCE OF A COMPLAINT BOOK by Edter Thu Jul 26 '01 ac@autonoomcentrum.nl http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=8727 "After the EU summit 1997 in Amsterdam we wrote a complaints book about the police conduct. We think its very important to do it also about Genoa. Read the way we did it."

8. GENOA, 21-22 JULY 2001 http://www.dyne.org/antig8/ Dossier about violations of civil and human rights in Genoa.


C. ACCOUNTS AND ACTIONS

In spite of a variety of brutal police actions, the Italian government has defended the police, using in part the necessity of controlling black block violence as justification. Most of the mainstream media continue to back state claims. Many accounts in the alternative press report that approximately 200 agent provacateurs, cooperating closely with police, formed a fake black block and committed the extensive destruction of non-corporate property in Genoa (nonluxury cars, small shops) and even attacked protesters, both of which tactics are extremely uncharacteristic of the egalitarian minded black block participants. (See various accounts below.)

1. COMPILATION: MORE REPORTS OF ITALY INDYMEDIA AND GENOA SOCIAL FORM RAID, BRUTALITY. (English) http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102089 The latest reports substantiate further the brutality of the police raid July 22, 2001 of the Genoa Independent Media Center and the Genoa Social Forum. Included are photos, detailed reports, videos, etc. The outrageousness of the raid is sinking in. Dozens of brutal injuries. Unprovoked beatings of people to unconsciousness. A plethora of witnesses. Mainstream politicians and press as witnesses. (Many update stories with links posted in comments.)

2. UPDATE ON GENOA (English) by Eddie Fri Jul 27 '01 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55889 "Due in large part to the withholding of basic information by the gov., there are many contradictory reports and rumors which have yet to be corroborated. Things are changing fast, but here is the latest info that I know."

3. G8 'URBAN WAR' - OPEN LETTER FROM STEFANO AGNOLETTO by Freed_is_good Thu Jul 26 '01 http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7377 This letter outlines the course of protest events last weekend, presenting an extensive outline of various police brutalities and the activities of the false 'Black Block' undertaken with police cooperation.

4. FASCISM IN GENOA (English) by Starhawk Fri Jul 27 '01 third report: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2930 This third report from Genoa by Starhawk Also see: second report: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2587 first report: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2576

5. PSYCH TREATMENT FOR "NERVOUS" PROTESTERS (English) http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=8710 "Forced sanitary treatment is a kind of psychiatric treatment which is prescribed in the most grave of cases and needs a special order of the mayor and medical consent. In Genoa, the mayor has ordered this condemnable practice (which consists in the giving of ultrapotent psychiatric drugs) for all protesters who are agitated and....."

6. GENOA, COP CONFESSION: "IT'S ALL TRUE" (English) by max Thu Jul 26 '01 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55472 translated from: http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/gottododici/pestaggi/pestaggi.html (Italian) An account of one of police involved in the brutal raid on GSF and IMC offices, translated from repubblica.it.

7. AGAINST THE AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION: AUG. 10-12 by CA-ACA Wed July 25 '01 http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=102368 A diverse coalition of groups has come together to organize grassroots opposition to the annual meeting of the ACA in Philadelphia. This August, local activists will host a convergence of ex-prisoners, families of prisoners, activists, and concerned citizens to protest the expansion of our country's racist prison industry. This convergence will include an educational counter conference (August 10-12), permitted demonstrations, and direct actions. See www.STOPtheACA.org/about.

8. MARCO'S BEST OF THE INDY WIRE AS OF 25 JULY (English) by Marco Thu Jul 26 '01 http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55467 "...just a few of my favorite Indystories      from 'the week that was' 25jul01." This selection of best articles overlaps in a few cases with the NEWSBLAST coverage of Genoa, but many of the articles are on other issues.


D. PHOTOS, VIDEO, AND AUDIO

1. GENOA PHOTOS AND VIDEOS, COLLECTIONS: http://www.menschenvorprofite.de/genua/bilder.htm (over 70 photos) http://kanalb.de/spezial-genua2001/ (German) http://www.31feb.org/faqg8/ (Italian) http://www.tmcrew.org/g8/news.html (Italian) http://belgium.indymedia.org/ (French) http://infoshop.org/news6/genoa.html (English) These links were posted in various Indymedia articles.

2. DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU STAND IN THE STRUGGLE (English) http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55356 by Manos Wed Jul 25 '01 Photo of the entrance of the convergence centre, on Saturday, listing the deaths in anti-capitalist / alternative globalization struggle. Partial list: Genova - 1 dead; Acteal Mexico: Indigenous Zapatistas - 48 dead; Paupau New Guinea: anti-IMF protestsers - 3 dead; Ecuador: 13 farmers/demonstrators; Columbia:  continuous massacres/assassinations ...

3. BBC INTERVIEW WITH MARCUS "SKY" CAVELL, IMC REPORTER http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin//radio4/today/listen/audiosearch.pl?ProgID=9961 Sky, who is recuperating, recounts his severe prolonged beating by police; other coverage of police violence. (Real Audio, Runs 7:17 min.)

4. RADIOGAP PRESS RELEASE AFTER ASSAULT by RadioGAP, Sun Jul 22 '01 http://www.dyne.org/antig8/sound/english-pressrelease.mp3

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


E. 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

Seattle IMC Print Group -- GUS, Global Update Seattle -- will be doing a special G8 edition. See Seattle IMC: http://seattle.indymedia.org/


F. OTHER PRESS COVERAGE

1. CARABINIERI / MILITARY POLICE http://www.mir.it/g8/news/20010723/3b5bff2149b55.html A handout photo released by the Genoa Social Forum Sunday, July 22, 2001, allegedly shows people dressed as rioters brandishing batons close to a uniformed Carabinieri officer in front of Carabinieri police barracks in downtown Genoa, Saturday, July 21, 2001. Leaders of the Genoa Social Forum accused the police of sending plainclothes officers to blend with the cloud of rioters against the G8 summit.

2. PHOTO GALLERY OF THE MURDER OF CARLO GUILIANI (English) by Storm Bear Williams Sat Jul 21 '01 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.

3. THE OBSERVER: 'TORTURE' IN POLICE CELLS WAS HORRIFIC (English) by Guardian Unlimited Sun Jul 29 '01 http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56127 This story reports on the 'torture' of Britons in police cells.

4. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWS RELEASE (English) 22 July 2001 http://www.dyne.org/antig8/text/amnesty-release.html Authorities must carry out urgent investigation and review of G8 policing...

5. 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."


G. ADDITIONAL IMC COVERAGE

Stay tuned to IMC Italia, http://italia.indymedia.org, and global IMC, http://www.indymedia.org, for up-to-the-minute news on Genoa. Also see the following.


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

Other IMCs that have provided detailed coverage include: Austria, Barcelona, Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Argentina, Brasil, Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.

Online version of this IMC NEWS BLAST with clickable links: Sunday, July 29: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56210

Please see these earlier IMC NEWS BLASTs on Genoa for additional coverage: Tuesday, July 24: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10074 (English, Italian versions) Saturday, July 21: http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4526

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