EFAU 72 - January 2001Back to list of articles in this issue

News In Brief

On the anniversary of the massive anti-WTO protests of November 30th, nine Starbucks coffeeshops were trashed in Seattle and a celebration of the protests was organized. Police roughly arrested hundreds of peaceful protesters after they refused to leave the Seattle Westlake Centre.
On New Years Eve a Reclaim the Streets took place in Denver Colorado, and on December 16th, over 200 partiers attended a surprise street party in San Francisco. Meanwhile in Poland, nurses organised a Christmas party in the middle of the street in front of the ministry of health as it was being occupied by their colleagues. The police didn't dare to remove the tables with Christmas dressing which were blocking the street. Anarchists made warm tea for everyone except the police!
Cattle strayed onto a trial crop of GM forage maize at Somerset and damaged a National List trial. Funnily the cattle didn't eat any of it!
An international squatters mailing list has been set up by the dutch squat mailing list. To subscribe, send an empty mail to kraken-int-subscribe@dvxs.nl with the message: kraken-int@dvxs.nl
Nearly 1500 prisoners in 48 Turkish prisons were on hunger-strike or death-fast against the Turkish state. The Turkish police invaded 20 prisons on 19th December and brought a horrible, bloody end to this conflict. Hundreds of hunger-fasters were injured, and at least 15 died, many burning themselves to avoid the torture of force-feeding. Their message was “States are the Terrorists, Solidarity is the Weapon of the People...As long as there is one prisoner, nobody will be free".
On the 3rd of November two Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 activists entered RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire, England, and disarmed a convoy truck which was being made ready to take nuclear warheads to Faslane in Scotland. Once in Faslane the nuclear warheads would have been fitted for the Trident Submarines. Under the Ploughshares philosophy, activists must take responsibility for their actions and so having carried out their actions the two activists handed themselves into the police.
On 14th December, over a thousand pounds sterling was sent to the Prague Prisoner Support Fund from the UK bank account. To send money directly to Czech Prisoner Support, use these bank details:
NAME OF BANK: IPB (Investicni Postovni Banka.), ADRESS: CS. ARMADY 35,160 00 PRAHA 6, ACCOUNT NUMBER: 167 555 569/ 5100, SWIFT CODE FOR FASTER TRANSACTION: INBACZPP
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