Carlo Giuliani commemoration. second anniversary of Genoa

dublin | anti-capitalism | press release

Thursday July 17, 2003 04:16

by anti-capitalist - Fallen comrades

Saturday 19th, 2pm at Central Bank. going to Italian embassy

Carlo Giuliani was murdered by the Italian state on July 20th 2001 while protesting against the G8 summit in Genoa. Soon we may too get to experience the repressive violence of the police during these summits. On this, his second anniversary, we are commemorating Carlo's murder through our continued struggle. Meet 2pm central bank, Saturday 19th.

Keeping the struggle alive

Why are we commemorating Carlo Giuliani today? Carlo Giuliani was murdered by the Italian police during the massive demonstrations against the G8 in Genoa two years ago. His murder provides us with just a tiny glimpse of what the rich bastards who rule us are capable of when we start to resist them.

The same rich bastards who sent the Italian police to run amok on the streets of Genoa have implemented policies that have ravaged the third world. You may believe you have nothing to do with “them” but don’t be conned: you have more in common with a Somalian nurse than an Irish banker. We have to tie our struggles together. In Ireland, we are resisting the bin tax and workers are rebelling against the constraints of “social partnership”, while in other countries people are fighting for the right to organise in their workplace against dangerous working conditions, crap pay and child labour. Around the world people have realised that “business as usual” comes at too high a price.

And who’s feeling the pinch now that the hospitals are shutting down? Not the Foxrock fucker, that’s for sure…you see it’s never the wealthy, the ruling class, that suffers its ordinary people that get it in the neck. It’s our blood that’s oiling their machines- we end up fighting their wars, paying for their private jets and working ourselves to death to maintain their juicy profit margins. They are willing to kill to keep it that way and that is what happened in Genoa to Carlo Giuliani.

We want to remember the part Carlo Giuliani took in the struggle for a free and just society, a society where the people participate directly in the decisions that affect them and enjoyed the full fruits of their labour instead of being forced to survive on tiny percentage of it. You wouldn’t shut down your own hospitals, would you?

Maybe you’ve noticed that you actually have something in common with workers in the third world, but you believe that you couldn’t possibly have anything in common with Carlo Giuliani. He was a “violent” protester as the newspapers and the politicians like to put it. Since when did the global elite care about violence? How violent is it to smash bank windows compared to the criminal profiteering off poverty, hunger and war? The media will ALWAYS divide us into “good” and “bad” protesters and even within the “movement” there are those who think it is more important to criticise those engaged in property damage than state violence. But those of us who believe that the anti-capitalist movement needs to explore every possible form of resistance available to us have a responsibility to remember what Carlo stands for – Class War.

Now they want us to be passive, so that they can rule us from above. But don’t be afraid to organise and get active, you’re not alone and you’re not powerless. Look at history across the world, it’s the “little people” that changed things, from the 1913 Strike & Lockout in Dublin to recent events in Argentina, we have the capability to defend ourselves and our interests.

The world economic forum (WEF) is coming to Dublin in October, another shindig for our unelected global rulers. We are organising against it. To get involved in the grassroots campaign against the WEF, subscribe to the mailing list gg-antiwef@yahoogroups.com

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by FOC

Thu Jul 17, 2003 04:25

We carry a new world in our hearts

by (A)

Thu Jul 17, 2003 06:28

Long live carlo! Long live the riots/resistance in Genoa!Lets show these capitalist bastards what is what on the WEF summit in Dublin! Genoa and Quebec shows the way!

...but in the end,we will win!

see you there

by kev

Thu Jul 17, 2003 16:42

power shouldn't be allowed to take life with impunity

Arrogance of "leaders"

by Guido

Thu Jul 17, 2003 16:55

pannekoekrobert at hotmail dot com

"President Bush will host Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on July 20-21, 2003. Italy is among the United States' closest allies in NATO, and has been a strong supporter in the global war on terrorism and in bringing peace and democracy to Iraq. The President values Prime Minister Berlusconi's leadership. They will discuss a range of issues, including stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, peace and security in the Middle East region, continuing the fight against terrorism, and strengthening transatlantic relations."

No comment

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714.html

Heard today that Bertie is to attend the next G8

by ec

Thu Jul 17, 2003 17:10

. Due to Erron Hosting European Presidency

New way

by Anarchist

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:08

The black cat will bite back!!

Free Staters training with Italian filth

by Mr. Kevin

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:25

The Star ran a report last week about the Gardai being trained for the upcoming WEF love-in in October. The same force that murdered Carlo were training the Staters in use of long-arm batons, barricade smashing etc. Be prepared for the arseholes itching for it

Is That The SP Kev?

by Annoyed

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:26

If it is, you have some nerve after the attacks the SP made on the Black Bloc. Not to mention your incredible article on Evian in the June issue of the Voice, praising the restraint of the State.

If you are another Kev, then welcome Comrade.

I'm not SP Kevin

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:30

Whoever he is. Anyway, see you Saturday.

filth

by Dax

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:47

I heard that 'bout the filth as well, they'll be dying for trouble. I also heard there thinkin about givinh the ignorant savages tear gas. anyone know????

I Heard

by Observor

Thu Jul 17, 2003 18:50

they were being supplied with rotten strawberries by casual traders.

hello peepers

by blisset (slight return)

Thu Jul 17, 2003 21:42

Nice to have yiz back. We were lonely around here. Still at the SEHB.

Btw the 'real' Luther Blisset is giving away his internationally superfamous novel 'Q' for free at the wuming foundation website.

by Q

Thu Jul 17, 2003 23:55

Q

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/downloads.shtml

Just a point

by King Mob

Fri Jul 18, 2003 15:16

Murder implies premediated act killing in cold blood. Carlo was part of a group of rioters who attacked a police van and was shot by a scared conscript in self defense (Photographs show the victim about to throw a fire extinguisher at the van).

It suits people here to protray Carlo as an innocent victim of state repression, that Carlo wasn't doing anything wrong. Carlo died in the middle of a violent confrontation with Police violence on both sides.

Turning him into a "marytr" is just sickening.

Not turning him into a martyr,

by Chekov

Fri Jul 18, 2003 15:34

Nor claiming he was an angel.

Firstly the facts of the actual shooting are in dispute. Carlo was about 10 metres from the van when he was shot (the standard photos, taken with a zoom lense from behind, collapses the depth of the scene). A distance from which he could not have hit the jeep with the fire extinguisher. At the time that he shot Carlo, the police officer was in no danger for his life as the crowd had already run away and a fire extinguisher is not a lethal weapon at 30 feet. There was also a line of hundreds of riot cops about 30 metres away, behind the jeep. Then there is the fact that he shot Carlo twice in the head, after carefully taking aim.

Even if you dispute all of the above, you are still left with the fact that the state consciously and deliberately sent thousands of armed thugs out onto the streets to attack the protestors. In such a situation, the death of people is a very likely outcome and indeed it is amazing that more people did not die. Therefore we can say that it was a pre-meditated murder on the part of the state, rather than on the part of the individual cop.

The point of this commemoration, rather than to canonise Carlo, is to make the point that it could have been anyone. When the state resorts to this level of terror and violence, it is really quite random who gets killed and who doesn't. I don't care what Carlo did or didn't do, I do know that it could have been me or anyone else who was there. Remembering Carlo is also a way of protesting against state violence and trying to make sure that they don't get away with it again.

by hi

Fri Jul 18, 2003 22:36

a good reply to kin mob. I also had my doubts. of course it's horrific that a young fellow gets shot my the police, but i thought maybe the young cop freaked out, thinking his life was in danger, in which case one could argue self defence, as a person is a person regardless of uniform, i am someone who prefers to see the human angle, i was at several riots and was aliented by anrchists throwing rocks and burning cars and traumatised by baton charages and in the middle both sides looked the same and the hate in the eyes and the people crying was too much and i personally felt no hate for the cops because some of them were bleeding as well and actually some were ok and I was allowed cross a line by a group of them, who saw I couldn't cope with what was happening and just wanted out. anyway the boy who got shot was a kid doing something silly in the heat of the moment, we all have done such things to a greater or lesser extent, the state did kill him, it was murder, yes, but the boy who pulled a trigger is probabyl a zombie by now, ciao

Remembering

by Ciaron

Sat Jul 19, 2003 11:09

Yeah, dunno why folks are so uptight about concepts of "martyrs" and "canonisation".
Stanley once said of our movement "The Catholic Worker is a movement made up of saints and martyrs. The marytyrs are the ones who have to live withthe saints."

But that "martyr" has become a term of derision only reflects on the privatised, consumerled, death culture that sets the terms of reference. Where the rubber meets the road in Third World struggle, the people understand the concept of martyrdom, remembering not forgetting and struggling on. It's good to remember,it's good to gather.

Yep my friend Zelda, 6 years a nurse in Nicaragua in the '80's just returned form working with indigenoeus folks on the Amazon...in between took a brick in the head (anarcho-friendly fire) during June 18. She always has a good attitude to these things suggesting that the next Earth First brick throwing workshop (yes they do have'em!) could be swapped to a brick dodging one!

Carlo's mum signed the recent Nuremburg Statement demanding our charges be dropped. Good to remember him and his mum and every other casualty our movement has sustained.

Shortly after his death I went down to the Italian Embassy in London with 3 friends who had been immediately detained at Genoa airport and deported (the only thing they had in common was their prvious arrest record at Faslane, the most discipline nonviolent campaign in British history...so their was a definite "weeding out the fluffies" strategy being implemented.) Later that day one of the deported was being dropped at the busstation for his return to Scotland..a chopper overhead, masked armed cops detained under the PTA.
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