Legal Team Founded for Japanese Anti-G8 Actions

Hello,

the legal team WATCH which aims to support civil movements around the G8
summit is now officially founded.

Please visit the English blog under:
http://watch08summit.blogspot.com/

The blog has started just today.

In the coming weeks, the legal team will publish news and information
about immigration and other subjects which might be interesting for the
international activists.

Kind regards,
Ko

Call to Support for Our Action Against the G8
Development Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo:
Stop G8! Solidarity March in the South and the North

The Japanese government will host some Ministerial meetings before the
G8summit in Toyako in July. As a part of the meetings, the G8
DevelopmentMinisterial Meeting is planned in Tokyo on 5-6 April. Those
kinds ofMeetings had been held around the same time as the IMF and the
WorldBank's annual meetings before 2002. This shows that the Meeting has
beenstrongly influenced by major powers and big businesses.

G8 countries and transnational companies promoted 'development' in
poorcountries, but it causes various problems everywhere such as abuse
ofhuman rights, illegitimate debts, and global warming. Nonetheless,
theJapanese government the host country does not think seriously about
thepast failures.

Ruckus Society Stages Golden Gate Bridge "Free Tibet" Demonstration

Hello Ruckus Family,

I write right now with the utmost pride. Right now three activists, including one of our beloved Ruckutistas, are climbing up the suspension cables of the Golden Gate Bridge in an action to support Tibetan independence.

San Francisco is the only city hosting the torch in the United States, and Students for a Free Tibet are responding. The message is clear and visionary: FREE TIBET!!!

Canadian Anarchists Organizing To Halt Security Fair
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Sun

A local anarchist group is threatening to shut down a massive security and
technology fair in Ottawa, but police are keeping a close eye on their plans.

The CANSEC event, which is in its 10th year, is described as a "gathering of
war profiteers" by protesters.

The Network to Oppose War and Racism and the PGA Bloc Ottawa are teaming up in
an attempt to thwart the exhibition, which is being held at the Ottawa Congress
Centre on Wednesday and Thursday.

An event posting on the PGA Bloc website is calling to "shut down the CANSEC
arms fair" and "shut down the war machine."

New York City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code
By COLIN MOYNIHAN, New York Times

When delegates to the Republican National Convention assembled in New
York in August 2004, the streets and sidewalks near Union Square and
Madison Square Garden filled with demonstrators. Police officers in
helmets formed barriers by stretching orange netting across
intersections. Hordes of bicyclists participated in rolling protests
through nighttime streets, and helicopters hovered overhead.

These tableaus and others were described as they happened in text
messages that spread from mobile phone to mobile phone in New York
City and beyond. The people sending and receiving the messages were
using technology, developed by an anonymous group of artists and
activists called the Institute for Applied Autonomy, that allowed
users to form networks and transmit messages to hundreds or thousands
of telephones.

Video Evidence of Illegal Police Action To Be Presented at Friday New York City Rally

On-line version of press release with photos and links:
http://times-up.org/index.php?page=still-we-speak-rally

www.times-up.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts: Media: Barbara Ross 917.494.8164;
John McGarvey: 917.572.0206
Legal: Wylie Stecklow 212 566 8000

VIDEO EVIDENCE OF ILLEGAL POLICE ACTION TO BE PRESENTED AT STILL WE SPEAK RALLY

Cyclists join forces with community supporters to stop NYPD First Amendment abuses, one year after unconstitutional parade permit rules were enacted

WHAT: Still We Speak rally followed by Critical Mass Ride
WHEN: Friday, March 25th at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Union Square Park North, 17th Street & Park Avenue

New York, NY (March 26, 2008) This Friday, March 28th, Critical Mass participants will be joined by a diverse group of videographers, artists, activists and politicians outraged over NYPD regulatory constraints on the civil liberties of New Yorkers. Prominent speakers from the community will participate in the "Still We Speak" rally to denounce the NYPD's First Amendment abuses, including the parade permit rules which limit the number of people who can legally assemble in a public place.

Anarchist Buzz Concerns Intel Officials

Canadian Probe Continues, N.Y. Hunts for New Leads

U.S. and Canadian Authorities Meet to Go Over Evidence in the Times Square Bombing and a Vehicle Stop at the Canadian Border

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and PIERRE THOMAS, ABC News

March 7, 2008

Twenty-four hours after a gunpowder-packed ammunition case exploded at Times Square's military recruiting booth, authorities across the U.S. and Canada are concerned about an intelligence uptick on anarchist and anti-war activities, even as they actively hunt for the bomber and any links to five suspicious individuals stopped at the Canadian border about a month ago.

Judge Orders Production of NYPD Records on Police Videotaping of Lawful Protesters
http://www.nyclu.org/node/1662

A federal court today ruled that the NYPD must turn over records of its videotaping practices in a case that asks if police in New York City are routinely photographing individuals engaged in lawful political protest. The New York Civil Liberties Union is co-counsel in the case.

Japanese Activist Says About G8-Protest, "Police in Japan Act More Subtly“
http://www.taz.de/1/politik/asien/artikel/1/polizei-in-japan-agiert-subt...

Go Hirasawa mobilizes against the G8-summit in Japan with the group "No G8! Action“.
Is the protest culture there very much different (than in Europe)?

Go Hirasawa says that in Japan, open violence is not that common.

http://westerncapeantieviction.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/background-to-de...

Background to Delft evictions
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Thoughts provoked by being interviewed by Keketso Sechane, Heart 104.9 radio, 19/2/2008