#2001 g8

[andasignificantbreakfast]

To raid that school, the Diaz barracks*, and to make up fake evidence were not...isolated, vi*lent...rude agents. No. Were the highest ranks of Italian P*lice. / You’re digging your heels in those Genoa facts. / Yes, yes, I’m really digging in them. / I understand you, Salvo. You feel betrayed by the institution you most trusted. / No. No, no, no. I don’t FEEL betrayed. I WAS betrayed. Like all those people in the Police enforcement who has always worked with greatest honesty. / ... / I never dreamt of use vi*lence even with the worst criminal. NEVER! I never dreamt of - oh, MAKE UP FAKE EVIDENCE! OOOH!

IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO 5.01 Giro di boa

*actually, “Diaz” was the name of the school, while the barracks was in Bolzaneto.

[conformi]

Sean Gallup, Police cover the body of Carlo Giuliani, Genoa, Italy, 20 July 2001 VS Luigi Marchesi and Pier Celestino Gilardi, Jesus wrapped in the shroud | Chapel 41, Sacro Monte di Varallo, Varallo, Italy, 1826

[sy666th]

Genoa, 19-21 July 2001

(Milo Manara)

We will never forget.

[ideeperscrittori]

Con Carlo Giuliani, sempre! I suoi sogni sono i nostri sogni. E alla gente che dice "eh, ma aveva un estintore" chiiedo di informarsi, perché questa e altre frasi come "la polizia avrà anche esagerato ma…" dimostrano una conoscenza del fatti pari a zero.

[L'Ideota]

[nipresa]

Lo so che è fare la punta al cazzo, ma quello è il marciapiede di Corso Italia il pomeriggio prima della Diaz

(Comunque meglio di quando usano le foto del film Diaz come se fossero scattate dentro alla scuola)

[ashtray-girl]

i've been re-reading morrissey's autobiography for the first time in like 10 years and one of the most hilariously infuriating parts is when he moved to rome in the mid 00s and he talked abt how the city is sooo safe, with very low crime rates and the police are there to actually help and ppl are nice to them.......... you were staying in a hotel in fucking parioli, OF COURSE there's gonna be very little criminal activity and ofc the police are gonna be nice to you, you're literally living in the richest neighbourhood of the city you utter fucking plum lmao

[salottoitalia]

𝐎𝐠𝐧𝐢 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝟖

«𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚘 𝚞𝚗 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚎. 𝙷𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚗𝚊 𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚝𝚊 𝚞𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚘 𝚍𝚒 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚒 𝙼𝚊𝚘 𝚃𝚜𝚎 𝚃𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚕𝚘 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚘»

𝑮𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐 𝑮𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒊

[lilium-in-blue]

I'm reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein - it's a great book so far, but a thing left me a bit puzzled. She mentions Italy's current political situation (shitty, literal neofascists in government) and she compares it to the giant, massively supported left-wing protest at the Genoa G8 summit in 2001 – but she doesn't mention how that protest went: it was repressed with extreme police brutality.

A 23 year old was killed by the police, then the night after the protests the police raided a school where students, activists and journalists were staying and attacked them indiscriminately, people ended up in a coma, many were seriously injured, then detained without motives and tortured - and after that the media blamed the victims and the police tried to cover up everything.

It's a big open wound for the italian left, the event had a giant influence and it's considered a watershed moment. And it's so strange to have the G8 protests mentioned without a word about the literal human rights violations that took place there.

[radicalgraff]

Memorial mural in Lyon, France for Carlo Giuliani, a 23 year-old anarchist who was shot dead by police on July 20, 2001 during the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, Italy

[blogitalianissimo]

Ciao. Ultimamente mi sta tornando continuamente alla mente quanto è successo a Genova nel 2001. Ci abbiamo messo anni a processare quanto è successo, nessuno dei responsabili è stato punito (anzi, sono stati pure promossi), è stato fatto pochissimo per cercare di imparare qualcosa da quello scempio e per fare in modo che quello schifo non si ripeta più.

Adesso nonostante tutti gli sforzi mi sembra che stiamo tornando in quella direzione. Hanno caricato manifestanti pacifici, hanno caricato dei ragazzini. Ho paura che siano pronti a caricare di nuovo giornalisti, personale medico, associazioni pacifiche, studenti minorenni, persone assolutamente pacifiche. Ho paura che diano di nuovo l'ordine di sparare, paura che ci scappi di nuovo un morto.

Dovevamo imparare qualcosa da Genova e invece i governi hanno messo di nuovo la testa sotto la sabbia e siamo di nuovo qui

Ehi ciao a te anon

Quanto vorrei rispondere che stai esagerando, che stai andando in paranoia, e che si tratta di casi isolati, ma mentirei, perché tutti abbiamo pensato al G8 di Genova.

Vorrei rassicurare in qualche modo, ma sinceramente l'aria che si respira non mi piace per nulla, qua sono 2 settimane che continuiamo a parlare di polizia che aggredisce manifestanti pacifici, e non si fermano neanche coi ragazzini e sindaci con la fascia tricolore, praticamente non hanno rispetto di niente e di nessuno ormai.

Spero che si diano una svegliata perché davvero qua presto potrebbe esserci un nuovo g8 di Genova

[post-leffert]

Anarchist Zines and Pamphlets Published in July 2023

Welcome to our mostly monthly round-up of new zines published in the anarchist space. We aim to highlight a broad range of anarchist thought. Inclusion here doesn't imply endorsement.

You can view past round-ups if you want more reading material. If you have something you want us to include next month, contact us. For a curated collection of zines, view our catalog.

Beyond what you can find here, we also recommend you support anarchist print media. Two recently released print projects include Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity #1 and Rupture Mag #1

The image accompanying this post is memorial mural in Lyon, France for Carlo Giuliani, a 23 year-old anarchist who was shot dead by police on July 20, 2001 during the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, Italy (source)

Against Capitalist Wars, Against Capitalist Peace

"In Ukraine, the Czech Republic, the UK, Italy, Syria, France etc… All over the world there is a voice against capitalist wars and also against capitalist peace. Only class war can end this terror and that is what we mean when we say No War but the Class War!

The new pamphlet contains 14 texts by various groups and individuals. The aim is to explain and affirm the meaning of antimilitarism, internationalism and revolutionary defeatism."

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Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought

"Similar to the ways in which Indigenous peoples can undergo a violent process through which we rid our colonial mentalities, I argue that animals can be liberated from their colonized subjecthood through an aided 'process of desubjectification'. That is, thinking through animality as an infrastructure of decolonization re-positions animal bodies as agents of anti-colonial resurgence.They can consequently engender 'forms of energy that are capable of engaging the forces that keep [Indigenous people and animals] tied to [a] colonial mentality and reality'. Settler colonialism has therefore required the normalization of speciesism within Indigenous communities to obfuscate the radicality of Indigenous-animal relations. In that sense, recalling the representation of animals in Indigenous cosmologies/oral traditions and unsettling speciesism as a 'colonial mentality' must be prioritized in decolonial thought..."

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Black Flag Vol. 3, No. 2

This issue features a lenghty essay titled "Anarchy in the USA: The International Working People's Association (IWPA)". The IWPA is famous for its association with the Haymarket anarchists. Alongside this, there are several writings published by members including Albert Parsons and Lizzie Swank. It also includes a selection of writings by Marie Goldsmith, Rudolf Rocker, and Max Baginski. Most of the material here covers the historical anarchist space, with the exception of a review of a more recent book.

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Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings

This zine contains three critiques from anti-authoritarians in France critical of the Tiqqunists and their actions in post-ZAD struggles. These texts focus on manipulative and vanguardist practices, the spectacularization of the struggle, and the use of radicals as shock-troops. The goal of these texts, and our translation effort, is to increase familiarity with these deceptive practices and strategies, an essential first step towards sabotaging the influence and control of any similar attempts in our own neck of the woods.

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Dissent From Within: The Hidden Story of the Anti-Whaling Members of the Makah Tribe

This zine was put together not only to honor the memory of Mahak whale protector Alberta Nora Thomspson, but also to commemorate the story of resistance surrounding the Makah anti-whaling warriors whose very existence has been (intentionally) hidden from the world. Their dissenting voices silenced by the powers of intimidation, patriarchy, and a capitalist pursuit disguised as "traditional hunting". For many outside of the situation, the narrative most widely accepted is one that reduces the situation to mere identity politics; White animal rights activists vs Indigenous people. Indigenous writer Linda Hogan and Seattle writer Brenda Peterson journeyed to Neah Bay to interview Makah elders who were breaking the silence about this narrative and speaking out against their tribe’s return to whaling.

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How to Set Up a Burner Phone

This zine is a step-by-step guide to setting up a burner phone, from purchasing the phone to installing recommended apps -- all without a Google account! If you are interested in using a temporary phone to avoid surveillance or hinder a police investigation, this zine will give you some best practices to consider.

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Kaimangatanga: Māori Perspectives on Veganism and Plant-based Kai

"To adopt a form of veganism -- a plant-based lifestyle and ethics -- that acknowledges, is based upon, and celebrates Te Ao Maori, is a break from the dominant and from the status quo and but also an act of decolonialism. It is a way to reclaim sovereignty and exercise individual choice.

And finally, it is a means by which collective power and community may be built; this is evident in the existence of online forums and comment threads on Maori-based vegan and plant- based social media accounts."

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Living in an Earthquake: The Fight Against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression

"In the following account and analysis, participants in the movement in Atlanta trace its trajectory from the fifth Week of Action that began on March 4, 2023 through the City Council vote of June 5.

At first, it appeared to be an ordinary forest defense campaign aimed at discouraging Atlanta city government from pouring money into an unpopular police training facility. But over the past two years, the fight against Cop City has escalated into one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, pitting a wide range of courageous people against a united front of politicians, prosecutors, and police.

In setting out to stop the militarization of police, activists have discovered that they are challenging the state on a point that all of its representatives consider non-negotiable. Police and prosecutors have pressed trumped-up domestic terrorism charges against almost every defendant arrested since last December; they have killed one forest defender; they have charged those engaged in legal support for the arrestees."

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Of Diets and Morality: A Vegan Egoist Perspective

The title summarizes this well. It's a vegan egoist text that argues for seeing animals as having inherent value. A quote:

"Animals can offer me many things that other "humans" can not; new ways of communicating, of perceiving the world around me; the unique, aesthetic pleasure of their appearance, especially the details that one only notices with familiarity, and the mystery, intrigue and exciting unexpectedness of beings so morphologically and genetically different from myself! Just as a plate with greater variety is far more delicious, relationships with a greater diversity of beings is far more delectable for me and I will not limit myself to consuming only relations with Man!"

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Security Culture: Building Relationships of Trust and Care

These zine provides an accessible introduction to security culture and its place in social movements. Beyond the basics, it explores how security culture can be informed by kinship, an Indigenous value system based on responsibility, vulnerability, trust, and reciprocity. The zine also offers tips and examples on how to apply critical thinking, relationship building, communication, and feedback to security culture. It uses elephants as a motif (complete with illustrations) to reinforce the concepts presented.

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The People and the Library

"An oral history of the coalition that united Philadelphia to challenge the logic of austerity, protect public goods and save eleven branch libraries, as well as a series of reflections on the importance of the commons, the enduring legacy of movement victories and the ongoing struggles to protect and expand access to non-commercialized public space, accompanied by a series of freely reproducible cut paper graphics by Erik Ruin.

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The War in Front of Us: An anonymous, afro-pessimist militant’s challenge to the Stop Cop City movement

"There is a tension stewing right now, not simply between differing tactics but with the outright acceptance of the position we are currently in, that of a social war. The third day-long descent on the Atlanta City Council has again hammered home that legalistic attacks and appeals to the political machine are going to keep failing. Despite that being so overwhelmingly evident, the more progressive-inclined elements of the struggle continue to insist upon a peaceful endurance, one that refuses escalation and actual conflict for their safe, faux-rad- ical abolitionism. We have been locked in this social war since the rebellion and the terrain needs to be read as such."

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Veganism and Mi'kmaw Legends

"This text proposes a postcolonial ecofeminist reading of Mi'kmaw legends as the basis for a vegan diet rooted in Indigenous culture. I refer primarily to veganism throughout this work because unlike vegetarianism, it is not only a diet but a lifestyle that, for ethical reasons, eschews the use of animal products. Constructing an Indigenous veganism faces two significant barriers--the first being the association of veganism with whiteness... ...A second barrier to Indigenous veganism is the portrayal of veganism as a product of class privilege."

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Veganism as Anti-Colonial-Praxis: A Collection of Indigenous Vegan Perspectives

"Despite the absorption of veganism by the capitalist market – a process that admittingly reinforces pre-existing divisions across class and racial lines -- a vegan lifestyle taken to its logical conclusion is fundamentally anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. By (re)acknowledging sentience and personalities within the bodies of colonized (animal) subjects, a vegan lifestyle rejects authoritarian relationships based on disrespect for the bodily autonomy of those whose lives have been re-purposed for human supremacist consumption."

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[sfl-2]

"Get Rid of Yourself is a video-film-tract addressed to those who anonymously embody the return of political activism within Empire. While its initial sounds and images were filmed during the riots in Genoa, 2001, these materials are pulled apart and recomposed in order to locate the intensity of a shared experience, rather than producing one more documentary version of the programmed and hyper-mediatized confrontation of the G8 counter-summit."

[abr]

Se incontrate la Schlein o un giornalaio medio, fateglielo notare

Basta aver partecipato in vita a qualche MANIFESTAZIONE DI PIAZZA ANTIGOVERNATIVA (ai tempi dei vituperati ok boomer ce n'eran parecchie), non da organizzatore ma nemmeno da inconsapevole ultimo del gregge diciamo. SI SA BENE COME FUNZIONANO.

Chi le organizza concorda luoghi e passaggi con emissari delle Forze dell'Ordine. Altrimenti non ti fanno dimostrare: ti disperdono prima del raduno o peggio, applicano la modalità ultras in trasferta: ti scortano a bastonate e ti ghettizzano dove al massimo puoi far solo danni collaterali ai malcapitati.

Questo nel 99% dei casi; certo può capitare anche, sorpresa sorpresa, che si parta con accordi e garanzie e tutto ma ci sian frange di "infiltrati" (hahah) che l'organizzazione non controlla. Allora succede casino ma alla peggio tipo il G8 DI GENOVA 2001: auto bruciate, saccheggi, qualche morto e ferito anche, clima di rivolta diffuso ma COMUNQUE FUORI DA "ZONE ROSSE" PROIBITE definite preventivamente dalla polizia. Punto.

Quindi, detto molto pianamente: quando le folle di rivoltosi prendono il controllo di zone tipo Congresso a Washington o Piazza dei Tre Poteri di Brasilia, vuol dire che l'han lasciati passare, punto. Questo non è complottismo, è non verginellismo.

Persino la Rivoluzione d'Ottobre piuttosto che quella francese o esagero con la blasfemia, anche la Liberazione del 25 aprile avvennero tutte solo a forze governative liquefatte e/o apertamente simpatizzanti per i rivoltosi.

Ogni riferimento ai fatti del 6 gennaio 2021 o a quelli recenti di Brasilia è puramente casuale.

Ah, dimenticavo di aggiungere: da che democrazia è democrazia, la PRIMA caratteristica di ogni Servizio è averci una manciata di "fassisti" tatuati col colbacco cornuto pronti all'uso. Anche questa la butto lì senza riferimenti specifici.

[cherrylng]

Muse Disc Guide - Compilation [STYLE Series #004 - Muse (August 2010)]

V.A. Live 8 EMI - TOBW-3275/8 Live 8 was a charity concert held on 2 July 2005 in conjunction with the G8 summit to appeal for the cancellation of African countries' debts and an increase in aid. It was proposed by Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid in 1985, and was held in London, Moscow, Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Barrie, Edinburgh, and Cornwall. This DVD is a four-disc set of highlights from the event. It features appearances by U2, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd and many other big names. It includes ‘Time Is Running Out’ from Muse's performance at the Paris venue. You can enjoy the sight of Matthew, who has a high level of princeliness, strumming his Mirror Manson while wearing a squid chest shirt/raven-breasted shirt [T/N: Yeah, both Google Translate and Deepl were confused on how to describe Matt's shirt].

Twilight V.A. (Warner - WPCR-13335 The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Warner - WPCR-13725) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Atlantic - 524662) The connection between the Twilight film series and Muse is detailed in Naoto Mori's article on p.50-. As mentioned in the article, the soundtracks of all three films contain songs by Muse. In order from the first film, there is ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, ‘I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)’ and the new song ‘Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)’. The song is a new one, and the music video for it must have made the original author, Ms. Mayer, swoon! A good compilation with a good selection of songs, including ‘Eclipse’ featuring The Black Keys, Metric and others.

Paul Oakenfold Swordfish: The Album Warner 31170 Soundtrack to the 2001 US action film Swordfish. A collection of new tracks and mixes by house heavyweight DJ Paul Oakenfold, with ‘New Born’ brilliantly cooked into hard floor tunes.

V.A. Little Nicky Music From The Motion Picture Maverick - 9 47856-2 Soundtrack to the 2000 comedy film Little Nicky, starring Adam Zandler. Muse, who were signed to Maverick in the US at the time, provided ‘Cave’. Also includes songs by Linkin Park and Deftones.

TOM TYKWER, JOHNNY KLIMEK, REINHOLD HEIL The International Geneon - OGNCE7050 Matthew takes a solo part in ‘End Title’, the final song of the suspense thriller ‘The International’. Beautifully intertwined strings and piano, this is film music! The song has a solemn atmosphere with beautiful strings and piano intertwining.

[discursci]

G8 2001, dopo 22 anni quattro manifestanti risarciti con 800 mila euro: “Alla Diaz e Bolzaneto subirono violenze inusitate, fu un unicum della storia repubblicana” - la Repubblica