The media may be concentrating on the violence, but the main thing for me about the Evian protests was the sheer scale of the turn out.
To get 100,000 people to a protest on the French Swiss border in the foothills of the Alps was fantastic. Just that achievement sends a
It was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I boarded my early morning flight to Geneva last week.
The presence of the German speaking police from elsewhere in Switzerland and an actual German police regiment has lead to hostility from the locals.
I spent time in the Intergalactic and Vaaag villages and in Lausanne, where I took part in the blockades on June 1st.
Activists at Lausanne attempt to get across the lake
On Thursday 28th I joined the fluffy protest from the Intergalactic and Vaaag campsites to the centre of Annemasse. There were
Thousands of activists gathered in Copenhagen on Thursday the 12th to Sunday 15th of December to protest against the European Union Top Summit.
Stop the Attacks on Our Movement
Protest on 12 December 2002
As you may know, twenty Italian activists have been arrested and charged in the last weeks. They have been charged with vague but serious offences including holding opinions against the state! Several charges were made under laws enacted during the fascist
Letters of Solidarity from Attac Sweden and the RMT, UK rail union.
First came the fear. For several months most of the Italian newspapers had been telling their readers about the terrible antiglobalists who were about to gather from all Europe to destroy Florence.