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ESF Arrests Protest: Drop the Charges
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
Letters of Solidarity from Attac Sweden and the RMT, UK rail union.
Autumn Reflections
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.
Call of the European Social Movements
We have come together from the social and citizens movements from all the regions of Europe, East and West, North and South. We have come together through a long process: the demonstrations of Amsterdam, Seattle, Prague, Nice, Genoa, Brussels, Barcelona, the big mobilisations against the neoliberalism as well as the
Another Globalisation is Possible
FLORENCE — It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the world and the possibilities of changing
ESF Arrest Update
21 November 2002
The two women who were arrested and imprisoned last Friday have now been put under house arrest. The rest are in solitary confinement in high security jails. Apparently they are all in good spirits. Under Italian law, they can be held for ten days (until next Monday) before
60,000 Gather to Create a People’s Europe
In November 2002, sixty thousand people gathered in Florence, Italy for the European Social Forum, the ESF. The forum was an immense gathering of meetings and discussion.
To All Citizens of Europe: Together We Can Stop This War!
12 November 2002: Globalise Resistance organised for a coordinated day of protest through the European Social Forum in Florence, we asked for mass mobilisations on 15 February 2003…
We, the European social movements are fighting for social rights and social justice, for democracy and against all forms of oppression.
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