Tent City in Solidarity with g 8 protestors in occupied Ireland a success

On june 17th members of anti colonialist working group, occupy and others liberated Victoria Park in Kitchener and set up a tent city in solidarity with anti colonialists and Irish Republicans in the occupied six counties protesting the presence of criminal organizors known as the g8 meeting to impose criminalization and austerity on the people in occupied Ireland.

The event started with people hanging up banners on the bridges stating …British Death Squads Out of Ireland….Tent City…. Peoples Park,pigs not welcome and other such things….

A member of Anti Colonialist working group then proclaimed that this was now a peoples park and PAVIS and other police organizations are not welcome. Tents were set up, food was distributed and statements from Independent Irish Republican Brendan Casey and 32 CSM were read denouncing the G8 criminals attack on Irish soverieghnty.The 32CSM statement can be found at http://www.32csminternational.blogspot.com

The event continued with local hip hop artists rapping about the crimes of the imperialists in Latin America as well as beat boxing. Thus was followed by people chalking anti PSNI/RUC Solgans as well as anti g8 slogans.

Despite this there was no police precense making organizors thing that they were up to something, which we later found out that they were when we discovered that they were hiding in trees and attempted to ruin our night by calling bylaw enforcement and complaining that we had a make shift fire going.

Despite this we still have the park and will keep it. Today we are going to photocopy the statements we read and hand them out, as well as serve food and do other thing.

FUCK THE G8
UP Tent City
TAL32

Statement from 32CSM on G8 in occupied Ireland

G8, an other wound in Irish sovereignty…

 from www.32csminternational.blogspot.com

 

The world at large faces many interconnected crisis’s -food supply, water resources, energy, environmental destruction, wars– and all these are amplified by unelected “international” organisations like the G8. Lets focus on what lies in store for Ireland… Although notionally “hosting this meeting, Ireland has no place amongst the eight master nations for the New World. That the British government chooses Fermanagh to host the G8 conference neatly symbolizes the violation of sovereign democracy represented by unelected

world leaders. We see our national territory used without consent; like other many nations we see this group meeting to decide the fates of our economic futures and witness the trampling of our sovereign rights by the Eight Masters. The “other 100” will have no say as the G8 plans the wholesale theft of their, and our, national natural resources by the Eight Masters and their Corporations. Inside the G8 countries, the same contempt for democracy is evident. The great majority of their citizens are disenfranchised, stripped of their democratic voice to oppose policies aimed at democratic process, and the will of these organisations becomes the fate of millions– a very effective form of international dictatorship. What about the distribution of wealth? The idea is that wealth trickles down. However, the fact is that 30 years of trickling down has given us a financial sector that has collapsed and eaten up more bailouts in a year than was spent on health care in a decade, a society where the majority is becoming poorer– some 20% of this Island’s population is living in poverty– while wealth concentrates evermore tightly into the hands of the mega-rich. The media sterilises debate, , while any potential for democracy is carefully managed by the status quo. If a republic is to be basis of the will and desires of its people, and our 1916 proclamation is, international overlords cannot be tolerated; the G8 and what it represents may not seem relevant to everyday republican struggles, but what it represents is the death of democracy– the very lifeblood of any republic. Opposing that G8 is not being from an obscure and abstract “left”, It’s being aware that our aspiration of democracy. Every Republican should be aware of that issue, that with the G8 being held on our land it’s an other wound to our sovereignty. We are calling every Republican to attend the pickets and protests organised against that G8, and in the absence of Republican events, we are calling every Republican to join the broad protest organised by the left.
G8, an other wound in Irish sovereignty…

The world at large faces many interconnected crisis’s -food supply, water resources, energy, environmental destruction, wars– and all these are amplified by unelected “international” organisations like the G8. Lets focus on what lies in store for Ireland… Although notionally “hosting this meeting, Ireland has no place amongst the eight master nations for the New World. That the British government chooses Fermanagh to host the G8 conference neatly symbolizes the violation of sovereign democracy represented by unelected

Police try to issue bogus summons over postering for solidarity with G8 protestors!!!

This is dedicated to the three peope reacently attacked by police for postering around the alternative summit. Find our more on Irish Indy Media.

Why am I writing about this event that happenned to me one week later?

Its 5 am, I wake up and need to prepare for my radioshow. I walk into my friends house to use there computer and make some coffe, the coffe burns setting off the fire alarm, waking up my friend, they are like julian what the fuck, why are you burning my house down, im like needed coffee a few hours later realising my speaker cancelled, im on FB, i notice the status of a friend about attacks on people for postering around the summit, my friend is like why dont you tell them what happenned last week, i write a comment on there status my friend is like its incoherant, im like i need smokes….they are likke fuck julian go to the store illl make us coffe and then write a blog so people know that all over the world people are being attacked for taking a stand……….

Last Friday, on the way to the Radio station, i decided to put up some posters for our tent city and night march in solidarity with those protesting the G8 and the criminalzation by the RUC\PSNI in the occupied Six Counties.

My guest was postering with me when officer losh (i cant spell his name), who thinks himself an expert on “political crime” pulls up on his bike and demands that I take down the poster. i look at him and am like why the fuck would i do that? He starts quoting bullshit that there is a bylaw against postering. I am like actually the bylaw says that you are allowed to poster on the pollstwo weeks before the event as long as you take them down two weeks later. Really im like R Vs Ichim and …..2003. He was like i got a conviction last year and the person had to pay a hefty fine.

Realising that there was no reasoning with him im like fine arrest me or write a summons i have no time to waste with your crap. He was surprised and stared to secound guess himself, maybe we should go to the by law office and inquire…..y this point im pissed off esp since the streets are covered with bar advertisings of scantly clad woman and other capitalist bullshit. Im like no write me a court summons, i believe i was then detained and taken to the by law office where it turned out I was right.

i went to the Radio show and asked someone who has a historey of paralegalism his thoughts and we cut him up for half an hour. I also pointed out on radio that police do not have the power to inforce bylaw and said that one possible way the officer got his conviction is by scaring the guy and forcing him to plead guilty.

Later my friend asked if I was crazy given my current legal situationto pull that shit. The reality is that the state acts with impunity because it realises that people are scared and the only way to combat that is not to be scared and take a just stance. When I called the cops bluff he was forced to back down. Allowing them to dictate what we do and criminalize our politics only entrenches the paradighm where they are all powerful and we become victims. There fore it is important for us to stand up to them and expose there attacks on our right to be political.

As we speak The PSNI/RUC is attacking Republicans, Socialists and others. Under the guise of fighting terror they are implementing state terror and repression, and it is no accident that they chose to hold the summit in occupied territory the same way the2010 olympics were held on stolen native land!!!!They are seeking to entrench there system of occupation and colonization and we have a duty to stand with those who are under attack!!!!
Che Guevara said to wish the victim succes is not enough one must share his fate…..as people living in a colonized first world expoiter nation we have a duty to oppose the system built on the backs of others.

What happenned here in this incident pales in comparrison to
what just happenned to people doing the same thing across the pond. We must show our support and do what we can to resist these thugs!!!!

British Crown forces attempt to turn young local man into state informant.

from http://www.belfast32.blogspot.com

What follows here is a report from a young working man from Derry who has been a victim of a recent concentrated campaign of harassment and abuse from British crown forces including the RUC/PSNI. Their campaign has been culminating in continual attempts to get the man to become an informer.

I was arrested on 1st May by the RUC / PSNI. I was released later that night and when I asked for my car I was told it was seized. On going to collect it a week later, two strangers, a man and a woman, who introduced themselves as CID told me they wouldn’t give me the keys.
They stated that they wanted me to help them with information, I kept telling them no, I kept asking them to give me my keys and open the gate, which they then did after a period of time.

On the way back from nightshift this week, I was stopped at a PSNI road traffic check.
I was asked to open the boot of the car and realised it was the same CID woman who had changed her appearance, she was dressed in a standard PSNI uniform but re-identified herself as CID.
She stated “we have went to all this bother to talk to you again, putting on police uniforms and all.”
She then stated “we aren’t asking you to give up your mates, just anyone that you don’t like”.
She pulled an envelopment out with a phone number on it and tried to put it in my coat. I pushed her hand back and she said I’ll just leave it here, placing it in the boot of my car. I told her to remove it and they were wasting their time.
I got into my car and they kept holding the door open refusing to let me close it. They asked was I not willing to help, I stated again that I was not, then managed to close the door and drive off.

The RUC / PSNI are conducting a daily campaign of continual harassment against myself. I find myself stop and searched several times a day, I had my car deliberately vandalised by them, been given unwarranted penalty points and have them encamped outside my house day in day out daily, reeving their engines and waving in, which is seriously impacting on my health and family life.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement condemn the ongoing Political Policing, abuse and harassment conducted by covert British Crown forces with Blackmail, bribery and false charges and penalty points tools in their armoury the use to put pressure on vulnerable people.

Political Policing is ongoing and accelerating in the occupied 6 Counties no matter how it gets spun by those with a vested financial interest.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement would advise anyone suffering similar approaches to contact the movement by emailing derry32csm@hotmail.com or contacting a member of the 32csm. Get the approaches noted by a solicitor and contact local media.

EMERGENCY DEMO – HAMILTON COPS KILL AGAIN

Friday
8:30pm

Partly Cloudy 75°F / 50°F

On Friday, while Hamilton Police officer Ryan Tocher testified in court about the person he murdered last year, another man was murdered by the Hamilton Police.
Ryan Tocher is the same police officer who killed a different man in 2007, and who broke into a refugee’s home and beat him up in 2010.

The police take away pieces of our lives even when they’re not shooting at us; they uphold and protect a society where we go hungry while the grocery store throws out food, where houses sit empty while many go homeless, where we struggle to find work while the rich give themselves raises.

We are not interested in nicer cops, cops with sensitivity training, or cops who slap themselves on the wrist when they kill us.
We are against police and the society they defend.

Fuck the police. Let’s get rowdy.

meet-up at MacNab Street Bus Terminal – MacNab St and King St.
8:30pm sharp.

Between Heaven and Hell -Statement from FARC-EP on provocation

Between Heaven and Hell
- Declaration of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People’s Army (FARC-EP), June 7, 2013 –

The dialogues in Havana are in limbo because of the man who wants to go down in history as the president who made peace in Colombia.

Echoes of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s just protest over [President Juan Manuel] Santos receiving the opposition leader Capriles in Nariño Palace are reverberating loudly.

Not a few believe that the visit to Bogota of Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States, was the origin of Santos’ outburst. And they link it to a plan of Washington headed up by a Trojan horse named the “Pacific Alliance” which, managed by Washington, aims to destabilize and derail popular governments like those of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay, among others. What would prompt Santos to announce Colombia’s fanciful entry into NATO? To threaten Venezuela, Brazil?

Don’t believe those who attribute the president’s behaviour to ingenuousness, because Santos is no fool. As a statesman he is obliged to measure the effect of his actions.

Juan Manuel Santos knew his provocation against the legitimate government of Venezuela would go off like a firecracker on the dialogue table in Havana, because the issue of Venezuela, the companion and facilitator of the process, is a very sensitive one to the FARC, who see the Venezuelans as the main generators of confidence, and consequently, the main drivers of the peace process.

For all these reasons and because it comes precisely when the enthusiasm for peace planted its flag on the Everest of Colombians’ reconciliation, encouraged by the partial agreement on the land issue — the heart of the conflict, Santos’ invitation to Capriles has been so perplexing. The attitude of Santos deflated the optimism, the atmosphere conducive to peace that had been built with such effort in Havana. It all boils down to the fact that were it not for Venezuela the peace talks in the Cuban capital would not be taking place.

It is contradictory, abysmally contradictory, to aspire to go down in history as the president who made peace, while at the same time launching a string of attacks against peace. The cold blooded murder of Alfonso Cano, the commander and champion of reconciliation, is now an indelible stain. On the other hand no one can understand why the government rejects the necessary bilateral ceasefire proposed by the FARC since the beginning of the talks, if what we are dealing with is stopping the war. During the last six months the Minister of Defence has acted like a sectarian sniper against the process, giving the impression that there is no unity of purpose on the part of the government. And even the President himself does not miss an opportunity to discredit his counterparts with unfounded accusations and threats to break off [the dialogues].

There are other elements as well affecting the dialogue and the construction of an agreement like the government’s annoying cracking of the whip over time and rhythm. What is the rush? To precipitate a bad deal, a botched peace? The progression of such a momentous agreement should not be interfered with either by the timing of an election or legislative deadlines. Parallel with the sessions at the table someone is orchestrating a media campaign from on high, spreading with a certain perfidy the notion of the guerrilla as victimizer on one side and on the other, the State as an angel, fluttering innocently with no historical responsibility for the institutional violence and terrorism.

A government that really wants peace is not always drawing the red lines of its intransigence, of its non-negotiables, but rather acts with magnanimity to facilitate understanding. Where is the goodwill, where the good judgment? What can be seen here is a big inconsistency. And also great stinginess when one’s defence is based on stubborn arguments [and] outrageous privileges. These attitudes contribute little to building an atmosphere of peace. So what are the dialogues for?

Understand that this is not a process of submission, but of peacebuilding. It is not about incorporating the insurgency into the current political system, as it is, without any changes to favour the excluded majorities. Then what would the fight have been for? The best epilogue of this war must be sealed with structural changes of a political, economic and social nature that will give rise to overcoming poverty and inequality.

We must defend this peace process, this hope. After decades of military confrontation we should combine our wills resolutely, everyone, the government, the FARC guerrillas and the social and political organizations of the country, to reach the yearned for reconciliation with social justice. What do Uribe and FEDEGAN [Colombian Cattlemen's Federation] matter if we are resolved to achieve peace.

Secretariat of the General Staff of the FARC-EP
Mountains of Colombia, June 7, 2013

court is funny!!!

Couldnt read my motion cause prosecutor didnt serve other party, but tried to say they did. Judge ruled in my favour eg. other party not served, must let other party know court next week. will get to read my peace next week.

Am reading the disclosure and its hilarious……..cant believe how much politicians lie…lol, will try to read some of it into evidence next week so i can post it

To be read in court today!!

This is what I am going to read in court today. The charges, which are not serious stem from an action aimed at ending the cuts put forward by then Minister of social serivices aka minister of misery John Milloy. The fact that im being charged under provincial offenses shows that this is a joke, and regardless of the outcome its really just a waste of money.

Your Honor

I would like to say a few things about this motion put forward by the crown.

To start with the charges that I am facing are political charges stemming from a political action taken at the office of the minister of social services John Milloy.

This action was not some simple hooliganism or criminal offense but rather an action aimed at tragetting those who target us poor people through cuts to vital services while at the same time increasing policing, criminalization and dissent.

In the face of the austerity imposed on our backs this mtion put forward by the crown is a continuation of the arrogance of the rich who have no problem spending tax payers money with pointless motions and court proceeding yet at the same time they tell us there is no money for shelters, re had programs and other such things,

The crown knew all the facts when they set a court date for the 22nd, if it was so important to have a joint trial why did the crown not proceed in that matter in the first place. The truth about this motion in front of you is that it is a mannover of the crown to waste my time as a political activist and in the process waste your time as well ass tax payers money.

While in principle I am not oppossed to the motion, I am oppossed to the way in which it was served, and the lateness and waste of time it causes

Statement of Solidarity from Irish Republican Brendan Casey to be Read at g8 Tent City and Nightmarch demo in Canada

Comrades On June 14th and 15th Irish Republicans will be holding Anti-Imperialist Demonstrations as an Alternative to the G8 all over Ireland.
The issues facing Ireland today are many and varied from control of our resources, the attacks on the health, education and ability to care for our people must be resisted if future generations are not to be condemned to live with the dark legacy of the EU/ECB.IMF troika. The Stormont and Leinster House political class have betrayed the interests of the Irish people to Westminster and Brussels respectively.
Republicans will be calling on those interested in contributing to the debate on a New Ireland to be in Belfast on June 14 and 15 to begin the process of building a network of solidarity among all peoples striving a New Ireland and a better world.
In the world of today national liberation movements now face a powerful array of forces. In an Irish context we have witnessed a powerful array of political and financial resources deployed in support of the Stormont Agreement, from both sides of the Atlantic. This of course follows a pattern, the EU and US have also lent their weight to the Oslo accord which as well as sponsoring the so-called ‘road map’ for the middle east and the numerous attempts to bring an end to the ongoing insurgency of ETA in the Basque country. All of this is done so as to placate, divide and finally draw the teeth of the various revolutionary movements. None of these initiatives including the Stormont Agreement have tackled the fundamental cause of injustice and conflict. In each case they offer limited change and reform of the status quo. Essentially it is in the interests of the US and EU to remove any disruption or obstacle which these revolutionary national liberation movements might pose to their political and economic agenda.
From the beginning the Stormont Agreement could not deliver a just and lasting peace in Ireland because it failed to deal with the root cause of conflict in Ireland, which is the British occupation. Recent studies have also shown it served only to further and institutionalise sectarianism within the Six Counties.
The Stormont Agreement was about simply reforming British rule in Ireland, making the Six County state, which since its creation in 1921 was based on religious discrimination and political repression, more acceptable to nationalists. Its aim like the various attempts which preceded it, such as the Anglo-Irish Agreement and Sunningdale, was to divide and dilute resistance to British rule.
The Stormont Agreement not only sought to end resistance but also to criminalize all future resistance to the British occupation of Ireland. This has included the removal of the right to political status, which was secured because of the sacrifices of many Republican prisoners who endured hunger strikes over the years culminating in the deaths of Bobby Sands and his nine comrades in the H Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981. Today Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison are forced to once again embark on a campaign of resistance to this criminalisation.
On top of all of this former comrades, who in 1986 left the Republican Movement following their decision to accept seats in the 26 County parliament, and who were warned at the time the logical conclusion of the direction they had embarked on was ultimately accepting British rule in Ireland, were finally absorbed by the British state. Not only did they take seats in the re-established Stormont Assembly but became ministers of the British Crown, administering British rule on the ground.
The reality of course is that nationalists were given symbolic concessions the real substance was won by Unionists who secured a final acceptance by the 26 County state that the Six County state was part of the so-called United Kingdom by the removal of articles two and three of the 26 County’s 1937 Constitution, this concession was enshrined in an internationally recognised agreement.
Despite the obvious failure of the Stormont Agreement, the line from London, Dublin and Washington is that the agreement is the “only show in town.
However Irish Republicans also show solidarity with all peoples who are struggling to vindicate their right to national independence, freedom and democracy. We are all united in a common struggle to establish in the world a community of free nations.
The day will come, and perhaps like a bolt from the blue when the frontiers will not be sufficient to prevent the handclasp of friendship between the peoples. But that day will dawn only when the Kings and Kaisers, queens and czars, financiers and capitalists who now oppress humanity will be hurled from their place and power, and the emancipated workers of the earth, no longer the blind instruments of rich men’s greed will found a new society, a new civilisation, whose corner stone will be labour, whose inspiring principle will be justice, whose limits humanity alone can bound.

Condemn State Tampering With Irish Republican Solidarity Activists mail!!!!!

As everyone knows, it is a federal offense to tamper with mail, unless you are the state and feel you have the right to misplace letters, packages etc.

In the last several months there have been several incidents of Irish Solidarity activists in Canada having their mail magically disappear or not arrive, or be tampered with in one way or another.

Letters to MagHaberry have been returned, correspondence between us and independent republicans has not arrived and books and other packages with letters and such have magically gone missing.

The most recent evidence of this is a banner sent to us from The Irish Freedom Committee in Chicago. Seeing that we are short on funds and feeling sorry that most of our banners around Irish POWS are made of bedsheets we “borrow” from our friends and comrades, our comrades in Chicago have made us a brilliant banner to use for pickets and highlight the plight of Irish POWS. This banner was sent with a tracker number and guaranteed delivery to be delivered the day before our May Day demonstration. It is currently June 7th and this banner has still not arrived. All inquires to postal services have not led to any answers to where this banner is.

While it may be true that quite a few of us involved in Irish solidarity are involved in various other political struggles it is mail related to Irish solidarity that goes missing and gets lost.

Ironically in the last three weeks, court documents, fines and other mail from the state relating to penalty from protests with courtdates etc. doesnt seem to get lost or misplaced, all these letters with real warm fuzzy sentences like if you do not show up on this date to hear the crown make himself sound self important by putting forward pointless motions a bench warrant may be issued or you could be convicted in your absence demonstrating that if the state trusts such sensitive documents to the postal service, it is not run by a bunch of bumbling idiots.

One can conclude from this that there is a deliberate attempt by forces unknown to try to attempt to throw a wrench in our gears as organizors by “misplacing and losing mail”, even if it is guareenteed delivery, as was the banner from the IFC.

All this demonstrates to us as organizors is the pettiness and vindictiveness that the state will resort to to inconveniance those who support the just strugglle of the Irish people for self determination.