The movement(s)
the terrible ability of the police and the media to divide the protesters into different groups
Camp Rostock:
To a lot of people, the less interesting camp, the one where there’s bigger difference of opinions, of world perspectives – Camp Rostock is, no doubt, a controverse place. Before the last saturday’s confrontations, there was a rumour that this was a camp where nothing special would happen, where people would just do the kind of usual protest to which we are being used to in Portugal, where people march to and fro, shout some words and then go back, some with the feeling of having accomplished their mission, others frustrated thinking that all that time could have been spent in a much more interesting kind of action.
- Inside the borders of the city of Rostock, far from the fence (to which some people like to call “the prison”, place of election to keep the liders of the 8), Camp offered, in theory, the possibility to be a first accomodation point to the individuals that would like, later, to go to any of the other camps, or either a protection to those who didn’t want to get in a more agressive kind of protest, or simply more active.
- That didn’t happen. Las saturday, everyone had the chance to see the violence of the state, or either – the violence of the corporations and the great capital that uses state as his armed hand (in this analogy the german police is only the baston hold by that hand… but we’ll get to the police later). This article isn’t being written to repeat old descriptions of that same event, but to report the efects of Saturday, 2nd of june, in the mood of camp Rostock.
Well, on the arriving of the frist part of the portuguese delegation in camp (31st of may), what we felt was, at least, weird – we speak in the name of the indy elements and not in the name of the delegation.
We were lacking a colour, a party, maybe some “radicality”. This means, we didn’t belong to a tribe, and that we could feel, we could smell in the air we breathed, and that was (we repeat, “was”) heavy, really heavy of suspicion. They talked of the brutality of the german police, of the extreme tactics that they would use, of the ammount of undercovered polices that were, not only in the camp, but everywhere – just as the impossile omnipotence of the helicopters.
The mood was of tension and if there weren’t fingers pointing this or that, the eyes spoke louder. (We shall, though, mention than once one of our members was actually pointed as possible undercovered cop.)
Every people that were clearly not part of a tribe, a trade-union or any group, and particularly everyone walking alone were looked as possible disguised polices or nazis.
"The human being cannot live in fear forever."
This is a quote, whose source I can’t remember. It is also a very true sentence. Step by step that suspicion disappeared (and against all the expectations), but the moment when we didn’t feel it at all was during the march of the 2nd, towards the Rostock harbour.
And after those confrontations, that stopped being a daily problem, na obsession, and turned (very correctly) to be a worry of camp and demonstration security.
The negative.
Great part of the people in that demonstration, were also the people that ran when the first police charge happened, and apparently make also a good part of the camp Rostock population.
Various observations:
- Those people weren’t even close to the head of the protest, so they didn’t see what provoqued the beginning of it, neither the reason why the “bloc” (notice the commas) reacted the way they did.
- Most part of those people is very ignorant in what concerns to what’s going on in the world, to the reality of society. So they don’t have, unfortunately, a really lucid vision of the world. They, in example, believe that it is possible to have the media on our side. It’s not strange for them not even criticable, the fact that those same media are financed by the same corporations who want G8 to go ahead, that finance G8, and that, in the end, are the direct responsible for the deplorable state in which we find the world today. These people want the media to enter the camp and make enterviews, they want the people to uncover their faces, they want us to show our “good” side.
When someone does it, they find funny that the media (the “corporate media”) show, all the same, the bad, terrible, threatening side – that they lie, that they distort the reality, that they take as facts what any human being would consider a joke. And still they fight for the media to be by their side… they remember a time when the media were a power and faced the state, the church…
We’re not going to discuss the truth of such a myth – we only have to observe the reality:
The media don’t have any interest in telling the truth, because the truth would destroy the ones that dive them money, luxuries, power.
"The question Attac"
Attac, a greatly known group, gave an enterview to Die Junge Welt, making distance between themselves (as representatives of camp Rostock) and the violent acts of the protesters, on the 2nd of june.
Well, this position was absolutely repudiated by the totality of the members in the plenary in Rostock, in the minute it was presented – already as an efective statement, as a paper’s new.
Once more, one of us, one of the groups that should be fighting a common cause, made the job that belongs to the repression groups, to the police – dividing the protesters into two groups: the violent and the peaceful, or simply “the active and the passive”.
This article is also a request.
Is it so difficult to understand that no form of action has in it the absolute truth?
Is it so difficult to understand that that’s what makes this movement(s) and their caracter multicultural, multifaced?…
- Once in a while, in the middle of a camp planery, there’re opinions so funny as: “I don’t agree that that and that group only plays music during the campings and protests, when what we’re doing is fighting for a political cause!”
The answer is almost always immediate and gives place to some laughs – “That’s right, and the CIRCA (group of activist clowns) is only for making clowny things!”
- This question looks pretty simple, mas still there’s groups as Attac (it is of extreme importance to mention that the people who communicated with the papers were the superior hierarchies of the organization and that part of the members in the camp deplored those statements), that make this kind of statements and that, without purpose, provoque the divisionism based on their will, on their way of action forgetting the others, that not only can work, as have already proved their efficiency.
We have a great example of that in the biggest left portuguese party... but let’s put the parties aside. There’s been a long time since they had any importance... people are making the difference a bit all over the world.
- I would like to write that that mood of divisionism was tottaly stepped over, but that’s not true. People are divided (at least “morally”) in aggressive and non aggressive, or active and passive (depending of the point of view) – It’s realy stupid. And it works, but in a positive way, only for the police and the G8.
Example:
Yesterday, 5th June, a series of smaller actions were made that had as a result the complete confusion of the police, that unfortunately, and in the lack of inteligence has a hierarchy (different ones, in fact).
One of the groups that was heading towards a place of protest was stopped by the police that wanted to search some 100 people of the demonstrators because they were dressed in black. That trial failed because the great part of the protesters made a chain around the 100 in black protecting them from the police, and thanks to some baston and dragging.
The if...
A part of the protesters, I would say, a good part of the protesters stepped aside, didn’t interfere with the police charge, giving thus their permission to police violence.
We’re thus talking about fake peacefulness – it is wrong to attack a policeman when he abuses authority and groundlessly attacks everyone in his way (or, in this case, a group of people), but it’s perfectly acceptable to let a policeman attack a certain group of people, because in being so we’ll not be conoted as that “violent” group.
It’s a shameful position and we don’t subscribe.
We don’t always organize the demonstrations in which we participate, cause in being so the capitalism and this corpse-system would go ahead with their will.
Tomorrow we’ll all participate in the Block-G8.
It’s a pity that the main speech is: “will the bloc react violently?”
Speaking only for me – I don’t like a bit the idea of going to this action without the presence of so important group. I hope that this is not the case, mas it wouldn’t be strange, when their allies become (with or without purpose) the worst enemy of the bloc.
Greetings from all the people circling the prison of G8…
Look at a map and see us there, know that from our terrible minds are coming out the most diabolic plans for the domination of the world – soon there’ll be na informative paper with 10 simple steps for the accomplishment of such a strategy.
And, besides, the music is loud and beating!
To a lot of people, the less interesting camp, the one where there’s bigger difference of opinions, of world perspectives – Camp Rostock is, no doubt, a controverse place. Before the last saturday’s confrontations, there was a rumour that this was a camp where nothing special would happen, where people would just do the kind of usual protest to which we are being used to in Portugal, where people march to and fro, shout some words and then go back, some with the feeling of having accomplished their mission, others frustrated thinking that all that time could have been spent in a much more interesting kind of action.
- Inside the borders of the city of Rostock, far from the fence (to which some people like to call “the prison”, place of election to keep the liders of the 8), Camp offered, in theory, the possibility to be a first accomodation point to the individuals that would like, later, to go to any of the other camps, or either a protection to those who didn’t want to get in a more agressive kind of protest, or simply more active.
- That didn’t happen. Las saturday, everyone had the chance to see the violence of the state, or either – the violence of the corporations and the great capital that uses state as his armed hand (in this analogy the german police is only the baston hold by that hand… but we’ll get to the police later). This article isn’t being written to repeat old descriptions of that same event, but to report the efects of Saturday, 2nd of june, in the mood of camp Rostock.
Well, on the arriving of the frist part of the portuguese delegation in camp (31st of may), what we felt was, at least, weird – we speak in the name of the indy elements and not in the name of the delegation.
We were lacking a colour, a party, maybe some “radicality”. This means, we didn’t belong to a tribe, and that we could feel, we could smell in the air we breathed, and that was (we repeat, “was”) heavy, really heavy of suspicion. They talked of the brutality of the german police, of the extreme tactics that they would use, of the ammount of undercovered polices that were, not only in the camp, but everywhere – just as the impossile omnipotence of the helicopters.
The mood was of tension and if there weren’t fingers pointing this or that, the eyes spoke louder. (We shall, though, mention than once one of our members was actually pointed as possible undercovered cop.)
Every people that were clearly not part of a tribe, a trade-union or any group, and particularly everyone walking alone were looked as possible disguised polices or nazis.
"The human being cannot live in fear forever."
This is a quote, whose source I can’t remember. It is also a very true sentence. Step by step that suspicion disappeared (and against all the expectations), but the moment when we didn’t feel it at all was during the march of the 2nd, towards the Rostock harbour.
And after those confrontations, that stopped being a daily problem, na obsession, and turned (very correctly) to be a worry of camp and demonstration security.
The negative.
Great part of the people in that demonstration, were also the people that ran when the first police charge happened, and apparently make also a good part of the camp Rostock population.
Various observations:
- Those people weren’t even close to the head of the protest, so they didn’t see what provoqued the beginning of it, neither the reason why the “bloc” (notice the commas) reacted the way they did.
- Most part of those people is very ignorant in what concerns to what’s going on in the world, to the reality of society. So they don’t have, unfortunately, a really lucid vision of the world. They, in example, believe that it is possible to have the media on our side. It’s not strange for them not even criticable, the fact that those same media are financed by the same corporations who want G8 to go ahead, that finance G8, and that, in the end, are the direct responsible for the deplorable state in which we find the world today. These people want the media to enter the camp and make enterviews, they want the people to uncover their faces, they want us to show our “good” side.
When someone does it, they find funny that the media (the “corporate media”) show, all the same, the bad, terrible, threatening side – that they lie, that they distort the reality, that they take as facts what any human being would consider a joke. And still they fight for the media to be by their side… they remember a time when the media were a power and faced the state, the church…
We’re not going to discuss the truth of such a myth – we only have to observe the reality:
The media don’t have any interest in telling the truth, because the truth would destroy the ones that dive them money, luxuries, power.
"The question Attac"
Attac, a greatly known group, gave an enterview to Die Junge Welt, making distance between themselves (as representatives of camp Rostock) and the violent acts of the protesters, on the 2nd of june.
Well, this position was absolutely repudiated by the totality of the members in the plenary in Rostock, in the minute it was presented – already as an efective statement, as a paper’s new.
Once more, one of us, one of the groups that should be fighting a common cause, made the job that belongs to the repression groups, to the police – dividing the protesters into two groups: the violent and the peaceful, or simply “the active and the passive”.
This article is also a request.
Is it so difficult to understand that no form of action has in it the absolute truth?
Is it so difficult to understand that that’s what makes this movement(s) and their caracter multicultural, multifaced?…
- Once in a while, in the middle of a camp planery, there’re opinions so funny as: “I don’t agree that that and that group only plays music during the campings and protests, when what we’re doing is fighting for a political cause!”
The answer is almost always immediate and gives place to some laughs – “That’s right, and the CIRCA (group of activist clowns) is only for making clowny things!”
- This question looks pretty simple, mas still there’s groups as Attac (it is of extreme importance to mention that the people who communicated with the papers were the superior hierarchies of the organization and that part of the members in the camp deplored those statements), that make this kind of statements and that, without purpose, provoque the divisionism based on their will, on their way of action forgetting the others, that not only can work, as have already proved their efficiency.
We have a great example of that in the biggest left portuguese party... but let’s put the parties aside. There’s been a long time since they had any importance... people are making the difference a bit all over the world.
- I would like to write that that mood of divisionism was tottaly stepped over, but that’s not true. People are divided (at least “morally”) in aggressive and non aggressive, or active and passive (depending of the point of view) – It’s realy stupid. And it works, but in a positive way, only for the police and the G8.
Example:
Yesterday, 5th June, a series of smaller actions were made that had as a result the complete confusion of the police, that unfortunately, and in the lack of inteligence has a hierarchy (different ones, in fact).
One of the groups that was heading towards a place of protest was stopped by the police that wanted to search some 100 people of the demonstrators because they were dressed in black. That trial failed because the great part of the protesters made a chain around the 100 in black protecting them from the police, and thanks to some baston and dragging.
The if...
A part of the protesters, I would say, a good part of the protesters stepped aside, didn’t interfere with the police charge, giving thus their permission to police violence.
We’re thus talking about fake peacefulness – it is wrong to attack a policeman when he abuses authority and groundlessly attacks everyone in his way (or, in this case, a group of people), but it’s perfectly acceptable to let a policeman attack a certain group of people, because in being so we’ll not be conoted as that “violent” group.
It’s a shameful position and we don’t subscribe.
We don’t always organize the demonstrations in which we participate, cause in being so the capitalism and this corpse-system would go ahead with their will.
Tomorrow we’ll all participate in the Block-G8.
It’s a pity that the main speech is: “will the bloc react violently?”
Speaking only for me – I don’t like a bit the idea of going to this action without the presence of so important group. I hope that this is not the case, mas it wouldn’t be strange, when their allies become (with or without purpose) the worst enemy of the bloc.
Greetings from all the people circling the prison of G8…
Look at a map and see us there, know that from our terrible minds are coming out the most diabolic plans for the domination of the world – soon there’ll be na informative paper with 10 simple steps for the accomplishment of such a strategy.
And, besides, the music is loud and beating!
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