Dear Friends... For your edification: -Eric From: "Michael Bakunin" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: [okgreens] Fwd: Activist Killed!!! Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:47:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [64.12.105.179] Received: from [216.115.96.61] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBD230DA6006C4004389ED873603D0CAC30; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:59:45 -0700 Received: from [10.1.4.56] by c3.egroups.com with NNFMP; 21 Jul 2001 17:57:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 84285 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 17:57:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 17:57:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n30.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.2.219) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 17:57:05 -0000 Received: from [10.1.10.102] by ho.egroups.com with NNFMP; 21 Jul 2001 17:57:05 -0000 Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 06:47:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 66605 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 06:47:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 06:47:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.95) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 06:47:28 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:47:28 -0700 Received: from 64.12.105.179 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 06:47:27 GMT From sentto-417072-2770-995738226-thelordalmighty Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:01:08 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: [log in to unmask] X-eGroups-Return: [log in to unmask] X-eGroups-Approved-By: [log in to unmask] via web; 21 Jul 2001 17:57:03 -0000 X-Sender: [log in to unmask] X-Apparently-To: [log in to unmask] Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2001 06:47:28.0121 (UTC) FILETIME=[01DCB690:01C111B1] Mailing-List: list [log in to unmask]; contact [log in to unmask] Delivered-To: mailing list [log in to unmask] Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> The following message is a letter sent by a good friend of mine involved in local and national Black Bloc oganizing efforts in response to the widespread use of excessive state violence against unarmed and nonviolent demonstrators. As many of you may already be aware, four unarmed demonstrators have been killed over the past two months by police using live ammunition during European Conferences attended by King George Bush II. The latest shooting occured yesterday when a young man was struck in the head by two bullets at point blank range, then run over by a police jeep which then backed over him a second time. Josh >From: "Joe Hill" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Activist Killed!!! >Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 06:19:38 +0000 > >Brother, > Please cirrculate this message amongst your contacts and comrades. >Thanks. Friends, activists, and revolutionaries, Today an unarmed anti-globalization demonstrator was shot twice in the head and savagely mauled beneath the treads of a military vehicle. Again, the interlocking directorate of corporate power, manifesting itself this time in the G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy, demonstrated that the value of human life is cheap when weighed against the value of private property. Moreover, these powers have illustrated their eager willingness to take lives, to violate legal civil liberties and disregard all that is decent and moral in the pursuit of greater profits for the privileged elite that control the world's wealth. Over the past two years of anti-globalization demonstrations, a recurring trend of excessive state violence has become evident. Though the consistency of violence has been conveniently dismissed by the corporate media as a phenomena instigated by "a minority of ultra-left antagonists" it seems outrageous to those of us who have attended these demonstrations and witnessed police indiscriminately attacking peaceful, unarmed citizens with various chemical and non-lethal ballistic weapons. However, it doesn't take a witness with first hand experience to observe the glaring contradictions between the facts and the media spin placed on these events. For example, at the true conception of the anti-globalization movement in Seattle, WA., undisputed reports are available that very clearly show that the first incidents of property damage caused by demonstrators came at approximately 2pm, whereas, the first indiscriminate volley of rubber bullets and use of chemical weapons on unarmed, non-violent demonstrators came at approximately 9:30 am. Then, once again at the April 16th, 2000 demonstrations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, property damage came days after police began seizing potential demonstrators, filling jails and herding over 4,000 others into make shift prison camps erected at RFK Stadium. Still, we tolerate the abuse. Many Americans rationalize the very ominous reality that martial law has been declared within our own borders. At each of these demonstrations, civil rights have been "suspended" in areas designated by law enforcement as red zones, yet we continue to make excuses and the fact remains that American citizens have been subjected to illegal police surveillance, harassment and violence. The Constitution of our forefathers, laws that our father's and grandfathers have sacrificed their lives to protect have been disregarded and broken. Laws that the citizens of this country have democratically enacted to protect our basic human rights have been "suspended" justified by meaningless slogans such as "national security" and "national interest." Today, America deserves to know what "national interest" supports the suspension of civil rights and martial law. Who defines "national security" while the constitution rights of lawful citizens are violated? As we attempt define these slogans, we must accept the reality that the free and democratic, peace loving America we were have been taught to believe in no longer exists. We must awaken to the reality that this nation no longer belongs to her citizens. It is our duty to initiate the reevaluation of these slogans. We must all ask ourselves, "What does it mean to be free?" Not a single American is free until all Americans can express themselves politically without fear of government reprisal. Only when all Americans can equally participate in the political and economic structures that determine our fate, can we call America a free country. Today we suffer greater abuses than those of our revolutionary forefathers, yet we sit idle. We pay exorbitant taxes to make oil companies, auto-manufacturers and multi-billion dollar arms manufacturing corporations richer, while education, health care and other social programs are scarce and inaccessible to struggling families. We turn a blind eye to blatant violations of our Constitution and our civil rights. Now we are confronted by the widespread use of state violence against unarmed citizens. When we go to exercise our right to protest "Globalization without representation", will we become the next victims? The lines have been drawn. All Americans have unwittingly been united with the nations of the world in a common struggle for basic human rights. Today we have been given a choice. When pacifists are beaten and killed for their love of peace, neutrality is no longer an option. We mustn't fail to remember: yesterday's traitors are today's patriots. Today's patriots were revolutionaries. When they dehumanize our world, brutalize our bodies, and rape our lands and resources, how shall we respond? How, then, shall we be remembered? > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp