NATO Bucharest Summit

from contra-doxa, 11 April 2008: Romanian Gendarmerie contends that anti-NATO anarchists that came out foundering from the police station have "injured themselves", bumping against the walls. The representatives of the Romanian Gendarmerie have crossed the senseless line when they claimed that the striplings that came out of the police stations with black eyes and with their faces hurt have "injured themselves". more

from indymedia romania, 9 April 2009: The NATO summit in Bucharest took place between April 2-4. Activists from Romania and abroad organized "Anti-NATO Days" between March 28 and April 5, as a form of protest. What follows is a daily chronology of events, starting with the repression and abuse by border guards, police and the mass-media, to the actions of solidarity by human rights organizations and foreign activists. more

from contra-doxa, 5 April 2008: As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception. In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest. more

from various sources, 3 April 2008: At approximately 12:30pm today [2 April 2008], hundreds of police descended on the convergence center of the anti-NATO gathering in Bucharest. At this point, some organizers on the scene estimate that 46 arrests in all have been made. All the arrests were made inside the convergence center. There was no demonstration happening. Many of the police were wearing ski masks, and were very hostile to journalists trying to access the scene. Most prisoners have been released now.  more

from email, 2 April 2008: One day before the start of the NATO summit in Bucharest the situation gets worse... Every person coming to or leaving the convergence center is in danger of getting detained (some simply for walking to a nearby shop). The detained are interrogated, photographed and fingerprinted in police stations, and held for up to 24 hours. At the Romanian border several groups of activists, as well as others, have been denied entry into the country. more

from email, 1 April 2008: Here in Berlin we have heard last days that for some reasons some clever people sitting at the power position in Romania are trying to antagonise the common Romanian people and the anarchists by spreading rumours about an arrival of the “bus with Berlin anarchists” to Bucharest for the anti-NATO protests. If this is a fact, we, anarchists from Berlin, would like to confirm the information about the arrival from our side, but what is much more important, is to explain our motivations behind visiting Bucharest at the beginning of April to the people in Romania. more

from email, 22 March 2008: After the experience of yesterday, all the people that want to cross the border into Romania for the anti-NATO summit events now should keep in mind that the border police (Romanian authorities) will look for the smallest and most ridiculous reason not to let them cross the border in to Romania... Over the last weeks the media has been creating a false image of anarchists that will come in Romania and starts violent riots, just to give an excuse for the police repression. more

from email, posted 9 March 2008: "A projectile is any object thrown, shot or otherwise directed to a person or object. It can cause damage to a person or object it hits, depending on factors including size, shape, speed and hardness." Accordingly we also see critical information as weapons/projectiles. 'Projectile' is an invitation to common reflection, participaton and a forum for critical discussion as well as preparation for actions during the anti-NATO week in Bucharest. more

from email, 9 March 2008: "Projectile" is the autonomous anti-NATO summit in Bucharest / Romania. The happening is organized and held on the basis of self-organization, horizontal relations, mutual respect and responsibility. An organizational group is engaged in the preparation (search of the place, partial provision of the necessary facilities, spreading the information, raising solidarity money). more

from Contra Doxa, updated 20 March 2008: This 20th NATO summit, due to be held in Bucharest, Romania in April 2008, will be the largest one in the history of NATO, as all the 23 member states of the NATO Partnership for Peace will attend, besides 26 member states of the alliance.

There will be a range of events in Bucharest and others places. Those coming from the north, can for example stop by at the ANTI-NATO info-point in Iasi (at the Ukrainian nd Moldavian border) before continuing their way to Bucharest.  more