NATO Summit 2009

from natowc, 4 November 2009: "ASSEMBLE AT 11AM SHARP, BE IN TOWN FOR 10.30AM - With just over a week to go the NATO Welcoming Committee can release the details of the Friday the 13th demo. For months the NATO Welcoming Committee has been calling on people to come to Edinburgh and take part in action against NATO and against militarism. We have now produced a map of the city centre of Edinburgh showing the location of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and some other institutions which are linked to the militarist system..." more

from natowc, 26 October 2009: "Smash NATO! * Crash their party! Edinburgh * 13 - 17 November - In November the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Edinburgh. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is an attempt at legitimising the alliance with a hint of democracy. This is a front. The NATO PA does nothing but maintain NATO's role as a global military force used by the west to dominate and control. Its influence stretches from the highlands of Scotland where nature reserves are used as playgrounds for NATO's war games, to the highlands of Afghanistan where villages live in fear of NATO attack..." more

from infoshop, 12 September 2009: "For the last ten years, I have run with the Black Block, taking every opportunity, every moment, when we were strong enough, to have a riot, to fill the air with the sound of breaking glass, the swinging of batons, the powerful smell of adrenaline, of petrol, of testosterone, and of teargas. Thus, it is difficult for me to write this article..." more

from NWC, 10 September 2009: "In November 2009 the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Edinburgh. As anti-militarists we aim to shut it down. We are calling for a mass demo to try and shut down NATO on Friday the 13th of November 2009, the first day of the assembly. The NATO Welcoming Committee will provide a convergence space for activists to converge and stay in throughout the Assembly..." more

from NAM, 3 July 2009: "The Anti-Militarist Network will be holding its next gathering in Nottingham on the weekend of July 11th-12th... Over the course of the weekend there will be various sessions and workshops, including planning mobilisations against the DSEi arms fair in London in September and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh in November 2009..." more

from anarkisterna, 18 May 2009: "I don’t know how to put it adequately, but i was witness in London vs the G20 and in Strasbourg vs NATO of momentous developments in european radicalism which cannot but be called historical. In London we fought the inequality and immorality of financial capitalism that started the crisis (as the Economist titles: “Get the rich!” is a slogan gaining momentum all over europe), and in Strasbourg we went to urban war against the securitization of internal politics and the militarization of external politics... more

from email, 2 April 2009: "Since the end of the last millennium a modification of the "security architecture" within the EU takes place, which have been accelerated by the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Visible phenomena are for example the entanglement of internal and external security, a "pooling" of prosecution authorities and intelligence sevices and a simplified data exchange..." more

from anarkismo, 18 March 2009: "In the current context of economic crisis and rarefaction of natural resources, tensions increase between powerful countries fighting for control over the world. So western countries strengthen their device of domination, NATO, and use it in their aggressive and imperialistic politics (Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, and so on). Sixty-year-old NATO will celebrate its birthday at its yearly meeting this April the 3rd and 4th on the border between France and Germany (Strasbourg and Baden-Baden), claiming to be representative of liberty, peace and democracy..." more

from email, 18 March 2009: "No To War! A Call To Action! At the beginning of April 2009 NATO meets in Strasbourg to celebrate its 60th anniversary. This is no time to celebrate. This is a time to take action. The movement against militarism in the UK is building. Collective actions in response to the recent attacks on Gaza have shown the potential of the anti-militarist movement to mobilise and affect both the public consciousness and those directly complicit in the murder of innocent people..." more

from imc-uk, 2 February 2009: "This text introduces a proposal for an action related mobilization towards the NATO festivities in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden in the beginning of April 2009. The idea is to turn into practice the critique on NATO and the new NATO doctrine (with its core “comprehensive approach”) by focusing on the postal service and war logistics company DHL..." more

from email, 15 January 2009: "One purpose of the meeting in Strasbourg from January 16th to 18th is, apart from networking and common planning, to get a mutual knowledge of powers and weaknesses of the movements in different european countries. For this, we translated a text that was published in a german lefty monthly newspaper and gives a summary of activities. But the text does not regard the current situation of a “non-dogmatic” radical, anarchist, autonomous left in Germany. To provide that, see this brief summary..." more

from email, updated 17 December 2008: "On Saturday 13.12.2008 in Freiburg 2.500 people managed to make a successfull non-registered demonstration agaist this new law and for freedom of assembly. The French police were present as observers... more

from email, updated 11 January 2008: "The 3rd and 4th of April 2009, representatives of the countries members of NATO will meet again to celebrate their 60 years of domination, but also in order to develop their new plan to "defend freedom" and quoting the terms of their own generals: "A great strategy for an uncertain world." From the 1st to the 5th April 2009 we will be present in Strasbourg and we'll oppose their "globalization by force" with the creativity of our actions of resistance: direct actions, blockades, civil disobedience, demonstrations, meetings, debates, alternative village, convergence centers, autonomous arts, concerts..." more