[Reader-list] FW: free the public theatre caravan

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Genoa fallouts. do mail in solidarity mails on to the website (not to 
this list!). cheers jeebesh

>  http://www.noborder.org
>  info at noborder.org
>
>  WED 1 AUG 2001
>
>  FREE THE PUBLIX THEATRE CARAVAN!
>
>  On Monday July 24, the Publix Theatre Caravan, an
>  international multimedia performance group was stopped by
>  police in Recco, a small city near Genoa. 25 persons from
>  Australia, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Slovakia and the US
>  were arrested.
>
>  For several weeks the Publix Theatre Caravan was travelling
>  along and across borders: From refugee camps to
>  nobordercamps and counter-summits. Artists, actors and
>  experimental theatre activists staged performances, played
>  music and shot videos. On leaving Genoa the Publix Theatre
>  Caravan on their way to the nobordercamp in Frankfurt was
>  stopped and arrested by italian police. At the moment they
>  are held in imprisonment on remand, awaiting a trail within
>  the next six months.
>
>  The accusations levelled against them are as absurd as they
>  could possibly be: The artist group is accused of vandalism
>  and endangering public safety. The court acts on the
>  assumption that the Publix Theatre Caravan is the core of a
>  so called "black bloc"!
>
>  Not only do we worry about reported and confirmed violations
>  of basic human rights. But we also suspect, that it did not
>  happen by accident, that a group of artists and independent
>  media activists is purposely being targeted as a scapegoat
>  for the violence in Genoa.
>
>  We urgently demand the immediate release of the participants
>  of the Publix Theatre Caravan!
>
>  Please spread widely information about the fate of
>  participants of the Publix Theatre Caravan! Sign this
>  statement! Create, upload and download banners! Link to the
>  websites and disseminate the content and the work of the
>  Publix Theatre Caravan! Police forces may be able to arrest
>  individuals, but they can not break down the resistance of
>  the multitudes.
>
>
>  Helpful links:
>
>  [publix theatre caravan]
>  http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour/index_uk.html
>
>  [sign the "free publix theatre caravan call"]
>  http://www.noborder.org/noprison.html
>
>  [download the banner]
>  http://www.noborder.org/images/noprison.gif
>
>  [streaming video from the caravan]
>  http://www.noborder.org/camps/slo/video.html
>
>  [noborder network]
>  http://www.noborder.org
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