[Reader-list] first statement from the imprisoned theatre activists

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Fallout Genoa : Prison Dairy. please spread it around. cheers, jeebesh

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http://www.noborder.org/noprison
info at noborder.org

this is a text written in the jail in alessandria. its autorized from 
all the imprisoned aktivists of the PublixTheatreCarwan in the jails 
of alessandria and voghera .... please spreed out widley - put it on
websites and mailinglists

thank you
florian schneider <fls at kein.org>


NoBorder - NoNation - NoPrison
http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour

Cultural stiff 01
29/07/2001


"freedom of movement" is the main concern of the european 
NOborder-network and the Publixtheatrecaravan - Volxtheaterkarawane 
which is embedded in the network in the summer of 2001.

We are on tour from Nickelsdorf over Salzburg, Lendava (Slo), 
Eisenkappel (A), Genova (I) to Frankfurt/Main (D), where we never 
arrived because of our arrests after the G8-summit in Genua. 
Tourdiary: http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour

So far we felt like air castles builder, cyberartists, jugglers and 
scrutinizing nomads. As a theatregroup we feel obliged to the 
tradition of improvisation and we dont let put ourselves in costumes 
which try to knit makeup out of woolen hats.

About our arrestment: &#61623; 3 hours in front of shtoguns and MG4's 
pointing on us - finger on the trigger &#61623; records about us were 
made by the italian police - hittings, kickings and humiliations 
&#61623; no sleep (under threats)

Later (after 30 hours) in prison:

- no telephone calls
- until now nearly no contact to lawyers
- bad interpreters (during the time while they proved the reasons for
our arrestments)
- no access to media
- for six days nothing to write
- nektor, z nas nemali ziaden kontakt s konzulatum
- nothing to read or juggle

Although we have been split - without reason - from the arrested 
women, from the outside world and therefore from information we try 
to take a stand with following demands:

- Our protest and our political claim
- no matter which time and which place - will carry our specific 
cultural expression which we will develope
- we demand to stop the classification of people in "wanted" and 
"unwanted" and the stop of the restriction of the freedom of the 
movement like f.e. the duty of residence for people seeking for 
asylum or the producing of lists about political unwelcomed people.
- we demand the stop of all proceedings concerning the G8-protests 
and the freedom for all prisoners who were arrested because of 
G8-protests and the solving of the happenings in Genua in particular 
the death of Carlos Giuliani and the storming of "Scuola Diaz"
- we want to leave the prisons together with our dog Pogo, with our 
theatre props, our kitchen, our vehicles, computer, cameras and our 
stinkin' socks.

We are not swedes, australians, americans, slovacians, germans, 
austrians - we are Publixtheatrecaravan

We work out a play in which we take a stand to everything that 
happened during our tour. For us theatre is an important political 
expression. This play should help to clear and digest all the 
happenings we are confrontated with now.
Working title: Genova
Premiere: uncertain

PS: Greetings to the bordercamp at the airport in Frankfurt/Main and 
to all people outside there who declared their solidarity! Abolition 
of internment and deportation - worldwide NOborder - NOnation - NOone 
is illegal

The Imprisoneds of the PublixTheatreCarawan Ö in the jail of Alessandria