Summit News Summary 3

Cheer Up

This afternoon Radical Cheerleaders »attacked« a demonstration in favor of the EU and East enlargement with slogans and dance. Tjhe aim was to show that »the liberals are wrong and tragically mistaken«.

Organizers from Liberal Youth and others failed to apreciate the cheers against EU and pocerty. (Posted: 23:53:01 CET)

Fire in the ass

The torch procession against racism today reversd the impression from the cold and sorry demosntrations that up till now have marked the summit. Cries and shouts in several languages split the air from Enghave Plads to Town Hall Square. (Posted 23:22:42 CET)

Don’t call us – we’ll call you… terrorists

One Monday in October a Philippino Professor woke up as a terrorist. On that day, the name of Professor Jose Maria Sison was added to EU’s list of terrorists. Sison is a Chief Political Consultant to the National Democratic Front, a leftist umbrella group consisting of, amongst others, the New People’s Army (NPA) – a guerrilla army estimated to number some 12.000 fighters. (Posted 23:20:26 CET)

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A message from Prague

– Nato is a cold war anachronism that really should no longer exist. It is a military nuclear alliance, that realistically has no place.

Around 2.000 people demonstrated last month in Prague against the Nato summit. A summit partly co-financed by big armaments companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing. (Posted 23:01:09 CET)

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Backyard Bomb Business

At the Nato summit in Prague, U.S. President George Bush called for support for his war against Saddam Hussein. But when British and U.S. troops begin fighting, many of the weapons they will face were bought from current and future Nato countries. In fact, many of the new Nato countries have been quietly shipping military equipment to war-torn countries around the world. (Posted 22:56:37 CET)

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Hospitality

»European Hospitality« is the full text on the billboard greeting VIP’s arriving at the Bella Center. The acticist succeeded in completing his correction to the message before being arrested by Bella Center guards. (Posted 22:47:13 CET)

United States of Europe

Soon to be EU-citizens fear lack of democracy when they enter the union.

– The EU itself, if it had to apply to join the EU, doesn’t fit the democratic criteria that the EU requires when a country applies to join the EU. It’s a very undemocratic system, and I don’t believe in it, says Ellul Bonici from the »No To EU Campaign« in Malta. (Posted 22:41:35 CET)

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Bitter sweetness

At half past four Thursday afternoon, a silent protest took place in front of Danisco’s headquarter in Copenhagen. Approximately 200 people arrived to show their protest against the sugar policy of

Danisco and the EU in the third world.

– It was a reaction against the policy of Danisco. The company destroys local production around the third world when they force down the marketprice of sugar, said Claus of »Global Roots«, and continued: (Posted 22:31:27 CET)

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Vandalism or happening

Confiscations and arrests put a stick in the wheel of many planned Global Roots disobediance actions today.

One van, 30 flags, three banners, a length of barbed wire and a couple of bottles red paint – that is the recipe for a charge of »illegal possesion of a weapon« and »attempted vandalism«. (Posted 22:26:29 CET)

Burn, Baghdad, burn

The biggest non-issue for EU leaders at the copenhagen summit is the upcoming war against iraq. Moskito met with navy Commander Jens Claus Hansen from the Danish military academy and peace studies researcher Jan Øberg from The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research to talk war. (Posted 21:40:13 CET)

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Continent of peace – decade of war

Europe has waged five wars in thirteen years, with one more on the way. And that’s just the big ones.

Europeans welcomed the end of the Cold War as an unprecedented opportunity for peace. The EU and NATO, the strongest political and military organizations on the continent, have both been celebrated as the most important peace organizations ever.

How then can it be that since 1989 more European soldiers have been at war in more places, killing more people, than during the time when we were lined up on the front line of The Cold War?

We list some of our wars and some of the reasons presented for them. (Posted 21:54:18 CET)

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Take heart

The Nordic world snake Ydragsil blesses the crowd as everybody sings the Inuit Eagle song, with the refrain »Get back the people’s heart, said an eagle«.

Afterwards, while the 12 foot python rests in it’s basket at the foot of the podium, two Christian priests lead a prayer a prayer in Danish, English, German and Russian. (Posted 21:07:22 CET)

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To teach Global Roots a lesson

There was no political motive behind the web attack on Global Roots, claimed an anonomuys caller today to the magazine Computer World, writes Dagbladet Arbejderen.

– They just need a lesson in cyberactivism, said the caller, who claimed responsability for the attack. (Posted 20:15:50 CET)

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