please spread this arround!
ACTIONS AGAINST WAR END UP BAD IN TIMISOARA-ROMANIA. ABC STARTS.
As I said, there was planned a march for peace in the city, on the 15th
of march and the student organisation fooled us and got no autorisation.
so, here we are in front a hard decission. should we go on ilegal demo or
not. and the answer was, hell yes! so we prepare for the action. in the
previous night at the punk concert there were 4 secret agents, and that
was a sign from them that they will not stop there.
the authorised march was supposed to start at 13:00 in front of the
university and go through the town. so, we decide we will still keep that
as a convergence point, and after go to center and have a smaller march,
without blocking cars and just leafleting and having banners and flags.
morning hours were a pain, cause people from the student organisation
called by chiefs of the police got so scared that they would keep us all
time on the phone.
we said we still go there, but because the cooking part was going hard,
we decided that we should go and say to the people who will come to the
university that the demo will be delayed untill after the food not bombs
action.
going in front of the university we found one big surprise. the place was
full with police. we spread arround so that we can let people know that
meeting point has changed. we managed to announce some of the people, but
not all. we also met one of the people from the student ngo who fucked
us. he was all pale and he said that he had converstions on the phone
with police chifs for more than one hour. he was begging us not to
protest, not to put out banners, not to do anything. hehe! he said 3 big
chiefs of the ppolice where there and there is a big mobilisation from
the police.
anyway, so we announce as many people as we can, it seemed that more
people preferd to come at the f.n.b. actions than at the march.
anyway, we got back to the cocking place so, that we discuss new
strategies for the action. people from CAF (craiova anarho front) and the
REVOLUTIONSHOP group, from craiova were here offering theyr help for the
action and preparation. theyr support was heartening for all of us here.
there we discussed and realised that there is no way we could do the
march at all and we should focuse on the food not bombs, which together
with our week of leafleting would make some sense and worth the material
and financial help.
there were in the square where we did the food not bombs action some 50
people who camed there for the action and also about 20 street
kids/people which we have gathered from the streets. we put the banners
up the sorounding walls and a friend was playing the guitar. everything
was ok, untill the first sign appeared...
the chief of a gendarmerie (i don't know the exact spelling) team camed
to us. he asked that he wanted to talk to the leader of the group. we
said we have no leader. he said that somebody would better asume this
role. so our hippy-guitar friend went and gave his id and said what's
about. the discussions went great. the "jandarm" said he is
glad that we have initiative and even if we don't have any autorisation
he will send to boys of his team to protect us from the eventual fury of
some potential people who would hate our stance. he said that we will
start to shout or do other "stupid" things disturbing the order
and neighbors he and his team will act imediately.
we were so amzed about what we heard and we went on with the sharing of
food and feeling good. all things went good untill the food was almost
gone, and a police (not gendarmerie!!!) car camed. this time there were 6
policemen who jumped out and asked the same question. who is your leader?
so the story went almost the same. the hippy friend said what he told to
the other guy, other people also went there and explained that the action
is close to the end and we will soon go. the poliman said that they want
to protect us from eventual aggressions from the other people who might
pick on us because of the way we look or whatever. and that he respects
what we're doing but w need to finish soon because they have a lot of
missions and they are doing voluntary work there and are freezing (?!?).
so we say that we finish soon and go home with a fifth food not bombs
action with no problems. in very few minutes another police car camed and
and a very big chief camed out. he gave some orders and a policemen asked
for our id's, of everybody. the people who had none could go home. and
they were not happy that so many of us gave the id's to them (maybe
because of too much paper work for them!!!). anyway, some people got
theyr id's back and others not.
what happened next? 19 people got fines of 1.500.000 and one got
1.700.000, meaning about 45 euro per person. that comes in a situation
where almost everybody was unemployed, student or whatever thing with no
job. and that's in a country where the average salary is 100$.
the action was clearly a political one, and if small policemen understood
and were not pissed for giving free food to the people, the chief camed
with clear orders from above and decided to punish some of the people
there, so that they will remind this thing for the rest of theyr lifes:
"you have the right to express your opinion, whenever we
want!".
people gathered after in a pub and discussed the problem, and the abc
romania is officially started at this action. after spending a lot of
theyr time and material and emotional resources people were still glad
about the action and have no fear of the message from the state. people
got more solidarity with the aactiv-ist collective and will join future
actions. the police repression didn't make us weaker, but stronger and we
won't stop here.
abc meeting will take place on monday and decisions will be made there.
we will fight all the way with all legal methods and only as a last
choice we will pay the fines, which go up to 450 euros (!). there might
be needed for help with 2 persons who admited theyr fact (breaking the
law with intention of disrupting public order) by mistake and because of
no trust to romanian justice.
we will need some money, cause this people are students and have no job,
so, please spread this news around and if people can help us with
financial difficulties, please get in touch.
also, there are 2 ways of going to court. one individually and having
personal trials, and this way there are 90% chances to solve the fines
with no money. and the second one is that we go and make a common
complain and go to the media and stuff. this will lead to futture
complications that might end with bigger trouble and money spent for
lawyrs and stuff.
abc groups if they could give some advices, it would be great to get in
touch and give some suggestions.
AACTIV-IST COLLECTIVE
ABC ROMANIA
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UK Guardian reports Romania suffering constant aggravated corruption or
'government'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914623,00.html
