Bill Howard a écrit : > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 7:40 AM > Subject: [STOPNATO] FBI Trains Czech Army/Police To Do A Philly Number On Prague > > STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > > --------- Forwarded Message --------- > > DATE: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:34:40 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > New York Times > August 12, 2000 > > Czech Police and Army Get Ready for Protests at I.M.F. World Bank > Meeting > By STEVEN ERLANGER > RAGUE, Aug. 11 -- Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut have already > ordered replacement glass. So has Tesco, a British supermarket chain, > and it is thinking of shutting down for the duration. McDonald's talks > hopefully of its local ownership and wants to keep its outlets open. > The Interior Ministry will have 11,000 police officers on duty, with > several thousand troops in reserve. Schools and theaters will close. The > ministry has even opened a Web site, warning young people: "The police > will have a lot of work on their hands, so they cannot be too tolerant > of various childish pranks." It adds, "Do not provoke the police." > It advises older people to stock up on food and medicine, and to "relax > and trust the authorities." > One might think that these are preparations for the battle in Central > Europe that NATO war-gamed for so many years. But it is only the annual > autumn meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, a > conference that the Czech Republic eagerly sought in 1993 as a > millennial symbol of the country's return to capitalism and the West. > The 10-day meeting, which is expected at attract up to 18,000 officials > and delegates, opens on Sept. 19. The Communists' old Palace of Culture > has been renovated for the meeting at a cost of $60 million and renamed > the Congress Center. > But since Prague sought this honor, the monetary fund and the World Bank > have become targets of rage against globalization and indifferent > capitalism. The fund in particular has for some the same negative > connotations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has for > far-right groups in the United States. > Already, on various Web sites critical of the fund and its policies, > like www.destroyimf.org -- "a Web resource for all those mobilizing to > end the poverty and injustice inflicted by global capitalism" -- there > is the cry: "Turn Prague into Seattle!" There, late last November, > 40,000 demonstrators paralyzed the city, damaged businesses, clashed > with the police and tied up a meeting of the World Trade Organization. > Organizers and Czech officials expect 20,000 to 50,000 protesters -- > some peaceful, some not -- to come here. The protests will certainly be > the largest here since 1989, and perhaps the largest invasion of > foreigners since the Soviets dropped by with their tanks in 1968. > President Vaclav Havel has tried to satisfy and perhaps co-opt some of > the more well-mannered groups by offering to meet with them at Prague > Castle. > The government has offered designated areas for protest and arranged for > a private company, FAM, to equip the old Strahov sports stadium with > tents, portable lavatories and food so the protesters will have a > relatively clean and safe place to stay. > The tent city will open on Sept. 21, and anyone may stay there for the > duration for $37, said Tomas Doubek of FAM. There will be private > security guards but no policemen, unless there is significant trouble. > But the conservative party of former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus > objected to the arrangements, saying they looked as if the Czechs "are > collaborating with extremists," Mr. Doubek said. > "Some legislators said, 'Let the protesters get a doctorate in finance, > learn two foreign languages, work in a bank for a few years, and then > they will be qualified to discuss I.M.F. issues,' " he said. > "Surprisingly, nobody laughed at this stupidity." > Alice Dvorska, an organizer with the Czech umbrella group Initiative > against Economic Globalization, says she is worried about how the Czech > police, with a history of aggressive crowd control, will behave. > In May 1998 the police were taken by surprise by protests against the > automobile industry and globalization. The police beat some protesters > and some bystanders as well. > "We're afraid of violence on the part of the police," Ms. Dvorska said. > "The Interior Ministry is purposely demonizing us. If you look at > protests around the world, it is always the police who cause most of the > violence." > Chelsea Mozen is a 25-year-old American who quit a job in Washington to > help organize the initiative's program of nonviolent demonstrations, > dance and street theater intended to educate citizens. > "It's not our main aim to shut the meeting down, although we think the > I.M.F. and World Bank should be dissolved," Ms. Mozen said. "We want a > grass-roots display of our disagreement." > But she says the police have been monitoring the group and its planning, > including a meeting outside Prague last month. "We're definitely under > surveillance," she said. > On Aug. 2 the group handed out fliers and performed a bit of street > theater in Old Town Square, holding a symbolic soccer match between > multinational corporations and representatives of the world's poor. The > corporations won by bribing the referee, who represented the I.M.F. and > the World Bank. > Chuck Reinhardt, a high school teacher from New York, played the part of > McDonald's during the match. "The World Bank is not accountable," he > said. "They give out loans but don't bear responsibility for what is > being done with the money, and most people around the world get no > benefits from it at all." > Ragnhild Eide Skogseth, 18, a Norwegian student who played Shell Oil, > said the fund and the bank "always say they want to help the poor, but > the results are always the opposite." > The Czech police have been training for the meeting and have worked with > the American police and with the F.B.I., which has opened an office in > Prague, mostly to monitor organized crime. > The F.B.I. trained 24 Czech police officers in crowd control in the > United States, said an Interior Ministry spokesman, Stanislav Gross, and > the police have paid particular attention to the way the Washington, > D.C., police handled the spring meeting of the fund and the bank in > April. Hundreds of protesters were arrested there, but there was much > less violence than in Seattle. > Still, for the designers of the Web site, the meeting "will be protected > by a Czech police operation run by the F.B.I." It says, "The challenge > to the workers' movement is to shut down that summit with the biggest > international demo Europe has ever seen." > One problem for the police is the location of the old Palace of Culture. > The main access from the city center, where most delegates will stay, is > by a bridge over a valley that could be blocked by protest. > The two closest hotels, the Corinthia Forum and the Panorama, are on the > right side of the bridge, but because they have Libyan ownership, an > American embargo would bar Americans from staying there. > Horst Kvhler, the fund's executive director, says he has "full > confidence" in Prague's ability to handle the meeting. Emphasizing a > need for "internal reform," he said the fund was "open for discussions > and dialogue." > "We're not hiding" from the protesters, he said. > Mr. Havel emphasizes the symbolism of Prague as the host of the > post-Communist world's first annual meeting of the fund and bank. He > said he would try to have discussions with the demonstrators as well as > the bankers. > The media attention given to security issues "pains me," he said. "It > seems as if we are preparing for civil war. We should take this more > positively." > > --------- End Forwarded Message --------- > > xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox > Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia > Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War!Stop the US Bombing of >Vieques > & Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. 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