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Prague: Solidarity with Quebec protests
Anarchist News from Czech Republic (AN-CR)

PRAGUE (AN-CR, April 27) - To express a stringent protest against the police 
repression, which occurred during the negotiations about the Free Trade Area 
of the Americas (FTAA) at the Summit of the Americas in city of Quebec =
in Canada - it was the aim of the picket in front of Canadian embassy in 
Prague on 26. April. About 30 people who assembled under red and black flags 
also expressed their solidarity with the struggle of protestors and with 
arrested people (you could read slogans as "Cause of Singh: The State Is The 
Real Criminal", "Release Political Prisoners!", "Release Jaggi Singh!", 
"International Class Solidarity Is The Key!" etc.)=20
Participants delivered a protest letter to a functionary of the embassy. 
This letter is signed by Czechoslovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF), Organization 
of Revolutionary Anarchists - Solidarity (ORA-S) (the both organizations
 are also signatories of International Anarchist Communist Anti-FTAA Declaration) 
and Prague Reclaim the Streets. Also members of The Feminist Group of the 
8th of March participated on the action.=20


The protest letter states:

        "=85 Tens of thousand of workers from trade-union or anarchist 
organizations, activists from environmental groups and many others were 
expressing their resistance with the plans for further strenghthening of 
the rule of capital over ordinary people. These plans would worsen people=92s 
living and working conditions, they would deepen poverty and exploitation and 
harm the environment.
=09However, the situation in Quebec was symbolic and clearly exposed the 
borders which divide the present world: political elite serving capital=92s 
interests were negotiating behind the high fence and under the protection 
from the police, while ordinary people expressing their own opinion were the 
target for the repression.
=09We denounce the practice of the police, which injured many people 
especially by shooting the rubber bullets (for the first time in Canada), 
throwing various types of grenades and beatings. In particular, we denounce the 
violence committed by the police to the members of the medical volunteers 
team. We have information that the conditions of the detained people are very
bad. Many of them are being refused the contact with lawyers or even food. 
The detainees are not taken to judge, as the law requests, instead they are
 only making testimonies via a video link from the prison.
=09We emphasize our protest concerning the arrest and the accusation of 
well-known activist Jaggi Singh, who was beaten and, possibly, abducted by the
 undercover police officers on Friday the 20th of April. This happened when
 he was taking part in the fairly non-violent demonstration in the street of 
Saint-Jean."
=09.......
=09"In order to show their solidarity, ten thousand students from the Montreal 
schools =93Cegep de Vieux Montreal=94 and =93Cegep St-Laurent=94 went on 
strike. People from France, Nigeria, Ireland, South Africa, USA and Poland 
protested against the repressions. We would like to let You know that we =
will watch the next steps of the state of Canada very closely and that we 
will coordinate our further protest actions accordingly.
=09The state of Canada surely understands, that the international solidarity 
has always been the strong weapon of the working people.=20
=09We express our solidarity with the protests in Quebec and we protest our
selves against the methods of the state of Canada."


Czechoslovak Anarchist Federation (CSAF)
intersec@csaf.cz

Organization of Revolutionary Anarchists - Solidarity (ORA-S)
oras_intsec@another.com

Reclaim the Streets, Prague
ulicelidem@reclaimthestreets.co.uk


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