この行動は完全にオープン。ヨーロッパ中からオートノミスト／アナキスト／パンクスやらがわんさか集まるだろうし、オープンにして注目を集めておけば、警察も酷い弾圧はしづらくなるだろうという読み。メディア（「マス」も「インディ」も）の使い方の上手い人たちなので、きっと成功するでしょう。
Gosoさんからのメール転載。
10月5日は（金）21時から下北沢の気流舎に。
急激なグローバライゼーションに抗する物理的な拠点、ネットワーク的なノードとして 〈インフォショップ〉が注目を集めています。インフォショップとはなにか、 オルタナティブスペースの意義、世界と東京の現状、IRA開店の経緯、 経営状況、そしてインフォショップをつくるにはどうすればいいのか？
ひょんなことから、明日 (２８日) ８時頃からIRAで、南アフリカ出身の人が日本食ディナーを料理し、振る舞ってくれることになった。普段ロクなものを食べてない人は来たほうがいいでしょう。料理を手伝いたい人は４時ごろからIRAで。また、各自飲みもの／食べものなどを持参してもらえると、さらに良い夕食会になるでしょう。
（Hexから。転送）
メルボルンのコミュニティー・AMラジオ局「3CR」はとてもいい。メルボルンのオルタナティブ・シーンに根ざして、もう31年も続いている。アナキスト・ニュース、政治囚サポート、DIY、アート、フェミ＆クィア、環境保護、アボリジニ連帯、地元音楽シーン、ヘルスケア、ガーデニング、などなどをテーマにした興味深い番組がずらりと並ぶ。日本からでもインターネットでライブで聴けるし、番組によっては過去の放送も聴ける。いくつかの番組のCDはIRAにあるので聴きたい人は店に。「3CR」が毎年作る美しいカレンダーも見せましょう。
Appeal for Solidarity in Disobedience to the Police State – We Won’t Allow Oppression of the Anti-APEC Protest
On September 8th, the APEC summit will take place in Sydney Australia. The leaders of twenty-one states in Asia and Oceania are gathering to determine economic and military strategies. The super powers such as the US, Australia, Japan, and China will lead the neo-liberal economic policies for an ever more effective accumulation of wealth. The economic collaboration among APEC countries has pushed forward free trade that is destroying regional economies, dealt with environmental issues only to the extent of not interfering with their profit making, and strengthened the security state for protecting their economic privileges – in so doing it has been producing devastating effects over the lives of people in this entire region by way of privatization, deregulation, fluidization of employment, liberalization of trade, and militarization of the society.
Meanwhile here in Sydney, people from all corners of the world are gathering in order to say No! to APEC’s goal of prolonging capitalism, and presenting their own searches for another world. The Japanese group, No! G8 Action, calls for solidarity with all of those people.
We protest the empowerment of the neo-liberalist tendencies via APEC and this non-democratic decision-making process. We protest the special limited law that the Australian government has proclaimed for forcing a summit that the people of Asia/Oceania have never agreed upon, a law that effectively places the city of Sydney under occupation.
On September 4th the guest of honor, G.W.Bush, entered the city guarded by as many as twenty armored vehicles. (The leaders of Japan, Australia, and the US are planning to meet to discuss the enforcement of the anti-terrorism global war.) In order to invite these naked kings, Sydney, one of the tourist capitals of the world, has turned into a police state, its center being surrounded by fences, creating scattered patches of restricted areas as well as no-trespassing areas. People walk the fenced walkways like mice in a cage; they are required to show their identification at every checkpoint; they cannot refuse random body checks by the police. Taking pictures of the fences would cause police arrest. The transportation systems are deranged thanks to the special measures.
We protest the extra-legal suppressions against the anti-OPEC protesters and distorted reports by the media. The supreme court of Australia authorized the police’s restrictions of the demonstration routes--violating the right to freedom of demonstration as guaranteed by the constitution. So far, as many as forty people have been prohibited from entering the specified zones related to APEC. We denounce the serious violation of the freedom of moving/transportation.
The tendency of media reports is also seriously problematic. With overt sensationalism they consistently identify the protests as violent and distort the facts, at the same time as abandoning any critical view of APEC and its violence. The prime minister of Australia shamelessly claims that the summit of APEC is an opportunity for economic growth and plays an important role in solving the issues of poverty; that he wishes the protesters who hate capitalism would stop the hypocritical protests and instead work toward the success of APEC for the sake of dissolving poverty. The ruling elites continue their politics of fear that determines all the protests as violent and illegal, in order to veil the illegitimacy of APEC. But the campaign to eliminate the people’s participation in the protest by threat and intimidation works two ways: While it implants fear in the minds of some protest participants, it also encourages, among many others, the spirit of disobedience against illegitimate occupation.
We are from Japan, one of countries participating in APEC. We are preparing a global anti-G8 protest in July 2008. From such a position, we call for solidarity with all the participants of the anti-APEC protest.
No! G8 Action
September 8th 2007
