[Dissent-fr-info] Summer of Resistance
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Aufruf zum Summer of Resistance 2009
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*Collapse the security architectures!*
*Against NATO, G20, G8, Frontex and the “Stockholm Programme”!*
Since the end of the last millennium a modification of the “security
architecture”
within the EU takes place, which have been accelerated by the attacks
of
11 September 2001 in the United States. Visible phenomena are
for example
the entanglement of internal and external security, a “pooling” of
prosecution
authorities and intelligence sevices and a simplified data exchange.
At the
technical level we are confronted with new digital surveillance cameras,
satellite surveillance, biometrics, drones, software for
intelligent search in databases
and new broadband networks to manage this huge flood of digital data.
New institutions and authorities have been created, including the
“European Police Office" Europol, the police academy CEPOL, the
border agency
Frontex and the” Committee for the Management of Operational
Cooperation "
of all police agencies of the EU within its intelligence operation
assessment center.
At the initiative of former French Defense Minister (and current
Interior Minister)
Michèle Alliot-Marie the "European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) was
founded and has
been established in 2004. The EGF shall ensure the “public
order”, combat insurgency,
obtain intelligence information and protect property in conflict areas.
The security industry is likely one of the few branches that profits
massive from the
current crisis of capitalism and the resulting battles.
Europe’s police forces are preparing themselve for protest and
resistance against
the impact of the crisis. Even the chairman of the International
Monetary Fund IMF
admits that in future more riots are expected. The institutions of
the “leading economic
nations” are forced to re-organize themselves. The “summits” of
NATO, G8 and G20
are of central importance for this reorganization. Topics such as
climate, migration
and agriculture are considered as threat to the security of a “western
lifestyle”.
Within the European Union, domestic political changements are taking
place, whose
effects are currently difficult predict.
Every five years, the interior and justice ministers of the new EU
adopt new directives
for a common domestic policy. The “Tampere Program”, terminated
in 1999 under the
Finnish Presidency, was primarily a “management of migration
flows”:
In addition to the appreciation of the police authority Europol was the
establishment
of a “Task Force of EU Police Chiefs’” which deals with
“international terrorism” and
“violent political activism”.
With the “Hague Program” in 2004, it has been agreed upon the
creation of an
“area of freedom, security and justice”. Again it was decided on
intensifications of
migration policy, including the construction of Border Agency
“Frontex” and the
interception of refugees already in their home countries. “The Hague
Program”
puts the “defense of terrorism” in the center. At the level of
information exchange
and cooperation was now count on the “principle of availability”.
The guidelines of 2004 are already implemented by many EU member
states:
Standardization of the “terrorism” legislation, data retention,
expansion of existing
databases and shared access, cross-border police cooperation for
example at
sporting events or political mass protests, “Border Management”,
fingerprints when
application for EU visa, from 2009 new biometric identifiers in
identity documents,
the development of security research, cooperation in criminal
matters, police abroad etc.
"The Hague Program" is running out and a new program should be
decided on in
autumn of 2009, in Stockholm under the Swedish EU Presidency.
During the German
EU Presidency 2007, the German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble
created with the,
then European Commissioner for Internal Affairs ( “Justice and Home
Affairs”),
Franco Frattini, the “Future Group”. This “Future Group”
describes itself as “informal body”
of European interior ministers, which drafted guidelines for European
home affairs.
To adopt the new “Stockholm program”, the “Future Group”
submitted a wish-list for
"police cooperation, fight against terrorism, management of
missions in third countries,
migration, asylum and border management, civil protection, new
technologies and
information networks ". Priorities are the maintenance of the
“European model”,
“coping with the growing interdependence between internal and external
security”
and ensuring of “Europe-wide the best possible data networks”.
The measures which shall be decided in Stockholm will only be noticeable
by the
member states within its ratification in a few years. There are
profound changes
in the game: development and standardization of police databases, a
central population
register, "cross-border online search", more control of the
Internet, better satellite
tracking, risk analysis “software, ”e-borders" and
“e-justice”, Common deportation
planes and flights, new refugee camp in “third countries”, the
use of the military
defense of migration, more police interventions outside the EU, the
expansion of
paramilitary “European Gendarmerie Force”, more cooperation
between domestic
and foreign secret services, etc.
The aim is a kind of domesticalNATO, with the creation of a
“Euro-Atlantic cooperation
in the area of freedom, security and justice” from 2014.
Also the NATO attaches value to the central role of the European
domestic politics.
On one hand, more and more police missions in “third countries”
were launched,
which perform there tasks of the military, strike down local uprisings
and train local
police units. On the other hand, NATO-strategists play the ball back
to the European
interior ministers and refer to the importance of European “Homeland
Security”
without a “strong defense” to the outside wouldn’t be possible.
The NATO sees itself
within member countries as the guarantor of security of “critical
infrastructure”
(like energy, transportation, communication). The strategy
document “Towards
a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World” by five ex-generals, which
areanchored in
the defense industry, calls for the expansion of “civil-military
cooperation”.
Considered as a “civilian elements” are for example Police,
intelligence, research,
academies, civil protection but also the private security industry.
NATO wants to intensify
the fall back on the “European Gendarmerie Force”. With the
“civil-military cooperation”
the militarization of social conflicts is increasing, underpinned by
domestic political
rearmament and new" anti-terror "laws.
The former EU Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, Franco
Frattini, has c
hanged in Berlusconi’s Cabinet after the elections in Italy 2008. As
the new foreign
minister, he is now responsible for the G8 on the Sardinian island
of La Maddalena.
Frattini sees “security” as the central profile of the new G8
structures: “Europe can,
rather than just a consumer, be a producer of safety. But EU and
NATO need to integrate,
rather to interfere with each others. We back up these thoughts in the
context of the G8”.
Italy has adopted a “security package” in May 2008 with
far-reaching tightenings for Migrants.
After the EU already equipped Libya with financial help for refugee
defense, also Italy
signed a new cooperation agreement. The Italian arms corporate group
“Finmeccanica”
delivers speedboats and the Interior Ministry is pleased that migration
would now be
diminished on "zero".
Frattini traveled early 2009 to Angola, Sierra Leone, Senegal
and Nigeria to negotiate
over “readmission agreements” for migrants, to equip the countries
with refugee camps,
and to introduce tamper-proof passports. It’s again all about the
securisation of raw
material and police enforcement: In return Frattini acknowledges an
audience with the
G8 summit for the countries, to “promote the dialogue between oil
producing and -
consuming countries”. In the delegation travelling Frattini, the
Italian police chief who
immediately implement new contracts for police training and cooperation
procedure.
As the consequence of the collapse of global capitalism around the
world, more uprisings
are expected. With the recent riots in Greece, Iceland, Sweden,
Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria,
France, Guadeloupe and Lampedusa, the EU became the venue of intense
contradictions
and militant struggles which. In the numerous directives, bilateral
agreements and treaties,
of the past few years concerted measures for “Europe as an area of
freedom, security
and justice”, are long ago brought into position against
anti-communist resistance and radical
projects and movements are covered with investigations and prosecutions
for "terrorism".
“Joint investigation teams” research - supported by Europol -
international networks.
Manuals and databases on “Troublemakers” will be bring protests at
major international
events under control.
Resistance against the increase in surveillance and control, against
repression and anti-riot
is still stuck too much often on a national level. Therefore we call
to push the development of
a transnational struggle against the “security architecture”, in
2009 at several cross-border
mobilizations, whether they are timbered by the NATO, G8 or EU.
We see the action day at the NATO summit as the kick off of the
campaign for a
“Summer of Resistance 2009” against the global “security regime”:
¡No Pasarán! France | Gipfelsoli | Dissent! France | NoLager Bremen |
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