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