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<div class="gmail_quote">*ENTSICHERN CONGRESS*<br>
The European Union: Analyse, criticise, dismantle!<br>
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Berlin, 29-30 January 2011<br>
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A considerable part of all legislative and political decisions are
currently made via<br>
the European Union. Expected resistance in the 27 member states is
thwarted by this<br>
”policy laundering” while the financially strongest governments
furthermore dominate<br>
the course. At the same time the EU enlarge its powers through its
own structures<br>
which coordinate cross-border activities as well as advance
projects under its own<br>
direction.<br>
<br>
This policy is especially noticeable in the area of European
”homeland defence” and<br>
its securitization, militarisation and gendarmerisation of social
phenomenons. There<br>
is, however, no increased attention which accompanies the
development of the EU by<br>
now, for example by the social movements. The radical Left, as
well, which is<br>
normally never short of criticism of the state, remains
speechless.<br>
<br>
One explanation for that could be that the EU, as a political
project with its great<br>
variety and constant change makes it difficult to analyse and to
grasp. For example<br>
the correlation between amendments in one´s own country and the
directive from<br>
Brussels which is the cause for them scarcely becomes apparent or
only at a late<br>
stage – too late to go on the war path against it. Therefore we
want to present a<br>
critical review of the EU and focus on the question as to how the
European Union has<br>
developed in the recent years and where concrete impact on
different areas of our<br>
lives can be experienced. We are particularly interested in the
consequences for the<br>
radical Left. We want to launch a theoretical discussion about the
EU and its<br>
institutions and show examples of the concrete effects of its
policy. The ENTSICHERN<br>
CONGRESS regards itself as counter event to the ”European Police
Congress” which is<br>
supposed to take place in the middle of February again in Berlin.
European police<br>
forces want to meet there for the 14th time with secret services,
military and<br>
representatives of ”security” and armament industry, as well as
with academics. The<br>
promotional event for the police-technical answer to social
problems is financed by<br>
corporations who are rewarded for speaking-time and merchandising
for their products.<br>
<br>
*ENTSICHERN CONGRESS*<br>
The European Union: Analyse, criticise, dismantle!<br>
<br>
Workshops, discussions, panel events and films on the topic of a
view on the EU which<br>
is critical of the state: analysing behind-the-scenes deals,
contracts and<br>
institutions and effects of their policy in the face of financial
crises, shift to<br>
the right, civil-military ”security architecture” and
strengthening ”homeland security”.<br>
<br>
Please note: The workshops and discussions will be held in german.
Any needed<br>
translation will hopefully be done in self-organised translation
corners.<br>
<br>
Saturday 29 January 2011<br>
<br>
from 10.00 a.m. Breakfast<br>
<br>
10.30-12.00 a.m.<br>
<br>
Changes brought by the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm
Programme concerning<br>
justice and home affairs policy<br>
The Lisbon Treaty coming into force brought significant changes
for the justice and<br>
home affairs policy of the EU and its member states: The sector of
police and<br>
judicial cooperation in criminal matters has been made
collaborative and now belongs<br>
to the standard in all areas of EU policy. Majority decisions are
now possible, but<br>
on the other hand, the European Parliament has the right of
codecision. The<br>
amendments are combined with an upgrading of existing EU-agencies
as well as the<br>
foundation of new ones, for example Europol, Frontex, the
civilian-military External<br>
Action Service or the secret service center SitCen. The
introduction will explain the<br>
present legal and political structure of the EU and scenarios will
outline its<br>
development.<br>
Adeline Otto<br>
<br>
12 a.m.-2.30 p.m.<br>
<br>
Workshop 1<br>
State project Europe<br>
The state is still the fundamental precondition in order to
stabilize the<br>
capitalistic mode of production which is inherently conflicting
and crisis-prone.<br>
Thereby, it is no longer limited to the nation state. Social and
political actors<br>
refer to a far more expanded field today which includes different
dimensions ranging<br>
from global, supranational, and national, regional and local
levels down to urban<br>
district level. Economy as well as the order of the political
sphere have undergone a<br>
differentiation and flexibilisation which is characterized by
overlapping and<br>
superimposed spatial dimensions. In this ”postnational” resp.
”multi-scalar”<br>
constellation it is increasingly up to the European level of
statehood to regulate<br>
the social conflicts.<br>
Jörg Kronauer and Sebastian Wolff<br>
<br>
Workshop 2<br>
Manifestations of networked security: gendarmerie forces and
emergency aid<br>
In various initiatives the European Union tries to establish an
increasing<br>
militarisation of classical areas of ”national security”. Civil
components are<br>
embedded into the foreign and military policy which are gaining
strength due to the<br>
Lisbon Treaty. The member states are building police units which
can also operate<br>
under military command. Although separated in police and
gendarmerie formations in<br>
formal terms, these structures meet in joint trainings and
military missions. At the<br>
same time civilian-military structures are created as well in the
European emergency<br>
aid. Dominance in disasters is secured by satellites and drones,
encrypted situation<br>
pictures and a monopolized crisis communication in ”situation
centers” of the secret<br>
service. Counterinsurgency and ”emergency aid” will shape conflict
occurrences in the<br>
future both within and outside the EU.<br>
Christoph Marischka, Matthias Monroy<br>
<br>
2.30-3:30 p.m.<br>
Break<br>
3.30-6.00 p.m.<br>
<br>
Workshop 1<br>
Surveillance from above: satellites and drones as instruments of
an European<br>
”security policy”<br>
The players of a new ”security architecture” of the EU fight in
many areas which they<br>
have chosen themselves: on the shores of Somalia against alleged
piratery, in the<br>
Mediterranean against illegalized migration and within the own
frontiers against<br>
”terrorism” and political uproar. Earth observation satellites and
drones belong to<br>
the new, highly complex tools for this so-called ”crisis
management” currently being<br>
developed and tested, which is boundless at the nation state as
well as a global<br>
level. The recently intensified European security research, the
”civilian” one in<br>
particular, but also the militarisation of the space policy are
two areas in which<br>
billions of Euros are invested. With the help of these examples we
want to address<br>
some basic questions regarding the implications of the European
”security policy”.<br>
Malte Lühmann, Volker Eick<br>
<br>
Workshop 2<br>
A view to the future: ”Early detection” and ”radicalization”<br>
”Extremism” means on a EU-level ”radicalization”: Advices,
manuals, a comic and a<br>
data collection are supposed to forward the control over deviating
behaviour. Being<br>
targeted in particular are ”Extreme Right/Left, Islamism,
Nationalism, critics of<br>
Globalization etc.” Under the ”extremism” discourse, whole
communities are placed<br>
under general suspicion. On board again is the interior ministry
of North<br>
Rhine-Westphalia. Measures euphemistically called ”prevention” are
accompanied by a<br>
trend to search personal and object data by means of software
(„Data Mining“).<br>
Permanent dragnet investigation in police databases strives for
nothing less than to<br>
foresee crimes and interprets the found connections as ”risks”. In
this workshop we<br>
will present the ”early detection” concepts and social techniques
of EU police forces<br>
and discuss possibilities for intervention.<br>
Albrecht Maurer, Matthias Monroy<br>
<br>
6-7.00 p.m.<br>
Break<br>
<br>
7.00 p.m.<br>
<br>
Cracks in the Fortress Europe<br>
Strategies of cross-border resistance: experiences, analyses and
perspectives of<br>
various spectra and players – panel discussion.<br>
Resistance against the European Union, which is experiencing a
considerable increase<br>
in powers due to the Lisbon Treaty, appears to be in a very poor
shape. The<br>
increasing monitoring and sanctioning becomes obvious particularly
in police and<br>
juridical collaboration and their agencies Frontex, Europol or
Eurojust as well as in<br>
Internet regimentation. There are few cross-border networks and
structures that<br>
oppose the progressing militarisation of social conflicts. A
radical rejection of<br>
this quasi-state neoliberal project, however, needs to position
itself towards<br>
difficult questions: how can we articulate critique without
complying with national<br>
patterns? Which stand do we take on the popular demand of
”another”, a more<br>
democratic EU as it is presented by liberal currents? How can we
network in a<br>
transnational way without losing the relation to resistance
practice? Why is there no<br>
perceivable movement against the excessive surveillance and
control of the EU? Where<br>
is the radical Left which otherwise readily practice in radical
criticism of the<br>
state? Where to address protest and resistance? All social
movements have to find<br>
answers to these questions in the face of the growing power of the
EU. Thereby left,<br>
Anarchist and radical left structures have definitely an edge in
cross-border<br>
organisation and mobilisation: in order to criticize the EU
migration policy<br>
activists from all over Europe come together in No Border-camps
for decades,<br>
campaigns and action do not remain only symbolic. Around the
summit protests against<br>
G8, G20, WTO, NATO and EU, too, developed networks and friendships
which can be<br>
activated seemingly effortless for new protests. What are the
conditions for a<br>
resistant cross-border organisation against the European security
architecture? In<br>
the panel discussion we will analyse various perspectives of
transnational movements.<br>
After an inventory of both unsuccessful and promising policies
against the EU we want<br>
to gauge how we can put our radical dissent to practice.<br>
We will discuss with:<br>
<br>
* Adeline Otto<br>
* Kriss Scholl<br>
* Detlef Hartmann<br>
* René Paulokat<br>
<br>
Sunday 30 January 2011<br>
<br>
11a.m.-1:00 p.m.<br>
<br>
Workshop 1<br>
The right wing in Europe tries to seize power<br>
Informations about activities, strategies and networks of the
extreme right wing in<br>
Europe.<br>
Various right currents are active within the EU and beyond. Some
of them have<br>
considerable influence on political decision-making processes in
their home<br>
countries. Furthermore the extreme right has a significance, as
well, in the<br>
institutions and committees of the EU. Which are the strongest
right currents in<br>
Europe and what is their significance for us? How far is their
influence reaching?<br>
This workshop wants to provide a summary of the current situation
as well as an<br>
analysis of it.<br>
Carsten Hübner<br>
<br>
Workshop 2<br>
Two sides of a barricade<br>
A glance at the international changes in strategy of prosecuting
authorities at<br>
summit protests in the last ten years indicates their ever
improved adjustment to new<br>
tactics of resistance. This workshop attempts to analyse the
biopolitical dimension<br>
of European conflict management<br>
on the basis of the history of repression since the ”Summer of
Resistance“ in 2001.<br>
Thereby we will examine parallels to other areas as the repression
against football<br>
fans. Based on the assumption that police forces increasingly
succeed to make<br>
unexpected surprises foreseeable and providently impossible, we
want to gauge in the<br>
workshop under which conditions creative resistance remains
successful.<br>
Angela Furmaniak, Kriss Scholl<br>
<br>
1-2.00 p.m.<br>
Break<br>
<br>
2-4.00 p.m.<br>
<br>
Workshop 1<br>
EU police databases and a campaign: ”Against DNA-collecting mania”<br>
Since the EU has provided itself with money in Maastricht and with
borders in<br>
Schengen it is inflationarily expanding mechanisms of repression
and control. Our<br>
lecture is dedicated to an essential factor for this development:
the databases in<br>
policing fields from SIS to the DNA analysis files of Europol.
Initially, we will<br>
give you an overview of the relevant EU data processing
architecture. Then we will<br>
discuss in more detail about an aspect of state surveillance which
is currently<br>
rather neglected: DNA databases of the police which are supposed
to be fully<br>
networked on August 26, 2011 with the end of the Prüm Treaty.
Moreover, the exchange<br>
of DNA profiles with the US is being planned. The campaign ”Hands
off my DNA –<br>
Against the DNA-collecting mania” is planning protest actions in
spring/summer 2011<br>
which shall be presented and discussed.<br>
Markus Murmelstein, Susanne Schultz<br>
<br>
Workshop 2<br>
Financial markets, struggles and the reconstruction of Europe?<br>
„Krisenlabor Griechenland“, (”Greece – A crisis laboratory”) is
the title of an<br>
analysis of the debt crisis written by J. Malamatinas and me
(AssoziationA, January<br>
2011). We see it as an all-out attack on the living conditions in
Europe and and<br>
beyond with the objective to create a historically new
capitalistic command of the<br>
living sources of value. I would like to report on that and to
discuss with you the<br>
resulting questions of resistance.<br>
Detlef Hartmann<br>
<br>
Also on the programme:<br>
<br>
Sunday 4.30 p.m.<br>
Final discussion<br>
Next Steps?<br>
<br>
Exhibition: Rage and Revolt in Greece<br>
A historically unprecedented removal of all social networks and
rights that had been<br>
fought for over centuries has terminated the common basis for
social peace in Greece<br>
in response to the crisis. While the words are missing to describe
the drastic<br>
consequences for the people, a strong movement on the streets
produces images of rage<br>
and revolt. Margarita Tsomou collects these images as documents of
the crisis. This<br>
collection of photographs from archives of friends, bloggers and
activists shows<br>
moments from the riots during December 2008 as well as from the
general strikes and<br>
demonstrations in the Greek year of crisis 2010.<br>
<br>
Culinary supply by the people´s kitchen ”Le Sabot”<br>
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