Bring your friends, banners and noise!

+ Old video tapes to represent the seizing of films and other materials in the recent raids.

Italian Embassy
14, Three Kings' Yard
LONDON W1Y 2EH

(Just off from the american embassy, grosvenor square, nearest tube, Bond Street)

1pm-3pm
Saturday 23rd Febuary 2001

Solidarity with Indymedia Italy

Solidarity with Independent Media

Solidarity with COBAS

Solidarity with Social Centres

Solidarity with Genoa Prisoners

Against Fascism and State Repression


Please distribute this widely,
See you there.

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Also register your protest with the embassy:

Tel: 020-7312 2200
Fax:020-7499 2283
E-Mail:  emblondon@embitaly.org.uk

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BACKGROUND

ITALY INDYMEDIA UNDER ATTACK 20.02.02

This morning around 7.00am police knocked at the doors of a three social centers: Gabrio in Torino, Cecco Rivolta in Firenze, TPO in Bologna, as well as the Cobas trade union offices in Taranto. The huge mobilisation (a lot of cars, vans, and riot cops) was due to an order from Genoa's attorney.

The attorneys Andrea Canciani and Anna Canepa ordered the seizure of audio and video material relating to the Genoa G8 protests.

The search warrant explains that such material would have been collected through the Italy Indymedia website, and would be situated in the social centers Gabrio, TPO, Cecco Rivolta, and in the trade union Cobas offices in Taranto, and in other places (they used a general warrant which allows them to search and seize at their pleasure).

Searches are still going on. Police is seizing computers, archives, and all of the stuff from the places, not just that of Indymedia. They have taken materials that hundreds of italian activists need for their daily cultural and political activities.

The search warrant locates these places as "Indymedia offices". Italy Indymedia states that Indymedia has no offices, but works through the thousands of people who contribute to the website, and commit themselves to produce a free and independent information. Italy Indymedia decision making and project processes take place over the internet, through open and publicly accessible mailing lists and chatrooms. A daily and cooperative effort carried on by hundreds of people, who won't be threatened.

This morning, an attack has been struck against freedom of information. A few places have been targeted, to exercise a political pressure on Italy Indymedia.

The material seized in Bologna, Firenze, Torino, Taranto, just like all of Indymedia stuff, is freely viewable on our website. And so are the archives of our mailing lists, of our chats, and of all our activities.

Indymedia has nothing to hide.

Italy Indymedia, a network of independent media, reports a severe attack to free information.

 http://italy.indymedia.org
Independent Media Center Italia
- the italian media revolution

Contact:  italy@indymedia.org

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-Indymedia is a network of people working on communication-related issues: videomakers, radios, journalists, photographers.

-Indymedia was established in Seattle to cover the 1999 protests against the WTO.

-Indymedia is an open publishing site, where anybody can upload audio, video, pictures and articles.

-Italy Indymedia has no secrets: we work through public mailing lists and open chatrooms.

-Indymedia is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth.

-We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.