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Genoa G8 Summit 2001
The official Genoa G8 site, featuring news coverage, official statements and more.
Genoa G8: Network for Global Rights
Excellent activist and tactical media information on the G8 Genoa protests.
Italy Indymedia
During the Genoa G8 protests, Indymedia Italy was Ground Zero for activist and independent media coverage. Visit to view documents, photographs and raw video footage that is not featured in mainstream coverage.
Protest.net
Track anti-globalist movement protests and news via this excellent activist site.
Genoa Social Forum
The Genoa Social Forum coordinated dialogue between over 600 activist and humanitarian groups, staging a counter-summit to explore alternatives to globalist policies.
Indymedia Central
Ground Zero for the global activist and independent media network that blurs the distinctions between audience/journalist/propagandist.
Collective Statement from Genoa 7/22
A statement by Genoa G8 protesters (July 22, 2001) detailing the incidents of police violence on July 20 and 21, and calling for international solidarity.
Italian Embassies
Fight against police and protest violence by contacting your local Italian embassy.
Michael Albert: Genoa ZNet Update Message
This letter (July 23, 2001), by ZNet sysop Michael Albert, responds to the Genoa G8 violence: "This is not a pretty nor even a humane calculus, but it is the logic of dissent against monstrous violaters of human civility. We need to make known the state's violence against our dissent, of course. But we need to retain our priority focus on globalization and capitalism, and on the vastly more widespread and deeper violence of these ubiquitous systems. We have to achieve growing popular support, growing morement commitment and insight, and to simultaneously saddle the state's preferred repressive options."
Genoa 7/20
This dispatch (July 20, 2001), by Starhawk, describes the violence at the Genoa G8 protests from the frontline.
Genoa 7/21
This dispatch (July 21, 2001), by Starhawk, reveals why the Genoa G8 protests erupted into police/protest violence.
The Battle of Genoa
This Nation article (July 23, 2001), by Walden Bello, features coverage of 20 July 2001 protests, Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi's role, the new globalization planned for Qatar, and details of the anti-globalist coalition.
Violence in Genoa
This Nation column (July 20, 2001), by John Nichols, compares violence in Seattle (1999) and Genoa (2001), and replies to George W. Bush's comments that the protesters "are no friends of the poor."
Apocalypse—Later
This World Press Review article (August 2001), by Franz Haas, gives an overview of how Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition came to power and how it has stifled domestic dissent. Useful background for understanding the Genoa G8 violence.
An Old City Turns to Technology
This Wired article (July 20, 2001), by Mila Fiordalisi, details the technology behind the new 911 network system devised for the Genoa G8 protests.
Organised Anarchists Bring Mass Disorder to Genoa
This Los Angeles Times article (July 23, 2001), by Richard Boudreaux, concentrates on the infamous "Black Bloc" anarchists and reactions to the death of Carlo Giuliani.
Leaders Say Summits Will Continue, But on Humbler Scale
This Los Angeles Times article (July 23, 2001), by David Williams, details world leader and G8 officials' reactions to the Genoa G8 protests, and summarizes the outcomes.
End the Siege by Lowering the Drawbridge
This Sydney Morning Herald article (July 23, 2001), by Anne Summers, deplores the high security costs of staging globalization summits and calls for a two-way dialogue: "Sealing off cities and shooting protesters is not the way to address the inequalities of today's globalised world."
Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom's scientific research explains the hidden connections between intergroup conflict, protest symbols and violence. "Why would a group that coheres at the site--or symbol--of blood outcompete groups that fail to jell when some of their members die a violent death caused by an enemy troop? Why do groups that seeing red, ball up like a fist and strike, survive? How do they pass on the emotional jolt that brings us together when we see crimson corpuscles pouring forth from a fallen comrade we only know through symbols-- songs and stories that conjure the image only in our imaginings?"
The Search for Cohesion in the Age of Fragmentation
This discussion paper (2000), by Dr. Don Edward Beck, outlines the fragmenting worldviews that are the foundation of geoeconomic and geopolitical conflict.
A Spiral View of Terrorism
This discussion paper (1996), by Dr. Don Edward Beck and Chris Cowan, outlines a multidimensional model of how different values systems give rise to different types of terrorism. Useful for cutting through media doublespeak.
Disinformation Dossier on Corporate Control of the Mass Media
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Disinformation Dossier on Howard Bloom
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Disinformation Dossier on Turning Cops Into Soldiers
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Disinformation Dossier on the World Trade Organization
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Disinformation Dossier on The Battle In Seattle
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Disinformation Dossier on A16: The World Bank v the World
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Disinformation Dossier on Anti-Olympics Protests 2000
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Disinformation Dossier on M1
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Disinformation Dossier on Perception Management & Domestic Propaganda
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Disinformation Dossier on Muzafer Sherif and Social Judgment Theory
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Disinformation Article on the Expanded Spiral Dynamics® Bibliography
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