total objector Mehmet Bal was arrested by plain clothes police on 8 June 2008. He was taking a walk with a friend in his neighbourhood when he was approached by plain clothes police, who asked to see his ID. Without checking via radio or phone they immediately said there was an arrest warrant out for him, and they would take him to the police station. As they did not need to check his personal details via radio, it can be assumed that they were targeting him, and did not do a random check.

ZAF Zrenjanin Antifa Festival

6th & 7th of june 2008.

Members of informal collective “Banathardcore cooperative” are presenting first antifa festival in Zrenjanin (town in eastern Vojvodina, Serbia).

During these two days in backyard of Cultural center there are going to be a few interesting lectures, by people both from Serbia and Croatia, few projections of documentary movies and gigs of 10 hardcore/punk//crust/grind bands who are related to antifa.

Agenda

Friday, 6th of June

12-16h Food Not Bombs action

ZAF Zrenjanin Antifa Festival

6th & 7th of june 2008.

Members of informal collective “Banathardcore cooperative” are presenting first antifa festival in Zrenjanin (town in eastern Vojvodina, Serbia).

During these two days in backyard of Cultural center there are going to be a few interesting lectures, by people both from Serbia and Croatia, few projections of documentary movies and gigs of 10 hardcore/punk//crust/grind bands who are related to antifa.

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Agenda

Friday, 6th of June

12-16h Food Not Bombs action

today around 12.15 we arrived at the serbian border near the town dimitrovgrad.we were not surprised to be called out of the bus together with another woman from iraque but with swedish passport,because we had our experience with the serbian border last time where the border control made some of us take off their clothes until the underwear and was checki

We arrived on March the 20th at about 8 o'clock in the evening at the Romanian border in Calafat. The border police ordered us to park our two cars beside and started to search them completely for four hours, looking after drugs, weapons and explosives as they said. We had none of that with us but they took all our info material, including books, pamphlets, posters and even patches, buttons and t-shirts away to copy, photograph and document them.

A N T I - N A T O W E E K B U C H A R E S T 2 0 0 8 (critical movies,documentaries,exhibitions and workshops)

"A projectile is any object thrown, shot or otherwise directed to a person or object. It can cause damage to a person or object it hits, depending on factors including size, shape, speed and hardness."
Accordingly we also see critical information as weapons/projectiles. Projectile is an invitation to common reflexion, participaton and a forum for critical discussion as well as preparation for actions during the anti-nato week in Bucharest.

20th nato Summit
2nd till the 4th of April 08
in Bucharest / Romania

This 20th NATO summit will be the largest one in the history of NATO, as all the 23 member tates of the NATO Partnership for Peace will attend, besides 26 member states of the lliance. Approximately 3.000 high-ranking officials are expected to participate in the summit.
In the name of security - making their own rules?

Since September 11, 2001 the US declared a "War on Terror", as it had done earlier with egard to poverty, crime and drugs. With this torture has been resurrected as a course of ction and subject of debate. The history of torture points to several possible reasons for its esurrection in a more open form since 9/11. The designation of certain peoples as of lesser tatus, or as not fully human; the priority given to the security of the state; the types of onditions under which evidence is acquired which influences the means adopted for etermining guilt; and the necessity to be seen to punish in order to demonstrate verwhelming power and to deter opposition to those in power have all played roles in eeping torture alive over the millennia.

Torture, power and reputation

A new and valued reputation is one of effectiveness in dealing with suspected terrorists, ncluding the ability to pass regulations that strengthen the central authority of the state, olice air, sea and land borders, arrest terrorist suspects, focus on their interrogation, and nvestigate more fully those seeking asylum or to migrate.

Global consequences

There is a growth in this rhetoric and behaviour, on the part of a number of governments. For example, Uzbek security forces in May 2005 used indiscriminate force against civilians in ndijan, killing possibly between 200 and 700 people, on the grounds that these were groups inked with international Islamist terrorism. Torture and other forms of abuse become ommonplace in different regions of the world.

Us versus Them
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We hold ourselves to humane standards of treatment of people no matter how evil or errible they may be. We stand for something more in the world - a moral mission, one of reedom and democracy and human rights at home and abroad . . . The enemy we fight as no respect for human life. They don’t deserve our sympathy.’
Such a statement might have one effect in that it reinforces the ’us versus them’ argument. n 6 September Bush acknowledged for the first time the existence of a secret CIA prison etwork. The same in the case of extraordinary rendition of detainees to locations where not oo many questions will be asked about the conditions of their detention and interrogation.

Exhibitions and discussion workshops planned for the counter-summit in Bucharest will focus n several of these sections:

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’PROJECTILE’ 28th of March - 5th of April

Projectile - is the autonomous anti-NATO summit in Bucharest / Romania. The happening is organized and held on the basis of self-organization, horizontal relations, mutual respect and responsibility. An organizational group is engaged in the preparation (search of the place, partial provision of the necessary facilities, spreading the information, raising soli money). However, nothing will work, if everybody at the gathering will not help to get food at the markets, organize work at the kitchen, cook, tidy up, clean the place after the end and so on. The main languages are Romanian and English. Everybody is encouraged to help organize necessary translation.

MAIN PRINCIPLES OF PARTICIPATION
We are against all kinds of discrimination. Therefore, to make this gathering come true and to make all the participants feel comfortable we recommend the following rules:

Respect other people’s personal space and opinions, even though they are not the same as yours, and do not create troublesome conditions for other participants.

Think about your boundaries and respect other people’s. Violence as well as abusive or aggressive behaviour towards others at the gathering will not be tolerated.

In our society, words have a lot of influence. There are plenty of words people demean each other with: chick, pussy, cunt, fag, dyke, slut, whore/kurva, gypsie ... . It seems like paying attention to your terminology should go without saying, but it’s not. Refuse to use offensive language or words. Oppressive language is banned at the gathering.

Restrict consumption of alcohol and soft drugs during the summit as much as possible, as well as during the events outside, because it can cause negative consequences
for people around you, for the summit in general and for you personally.

We strongly ask you not to bring hard drugs of any kind.

We reject the master/servant dichotomy. We take matters into our own hands. We arrange the relationships among ourselves in another way than what suggests the social normality. We battle against categories like ’gender’ or ’nation’. We develop our own norms. Or, at least we will try that. So be open for a change.

People deliberately creating troublesome conditions and/or putting the existence of the summit under threat, will be kicked out!!!

SOLI CONTRIBUTION

Since we don’t have enough finances to provide the summit completely, we need to ask for a soli contribution for food and electricity.

The summit takes place from the 28th of March till the 5th of April. During these days there is the possibility of sleeping and eating at the place. According to your stay we ask you to consider 1 euro for soli contribution per day.

Anti Nato Days 2 - 4 Arpil Bucharest Romania
Join us in Welcoming them through our own ways

This network is a result of a long process and discussion about digital tools and physical meetings which we, grassroots, autonomous, anti-authoritarian collectives from Balkans and beyond need in order to make our struggles more visible and powerful.

We are activists from Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia who are involved in local struggles but always with a global aspect.
The idea of this network came out from the last PGA inspired infotour, September 2007, when two activists traveled together in seven countries in Balkans and eastern-Europe.