PROTEST
THE PRAGUE SUMMIT - November
17-22
The protests will start on November 17 (Sunday) with an anti-capitalist and anti-NATO march. The November 18 is kept free until now. November 19 (Tuesday) is the day when the most of war-makers will arrive into the city and have an exclusive dinner in the center of Prague. For all the day many food not bombs (FNB) actions in different parts of the city are planned. There is again a call to all FNB collectives from abroad to join that action ! This is as well a day of remembrance of the victims of capitalism world wide. That's why in the evening in front of exclusive-NATO-dinner there will be a gathering with pots, plates, spoons and street instruments inspirated by protests in Argentina and in solidarity with struggle in Argentina and world wide ! All attempting to disturb the capitalist orgie inside. The day of November 20 (Wednesday) is for now as well free of actions (can be used for last preparations for N21) or as there are first informations about fascist groups mobilising for Prague (Russian and Serbian militant fascist groups known for their easy access to cash announced their activities in Prague !!! ) this day can easly turn to be the day of anti-fascist activities. The main anti-NATO actions are planned for November 21 (N21 - Thursday) when the summit itself starts.
Structure of the November 21 Action Day: The idea is to encourage
many autonomous, creative, decentralised actions and marches throughout Prague
in the morning and early afternoon of the day. There will be a meeting point
for those people that do not want to engage in the morning actions at Namesti
Miru at 14:00. At Namesti Miru there will be an info point, speeches, hopefully
a public forum and some sort of fun, colourful happening. The theme for this
gathering will be SVEJK, with the idea to encourage people to dress, act,
or bring anything Svejk-like !!! (for more info about Svejk, look up or read
Jaroslav Hasek's 'The Good Soldier Svejk'). At 15:00 this group will leave
Namesti Miru to come together with the other autonomous action groups and
marches at a location which will have to be decided ... much ... much ...
later ! From that point there is hope to do something all together depending
on how the situation has progressed during the day. This is a structure in
which every group can find space for their lovely kind of action. These actions
will be better prepared and coordinated during the last days in Prague so
there is a lot of space for everyone who likes to influance its course. Although
the bigger part of Czech activists are sceptical about real chances of disturbing
the NATO-meeting itself everything seems to be still open and depends of the
how many people will join the actions.
November 22 (Friday) is again free of plans for now but it was clear for almost
everyone that actions against NATO/capitalism need to continue as well as
the jail-solidarity demonstrations. Strongly invited to join all street action
are medical teams (and individuals) from abroad as the Czech medical team
is not big enough.