19-20/12 Firenze: simposio sulle carceri

["Edvino Ugolini" <edvinoug at tin.it>]

Hallo friends,
For all, who don`t have the details yet, greetings Nermin

INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF STRUGGLE AGAINST ISOLATION


19-20 December 2003: Symposium

21 December 2003: cultural event



PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM


TOPICS


Political prisonership and the prison resistance:


- historical reasons, strategic meaning, position of the class struggle
(the national and people's liberation struggles and social struggles)


The reasons or pretexts for the isolation practice:


- treatment (practices of rules of behaviour), rehabilitation demagogies,
political pressure, destruction of oppositional identity




Practices in the isolation prisons:


- practice and experiences from the F-Types (Turkey), Control Units (USA),
FIES (Spain), QHS (France), Stammheim (Germany), Greece, Italy, Spain and
other countries.



The national and international aspects of the prison resistances:


- from the method of the middle age dungeons to the recent globalisation of
isolation prisons, isolation politics after the 11th September (the fight
against terrorism demagogies and black lists), from the F-Types to
Guantanamo...



The dimensions of the isolation practices:


- human, juridical, medical and political dimension



Globalisation of the struggle against isolation:


- Communication with the prisoners, international cooperation of prisoner's
relatives and solidarity organisations, the need of an international
organisation, which organizes international actions against attacks on
prisoners.



Death fast:


- Background, the situation today, attitude of the left, attitude of
imperialism (EU-USA), attitude of silenceness and ignorance.


ORGANISATIONS, CIRCLES AND PERSONS TO WHOM THE SYMPOSIUM IS DIRECTED:

- All prisoner solidarity committees worldwide, the organisation of
prisoner's families and human rights associations

- Political organisations (revolutioary, socialist, anarchist, trotskist,
non-parliamentary and parliamentary, legal or illegal)

- All ex-prisones of the whole world

- Intellectual, artists and persons who are engaged with social matters

- All jurists, psychologists, doctors and scientists, who are sensible on
the question of isolation and work scientifically on the juridical and
medical results.



OTHER ACTIVITIES WE WANT TO ORGANISE IN THE FRAME OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAYS
OF STRUGGGLE AGAINST ISOLATION:


Hungerstrike from 19-22 December:


- We'll organise an international hungerstrike action, in which above all
political prisoners from France, the Basque Country, Ireland, Turkey, USA
and Germany are involved.



Demonstrations in front of parliaments, embassies and representatives:


- Days of Struggle against isolation, the isolation prisons were created
and introduced by the EU-countries. Therefore we are going to organise
demonstrations in front of the parliaments of these countries. And in Italy
we'll also demonstrate primarily in front of the representatives of
following countries: Turkey, USA, France and Spain.


The campaign “Ourselves behind the walls":

- We aim an international network to give prisoners the possibility for
writing and contacting. The major problem of the political prisoners for
the international communaction is the barrage of language. A prisoner from
Turkey has a lot of communities with prisoners from the Basque Country or
USA. But simply for language reasons they are not able to communicate.

If we put before eyes that communication is a form to break through the
isolation, its meaning will be clearer.

We as International Platform against Isolation take on the responsibility
to create such a network for communication worldwide. To realise this aimed
campaign we have a basis, that could be helpful with translations from
Turkish, Italian, English, French, German, Spain and Russian.

But to realise this campaign we'll constantly need people to help us with
the translations.

We will send the prisoners a list with all prisoners worldwide.

Those prisoners who want to write somebody from the list send their letters
to the International Platform against Isolation. We, as the platform are
going to translate the letter and forward it to the right person.

The long-term aim of this work is to create a possibility of communication
for the prisoners and an international organisation, which is organising
common international activities .




THE ADDRESSES IN FLORENCE:


19 December 2003


Address: PALAZZO VECCHIO (building of the municipality)

Salone Cinquecento

Piazza Della Signoria, Firenze

(Florence)


08.00-09.00 am: Breakfast

09.00-10.00 am: Press meeting

10.30-13.00: Morning session

13.00-14.00 pm: Lunch

14.00-16.30 pm: Afternoon session

16.30-16.45 pm: Coffee break

16.45-19.00 pm: Meeting


Information evening:

Address: CIRCOLO ARCI

Via Pisana no: 809,

Ponte A Greve-Firenze (Florence)

21.00-23.30 pm: Film and discussions about the death fast and the massacre
of December 19.



20 December 2003


Address: AUDITORIUM REGIONE TOSCANA (Toscana parliament)

Via Cavour 4, 50129 Firenze (Florence)

08.00-09.00 am: Break Fast

09.00-12.30 am: Morning session

12.30-13.30 pm: Lunch

13.30-16.30 pm: Afternoon session

16.30-16.45 pm: Coffee Break

16.45-19.00 pm: Final session


Information evening:

Address: CPA (Centro Popolare Autogestito, Firenze Sud)

Via Villamagna 27/a, 50100 Firenze (Florence)

21.00-23.30 pm: War and Occupation, Black Lists, common struggle against
isolation


The main languages will be English and Italian. There will be a
simultanious translation into Turkish, German, Spanish and Russian.



21 December 2003


Festival: GREETINGS FROM ANATOLIA...


Time: 15:00 pm

Address: CASA DEL POPOLO GRASSINA

Piazza Umberto 1 no:14, Grassina-Firenze (Florence)



PROGRAM:

Introduction of the participants of the symposium and welcoming of the visitors

Music:

- Grup YORUM (Turkey)

-Pol MACADAIM (Ireland)

-FIATI SPRECATI (Italy)

-SICURTUBE (Italy)

Presentation of the final declaration of the symposium





Participants:

1- Neurologist Gianfranco di Maio (Italy, specialist in Wernicke
Korsakoff)
2- Grazia Cecconi, lawyer and writer (Italy, she will present a book
and a film, which she prepared on the detah fast)
3- Vainer Burani, lawyer (Italy)
4- Orsola Casagrande, journalist (Italy, for the newspaper Il
Manifesto)
5- Muhammed Safa (Lebanon, Rehabilitation Center of the El Khiam
Torture Victims)
6- Ibrahim Mahajna, lawyer (Palestine, Human Rights Committee)
7- Representative of the Cuban Consulate in Rome, as the brother and
lawyer of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban 5)
8- Committee "Free the Five" from Austria
9- Pol MacAdaim, musician (Ireland)
10- BEHATOKIA (Basque Country, Observatory for Human Rights)
11- Julen Arzuaga, lawyer (Basque Country)
12- Rote Hilfe (Germany)
13- Unity 18 October (Germany)
14- PAME (Worker's Front Greece)
15- OLME (Federation of Teacher Trade Unions)
16- Tayad Komite, Hamburg (Germany)
17- Initiativ e.V. (Germany)
18- Ramon Bada (PCPE- Communist Party of the People's of Spain)
19- Iranian Association for political refugees (Germany)
20- Andrea Bertolini, journalist (Italy)
21- Peter Novak, journalist (Germany)
22- Vesile Yücel, lawyer (Germany)
23- Murat Demir, lawyer (Germany)
24- Silvia Petrini, lawyer (Italy)
25- Professor Antonella Sapio, (Italy, University Florence)
26- Sandro Targetti, parliamentarian (Florence regional parliament,
Rifundazione Comunista)
27- Giovanni Barbagli, parliamentarian (Toscana parlament, PRC)
28- Alessandro Leoni, (Florence municipal, PRC)
29- Heidi Giuliani (Italy, mother of Carlo Giuliani)
30- Professor Marcella della Donne (Italy)
31- Doktor Paola Cecchi (Italy, WILPF- Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom)
32- Emmanuela Rubini (Italy, AZAD)
33- Mammad Süleymanov, journalist (Azerbaijan)
34- Renato Romei, parliamentarian (Florenz parlament, DS-Left
Democrats)
35- Abderrahim Mhassini (Marocco, Annahj Addimocrati)
36- Martin Mulholland (Ireland, IRPWA)
37- Christopher Kelley (Ireland, IPSC)
38- AIK (Antiimperialist Coordination)
39- Fausto Schiavetto (Italy, Soccorso Popolare)
40- Laboratore Marxista (Italy)
41- International Forum (Denmark)
42- Karla (Italy, Novo Unita)


THOSE WHO STILL HAVE TO CONFIRM THEIR PARTICIPATION:

1- NDF (National Democratic Front, Phillippines)
2- Break The Chains (USA)
3- Dario Fo, writer (Italy)
4- Revolutionary Communist Group (England)
5- Rote Hilfe International/Revolutionärer Aufbau (Switzerland)
6- Marco Camenisch Solidarity Committee
7- International Solidarity Committee for Milosevic
8- PRD (Indonesia)
9- Arab Palestine Club (Austria)
10- Palestine Association (Austria)
11- Iranian Students Concil (Austria)
12-Bulgarian Communist Party
13- Nederlands Palestina Komitee


PARTICIPANTS FROM TURKEY:

1- Bilgesu Erenus, writer and artist
2- Selçuk Kozagaçli, lawyer
3- Ahmet Kulaksiz, relatief of martyrs in the death fast
4- Sadi Özbolat (ex-prisoner, Association for Fundamental Rights and
Freedoms)
5- Abdurrahman Dilipak, writer
6- Cezmi Ersöz, writer
7- Tekin Tangün (Tayad)
8- Sanar Yurdatapan, artist
9- Ruhan Mavruk, poet
10- Hüseyin Karabey, stage director ("Silent Death")
11- Mazlum-Der Association


THOSE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO JOIN AND SUPPORT THE SYMPOSIUM
1- Henri Alleg, writer (France)
2- Angela Davis, Law Professor (USA)
3- Mark Barnsley, Ex-Prisoner (UK)


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