Archive | October, 2010

Brussels No Border Camp

6 Oct

The No Border Camp in Brussels was from 25 Sept – 3 Oct. See Brussels Indymedia for reports of workshops, demonstrations and direct action which took place.

 

Pictures

http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/112

http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/259

http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/199

Videos

Successful Blockade of Frontex

Police repression of Anti-Capitalist bloc on anti-austerity march

The Camp legal team is collecting complaints to file against the police after hundreds of arbitary arrests were made. See http://www.noborderbxl.eu.org/?lang=en for details.

On Saturday, October 2, a big demo brought together nearly 1,500 participants on arrival at the Bourse, Brussels city centre (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/257)

As well as several big demonstrations, lots of autonomous actions took place. Here’s a round-up:

A meeting of Frontex was blocked by activists before they were arrested (http://www.vimeo.com/15401376).

Action against Frontex also took place in Brussels Airport (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/227).

A police station was attacked and damaged (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/211).

The facade of the Embassy of Italy was covered with shit and graffiti to protest against the deportation of Roma and  recent agreements with Libya on immigration (http://bxl.indymedia.org/ articles/196).

A symbolic action took place against the offices of BP’s lobbying in Brussels (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/197).

Sodexho, providing food in many prisons and detention camps, received a visit from a group of people who poured 40 liters of oil into the lobby (http://bxl.indymedia. org/articles/180).

The building of the Cultural Attache of southern Germany was “redecorated” in protest against the repression of a demonstration Thursday in Stuttgart (http://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/26075). “

A recruitment session of the Brussels police  was disrupted by several activists, in protest at police repression (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/239).

The doors of the IOM (International Organisation for Migration) were blocked with glue (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/262).

Several buildings of companies involved in the deportation machine were tagged and had their windows broken: CarlsonWagonLit and Randstatd (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/128), Serco (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/147), Sodexho (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/ 236), Steria (http://bxl.indymedia.org/articles/244), Dalkia (http://switzerland.indymedia.org/de/2010/10/77904.shtml).