{"article":{"id":16395,"heading":"Czech mayday demos","author":"Pavel","created":"2002-05-04 03:14:39","modified":"2002-05-04 03:34:35","last_modified":"Sat, 04 May 2002 10:34:35","article":"<p>Czechia: mayday demo in Prague and Brno <br><br> This year two big Mayday demos took place in Czech republic. In Prague about <br>  <br> 350 anarchists gathered on a demo on a traditional place - Strelecky island <br>  <br> called by Czechoslovak Anarchist Federation, Feminist Alliance of 8 March, <br>  <br> Organisation of revolutionary anarchist - Solidarity and Antifascist action. <br>  <br> Ska sound-system and info-stalls of anarchist organisation were presented on <br>  <br> the island. After three speeches of CSAF, FS8.3. and Solidarity a march was <br>  <br> formed. <br><br> Several kilometres long march through city centre to traditional working <br>  <br> class area of city quarter Zizkov under black and red flags and with lot of <br>  <br> anarchist banners and black-green samba band last more than two hours. <br>  <br> People were shouting slogans against capitalism and expressing solidarity <br>  <br> with antifa demo in Brno during march. The march was finished by speech <br>  <br> against NATO and its upcoming November summit in Prague. <br><br> Three anarchists were arrested by civil police provocateurs looking as punk <br>  <br> guys. First of them for wearing steel bracelet (which was a considered as a <br>  <br> weapon by police), two others for defending him. At least one of them was <br>  <br> accused of four criminal acts including attacking police officer, which is <br>  <br> serious crime. <br><br> Second anarchist demo took place in Brno. About 200 anarchist were trying to <br>  <br> prevent nazis march of militant fascist organisation Narodni odpor (Nation <br>  <br> resistance). As usual, anarchist were surrounded by anti-riot police while <br>  <br> nazis marched under the flag of nazi German. Three anarchist were arrested. <br><br> Pavel<\/p>\n","contact":"apf@seznam.cz","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"This year two big Mayday demos took place in Czech republic","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/05\/16395.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}