Dubsquare Radio (March 26, 2009)
Pure family vibes this time as Ca.tter, Mstep & MC Luis were joining me in the studio, playing out a few new bits by the likes of El Rakkas, Joker, Legend4ry, Sigha, Silent.wolf, Simon/off, Zillion & my guests of course.
Dates
Mar 26-28: Skull Disko Swiss Tour w/ Shackleton (live), Appleblim, Necta Selecta @ Zürich/Fribourg/Geneva
Mar 27: temp~eriert w/ Lena (live), Ca.tter, Fino @ Rhiz/Wien
Mar 28: We wont pay for your crisis! (protest) @ Westbahnhof/Wien (1pm)
Mar 28: DIY Dubs w/ Simon/off @ Capella Bar/Varazdin (cro)
Mar 28: Mosh w/ Eleven Tigers, Hyetal, eff.D, Profesor Z, Stroon @ Subclub/Bratislava
Mar 28: Chris Kummerer, Odd @ Solaris/Linz
Mar 31: Rememberance of the victims of fascist violence after 1945 (protest) @ University/Wien (5pm)
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Global Day of Action on March 28, 2009
Ahead of the G20 summit on the global financial crisis on April 2nd in London, the World Social Forum earlier this year in Belém had issued a call for a Global Day of Action on March 28, 2009.
The financial crisis is a systemic crisis that emerges in the context of global crises (climate, food, and energy, social…) and of a new balance of power. It results from 30 years of transfer of income from labour towards capital. This tendency should be reversed. This crisis is the consequence of a capitalist system of production based on laissez-faire and fed by short term accumulation of profits by a minority, unequal redistribution of wealth, natural resource plunder and the privatization of public services. This crisis affects the whole humanity, first of all the most vulnerable (workers, jobless, farmers, migrants, women…) and Southern countries, which are the victims of a crisis for which they are not at all responsible.
The resources to get out of the crisis merely burden the public with the losses in order to save, with no real public benefit, a financial system that is at the root of the current cataclysm. Where are the resources for the populations which are the victims of the crisis? The world not only needs regulations, but also a new paradigm which puts the financial system at the service of a new international democratic system based on the satisfaction of human rights, decent work, food sovereignty, respect for the environment, cultural diversity, the social and solidarity economy and a new concept of wealth. Therefore, we demand to:
* Put a reformed and democratised United Nations at the heart of the financial system reform, as the G20 is not the legitimate forum to resolve this systemic crisis.
* Establish international permanent and binding mechanisms of control over capital flows.
* Implement an international monetary system based on a new system of reserves, including the creation of regional reserve currencies in order to end the current supremacy of the dollar and to ensure international financial stability.
* Implement a global mechanism of state and citizen control of banks and financial institutions. Financial intermediation should be recognised as a public service that is guaranteed to all citizens in the world.
* Prohibit hedge funds and over the counter markets, where derivatives and other toxic products are exchanged without any public control.
* Eradicate speculation on commodities, first of all food and energy, by implementing public mechanisms of price stabilisation.
* Dismantle tax havens, sanction their users (individuals, companies, banks and financial intermediates) and create an international tax organisation to combat tax competition and evasion.
* Establish a new international system of wealth sharing by implementing a progressive tax system at the national level and by creating global taxes (on financial transactions, polluting activities and high income) to finance global public goods.
We call on NGOs, trade unions and social movements to converge in order to create a citizen struggle in favour of this new model. We urge them to mobilize all over the world, in particular in the face of the G20, from March 28th onwards.
Protests will be held in the several European cities:
- London: 11am @ Victoria Embankment (Temple tube station)
- Berlin: 12am @ Rotes Rathaus, 3pm Gendarmenmarkt
- Frankfurt: 12am @ Hauptbahnhof, 12am @ Bockenheimer Warte, 3pm @ Römerberg
- Vienna: 1pm @ Westbahnhof, 4pm @ parliament
- Graz: 3pm @ Hauptplatz
- Salzburg: 10am @ Alter Markt
- (Innsbruck: 12am @ Innenstadt)
Related links:
- Put People First: March for jobs, justice and climate ahead of the London G20 Summit
- G20 Meltdown in the city (London)
- G20 Climate Camp hitting London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders’ summit
- March 28 mobilisation in France
- Wir zahlen nicht für Eure Krise (de)
- Wir zahlen nicht für Eure Krise (at)
- Aufruf zum antikapitalistischen Block bei der Demonstration in Wien
Dubsquare Radio (March 19, 2009)
Dates
Mar 19: Online Pharmacy w/ Björn Polanski, Franz Jazzin Otto @ Auslage/Wien
Mar 19: Zigzag w/ Youngsta, Phillipe, Dubway @ Sirup/Zagreb
Mar 20: Freakcamp w/ Hod & D.Man, Scanone, Lexxus, J-Trex, Robotic, Skratch @ VCF/Berlin
Mar 21: Dubwise w/ Lexxus, Boc, Emah, Siba, Shutcoo, Biomat @ Art Klub/Trnava (sk)
Mar 21: Electroland w/ The Sci-fi Trackers (live), Adapter (live), Dabelka & Mr. Belk, Lazar Lyutakov, I-bot @ Elektro Gönner/Wien
Mar 21: Electro-nix w/ Moodyman, Felix, Marflow, Fritz Plöckinger, Bibi Moblow, Marcus Neve @ Fluc+wanne/Wien
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Racism against Roma in Central Europe
On Nov 17, 2008 around 600 right-extremists met in Litvínov, Czech Republic, to protest against the local Roma minority. An attempted to reach the quarter of Janov resulted in heavy clashes with the police. During the clashes, 15 extremists were detained and several weapons – from baseball-bats to firearms – were seized. Janov is notorious for its conflicts between local Roma and the residents of the quarter’s tower blocks. An attempt to illegalise Dělnické strany (DS), the right-extremist party organising the march, has failed earlier this year.
Links:
- Radio Praha: Rechtsradikale liefern sich Straßenschlacht mit Polizei – Anwohner applaudieren
- Radio Praha: Verbotsantrag für rechtsextreme Arbeiterpartei gescheitert
In Tatárszentgyörgy, 50km south of Budapest, a 28-year-old Roma and his 4-year-old child were killed in an ambush attack on February 23, 2009. Unknown suspects had used Molotov cocktails to set the family’s house on fire, before shooting the fugitives with a shotgun. Two children – 3 and 6 years old – were injured by the fire. In a first reaction, the Hungarian authorities had announced that the fire had been caused by a defective heater and that the man and his son had been killed by a falling beam. Only after several witnesses reported to have heard an explosion followed by several shots, several evidences such as bullets, some fuel-soaked fabric and last not least a fuel-canister were all of a sudden discovered by the police. Only 8 months ago, the Hungarian national guard (“Magyar Gárda”, a uniformed offshoot of the right-extremist Jobbik party) had been organizing a highly criticized march in the village.
In 2008, 16 attacks with hand grenades, shotguns and Molotov cocktails against Roma have been reported all over Hungary. In November 2008, two Roma were shot dead, after their houses had been set on fire with Molotov cocktails in Nagycsécsen, a small village in the eastern part of the country. Only a few days later, three children lost their parents in an attack carried out with hand grenades in Pécs, Hungary’s main university city. In both cases police was quick to declare that a racist background of the attacks was not likely, suggesting rivalry among Roma groups being responsible for the murder instead. In the latest incident, unknown suspects threw stones into a house of a Roma family in Zalaegerszeg, near the Austrian border. A child sleeping in the house, was missed narrowly.
Links:
- The Budapest Times on the killing of Tatárszentgyörgy
- Brimbog: Hintergründe über die Gewalt gegen Roma in Ungarn und anderen europäischen Ländern, zahlreiche Übersetzungen aus ungarischen Medien
- Der Standard: Roma-Morde: Anschläge oft ungeklärt
- Der Standard: “Wie bei einer Treibjagd”
- Ö1/Journal Panorama: Zwischen Fremdenhass und Förderung – Ungarns ungeliebte Roma-Minderheit
- Neue Züricher Zeitung: Auftrieb für Neonazis in Ostmitteleuropa
Although the situation for Roma in Austria might have slightly improved since 1995 – when four Roma were killed in a bomb attack by Neo-Nazis in Oberwart, in the eastern province of Burgenland – the perspectives in terms of education and employment are still far from equal, compared to the average population.
On October 22, 2008 for instance, two Roma from Slovakia was maltreated by police in Vienna (a report on the case can be found here) . Even if racism and prejudice aren’t always expressed openly, Roma in Austria are facing discrimination on an everyday basis.
Links:
- d|ROM|a Blog: zweisprachiges Blog des österreichischen Vereins Roma Service
- No-racism.net: Wieder Misshandlungsvorwürfe gegen Wiener Polizisten
Dubsquare Radio (March 12, 2009)
This time another extended version, Sigha & IZC in a 4 hour back-to-back session!
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