hydrarchist writes

Open letter from 'DeriveApprodi' to the European movements

derive.approdi@libero.it

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At the beginning of November, as decided during the Porto Alegre meeting, the "European Social Forum" will convene in Florence. That Italy hosts the meeting is particularly significant, since it is here that the impetus, that began during the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle in November 1999, has resounded more strongly than in any other European country. The profile of the anti-capitalist movement, its modes of organisation and expression have been entirely redefined. The Genoa protests of July 2001 have not only constituted the highest point of the "global movement" in quantitative terms. They also have had concrete consequences for the history of Italian politics. Despite the reverberation of September 11th, a new movement has formed that has expressed itself at both the national and the local level, through campaigns against war, against the repression of social movements and for the rights of migrants. This has frequently resulted in the forging of new relationships with diverse political actors, such as the trade unions at the forefront of the struggle for the defence of workers’ rights, currently coming under attack from a right-wing government.

Louis Lingg writes "cryptome.org has posted several items regarding American scientist Steven J. Hatfill, considered a suspect in the anthrax mailings in the U.S. last fall.

At http://cryptome.org/hatfill-spd.htm is an article from the Independent Newspapers in South Africa identifying Hatfill as a sympathiser of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a neo-nazi outfit.

'STEVEN JAY HATFILL: Questionable (Quite Possibly Unsavory) Past – Ideal Fall-Guy for the Anthrax Incidents' by Stephen P. Dresch provides biographical and historical detail on Hatfill.

At http://cryptome.org/is-z-hatfill.htm cryptome has reposted an 'American Prospect' profile of Hatfill and a shorter piece from the NY Times on the FBI's disinterested and lethargic investigation of the anthrax mailings.

Finally, 'The Disaster Train' is the transcript of a talk Hatfill gave at the Terrorism Studies Program at George Washington University in 1998 addressing coordinated response and mass evacuation in the event of a bio-terror attack."