Activist meeting against the "European security architecture"

European security politics of the last twenty years has increased the potency of social and state control in a prodigious manner. New technologies, legislations, techniques and doctrines were established in the middle of the judicial, police and military apparatuses. The forces of control are merging, while the fronts of struggle are multiplicated.

Conflicts did not miss of course. From popular neighbourhoods to video surveillance, “border management” and "e-borders“, databases, control of telecommunication, new DNA or biometric technologies, satellites and flying cameras, blocking of websites, repression of militants, migrants, “crowd control” at summit protests or alternative cultures as the free parties, the hold of state control stretched.

But resistance is too punctual, located and specific to succeed. Very rare are the initiatives which managed, from demonstrations to direct actions, from meetings to judicial procedures, from speech to riots, to find a long-lasting echo among the population and to really prevent the march towards the control society.

There are many struggles and many actors of those struggles, but there is very little space for meetings and only little convergence.

But there is a need to find a common understanding of the changes regarding the “European security architecture”. Surveillance and control are shifting towards preventive, proactive, preemptive repression. New legislations, guidelines and treaties should help the European Union becoming an own state with more power and institutions, such as the “Treaty of Lisbon” or the “Stockholm Programme”, that should develop guidelines for the next five years of western security politics. The EU wants to set up a new “strategy of security”.

Such is the paradox of the security subject: on the questions of security, new technologies, repression, control of migration and public liberties, the attack is transverse, but the resistance is both generalized and split up.

We are calling for the creation of a convergence for resistance through meetings and political campaigns. We want to try to bring together the struggles from different countries and spectrums.

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