Genoa Group of Eight Summit Protest
After its participation in protests during the G8 summit in Genoa, 2001, the caravan was arrested in Italy. The 25 activists, journalists, and hitchhikers who were arrested there were kept in the custody of local police and then spent the next 3–4 weeks in the Voghera and Alessandria prisons in Italy before being deported and banned from re-entry. They were accused of being members of a "criminal organisation" that Italian authorities gave the name of the "black bloc" whose imputed goal was said to be "devastation and looting". They were charged with property destruction, looting, and criminal association. The police evidence against them included their possession of black clothing, knives used to create a mobile street kitchen, as well as juggling clubs, poi, and other props.
References:
Brian Holmes, “Liar's Poker: Representation of Politics/Politics of Representation,” springerin 1/03 (2003; also in German); http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1276&lang=en
Gerald Raunig, Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, translated by Aileen Derieg (MIT Press, 2007); chapter 8, "The Transversal Concatenation of the PublixTheatreCaravan: Temporary Overlaps of Art and Revolution"
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