November 2002

Friday the 1st er November 2002

Saturday November 2nd 2002

Sunday November 3rd 2002

  • In Turkey, the islamist ones “moderated” of the Left justice and the development (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP) gains in the majority absolute the anticipated legislative elections. The party of the former mayor of Istanbul Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with 34,22%, gain 363 seats out of 550, which positions APK in position to form a government, without needing partner. These elections make fear difficulties at the entry of the Turkey within the European Union. The political observers are on their guard.
  • Six alleged members of Al-Qaïda are killed with the Yemen in the explosion of their vehicle reached by rocket fires. Among them were one of the principal suspects of the attack against the American frigate “Sticks” in October 2000.

Monday November 4th 2002

  • In France, from November 4th to 25th, within the framework of the Business Elf, lawsuit in front of the Court of Appeal of Paris, Roland Dumas, Christine Deviers-Joncour, Gilbert Miara, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven. Judgment planned for the January 25th 2003.
  • In Argentinian, walk on the Plaza of Mayo to Buenos Aires to claim food for the poor children. According to the CTA, every 25 minutes a child dies because of poverty.
  • In Israel, Palestinian attack-suicide in a shopping mall of Kfar-Sheba, in the North-East of Tel-Aviv: a killed Israeli and thirty wounded.

Tuesday November 5th 2002

  • In France:
    • Closing with the new arrivals of the center of the the Red Cross of Sangatte in the Pas-de-Calais. They will be evacuated by the police force on November 14th and 76 of them deposit a request for asylum.
    • In the region of Lion, arrest of eight suspects in the attack of April 11th, 2002, with Jerba in Tunisia. Three other arrests will be made with Paris on November 18th.
  • legislative Elections of semi-mandate to the the United States. The republicans preserve the majority at the Chambre of the representatives with 227 seats against 203, and obtain the majority with the Senate with 51 seats against 46.
  • Following the resignation of the Labor ministers, of the anticipated general elections are announced in Israel for January. Benyamin Netanyahou of the Likoud accepts the post of Foreign Minister to replace Shimon Peres.

Wednesday November 6th 2002

International treaty on the phytogenetic resources for the food and agriculture
This Treaty was adopted on November 3rd, 2001 at the time of the 31e Conférence of FAO, and had been approved by 116 votes and 2 abstentions, Japan and the United States. It is closed with the signature since November 4th, 2002.
The Treaty aims at the Conservation and the durable use of the phytogenetic resources for the food and agriculture, as well as the Equal share of the advantages deriving from their use (including the advantages generated by the commercial exchanges). He also recognizes the Droit of the farmers and sets up a multilateral system of access and division of the advantages deriving from the cultures concerned with the treaty. Principal the Cultures and Fodder plants, considered as most important for the Food safety, is 64.

Thursday November 7th 2002

Special Forum of Florence
The FSE consists of a space of meetings and exchanges conceived to allow basic reflections, ideological debates, the update of proposals and alternatives, the experience sharing and projects of actions (an example), between the various entities and movements of the civil society engaged in the construction of another possible world centered around the human person, and not on the economic profit.

More 20  000 people for a Alter-universalization, coming from all the Europe are awaited Florence. And this November 9th, several hundreds of thousands of people will ravel at the time of the Européenne demonstration against the war in Iraq. The government of Silvio Berlusconi succeeded in stigmatizing the fears of the population florentine by affirming that the FSE would put at fire and blood the old city, while hesitating to move the meeting place, and while placing a very heavy police plan (which is not without pointing out the Sommet of Genoa in 2001 and its fatal skids). The Agreements of Schengen, on the borders and freedom of circulation inside European space, “exceptionally” and “on suspicion” were raised! Fresh information on:

  • Hacktivist News Service
  • Indymédia Italy (in Italian)
  • Indymédia Belgium

Friday November 8th 2002

Saturday November 9th 2002

Special great demonstration of Florence
Great walk against the “American domination”, the war in Iraq and more generally against the Europe of the Capital, envisaged with Florence at the time of FSE, joined together between 450  000 (according to the police force) and 1 million people according to the organizers who did not await as many monde.
Some photographs: here, there and still there!
Actions symbolic systems had already taken place since the beginning of the FSE:
  • for freedom of movement of the knowledge: here and there.
  • Occupation of the factory of Carterpillar
A self-managed center of independent media “HUB” is installed near Florence to ensure independent information via radio and TV pirates, via Internet also. See here and there

Sunday November 10th 2002

  • In France, a hundred illegal, Kurdish and Afghan immigrants occupies the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church of Calais (Pas-de-Calais).
  • Departure of VIIe Road of Rum between Saint-Malo and Point-with-Clown. Hecatomb at the multihulls (15 abandonments out of 18 boats in eleven days).

Monday November 11th 2002

  • At the top of the European Union in Brussels, acceptance of the agreement on the rules of transit between the enclave of Kaliningrad and the Russia. Old “the Königsberg” annexed by the Soviet Russia in 1945 will be wedged in the European Union after the widening of 2004.
  • Présentation by the general secretary of UNO Kofi Annan of the plan of reunification of Cyprus envisaging a federal state.

Tuesday November 12th 2002

  • the television channel qatarie Al-Jezira diffuses a new recognized sound recording as coming from the terrorist chief Bin Laden in whom he greets the last attacks with the Yemen, with the Kuwait, with Bali, Moscow and in advertisement the new ones. It warns and threat several Western countries to be the target again new attacks if they continued to support “ the gang of the butchers of the White House ”.

Wednesday November 13rd 2002

  • the tanker Prestige, in transit enters the Latvia and Gibraltar, and transporting 78  000 tons of heavy fuel, is victim of a serious damage close to the coasts of Galicia. The crew is evacuated on November 14th and the 16, whereas more 5  000 tons of fuel already spread polluting the littoral on several tens of kilometers, the Spanish Gouvernement the fact of towing far with the broad one, which proves, thereafter, being a serious error of evaluation of the risks.

Thursday November 14th 2002

  • At the time of a first historical reception of the pope Jean-Paul II with the House of Commons of the Italy, this one, during a ovationnée allowance of three-quarter of hour, reaffirms its wish to see mentioning “the religious heritage” in future the European Constitution.

Friday November 15th 2002

  • With Hebron in the West Bank, 9 soldiers and 3 colonists is killed and 15 wounded people, in a ambush asserted by the Islamic Djihad Palestinian. Tsahal re-occupies the town of Hebron as of on November 16th.

Saturday November 16th 2002

  • With the the United Kingdom, Scotland Yard confirms that 3 islamist North-African origin, stopped on November 9th, were accused for “ possession of objects intended for the preparation, the incentive and the order of terrorist acts ”, however the authorities do not have any convincing element making it possible to know the targets concerned announced, like the “subway of London”.
  • In Turkey, Abdullah Gul, number 2 of victorious AKP of the legislative elections, is named Prime Minister.

Sunday November 17th 2002

  • In France, in Le Bourget in the presence of 15  000 militants and of many distinguished guests, congress founder of the Union for a popular movement (UMP resulting from the transformation of the ex Union for the presidential majority created the shortly after the presidential election. Are elected Alain Juppe president, Philippe Douste-Blazy general secretary and Jean-Claude Gaudin vice-president.
  • With Perugia in Italy, the former president of the Council Giulio Andreotti, 83 years, is condemned to 24 years of prison “to have financed” in 1979 the assassination of the journalist Carmine Pecorelli. The judgment is symbolic system because it is always protected by its immunity from senator with life.

Monday November 18th 2002

Tuesday November 19th 2002

  • In France, the Appeal of Jose Bove against her judgment in 14 month of prison for the destruction, in December 1999, of rice plantations transgenic is rejected. He asks the presidential pardon to Jacques Chirac.
  • Towed with broad on order of the Spanish Government, the tanker “Prestige” of which the structure was very weakened, breaks into two, causing the beginning of gigantic a Oil slick which will soil seriously the coasts of Galicia, of the Portugal, of the Basque Country, Aquitaine, the Vendée and the south of the Brittany.
  • In Israel, election with the head of the Israeli Workers party of the general of reserve Amram Mitzna, mayor of Haïfa, considered as “Dove”.

Wednesday November 20th 2002

  • Historical event in Spain, where in the name of the “duty of the democratic society”, the Parliament in majority dominated by the Spanish Popular party of right-hand side, votes a motion condemning “the repression of the pro-Franco dictatorship”.

Thursday November 21st 2002

  • From November 21st to 22nd, with Prague (Czech Republic), top of NATO (the first in a country of the ex- Warsaw Pact):
    • adhesions accepted of the Slovakia, the Lithuania, the Latvia and the Estonia.
    • adoption of a text inviting the Iraqi Government to conform “completely and immediately” to the resolution 1441 of UNO).
  • the US government announces the arrest, with the Kuwait, of islamist Abdal Rahmin Nashiri, arising Saoudi, near to the terrorist chief Usama Bin Laden. It is suspected of having organized the attacks against the American embassies with the Kenya and in Tanzania in 1998, against the American frigate “Sticks” in October 2000 and against the French tanker “Limburg” on October 6th, 2002.
  • With Java in Indonesia, arrest of islamist Iman Samudra, expert in data processing, suspected of being the “brain” of the attack of October 12th, 2002 with Bali.
  • Suicide bombing in a coach in Jerusalem-West, asserted by the Palestinian Hamas: 11 killed Israelis and 40 others wounded. In reprisals, Tsahal, in the night of the 21 to the 22, re-occupies the “autonomous” zone Palestinian of Bethlehem and intensifies repression in all the occupied territories.
  • In reaction to the election of Miss Monde, envisaged with Abuja on January 7th, of the Moslem rioters is ruent against the Christians with Kaduna in the north of the Nigeria, assessment: a hundred deaths. Riots with Abuja the capital on November 22nd. The 23, the organizers of the election announce that it will take place with London.

Friday November 22nd 2002

Saturday November 23rd 2002

  • Arrived of gaining of VIIe Road of Rum, the British Ellen MacArthur, 26 years, on board its monoshell “Kingfisher”, in 13 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes of crossing and by beating all the records. The first of the three surviving multihulls, the “Giant” trimaran barred by the French French Michel Desjoyeaux, arrives only the 24.

Sunday November 24th 2002

  • In France, employers and 4 trade unions (FO, CFTC, FNCR and CGC) sign an agreement concerning the truck drivers, at the conclusion 2 days and half of negotiations. At the call of CGT and CFDT, a score of filter stoppings are set up, but they are raised in the night from November 24th to 25th.
  • Partial cantonal election: Jacques Bompard, mayor FN of Orange is elected with the first turn with 54,36% against UMP Paul Durrieu.
  • In Austria, the anticipated legislative elections are gained by the conservative party ÖVP with 79 seats (+17) and 42,27% of the voices (+15,4%). The identity populist party FPÖ, with 19 seats (- 33) and 10,6% (- 16,8%), falls and turns over in the opposition.
  • In Swiss, by referendum, rejection of the proposal of populist Christope Blocher, to harden the legislation on the right of asylum, by 50,1% of “not”.

Monday November 25th 2002

  • In France, arrest, with Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis), of free-Algerian, Slimane Khalfaoui, suspected of having belonged to the “group of Frankfurt” which had a project of bloody murder to Strasbourg during the festivals of Christmas 2000.

Tuesday November 26th 2002

  • In France, arrest, in Ile-de-France and with the Meeting, of 8 people, within the framework of the investigation into the islamist British Richard Reid, who had tried to make jump the plane of the flight Paris-Miami of December 22nd, 2001.
  • Of the strikes in the public sector and the demonstrations gathers some a hundred and thousand people in the streets.
  • Corsica organization “second FLNC” asserts ten attacks made since the beginning of the month.
  • After the murder of a young Moroccan professor, Mohamed Achrak, violent riots burst with Antwerp (Belgium), framed by the European Arab Ligue.
  • Summit of Malaga (Spain), between the president Jacques Chirac and Spanish the Prime Minister Jose María Aznar. Announces new control measures of the old ships monocoque of more than fifteen years.

Special demonstrations
With the call many trade unions, more 80  000 people expressed with Paris “ against the break-in of the public service ” which the government Raffarin accelerates. This great demonstration gathered many railwaymen of the RATP and the SNCF burdens some, as well as employees of Air France, France Telecom and other public services. Some students were also present to fight against the installation of the “ reform Lang - Ferry of the ECTS ” which allows the short-term privatization of the university education. To note that Ségolène Royal, Elisabeth Guigou, and Daniel Vaillant (Socialist party) was placed at the head procession but were decried by demonstrators who stressed: “PS: recovery! ”. They quickly eclipsed.

Wednesday November 27th 2002

  • Beginning of the work of inspection in Iraq, by the inspectors of the UNMOVIC.
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, chief of AKP, victorious from the legislative elections in Turkey, is received in France by the president Jacques Chirac.

Thursday November 28th 2002

  • In France from November 28th to 29th, official visit of Portuguese the Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durão Barroso.
  • In Ivory Coast, taken again combat between the rebels and the forces loyal supporters in the west of the country, the shortly after talks between the French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, the president Laurent Gbagbo and representatives of the rebels.
  • In Israel, the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is re-elected with the head of Likoud against its challenger Benyamin Netanyahou. The same day, attacks of a polling station in the north of the country, by 2 Palestinians who kill 6 Israelis before being themselves shot down.
  • With the Kenya, attack-suicide with the car bomb against a hotel of Monbasa: 13 dead including 3 Israelis. The same day, shootings of 2 missiles against a Boeing, charter of the Israeli company Arkia, shortly after its takeoff of the airport of Monbasa for Tel-Aviv. The apparatus is saved thanks to its embarked military technology and carries on its road.

Friday November 29th 2002

  • In France, death with Paris of the actor Daniel Gélin, at the 81 years age.
  • Drama of Loriol (Drome): on the Highway A7, a motorist strikes firemen who intervened on an accident, in spite of the beaconing set up; the 82 years old motorist, a former city council man of Lyon and former president of the Chamber of commerce and industry, rolled to 150  km/h whereas speed was limited to 90 because of work.

Saturday November 30th 2002

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