[WSF-Discuss] Champagne Breakfast Demo in Malmö

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2008-09-18



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*Champagne Breakfast Demo in Malmö*

[image: Photo:Tomas Brodin / SCANPIX /]


European Social Forum kicking off on Wednesday evening

Up to 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Swedish Migration Board's
offices in Malmö today. News agency TT report that the peaceful protestors
laid out a champagne breakfast for employees arriving to work this morning
to draw attention to Sweden and the EU's immigration policies.

The protestors are in the city for the fifth European Social Forum.

The Forum is the largest meeting place in Europe for different social
movements and organisations to get together and exchange ideas on how to
create a better world. Around 20,000 participants are expected to attend
this year's event taking place over five days in the southern Swedish city.

Over 200 workshops and seminars will be held discussing everything from
equal employment laws to climate change. Music, film and other cultural
activities are also on the agenda.

Aside from today's protest, Malmö police say they are not worried about
unrest or violence having learnt their lesson from the protests during the
2001 EU Summit in Gothenburg.

Any serious problems that do arise are likely to come from protesters from
outside of the Forum, they say. Further demonstrations against companies in
Malmö with connections to the US military are anticipated. as well as
protests from the Reclaim the Streets collective whose ideals of shared
access to all public spaces have seen whole areas of towns shut down in the
past.

Police from other regions of Sweden have been called in for reinforcement
and for the first time forces from Denmark, Norway and Germany will be
involved.

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