A HOT SUMMER IN AMSTERDAM On the 16th and 17th of June the Eurotop will take place in Amsterdam. During this gathering of European heads of state in the Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam work will be done on the creation of a single economic power. With the market as the key word social services will either be privatised or scrapped. Governing policies will be made behind closed doors by impenetrable power structures. This tiny group of national leaders will give all power to capitalism and at the same time all possibilities for democratic alternatives will be dismantled. This process will be helped along by increasing levels of control, both internal and at the external borders of Europe. The heads of state have big ideas for this European conference. They want to formulate the Treaty of Amsterdam, or Maastricht 2, a rewriting of the European Union treaty that was signed in 1992. In this treaty they want to abolish the right of veto for national cabinets and bring in new laws for foreign policy, judiciary and the police. The Eurotop is a blessing for Amsterdam's council. They will get the chance to rid the city of its image as a Sodom and Gomorrah full of slums, drugs and the sex industry and will instead be able to present the city as a respectable economically sound international city. In order to present this image to the government leaders and to ensure that the conference runs smoothly there will be thousands of extra police officers bought into Amsterdam and a large part of the city will be made into security zones. In these security zones people will be required to prove their identity and the streets will be 'cleared' of the homeless, illegal immigrants and other 'undisirable elements'. A view of the future perhaps? Fortunately there are a lot of people and organisations who are discontented with these plans and intend to show their disgust and carry out acts of resistance during the conference. People from other countries and cities are of course welcome. We have already planned a number of actions and events that will take place between the 12th and 17th of June. Here we have an incomplete list of events. These actions will be organised by a broad spectrum of progressive groups and individuals. Therefore each group is responsible for its own plans. The actions have been planned taking other groups and events into consideration, but it has been decided that there will be no 'central comitee' to organise everything. There will remain plenty of room for other spontaneous occurences. During the conference there will be a number of 'info points' in Amsterdam where people will be able to obtain information about what is happening. The addresses of these points is not available at this moment but can be obtained from our address after 1st May. We are unable to arrange sleeping places for everybody, you will have to do that yourself (or arrange thast people can come and stay with you!) Individual actions and initiatives are welcome, so that we will be able to show in all manner of ways that we are not happy with the current policies of the EU but want a different and more just world. It promises to be a long hot summer. AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF ACTIVITIES THAT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE EUROTOP IN AMSTERDAM. 14-6 Demonstration against unemployment, poverty and exploitation. From mid- April thousands of people will be marching to Amsterdam from various different countries. These marches will meet in Amsterrdam on the 14th as a demonstration against EU policy. 11-6/17-6 Top from the bottom. "Platform for another Europe', a collaboration of various progressive groups will be organising discussions, actions and theme days. This will be in the form of an alternative top with speakers from different countries. There will be workshops about unemployment, poverty, social injustice, feminist Europe, Europe and the south, Ecological Europe and so on. 15-6 Demonstration/Action at the Border Hostel. The Autonomous Centre will probably organise a cycle demonstration through the city which will end up at the prison for refugees in south east Amsterdam. Exact details of this action will be publicised later. 13-6/15-6 Chaos Days. Punks will be gathering in Amsterdam to turn the city upside down. 15-6 Demonstration at the Homomonument. A demonstration against the verdict of the European court that England is alloewd to make voluntary SM sexual practises illegal. This will take place under the slogan "Sexual diversity in Europe". Organised by Stichting Gala. 12-6/13-6 United Conference. The biggest NGO gathering of the European Year Against Racism. The themes of this will be "Fortress Europe", "Everyday racism" and "Institutional Racism", there will be speakers from various countries. This will be held in English. 16-6 Eurorave. LegalizE street party against the European drugs policy "and the other shit that they have got planned for us." 17-6 Euroblow A massive smoke-in at the Nederlandsche Bank as a protest against the European drugs policy. 17-6 Autonomous demonstration at the Nederlandsche Bank. Angry people wearing balaclavas in a tearing hurry to get to the Nederlandsche bank. Meeting point 14-00hours at the Dam.