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As announced on Indymedia, the VolxTheaterKarawane took part in a competition about finding a good slogan for Benita Ferrero-Waldner for the current election campaign for the Austrian president, and 5 of their slogans got into the top 10. And today, they met Benita and asked her a number of unpleasing questions.



For those who don't know: the VolxTheaterKarawane is a group of Austrian performance artists. During their journey to the protests in Genua 2001, they were arrested by the Italian police and arrested for 3 weeks for having bats with them (those "bats" were juggle sticks, actually). After they were arrested, Benita Ferrero-Waldner called them "well-known trouble-makers", which is, to be honest, pure bullshit. She also asserted that the arrested people refused to take the lawyer that was provided by the Austrian consulate. The truth: there was no lawyer. And while the people from all the other European countries came free because the country's politicians intervened, Benita Ferrero-Waldner did absolutely nothing.



So, people, please don't vote for her. During the election campaign, she always asserted that she cared about all Austrians in foreign countries when they were in trouble. Well, she did care about the Austrian tourists that were kept as hostages in Algeria, but she absolutely didn't care about the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genua, she even accused them to be trouble-makers.