Conspiracy group suspected in blasts 15/5 greek media...

As forensic experts of the police’s counterterrorism unit yesterday examined the remnants of two bombs that targeted Attica’s Korydallos Prison and Thessaloniki’s main court complex within 24 hours of each other, police sources said they believe members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire to be behind both of the attacks.

Yesterday’s blast occurred shortly before 1.30 p.m. when a large bomb that had been planted in the basement men’s rest rooms at Thessaloniki’s main court complex detonated, injuring one court employee in the leg. An anonymous caller had phoned in a warning to the Eleftherotypia daily 20 minutes beforehand. According to sources, the caller had asked that the court complex be evacuated immediately, emphasizing several times that “this is not a hoax.” Police started ushering people out of the courtrooms but the bomb went off before everyone had left the premises. Televised images at the time of the bombing showed frightened citizens and policemen streaming out the entrance.

Police had not made any official statement regarding the suspected perpetrators behind the bombing by late yesterday but sources said they believed it – and Thursday night’s bombing outside Korydallos jail – had been the work of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and had been intended to remind police that the urban guerrilla group is still active. Ten suspected members of the group have been arrested over the past year. Of these, three are still in custody.

According to sources, the modus operandi of the perpetrators behind the court complex bombing and the blast outside the prison resembles that of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, whose recent hits include bombings at the Athens headquarters of Ethniki Insurance, the Aliens Bureau on Petrou Ralli Street and the central Athens offices of Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), a far-right organization.

The bomb used at the court complex is believed to have comprised 10 kilograms of high-impact explosives, according to police sources. The bomb used in the Korydallos hit was very powerful, with reverberations felt as far away as central Athens, but no details about its composition were revealed. It caused significant damage and minor injuries to the 22-year-old resident of an adjacent apartment block.

By late last night, there had been no claim of responsibility for either attack.

ANOTHER EXPLOSION BOMB IN THESALONIKI IN SIDE IN THE COURT BILDING..14.5

At noon today a bomb exploded in the court of Thessaloniki. 2 phone calls had warned about the placement of the bomb.

VERY BIG BOMB EXPLOSION OUTSIDE KORIDALLOS PRISON IN ATHENS! 15 MINUTES AGO!!!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mainstream media report that a “strong bomb” exploded approximately 200 meters away from the exterior wall of the prison of Korydallos in Athens tonight. Athens daily “Eleftherotypia” and “Alter” TV station received warning calls at approximately 21.50 GMT+2. A 22-year old woman was lightly injured from the explosion, which was across the city centre, Piraeus and the southern suburbs. [Show as slideshow]
Although it was a huge explosion heard to almost All Athens, All mass media try to dig this and referred just for a few seconds in contrast to worldwide mass media refering to this explosion near the Athens prison wall that destroyed the window glasses in house 100nds of meters away.. The reason of this low profile is that the Greek goverment afraids that the extensive publication of this event will harm seriously the "safety profile" of the Greek vacations.. taking also inaccount that a large campain is due to start explaining to the world .. that Greece is safe to come. To understand the seriousness of the effort the Prime Minister Papandreou participates on the video clip for the advertisement .

Leo Ferre Les Anarchistes

news action greece europe 5/5

About the atms in thessaloniki greece

In the early hours of wednesday 5th of may we decided to inaugurate the 24hour general strike by putting of use 71 ATMs in many areas of Thessaloniki (euosmos, centre, touba, ambelokipoi, pylaia, kalamaria, sukies). This action is just another small piece of the puzzle that is a part of the substantial oppossition to the calmness that exists in the functioning of society .
An action against the obvious section of the otherwise invisible, prosedure of money circulation.
An action that is easy for everyone to do (a little bit of quik dry glue and a few cards is enough to sabotage a few of these machines).
In a society such as this one, in which the relationships are described with consumerist terms, we try every moment to oppose the normality that is defined in our lives by the state, replacing this way the logic of abuse with the release of our destructive feelings. We chose to act on this day to show that for strikes to be an authentic threat to the state, a basic criteria is the interruption of production and with that, of consumtion, this way normality is blocked and the chance is given to everyone in the street to organize their resistance to those who stole their lives.
Because of the assimilation of the strikes and their transformation to another democratic right , this threat has turned into nothing more than a simple -and this only apparently- happy break from everyday life.
Solidarity around the world with the revolt in Greece and all the prisoners

May 1st, Naples : Four banks ATM’s are attacked with color and hammer, in solidarity with „Giannis Dimitrachis, Alfredo Bonnano, Christos Stratigoupoulos. The ghost of liberty always comes back with a knife in between his tooth“

April 28th, Prague : Molotovs thrown in the garden of the greek ambassy, where a fire started. Dimitrakis name and a circled ‚A‘ are painted in the entry. Press talks about a „similar arson“ in the greek ambassy in Bresil.

April 27th, London: Occupation of the Hellenic Center. Two banners are hung on the roof, one on the balcony, with „Liberty for Dimitrakis and all the anarchists“, „Honnor to Lambros Fountas- Liberty for the 6″, „Fire to the prisons! Liberty for Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos!“

April 27th, Buenos Aires: Gathering in front of the greek ambassy. Five comrades are arrested (one is hardly bitten at the head by the cops), and their houses are searched. Press talks about a molotov thrown against the ambassy. On April 29th, they are imprisoned for „damage, assault and battery, attack, resistance to public authority“ and…“ abuse of ideological power“.

April 26th, Rome: Three ATM of the San Paolo bank are sabotaged with color and acide, and graffities are left “ Liberty for Dimitrakis“. The claim ends with „Liberty for all the companions hostages of the greek State- Fire to the prisons“

April 25th, Barcelone: In Gracia district, an ATM of the Caixa Catalunya bank is put on fire. The claims adds: „Let the solidarity flammes spread! Until they are reduced to ashes! LIebrty for Giannis Dimitrakis!“

April 15th, Paris: Société Générale Bank attacked with color, a window and an ATM are broken. Some graffities appeared: „Bim! War to capital!“. „War to property“ is left on a further estate agency in construction, which one glass has been broken. In the claim: „With this action, we send our solidarity to the companions in Greece and elsewhere, who fight against domination, and all the forms it can have.
Social war doesn‘t know no truce, nor borders.“

March 30th, Brussels: Greek church gets red paint
The Greek orthodox Parish Sainte-Marina attacked; the Oecumenic Patriarchy of Constantinopel, patriarch of Belgium. Red paint re-covered, and a slogan was left: „The state and the church kill and imprison.“

March 28th, Paris: Orthodoxe greek church doors are put in fire. The two ATMs and all windows of the BNP bank on Bretagne street are broken: this bank owns one of the biggest greek bank, Piraeus Bank. In the communiqué, one could read:
„Solidarity with all the hostages of the State (from the bread thief to the bomber). Good luck to all who are on the run. Let’s make deeper the crisis, here like anywhere else!“

March 18th, Brussels: BNP bank completly smashed. On the claim: „In Greece like everywhere, that capital may die. Solidarity with the anarchists taken hostage by the Greek state.“

March 15th, Brussels: Windows of Dexia bank broken. „Our thinking goes to the anarchist Lambros Fountas, murdered by Greek police. Solidarity with the permanent revolt shaking Greece.“

March 15th, Brussels: Two cars of Greek diplomats burned and claimed.

Soccer riot 2/5

Seven riot policemen suffered minor injuries in clashes with PAOK fans salonika on Sunday night following a match for the Super League playoffs. The supporters threw petrol bombs, rocks and bottles at the officers. Two of the policemen were hit by a car. No arrests were made.

SOLIDARITY DEMO IN SIDNEY AUSTRALIA FROM ANARCHIST FOR GREECE

On the afternoon of Sunday 16/5/2010 took place a solidarity intervention and public speaking for the strikers and our comrades in Greece. For several hours we occupied Newtown square, banners were hung around, displayed many anarchist flags, distributed texts, scattered flyers throughout the area, and played Greek anarchist music.greek_soli-02l262so.mov (video/quicktime)

Brussels - Solidarity visit to Greek Tourism Office

"Brussels, avenue Louise, monday at 10 in the morning: people storm into the Greek Tourist Office and throw oil on the computers, paint and home-made stink bombs and this text:

When we make today a visit to the Tourist Office of the Greek State, it is not to offer ourselves a travel to the sun which would make us forget the morbid routine. We are inhabitual clients who came to share a part of the road with those who chose the paths of revolt. The one way tickets for the angry, and especially for the anarchists, to the cells of the Greek State will not dismantle the ongoing social explosion; they will not obstruct us from going on the slingering paths towards a world without authority.

Freedom for the imprisoned anarchists!
Freedom for all!"

12.05.2010
Translated from http://lille.indymedia.org/article22676.html

Detentions at protest.

On May 12, a picket took place at the Greek embassy in Warsaw in solidarity with the social struggle in Greece. The picket was visited by a group of about 10 Greek people living in Poland. A banner was hung on the embassy. Also, the flags of Greece and the EU, which were on flagpoles in front of the building, were taken down and black flags put in their place.

After the picket, police came after a group of people sitting in the park. Six Greek activists and a Polish guy were arrested and are still being held. Police are still "investigating" the incident, but they are threatening to charge people with stealing the flag and with taking part in an illegal demonstration with the intent to commit a crime. Stealing the flag can face up to one year in prison.

The police have not been very cooperative in either giving information or letting a lawyer see the detainees. In relation to this, there was an emergency solidarity picket during the day in front of the "Police Palace". As a result, a spokesman came out and gave a little information and promised that somebody could at least receive information concerning the eventual release or continued detention of the comrades.

Tomorrow again we will try to send legal aid to the detained and maybe organize a bigger protest if they are not released. There may be a problem for foreigners detained in Poland as sometimes the police consider them a flight risk.

http://zspwawa.blogspot.com/2010/05/fuck-flag-freedom-for-greek-activists.html

13 police cars torched at police school in Denmark 14/5

greetings from Denmark! Some 13 police squad vehicles, patrol cars and unmarked police cars went up in flames during the night (may 14th) at the Police Academy in Brøndby (a suburb of Copenhagen). A neighbour to the Academy called the police after hearing an explosion at the school and three vehicles in flames. By the time the fire service arrived at the scene, a further 10 were in flames. The vehicles were in a compound at the rear of the complex and it appears that those responsible had also attempted to set fire to several garbage containers at the front of the building.

It remains unclear how the cars were set alight and neighbours say they had not seen any suspicious people in the area around the compound.

--There is an anti-police demonstration in Copenhagen next week, should be fun!

SLOGAN SOLIDARITY IN THE STREETS IN ATHENS
FOR OUR COMRADES THEY URRESTED IN ARGENTINA .TODAY 7/5 CALL GATHERING DEMO FROM THE ANARCHISTS IN ARGENTINA EMBASSY IN ATHENS

7 ARRESTS IN POLAND AFTER SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR GREECE

Yesterday 12/5/2010 twenty people gathered in a solidarity action at the greek embassy in warsaw poland. The put up banners and took down the greek and european flag replacing them with black ones. six greek and one polish student were arrested. They have been in warsaw police station since then. Noone can communicate with them. A lawyer of the black cross has gone there aswell.
In poland its illegal to have a protest with more than 15 people.
We dont know if they will keep them for 24 or 48 hours. They have given them no food or water. The cops want to press serious charges. None of the people arrested had anything to do with the flag action. They are going to charge them with stealing the flag [which does not exist] and for "participating in an illegal gathering with intent to commt a crime".

FREEDOM TO THE COMRADES
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

...boubourAs translations...

SOLIDARITY FROM FRANCE TO THE GREEK COMRADES!!

somewhere in france

the passion for freedom is stronger than any cage..

Police Draw Batons on Bank Bailout protestors

Two thousand took to the street to protest at the bank bailout.

Anger at the devastation of Ireland in the name of bailing out the Banks was articulated at the Right To Work Campaign protest at the Dail.

This is a short video from when the first forty or so went to the gates to be joined shortly by hundreds more.

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Video from the gates of the Daíl.

Athens: death of a (riot) dog.

A well known anarchist activist (of the canine kind), known as 'S@ns Papiers' , sadly passed away after dying of natural causes, following childbirth. She was founder of a group known as the Bl@ck Dogs, co-members were her puppies.

Early on Saturday the 8th of May, S@ns Papiers passed away, 2 months after a difficult pup-birth, aged six. She had 3 puppies, Petras, Luben and Giganta (Giant).
She first took to the streets early, in 2006, in Athens and elsewhere, as her mother grew and her human carer was attacked with flash-bangs and chemicals. In December 2008 she was with human comrades in the thick of the social-class struggle. On the 5th of May S@ns Papiers managed to reach the entrance of the parliament, placard in mouth!
S@ns Papiers was buried alongside her gran with honor, as and "enemy of the state".

An abridged translation of http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1167968
Numerous photos of this comrade are shown!

Solidarity from Sydney, AustraliaYesterday 11/5/2010 a solidarity gathering with the workers struggle in Greece took place at the Greek Consulate in Sydney, Australia. The same building also holds the branch of Laiki Bank, the subsidiary of Marfin Bank in Sydney.Banners in English and Greek were placed, texts distributed, and flyers scattered around the city.-Anarchists/Antiauthoritarians in SydneyBelow, the photos

about 5th of May

THE FAIR UPRISING OF 120,000 DEMONSTRATORS, THE RAID AGAINST THE PARLIAMENT BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ENRAGED PEOPLE HAD NOTHING AND COULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PARA-STATE GANG WHO MURDERED THREE PEOPLE IN A BANK IN STADIOU STR. AND TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO DO THE SAME AT THE BOOKSTORE IANOS

“Oh sky, your mirror image can be seen on the mud also”.

At first, we want to make it clear that our anger is indescribable, for the cowardly para-state gang who is responsible for murdering three people, two women, one pregnant on the fourth month, and a man who worked at Marfin bank at Stadiou Str., as well as for the gang of politicians and journalists who rushed to associate the fair uprising of hundreds of thousands of people in Athens and other cities with this atrocious murder.

But the truth cannot be erased. An angry river of protesters surrounded the Parliament and for hours and hours attempted to invade during a ferocious battle with the forces of repression.

This fact cannot be hidden or covered by tons of mud, which the panic-stricken state employees, gloomy party-directors of every colour and the ‘elite’ managers of ‘journalism’ try to throw. Even the video-feedback that they supposedly commented with their almost pale faces , is an irrefutable evidence of what actually happened for hours either on the stairs leading to the courtyard of the parliament, or in front of the Unknown Soldier, or at Amalias Ave. in the wider area of “Sintagma”.

Tens of thousands of protesters tried to break the ring of the repressive forces, while the entire demonstration not only applauded this effort but they also supported by not moving from the area which was full with tear gas. People of all ages with their face covered or not, rattled the atmosphere with the slogan ”Burn the parliament this bordello”, which was shouted just from the lips of anarchists some years ago. As for the anarchists, yes they were among all those who gave a thunderous message to local officials of the IMF and EU but also to their famous bosses.

Here is the Balkans, it’s not funny. The people still know how to struggle, to uprise, to revolt, to bleed in order to hold just a piece of hope for what they believe is fair. The neck of the dissidents in Greece has proven to be sensitive to state oppression, their recalcitrance feeds every insurgency, every social conflict.

International news agencies, once again, record an uprising in Greece in a crucial “moment” for the lords of the EU and beyond. They fear that this fiery message would, once again, pass the blaze to other grounds, which would gradually become a fire. The European south, which appears unable to “adapt”, is attempted to be put in the ‘gypsum’, to be disciplined in any way.

So, let’s welcome the new plans. Let us make them sure that the whip is not enough to make us passive and unable to lift our head. Let them have no doubt that the fairy tales and ideologies of ‘national survival’, ‘patriotism’, ‘national emergency’ and certain other stories have unraveled.

As far as we are concerned, we have not forgotten, not for a single moment, that we have every reason to stick the knife as deep as we can into the bone. To do everything to keep the wounds of the authoritarians open. The failure is all their own, we did not and will not ever have anything to share with those who suck the lives of people, who now deny to them even the crumbling they granted yesterday. As for those who waver, those who will be placed outside, because the fate that the system of domination and exploitation holds for them is now worse, we have nothing else to do but to welcome them.

Finally, we reiterate once again that the anarchist militants have nothing to do with any sort of miserable gang. They participate in social struggles, proposing first of all the ethics, their selflessness and abnegation. They do not intend to gain economic or other kind of profit. They don’t bear the flag “steal, break, grab”. They deplore and do not associate with anyone who wants to impose, in a revolutionary way or not. They explicitly disregard any kind of “medals”, claimed by supposedly “enlightened vanguards” and turn their back without a second thought to the “movement majorities”, who, however, seem so few and so small…

The 5th of May, will be surely recorded in the strongest way possible in the history of social struggles. We wish to believe that the painful fact of murdering three people will be the swan song of those who attempt to tie down social practices, promoting – from the position of an assignee – various para-state gangs, whatever disguise they have.

Of course, “don’t just wait for help from Gods, u have to move your hands yourself” …

Athens, 5th May 2010

Anarchist’s Coil

www.anarchy.gr

www.anarchypress.gr

Seisidis suing arresting officer

12/5

A lawyer representing Symeon Seisidis, believed to be a member of the “robbers in black” gang, said yesterday that his client has sued the police officer who shot him in the leg before his arrest last week. Seisidis and an alleged accomplice were caught in central Athens shortly after an armed raid on a Praktiker hardware store. Seisidis insists that he had nothing to do with the robbery and that he was unjustly targeted. His lawyer, Costas Papadakis, claimed that Seisidis was shot from behind.

Greece May 2010
The political unrest spreads to football .. in Greece
the crowd just before the beginning of the football match is shouting .." burn - burn the Parliament" , "thieves - thieves" ..

10 minute video with subtitles in english of precariously working teachers invading and protesting at the studios of greek national TV while on air, the day before the general strike of May 5th, only to be confronted by the riot police.

Probation Offices Attacked in London (UK)

11 May 2010

Forest Gate Community Service Office and Probation Offices were attacked by anarchist group “Black Fever Gang”. Spraypaint slogans and broken windows were the result. The action was dedicated to anarchist prisoners everywhere, especially those in Greece.“We are fighters!! Not murderers!! Long live anarchy!! Black Fever Gang!!”

FREE BENEFIT GIG FOR BRISTOL ANTIFA ---- http://bristolantifa.org

THURSDAY 20TH MAY @ ROADHOUSE (FORMALLY PEN & QUILL), TAUNTON

france solitarity!!!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd7i8a_manif-soutien-grece_news

letter of solidarity from Yiannis Dimitrakis

In a society of deceit and hypocrisy, of backstabbing and betrayal; there where human relationships are molded on personal profit and exploitation, within the narrow limits of involuntary/obligatory choices, the scope of creating honest and sincere ties of social or political solidarity becomes constricted, suffocated. And if in many cases personal interest and vanity create a concrete mass in a common course between those in power, economic elites, political groups and other subgroups thus creating the illusion of a solid front, then in as many other cases it has been proven that when these same are confronted with pressuring and extremely negative conditions with the possibility of a total collapse approaching, the seeming powerful gluing element which created these cohesive bonds retreats in an instant, leaving behind a crowd of subhumans, each one looking to save themselves and not hesitating of handing over into the hands of the until lately common enemy their until recently political-social-economic partner.

For me now at my 32 years of age, with whatever experiences I have and whatever political consciousness and understanding I have developed, it is indisputable that since always one of the most precious and powerful weapons in the hands of people fighting against the world of the overlords, in expectance of a fair and free near future, was and will be solidarity. A solidarity which does not shrink in the face of repression but on the contrary unfolds decisively; which does not weep but attacks; which does not forget but honors with its memory.

And it is this solidarity I have tasted in the nearly 5 years I remain a captive of the state and that has to a great decree steeled me in all the difficult situations I have had to face and as an anarchist and as a prisoner. From the different events and demonstrations, the occupations of radio stations and the multitude of printed propaganda material to the arsonist and bombing actions against state and economic targets. From Greece to Spain, Germany, the UK to Argentina and Mexico the common ideas, values and visions have erected a web of solidarity under which I also have the joy of being.

To all those who have stood by me through all my years of imprisonment and who continue in whatever way they can to give me the strength and courage to stand proud against all kinds of state mechanisms, I feel that I owe a part of myself.

So I salute and would like to thank all those comrades who within the context of the local and international web of solidarity that is developing and strengthening continuously in the last years and that breaks through borders and boundaries, considered and deemed it is worth for them to risk even their own freedom in order to build an effective mound and a counterweight to the attacks and decisions taken against me by those in power.

Before the final rise of the sun that melts the darkness that embraces us all, the scattered fires emerging and shining more and more frequently from the most distant and unlikely places, illuminate the points and imperceptible routes drawn out by the universal rebellious conscience. My heart and soul cannot but be wholly with it.

NO FIGHTER A HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE POWER AND ECONOMIC ELITES

FREEDOM TO ALL IN PRISON

With comradely greetings

Y. Dimitrakis

Domokos Prison

3/5/10

UPDATES NEWS FROM ITALY

Italy, Benevento - 'Do like in Greece'

It's the time of clandestine posters, here is another: "Do like in Greece... rebel". It also carries the classic symbol of anarchy. This is the poster that was present this morning in via Perasso in Benevento, then immediately removed by the forces of order. With the classic symbol of anarchy the authors of the poster were solicited rebellion in the streets as in Greece in the culmination of a devastating social conflict. This manifesto is the latest of a production put up on the walls of the town. Sun, 09/05/2010 – 22:54

from informa-azione

Ferrara, Italy. On the nth beating by the cops
How long will we still accept without reacting?
On February 24 2010 four immigrant kids are arrested in the centre of Ferrara [northern Italy] and taken to the carabinieri station of Via Del Campo. There the cops attack the kids furiously: it looks like the usual story of police brutality hidden behind the walls of a prison, the darkness of a neighbourhood in the night or, as in this case, the conspiracy of silence inside a police station.
This time, however, the carabinieri carry out their aggression in front of the cameras installed in the premises, and they don’t even take care to conceal the infamy they are committing.
The images (which can be seen on www.innocentievasioni.net and on www.italiarazzismo.it) show a carabiniere hitting one of the harmless boys with a truncheon gripped upside down in order to cause more pain; another cop pins another boy down while jumping on his back, which reminds us of the murder of Federico Aldrovandi, beaten to death by four pigs in uniform in the same city of Ferrara in 2005. This beating, captured by the cops’ cameras, takes place while other cops watch passively.
The four kids are held in the carabinieri station for hours and eventually accused of resistance to public official, according to the style of these pigs who first beat you and then denounce you.
A trial against the four boys will be held on May 11.
The fact that this is not an isolated episode but one of an infinite series is proved not only by the press reports that sporadically relate the most disgusting cases of police violence, notably when someone is killed by the men in uniform, but also by the widespread arrogance displayed by the military when they patrol and control the territory and the cities of this country in an escalation of abuse, violence and intimidation addressed especially against migrants. The massive presence of police and soldiers in many Italian urban centres serves to get us accustomed to all this.
From Aldrovandi to Cucchi, from Lonzi to Uva [all of them killed by the Italian police and carabinieri], from Carlo Giuliani to the many who ‘committed suicide’ in prison, from the migrants who gulp down blades and pieces of glass in protest at their imprisonment to those who die while escaping anti-immigration raids, we wonder how many will have to die before rage flows from the heart of people and pushes them to make the only right and wise decision: to revolt openly and incessantly against the apparatus of institutionalised violence, against the fascist structures and men of this State murderer.
To all those who celebrate May Day in these times of crisis, we suggest to have a look at Greece so that you can understand how the cops are never on the side of people but they are there to defend the interests of capitalists, multinationals and banks. There is nothing to celebrate. Quite the opposite.
Anarchists from Ferrara – 1st May 2010.

Modena (Italy) : mass interrupted against detention centres

from cette semaine
11am mass
" They broke into the cathedral during the 11 o'clock mass : a group of young people with leaflets and megaphone protested against the detention centres for immigrants.
The reading of a passage from the New Testament was in course during the 11 o'clock mass in the cathedral, one of the most frequented of Modena. But at a certain moment a group of young people entered, megaphone in hand, and started to shout insults against Daniele Giovanardi and the La Misericordia association, that manage the detention centres of Modena and Bologna along with the police. "Giovanardi murderer" was one of the phrases thrown into the church, in front of all the dumbfounded worshippers who were present, and the stupor of the religious personnel. Then leaflets were thrown against the detention centres defined as concentration camps. In a few lines they said : "the confraternity of the Misericordia of Modena presided over by Daniele Giovanardi enriches itself on the backs of the imprisoned immigrants". And again : "Misericordia conceals behind its charitable facade a bloody business made of beatings, violence and abuse of power". (...). The group was rapidly chased from the cathedral, then dispersed in the streets of the town centre. A young girl was arrested by the police, she will be tried according to art. 405 of the penal code that condemns "the interruption of a religious service".

An anti-religion demonstration also took place in the centre of Lecce [southern Italy] on April 30, 2010 with an exhibition, leaflets, megaphone and discussions on sexuality, abortion, personal freedoms, obscurantism, and was broken up by riot cops.
read report and leaflet:
http://turbellaria.blogspot.com/2010/05/from-lecce-italy-church-and-state-long.html

How long will we still accept without reacting?
On February 24 2010 four immigrant kids are arrested in the centre of Ferrara [northern Italy] and taken to the carabinieri station of Via Del Campo. There the cops attack the kids furiously: it looks like the usual story of police brutality hidden behind the walls of a prison, the darkness of a neighbourhood in the night or, as in this case, the conspiracy of silence inside a police station.
This time, however, the carabinieri carry out their aggression in front of the cameras installed in the premises, and they don’t even take care to conceal the infamy they are committing.
The images (which can be seen on www.innocentievasioni.net and on www.italiarazzismo.it) show a carabiniere hitting one of the harmless boys with a truncheon gripped upside down in order to cause more pain; another cop pins another boy down while jumping on his back, which reminds us of the murder of Federico Aldrovandi, beaten to death by four pigs in uniform in the same city of Ferrara in 2005. This beating, captured by the cops’ cameras, takes place while other cops watch passively.
The four kids are held in the carabinieri station for hours and eventually accused of resistance to public official, according to the style of these pigs who first beat you and then denounce you.
A trial against the four boys will be held on May 11.
The fact that this is not an isolated episode but one of an infinite series is proved not only by the press reports that sporadically relate the most disgusting cases of police violence, notably when someone is killed by the men in uniform, but also by the widespread arrogance displayed by the military when they patrol and control the territory and the cities of this country in an escalation of abuse, violence and intimidation addressed especially against migrants. The massive presence of police and soldiers in many Italian urban centres serves to get us accustomed to all this.
From Aldrovandi to Cucchi, from Lonzi to Uva [all of them killed by the Italian police and carabinieri], from Carlo Giuliani to the many who ‘committed suicide’ in prison, from the migrants who gulp down blades and pieces of glass in protest at their imprisonment to those who die while escaping anti-immigration raids, we wonder how many will have to die before rage flows from the heart of people and pushes them to make the only right and wise decision: to revolt openly and incessantly against the apparatus of institutionalised violence, against the fascist structures and men of this State murderer.
To all those who celebrate May Day in these times of crisis, we suggest to have a look at Greece so that you can understand how the cops are never on the side of people but they are there to defend the interests of capitalists, multinationals and banks. There is nothing to celebrate. Quite the opposite.
Anarchists from Ferrara – 1st May 2010.

Hereford anarchists make voices heard

ANARCHISTS made their voices heard during the general election in Hereford, England.

Reported the Hereford Times: "The singing and dancing has already begun at the general election count in Hereford.

"But the noise is coming from a group of anarchists protesting against the voting process.

"The group of around 20 have also shouted anti-fascist songs aimed at the British National Party candidate and his supporters who have just arrived at the Hereford Leisure Centre.

"The anarchist banners included the phrases 'voting changes nothing' and 'my grandparents did not vote for fascists, they shot them'."

"The Hereford Times were told to go away in no uncertain terms when they approached the protesters for an interview."

Polish anarchist detained in Athens

Polish anarchist, Michal Pawlak, was arrested in Greece on 6th of December 2009 and is awaiting trial for making explosives in infamous Koridallos prison in Athens.

Despite the lack of evidence, Michal was detained for 6 months, and as the information about his imprisonment hadn’t reach the Greek comrades he hasn’t received much support from outside the walls until now. Only recently he manage to inform his Polish friends about the detention and the campaign of support is under way.
According to the Greek law, the court will consider his release only after half a year of detention, in June this year. Besides that Michal remains in a high spirits, asking the comrades outside to send him anarchist literature and press in Polish or English to help him in keeping up hope for the coming release.
His prison address:

Michal Pawlak
Dikastikes Filakes Koridallos
T.K.18110 Athens
Greece

Update on Simos and situation inside the hospital [K.A.T.]

athens10/5
Uncountable cops of all kinds have been permanently installed in the hospital where Simos Seisidis is. An episode occured when two foreigners looking for a friend approached his room. Cops of the special forces fludded the hallway with their guns pointed at them... they scared the shit out of them, at the same time, the police helicopter which was flying around the top of the hospital landed on the roof of the building next to the hospital!
They give his mother much less time than shes intitled to, (half hour in the morning and half in the evening while usualy its three hours each time).
The head doctor, acting as a genuine police snitch, is doing all he can to crush the psychology of our comrade [i.e. telling him that their going to cut off his leg...], while others of the hospital staff are showing an obvious indifference [i.e. not changing his sheets and leaving him lie for hours in his blood that is coming out of the open wound]. Fortunately there are some exceptions, doctors and nurses that are doing whatever they can under these circumstances.
The public briefings on this subject, are so that all the people involved will understand that WHATEVER THEY SAY and WHATEVER THEY DO will be recorded. SO WILL THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES.
Theres still a BIG NEED FOR BLOOD. The comrade needs 2 bottles of blood a day. You can give blood in any hospital, regardeless of bloodgroup. All you need is the name and the name of the hospital. Many comrades in prison offered and gave blood aswsell and we thank them. simos is not alone!

The anarchy dog" in athens!

Due to THE Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) not complying with the courts orders the trial date has changed.

The new date is:

7th June, 2010

The CPS failed to serve the defence with all 'seen' and 'unseen material by the agreed date which was some time back at the beginning of March - hence the date change.

Please continue to write to James.

As you can see, despite 17 months on remand, found guilty without a trial. Elijah’s spirit is still strong and he can’t wait for the trial to begin.Please continue to write to him, Elijah Smith, A3186AM , HMP Lewes , 1 Brighton Rd,Lewes, Sussex, BN7 1EA ENGLAND please include a stamped addressed envelope so he can write back to you easily.

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