LETTER OF SOLIDARITY TO THE CHILEAN COMRADES ON HUNGER STRIKE FROM : Skouloudis, Tsilianidis, Fessas, Tzifkas, Dimtsiadis (greece)

Freedom, as well as bars are firstly and mainly in our heads. There are however moments where it becomes perceptible and with particular intensity the existence of walls around us. Moments where under other circumstances we would risk our skin in order to leave the flames to warm people that are fighting far from us, people that we do not know but we feel them reflecting our egos and what we desire on the other side of the world. Solidarity is a simultaneous expression of revolutionary conscience and authentic militant sentiment. It is expressed with speech and action. In our hands however henceforth, we hold only our words and our thoughts to imprint it. Solidarity is perhaps the most precious of weapons a revolutionary has at his/hers disposal. We charge it with all the substance of our being, with all the hate for our common enemies, with all our common passion for freedom, and we remind to the comrades that are on hunger strike (from 21/02) in Chile, that in another country, in some similar prisons, confined for some similar reasons, some not so different people are with all their strength next to their struggle, for their immediate release and abolishment of the antiterrorist law. The fighting dignity of comrades comes to prove that the fight does not stop for an imprisoned revolutionary. They show us that the prison can very well be faced as one more occasion for the appointment of new aspects of revolutionary action. The return that finds in our own consciences, the position of attack in which the hunger strikers enter makes our solidarity a given as a basic characteristic of a built relationship between those who continuously undermine the social peace. The ostensible force of the enemy is nothing next to your courage comrades. WE ARE NEXT TO YOU WE WILL WIN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKERS ANARCHIST/LIBERAL FIGHTERS : Andrea Macarena Urzúa Cid Camilo Nelson Pérez Tamayo Carlos Luis Riveros Luttgue Felipe Guerra Guajardo Francisco Solar Domínguez Mónica Andrea Caballero Sepúlveda Pablo Hernán Morales Führimann Rodolfo Luis Retamales Leiva WTF collective translations for actforfreedomnow

Germany: Arson Attack on a Cop Car

From Direct Action Germany Smash the cops! We torched a cop car in the night to the 20th of february at station north. We want to make a statement against the random violence of the cops against left actions and projects in Dresden. Nothing forgiven, nothing forgotten- cops got names and addresses (and cars)

Freedom for Grönland- down with the brash ice!

Anarchists set fire to fiberoptic cables, paintstrip CCTV van — Bristol, England

A communique emerged:


“through struggle and attack, comrades and rebels everywhere solidarity to you all. as we self manage our own struggle we stand against everything that exploits all of us, in a(nother) city full of actual physical mechanisms of exploitation and domination, targets are everywhere and in direct accordance with their being, so comes our attack, a ‘smart’ cctv van was paint stripped in broad daylight, later that night internet and telecommunications cables were set on fire.

for comrades who lost their lives in this war we remain in combat together, with the fire we share in our hearts. solidarity in our attack forever.


Bristol Anarchists”


http://325.nostate.net/?p=1830

Solidarity attack on police substation and two cruisers — Olympia, WA

The communique, shouted from the rooftops:
“On the night of March 4th the Seattle swine pulled a rebel behind police lines and proceeded to beat and arrest them. This infuriated us.
Later that night, two police vehicles were smashed up and the station itself received a few love taps that they won’t be forgetting anytime soon.

Anarchists, now is not the time fear the baton of a pig and slink into hiding. Now is the time muster up courage, scheme evil plots, and seek revenge. This was not simply an attack against the police, this was a call to make everyone of those motherfuckers pay dearly! Not just for beating a fellow rebel, but for the everyday management and misery these spineless bastards heave upon our backs. In the coming nights it is our deepest desire that others will take it upon themselves to launch a greater surge of aggression against the swine that fill our streets.

Pigs, there is nowhere for you to hide. Become firemen before it is too late.
-The Blood Thirsty.”
http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/14168

10th of March: Worldwide solidarity action day with the 300 hunger strikers immigrants-workers in Greece

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http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2011/03/114291.html

10th of March: Worldwide solidarity action day with the 300 hunger strikers immigrants-workers in Greece

Latest Greece travel advises:
You might have heard that Greece is a beautiful country to visit with delicious food and people with great hospitality. Be careful: this is not the whole truth. The reality for hundreds of thousands of visitors is completely different. There is a general threat of human rights’ violations. Expatriates and visitors, who cross the Greek borders, can be departed or transferred in detention centres for 2–4 months or longer. If and when these visitors are released, they are forced to work in agriculture, local industry, organized crime, or as street salesmen, without documents or any civil rights whatsoever. Visitors of Greece are warned about abuse, intolerance, hatred, slander and indiscriminate violence by the Greek State…
Greece is exploiting approximately 500,000 illegal immigrants and refugees to raise the nation’s miserable economics. Last year, nearly 140,000 immigrants crossed the Greek borders in a hope of better life. Most of them are going to be illegalized for years and treated as unwelcome contemporary slaves.
Since the 25th of January, 300 immigrants who work and live in Greece for many years started a nationwide hunger strike in Athens and Thessaloniki. They claim the legalization of all undocumented immigrants of Greece. Their struggle is a struggle of all immigrants, workers and citizens of the world.
The 10th of March will be the 45th day of their hunger strike, but the Greek State has not yet responded to their rightful claims!
We call people in Greece and throughout the world to carry out civil disobedience actions on the 10th of March in solidarity with the 300 hunger strikers. We ask everyone to target their actions against Greek soft spot-tourism: 15% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product is coming from tourism. In fact, tourism and migration are two sides of the legal right of freedom of movement.
We suggest an easily attainable target that people can find almost in every country: Greek National Tourism Organization. You can e.g. demonstrate, blockade, squat, spread leaflets or carry out other creative actions in front, inside or around GNTO offices.
The addresses of the GNTO offices aboard are here: http://internezia.net/addresses.html
If you don't have a GNTO office at your city, you can target your actions against the Greek embassies or enterprises, or simply demonstrate in crowded public places or on media.
300 MURDERS OR LEGALIZATION
[ More information about the hunger strike of 300: http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net ]

UPDATE ON C.C.F. TRIAL greece FRIDAY 4/3/2011

The comrades today asked for the actions that are attributed to them to be recognized as political. At the same time they submitted procedural objections for bad composition of the court as well as for the declaration of the official charges as vague. The objections were rejected repeatedly.

First, A.Mitrousias lawyer submitted three procedural objections that were also supported by the advocates of the present defendants E.Rallis, N.Vogiatsakis, E.Giospas and Konstandina Karakatsani.

Firstly, was submitted an objection of bad composition of court. Second, the advocates submitted an objection of jurisdictional matter of the court, because it is, as he said, for political actions, and not of common illegal acts. The advocates pointed out that the definition of terrorist action, according to the penal code, coincides with the definition of political crime, as this has been given by the the law. The public prosecutor, on the contrary, stressed that according to the Supreme Court the coup d'etat or the attempt of coup d'etat is only considered political crimes.

At this point comrade A.Mitrousias spoke up and commented that it is contradictory of the legal system to recognize the attribution of political criminal only in its “superior” hierarchical layers, as for example colonels that attempt a coup d'etat, but not recognizing it in simple teams of citizens that have a different ideology and wish to change order as we know it.

Thirdly, the advocate of A.Mitrousias, submitted an objection of vagueness of the official charge with the explanation that it includes ambiguities and vagueness in the basic evidence of the criminal actions attributed to the defendants. More specifically, he supported that the official charge does not define with clarity the attributed criminal actions, the place, the time, the way as well as the individuals by which these acts were commited. The court rejected also this objection as unacceptable. It is reminded that the same objection was submitted on the 7^th of February from the lawyer of Konstandina Karakatsani.

The trial continues on Monday the 7th of March.

Solidarity Poster for Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrisohoidis (greece)

POSTER SAYS:

did anyone speak of a

KIDNAPPING?

“…A handful of capitalists

have organized a criminal gang

and have kidnapped the proletarians,

demanding for ransom

their labor force,

merchandising their human activity,

their time (which is turned into money),

their own being itself…”

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

to vaggelis Chrisohoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis

who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,

accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas

anarchists from Serres from north-greece

Update from the demo for Aris Sirinidis 3/3/2011 athens greece

The demo had more than 2000 people and was very strong. it was the obvious show of solidarity to one of the most emblematical faces of the anarchist movement. 

 

Freedom to Aris.

GATHERING OUTSIDE EVELPIDON COURT 9TH MARCH 9AM

Solidarity Assembly

.FOTOS FROM THE DEMO .

 

FREEDOM NOW FOR SIMOS SEISIDIS INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

 

FREEDOM NOW FOR SIMOS SEISIDIS

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

On the 30/3/2011 the trial for the case of “the robbers in black” will take place in the first degree, regarding the January 2006 National bank robbery on Solonos st., central Athens, and six more bank robberies. It is the same case for which Yiannis Dimitrakis was finally sentenced, in the second degree, to 12,5 years of imprisonment. This time Simos Seisidis, who had been a fugitive for 4,5 years, is in the place of the accused.

Simos was arrested on the 3/5/2010, after a coincidental and unfortunate run-in with a police patrol. As he was a fugitive, Simos did not stop to be controlled and, in the pursuit that followed, was shot from behind, resulting in his life being endangered and, finally, in the amputation of his right leg, due to the severity of the injury. Despite all this, a case has been brought against him also for this incident, with Simos being charged of attempted homicide against the cop who shot him in the back, having first taken cover behind a car! He is in pre-trial detention also for this case, as the inquisitor wanted to bring it to a close in haste, not even waiting for the report from the medical coroner on the amputated limb. The report was finally delivered AFTER A NINE MONTH DELAY, FULLY CONFIRMING OUR STATEMENTS.

Simos became a fugitive after an arrest warrant was issued against him (and against his brother Marios Seisidis and the comrade Marios Tsironis, who are still wanted), following the bank robbery during which Yiannis Dimitrakis was arrested. Without any substantial evidence against them and due to the criminalization of their personal and comradely relationships, the three comrades were forced to flee, not expecting, and justly so, any justice by civil justice, the repressive mechanisms, and the terror-spouting puppets on the news. None of the three aforementioned powers contradicted them: the first sentenced them in absentia to 7,5 years of imprisonment for misdemeanors concerning the seven bank robberies, recently rejecting Simos' right to appeal. The second, after placing the astronomical amount of 600.000 euro on their heads, finally tried to kill him. And the last, with their police leaks and “terror” articles all these years, paved the way for the bullet that finally found its target...

The comrade is also facing the charge of seizure of weaponry, based solely on DNA evidence (which was found in a different area from where the incident took place, but that's fine print if you are an anarchist and indeed a wanted one). Recently, prosecutions based on DNA are...fashionable with the Greek authorities, who have in this way found an easy way to incriminate people, granted that the genetic material of each and everyone of us can be found or transported anywhere at any given moment. With another older case still pending, for which he could have easily been acquitted if not a fugitive (after all he was recently acquitted from yet another frame-up against him), Simos finds himself in prison sentenced for two cases and in pre-trial detention for another three cases, in total. The essence of the case does not lie however in its legal-juridical side, although we consider a short description of the situation as necessary, in order for the comrades inside and outside of Greece to have a clear as possible picture of the intensity and size of the attempt from the side of the state to annihilate this particular comrade. We want the solidarity to his person, in face of his court on the 30/3, to be matching in its intensity and size.

In the last two years in Greece, the empire strikes back. In fear of the social explosions that might erupt due to the intensity of the economic crisis, it is trying to eliminate the factor, who through the diffusion of political consciousness during the explosion, could transform it into a revolution: the anarchist/anti-authoritarian milieu. In attempting this, democracy has lost the last even facade of democraticness. Protesters are beaten with unbelievable fierceness, anarchist spaces are labeled as safe-houses, people are led to prison accused of participating in … unnamed and unknown armed groups, others are accused of being “terrorists”, because they were walking down a road or were drinking a coffee. But unfortunately for those in power, were they repress one focus of resistance, another ten spring up...

They are trying to transform social struggles into a harmless and pointless activity, through the use of fear and repression. It is up to us to throw that fear back into their face. They are trying, through the paradigmatic annihilation of those in struggle who find themselves in their clutches, to deter the rest from choosing to struggle and resist, and to render the imprisoned comrades into ghosts, still remembered by only a few friends and relatives... It is up to us to not forget our comrades. It is up to us to take them back.

WE WILL NOT ALLOW SIMOS SEISIDIS' ANNIHILATION. Not because he is “innocent”. Nor because he was brutally “punished” by the repressive mechanisms. BUT BECAUSE HE IS A FIGHTER.

WE DEMAND HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Not out of “democratic sensitivity”. Nor out of humanism. 

BUT BECAUSE HE IS A COMRADE.

WE CALL ON THOSE IN STRUGGLE, TO COMRADES INTERNATIONALLY, TO JOIN THEIR VOICES WITH OURS IN FACE OF THE TRIAL ON THE 30/3/2011. Not out of pity. Nor out of duty. But because we are anarchists.

AND SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Comrades in solidarity

POSTER SAYS:

TRIAL OF SIMOS SEISIDIS

TO THE BRUTALITY OF THE STATE

OUR ANSWER

IS SOLIDARITY

CALL FOR

DISCUSSION

TO ORGANIZE

SOLIDARITY DEMO

TUESDAY 8^TH MARCH

5.00PM

POLYTECHNIC- GINI BUILDING

 SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY

Germany: Suicide of a refugee........

That all and many more, what is not yet documented is the story behind that "again such a weirdo thrown himself in
front of a train".

A man from Nepal, who lived for 15 years as a "tolerated" refugee in Germany, received a notice by the immigration office in Gifhorn about his upcoming deportation. The man could not stand that anymore and committed suicide.

At Tuesday, March 1st, the train ride between the train stations Hannover and Wolfsburg was delayed for many passengers. Not few of them may have been angry that again "such a weidro thrown himself in front of a train". Till this day the fewest of the passengers will know, with what a fate they have been involuntarily confronted:

A refugee, who lived in misery and who was faced with a future of even harder misery, took his life. Although the residents from the refugee's camp in Meinersen since longer warned the authorities that the man was at his limits and that he was ready for the most extreme measures. Yet the immigrants office in Gifhorn is not interested in what refugees are saying.

Because the situation in the camp are unbearable. In various open letters the refugees pointed to the desperate situation in the isolated camp and by the past year organised various protest actions. The refugees in Meinersen reject to submit any longer to the state-mandated racism and have self-organised themselves. They want to live - and that in human dignity.

After a meeting at February 12th with local people in solidarity to them, the group Karawane Hamburg, the anti-racist assembly from Hannover and Lower Saxony's refugee council, the refugees from the camp recently wrote the following:



1. Still families with children are brought into the camp - a Romanies family with babies was brought and soon after was deported.

2. There is no privacy, 4-6 people share one room. The caretaker and the camp's chief control our presence and report to the immigrant office, which continuously stresses us. 75 people share a restroom each with one for men and one for women. At February 12th two of three urinals were not working. There is one shower room for women, one for  men, one kitchenette at the 1st floor and one at the ground floor. We have no access to the washhouse. The caretaker and the camp's chief wash the refugees' private laundry, an examplary brick of the humiliating and disabling camp  system in the county of Gifhorn. The halls are narrow and the walls made of plaster board. There is not one single common room, not one playroom, schoolwork room or a common room for adults.

 "In the morning I wake up and urgently need to go to toilet. The caretaker just cleans the restroom. He doesn't let me in the room. My belly aches, there is no second restroom. I demand it. He tells me, 'you asshole' and 'you will be deported anyway'."

3. Many of us are living about six, eight or 10 years under those conditions in the camp. That is frozen life time. Nothing is allowed. It is not allowed to leave the county. Requests for permission get rejected. Requests for working permissions, even if an employers offer jobs, are refused. Education for the youth ends with the GCSEs without further possibilities. You get € 0-40 cash a month and each person are given a food coupon for € 125 or 112. Gifhorn is 15 km far away.

"Often we have to go to Gifhorn, not only to deal with the authorities or for doctor's visits. We have no tickets and no money. We are told, walk or it's your problem. Some of us have to go over a longer period, for several months, sometimes every third day for an interview in order to extend the exceptional leave to remain. In fact it's an interrogation, we aren't allowed to bring a witness, though it's our right. Everyone wonders, when will I break to pieces or explode." 

4. There are numerous harassment and different special treatments through the immigrant offices often also in co-operation with the welfare office. To mention them all would go beyond the scope of the letter. Generally all requests are handled with delay, always new explanatory statements are demanded from the petitioner and finally or afterward the requests are refused. The threat of deportation is mentioned over and over - especially for those, who protest and make it public. During the past demonstrations refugees got threaten by the immigrant authorities with cuts of the benefits and cash.

"The immigrant authorities causes a lot of trouble and later they don't allow us to visit a doctor to make a therapy. Do you see what I mean? Soon we ALL will end like the one, who completely lost it. Also he had a lot of stress with the immigrant authorities and wasn't allowed to make a therapy, therefore he lost it. Exactly the same the chief of the immigrant authorities, Mr Renders, wants to do with us. He wants that we also completely lose it and once end up in psychiatry or in prison."

We cannot leave unanswered the trivialized and relativistic statements by representatives from SPD, as they emerged after the visit in publicity.

Everyone may imagine for him/herself and his/her family a life under the above mentioned conditions.

We the refugees in the county Meinersen already experienced hard blows. We fled from our homeland, to seek for protection in Germany. In the county of Gifhorn we are defamed as cheater. We shall organize our deportation on our own. We  are from Northern Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, China, Armenia, Africa... We experienced persecution and fled to Germany, which itself argues for human rights. We are living here since many years now, and in our home countries the situation often strongly worsened. We experience how business is made with our deportation, by sending delegations that organize passports from the countries of our origin. Examples that became public are Guinea and currently Armenia, where Lower Saxony is strongly engaged. Also falsified information in order to receive papers became public, but we are attacked to be cheater. For example there exists the German deportation treaties with Syria. Again and again the deported refugees got arrested and abused there. Of course we fear deportation. Nevertheless, we insist on our right. We demand an assured residence in Germany!

Enough scope exists to abolish the destructive camp system in the county of Gifhorn, it only lacks of political will. In the meanwhile there are numerous of examples in Germany, where the camp detention was lifted. The camp in Meinersen is not a home for people and must be closed." 


At February 12th the assembly in Meinersen decided to held a protest in Gifhorn at March 24th 2011 in the scope of the nationwide decentralized 'Action day against camp isolation & racist special laws'.

Additionally the camp in Meinersen and the county of Gifhorn will play a special role in the future. Lower Saxony's Interior and Deportation Minister, Mr Schuenemann plans to close the camp in Blankenburg at Oldenburg. Since the refugees there for years struggle for the closure of the camp, it first sounds good. But for many of them that could mean the tranfer to other camps. Contrary to Mr Schuenemann's ideas to maximum exclude and isolate the refugees are the refugees' protests in Blankenburg and the solidarity they experience there, which lead to an announcement from the city council in Oldenburg. In contrast the county of Gifhorn offers an ideal place: there is a broad racist consencus.

That all and many more, what is not yet documented is the story behind that "again such a weirdo thrown himself in front of a train".

Break the racist consensus!
Close ALL camps!
Abolish racist special laws!

source: http://de.indymedia.org/2011/03/301747.shtml

see also:
http://thecaravan.org/ (with English section)

Solidarity with the 300 Migrants Hunger Strikers in Greece

FROM  :http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/
Greece: 98 Migrants Hospitalized During 39 Days of Hunger Strike from brandon jourdan on Vimeo.

announcement of the hunger strikers to society 4/3/2011

Μαρτίου 4, 2011

Announcement-response to the government’s proposal, after the meeting (of the immigrants-workers hunger strikers) with the ministers:
1. We hunger strikers, from the places of our strike in Athens and Thessaloniki and from hospitals, unanimously reject the government’s proposal for a regime of tolerance, because it does not respond to our claim for legalization with freedom of movement, work-based renewal and all other rights that legal immigrants have in Greece and Europe.
2. We reject the request of the minister of Health to transfer all Athens’ hunger strikers to hospitals due to weather conditions’ worsening. As we have done for 39 days with cold and floods, we continue the hunger strike in Hypatia building (Patission Ave, and Ipirou Str.), and of course those who are in critical condition will be transfered to hospitals under our doctors’s orders.
3. We stress once again that the nationwide hunger strike is our struggle, that we take the decisions on all issues, and we demand the lies and slander to be stopped.
The 300 hunger strikers in Athens and Thessaloniki, 4 March 2011

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/03/05/announcement-of-the-hunger-strikers-to-society-43

Critical moments for the 300 hunger strikers. Demo on March 4th, 18:00

Μαρτίου 4, 2011

Critical moments for the 300 migrants hunger strikers in Athens and Thessaloniki on their 38th day of hunger strike.
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