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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Demo, revolt, fire and escape at Brussels detention centre today


arnaud borderer | 20.02.2011 
Activists held a solidarity action outside the Steenockerzeel 123bis detention centre in Brussels this afternoon. Inside, prisoners took matters into their own hands and started a revolt which led to one escape and a wing destroyed by fire. Currently the area is shut down by police.
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The group "Voices Without Borders" organised a solidarity action this afternoon at the 127 bis detention centre in Steenockerzeel, Brussels this afternoon starting at 16.30. The action was a show of solidarity with prisoners in the immigration prison who have been on hunger strike for more than ten days after an 18 year old Egyption migrant was tied up and beaten by guards.

The demonstrators arrived at the centre with music, shouts and banners, including one showing a telephone number which prisoners could call to relay testimonies and messages. The lively demo was met with lots of interaction from the people inside shouting and banging on windows, clearly in a resistant mood. People inside and out shouted messages of solidarity and defiance to each other whilst a line of riot cops looked on. Whilst demonstrators banged on the outer line of five meter steel fences prisoners inside began to throw objects out of the windows.

After some time a fire broke out in one cell and people were led out of the wing into the courtyard near the fences close to the demonstration while the fire began to rage. Guards began pushing prisoners on the fire escape.

One prisoner managed to climb the fences out of the centre to freedom, where he then disappeared into mid air. Others occupied the rooftop.

As more police arrived to "pacify" the revolt, activists showed solidarity, staying close to the centre in support.

The roads were blocked with police surrounding the centre and cordoning off traffic in the nearby village of Steenockerzeel. The train station has also been closed down. As of late evening, TV crews from the Belgian networks were still in the area. Recent reports say that one wing has been destroyed, with prisoners moved to other dention centres.

Solidarité avec les revoltés. In solidarity with the fighting spirit of the immigration prisoners of Steenockerzeel, locked up for no crime in the "Capital of Europe". No borders, No nations.

See the video of today's events here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crAz0W1O5X4

NOTE -- images from capitalist media, too late to blur faces.

brussels indymedia:

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

(en/fr) Gand – Anarchist in front of court for attacks against police stations


* suieetcendres.blogspot.com
This Wednesday 26 of January, an anarchist comrade from Ghent will be on trail for attacks against police stations which took place in the night of 9 to 10 of May 2010.

That night was a night of modest, but passionate acts of resistance: the windows of the police station of Gentbrugge smashed, tags left on the police station, on the building of the socialist syndicate, on banks and a incendiary attack against another policestation in Meulestede.

That night, 30 min after the facts, a comrade was arrested by a police patrol. 
She was taken to the police station and interrogated, but she refused to answer any question.
Next day, police did two house searches and took anarchist pamphlets and books, posters and her computer. A few hours later, our comrade was released.
This Wednesday will take place her proces. She is incriminated for the tags and the smashing of the windows of the police station.





HERE is that new translated into spanish:

""El miércoles 26 de enero una compañera anarquista de Ghent(Bèlgica) se
irá a juicio por los ataques a una estación policial, los cuales tuvieron
lugar la noche del 9 al 10 de mayo del 2010.

Aquella fue una noche de modestos, pero apasionados actos de resistencia:
destrozadas las ventanas y rayados dejados en la estación policial de
Gentbrugge, más los rayados en el edificio de el sindicato socialista, en
bancos y un ataque incendiario contra otra estacion policial en Meulested.
30 minutos despues de estos hechos, esa noche fue detenida una compañera
por una patrulla policial. Fué llevada a la estacion policial e
interrogada, pero se negó a responder las preguntas. Al día siguiente, la
policía llevó a cabo dos allanamientos y se llevo libros y panfletos
anarquistas, posters y su computador. Despues de estar 17 horas detenidas,
nuestra compañera fue liberada.

Este miércoles (Hoy 26 de Enero) tendrá lugar su procesamiento. Se le
acusa de los rayados y el destrozo de las ventanas de la estacion
policial."

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To read the communiqué by comrades from Ghent in French

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Procès d’une compagnonne anarchiste de Gand, accusée d’attaque contre un commissariat de police.
* bxl.indymedia.org/articles/923
Ce mercredi 26 janvier à 9h au palais de Justice à Gand: Opgeëistenlaan 401, Gand
A Gand, la nuit de 9 à 10 mai a été une nuit d’actes de résistance modestes, mais passionés : les vitres du commissariat de Gentbrugge ont été cassées, des tags laissés sur ce commissariat, sur le bâtiment Moyson du syndicat socialiste et sur des banques ainsi qu’une attaque incendiaire contre le commissariat de Meulestede. Dans le quartier de Dampoort, à 4 kilomètres du commissariat de Gentbrugge et plus d’une demi-heure après les faits, un patrouille de police a remarquée la présence d’une personne et l’a arrêtée.
La personne en question est connu comme étant anarchiste et squatteur. Malgré l’absence de preuves, la « procédure standard » : contrôle (empreintes digitales, photos), humiliations, vexations (comme par exemple les pneus dégonflés du vélo de notre compagnonne). La compagnonne a refusé de faire une déclaration. Le lendemain, deux perquisitions ont eu lieu : chez les parents de la compagnonne et dans sa chambre d’étudiant. Après 17 heures, la compagnonne a été finalement relâchée.
Lors des perquisitions, la police a surtout confisqué des tracts et de livres anarchistes, des notes et un ordinateur. La police était spéciallement interessée par des mails de réunions, des adresses email d’autres anarchistes, des sites visités et des recherches faits sur internet.

L’Etat a donc saisi l’arrestation comme prétexte pour disséquer un peu le mouvement anarchiste et pour paralyser par la peur (en combinaison avec la répression en général) les anarchistes. Ça ne nous étonne point : au quotidien, des gens sont humiliés, volés, enfermés, terrorisés parce qu’ils ne peuvent ou ne veulent pas respecter les règles de ce système. Parce qu’ils refusent de se laisser voler le résultat de leur labeur par les patrons, et vont chercher l’argent là où elle se trouve en abondance. Des manifs sont matraquées, après avoir fiché tout le monde.
Ces actes toujours plus dégoutants deviennent effectivement toujours moins surprenants. Pourquoi enfreindre les règles, si on sait que la prison nous attend ? Simplement parce que nous considérons cette société déjà comme une prison. Aller à l’école pour apprendre à penser ce que dit le professeur, pour apprendre à obéir. Préparation pour l’après : pour que nous irions travailler sans nous plaindre (ou en se plaignant un peu : vive la liberté d’expression !). Pour aller consommer, car là, on est libre à le faire (vive le marché libre !). Pour correspondre aux normes sociales, devenir des contrôleurs les uns des autres, sous peine d’exclusion sociale. Beaucoup essayent de se tromper ou de tromper d’autres « qu’il n’est pas aussi mauvais ici ». Mais ceux qui ne bougent pas, ne peuvent pas sentir leurs chaînes. Ou ils essayent de ne pas les sentir, en fuyant le monde. Par la drogue, ou par le monde virtuel de jeux vidéo ou de facebook. Où le vrai monde devient une excursion, à rapporter dans celui virtuel. Beaucoup sont déprimés, car ils n’arrivent plus à se tromper que tout va bien. Ils restent au lit, n’arrivent plus à sortir de leur chambre, comme dans une cellule. Pour quelle raison est-ce qu’ils se lèveraient ?
Il y a beaucoup à faire. Tu n’es pas seul, beaucoup se sont insurgés avant toi, beaucoup s’insurgent maintenant, de mille manières. Il n’est pas impossible de briser le pouvoir, on y est arrivé avant, on peut y arriver maintenant. S’insurger, c’est déjà une victoire en soi, on goûte la liberté après tant d’années de monotonie. Quand ne pas se réveiller est devenu la seule étincelle de la vie, souviens-toi, il y a une guerre à livrer !
Le procès se déroulera mercredi 26 janvier, à 9h, audans le nouveau palais de Justice, salle 3.5

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Tubize, Belgium - March to commemorate 16 year boy shot during a robbery in a jewellery shop. Cops attacked, cars burnt

Friday, 17 December 2010


suie e cendres

Early December - TUBIZE - During a robbery in a jewellery, a youngster, Flavien (16 years), is killed by the owner of the jewellery shop. The robbers were two, they had fake weapons with them. The owner used his hunting rifle to kill one and to hold the other one, Hassan, till the police arrived. Hassan is now in prison and refuses to collaborate with the police.

A few days later, friends of Flavien organised a march to commemorate their friend and to march to the jewellery. About 100 youngsters showed up next to the small city centre . The Federal Police and anti-riot squads were very present and blocked the centre completely, while the mayor prohibited all gathering. At the beginning of the march, some people started to attack the cops with stones. Then the family of Flavien arrived, asking for calm and saying literaly "we are not here to make revolution". The march ended therefore calmly.

In the days following the march, cars were put on fire in several regions around Tubize and in the French speaking part of Belgium:
8/12/2010, Tubize: car put on fire in the "Street of Democracy".
8/12/2010, Charleroi: three cars put on fire.
9/12/2010, Jemeppe: five cars put on fire on different spots of the small city.
9/12/2010, Ottignies: car put on fire on the parking of the station in the "Lane of Human Rights".
9/12/2010, Liège: four cars put on fire on different spots.
FROM
http://sysiphus-angrynewsfromaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/tubize-belgium-march-to-commemorate-16.html

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


Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".
NEW YEAR OUTSIDE IN KORRIDALOS PRISON 2011
Watch live streaming video from agitprop at livestream.com
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.


ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS IN GREECE


Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles

1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom

(December Riots in Greece)