Anarchist Leonardo Landi on the streets! (italy)

Leo on the streets!

21 02 2011 From Culmine (February 20, 2011):
Leonardo Landi, arrested in November 2009 after a year underground and sentenced in the first degree to six years in prison for his part in a post office robbery, walked out of an Italian prison today thanks to the acceptance of his application for release. However, as a “precautionary measure,” he is still prohibited from leaving the country.

 

Anarchist Leonardo Landi arrested (Italy)

Italian police have arrested an anarchist wanted for suspected involvement in “terrorist activities” near the border with France, police told AFP (Mainstream Press Association) Thursday November 05.

Leonardo Landi was arrested in Ventimiglia because of a close collaboration with the French police, said Paolo Fanzone, head of the investigation at Imperia police headquarters in the north.
The Florentine anarchist militant had been on the run since May 2008. At the time of his arrest, Landi was with a woman from La Spezia in the North, who police suspect is an accomplice.
Police said Landi, who was carrying dubious cards and documents, may have been planning an attack in the northwest coastal region of Liguria.
Landi was wanted for ‘criminal conspiracy linked to terrorist activities’ – Fanzone said.
According to ‘Police intelligence’, Landi has been implicated in many terrorist attacks, especially in the centre of Italy, and he represents a ‘danger’, given his ability to rally other people around his cause – the police added, saying the militant is currently being held in San Remo prison.
A warrant for Landi’s arrest was issued in May 2008 by authorities in Florence who accused him of participating in an armed attack on a post office in June 2007.
FREE LEONARDO LANDI
DESTROY ALL PRISONS

Turin, Italy - Resistance to nuclear energy - Communique from prison from Guido and Arturo

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Statement of Arthur and Guido February 10, 2011 from Lo Russo e Cotugno (Vallette) prison in Turin

We were arrested during the night of last Monday, February 7 with the allegations, as far as we know, of resisting a public official, injury and attack on transport in the public highway (or something like that) during a blockade against the passage of a train carrying nuclear waste in Condove, Valsusa.
The passage of these trains has always come about with maximum discretion, so that the people exposed to the risks could not express their concerns and possible forms of protest.
Certainly drawing attention to this threat that is passed over in silence and opposing these trains of death is an essential step in the struggle against the nuclear monster, as witnessed by the protests that for decades, especially in northern Europe, thousands of people have taken part in, aware of the tragedy that the atomic industry represents for the present and the future of the planet.
For those who struggle against the harm caused by the absurdity of production that feeds the sick society of progress, nuclear power can only be a further opportunity to express one's own rejection and anger.
Beyond the crimes that are being contested and the progression of the judicial process, we are proud to have participated in what we hope is only a first moment of revival of a broad and determined mobilization that can express, with the forms and methods are in harmony with each one, dignity and strength in rejecting and fighting all harmful substances.
Rebel greetings to all those who, struggling inside and outside the prisons, are stoking the fire of desire for a world free of exploitation and authority.
Presi bene raga!

Arturo Fazio
Guido Mantelli

Sentence of the Nottetempo appeal trial italy (9th December 2010)

On the appeal trial against the Lecce anarchists for so-called operation Nottetempo

As usually goes with the justice of the system, things turned badly for the comrades on trial: not only have some of the requests of the public prosecutor been accepted but those who had been acquitted in the first grade of the trial have also been charged.

The story is by now well known. Operation Nottetempo started in May 2005 when searches were carried out all over Italy and five comrades from Lecce were arrested and detained for almost two years in preventive arrest. The main reason for this judicial operation against anarchists was the tenacious struggle the comrades had undertaken against the notorious detention centre for immigrants Regina Pacis (which eventually closed down also thanks to that struggle), run by the church and situated in Salento (Lecce), the southernmost area of the Puglia region (southern Italy).

After a long series of hearings during which various squalid witnesses for the prosecutions gave vent to delirious declarations, the thesis that the comrades were part of a subversive association with the aim of terrorism had been rejected. However, due to strong pressures from the powerful local clergy and their political allies, four of the twelve accused had been charged with organised crime, two with specific crimes and the others had been acquitted. Unsatisfied with this result, which was insane in any case, public prosecutor Lino Giorgio Bruno presented a request for appeal as it was his intent to have the Lecce anarchists sentenced to subversive association. After all, it was the career of this ignominious servant of power that was at stake. He hoped he would become famous as the magistrate who finally managed to have anarchists condemned according to article 270 bis of the Italian penal code (subversive association with the aim of terrorism), a task many of his Italian colleagues had failed on numerous previous occasions.

Therefore, after a few years of postponements, the court of appeal has finally come to a new staggering conclusion: all the twelve anarchists originally accused have been sentenced to article 270 (without bis), i.e. subversive association without aim of terrorism. The heaviest charges have been inflicted to the four comrades condemned in the first grade, with one of them considered as the founder of the “association”, while the other two charged on that occasion have seen their sentence increased and the acquitted in the first trial have been given sentences ranging from one year to one year and eight months imprisonment. The court has also decided that all the accused are guilty of having instigated the imprisoned immigrants of Regina Pacis to committing crime, referring to two episodes when the immigrants had revolted and some had attempted to escape. It is therefore crystal clear that the real goal of this court is to condemn the struggle against Regina Pacis and, to a larger extent, any other struggle of this kind.

Waiting for the comrades involved to give us further details, we can just express our total disgust at this miserable public prosecutor, his repugnant associates in the local political scene and the shameful clergymen of Lecce.

It won’t be a court or any other servant of power to stop the exploited from revolting.

Fire to all prisons!!!

An accomplice of the accused anarchists

50,000 students protest in Rome

THOUSANDS of students rallied in Rome on Tuesday to protest against proposed cuts to the university system.

Up to 50,000 students formed spontaneous processions throughout the capital in a concerted attempt to "paralyse" the city, dubbed "Block Everything Day," organisers said.
According to the Italian Students' Union (UDS), "more than 400,000 thousand students are rallying throughout Italy."
Police in riot gear blocked all entrances to the Chamber of Deputies, where ministers prepared to vote on the reforms, and officers were forced to redirect traffic as the city centre was brought to a standstill in several areas.
Bewildered tourists looked on as traffic was rerouted through the area around the Trevi Fountain, which is usually only open to pedestrians.

"Hundreds of initiatives against the university reforms are being organised throughout the country: sit-ins in faculties, on roofs and monuments as well as traffic disruption," the UDS said in a statement.
"These initiatives have just one aim: to block the proposed cuts and reforms and save the public university from death," it added.
Thousands of students had gathered early in the morning at the Sapienza University, before marching towards Rome's historic centre under a banner saying: "What Future in this Rubble?"
Protesters disrupted traffic in other major Italian cities across the country, from Turin to Palermo, while students blocked the tracks at stations in Milan, Pisa and Venice.
In Naples, protesters took advantage of the garbage crisis to throw the debris lining the streets at the doors of the regional government office.
Students and academics are outraged over cuts of around $12 billion and 130,000 jobs in the education system that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has vowed to carry out by 2013.

SOLIDARITY ACTION IN ROVERETO AND BOLOGNA ITALY

Rovereto – Cash machines damaged and daubed.

Source: L’Adige 19/11/2010

Unknown people have daubed and damaged some cash machines in Rovereto. According to the investigators, the action is to be attributed to people of the anarchist-insurrectionist area.

The group has hit at Unicredit on piazza Leoni, BNL on via Dante and BTB on piazza Nazario Sauro by spoiling the machines with greasy liquid.

Slogans have been spray painted against the centres of identification and deportation for immigrants and the financing of Italian military missions abroad.

Police and carabinieri have started investigating.

Translated from informa-azione.info 

Bologna – Hydrants against prisoners in the immigration detention centre (CIE)

From noinonsiamocomplici.noblogs.org

In the afternoon of 21st November a demo was being held outside the Cie of via Mattei in Bologna in solidarity with the migrants locked up there. As in many other similar occasions, the demonstrators tried to communicate with the prisoners with loud speakers. This time, however, around 5:30pm, police, carabinieri and the army deployed outside and inside the centre, started using hydrants in order to push back migrants who were approaching the gates to communicate with the demonstrators. Hydrants were also fired against demonstrators. The centre was inundated with water. Later the migrants have declared that, in spite of the fact they don’t have any dry clothes, they were happy with the solidarity, the shouting and the slogans they managed to hear.

This nth intimidation is perfectly in line with the infamous deportations of the last days and with the repression of the recent struggle of immigrants in Brescia.

Meantime escapes and revolts in immigration centres do not stop: Milan, Gradisca, Bari, Modena…

On the towers, on the cranes and in the streets the struggle of the oppressed does not stop!

Translated from informa-azione.info.

Bologna, Italy - Sabotage in solidarity with Billy, Costa and Silvia

Bologna, Italy - Sabotage in solidarity with Billy, Costa and Silvia

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da finoallafine.info Information received anonymously via email:" During the night of October 6 a relay mast was set fire to under the bridge of via Libia, in Bologna. The enormous pylon was so damaged that it had to be felled and a month still hasn't been re-erected. For Billy, Costa and Silvia, attacking structures and those responsible for control and exploitation."Fri, 12/11/2010 –

Buenos Aires - Bomb at the Provincial headquarters of Rio Negro in revenge for the death by police of 16 year old Mapuche, Guillermo Trafiñanco

culmine

Buenos Aires - the night of Monday, November 8 we placed a bomb at the door of the headquarters of the province of Rio Negro, in the filthy city of Buenos Aires.
The bomb consisted of two bottles filled with inflammable material and at the bottom, two low-potential explosives. After leaving it there, we decided to make two warning calls to avoid causing harm to the unwary passers-by, and why not, so that the police felt the fury of the oppressed in their faces (which did not happen, because the cowards had taken all the necessary precautions to carry out their miserable job).
We remind the politicians, judges, police officers and those who support them that their daily terror will not remain unpaid.
With special love and complicity with our brothers and sisters anarchists locked up / in Chile and for all / and all the prisoners in war.
For the armed insurrection, for the destruction of the world of authority.
Circulo del Caos

Switzerland - media hype for the bomb at the embassy in Rome

culmine

31/10/2010 - translation from German by Marco Camenisch. Article taken from "20 Minutes", a free newspaper of the German-speaking Switzerland, 13 or October 14, 2010, news quickly picked up by national TV teletext.

ROME / BERN. The Swiss Embassy in Rome is in turmoil: in front of the door an incendiary bomb was found. There may be left-wing extremists behind the attack.The incendiary bomb was deposited on the night of October 5 on the wall that surrounds the Swiss Embassy in Rome. Although it did not explode, it has caused great concern. The embassy immediately called the Italian police. The latter have opened an investigation. According to the spokesman of the Department for Foreign affairs, the embassy had received no warning. There is talk of a "rudimentary incendiary gimmick". For further information, we are referred to the police of Rome. The spokesman reacted angrily to the questions of "20 Minuti" and says "There were bottles filled with a flammable liquid. Behind the attempted attack there would be left-wing extremists. On similar forums, they say they regret that the incendiary bomb did not explode. Near the embassy there would be a sign demanding the release of "Billy, Silvia Costa and Marco" - those left-wing extremists who were allegedly planning the April attack on an IBM laboratory in Rüschlikon. Two of them are Italian. Also included is Marco Camenisch, who since the late '70s, has participated in several attacks on high voltage pylons. All four are in Swiss prisons. Although the bomb did not blow up, these actions are, according to the expert on these environments Samuel Althof of the special clinic for the prevention of extremism and violence, to be taken seriously. "Often extremists on the left use minor actions to send a message to announce a possible escalation of violence." article from 20 Minuten http://www.20min.ch/news/schweiz/story/31367204

Three police officers dragged from their car and beaten in Italy as tensions continue to rise over proposed rubbish dump

http://signalfire.org/?p=4672

25th October 2010
Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni today threatened ‘tough intervention’ unless violent protests against the building of a rubbish dump stop.
Mr Maroni spoke out after yet another night of violence by masked rioters left three police officers injured, one of whom was taken to hospital with a serious eye injury.
The officers, who were part of two plain-clothes patrols in unmarked cars, were dragged from their cars and beaten by the gang of masked youths.
Three men aged 18, 22 and 24 were later arrested for the attack amid claims they had been drafted in by the local mafia – known as the Camorra – to cause trouble.
The Camorra has a heavy hand in rubbish in the area, extorting contracts for its collection and disposal, with claims that it also offers to get rid of toxic waste from overseas if the price is right.
In recent days there has been an escalation of violence at Terzigno near Naples, site of the proposed dump, with cars regularly being torched and rocks, fireworks and Moltov cocktails thrown at police.
Over the weekend a small quantity of explosives was seized by police close to the area where the rioters have set up their protest camp. However no direct link has yet been proved.
Speaking to students in Varese near Milan at a conference on organised crime, minister Maroni said: ‘At Terzigno there have been real acts of wanton violence against the forces of law and order and this is no longer acceptable.
That is why I am appealing to those involved to lay down their weapons, otherwise I think it will be necessary for tough intervention, more so than there has been up to now.
‘These officers have been attacked ion the dead of night with rocks and beaten with bars.’
Terzigno has been the scene of violent protests for several weeks and as a result rubbish has been piling up in the streets of the nearby city of Naples prompting health fears.
Two years ago Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was faced with a similar situation and managed to resolve the problem – blaming the cause of it on the left wing Naples city council.
Residents of Terzigno, which has a national park surrounding the dormant volcano of Vesuvius, are opposed to the building of a new waste disposal centre for health reasons.
They claim that the site will not recycle enough rubbish and give off toxic fumes which will pollute the local environment and threaten the lives of children.
Berlusconi’s government has released £12million to deal with the situation immediately and said that it will put the new plant on hold – providing the rioting stops.
However the plan is also conditional on the continued use of another waste disposal centre near Terzigno with vegetable compost being brought in to dispose of the tons of rubbish that has built up.
Officials say it will take ten days to get back to normal – providing there is no more violence – but locals are said to be unhappy with the offer and there are fears of a further violent backlash.

New transferral in Swiss prisons

http://bristolabc.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/new-transferral-in-swiss-prisons/

Billy and Costa and have been transferred. At the moment we do not know why. The new addresses are:
Luca Bernasconi (Billy)
c/o Regionalgefängnis Bern
Genfergasse 22
3001 Bern
Switzerland
Costantino Ragusa
c/o Regionalgefängnis Thun
Allmendstr. 34
3600 Thun
Switzerland

Letter from Silvia Guerini (Italy)

SILVIA’S COMMUNICATION FROM THE BIEL’S PRISON
Message for the animal and earth liberation meeting – 10-11-12 September 2010 (ITALY)
Much to my regret, I can not be present at these three so important days, at the first meeting of animal and earth liberation.
But I’m there with you, with my thought and my heart.
I send you this message and a big hug.
We are constantly bombarded by an infinity of toxic substances, released in the air “in the soil” in the rivers and in the seas.
We are submerged by industrial and technological poison. Biotechnologies and technologies are going to identify themselves into the whole fabric of society.
We are intoxicated, esteemed and guinea-pigs or spare parts.
We are violated in our bodies’ depth… into the alienation of a world of electric circuits.
Every day, right at this moment, one part of the amazonian forest is being destroyed forever. Animals and plant species, that we don’t know the existence of, are being extinguished. Because of the complicated links of the environmental balance many other species are going to be made extinct.
The consequences of destroying the ecosystem and her biodiversity, of exploiting the planet’s resources, of the climate changes will be such terrible and irreversible for the entire planet that we can not consider those consequences as secondary problem.
We can not consider as a secondary issue also the importance of radical-ecological struggle, in order to contrast this system based upon the advance of the scientific progress and technological environment.
Those corporations, whom have their bases and research institutes in our own countries, they’re expanding their power and projects in an underhand way.
They show instead, in the south of the world, their face of death. It’s a survival question for the farmers, despoiled of their knowledges and forced by Monsanto corporation to buy and plant genetically modified sterile seeds.
In the forest it’s a survival issue for the last tribes: their forests are disappearing; and this means a profitable business deal for the soy plantations and biofuel development.
Not reacting means death.
These people are resisting with arms against the corporations and the advance of civilization, their resistance is our resistance. All of us are parts of the same struggle. The animal and earth liberation’s movements are parts of the same path; they cannot be considered two different things.
All the beings are joined each other by the same thread of exploitation. The anthropocentric paradigm of the system make a thing of every living being turning it into goods, flesh for slaughter, exploitable resources, organs for dissecting: a malleable and modifiable pile of cells, genes or atoms.
The system’s different forms of oppression merge and permeate one into another, forming a net of links and relations. Taking out a single issue from this net means losing contact with reality and misunderstanding the development of power. We have got to ask ourselves what we are opposing, we must recognize the need to unite the different battles for liberation, never losing that tension that put us against the whole of society, that doesn’t let us feel satisfied, that never let us hide behind words
Let’s turn words in action!!!!!
“To protest means that there is something we do not like, to resist means we’ll no longer let what we do not like happen again” Ulrike Meinhof
To resist is seeing the enemy, making him visible in front of our rage, making real our feelings and our thought. Only joining in a single front the animal and radical green movements will be able to face the complexity of dominion, with a fight going deeper then the surface, in order to break up exploitation totally. We could say that the path taken is easy and we’ll never do mistakes and we’ll obtain many victories. In this way probably we’ll approach more activists, but without being ready to face the first difficulties the entire movement may collapse. To avoid this situation we must be aware that the road is long and terrible, full of obstacles that sometimes will appear to be insurmountable. We’ll make mistakes, we’ll suffer defeats, some of us will quit resisting and we will also face repression, but despite everything, despite the context around us which appears to be increasingly bleak and although it’s difficult to transmit our message, we must ask ourselves.: if you don’t start to fight, who will? If we don’t start now to fight, when? If we’ll wait, if you will wait, it will be too
late…
In front of the scenery surrounding us, if we’ll be taken by the impotence and feeling of discouragement, we must not stop to these feelings, but turn them into consciousness and strength.
In our mind it’s spinning around the question “what can we do? What is it possible to do against all of this??”. For an answer, it’s enough to start reversing the route decided by the system and stop that course of events, that the powerful people want us to believe ineluctable. Every one essential, a single person can make the difference, a single person can open a cage. And it won’t be, ever and never, a too high price to pay for saving a life. Many individuals together, they can become a stick between the
gears of this system and they can attack it.
If all the persons, for the first time at this meeting (when it’ll be finished), will constantly engage themselves in a concrete way, new struggles may begin so on, the projects already existing will increase their strength and they’ll grow. All together we may develop an earth and animal liberation movement, strong and radical. A movement made by many souls and many more specific projects, but all of them united by the same visceral need to fight against exploiters and killers of all the Earth’s beings, for a struggle with the entire existence, without the fear of making mistakes because we’ll learn from them and we’ll rise up more conscious and strong, without the fear of repression because there are no more terrible cages then those where millions of animals are imprisoned and because in the prospective of a dying planet we must learn the courage of
risking our freedom.
Under the skin, that thrill that let us live until the last breath with closed fists and with the certainty that we will fight until the end. Let’s rise our eyes to the light of the stars and let’s conquer the sky!
To all the wild ones and to all that although behind the iron bars of a prison are remaining free.
Freedom for Costantino Ragusa, Luca Bernasconi, Marco Camenisch and for all revolutionary prisoners!!!!!
Silvia Guerini
Biel’s prison, Switzerland
July 2010
Previous Info
Soli-Website for Luca, Costas and Silvia

On the appeal trial against the Lecce anarchists for so-called operation Nottetempo

 

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS; STOP DEPORTATIONS
LOVE AND STRENGTH FOR ALL PERSECUTED PEOPLE;

FUGITIVES AND REBELS

A story already written? A few notes on the appeal trial against the Salento anarchists. 

Ideas and laws, passion and social peace.
This story has often showed strong conflicts between those who expressed freely their ideas and those who attempted to repress them; between those who struggled with determination so that migrants were not locked up for not having an ID document, and those who boasted that locking up migrants was a question of security. On the one side the anarchists, on the other police, magistrates, the Church on charge of a CPT [immigration detention centre], journalists and politicians. All this, however, does not give a complete picture of what has happened and of what is still at stake.
March 2005: the CPT run by the Lecce clergy closes down for good. In the last years of its existence, hunger strikes, revolts and escapes carried out by the imprisoned immigrants have continuously occurred. Outside the CPT, a tenacious opposition by some anarchists and the protests of other groups. Meantime the violence perpetrated in the centre by his manager, priest Cesare Lodeserto, the carabinieri working with him and some of his aides becomes publicly known. Lodeserto gets arrested and later charged, among other things, with committing acts of violence and with kidnapping. The State, however, cannot put itself and its friends on trial and leave its arch-enemies free. Thus, in May 2005 some anarchists also get arrested and accused of belonging to a subversive association, whereas many others are put under investigation. After a long period of detention, four of them are charged with organized crime, three others with minor crimes and eight are acquitted. Although the sentences inflicted on them are heavy, the comrades are by then free and continue with their activity. A hush falls over the whole story, including the various legal proceedings against Lodeserto and his companions. Meantime the CPT are transformed into CIE (Identification and Deportation Centres), migrants’ boats full of desperation are immediately sent back to other concentration camps, a witch hunt against foreigners and the diverse is the strong point of the xenophobic and security-obsessed governments that follows one another on the Italian scene. The CIE become precious tools employed by power in order to contain the undesirable and to regulate, through reclusion and repression, cheap labour liable to be blackmailed (so called illegal immigrants). All this becomes routine in Lecce, until new arrivals of desperate migrants on boats bring the question back to the general attention. Certainly this is not the decisive aspect for the judges who, on December 9, will pronounce the appeal sentence towards the anarchists on trial. There is much more at stake around this trial, as proved by the way it has developed. The first judge, after postponing the sentence in a long series of hearings, has clearly demonstrated his unwillingness to go on and his intention to pass the hot potato to others. The second judge has delayed the sentence for three times, adopting pretexts quite ‘abnormal’ according to current procedures.
The reasons for all this are not easily identifiable but could be found in the prosecutor’s willingness to worsen the charges inflicted on the comrades in the first grade of the trial. If the CIE are so important for dominion, and surely they are, to charge heavily those who have struggled against them is a warning to those who intend to carry on that struggle. The CIE, however, are a thorn on the side of power because of the numerous protests breaking inside and outside them in Italy as well as in the rest of the world. The story of an ex CPT closed down forever as well as the story of a CIE in flames are not good propaganda for the State. And then there are local issues: the power and reputation of the Lecce clergy, which have been badly affected by this story; the affiliation of the same clergy with powerful national politicians (such as a high official of the Home Office); a public prosecutor seeking revenge against some lovers of freedom; the necessity to repress those who do not submit to the established rules. Is this the end of the story? We’ll see! For the moment we can only say that ‘any similarity to actual persons or events is not coincidental’, as the same circumstances and persons can be found in any story where authority clashes with the determination
of those who do not shut their eyes to oppression and injustice. This story does not only concerns the freedom of some but it also poses the question of more freedom for all.
A few anarchists

Solidarity with the Lecce anarchists

On the appeal trial against the Lecce anarchists

So-called operation Nottetempo (Night Time) started in May 2005 with a massive police deployment that led to the arrests of 5 anarchists in the Lecce province (southern Italy) and to the investigation of another ten for conspiracy. The comrades had actually been actively engaged in the struggle against the Regina Pacis immigration detention centre of San Foca (Lecce) run by the clergy, which closed down before the beginning of the infamous operation Nottetempo. The tenacious struggle of the local anarchists, in fact, had unveiled the atrocities perpetrated in that prison for immigrants to such a point that the operators of the centre could no longer hide their ignominious activity. Some of them were even put on trial and eventually went abroad, where they carried on their dirty business and managed to repair their reputation.
On the contrary, two of the arrested anarchists spent two years in prison while the others were put under house arrest or subjected to various restrictions. The first grade of the trial concluded in July 2008: as it was impossible for the jury to confirm the existence of a subversive association (article 270bis on conspiracy), they turned to article 416 of the Italian penal code and accused four comrades of forming a ‘criminal association’ (organized crime). Three other comrades were accused of specific crimes and the other eight were acquitted.
Anxious about his career and longing for promotion, public prosecutor Lino Giorgio did not resign himself to the fact that his theory of an anarchist clandestine association had been rejected by the jury. For this reason, a few weeks later, he presented an appeal against this sentence in order for another jury to confirm the accusation of conspiracy against the Lecce anarchists.
The sentence of appeal was to be finally pronounced on February 10 2010, but it has once again been postponed following the decision of the jury to examine further ‘evidence’ provided by the public prosecutor. The intention to charge the anarchists
involved in this shameful story of repression with yet more serious charges is evident, and it is also clear how the local powerful are determined to silence the entire matter as well as the violence and the abuse inflicted on immigrants by the
operators of the Regina Pacis concentration camp. If the latter no longer exists, numerous others can be found all over Italy and everywhere else; but the struggle is also alive, the struggle of those who, inside and outside these concentration camps,
believe that the only fate of these places is that of being destroyed along with the fear, hatred, indifference and racism fomented by power in order to create terror and to stir up a war among the exploited.
Solidarity to the Lecce anarchists!

Destroy all prisons!

The Unwanted Children of Capital

CONTENTS                                               digitalelephant.blogspot.com/2010/08/unwanted-children-of-capital.html

Introduction
To the immigrants
The borders of democracy,
Immigrant murdered, comrades in jail
For those who didn’t run for cover
Collusion between the Church, the State and the Mafia
The struggle against Regina Pacis
Solidarity actions and events
Revolts in Turin, Milan and Bologna
Destroy borders! Destroy slavery!
Destroy all borders and prisons!
Belgium: solidarity against all borders
Greece: Hands off the Immigrants!

Messina, Sicily - Twenty-five anarchists charged

Saturday, 2 October 2010

Messina, Sicily - Twenty-five anarchists charged

translated from informa-azione

Police of Messina have concluded the investigation of the precarious school workers "Invade the Strait [of Messina]. A bridge for school," of Sept. 12. There are reports of 25 people belonging to anarchist and antagonist movements "who mixed in with the movement of temporary school workers with the principal purpose of creating problems for the train circulation" say police in relation to the blockade of the central rail station.
At the conclusion of investigation conducted by the Digos of Messina in collaboration with similar offices in other Sicilian police headquarters, this morning were deposited at the Public Prosecutor's "criminal acts relating to events occurring on the margins of the demonstration", which took place Sunday, September 12, 2010 in Messina, "Invade the Strait. A bridge to school", organized by the school's precarious workers. The police said that "during the event some troublemakers, infiltrated among the demonstrators, had occupied the tracks of the Central Station, leading to a partial blockade of rail traffic lasting about an hour." sysiphus-angrynewsfromaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/messina-sicily-twenty-five-anarchists.html

Chronicles of a summer of revolts in Italian detention centres

After last year, 2010 brought another fiery summer in Italy’s detention centres for migrants (C.I.E.), where people are detained waiting to be deported. At the beginning of the summer the length of time of detention increased to 6 months, thanks to new “Security Package” approved by the government. Also, the Italian government has made a special agreements with Algeria and Tunisia to speed up the deportations of migrants coming from those countries. In many CIE’s Tunisians especially have been on the front line of revolts. Here follows a brief and incomplete chronicle of the past few months:

Trapani, 14th July
At least 15 people manage to escape. The news of the break only comes out after a couple of days: 27 people would have tried to escape, 12 caught straight away. According to other sources, it was about 40 people…4 of the migrants involved get blamed for the events and are immediately transferred to prison. For a change and some fresh air.

Turin, 14th July
Turin is home to one of the most “famous” (not for good reasons) CIE. The revolts begin when a group of migrants try to stop the deportation of 3 of them. In the end the police takes away 2 of those people. The remaining start breaking objects in the cells and setting fire to the mattresses. Some climb up on the roof.

A solidarity picket is quickly organised outside the CIE. When the news is heard that some injured migrants have been left unattended, a group of activists occupies the yard outside the main Red Cross’ office. The occupation only stops when finally a doctor is sent to the CIE to take care of the injured. One of the migrants, Samir, who has cut himself gets sedated and taken away, only to wake up next morning in another CIE in Rome.

Gradisca, 17th July
As in Turin, the revolts begin after an attempt of deportation of a group of Tunisians. Some of the detainees climb up on the roofs, the police responds with teargas. In another wing of the centre, detainees drag mattresses into the yard and set them on fire to distract the police. One of the migrants on the roof gets hit by a teargas stick and falls onto the mattresses on fire – he gets taken away to hospital. The following Tuesday the detainee who had resisted his own deportation gets 9 months in jail, for resisting a public officer.

Turin, 19-22 July
A Tunisian migrant, Sabri, climbs on a roof to protest against his imminent deportation. He’s amongst those who took part in the previous revolt. A group of activists gather outside the CIE. Sabri stays on the roof for 3 days and 3 nights, while the picket carries on and activists support his struggle by flyering, radio shows and other.

On the 3rd day the police, helped by the firemen, drags Sabri down, twisting his ankle. In the streets the picket activists try to block the 2 main entrances to the CIE, and they get charged and beaten up. In the evening a march of at least 500 people walks around the CIE.

Sabri didn’t make it, but thanks to his struggle his story and the migrants’ stories have travelled beyond the cells and bars of the CIE.

Roma, 23rd July
Samir, the guy who had cut himself on the revolt of 14th July in Turin and had been transferred to Rome, climbs on a roof and swallows bits of glass. He is released on the last of his detention days.

Bari, 30th July
At least 50 people try to escape, only 6 manage it. Another 30 climb on the roofs, throwing things at the police, carabinieri, and even army officers below. 18 people get arrested and charged with “devastation, looting, and resisting public officers”.

Brindisi, 5th August
16 people try to escape, 8 manage it. 2 army officers get injured in the riots. Between May and July 33people have escaped from this centre.

Trapani, 6th August
Some detainees attack the guards and try to escape. 50 army officers get sent to the place to put down the revolt. The decision of using the army in detention centres is due to MP Maroni, who has managed to get another one of his brilliat programmes approved just the day before (“Safe Streets”, it’s called…)

On the same day – 5th August – the Parliament has approved a new law about military missions abroad. The law includes new agreements with Libya that allow the Italian Finance Guard to patrol the seas between the 2 countries.

The war against the poor continues…
the Resistance, too!

Italy Calling
e-mail: italycalling@riseup.net
Homepage: http://italycalling.wordpress.com

Genoa Italy: Arsonist Bomb Against Mobile Police Station in Solidarity with Prisoners

from anonymous
August 14 has been positioned a box with 3 liters of petrol and TRIGGER ON THE ROOF OF A MOBILE POLICE STATION PARKING in the port in the area ferries, in solidarity with prisoners in MARASSI Prison and ALL THE OTHER PRISONERS .

10 11 12 September 2010 Earth Liberation Meeting in Italy

L’idea di dare vita ad un momento di riflessione e approfondimento sulle tematiche di liberazione animale e della terra nasce perché riteniamo urgente e doveroso mettere in risalto, analizzando esempi concreti di lotte, la necessità di riconsiderare queste due pratiche di liberazione come parte di un percorso capace di minare le fondamenta di questa società.
Vogliamo sottolineare quindi la centralità ed il valore di questi due campi di intervento all’interno della lotta per l’ abbattimento delle logiche autoritarie e dei sistemi che essi hanno generato, contestualizzando nel capitalismo il sistema con cui dobbiamo scontrarci e riconoscendo nell’avanzata tecno scientifica il motore che consente il suo sviluppo e sopravvivenza.
Pensiamo che la critica debba necessariamente passare attraverso la pratica, per questo non è nostra intenzione fare di questo incontro la glorificazione di alcune teorie rispetto ad altre, vorremmo piuttosto preparare il terreno per generare una conflittualità diffusa, un tentativo quindi, di porre le basi per l’unità dei diversi fronti di lotta.
I nostri percorsi nel corso degli anni si sono sviluppati tra la specificità miope di alcune lotte ,che ci ha lasciato e ci lascia tutt'ora perplessi, e la ricerca eccessiva di una coerenza ideologica che troppo spesso da spazio solo alla riflessione. Di conseguenza, quello che pensiamo sia interessante affrontare è un approccio alle lotte, comprese quelle con obbiettivi specifici, che tenga conto non tanto delle differenze che caratterizzano le nostre priorità, bensì di quello che ci unisce verso un obbiettivo comune: l’abbattimento di questa maledetta società assassina. Le lotte per la liberazione animale ed ecologiste radicali, non potranno mai essere complete e tangibili se non supportate da una critica sociale, poiché è la società stessa che produce le dinamiche e logiche che portano allo sfruttamento in tutte le sue forme.
La storia ci insegna che un movimento è forte tanto più è coeso, il settarismo è controproducente e indebolisce tutti. Troviamo il tempo per cercare di gettarsi nella sperimentazione imprevedibile ed illimitata di una lotta che sappia tener conto della sostanziale unità del conflitto.

The idea of giving life to a moment of reflection and study on issues of animal liberation and earth was created because we feel urgent and necessary to emphasize, by analyzing specific examples of struggles, the need to reconsider these two practices of liberation as part of a path undermining the foundations of this society.
Therefore we emphasize the centrality and the value of these two fields of intervention in the fight for the 'destruction of logics and authoritarian systems that they have generated, in contextualizing the capitalist system with which we encounter and recognizing scientific technology in the advance engine that allows its development and survival.
We think that the criticism must necessarily pass through practice, this is not our intention to make this meeting the glorification of some theories over others, would rather pave the way to generate a widespread conflict, an attempt thus to lay the foundations for the unity of different fronts.
Our routes over the years have developed between the specificity of some shortsighted struggles, he left us and leaves us still perplexed, and research too ideological coherence that too often only room for reflection. Consequently, what we think is interesting is an approach to tackle conflicts, including those with specific goals, taking into account not so much the differences that characterize our priorities, but what unites us towards a common goal: the destruction of this damn murderous society. The struggle for animal liberation and ecological radicals can never be comprehensive and tangible if not supported by social criticism, as is the company that produces the dynamics and logics that lead to exploitation in all its forms.
History teaches us that a movement is stronger the more cohesive, sectarianism is counterproductive and undermines all. We find the time to try to throw in the unpredictable and unlimited testing of a fight able to take into account the substantial unity of the conflict.


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In solidarity with Silvia, Billy and Costa

Costa, Silvia and Billy continue their struggles from the Swiss prisons they're locked up in. They're accused of possession, transport and attempted use of explosive materials, and of planning to attack an IBM centre under construction. An IBM centre that will be among the focal ones in Europe's nanotechnology research.

Solidarity demo in Biel, Switzerland

The conditions of our comrades give the strong and clear impression that Swiss authorities aim at wearing out and isolating their resistance struggles. The censorship and requirements imposed on their correspondence show inequivocably that the system is trying both to stop their friendships and relationships and to isolate them from their contacts with the Movement.

This isn't news! We already know the "democracy" of Swiss jails: for years we have fought against Marco Camenisch's isolation in Thorberg's jail. But we know our comrades: always on the front line in years of radical ecological and animal liberation struggles, and against the techno-industrial civilisation. We can't but admire them and we're certain that in spite of any bloody prosecutor, they won't bend and they won't lower their heads. Their coherence and determination are an example to all of us.

We think it necessary to let our voices be heard by these comrades. May our solidarity break into the thick walls of their jails, may the solidarity actions multiply, may the struggle continue stronger than before. Solidarity has a value and a shape only through our struggles.

We invite every individual and group to make their voices heard in the way they think appropriate: To responde to this attempt of isolating our comrades and re-affirm once again the necessity of our struggles.

NOT A STEP BACKWARDS! FREEDOM FOR SILVIA, COSTA AND BILLY!
SOLIDARITY WITH REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS!

Il Silvestre, Coalizione contro le nocività , Rote Hilfe Schweiz, Anarchiche e anarchici ticinesi, Equal Rights Forlì, Anarchici e anarchiche di Via del Cuore, Villa Vegan, LasVegans, Anarchiche e anarchici bolognesi

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Tonino Libero! - you'll never walk alone.

In Naples, Italy, the first of May the police allows a group of fascists to approach the yearly “labour day’s demonstration”. The fascists starts right away provoking and threatening.
The comrades react and push them away. One fascist takes refuge in a shop, a fight bursts and he gets out of the shop bloody and wounded.
Few months after the police arrests two people. One of them is Tonino. Our comrade and brother.
We do not care of judging the comrades’ activity. We do not look for understanding the exact dynamics of the events before choosing which side to stand for. We do not make inquires. One thing is, though, clear: Tonino is in jail for what he represents. For having always been in the forefront fighting for environmental causes, antifascism and against the repression of the state.
Guilty or innocent are categories which do not belong to us.
The aim of this blog is to put together and coordinate each solidarity event or demonstration to Tonino.

Just few words.
A brother in the hands of  the enemy.
A jail. Us.
And the rest has the smell of the street.

29th July 1900 2010 W BRESCI W L'ANARCHIA

Gaetano Bresci killed at Monza, on the evening of Sunday, July 29, 1900, firing three shots (or four historical sources disagree) King Umberto I of Savoy. The king was returning to coach at his residence Monza after a ceremony in a sports club. The murder - immortalized in a famous painter Achille Beltrame table for "Domenica del Corriere" - took place under the eyes of people cheering that greeted the monarch. Bresci left captured without resistance.
[Edit] The trial, conviction and death
The trial of Bresci was educated in a very short time. On August 29, 1900, that is exactly one month after the murder, Bresci appeared in the court of Assizes in Milan Piazza Beccaria. The ruling was a foregone conclusion at the outset. Gaetano Bresci asked how the socialist deputy defender Filippo Turati, but he had declined the post and was replaced Advocate anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino.
The defendant maintained an attitude in accordance with the character represented. Cold and detached, almost serene, listened to the reading of the indictment (for rhetorical truth up to capacity) without showing neither remorse nor bravado.

Here is the text of his interrogation in the classroom:

President: "The defendant has something to add to his deposition just read?"
Brescia: "The fact I made by myself, without accomplices. Thought I was seeing so much misery and many persecuted. You have to go abroad to see how they are treated the Italians! We have nicknamed "pigs" ... "
President 'not digress ... "
Bresci: "If I'm not talking sit down."
President: "Stay in the theme."
Bresci: "Well, I will say that the sentence leaves me indifferent, I'm not interested in point and I am sure I did not wrong to do what I did. Not even intend to appeal. I appeal only to the next proletarian revolution. "
President: "Admit that you have killed the king?


Bresci: "Do not killed Umberto; i killed a King, I killed a principle! And the crime but did not say! "
President: "Why did you?"
Bresci: "After the state of siege in Sicily and Milan illegally established by Royal Decree I decided to kill the king to avenge the victims."
When the President asked him why he had made that gesture, Bresci said:
"The events in Milan, where he worked the gun made me cry and I thought of revenge. I thought over because the King to sign the decrees reward the scoundrels who carried out the massacres. "


Heard the witnesses, the jurors retired to decide after a few minutes and chief accountant Carione jury read the verdict declaring the accused guilty and sentenced him to forced labor.
He served prison sentences in S. Stephen, at Ventotene (Pontine Islands) and to be able to visually inspect was built for him a special cell of three meters by three, no furnishings.
He died May 22, 1901 "committed suicide" by the State and probably was killed even before this official date. The authorities divulged the news of his suicide, hanged by a sheet or towel.
Some coincidences: a prisoner sentenced to life in Santo Stefano got the grace, the director doubled his salary.
There is also uncertainty about the place of his burial according to some sources, was buried along with his personal effects in the cemetery of St. Stephen, according to other, his body was thrown overboard. The only things left of him is his hat lifer (which was destroyed during an uprising of prisoners after the war) and the revolver with which he made regicide.

Pisa, Italy - Classic escape from Don Bosco prison

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culmine

Two Albanian prisoners manage to escape from Don Bosco prison in Pisa with the classic method of the sheet!

Florence, Italy - Damage and occupations. 19 anarchists charged

Sunday, 25 July 2010

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Source: corrierefiorentino 23/07/2010 -
A raid causing damaged to the offices of ENEL, the occupation of a municipal building, graffiti on buildings against the then commissioner for safety, Graziano Cioni. These are some of the alleged acts in Florence and 19 people of the anarchists, who were referred for trial by the court. For all, the prosecution accuses the association with aims of terrorism and subversion of democracy.
According to the indictment, since October 2005 the group has been carrying out the invasion of a number of buildings, caused theft and damage, threatened journalists, local politicians and administrators, including former city councilor security Graziano Cioni, who claimed damages. Among the accusations aggravated violence and resistance "against public officials in order to create social tension and clashes in the public streets against police." The nineteen defendants - defended by lawyers Sauro Poli and Massimo Lombardi - are aged between 23 and 55 years. "