Short update of the recent repressions against anarchists in Belarus

2.17 Demonstration of solidarity in Berlin with all Belarusian political prisoners

On Thursday evening (02/17/2011) hosted a demonstration of solidarity with the Belarusian zaklyuchennymi.Demonstratsiya began at 18 o'clock, in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg (Kreuzberg "Heinrichplatz"). There were about 35 people, just playing music, was made public a report on the repression of the anarchists and the opposition, handed out leaflets and newspapers. This is the second such demonstration in Berlin. The last time it was held in September last year, the Berlin district of Friedrichshain up of Belarusian embassy. This demonstration was held before the so-called "presidential elections", so it showed up and Belarusian TV (channel ONT).Nevertheless, after a week you could see a report in the "contours", in the most natural description of "good" manners This time on the banner was written only in Russian, "Freedom for Political Prisoners - Anarchist Black Cross of Belarus". Around 18.30 we moved towards the Treptow Park, where the embassy of Belarus. On the way, handing out leaflets and play music. About an hour later we arrived at the embassy, where he spent two more performances at the German and Russian languages.And in the end of the demonstration all Zered in Russian: "Freedom for all anarchists."

Tue, 15/02/2011 -

As of right now four Belarussian anarchists are under arrest, accused of having organised a series of direct actions 2009-2010.

Everything started long before this past September(2010). The years 2009-2010  were rich in radical actions claimed by Belarusian anarchists. Such as:

 *an illegal anti-militarist demonstration in Septeber 2009 against a mutual
 Russian-Belarusian war exercise,  when a Joint Staff was attacked with a smoke   grenade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQ3kz0hVDM


* an attack on a Minsk casino using paint bulbs and flares in protest of
 the relocation of most Russian casinos to Belarus after the law banning casinos in Russia was passed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXKjrVVAHXw

* an attack on a police station in Soligorsk during the days of common
 action against the police (windows were broken and a flare was thrown inside)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT27oiSwCY0

* an attack on the Headquarters of the Trade Union Federation on the 1st May
 with the statement that the state and this formal organisation uses workers
 in its interests, and doesn't defend their rights, often preventing workers
 from cooperating with each other and organizing strikes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNyIpJYz7Q&feature=player_embedded

 * an attack on a branch of Belarusbank as a protest against the financial
 system in the world (molotov-cocktails)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT7f1hro9jc&feature=player_embedded

and finally

 * an attack on the Russian embassy in Minsk as a solidarity action with  Khimki arrestees on the 30th August 2010  where a car belonging to the  embassy was burnt.

This was the last drop for the regime as the attack was carried out in  a period of harsh antagonism between the leaders of Russia and   Belarus. Before the action was claimed by anarchists each country had   already blamed the other one for having maneuvered the provocation.

On August 3rd 8 people in 3 different flats were detained and 7 of them  were put in a detention center for 9 days. During this period another   radical action took place

* an attack on the detention center with the statement to set free all detainees. The attackers set fire to a door of the detention centre.  Later the video is removed from youtube.

After 9 days 5 of the 7 people are set free, but other people are  detained in the meantime. One of them, Aliaksandr Frantskevich, is accused of   the attack on the police station in Soligorsk. He admits that he was   filming the event. The other guy, Mikalaj Dziadok, is kept in the   detention facility for different reasons till September 24, when he is   accused of organising last year's anti-militarist action. In the  meantime they also find witnesses who claim that he also organised an   attack on the casino and the House of Trade Unions. All episodes   mentioned above are now united under one case. Mikalaj denies his guilt.

* In October the KGB quarters in Bobrujsk are attacked with molotov cocktails.

 They take a guy who lives in the neighbourhood, Sergej Sliusar, and  keep him for 10 days without accusations. (He had also been detained for 9   days in September)

On the 4th of November Maxim Vetkin is arrested and accused of an attack on the   Russian embassy and on Belarusbank. He admits his guilt and says that he   was participating also in the attack on the bank. He is also giving testimony against other people, so we have withdrawn support from him.

On the 17th of November Denis Bystrik is detained, where he is told that Maxim  gave testimony that he was filming the action at the Russian embassy. He   admits his fault but is set free without accusations so that he can contact one of the other suspects, Ihar Alinevich, and have him detained, but eventually the plot is not successful.

On the 29th of November Ihar Alinevich is detained in Moscow, when trying to
 meet his comrade Anton Laptenok (one of those detained on September 3rd). He  is accused of an attack on the Russian embassy and is held in the KGB remand prison. Ihar admits that he was participating in the anti- militarist  action, but doesn't consider it a criminal act. He denies all other  accusations.

On the 17th of January Jauhen Vasilevich, a journalist from the newspaper "Bobruiski courier," a nationalist democrat without connections to the anarchist movement, is detained and accused of the attack on the KGB headquarters in Bobruisk.

The period of investigation for all of the arrested is prolonged till April
 12th.

All of them may face up to 6 years of imprisonment. The case with the  bank could mean up to 10 years. It appears that they are also accused  of “intentional destruction of property committed by an organised group   (7-12 years of imprisonment).” According to the law, in such a case, the organiser gets no less than 3/4 of   the maximum sentence.

Addresses of prisoners for support:
Mikalaj Dziadok, Tyurma SIZO-1, ul. Volodarskogo 2, 220050 Minsk, Belarus (New address!!)

Aliaksandr Frantskevich, k. 46 SIZO-1, ul. Volodarskogo 2, 220050 Minsk, Belarus

Ihar Alinevich, P.O. Box 8, Glavpochtampt, 220050 Minsk, Belarus (Unfortunately Ihar is only allowed correspondence in Belarusian and Russian language, but you may send postcards and such)

List of prisoners in former Soviet Union we support:
http://wiki.golosa.info/en/index.php?title=Category:Prisoners_in_former_...

New Year's Eve Demonstration Outside Prison in Solidarity with the Yarl's Wood 3 london u.k.

On New Year's Eve, friends, family and supporters of the Yarl's Wood 3 came together outside Holloway Prison for a noisy demonstration of solidarity. Over 100 people showed that the struggle for freedom for these three brave women, and all those in detention, will continue in 2011.

In February 2010 prisoners at Yarl's Wood immigration prison organised a hunger strike. They demanded an end to indefinite and abusive imprisonment. Their courageous protest lasted five weeks, despite violent attacks by guards at the detention centre.

As retribution several people involved in the hunger strike were moved to prisons. Three of those targetted in this way are still behind bars: Denise McNeil, Sheree Wilson and Aminata Camara. They have been away from their families, friends and communities for far too long.

With whistles, pots and pans, flutes, drums, rattles, megaphones, and a soundsystem, the demonstration could be heard by those inside the prison. Chants of 'Free the Yarl's Wood 3', 'Hunger Strikers are Freedom Fighters', and 'An Injury to One is an Injury to All', and 'No One is Illegal'.

After gathering around the entrance to the prison with lots of banners, people moved around to the side entrance, within sight of people inside, who waved and shouted back. Cars and buses honked in support, and residents of the surrounding housing came and joined in.

Messages of support from organisations and individuals in Britain, and around the world were read out. Support has come from Ireland, the US, New Zealand, France, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. In Sweden, a giant banner was hung in central Malmo, calling for ' Asylum for all in 2011', to coincide with the New Year's Eve demonstration.

Their struggle was “for everyone in detention”. We need to support those who take action on the inside. When they use prison to try to silence resistance we will fight back.

THE YARL'S WOOD THREE WILL ALSO HAVE BAIL HEARINGS IN THE COMING WEEKS. Your support is very welcome. If you would like to come to the court to show support for them contact  freedenisenow@gmail.com.

Please 'like' the 'Free Denise Now' page on FACEBOOK, and encourage your friends to do so. TWITTER feed @freedenisenow. Regular updates will be here, and by email.

Free the Yarl's Wood 3    
from uk indymedia. 

Letter of the 2 imprisoned in Avlona prisons for the Nadir case in saloniki greece

On saturday 4^th of December with the upcoming demonstration that would take place for the two years since the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the anarchist squat NADIR is raided and evicted by the cops who arrested all individuals found inside the building. At the same time our own cinematographic arrest also takes place where one of the three of us gets punched by an undercover cop, afterwards we were led to GADTH (thessaloniki police headquarters) where 9 hours later, one was let free while to us is announced a heavy serie of charges, that is based on the testimony of a cop that claims that he recognized us transporting the stolen items.

Since then, we are detained in Avlona prisons. We consider this action as an attack of power that has as a target the intimidation and the split of comrades making a show of force, showing its teeth to any threat that could dispute him. In this case the long expected december with an epicentre the programmed demonstrations on the 6^th of the month. Also a decisive role in this attack was played by the always willing Media that aim to divert, to manipulate and to disorientate the common opinion exploiting their state and technocratic possibility. In this case not only they try to connect us with the robberies in the A.U.T. (aristotitle university of thessaloniki) but also with the arrest of the persecuted comrades in Athens.

Having taken a specific position, in the social war between the insurgents and power, our thoughts and actions are not going to stop even behind the walls of prisons as political enemies of the regime in captivity. We always knew that we might be accused and be jailed for our ideas as many other comrades before us for the struggle that we are devoted to and consciously selected.

The revolution comes into NOW and lasts FOREVER

Solidarity to all political prisoners

Freedom to all of us !!

Letter of the 2 prisoners for the NADIR case

Gathering in solidarity with the struggle of prisoners in Patras greece

On Sunday, December 12th, approximately 100 comrades gathered outside the prisons of Agios Stefanos (30 km outside Patras, in western Greece) in solidarity with those fighting behind the prison bars. A very high percentage of detainees throughout the country have gone on hunger strike or abstain from prison meals from 29 November to date. They demand the improvement of detention conditions. Read here for more details. Slogans were chanted, a banner that wrote “Passion for freedom is stronger that any prison” was hung, the prison walls were stenciled; there was music and two-way communication through speakers. A prisoner described on the phone the conditions they live in, and how those who fight are treated by prison guards. Prisoners waved and shouted back, burned sheets and hand-made flags.
No one fighting is alone! Solidarity to the struggle of prisoners!
tusday 14  has been called as a day of action and demos will take place across the country in solidarity.

Santiago, Chile - Relatives of the prisoners killed at San Miguel prison attack authorities giving list of victims

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Relatives of the 81 prisoners killed by a fire today at the San Miguel Chilean prison as a result of a riot attacked the authorities responsible for disseminating the list of victims.


Family members threw bottles and stones at officers outside the jail, according to the account given by witnesses to the Chilean media. "We are\living in chaos," said a journalist from Radio Bio Bio on the scene.


The police had to intervene to stop the attacks, he added.


One of the most affected was the mayor (Governor) metropolitan Fernando Echeverria, whom the family insulted and threw eggs and other projectiles.

Let the slow death of Savas Ksiros stop from Action for Liberty

PRESS RELEASE

Let the slow death of Savas Ksiros stop

Let the appeal for ceasing his penalty be accepted so that he may be treated in hospital

                                                Athens, 30th November 2010

Savas Ksiros has appealed to the Magistrate’s Court of Piraeus asking for the cessation of his penalty, so that he may be treated in the ACHEPA Hospital of Thessaloniki, which accepts to treat him. He pleads a number of doctors’ opinions (in their majority from public hospitals), as well as the decision published on 9th September 2010 by the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for “inhuman behaviour” in violation of article 3 in the Human Rights declaration.

The evidence of the doctors’ records included in the appeal creates the image of a prisoner condemned to slow death:

a)    Total blindness on one eye and minimal sight on the other, which is also at risk of blindness.

b)    Vein deficiency and its effect on the limbs, which creates the risk of mutilation.

c)    Hearing problems with the risk of total loss of hearing.

d)    Neurological and blood vessel problems.

e)    Chronic asthma.

f)      67% disability established by the Qualified State Committee.

Bearing in mind all the above problems, the European Court of Human Rights charges the Magistrate’s Court of Piraeus that it deliberately adopted only one of the four doctors’ records, so as to reject the previous appeal for ceasing the penalty (the other three doctors, two of whom forensic surgeons, had expressed the opinion that only in a specialized hospital under constant care and treatment would there be a hope of stopping the continuous deterioration of Savas Ksiros’ health).

In fact, the European Court of Human Rights condemned the Greek state for it applies on Savas Ksiros revengeful methods of detention, refusing to give him the opportunity of having the multiple health problems he faces treated. They judged that “his being accepted to a specialized medical centre for the period demanded by the nature of his medical treatment could prove crucial for the improvement of his health”.

The doctors’ opinions show that particularly his eye situation continually deteriorates. Thanks to the cruelty of the Greek state he has total blindness on one eye and the other is at risk of losing sight too. Unless there is immediate treatment in a specialized hospital, the situation will become irretrievable.

The enforced stay in prison of a man with the problems of Savas Ksiros is in itself inhuman behaviour. It could only be explained  as a means of revenge on the part of the Greek state to a prisoner of “special nature”.

Savas Ksiros must be immediately released from prison.

As a first step his appeal to have his penalty ceased should be accepted so that he may be treated in the state hospital that accepts him.

Any delay in satisfying this appeal will mean the continuation of a crime.

                                                          Action for Liberty 

http://actionforliberty.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/english/

Massive Administration of Substances in Greek prisons

CLIK ON THE BOOK AND READ....

Korydallos Prisons
Savvas Xiros
1st May 2009 

Prosecutors ALERT has been asked by kastanidis(minister of justice in Greece)

The minister of justice during his brief salute to the 26th annual meeting of the assosiation of judges and prosecutors, ( the real criminal terrorist union) asked the prosecutors to be on HIGH ALERT in the next hours , without to giving reason for his decision.

However according to information as of tomorow(today)29 November will been mobilizations in all prisons of Greece with mass food denial which will become a hunger strike.
The information was confirmed by the initiative for the rights of prisoners in Greece.
The main problems of the prisoners is the overpopulation of the prisons, the living conditions , medical care, the regime of granting day leaves , the reduction of sentences and the application of an alternative way of serving the sentences.
The prisoners mention that the prisons have a capacity of 9.700 places while the total number of prisoners is 12.600 (7.300 foreigners 5.100 locals and 180 foreigners waiting to be deported)






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LETER FROM GERASIMOS TSAKALOS PANAGIOTIS ARGIROU.

WHOEVER DOES NOT ARM HIS DENIALS, DIES IN HIS CONTRACTS
On 01/11/2010, after we have already delivered two incendiary packages to Suisse Mail on Astidamantos street and to ACS on spirou merkouri street, in Pangrati, send to the Mexican embassy in Athens and the address of Eurojust in the Hague, we are surrounded by police officers of the DIAS group and arrested. In our possession were found two more packages of incendiary packages destined for the presidential residence of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the Belgian Embassy in Athens.

As revolutionaries we do not recognize any interrogating authority. So, we were bound to refuse to apologize to cops and investigators, since our revolutionary position only before the public and comrades we feel as a duty to promote.
We declare ourselves, therefore, hostages of the revolutionary war, proud members of the revolutionary organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire. We do not regret anything and we support all commniques and actions of our organization, as well as those that will happen from now on, which made us and will make us proud.
We Support with all our soul the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, because it is also a part of our soul. We pride ourselves in our selection to find ourselves in a position of attack against the system.

Even through the difficult conditions of detention we will not stop showing never or clear views and positions on armed violence, urban guerilla warfare and the revolution.
Comrades, let us not allow them to take from us even a drop of land.
Comrades, lets break the apathy and social stupefaction.

Lets blow up the regularity of society once and for all.

P.S. There is no more beautiful way to show solidarity and the widening of the revolutionary consciousness than the continuation and intensification of diverse guerrilla action.

So we send our most sincere comrade greetings to the Guerillas, which in spite of the times continue to shine with fires of hate the miserable nights of the metroplois.

In the campaign for international solidarity to foreign organizations and imprisoned fighters, a communique of the organization will follow. 
NOTHING IS OVER

THE WAR CONTINUES

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire -Commando Practical Theory

Gerasimos Tsakalos Panagiotis Argirou

boubourAs translation actforfreedomnow. 

Third Night Of Rioting In Doncaster Prison ‎ u.k.

 

 

Prisoners moved after riots: official

2 hours ago

LONDON — More than 250 prisoners have been moved from Moorland prison near Doncaster to other jails after three nights of rioting in which several prisoners and staff were injured, the Prison Service said Friday.
Extra staff have now been deployed to keep the peace and a "high-level investigation" has been launched into the unrest at Moorland, Prison Service chief executive Michael Spurr said.
"We have a good record of maintaining order and security in our prisons and are therefore taking these incidents extremely seriously in order to learn lessons," he said in a statement.
The rioting broke out in the young offenders unit, housing men aged 18 to 20, on Tuesday night when about 40 prisoners refused to return to their cells after a fight broke out.
In the subsequent violence, three staff were assaulted and a female officer sustained a fractured jaw.
On Wednesday night riots broke out again, causing one prisoner to be hospitalised with head injuries. Riot officers intervened and the following day, 86 prisoners were moved to another jail.
On Thursday night the violence spread to the adult wing, and one prisoner was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Another 166 prisoners were moved to other jails in the nearby area.

 

Prison officers hurt in rampages

– 1 day ago

More than 100 inmates have gone on the rampage in riots at two young offenders' institutions, the Prison Service has said.
Officers in riot gear were needed to restore order after at least five prison officers were injured, including a woman who suffered a fractured jaw, in the riots in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and Woodbridge, Suffolk, which started on Tuesday night.
Almost 50 inmates needed to be transferred to other young offenders' institutions across the country after about 100 prison places were lost as a result of the damage, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) said.
About 60 offenders aged between 15 and 18 refused to return to their cells at Warren Hill, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, at about 7.30pm on Tuesday, said a Prison Service spokeswoman. Officers in riot gear, known as Prison Service Tornado response teams, entered the prison at 5.40am and the situation is now under control, she added.
"The juveniles offered no resistance and will now be relocated elsewhere in the prison estate," she said on Wednesday. "Two staff were injured in the incident. Three juveniles are being treated for minor injuries. An assessment of the damage done to the wings will be carried out later today."
The riot was prompted when a number of inmates were prevented from having free and unfettered access to the telephone and leisure facilities following incidents of alleged bullying of other juveniles, said the POA spokesman.
"They reacted with venom, causing significant damage to the prison and two prisoners being hospitalised with a number of staff injured whilst trying to deal with the riot," he said. "This is the third serious incident this year at Warren Hill which has had to be dealt with by prison officers, this time resulting in a damaging loss of prisoner accommodation."
Tom Robson, acting national chairman of the POA, said: "The level of violence in our prisons is totally unacceptable and this incident is not uncommon in our juvenile and young offender establishments. We are seeking an urgent meeting with the regional custodial manager to look at resolving these issues and preventing further violence and damage to prison property, which will all result in significant costs to the taxpayer."
In the unrelated incident at Moorland prison in Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster, more than 40 young offenders refused to return to their cells after a fight broke out at about 7pm on Tuesday. Tornado response teams were called in at about 1am and the prisoners "offered no resistance".
Three members of prison staff were assaulted, including a female officer who sustained a fractured jaw, and significant damage was caused to the recreation area and cells in the riot which took place during a period of association, the POA said. A number of suspected ringleaders have been segregated.

Statement from Prisoners of the Chilean State Inside Maximum Security.

The public opinion of our friends and family members and all those who dream of an egalitarian society free of oppression:Since the 12 of October, 31 prisoners have initiated an indefinite mobilization demanding an improvement in the daily conditions and visitation inside the prison which physically and psychologically impair whoever is inside these torture centers. We aim to end the familiar logic of the prison guards which focuses on mistreating and humiliating all the thousands of poor who are forced to survive in prison and their friends and families who visit them. This gives us a shared camaraderie that enables dialogue and strengthens conviction, as well as a commitment to unity between social and political prisoners that can begin to attack the jailers. The teeth and blood of the pobladores is part of those voices that bit by bit break the censorship of information, taking our demands to their own centers of power, shitting on their faces. The desperation of the state’s repressive agents has sought to sew a weed of conflict between social and political prisoners tin order to maintain control, but “the fearless are living,” and with them the anti-authoritarians, both aware of the games of the prison system, and its routine assassination. We stand together in the dignified battle underneath the Maximum Security model and the injustice of the prison system. Neither the threats nor the punishments like those given on Tuesday, the 19th of October to Freddy Moraga Soto on the fourth floor at the hands of Cabo Flores can destroy the spirit of the poblador behind bars.

Along with a greeting, a brave and selfless response and in the struggle to each of the men and women who have given us their support, we want to hug our families, kiss our partners, children and loved ones. We invite them to continue spreading this mobilization in every space we move, making propaganda a weapon through posters, pamphlets and murals.
Never stop the cry for freedom!!
No more imprisonment of the poor in marches, rallies, schools, and poblaciones.
Create unity among all prisoners and their families. Support an environment without authority, faces looking at us because we are all worth something and together we make the powerful tremble. The prison was made by the rich to hide the injustice of the capitalist system. No more prisons for the poor!!!!
Social and political prisoners in struggle.
Maximum security prison October 22, 2010

Letter from the three accused of the robbery in Evia, central greece 19/10/10

At 11:20 a.m. on September 17, 2010, four people in ski masks robbed a bank at gunpoint in the small town of Psachna on the island of Evia north of Athens. A half-hour later, on a motorway road near the island’s capital Chalcis, a 27-year-old man, a 28-year-old man, and a 35-year-old woman were arrested. They were brought to the Chalcida  police station, where the men—Alexandros Kossivas and Michalis Traikapis—were charged with the armed bank robbery and the Maria Ekonomou was charged with “aiding and abetting fugitives.” The charges were based largely on the comrades’ connection to the anarchist milieu (Traikapis was one of the Thessaloniki 7, along with two Spanish comrades and others, arrested during the riots surrounding the 2003 EU summit in that city and finally released thanks to a lengthy hunger strike) and http://saloniki2003.blogspot.com/2010/05/call-for-solidarity-with-prisoners-of.htmldubious witness testimony (one of the witnesses, a kiosk attendant, supposedly remembered one of the comrades—just prior to the robbery—asking: “Excuse me, but where is the bank?”). The comrades didn’t have any weapons or “loot” on them at the time of the arrests, while searches of their Athens homes revealed nothing more than “ski masks, four 9 mm bullets, and other objects that are being investigated.” Nevertheless, Kossivas and Traikapis are currently in prison, while the Maria was released on probation. It’s expected that they will soon write something that states their position regarding the charges, their political identity, etc. Letter from the three accused of the robbery in Evia, central Greece 19/10/10 We are witnesses of a historical development, of a new even more devastating world that is opening in front of us. The so-called capitalistic crisis and the merciless pillage that follows it, signal a new phase of the metropolitan war and its two devastating aspects. The violence and the violence. Ideological violence, repressive violence. We speak of a new phase of war because we realize the era that preceded the crisis, equally barbarian and flattening. It was that memorable era of “plenty”, that prefaced sneakily and patiently what we live today. It was a continuous, “low intensity” war, that in two decades accomplished to extend by giving out dreams, hallucinations and ideology. Lending, as the last “invention” for the extension of life of the developed capitalistic world, was not only the yuppies, their statistics and their numbers. It was also those. Mainly however it was the ideological promotion of the then modern way of life with loans, that penetrated, determined and transformed the total of social relations. It was the sovereign language and its commercials. It was the cynicism and the stepping over dead bodies hunting of happiness, that changed the metropolis in to immense theatres of war. The triptych of force, wealth and power, that should by any means be achieved, was glorified by all classes in all aspects of social life and un-guiltified a constant crime against the “others”. The invisible, the outcasts, the poor, the immigrants. A barbarian mass where within each one is alone and against all, could consume, exploit, manage, have fun and rape without guilts. It was the era of all is allowed. However it was borrowed and as everything, so this at some point ends. The that rises brings with it poverty, unhappiness and prohibitions. It is the season of void that spits in the faces of those who live with hallucinations. And now what? Now that theres nothing for them to promise, they will only order. The sovereign language drips blood and the oratory with which the sweeping social transformations are promoted as an essential condition for the confrontation of the crisis, are rhetorical polemics. Direct, violent and merciless. The declaration of a “situation of emergency” and the obligation of obedience to whatever is commanded by the “national interest”, do not leave and room of misinterpretation. We have war. The state is barricading setting up an immense wall of protection around it. Because it knows that even though it still survives-the leftovers of the “plenty” of the previous decades-, even if still individualism and fatalism absorb dissatisfaction, even if still we “from under” have not constituted a compact competitive force, its not long before the moment where the accumulated rage will be expressed. And then it will explode. Even if it is a dead-end and contradictory it will explode. And the strikes will be criminalized, terrorlaws that are upgrading, the urban disturbances and the army that trained, the equipment and the budgets that are approved, the cities, the neighborhoods, the houses, our own lives that are being surrounded, prove it to us. In this setting, prosecutions, arrests and the imprisonments of those who fight are inevitable. Because it is now that they should, by striking us, spread the fear in those that are already thinking and are ready to act, because it is now that they should demonstrate their supposed omnipotence, because it is now that they should declare as useless and impasse, every form of struggle. We find ourselves therefore in the foresight because its what our era dictates. This may make us vulnerable and exposed, however in no case does it make us victims. Rather the opposite. This is why we speak of choices and conscience of the struggle. For the conscience that from the moment you begin to fight, you retake your life in your own hands, you cease perceiving yourself as a victim. Never again. Finally. We therefore say again, we have war. And with this fact we will recount our story. On friday 17th of September and at a long distance away from Psahna Evia, where previously a robbery had happened in the national bank of greece in the area, cops arrest us and lead us to the artakis police station. While theres no evidence that connects us with the particular robbery, it is the verification our personal data that reveals our “identity” and gives a specific turn in events. Its our arrests that we had in the past for hostilities against the regime, that constituted the “solid” evidence for our involvement in this case. Our direct transport to the Halkida station and the insistence of the cops in the interrogations to focus on our past, were indicative of their intentions. And since our presence in the wider area of the robbery alone is not enough, the evidence had to be invented. What else therefore, than the ridiculous testimonies of some snitches-residents of the area, that “recognize” walk styles, watch brands, labels on jackets and other imaginative things that were dictated to them by the agents of halkida, struggling to fulfill the mission that was assigned to them by their superiors from g.a.d.a.(central police headquarters in athens) At this moment three of us are accused and two of us imprisoned, with an insubstantial official charge. We could denounce the police arbitrariness against us and make pleads of innocence. However for us words are not neutral. They are charged with meanings and logics. They constitute entire worlds that are occasionally completely hostile between them. Words are therefore competing. What does it mean in our strange times to denounce arbitrariness? For us it means nothing else but an indirect faith in the monopoly of laws. A consensus admission, that arbitrariness is not in the nature of the system, but a making of certain perjurers and corrupted. It is a disorientating tactic that skillful directs the problem away from the root. To revelations, scandals, individual incidents. The system is a entirely criminal machine and violence and only violence is the oil that maintains it. Whoever still continues to ignore this, is either a suspect or turns a blind eye. We will not be focus therefore on the cops that “exaggerated”, to the public prosecutors that “arbitraded”, in the journalists that “misinformed”. What we seek is through our own story to describe the modern terms submission. To expose to common view these small stories, that compose the total of barbarian world that surrounds us. Each one us should take a position on them. We took ours. We demand the lifting of the charges and our immediate release, without begging for nothing. We are not victims, we are a part of our choices. For all that we did, for what we didnt make, for other things that we left. No one should look for “innocents” among us. We are on the side of the repeatedely “guilty”. We are next to the poordevils, the immigrants, the outlaws, the robbers, the “terrorists”. And we will remain here. For before, for now and for ever. Alexandros Kossivas, Michalis Traikapis (imprisoned in the 1st wing of koridalos prisons) Maria Ekonomou (accused for the same case) 19/10/2010  boubourAs translations actforfreedomnow! The trial of the thessaloniki 4 has been adjourned until January 14th, 2011. This was due to a situation involving one of the defendents who last week was arrested and therefore the authorities had trouble transferring him'' Michalis Traikapis'' from Athens to Thessaloniki. The solidarity campaign continues, and we hope to inform supporters of the developing issues surrounding the trial. Now as much as ever, as the 4 defendents will face again the greek courts in january 2011, we fully intend to participate in an international solidarity campaign. A series of benefits and infonights will be organised to further publicise this case. In Solidarity ( from Thessaloniki ) As of 9/10 we are not accepting the prison food of the prisons we are in, in solidarity to anarchist comrade Kostas Gournas who is on hunger strike. We stand even in this symbolic way next to the comrades struggle to remain in koridallos prisons, abolish the isolation situation for his family and political environment that is essentially being imposed with his imprisonment in trikala prisons. Michalis Traikapis Alexandros Kosivas Aris Sirinidis Christos Stratigopoulos Giannis Dimitrakis p.s. Comrade Alfredo Bonnano, expresses his solidarity to comrade Kostas Gournas, but cannot participate in the action because of his severe health situation.

New letter from Panayiotis Masouras

New letter from Panayiotis Masouras

24 10 2010  http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/new-letter-from-panayiotis-masouras/ From Presxs A La Kalle! (September/October 2010):
On August 31, the final appeal hearing for comrades Panayiotis “Takis” Masouras and Harilaos “Haris” Hatzimichelakis was held in Athens. Their lawyers’ request that our comrades be released on probation was unanimously rejected. About 50 people gathered in front of the courthouse to show solidarity. According to the lawyers’ estimates, the trial of both comrades (imprisoned since September 2009), as well as that of Konstantina Karakatsani (at large since September 2009 and arrested in April 2010), will take place in November. All three are accused of participating in the Fire Cells Conspiracy.
Silence will be a thing of the past.
Prison, as an institution of correction and conformity, aims to set straight and bring reason to the stressed social group found within.
The goal of the systemic rule of the regime’s prison policy is to subjugate each individual’s spiritual, psychological, and physical desires and capabilities—individuals who, in accordance with the law, are isolated and marginalized by the regime’s machinery like so many cancerous tumors awaiting therapy. In the cells of democracy, jailers who are an extension of the disciplinary mechanism devote themselves to a shameless war against human decency and dignity. The disciplinary structures of Authority want us on our knees, cut off from all social contact, and mentally stagnant. Their objective is to defuse the struggle for freedom by attempting to confine the fight against power.
The imprisoned subject experiences a long-term internal war. It is a war of disciplinary punishments (which constitute a punishment within a punishment), new sentences received while one is already inside, suspended leave, bigmouth prosecutors, the permanent degradation of human integrity itself, and miserable and inhumane prison conditions (regarding water, food, heat, overcrowding, and a lack of medical care and medicine). It doesn’t require complex deduction to realize that someone who finally leaves the regime’s crematoriums in one piece would mistake the misery on the outside for opulence.
The subject herself rejects the idea that the act of individual self-realization can bring about change. Each prisoner has to escape the one-dimensional viewpoint generated by the System’s channels of information and realize that the possibilities of restraining the jailer of her soul are infinite. She has to reflect on the possibility that the bottomless abyss of misery engulfing the human beings around her might pose the fundamental question on insurrectional terms, through the search for and discovery of the limitless potentialities within each one of us.
In the world of the powerful, in the world of global capitalism, nothing is ever given away. The duty of the capitalist elite is to propagate acceptance and fatalism, which in turn breed inertia.
The duty of prisoners is to see themselves essentially as prisoners of war, with all the responsibilities, obligations, and expectations entailed by that step toward direct confrontation with Authority.
We ourselves must be the change we want to see. Everything we’ve achieved has been claimed with blood, struggle, and armed desire.
Our plans to oppose the politics of annihilation must consist of disciplined, combative structures formed by the captives themselves. Those of us “inside” and “outside” the walls will fight Authority’s information system, which classifies us as “long-term criminals.” We will thus establish an authentic connection between the discourse and practice of struggle—the struggle of dignity against submission.
With our heads high and our necks straight, we will claim freedom.
The act of continuing to live with pride despite being “behind” bars makes the concrete walls invisible. It makes them invisible because we are transparent. It makes them invisible because we are Fighters and we dare. And when the walls are nonexistent, our strength sings the songs of victory.
“Inside” and “outside,” we’ll form a fist to break their teeth.
Long live human dignity and the passion for freedom.
Our struggle is the fertile terrain of the past, the blank pages of the present, and the promises of the future.
Fire to the prisons.
Solidarity with Captive Fighter Vangelis Pallis.
The blood each Fighter sheds is our blood too.
—Panayiotis Masouras, Avlona Special Detention Center for Minors, September 2010

  http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/new-arrests-in-greece/


Thodoris Delis 
Last summer, two people from the Athens anti-authoritarian milieu were arrested on the island of Rhodes and charged with a bank robbery. One of them recently wrote a letter explaining what happened.
Comrades:
On August 16, 2010, I was arrested in Rhodes and charged with robbing an ATEbank. Because I am not limited by the perceived duality of “innocence/guilt,” and because I refused to cooperate with the authorities, the prosecutor and judge unanimously decided to imprison me. Before that, I was subjected to a number of draining interrogations by the uniformed servants of Power, both local and from Athens. The investigators were apparently under the control of the National Intelligence Service and sent specially from the Exarcheia police station to identify me and share information. They also tried, in vain, to implicate some of my personal friends and comrades in the case. They then locked me up in the Rhodes police dungeons, which is unusual. I was “visited” there by two psychologists, who examined me and put together what’s known as a “psychological profile.” Suddenly, they decided to move me to the transfer office on Petrou Ralli Street in Athens, where the people in charge refused to let me know which prison they would be taking me to. After an exhausting stay, they told me I’d be going to Alikarnassos, and it was only at the last minute that I was able to notify my family and friends about my destination. All the transfers have taken place in the manner we know all about, crushing every last bit of human dignity, while the prison was certainly not chosen by chance. It’s due to these reasons that I haven’t had time to state my position regarding the case. The judicial report still hasn’t been finalized, and they are continuing to collect evidence. Therefore, when I am able, I will write more extensively about my stance on several matters, generally and with regard to the movement.
I send comradely regards to everyone who stood by me and helped me in various ways. Additionally, I salute everyone participating in the very important initiative to create a prisoner solidarity fund, which I also took part in from the beginning.

Free everyone inside

Solidarity with all persecuted comrades

Solidarity with fighting prisoner Vangelis Pallis

—Thodoris Delis, Alikarnassos prison 

http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/08/sofoklis-nigdelis-roommate-of-vaggelis.html
http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/08/vangelis-pallis-49-years-old-aka-apache.html

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

Until all are free: Two political prisoner support events in the valley this week.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

State repression is nothing new to anarchists, it has been a facet of revolutionary and liberatory movements throughout history because, let's face it, systems of power react with hostility to those who desire a reordering of relationships. We saw this earlier this year with the notorious police attack on the DO@ bloc, resulting in a large number of people near the bloc being hit by pepper spray, and five Phoenix anti-authoritarians and anarchists getting arrested and facing a number of serious charges. We also have six other comrades who locked down at the Border Patrol HQ in Tucson and are still facing charges for their act of resistance to the militarization of land and movement along the border, they too need our support.

The further we look back, the longer and longer the list gets of our anarchist and anti-authoritarian comrades who are locked up or facing trial across the country. Some of the most notable examples from the last few years are also the most outrageous examples of the lengths the state will go to disrupt our movements' activities, from the resistance to grand juries on fishing expeditions, to the criminalization of organizing protests, and the distressing pre-crime conviction of Eric McDavid.


Keeping our comrades' spirits high while locked up means that they need support from those on the outside, and I'm glad to help get the word out about two events happening this week that are supporting political prisoners.

Above is a flier for a new political prisoner support event being held tonight in Phoenix, organized by our friends at Stronghold, this event will help those attending network and share information on writing to and supporting political prisoners. This event kicks off at 6:30 at Conspire in central Phoenix.

The second event this week will be held in Tempe as the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition (PAC) is once again sponsoring a 5k Running Down the Walls event this year. PAC has maintained a longtime political prisoner support fund, and has organized a number of events to support and get the word out on our comrades locked up for nearly 10 years. For the last few years PAC has organized a solidarity run/walk/ride with other events organized by the political prisoner support organization, the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), all funds raised at this run will be sent to the ABCF for their prisoner support Warchest. It is scheduled for Saturday Oct. 16 at Mitchell Park in Tempe, people will be gathering at 5:30pm. Organizers request that you bring your favorite (preferably vegan) covered dish as there will be a potluck picnic after getting back to the park from the 5k.

Prisoners transferred after jail protest

13 October

In the wake of a prison protest at a jail in the western Dutch city of Harlem, a large number of inmates have been transferred to other jails. The prisoners were protesting at a newly-introduced stricter regime.
The prison service confirmed the large-scale transfers in response to local press reports. Prisoners refused to return to their cells on Sunday evening in protest at a new national prison timetable, which temporarily prevents visits during weekends.
The prison governors saw the protest as unacceptable, and therefore decided to transfer a number of the protestors away from the Haarlem jail.

Mountjoy boss vows to tackle thugs with dogs and riot squads

October 4th, 2010 http://signalfire.org/?p=4054

Monday October 04 2010
THE NEW Mountjoy chief has claimed that prisoners don’t run his prison.
Governor Ned Whelan told a gathering of prison officers at Ireland’s largest jail last week that his get-tough stance would continue.
He addressed the prison officers after 70 donned riot gear and ended a prisoner sit-in linked to racial abuse levelled at a prison officer last week.
Six handlers and up to 10 trained Alsatians were also dispatched to ensure the situation didn’t get out of control.
A source told the Herald: “The governor was delighted with the day’s work. He told the prison officers that the day of prisoners running Mountjoy was over.”
To reiterate his tough stance and his willingness to deploy the control and restrain teams to deal with prisoner unrest, the prison dog handlers did a demonstration in one of the exercise yards on Thursday.
“They brought the Alsatians into the exercise yard and had them confront a handler who was wearing protective padding,” the source said.
“It was in full view of the prisoners on the Joy’s notorious D wing and they were chanting but you could here a pin drop when the dogs started attacking.”
Wednesday’s protest came after a ‘P19′ disciplinary report was issued against a prisoner who had abused a black officer.
The prisoner, who was recently transferred to Mountjoy from a jail in Britain, was backed up by up to 100 of his fellow inmates in the protest.
Officers dressed in full riot gear, backed up by the prison dog units, convinced the men to halt their protest and return to their cells.
Seven of the men, including the instigator of the protest, were transferred out of Mountoy and a further three individuals are waiting for space to open up elsewhere before they are transferred.
Ireland’s most dangerous prison inmate continues to be housed in the prison’s segregation unit, despite reservations on the part of prison officers.
Leroy Dumbrell, who has 57 convictions, sparked a walk-out by Mountjoy prison officers in the summer when he was transferred back to the E Division at the prison from Castlerea prison.

Riots
The thug, who has been involved in prison riots, drug dealing and attacks on other inmates, had been held on 23-hour lock-up in Castlerea.
In August, his lawyers won a court order to end the five-month solitary confinement and allow him to mix with other convicts.
The Mountjoy governor has also brought in new guidelines to deal with the prison’s drug problem.
More intensive screening for visitors, the ending of physical contact between certain prisoners and their visitors and the erection of a €200,000 drug net designed to stop drugs being catapulted over the perimeter wall and into the exercise yard.
The jail yards were already surrounded by vertical meshing and gardai deploy regular patrols along the banks of the nearby Royal Canal to stop the drug slingshots.
New visitor guidelines have also added to the ill feeling between prisoners and prison authorities.
A number of inmates, who come under suspicion by staff handling the jail’s drug dog, are refused physical contact if there are indications that they could have been involved in accepting drugs or other contraband from visitors in the past.
Instead, they have to agree to receive visits behind a screen and in controlled circumstances.

Anti-Police Prisoner Paul French Needs Letters and Money

As many of you know, on April 8th, 2010, an anti-police demonstration took place in Olympia, WA. Over 50 people marched through the streets as a part of the West Coast Days of Action Against Police Violence. 29 arrests were made. Police came in with pepperballs, batons, etc. to disperse a march -- you know the drill.One of those arrests was Paul French who was convicted of felony assault of an officer. Paul got several months and is in dire need of commisary. He is currently in debt to the prison for medical expenses and unable to buy anything from commisary (not even a toothbrush). To write to him, please write:

Paul Joseph French
C/O Thurston County Corrections
2000 Lakeridge Drive SW
Olympia, WA 98502
As with writing other prisoners, remember that what you say can hurt them. Don't send in anything aside from paper and don't write anything that could hurt them (don't discuss their case!).
If you would like to donate money, you can send him a postal money order in the amount of your choice. Folks in Olympia are hard at work trying to raise over a thousand dollars to pay for his expenses so please chip in.
Support our political prisoners!
Thanks,
Somebody in Olympia
If you're interested in supporting other political prisoners, see ABCF.net. (This prisoner is not supported by the ABCF, just a handy link)

INSURRECTION IN ALIKARNASSOS PRISONS (CRETE) AGAINST THE NEW VENGEFUL PRISON REGIME

16th september

 The prisoners denied to go back to their cells until their demands were met. They ask for the abolishment of the undignified and humiliating searches that happen everyday in their personal space that sometimes lead to the same people being searched 3-4 times a week after the first ones found nothing. The insufficient meals which are served at the same times but with much smaller portions (half a plate of spaghetti), the revolting sanitary conditions with cockroaches jumping out of everywhere, the unjustified set up disciplinaries as oppressive measures that for a month now have been imposed by the new sergeant Teggas have as the only target the physical and ethical extermination of those imprisoned in them.


 The enslaved prison guards who execute vengeful orders themselves, with the justification of searching the cell they throw everything on the floor (sheets, personal belongings and food and coffees) create their own responsibility and will answer for that.



A motorbike demo of about 50 people arrived outside the prisons in solidarity shortly after to support the prisoners however they can.



THE DAYS OF INSURRECTION ARE NEAR

Hunger strikes in Swiss prisons by anarchist prisoners Marco, Billy, Costa and S

Eco-anarchist prisoners Marco Camenisch, Luca Bernasconi, Costantino Ragusa and Silvia Guerini started an hunger strike the past 10th September.

Communique':

We - Billy, Costa, Silvia and Marco - eco-anarchist and revolutionary individuals hostages of the Swiss state have decided to start a hunger strike from 10th September 2010. Because of our situation and the delay in communicating with each other (which for 3 of us means we can't communicate with each other at all because we're under preventative arrest), the arrangements and organisation of this initiative are very difficult and most probably you will only be able to have more detailed news, confirmations, and individual declarations only later on during the month.

As revolutionary anarchist individuals this is what we want to affirm strongly:

Solidarity and international participation - from the inside and beyond each individual's political inclination - with all revolutionary initiatives and struggles, outside and inside, against repression, prison, isolation, torture...For the liberation of all those who are hostages of the revolutionary war against the system; for the liberation of every individual; for the destruction of every prison, fence and society that needs destructing. This includes our total support and solidarity with the recent liberation campaigns for long-term revolutionary prisoners.

This strike is a continuation of our struggles together with all those who have never wanted to passively endure this war and the brutal social, economic, political and environmental crisis of the system. It's a continuation of all those strong affinities and relationships as "green/anticivilisation" anarchist individuals that connect us since many years. Against every state, priest and master; against every prison and repression; against the exploitation of humankind, animals and the environment.

The coalition - among us and with other individuals - in a radical war against all old and new toxicity and destruction and the system that produces them and makes them necessary. We mean this present system of technoscientific production, industrial, capitalistic, monopolistic and imperialist consumerism practiced by corporations and their States. Despite the fact that, with their typical arrogance and deceit, the masters and their arselickers try to paint these things as humanitarian, necessary and sustainable practices - we're talking about scientists, the media, politicians, cops, priest and all those organisations paid by and/or allies in the masters' "democratic dialogue" who support, for example, biotech and GMO's, "alternative energies", and even nuclear energy! Despite the fact that this imperialist, warmongering and terrorist system of masters, institutions and accomplices defines as "vandals", "terrorists", "eco-terrorists", and so on, us and anyone who dissents, resists and struggles for a society of free, autonomous individuals, without slavery, oppression, exploitation and destruction!

Our radical critique and struggle against the roots of the present system - the destructive expression of a millenary anthropocentric civilisation based on technological and industrial dominion (production-consumption), patriarchal domestication, social control and classism, massification and carceration of our cities, exploitation, organised violence and war of man against man, man against woman, man against other species, against nature, and the rest of the universe.

Last, but certainly not least: This initiative is also a contribution in solidarity and greeting to all of you revolutionary individuals of every inclination that - as individuals or in groups - support us with your true and free revolutionary love, with your initiatives, with your resistance and revolutionary offensive in open dayligh or open nightlight, by any means necessary, against every expression of the Monster State and Capital.

Together we're strong, solidarity is our best weapon!

Write to them:
Silvia Guerini, Regionalgefängnis Biel, Spitalstrasse 20, 2502 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Costantino Ragusa, Regionalgefängnis Bern, Genfergasse 22, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
Marco Camenisch, Postfach 3143, CH-8105 Regensdorf, Switzerland
Luca Bernasconi (Billy), Regionalgefängnis Thun, Allmendstr. 34, 3600 Thun, Switzerland

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Homepage: http://bristolabc.wordpress.com

The criminalization of poverty and the resistance in the case of the Tsouvalaki brothers.

Tuesday 1st of September 2010. For the theft of two laptops and a few mobile phone batteries of small value, from shops of a large company, “repeated thefts, occupation thieve and by habit”, the court of appeals of athens gave a sentence of 6 years to Nikolaos Tsouvalakis, who according to defence witnesses has the responsibility of taking care of his sick brother and his other three brothers that are locked in psychiatric clinics, and 4 years To Theodoros Tsouvalakis, who has 67% disability from a stroke he had in 2000 and can barely take care of himself, with the mitigation of “good behaviour after the action”. According to the decision the two brothers have to serve the sentences given to them. Nikolaos Tsouvalakis returned to Trikala prisons were he has been kept for 20 months now, while disabled Theodoros was taken to Hania prisons despite the decision of the first court to postpone his sentence of 7 years until the second court. Since friday august 20th N.ikos Tsouvalakis is on hunger strike in Trikala prisons protesting the justice procedures and for the granting of his demand to be moved to Agia prisons in Hania, to be near his brother. Note that his organism is worn down he has high blood pressure and suffers from respiratory problems and the decision to absent from food is dangerous for his life. Nikos Tsouvalakis belongs in the category of citizens that resist. On 22/4/2009 he wrote to the superior of the prosecutors of appeals of athens, a year ago: -Society is not in danger from me, its in danger from the governing parties, who as you can see, the social decadence, corruption and the jungle of violence that have become the regime and the theft and criminal self interest and repeated fraud by the political and economical mafia of the country remain in the penal unaffected, despite the fact that they wasted and looted, with their quarrels and the vicious “pimps”, all the budgets and public money-. During his imprisonment in korridalos he did three hunger strikes: two for the barbaric prison conditions and one in solidarity with the imprisoned (from the december 2008 events) Thodori Iliopoulos. The initiative for the rights of prisoners supports the demand of the brothers to serve their sentence in the same prison and near their family environment. It is self evident, just like its self evident the state will restore the injustices against the poor and unprotected people. The case of the Tsouvalaki brothers comes to confirm the passage from the state of welfare to a state of punishment as well as the position of prison in the new directory of disgust for the intensification of detention for socially outcast workers. The hunger strike is the ultimate resistance to a system that criminalizes poverty and leads the prisoners to annihilation.