Wednesday, May 5, 2010
DIRECT NEWS FROM A COMRADE IN ATHENS TODAY 5/5
1) Police attack social spaces:
More than 60 abducted to GADA police headquarters and at least 6 confirmed arrests up to now. Motorbike police gangs of Delta, Zeta and plain clothes cops holding a siege at the offices of the "anarchists for a polymorphic movement" and of the "cooks and waitreses' base union" at Exarchia. They invaded the "polymorphic" space, beating their way in, injuring heavily one girl and arresting many others. Also many cops are moving to Patision and Skaramanga str. squat. Some arrests and many beatings near the self managed park of Navarinou and on Tsamadou street, at Exarchia. There is also information they invaded "Diktyo" social rights network space at Tsamadou. Some people are still inside Polytechnic uni maintaining minor clashes with the cops. There are talk about a new march during the night, and many workers claimed another strike for tomorrow.
Police checkpoints around the whole city center. The cops are playing nervous, threatening to use their guns.
2) Indeed, the three employees of Marfin bank are announced dead by the fire brigade service. Their boss (mr Vgenopoulos, owner of Olympic air and MIG business corporation) made them work on a strike day, locked in the upper floors of a seemingly empty bank building with no exit doors available nor fire extinguishers! The fire brigade issued a complaint to the police, for not letting them approach the building in time, but after some time the media say they changed their evaluation to the police cooperation as "good" and said it was the rioters that didn't let them approach instead.
Some more info: A Bazaar supermarket was expropriated during the riots and stuff were distributed to the people. One minister was dressed up as protestor with helmet to enter the parliament during the demonstrations! A mercedes was set on fire near the polytechnic university and many other luxurious cars during the riots near Syntagma square. Also a jewelery and few banks, and the offices were the state keeps the taxes record! If the back up are harmed or not found, many people's owing to the state will be virtually evaporated! The president of GSEE was once again kicked out of the marches...
Now the despicable media say "when some people asked the rioters why are they burning a building with employees inside the rioters replied they deserve to burn because they re working for the bank" which is ofcourse yet another hideous lie. We weren't actually near the Marfin bank fire, but we were in front of another bank being burnt on Stadiou street a few minutes earlier, and again an employee let us know there are people inside, and right after that the people starting the fire helped put it out...
This kind of manipulation is typical for our pathetic and incompetent bourgeois scum.
more info maybe later.
Dim.
More than 60 abducted to GADA police headquarters and at least 6 confirmed arrests up to now. Motorbike police gangs of Delta, Zeta and plain clothes cops holding a siege at the offices of the "anarchists for a polymorphic movement" and of the "cooks and waitreses' base union" at Exarchia. They invaded the "polymorphic" space, beating their way in, injuring heavily one girl and arresting many others. Also many cops are moving to Patision and Skaramanga str. squat. Some arrests and many beatings near the self managed park of Navarinou and on Tsamadou street, at Exarchia. There is also information they invaded "Diktyo" social rights network space at Tsamadou. Some people are still inside Polytechnic uni maintaining minor clashes with the cops. There are talk about a new march during the night, and many workers claimed another strike for tomorrow.
Police checkpoints around the whole city center. The cops are playing nervous, threatening to use their guns.
2) Indeed, the three employees of Marfin bank are announced dead by the fire brigade service. Their boss (mr Vgenopoulos, owner of Olympic air and MIG business corporation) made them work on a strike day, locked in the upper floors of a seemingly empty bank building with no exit doors available nor fire extinguishers! The fire brigade issued a complaint to the police, for not letting them approach the building in time, but after some time the media say they changed their evaluation to the police cooperation as "good" and said it was the rioters that didn't let them approach instead.
Some more info: A Bazaar supermarket was expropriated during the riots and stuff were distributed to the people. One minister was dressed up as protestor with helmet to enter the parliament during the demonstrations! A mercedes was set on fire near the polytechnic university and many other luxurious cars during the riots near Syntagma square. Also a jewelery and few banks, and the offices were the state keeps the taxes record! If the back up are harmed or not found, many people's owing to the state will be virtually evaporated! The president of GSEE was once again kicked out of the marches...
Now the despicable media say "when some people asked the rioters why are they burning a building with employees inside the rioters replied they deserve to burn because they re working for the bank" which is ofcourse yet another hideous lie. We weren't actually near the Marfin bank fire, but we were in front of another bank being burnt on Stadiou street a few minutes earlier, and again an employee let us know there are people inside, and right after that the people starting the fire helped put it out...
This kind of manipulation is typical for our pathetic and incompetent bourgeois scum.
more info maybe later.
Dim.
up day from comrades in athens 5/5
Tens of thousands demonstrators on the streets, more than 2000 with the anarchist blocks, not well organized though. Massive clashes around Syntagma and throughout central Athens. Few cops had their shields taken, and some cops in plain clothes were beaten. Some slogans were also spray painted in solidarity to the Buenos Aires comrades.
Delta and Zeta motorbike cops attacked people leaving the march at Syggrou-Fix metro station with batton charges, light-bang grenades and massive tear gas use leading to one elder person with resporatory problems, sitting at a nearby cafe, heavily injured.
The police used tear gas canisters even inside metro stations (Syntagma).
Also full police cordon around Exarchia. Dozens taken to GADA police headquarters. Many people are still out on the streets.
Delta and Zeta motorbike cops attacked people leaving the march at Syggrou-Fix metro station with batton charges, light-bang grenades and massive tear gas use leading to one elder person with resporatory problems, sitting at a nearby cafe, heavily injured.
The police used tear gas canisters even inside metro stations (Syntagma).
Also full police cordon around Exarchia. Dozens taken to GADA police headquarters. Many people are still out on the streets.
Three dead as Greece protest turns violent
WHY?? ARE THE BANK WORKERS WORKING TODAY IN THE GENERAL
STRIKE IN GREECE?? SOMEBODY FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME!! PLEASE???
Fire brigade statement: three dead in Athens protest
According to a statement issued by the fire brigade in Athens, three bank employees suffocated and died in a private bank torched alight on Stadiou Street in Athens.
The ambulance service (EKAV) is so far (16.41 GMT+2) not confirming the news.
More info as it comes.
According to a statement issued by the fire brigade in Athens, three bank employees suffocated and died in a private bank torched alight on Stadiou Street in Athens.
The ambulance service (EKAV) is so far (16.41 GMT+2) not confirming the news.
More info as it comes.
Protests in Greek general strike turn violent
Trouble erupted as a group of protesters tried to storm the Greek parliament
Protests in Athens have turned violent amid a general strike over planned austerity measures that has brought the country to a standstill.
Petrol bombs have been thrown at police who responded with pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades.
A building in the city has also been set on fire and people are being evacuated, reports say.
Protesters are angered by spending cuts and tax rises planned in return for a 110bn euro (£95bn) bail-out for Greece.
Parliament is to vote on the measures by the end of the week.
Measures include wage freezes, pension cuts and tax rises. They aim to achieve fresh budget cuts of 30bn euros over three years, with the goal of cutting Greece's public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014. It currently stands at 13.6%.
A mass rally attended by thousands of people took place in central Athens before some protests began to turn violent
Outside parliament, a group of protesters rushed up a flight of steps, taunting MPs to come out and calling them "thieves".
Riot police forced them back with pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS IN GREECE! INSURRECTION NOW!!
Actions this week against the cuts greece
Actions this week against the cuts greece
- Monday 3/5 6.30 pm – blocking off of the ministry of Finance by Sintagma square with banners and sound-systems. Also, commencing of the hygiene workers’ strike; they are gathering at noon at Karaiskaki square in Athens; their strike is likely to turn into an indefinite one.
- Tuesday 4/5 the 48-hour general strike called by the union umbrella ADEDY commences. Teachers are also on strike and grassroots trade unions call for demonstrations across the country. Blocking off of the parliament building in the evening
- Wednesday 5/5 general strike called by GSEE and ADEDY
- Saturday 8/5 demonstrations by the grassroots trade unions across the country
- A fresh general strike will be called for early next week
Occupations…
Today the 48 hours strike started. Tonight, Agios Dimitrios’ and Vyrona’s town halls were occupied in the two Athens’ suburbs, by the unions of the municipal employees, while preparations for the tomorrow demonstration take place.
Teachers clash with police in Greek State TV Headquarters
Clashes erupted between teachers and riot police inside the Headquarters of the Greek State TV after the former entered the building trying to interrupt the speech of the Minister of Education
On Monday 4 May evening teachers invaded the Greek State TV (ERT) Headquarters in order to interrupt the interview of the Minister of Education Mrs Diamadopoulou concerning the new educational reform which is expected to lead to a radical devaluation of the greek educational system. Ms Diamandopoulou was rescued by a back door of the building, while ERT interrupted its main news broadcast refusing to let the teachers present their demands live. At the same time, strong police forces surrounded the building which they entered attacking the teachers. During the clashes within the building many people were reported as wounded. Soon hundreds of protesters gathered in solidarity outside the ERT Mansion forcing the riot police to allow the exit of the teachers. After their exit representatives of the teachers have gone public calling the PASOK government a "quisling government" comparing it to the Tsolakoglou Nazi-collaborator government of the 1940s. The teachers and solidarity protesters formed a demo and marched down Mesogeion Avenue.
The teachers have declared a 48h strike for the 4th and 5th of May in opposition to the educational reform which is believed will lead to a sharp devaluation of the educational system.
Anarchists throw down on May Day -- United States
Santa Cruz, CA
Tons of windows smashed and Cafe Pergolesi, which supplied information to the government concerning those being charged with the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (see: Support the AETA4,) had their porch set on fire. Only one arrest. Well done, Santa Cruz!
Tons of windows smashed and Cafe Pergolesi, which supplied information to the government concerning those being charged with the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (see: Support the AETA4,) had their porch set on fire. Only one arrest. Well done, Santa Cruz!
Riot breaks out in downtown Santa Cruz; windows broken on dozens of businesses, porch of cafe set on fire
SANTA CRUZ – A group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker’s and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Windows were left shattered and graffiti including anarchy signs were tagged onto buildings. The Rittenhouse Building, Urban Outfitters, Jamba Juice and Velvet Underground all had windows broken, according to Capt. Steve Clark.
Santa Cruz police asked for help from all agencies in the county to break up the riot. At one point, protesters lit a fire on the porch of Caffe Pergolesi and blocked access to firefighters, officers said. Police were able to clear out the demonstrators before more damage was caused.
A large rock sat outside Verizon Wireless on the 100 block of Cooper Street, where vandals tried to break the window twice, according to Clark.
“The damage that was caused was without purpose,” Clark said. “It was senseless violence that victimized a community who cannot afford to be victimized in this manner. This did nothing to add credit to whatever they believed their cause was.”
One person was arrested for damaging a window. Police are searching for others responsible for the damage. Protesters cleared the downtown area around midnight.
“Our entire team of investigators are processing the scene of violence for evidence,” Clark said. “We will be looking at video available to try to ID who’s responsible.”
Vandals destroy downtown Asheville storefronts, car windows
ASHEVILLE — Most of those arrested for a rash of vandalism Saturday night in downtown Asheville listed addresses in Eastern North Carolina and out of state, according to arrest warrants.
Only two listed an Asheville address. At least five of the suspects appear to be students at colleges including UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Asheville, Alamance Community College and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. The suspects ages ranged from 17-26.
All but one of the 11 suspects arrested were each charged with seven counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property and three counts of injury to real property. Each was being held under $10,000 bond. One man was charged with 11 counts and had an $11,000 bond. All are scheduled to appear in court on the charges Monday morning.
Those charged include:
- Randall Duncan Stezer, 17, of Graham, N.C.
- Wyatt Sherman Allgeier, 19, of Mount Pleasant, N.C.
- Karen Leigh Alderser, 19, of Carrboro.
-Alissa Marie Batzold, 18, of Carrboro.
-Havely Carolyn Carsky, 23, of Meadow Lake Road, Asheville.
-Nicholas Ryan Entwistle, 19, of Kansas City, Mo.
-Naomi Rachel Ullian, 26, of West Chestnut St., Asheville.
-Marshall Rogers Tingler, 24, of Oklahoma City, Okla.
- Daniel Heinz Regenfcheit, 26, of Carrboro.
-Cailin Elizabth Major, 25, of Milwaukee, Wis.
-Jordan M. Ferrand-Sapsis, 24, of Oklahoma City, Okla.
About 10:45 p.m. Saturday, a group of between 20-30 people wearing dark clothing, some wearing masks and carrying backpacks, threw items, including newspaper boxes, through windows of several businesses along O’Henry Avenue. A front window of the Asheville Citizen-Times was shattered, as were multiple storefronts at the Grove Arcade. An ATM was smashed at the RBC on O’Henry.
Multiple cars parked on Battery Park had their windows smashed.
The violence is likely linked to the observance of May Day, a day for marking worker solidarity that has been seized upon for anti-capitalism displays of violence, especially by self-proclaimed anarchist groups in Europe.
Several in the group yelled unintelligably as they vandalized. The group walked south on O’Henry Avenue and turned left on Battery Park Avenue. Some walked through the alley beside the Citizen-Times, where several employees of the paper had rushed to ensure the safety of their cars.
Carmel’s chef Mary Scherger said she was having a shift drink at the Page Avenue restaurant when she saw the group smash out a window on a BMW parked along Battery Park Avenue.
“That’s when I yelled for my manager to come out,” she said.
Scherger said she saw some of them run toward Haywood Street and a few run up the stairwell from Wall Street parking garage ditching their garb as police moved in.
Scherger said she recalled a similar act of group vandalism last year, but the group did far less damage.
Diana Kostigen, of Hendersonville, was visiting downtown with a friend from Charlotte, whose car was damaged.
“I just feel really disappointed because it’s always felt like a really safe town,” she said
“With people coming from out of town, it might be their first experience in Asheville and they have this happen. It’s really heartbreaking to see that they might have damage to their car to such great extent.”
“I’ve never seen any kind of violence like this in Asheville at all. I’m very shocked, very disappointed, and feeling like I wouldn’t even want to come downtown after 9 o’clock.”
When asked if she might feel unsafe in downtown now, Kostigen said yes.
Christina Williams said she was with friends at Carmel’s when the cacophony of smashing glass, yelling and tumult erupted.
She watched as a bewildered man talked to a Police Department officer beside his seriously damaged car.
“Violence and cowardice,” Williams said, noting that several of the vandals removed their masks and black outer clothing and tossed it away after committing their crimes.
86 Arrested After May Day Demonstrations in Chile
SANTIAGO – At least 86 people were arrested in Chile on Saturday following demonstrations called by the CUT labor federation on International Workers’ Day, police said.
According to police Col. Miguel Angel Castro, his men had to use tear gas and a cistern truck to disperse a group of people bent on creating disturbances.
“During the event there were no great complications, but when it was over, a large group of people began to cover their faces to cause disorder, so we intervened and arrested 86 people,” he said.
Castro also said that before the ceremony began, seven people were arrested for carrying knives, another three for having Molotov cocktails and nine for drugs.
Though the event organizers had estimated a turnout of some 40,000 people, only about 8,000 attended the ceremony, according to police estimates.
International Workers’ Day was celebrated in a number of cities around Chile, though attendance was not massive and no incidents were reported.
Big May Day demonstrations were held across Latin America on Saturday.
Double hit on banks in greece 2/4 Anarchists attacked emporiki and geniki bank in agios dimitrios area southern athens at 01.30 am. They set fire to
Double hit on banks in greece 2/4
Anarchists attacked emporiki and geniki bank in agios dimitrios area southern athens at 01.30 am.
They set fire to bin and pushed into the entrance of emporiki bank. After that they went a few metres down towards the geniki
bank throwing molotof inside causing a fire.
In the communique they mention Giannis Dimitrakis and the three wanted comrades.
They also say how they blocked all streets leading to the area of attack and arrived and fled without any problems.
FREEDOM TO G.DIMITRAKIS AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS AND PERSECUTED FIGHTERS
HONOUR TO ANARCHIST LAMBROS FOUNDAS
anarchists
Double arson attack on banks in herakleio,crete. 2/4
The first one was against the agrotiki bank in the centre of the city. They broke the glass door and threw 3 bottles of gasoline
inside and set it on fire.
Then they went to national bank of greece and tryd to break the door,without succeding and set fire to the entrance.
Anarchists attacked emporiki and geniki bank in agios dimitrios area southern athens at 01.30 am.
They set fire to bin and pushed into the entrance of emporiki bank. After that they went a few metres down towards the geniki
bank throwing molotof inside causing a fire.
In the communique they mention Giannis Dimitrakis and the three wanted comrades.
They also say how they blocked all streets leading to the area of attack and arrived and fled without any problems.
FREEDOM TO G.DIMITRAKIS AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS AND PERSECUTED FIGHTERS
HONOUR TO ANARCHIST LAMBROS FOUNDAS
anarchists
Double arson attack on banks in herakleio,crete. 2/4
The first one was against the agrotiki bank in the centre of the city. They broke the glass door and threw 3 bottles of gasoline
inside and set it on fire.
Then they went to national bank of greece and tryd to break the door,without succeding and set fire to the entrance.
Trial of Giannis Dimitrakis postponed
Occupation of the Hellenic Centre in London
KLEISTH FYLAKH DOMOKOY
T.K. 35010
FTHIOTIDA GREECE
5/5/10 FUCK UK
Don't vote, make trouble! Subvertising is talking back to power, using their weapons against them. It is just one of endless ways to show our resistance to state and capitalism.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Arson attack on energy company.
At 16.00 unknown persons attacked a private energy company with a explosive device.
The device was placed in the entrance of the company "Een Hellas" , an private energy company on 27 Kifisias street on the 5th floor in athens.
From the explosion,only the front of the company was damaged.
Explosive attacks in Saloniki (Greece)
May 1st, 2010
Gas canister explosions occurred in different parts of the northern Greek city. The two incidents occurred on the early hours of Monday 26/4 against the National Telecommunications Organization and a news agency truck in the west part of Thessaloníki. The following night a Eurobank branch was attacked in Kalamaria, a suburb on the east part of the city.
A communique was sent on Tuesday 27/4 to Athens.Indymedia:
“We all remember, with excessive hatred, from the days of the arrest of Y. Dimitrakis in 2006 the slander of him through the de-ideologication of the act he made. The overextension of the charges from authority, and the
TV-snitches slandering anything about him and other comrades from his close friends.
Through those 4 years, and even before, the persecutor tactics on such cases is always the same according, of course, to the characteristics of the “guilty” ones. Fact is confirmed that when happens to be an anarchist automatically your close environment is criminalized and, thus, the search for participators begins.
Declassification of phone conversations, collection of finger-prints on immobile and mobile objects in houses, arrest warrants, informers willing to give any information they know are some of the basic tools used.
These same ones we find in front of us these last weeks with the case of the 6 detained already comrades that are accused as members of Revolutionary Struggle. All this atmosphere helps the achievement of total and indiscriminatal control from the state’s side. Constraint and daily brainwash through the media has double aiming. On one side to “cover” its mechanisms actions and on the other to separate the resisting parts of
society in violent and non-violent -therefore excepted-, clearly because of fear. For us, seeing these actions of the sovereignty enrages us even more and pushes us even more quickly to search for actions that will bring us
even closer to the end of this rotten world.
We stand opposed to all authoritarian mechanisms and to all snitches that assist their task and we directly take the counter-offensive for now and forever. On the night of 25th of April in Thessaloníki we attacked with fire a news agency delivery truck of “Evropi (Europe)” company in the area of Evosmos and a branch of OTE (National Telecommunications Organization) in Stavroupoli. We continued the next night again with an arson attack on a Eurobank branch in Kalamaria.
Solidarity with Yannis Dimitrakis that passes the doors of the high court tomorrow 28/4 in Athens.
Freedom to all prisoners”
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Updates will be posted here throughout the day http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/05/01/272-live-updates-from-the-mayday-demonstrations-in-athens-and-thessaloniki/
UPDATE #6, 17.40 GMT+2 The president of the Greek parliament, Apostolos Kaklamanis, found himself trapped between demonstrators who were booing him earlier on – he needed the intervention of riot police to run away in safety. Meanwhile, corporate media report at least 19 detentions and 10 arrests (i.e. people who are detained and now charged) today in Athens alone. A spontaneous solidarity gathering outside the police HQ on Alexandras Ave is underway at the moment, a few hundred are gathered.
Photos from today’s demonstration in Athens here and here – not uploading more on this thread to keep it compact.
Update #5, 14.30 GMT+2
In Athens, there are clashes outside the Polytechnic and riot police have descended at Exarcheia square. One demonstrator is reported seriously injured in the eye, hit by police batons.
Update #4, 14.00 GMT+2
The GSEE (trade union umbrella) concert has been interrupted by anarchists throwing red and black paint on stage. On Panepistimiou, many multinational stores have been trashed and there is now clashes with the police. A TV station van is on fire. Many detentions/ arrests, difficult to identify exactly how many, we’ll have a clearer picture in a bit.
Update #3, 13.35 GMT+2
The demonstration with the anarchist block in Athens has ended up at the Propylea on Panepistimiou Ave; there are currently clashes reported with the police, who are using tear-gas.
Update #2, 13.15 GMT+2
In Athens, the anarchist block numbers approx. 2,500 people. The leadersof the umbrella trade union (GSEE) have abandoned the demonstration, under constant booing by the demonstrators.
Update #1, 12.45 GMT+2
In Thessaloniki, there were skirmishes before the demonstration started – some cafeteria owners tried to stop people from handing out leaflets and were attacked by the demonstration block en mass. ATMs, banks and a local Vodafone store have already been attacked
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Angry news from Bulgaria - April 2010
02.04.2010 Unknown persons tried to set on fire a city council building in the city of Plovdiv in the middle of the night. The entrance door was severely burned.
06.04.2010 City of Kurdjali. Someone throw acid on a capitalist company car. Probably fired ex-workers from the same company.
08.04.2010 City of Dupnica. A man stole a police car right from the police station. Policemen started to chase him. The man crashed the police car and it exploded. The man escaped from the fire but he was arrested by the police.
06.04.2010 City of Kurdjali. Someone throw acid on a capitalist company car. Probably fired ex-workers from the same company.
08.04.2010 City of Dupnica. A man stole a police car right from the police station. Policemen started to chase him. The man crashed the police car and it exploded. The man escaped from the fire but he was arrested by the police.
15.04.2010 Small village of Kochan close to the border with Greece. There was a greek sewing company there. That night the owner of the company tried to load all the machines on trucks and move to another location (probably back to Greece). As workers heard this they came to the factory and occupied it. In previous months there was a lot of cases when foreign companies quit its work in Bulgaria, left the country and did not paid last salaries of its workers. This time this was not the case - workers occupied the factory until they received their money.
As we already mentioned in previous news in march a single woman managed to rob a bank in the city of Pleven. Unfortunately police managed to identify her on a security camera tape although she was disguised. They arrested her. It turns out that she is not a dangerous criminal neither a psychopath. She is an ordinary teacher. Now she can be sentenced up to 10 years in prison although this is her first "criminal act" and she has done it because of the misery (average salary of a teachers in Bulgaria is around 200 euro). But now she is the real people's hero of the day!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Free the Anarchist Dimitrakis - demo from Berlin also..
the leaflet discribing the demand
distributed in Berlin
also ..>
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/449934.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/450021.html
from the social struggles against IMF in Athens
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/450065.html
distributed in Berlin
also ..>
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/449934.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/450021.html from the social struggles against IMF in Athens
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/450065.html
nike adverts got fucked with in south london. 30/4
Today we took up Nike's call to 'claim your streets' by vandalising 8 of their phonebox adverts in the south london area. We did it for a number of reasons and suggest that others take up the call.
we had an awesome time, improvising slogans and tactics as we went. give it a go!
See y'all on the streets tomorrow
xoxoxoxox
some birds
we had an awesome time, improvising slogans and tactics as we went. give it a go!
See y'all on the streets tomorrow
xoxoxoxox
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Media propaganda: french people in Greece
- As usual, after or before a trial or the vote of a new law, the main press publishes analysis about the „anarcho-autonomes“ new theory. They also talk about „anarchists“ or „UltraLeft“, trying to define people with acts and books.
This new definition of the revoltees mainly appeared after the first arrests under anti-terrorism accusation, in January 2008 ( see HERE).
And now, for the April 28th call in solidariy with the greek prisonner Giannis Dimitrakis, France info* published its ideas. We learn some „french anarchists“ travel in Greece to learn how to fight ( there, their Ultraleft homologous teach them the urban guerilla methods). And then we learn with astonishment that the DCRI (secret police for information and action) is now interested in these people. The excuse, of course, is the last demonstration in Poitiers**, in October. More than 300 people walked the streets by surprise, all full masked and disguised, using the excuse of a Carnabal at the same moment. That demonstration was an answer to a prisonners transfert to the new prison of Vivonne. The other excuse for this new watch, are the last attacks at ATM’s and banks, „these last months“. And press to add: „since then, police made out some UltraLeft activists (sic) often stay in Athens. During the house-search, they found some documents showing they stood in Greece“. Then we are offered a nice historical lesson about Exharchia, and december 2008 revolt. Of course, internet is one more time introduced as a plateform to spread violence: calls for the liberation of the 70 people arrested at the Exharchia razzia, and in solidarity with Giannis Dimitrakis. The article ends with a parallel on Tarnac case, explaining that durnig the first investigations, police didn‘t understand why the main suspect (Julien Coupat) has travelled in Thessalonique.
* The UltraLeft at the greek school, France info April 28th
** see article and pics HERE
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Uprising in Malmo
April 29th, 2010
Unrest erupted in the Malmö district of Rosengård on Wednesday evening with police forced to seal off the area before regaining control of the situation.
Some 20 police units, a total of 50 officers, were deployed to the troubled Malmö suburb to try to calm the situation as around 20 youths rampaged through the district leaving a spate of fires and vandalism.
“We have concluded that there were a total of five fires. A couple of cars, as well as a recycling station, were some of the things burning,” Peter Martinsson at Skåne police told the Dagens Nyheter daily.
Police were called to the area in the vicinity of Ramels väg in Rosengård at around 9pm on Wednesday. Residents of the area had become concerned over the gangs of young people and feared that fighting would break out.
Fire fighters were obliged to seek a police escort as they were subjected to stone throwing while battling to put out the fires in various parts of the district.
The police have confirmed that they considered the situation had been brought under control during Wednesday night and were able to withdraw their units.
Two Greek embassies attacked
GREEK embassies have come under attack in international solidarity actions supporting a jailed anarchist.
Reports the Latin American Herald Tribune: "Four people were injured and five others arrested in a clash between police and a group of protesters who threw stones and fire bombs at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentine police said.
"The protesters are members of an anarchist group that is demanding the release of Giannis Dimitrakis, a Greek anarchist sentenced to 35 years in prison for a 2006 attack on a bank in Athens.
"Three police officers and one of the detained protesters were hospitalized for treatment of wounds sustained in the disturbance.
"The clash started when demonstrators tried to set fire Tuesday to the door of the embassy, which is located in the La Recoleta district."
Meanwhile, Earth Times reports an attack on the Greek embassy in Prague, Czech Republic.
It says: "Unknown perpetrators hurled a flammable substance in the garden of the Greek embassy in Prague early Thursday, likely to protest the jailing of an anarchist in Greece, officials and an embassy source said.
"The resulting fire consumed a bush and damaged the embassy's entrance door, said Pavlina Adamcova, a spokeswoman for the city's firefighters.
"Police said the embassy was empty during the attack, which took place shortly after midnight and caused damage amounting to 20,000 koruny (1,036 dollars)."
It adds that the protesters sprayed the anarchist A and the name Giannis on the building's wall.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
communique claiming responsibility for arson in Hania Crete greece
I prefered to maintain my freedom, my independence, my dignity as a human being, than to become a creator of wealth for my boss" Marius Jacob (French illegalist) There are people, that deny the capitalist ideology that has settled in most people's mind as a given characteristic of human nature, and look for ways to slip away from its everyday paranoia.
The robbing of a bank is a practice that cancels in the most immediate way, the relationship between boss and "slave", abuser and abused. Since it allows the subject to control in its own its time and appetite for creation, without dying slowly in the workcamps increasing the profits of the bosses (big and small).
It denys giving away this whole life to this unfair economic system, begging for crums in order to survive. It's a part of the generalized attack against the rotten world of submission and part of the plan for its destruction.
Of course, a robbery of a bank just to acquire more consumerist goods, is not an action against what exists but an action that conserves it. In the end it's the subject that defines the action.
[.....] On april 28th, G.Dimitrakis, who is accused of expropriating the National Bank of Greece on Solwnos Street in Athens on January 16/2006, passed again through the court desks to appeal against the first sentence and was sent away one more time to face the justice system. In an act of solidarity, we let the fire and not the court "judge" his life's choices.
So on the morning of April 27th, we put an explosive device in front of the door of the Emporiki Bank near the courts in Hania.
P.S. 1 : Solidarity to the 3 comrades wanted for the same case and to A. Bonnano, CH. Stratigopoulos, G.Voutsis-Vogiatzis and to all those who chose to attack the temples of money.
P.S. 2: We are waiting impatiently for the political tumble of the system and the radicalisation of society for a class, antistate war.
Defusion of Guerilla thought
Sunday, April 25, 2010
solidarity with alfredo bonano and christos stratigopoulos
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Solidarity Poster for Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrisohoidis (greece)
POSTER SAYS:
did anyone speak of a
KIDNAPPING?
“…A handful of capitalists
have organized a criminal gang
and have kidnapped the proletarians,
demanding for ransom
their labor force,
merchandising their human activity,
their time (which is turned into money),
their own being itself…”
to vaggelis Chrisohoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis
who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,
accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas
anarchists from Serres from north-greece
About 30 anarchists with helmets and hoods went into the supermarketnear the university of Saloniki and destroyed the security system! They took the foodstuff from the shelves and also took the moneyfrom the cash desk and burnt it outside the supermarket!nobody arrested!!