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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Interview of comrade Yiorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis. greece.
If you have come here, it is because you are a person who does not tolerate injustice. It is because you do not want, with your silence and immobilism, to be an accomplice to a silent ethnic cleansing against a people who only defend their reason for being, the right to lands and to live on those lands in harmony, far from the practices that only seek to exploit them in order to transform them into a highly exported good on the market.
If you have come here, it is because you are a sympathizer that does not want them to continue torturing the childhood of Mapuche children. Because you share the principal that we are not owners of the land, but part of it. Because you are sick and tired of the continual police abuses committed with complete impunity with the support and complicity of the global economic-political power.
You arrived here because of your love for life and because you found out that a handful of incarcerated human beings putting themselves at risk through a Hunger Strike to denounce the continual violations they are committing against them, against their people.
You are here and we have met each other, but we are not done with each other, no more can you close your eyes, no more can you turn your back on us...you are already a part of this campaign that seeks to show solidarity with human beings who seek the same as you, a world more human, more just for all.
Land, Culture, Justice and Liberty!
Sympathise with the Mapuche political prisoners on Hunger Strike!
Because resistance is not terrorism...NO to the antiterrorism law!
Enough of the farce, liberty to all the Mapuche political prisoners!
Unite, SIGN, Disseminate, Act, Resist,...Exist later.
If you have come here, it is because you are a sympathizer that does not want them to continue torturing the childhood of Mapuche children. Because you share the principal that we are not owners of the land, but part of it. Because you are sick and tired of the continual police abuses committed with complete impunity with the support and complicity of the global economic-political power.
You arrived here because of your love for life and because you found out that a handful of incarcerated human beings putting themselves at risk through a Hunger Strike to denounce the continual violations they are committing against them, against their people.
You are here and we have met each other, but we are not done with each other, no more can you close your eyes, no more can you turn your back on us...you are already a part of this campaign that seeks to show solidarity with human beings who seek the same as you, a world more human, more just for all.
Land, Culture, Justice and Liberty!
Sympathise with the Mapuche political prisoners on Hunger Strike!
Because resistance is not terrorism...NO to the antiterrorism law!
Enough of the farce, liberty to all the Mapuche political prisoners!
Unite, SIGN, Disseminate, Act, Resist,...Exist later.
Mapuche on Hunger Strike over Chile’s Militancy
For the past three weeks, more than 20 Mapuche Political Prisoners have been on a hunger strike across southern Chile to demand the immediate release of all Mapuche Political Prisoners, the Abolition of Military Courts and the dissolution of the country's Pinochet-era Anti-Terrorism Law.
The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche at El Manzano Prison in the city of Concepcion and another 13 at the Penitentiary Centre (CCP) inTemuco . By the end of July, an additional 13 Mapuche in three other prisons had also begun the hunger strike.
As reported by Global Voices Online, the group represents about a third of the total number of Mapuche who are currently on trial under the country's infamous Anti-terrorist Law.
According to theToronto -based support group, the Women’s Coordinating Committee Chile-Canada (WCCC), several Mapuche communities have also announced their support for the hunger strike, "including the Communities of Rankilko, Newen Mapu, and Juana Millahual to name a few, " notes the WCCC,
They go on to point out that "The murderous legacy of the Lagos and BacheletChilean governments has kept the Criminalization of the Mapuche struggle for autonomy, the implementation of the Antiterrorist Law, the double-jeopardy of Military courts and the use of police set-ups into the current Piñera administration, which further seeks to plunder and repression of our people. All of this during the year of Chile’s 200th Year of Independence , taking place on September 18th, 2010, which has represented the ongoing genocide of our people."
"The situation is URGENT as the health of our Mapuche Brothers is rapidly deteriorating."
In light of this, the WCC has organized a solidarity protest inToronto for August 12, 2010. They are urging all"Indigenous and anti-colonial Activists /Supporters to show their solidarity to the cause of indigenous solidarity and join us in Protest ." Details of the protest can be found on Facebook.com
If you're not in Toronto but still want to show your support for the Mapuche, a petition has been set up by a coalition of Mapuche and solidarity organizations in Europe and North America.
You can find the petition at http://mapuche.info/?lp_1=2
For more information and updates, visit www.mapuche.info and www.mapuche-nation.org
The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche at El Manzano Prison in the city of Concepcion and another 13 at the Penitentiary Centre (CCP) in
As reported by Global Voices Online, the group represents about a third of the total number of Mapuche who are currently on trial under the country's infamous Anti-terrorist Law.
According to the
They go on to point out that "The murderous legacy of the Lagos and Bachelet
"The situation is URGENT as the health of our Mapuche Brothers is rapidly deteriorating."
In light of this, the WCC has organized a solidarity protest in
If you're not in Toronto but still want to show your support for the Mapuche, a petition has been set up by a coalition of Mapuche and solidarity organizations in Europe and North America.
You can find the petition at http://mapuche.info/?lp_1=2
For more information and updates, visit www.mapuche.info and www.mapuche-nation.org
Statement of Mapuche Political Prisoners of El Manzano Prison – Concepcion – ON
HUNGER STRIKE The Mapuche political prisoners, currently being held in the “El Manzano” detention centre in Concepcion, inform the Mapuche Nation and public international and national opinion the following:
Beginning today Monday, July 12th, 2010, we begin a liquid HUNGER STRIKE to the final consequences.
The reasons for this drastic and extreme determination is in response to series of situations that we have been denouncing unto the unjust political/judicial procedures that we are subject to and violate all our rights as MAPUCHE and political prisoners. The reasons for this drastic and extreme determination is in response to series of situations that we have been denouncing unto the unjust political/judicial procedures that we are subject to and violate all our rights as MAPUCHE and political prisoners.
In summary, we denounce that we have been part of Media Setups carried out by the PublicMinistry through Anti Mapuche prosecutors and corrupt police forces. It is in this way that the Chilean State, in defense of the corporate interests in the conflict with our People and in their urge to persecute and annihilate the Mapuche Movement, has criminalized the just cause of the communities, imprisoning and launching themselves against our people; imposing several dictatorial and fascist laws on honest social activists.
At the same time, we also denounce the existence of a strong and grotesque Anti-Mapuche campaign orchestrated by the economic and political Right of this country, who use their means of communication, their prosecutors and politicians with the objective of convincing public opinion.
Due to all of the above, we declare that we will continue our hunger strike unless these just demands are met:
1. STOP the application of the Antiterrorist Law with the Mapuche People. This is expressed by the completeAbolition of the Antiterrorist Law legislated by thePinochet dictatorship .
2. STOP the process of Military Courts on the Mapuche People. Thus is expressed by the complete Abolition of Military Courts in Chile.
3.Freedom for ALL the Mapuche Political Prisoners imprisoned in different jails throughout the Chilean State. This is expressed by:
Lastly, we call out on Our People to Mobilize, to protest and struggle for what we think is a just cause; including social and political organizations to remain alert of the situation.
- Demanding a just and fair Trial.
- An end to the political/judicial setups; ending all external and foul procedures, ending the use of faceless witnesses and the end of the practices that violate basic human rights such as extortion, threats, physical and psychological torture and the degrading conditions of detention centers.
- Demilitarization of Mapuche zones where communities reclaim their political and territorial rights.
For Territory andAutonomy for Our Mapuche Nation!! Weuwaiñ!!! Mapuche Political Prisoners – Concepcion
Oust theForestry Companies and Land Lords from Wallmapu Territory andAutonomy for the Mapuche Nation With Lemun, Catrileo and Collio.
WEUWAIÑ!!
Mapuche Political Prisoners of Concepcion
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
thomas meyer-falk for nowc/o jva bruchsal
schönbornstrasse 32
d 76646 bruchsal
germany
born in 1971, i have been imprisoned since 1996. at first i was kept in isolation in stammheim, then i was kept in straubing for a short time under slightly better conditions. since september 1998 i have been in isolation in bruchsal. i am a so-called "red skin"/rash = red & anarchist skinheads. i was sentenced for a bank robbery by means of which it was planned to organize money for political projects. in two additional court cases i was sentenced for insult, intimidation, and the threatening of judges and public prosecutors. the expression "perfect example of a fascist-like judge" by itself was worth 7 months of imprisonment (§ 185 stgb - insult; sentence: monetary fine or fine up to one year of imprisonment).
because of all this i have to spend 15 years, 9 months and three weeks in prison. due to my alleged dangerousness (during the trial i had offensively pleaded my cause instead of giving in and "regretting") i shall be kept under arrest ("sicherungsverwahrung") afterwards.
because of all this i have to spend 15 years, 9 months and three weeks in prison. due to my alleged dangerousness (during the trial i had offensively pleaded my cause instead of giving in and "regretting") i shall be kept under arrest ("sicherungsverwahrung") afterwards.
freedom for Meyer-Falk?
Almost 12 years ago i have been arrested and in 1997 sentenced to 11 years and 6 months of prison, as well to sicherungsverwahrung (note: a german law which prescribes a social-psycological analysis regarding certain prisoners who seems to not redeem through prison; following a negative result of such appraisal, authorities can keep the person in prison for longer time after the actual end of his/her sentence).
Within the following three trials, 5 years and three months have been added to the previous sentence, because many politicians and jurists felt to have been either insulted or threaten by my person.
2/3 of the sentence have been finished in november 2007; therefore i have applied for my release from prison.
In fact, the paragraph 57 of the penal code prescribes the possibility of an earlier release after 2/3 of the sentence, as long as such decision „ takes in consideration the security-interests of the collectivity“, say one does not have to expect any further crime by the person (defacto such an earlier release takes place only in 30% of the times).
Because of the overwork of the judge, the sickness of the chief judge Kleinheinz and a change of my lawyer, the process took longer time.
The prison of Bruchsal, in the figure of miss Göbel, took position several times on this: they could not support an earlier release in my case.
The main reason for this would be that i never „show publicly any empathy for the victims of (my) crimes“, i would put in question the objectiveness of those facts, everytime i write something, politicians and judges would feel often threaten from me.
I would refuse to speak with the prisons´s worker-in-charge regarding such cases.
However, my „behavior towards the prison´s workers (...) became clearly less confrontative (talking about my „love to make complains“), but, as the prison establishment wrote within their most recent claim, i would not aloud „any deeper access to (my) personal experiences and feelings to the prison workers“.
With a directive dated 18.4.08, the court ordered a new criminal prognosis.
The professor Foster (university of Tubingen) has been ordered in charge of this.
Since i will attend a learning course in the prison from june 2008 (for which each partecipant has to pay 500 euros), i asked the appraiser to begin his work after the end of the course.
I also send him the bill of that course and told him i would be ready by november or december.
However, i fought with the Bruchsal prison about where such appraisal would be supposed to take place; miss Göbel desired my transfer towards Tubingen, so that one perhaps would have found out how i would react/behave within a different context.
I personally answered that i would have than refuse such appraisal upon my eventual transfer to Tubingen.
This decision has been taken because normally one has to hold out around three weeks inside a dirty, cold transport-cell.
Visits and phonecalls are hardly possible if not at all, there is not any offer regarding free-time; without even mentioning that already the form of how one gets moved through big prisoner transport-buses is considered as degrading, even by some jurists.
Most prisoners play the game of the Justice, take place in the bus and sit afterwards calmly in their transport-cell, only to become angry later and tell about how the conditions have been miserable and that one should „actually“ do something against it.
Therefore my lawyer told to the court that either the appraisal would have taken place in Bruchsal, or it would have been refused.
Moreover, i added that the prison establishment could test me freely within a changed environment, say putting me in daily leave (which they of course refused to do).
Realistically, one has to see that there is not chance for an earlier release.
There is not any appraiser who would consider a prisoner, who spent almost 11 years in isolation (until may 2007 i have been sitting in an isolation-cell indeed) to have high chance for a life free from crimes.
And without such a positive prognosis, no release will follow.
Moreover, it is also a question about one´s principles!
I am still fully convinced of the idea that i have a right to my freedom – without any consensus by whichever state apparatus.
And what i also will do after my release, this is my choice and no matter of any court or prisoner´s jurist, if what i am going to do afterwards will be in conflict with the laws of this State or perhaps even not.
Do i really want ot win back my possibility towards a freedom of movement at the price of the readiness to be morally corruptable, since i would submit myself to the subtle games of State, sometimes a bit more, some other a bit less? A point to which submission belongs in the first place!
And at this point i simply say „No!“.
No, neither i do want this, nor i will do this, even in the case that this would mean that the doors of the prison will not open voluntary for me further on.
Was Mao who wrote that within the struggle against your enemy every lie is usable?
Therefore should i pray the social worker, the psycologist, the jurist, the judge and the appraiser, as many other prisoners do, make them nice eyes and tell them, what a nice, in-line man i become?
And also to such a point, i say simply and clearly „No!“.
This does not have to do anything with the fact that i like to play the „martyr“, but it simply horrorifies me physically to have to bend myself.
I have pity of all prisoners who play from the very beginning the little games of the Justice, only to complain and swear afterwards.
Is my freedom important to me? Of course!.
Of course, my freedom is important to me; but the way to it is as much important.
Within the following three trials, 5 years and three months have been added to the previous sentence, because many politicians and jurists felt to have been either insulted or threaten by my person.
2/3 of the sentence have been finished in november 2007; therefore i have applied for my release from prison.
In fact, the paragraph 57 of the penal code prescribes the possibility of an earlier release after 2/3 of the sentence, as long as such decision „ takes in consideration the security-interests of the collectivity“, say one does not have to expect any further crime by the person (defacto such an earlier release takes place only in 30% of the times).
Because of the overwork of the judge, the sickness of the chief judge Kleinheinz and a change of my lawyer, the process took longer time.
The prison of Bruchsal, in the figure of miss Göbel, took position several times on this: they could not support an earlier release in my case.
The main reason for this would be that i never „show publicly any empathy for the victims of (my) crimes“, i would put in question the objectiveness of those facts, everytime i write something, politicians and judges would feel often threaten from me.
I would refuse to speak with the prisons´s worker-in-charge regarding such cases.
However, my „behavior towards the prison´s workers (...) became clearly less confrontative (talking about my „love to make complains“), but, as the prison establishment wrote within their most recent claim, i would not aloud „any deeper access to (my) personal experiences and feelings to the prison workers“.
With a directive dated 18.4.08, the court ordered a new criminal prognosis.
The professor Foster (university of Tubingen) has been ordered in charge of this.
Since i will attend a learning course in the prison from june 2008 (for which each partecipant has to pay 500 euros), i asked the appraiser to begin his work after the end of the course.
I also send him the bill of that course and told him i would be ready by november or december.
However, i fought with the Bruchsal prison about where such appraisal would be supposed to take place; miss Göbel desired my transfer towards Tubingen, so that one perhaps would have found out how i would react/behave within a different context.
I personally answered that i would have than refuse such appraisal upon my eventual transfer to Tubingen.
This decision has been taken because normally one has to hold out around three weeks inside a dirty, cold transport-cell.
Visits and phonecalls are hardly possible if not at all, there is not any offer regarding free-time; without even mentioning that already the form of how one gets moved through big prisoner transport-buses is considered as degrading, even by some jurists.
Most prisoners play the game of the Justice, take place in the bus and sit afterwards calmly in their transport-cell, only to become angry later and tell about how the conditions have been miserable and that one should „actually“ do something against it.
Therefore my lawyer told to the court that either the appraisal would have taken place in Bruchsal, or it would have been refused.
Moreover, i added that the prison establishment could test me freely within a changed environment, say putting me in daily leave (which they of course refused to do).
Realistically, one has to see that there is not chance for an earlier release.
There is not any appraiser who would consider a prisoner, who spent almost 11 years in isolation (until may 2007 i have been sitting in an isolation-cell indeed) to have high chance for a life free from crimes.
And without such a positive prognosis, no release will follow.
Moreover, it is also a question about one´s principles!
I am still fully convinced of the idea that i have a right to my freedom – without any consensus by whichever state apparatus.
And what i also will do after my release, this is my choice and no matter of any court or prisoner´s jurist, if what i am going to do afterwards will be in conflict with the laws of this State or perhaps even not.
Do i really want ot win back my possibility towards a freedom of movement at the price of the readiness to be morally corruptable, since i would submit myself to the subtle games of State, sometimes a bit more, some other a bit less? A point to which submission belongs in the first place!
And at this point i simply say „No!“.
No, neither i do want this, nor i will do this, even in the case that this would mean that the doors of the prison will not open voluntary for me further on.
Was Mao who wrote that within the struggle against your enemy every lie is usable?
Therefore should i pray the social worker, the psycologist, the jurist, the judge and the appraiser, as many other prisoners do, make them nice eyes and tell them, what a nice, in-line man i become?
And also to such a point, i say simply and clearly „No!“.
This does not have to do anything with the fact that i like to play the „martyr“, but it simply horrorifies me physically to have to bend myself.
I have pity of all prisoners who play from the very beginning the little games of the Justice, only to complain and swear afterwards.
Is my freedom important to me? Of course!.
Of course, my freedom is important to me; but the way to it is as much important.
Took the money and disappeared...
The amount of 23.860 EUR is the prey of an armed robbery that occurred this morning at the branch of the Agricultural Bank (ATE) in Nikiti Halkidiki.thessaloniki Greece
According to police, two unidentified persons wearing black helmets, stormed the bank and after threatening the staff and customers took an unknown amount and then fled with a large motorbike.
Police are continuing investigations to identify and apprehend the perpetrators.
| ARMED ROOBERY IN KALAMARIA, THESSALONIKI, GREECE According to reports, while a member of staff was leaving the store, carrying a leather bag with money, he was approached by a stranger, who threatened him with a sledgehammer and a shotgun and took the bag. Then he fled by car, where his partner was waiting for him. The first figures talk about a smooth EUR 100,000. |
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
“Which place?”, stories of a refugee
When I arrived in Greece I was detained for some days in a prison on an island. Then I was transferred to another prison on the mainland. When I was released I already felt the fear deep in my breath. I wondered what would happen next. I asked myself where to go and where to stay. In Athens I went to the neighbourhoods, where I could find my people. I was lucky to find a friend from my village who helped me out some days so I did not sleep on the streets. In my pocket I had a white paper that limited my legal existence in Europe to 30 days. The days passed by and I had no right on any place in this world anymore. I decided to leave this country which did not want me. In Patras I tried for some months to cross the border to Italy. I was living in the trains on a marshalling yard. The trains there were not used anymore. They had no place anymore, like me. As I couldn’t succeed, I left for Komunisia. I lived in the mountains, in the cold and the dark. My only shelter was a sky full of stars. I lived in the same city with Greek people, but my world was another and the two worlds did not meet. One day I was arrested in the port. The police brought me to a prison in the port. We were 27 persons in a cell for 6. After some days I was transferred to another prison close to the border of Albania. We stayed some days there. Again we were transferred. It seemed to me as if they did not know where to put us, where to store us so that we do not disturb their lives. The bus took us far away to a store house they called a prison. The windows were far away on top of the building, our only contact to the outside world. In the night when I was dreaming I found my own place, somewhere to belong. In the day I was brutally reminded of the reality. I stayed approx. for a month there and in the end they released me. Suddenly I was free again in the middle of nowhere supposed to find my way back to civilisation on my own. But which civilisation? Which place? My life in Greece is a real life in real places, but of another category. Places where I am “illegal”, places where I am hidden, places where I am limited to a ghetto of the paperless. And if the police catch me, I have to be in prisons. I have the strong feeling that they want me to understand that this will never be my place too, that there is no place for me here. I think I understood!
source: schengendangle.jogspace.net
Armed robbery occurred at a branch of PPC Sea Street in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki. Greece
First post: Tuesday, August 10, 2010,
According to reports, while a member of cash leaving the store, carrying a leather bag with money, approached the stranger, who once
threatened him with a sledgehammer and KARAMBINA SHORT CUN won the bag.
Then fled by car, where he waited for his partner
The first figures refer to smooth EUR 100,000.
According to reports, while a member of cash leaving the store, carrying a leather bag with money, approached the stranger, who once
threatened him with a sledgehammer and KARAMBINA SHORT CUN won the bag.
Then fled by car, where he waited for his partner
The first figures refer to smooth EUR 100,000.
Tonino Libero! - you'll never walk alone.
The comrades react and push them away. One fascist takes refuge in a shop, a fight bursts and he gets out of the shop bloody and wounded.
Few months after the police arrests two people. One of them is Tonino. Our comrade and brother.
We do not care of judging the comrades’ activity. We do not look for understanding the exact dynamics of the events before choosing which side to stand for. We do not make inquires. One thing is, though, clear: Tonino is in jail for what he represents. For having always been in the forefront fighting for environmental causes, antifascism and against the repression of the state.
Guilty or innocent are categories which do not belong to us.
The aim of this blog is to put together and coordinate each solidarity event or demonstration to Tonino.
A brother in the hands of the enemy.
A jail. Us.
And the rest has the smell of the street.
Homophobic / Anti Disabled Landlord At Kent Pub... U.K.
Pub landlord takes a swing at a gay couple whilst throwing them out of his pub...weeks earlier he chucks out a disabled woman...
As per BBC South East Today, 1830 10 Aug 2010.
Landlord Graham Stiles throws out and takes a swing at gay couple in his pub, the kngs head, in Deal, Kent.
He claims the men were acting suspiciously...
Few weeks earlier, he ejects a man and his wife who suffers from alzheimers, claiming she was upsetting other customers..
Me thinks the landlords facist attitudes may need adressing.
Perhaps drop him a line, give him a call, or even better - pop in!
Rooms are available to book too (check his acceptance policies first though...)
contact:
GRAHAM, SHIRLEY & JAMES STILES
Kings Head and Channel View Guest House
9 Beach Street, Deal, Kent CT14 7AH
TEL: (01304) 368194
FAX: (01304) 364182
Email :
bookings@kingsheaddeal.co.uk Website: kingsheaddeal.co.uk
Mass grave of refugees in Evros Greece uncovered
During the first seven months of the year 2010, 28 human beings dies while attempting to cross the heavily guarded Turkish-Greek border. The corpses of the dead are being transferred to the department of forensic medicine of the university clinic of Alexandroupoulis. Since they can often not be identified, only a DNA-test is being carried out so that relatives can still gain certainty.
On 25th of June 2010 19 people drowned in the river Evros/Meriç. 14 corpses washed ashore on the Greek side and were brought to the university clinic by an undertaker from Orestiada. After the dead had been examined and registered, the undertaker brought them to a village of the Turkish minority on the mountains above Souflí for them to be buried on muslim cemetery.
cemetery of the illegal immigrants - muftia evros
cemetery of the illegal immigrantswhere the corpses are buried. It is not immediately obvious that it is a mass grave. Upon closer inspection, one can however see holes that were excavated and again filled up by bulldozers and that can contain up to ten corpses.
Further investigation by w2eu, currently in the area to look for the corps of the father of a family who died in the incident on the 25th of June and whose family is currently in relative security shows that this practice has been ongoing for years. It is believed that between 150 and 200 dead have been buried in the mass grave. Although the local government ordered an ablution and burial according to muslim rite, the dead have merely been buried in the mass grave. This practice fundamentally lacks any respect for the dead as well as their relatives. Even an exhumation for the dead to be buried in a more dignified way is not possible anymore.
The existence of this mass grave at the external border of the EU fits the image of constant and continued humiliation and degradation of refugees. It is with a systematic brutality that refugees and migrants are stopped from crossing the borders, a brutality that even puts up with the death of those looking for protection. Even after their death, those human beings remain second class people that seemingly not even deserve a burial of human dignity.
We protest the abominable treatment of refugees and migrants and the contempt that is shown to them, no matter if dead or alive.
- cemetery of the illegal immigrants – muftia evros
Hungerstrike at Campsfield migrant prison (UK)
| Detainees at Campsfield migrant prison (maintained by GEO private prison corporation) near Oxford are currently on hunger strike in protest at their situation. This statement was released by them several days ago, but so far has not been published, only circulated on mailing lists..Second major statement from detainees Unlawful Detention of Detainees (Tuesday 03 August 2010) We appreciate all the effort and support we have received. Today we continue to fight for our rights, today, all we detainees will continue to fight for liberty and security which is our fundamental rights. It is unbelievable that a country so great that advocates human rights and liberty, eradicated slavery still practice such inhumane treatment of humans with equal rights in its backyard with the expectation that the whole world would be unaware of these treacherous nature adhered by the institutions. |  |
Until this moment, we have not been contacted by the UK Border Agency or Immigration in respect to our protest. The onsite immigration have hidden away and refused to engage in any communication or dialogue. This is evidently a sign of weakness by UKBA and an acceptance that our cry is for a good reason.
We read that in media that we have vending machines and onsite medical services. It is evident that the Immigration is not in touch with fundamental issues we are facing. Our lives are at risk, we have no freedom or liberty, we are been tortured, yet Immigration speaks about vending machine. These are malicious claims in an attempt to deny or play down the gravity of our determination. Can any vending machine feed 140 people?
Our lives and liberty should be considered like the rest of the 6 billion humans in the world. Our families are undergoing pain, our cases should be reviewed frequently, our detention should be justifiable, we should be given time for adequate judicial proceedings, we should not be detained indefinitely.
In July 2010 Honourable Justice Silber ruled that the fast-track policy was “unlawful and must be quashed”, however, the UK Border Agency still indulge in the fast track policy which is against the ruling of Honourable Justice Silber.
We put this question to all. Can it ever be justifiable for any organisation, institution or country to detain any human being with family (wife and children) for 3 years with?
We are also aware that there is a possibility that our efforts will be suppressed and not channelled to the appropriate body or government, however, we will continue to fight with everyday.
We all would humbly request that the parliament and cabinet address our heartily concerns as our wives, children, and we detainees are all dying, very slowly.
Tonight, we would all sleep outside on the grass floor and would refuse to sleep indoors. We deserve to be heard and until such time, we fight.
In spite of all, it is our believe that people are good at heart and should be given a right to life.
Our humble selves – Detainees
On behalf of all detainees
ghosts of the civil dead
the inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalised until they erupt in violence. dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration. manages to instill in the viewer a true sense of claustrophobia and unease. a truly original movie that is only half the film that Cave’s script was meant to portray.
/ english !!!
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http://hotfile.com/dl/60919394/e46e9e6/GhoOfThCivDea88.part3.rar
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SOLIDARITY AT TRIKALA PRISONS, GREECE
About 30 people gathered outside the prisons of Trikala and a march in the centre of the city was held yesterday aug 2nd in solidarity for the hunger strike initiated by prisoners about the appalling conditions of detention in prisons.
The gathering lasted one hour, many slogans were shouted and there was intense pulse. The cops didnt expect this at all, and we cought them off guard, so they were running around like crazy and the undercovers didnt know what to do.
We managed to get up to the entrance of the jail and the strength we took and gave the prisoners ment a lot for their struggle. They could here our slogans inside and sometimes they shouted back with their own slogans.
After the end of the intervention outside the prison we held a gathering and shared out leaflets for about an hour in the city centre and more specifically in Riga Ferraiou square. Then we marched through the city's main streets chanting slogans in solidarity with the hunger strikers, with our imprisoned comrades, slogans about the new robbery measures as well as several anticop and antifaschist ones. Slogans were writtten on many walls, e.g. in the town hall and the people's interest in asking and wanting to know about prison conditions in the hell holes of democracy was very hopefull.
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Weely demonstrations and a direct action in Wallaja Palestine.
05/08/2010 Over 100 internationals and about 10 Israelis joined the local weekly Palestinian demonstration in Bil'in. The demonstrators were determined not to give in to the weekly cycle of running away from soldiers under threat of arrest, and marched ready and willing. The soldiers, seeing the large demonstration from behind the fence, ran into the village and deployed along the route leading to the fence. The demonstrators continued their march and stopped only when they reached the first row of soldiers. There they chanted and sang for over half an hour, accompanied by Palestinian songs booming from a car-borne sound system. A few gas canisters shot into the flanks of the demonstration did not deter the demonstrators who stood their guard. Eventually some demonstrators insisted on marching onward toward the fence and the stolen lands. The soldiers reacted with grabbing and pushing, and within seconds the soldiers' gas and the youth's stones dispersed the demonstrators, who retreated through clouds of gas. They regrouped further back along the road, enjoyed a brief ad-lib hip-op session and ended the demonstration.
Monday, August 9, 2010
The company "Vinci" recruits neo
Solidarity with the Moscow anti-fascists in Ufa
The action of solidarity with the illegally arrested anti-fascists in Russia
Wed, 04/08/2010 - 05:02 — editor
On Wednesday, August 3 in Odessa anti-fascists, anarchists and members of leftist movements held a rally of solidarity with Russian anti-fascists - Alexey and Maxim Gaskarova Solopovym, arrested for allegedly organizing the pogrom city administration Khimki (Moscow region), although no evidence of their involvement in the events of July 28 for illegal search the apartments of arrested had been found. In protest against such a cynical state of affairs in Russia and Moscow's support of their comrades held a march 20 people from the area on April 10 to the Russian consulate in Gagarinsky plateau (where the rally was held), carrying banners and placards and handing out leaflets explaining the essence of what has happened: 
During the construction of highway Moscow - St. Petersburg is planned cutting of the forest area near the city of Khimki.Environmentalists and civic activists are protesting against this construction, offering alternatives, not causing such harm nature.These options were rejected, and the territory through which could pass the road - sold for redevelopment. Activists who tried to resist cutting and journalists covering their activities, under pressure from local authorities interested in construction. After the start of logging (performed without proper authorization) for environmentalists have repeatedly been attacked by members of right-wing groups, hired by "Heat" . Police and riot police ignored the attacks, have repeatedly delayed the defenders of the forest on trumped-up reasons. After the 28 th July, a group of left activists held a symbolic assault on the City Hall Khimki Moscow has begun rounding up anti-fascists, now arrested all known representatives of the movement, regardless of their participation in the rally.Now in custody are Alexey and Maxim Gaskarov Solopov. Reports of their detention are falsified, such as it is written that the activists were arrested on the spot pogrom "in the act, while they were detained only a day later and the fact of their involvement in the riots nothing is not confirmed, Maxim Solopov front detention spoke on the radio. The main argument for the prosecution today is the fact that the detainees - the anti-fascists, as the evidence is tendered found them leaflets and stickers Antifascist content. According to our data, it is under special control of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Presidential Administration.What is happening can not be explained by the desire to punish the perpetrators of disorderly conduct, then what happens - an absurd and irrational revenge power, people who tried to speak out against corruption and tyranny. We demand the release of Maksim Solopova and Alexei Gaskarova from custody, an end to illegal arrests of anti-fascists, honest and impartial investigation into the events of 28 th of without fraud and pressure on the defendants.We recall that the crime of "Heat" employing neo-Nazis to beat the defenders of the forest administration, Khimki, on the order of which was mutilated journalist Michael Beketov, policemen who did the illegal arrest and obstructing journalistic activities go unpunished. Illegal buildings, cutting down forests and parks in the pursuit of profit - the problem is relevant not only for Russia but for Ukraine.We remind the authorities of both countries, that the unwillingness to listen to the peaceful and legitimate demands of civil society activists inevitably gives rise to radical protest. The attempt to suppress the protest draconian methods leads not to order, and to Esklatsii violence and terror. During the picket, chanting slogans: "Plant a forest, and not activists," "Anti-fascism is not a crime", "Freedom Alexei Gaskarova and Maxim Solopovu "," Wood cut - Khimki burn "," We need a lot of Khimki "(paraphrasing the slogan of 68-year" We need a lot of Vietnams), etc. Source: http://afa.od.ua/2010/08/217 
Thu, 05/08/2010 - 10:34 — editor
May 4 Ufa anti-fascists and members of the "autonomous action" was an action of solidarity with the Moscow anti-fascists Gaskarova Alexey and Maxim Solopovym unlawfully detained after protests in Khimki. On the bridge at the intersection of Ave Salavat Yulayev and st. Sugita Agishev was posted on a banner with the inscription "Freedom for the Moscow anti-fascists". Also near the venue of the rally were scattered leaflets describing the situation around the interception and the description of arbitrary power. We remind you about what happened: July 28, more than five hundred anarchists and activists "antifa" smashed administration building Khimki in protest against the felling of forests Khimki.Masked men smashed windows with stones, painted the walls the words "save the Russian forest and threw smoke bombs building. In the morning on July 29 antifascist Alex Gaskarov was summoned for an interview at a local ATM. There he was literally handed over to the center of the "E" and taken to an unknown destination. Were violated most of the rules, which are described in the law "On militia".Do not have informations relatives, has not been sent a summons for detention. That evening, after a speech on the radio "Russian news service" antifascist Maxim Solopov was summoned for a talk at the metro station "Okhotny number. Max arrived at the meeting, but no conversation never took place. He just put in a car and drove away in Khimki. At night in the apartments and Gaskarova Solopova were searched. The apartment Gaskarova search was without warrant and to provide any papers, there was no inventory of the property and witnesses. 
At the moment, Khimki city court decided to detain Alexei Gaskarova for two months, while there is investigated the case.Also, the city court to detain second suspect in the attack on the administration of Khimki Maxim Solopova, arrest extended for two months. Thus, the suspects will be held in prison until early October. Lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, earlier defended the anti-fascist Alexei Gaskarova, reported that police set against the detainee from other prisoners."Now the city increased, so have been caught various petty criminals, - lawyer .- They are kept together with the guys and the police kept telling them:" If it were not butchers, one would not catch you. " The children themselves told the judge about the threat of life. " 
We demand the immediate release of Alexey Gaskarova and Maxim Solopova, regardless of whether they participated in the action-heemkah July 28 or not - the fighters against corruption and lawlessness are not the hoodlums and heroes! Freedom Alexei Gaskarova and Maxim Solopovu!
Renata Zelazna is free!!!
Renata Zelazna is a friend of ours and a vegan and anarchist who was on remand over an unfortunate chain of events. She was arrested in April 2010 in Holland where she had moved to study, after an altercation with construction site workers which ended up with police threatening her in her own flat. She was holding a knife that she was chopping vegetables with – initially leading to charges of attempted murder!
She was yesterday sentenced to 117 day's imprisonment and a €300 fine, but as she has already spent longer than that in prison she was immediately released...More information can be found here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121038371247468
and here: www.free-renata-zelazna.webs.com
A Beach in the Balance--Mexican Riot Police Attack
Restaurant "La Mosca" is gone, destroyed by the state police . The open air restaurant, with its sand floor and thatched pavilion, sat overlooking Tenacatita bay, on the coast of Jalisco, Mexico. The portly owner, Adrian, nicknamed "La Mosca" (the fly) for the mole on his forehead, had planted bougainvillea vines and flowers and painted the cinder block kitchen bright blue and green. It was from this modest facade that his wife Cuca served her famous chile rellenos, earning the restaurant a singular popularity and allowing the family to eke out a modest income, supplemented by Mosca's and Cuca's sons, who went out each dawn in a fiberglass skiff, or panga, to catch fish for the restaurant.
Naming a restaurant "The Fly" is a ballsy move, but, then again, La Mosca is a ballsy guy. He's not the only Tenacatita resident who had cojones. Since 1993, residents of the small fishing community and the nearby village, El Rebalsito, have defended the beach from violent attacks spearheaded by a the Rodenas Corporation, a development group with plans to build an elite gold resort on the property. In 1993, 1998, and 2006, Rodenas obtained the help of the state police to demolish the thatched buildings that dot the cove.
The problem? Most of the small restaurants, hotels, and stores on Tenacatita bay are operated by families that have lived on the land for generations. The beach attracts a regular flow of tourists from the United States, Canada, and Mexico City. Visitors camp in palapas (huts) or stay at one of the modest hotels, such as the Hotel Paraiso, owned by Maria and Felix Mendoza, who are of retirement age but who still work in the hotel every day--Maria in the kitchen, Felix at the desk. On Sundays, families from nearby towns flood to Tenactita--kids play in the surf and adults relax in the shade eating camarones al mojo de ajo and other local specialties. Profits from the restaurants, hotels, and camp spots fuel the economy of El Rebalsito, which has no other major industry.
Although most of the buildings on the beach have been burned or bulldozed more than once and residents have been repeatedly arrested, villagers have returned each time to rebuild. They've also fought the case in the courts.
Jose Maria Andres Villalobos, head of the Rodenas group, contends that he purchased 42 hectares (about 103 acres) of beachfront property in 1991 from the widow of a former state governor. Although you can't legally own a beach in Mexico, Villalobos claims he obtained the beach concession rights in 1993. Locals say the land wasn't the widow's to sell in the first place and allege that Villalobos has a judge or two in his pocket.
Most of the beach's small business owners are members of the local ejido, or land cooperative. (The Mexican government created ejidos to implement the land reforms fought for in the revolution.) The Rebalcito ejido was established in 1940 and its holdings include the land that affords access to Tenacatita beach.
reprinted form Milenio.com
On the morning of August 4, 2010, Jalisco State Police in full riot gear arrived to evict Tenacatita residents and business owners. Police stated they were acting on behalf of the Rodenas corporation; that a judge in the nearby town of Autlan had issued a ruling in favor of the corporation. Locals resisted, demanding to see the paperwork from the ruling, which has still not materialized. Instead the police fired over 200 shots, mostly into the air. They were aided by civilians in yellow shirts (possibly employees of the Rodenas Corporation) who broke car and house windows, smashed belongings, emptied the contents of the restaurant kitchens into the street, and demolished palapas. Locals allege that police also stole furniture and belongings.
The Mexican daily Milenio.com, which has been providing excellent coverage of the story, confirms that the police arrested 27 people, among them three suffering from gunshot woulds: Guadalupe Israel, Fabián Vera and 75-year-old José Cruz Flores. Sevenenteen local residents were wounded in the altercation.
Police then barred access to the beach, and Milenio reports that the municipal secretary of La Huerta (a nearby town) and a Puerto Vallarta-based Jalisco Human Rights Commission observer were required to relinquish their cellphones and cameras to police before they were allowed to enter the area. On Friday the newspaper Mural quoted Villalobos on the subject: "Everything on the beach will be demolished. It's not infrastructure. It's only rubbish."
In retaliation, residents of Tenacatita and El Rebalsito set up a road block and protest on Highway 200, the main artery from Puerta Vallarta to Manzanillo. They were joined by supporters from neighboring communities. The ejido sent representatives to Guadalajara to seek help from the federal government: ejidatarios say that according to Mexican law this case should be settled at the federal level: that a circuit judge in Autlan has no business making proclamations in regard to a federally mandated institution such as an ejido.
Rumors that the judge was bribed are rampant, and some ejiditarios allege that Villalobos has powerful friends in the Mexican government. Other locals say the court order is completely fabricated, citing the following evidence: no one has seen it, and the police seemed edgy when asked for it, even threatening to kill one of the women who requested verification.
The actions of the ejido mirror their response to past incidents. In 1993, when developers tried to occupy the beach by setting up mobile homes inhabited by armed guards (occupation plays a vital role in Mexican land disputes), local residents towed the trailers back to the highway with the guards inside. In 2006, when state police again attempted to seize the beach on behalf of the Rodenas corporation, the citizens of Rebalsito came out in mass. Women and children formed a human barrier across the road, standing their ground against riot police armed with machine guns.
The Mexican news service Noticistema reports that since taking control of the beach the Rodenas corporation has built a fence that cuts through Tencatita's mangrove swamp, which is protected under federal law. Because Rodenas did not get official permission to cut mangroves, the Jalisco delegation of PROFEPA (a federal environmental agency) are scheduled to appear at the beach on Monday to denounce the perpetrators.
A local man (name withheld for his protection) who visited the beach on Saturday reports that access is still blocked and fish from the restaurant kitchens rots in the street. Palapas lie splintered, and homes and restaurants have been looted of furniture and other valuables. In Rebalcito, store owners report that they're already seeing the results of the town being cut off from its major source of revenue: people are asking to buy on credit.
Teenage detainees from the August 4 incident were released; several have black eyes and all had been beaten. One boy was covered with wounds from rubber bullets. The nearby municipality of La Huerta has come out in support of Tenacatita residents, stating that many of the evictees have titles to their property and therefore the action by the state police is not supportable.
Ejiditarios obtained a temporary cease-and-desist order from the federal government but, as of the time that this was written, local residents reported that the state police were still occupying their homes and businesses.
18 children die on Lake Victoria
Eighteen Tanzanian children drowned when their crowded boat capsized in strong winds on Lake Victoria, a regional official said on Friday. Thirty seven people were on board the small boat when it sank on Thursday in Africa's largest lake.
"All 36 passengers on the boat were primary school pupils. Eighteen of them died," Mwanza regional commissioner Abbas Kandoro told Reuters by phone. He said 19 were rescued, including a crewman.
"We suspect the cause of the accident was overcrowding of the boat and bad weather."
Kandoro said rescue workers had so far recovered 13 bodies from the lake which is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
Homeless protest camp shrinks after two nights of arrests, citations, but some plan to keep up demonstration
Posted: 08/08/2010
SANTA CRUZ - Participants of the so-called Peace Camp 2010 have been cited, but apparently not defeated.
The camp is a protest against a city law which makes it an infraction to sleep outside from 11 p.m. to 8:30 a.m.
It began on the county courthouse steps July 4 and drew as many as 60 participants until a visit by deputies Saturday.
Part of the reason it grew unabated is because it is on county property within city limits, so city police officers didn't enforce the city's ordinance and county deputies showed little interest. But the county announced last week the camp did violate the city ordinance and said campers were subject to citation.
Deputies paid a few warning visits and then began writing tickets under a state law which makes it a misdemeanor to "lodge" in a structure, vehicle or place without permission of the owner.
Just after midnight Saturday, deputies descended on a group of 40 or so people sleeping there and cited 17 people and arrested five who allegedly refused to sign the citations or to dislodge, deputies said.
A flier deputies handed out stated "this action is not intended to interfere with your non-lodging demonstration during business hours."
Early Sunday, deputies paid another visit, writing five tickets and arresting two campers.
One of those arrested was Ed Frey, an attorney helping the protesters.
By noon, Frey was out of jail. Outside the courthouse, about a dozen people and
Group spokesman Chris Doyon said "it was ugly" when Frey was arrested during the "assault" by deputies.
He vowed to continue until the group's goals are met - to change the "camping ban" and to have the tickets rescinded.
He said he would love a "cease-fire," but will stay until his basic right to sleep outside if he doesn't have a place to do so indoors is recognized.
"This is a fight about aesthetics," he said. "One man's garbage is another man's belongings. I think millionaires are unaesthetic; I think Hummers are disgusting. You see the ridiculousness. This is class warfare.
"There is room for negotiation; why don't our government representatives come out here and talk to us?"
Doyon, who was arrested early Saturday on a warrant for petty theft, said he intended to request a jury trial to fight the charge, which will be costly and time-consuming.
Doyon, 45, said he grew up in Maine and came to Santa Cruz about 23 years ago while following The Grateful Dead.
He said he fell in love with the area and has come back on and off over the years.
Doyon said he wants to live outdoors and doesn't want anything from the government except to be left in peace. He said he has a "survival camp" in the mountains.
"Does that mean I'm less than?" he said.
He said people are typically homeless due to economic problems, mental illness, drug addiction or because they are "travelers" like him who chose to be "permanently un-homed" and don't need help.
Either way, he said, there are not enough shelter beds and it shouldn't be a crime to sleep outside.
Sunday's campers ranged in age from their early 20s to their early 70s.
One couple, Crow and Red, said they were not cited Saturday night because they simply sat up in some chairs.
The couple said they became homeless in May after their motorhome was impounded.
Crow, 46, a New Jersey native, worked in construction until those jobs became scarce and said he wants to work but can't find any. A childhood leg injury gives him trouble too, he said, and he doesn't know how to type or use a computer.
Red, 51, who grew up in Ohio, said she was crushed by a forklift while working locally as a heavy equipment operator and that those injuries caused a degenerative bone disease to come out of remission. She can hardly stand some days, and hopes to qualify for disability so she can get off the streets, she said.
"It's scary and degrading," she said. "I want a home."
Another camper, Colette Connolly, 72, said she has been homeless for about 20 years, 15 of them in Santa Cruz.
She was once married and had four young children, but her life story goes downhill from there and includes a divorce, suicide attempt, mental illness and the inability to finish college at the University of Washington.
She studied literature there, she said, and once worked for the post office.
Nearby, T.S. Orbit sat wrapped up in a blanket, nursing wounds he said he acquired at a single room occupancy building in San Francisco, courtesy of some bed bugs and parasitic worms.
Orbit, 39, who grew up in Pennsylvania, has only been in town about 45 days.
He wants a home and wants to go to law school, saying his interest in law was sparked when his dad killed his mom.
A few thick law books sat beside his blanket. He brightens when relating how he used to have a business selling Grateful Dead stickers and T-shirts; he was struck by lyrics about "what love will do for you."
Orbit believes the "camping ban" constitutes targeted enforcement against a certain group of people, those who are homeless, and is unconstitutional.
"This is a good fight, and I'm glad God has given me this battle with some company," he said. "I have faith we have a pretty good chance once people hear about it. But we can't fight the criminal justice system unless we have the public's interest.
"Please come down, if you have any activist urge in your heart, just bring a sign, write a letter to the mayor, something."
Homeless activist Becky Johnson said they never intended to do battle with the county and that she was ready to move on.
But, she said, a "dogged core" of the group feel strongly about it and doesn't seem intimidated by the threat of jail.
"Personally, I'm ready for a new tactic," Johnson said. "We've accomplished quite a few goals already. People have had a clean place to sleep and rest and restore. They feel more hopeful that not everyone hates the homeless."
Demonstrators use noise to break down barriers; anarchist march held at County Jail in solidarity with prisoners
Posted: 08/07/2010
SANTA CRUZ -- A group of about 40 people stood behind the County Jail for more than an hour Friday night banging on large drums, empty water jugs and other noise makers in a rally of support for prisoners in jail "with or without papers."
Around 6:30 p.m., the group of self-proclaimed anarchists and their supporters marched from San Lorenzo Park to the nearby County Jail in protest of ICE's presence in Santa Cruz and the controversial federal program that checks the immigration status of anyone booked on criminal charges. The county is set to start using the program at the County Jail on Tuesday.
As many as eight sheriff's deputies stood on the jail roof to monitor and film the protesters, but did not interfere with the protest.
The event had a personal connection for Watsonville resident Nayeli Gil, who said she watched a cooperative effort between police
"What they are doing is disrespecting people's rights; it's rude and unfair," Gil said. "It's frustrating. He was trying to work for his family. They're making our lives miserable."
The noise drew neighbors
An anarchist bangs the drum for prisoners' freedom Friday night at the jail. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Visiting Santa Cruz from Florida, Paula Lalinde said the demonstration was impressive.
"It's a creative way to deliver their message," Lalinde said. "There is something very basic about it and natural, using [noise] to stand up for basic human rights. It breaks through the walls."
Neighbors who had questions about the noise were handed a pamphlet put together by "some local anarchists."
"Despite our racial, cultural and class divides, all who are persecuted and
Anarchists pull their portable sound system into position on the Blain Street side of the county jail Friday night. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
The flier also placed blame on the media for an increased awareness of crime in the city -- media coverage contributes to "the hysteria and witchhunt-like atmosphere," the anarchists maintain -- and neighborhood organizations for their efforts aimed at increased police presence.
Around 8 p.m., protestors marched
Participants in Friday's noisein prove to be a bit camera shy. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
"We're happy it ended the way it did," Pursley said. "They were able to get their point out and did it in a peaceful manner, which is always a good thing."
The trial of the killers of Alexandros Grigoropoulos to resume and conclude in September; prosecutor recommends life-sentence for Korkoneas
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On Friday, August 6th, the public prosecutor described his verdict for the case of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vasilis Saraliotis, the two cops who killed 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on the night of December 6th, 2008 in Athens. Τhe prosecutor rejected all “mitigating factors” brought forward by the side of the two accused cops. If his recommendation is upheld by the court’s judges, Korkoneas should receive a life sentence.
The trial will recommence on September 2nd. Following the trial procedures in Greece, it is now the turn of the two lawyers (those representing the cops and Alexandros’ family) to make their final speeches before the final verdict is announced - which we expect to happen in the first week of September.
from the After the greek riots blog.
The trial will recommence on September 2nd. Following the trial procedures in Greece, it is now the turn of the two lawyers (those representing the cops and Alexandros’ family) to make their final speeches before the final verdict is announced - which we expect to happen in the first week of September.
from the After the greek riots blog.
2-08-2010 Thousands in north Nicosia demo in Cyprus Island...
The seperatist political regime which was established in the north part of our island, have been continuing its economic and political pressure upon the Turkish Cypriots in order to push them to immigrate from the island. Current measurements about salary, wages and taxes which are all imposed by Turkey are trying to be put into practice by the comprador authorities these days. Our trade unions organized a general strike as well as an existential meeting today, in order to protest the tax measurements which was on the agenda of the parliament. Our trade unionists confronted the police’s aggressive attitude. Because of the aggression between police and activists, the police used disproportional power in the meeting and arrested 7 trade unionists first, and then they arrested the trade union presidents who claimed their friends release and ended up with the probation of 24 people. Among the arrested trade unionists were Guven Varoglu – President of KTOS, Adnan Eraslan – President of KTOEOS, Ahmet Kaptan – President of KTAMS, Mehmet Özkardaş – President of KAMUSEN, Yakup Latifoglu – President of HURIS Federation, Sami Dilek – President of KAMUIS, Ersin Hurdoganoglu- CAGSEN Secretary General, Tulug Kalyoncu- ELSEN President, DEVIS President Mehmet Seyis, HAVASEN President Buran Atakan and Oguz Kose - President of Nurses and Midwives Trade Union.
The main target is, to omit the trade unions without administration and to eliminate the trade unions as a whole. Turkey, as the guarantour, sent military troops to the island in 1974 in order to protect the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and in order to stop the conflict; so divided the island and created a subordinate local administration in the north of the island. The only responsible element for what has been happening now is the Turkish Government. Moreover, the Turkish Cypriots are being forced for immigration with these pressures.
In order to protest the systematic pressure upon Turkish Cypriots by the police state which is created and in order to release the arrested trade unionists, we kindly invite you for solidarity to raise our voices even louder.
Best Regards
On behalf of Trade Union Platform,
Sener ELCİL
August 3, 2010
THOUSANDS of Turkish Cypriot civil servants and their supporters clashed with police in north Nicosia yet again yesterday as unions reiterated their opposition to what they say are Ankara’s plans to privatise the north’s public corporations.Carrying banners reading “Turkey go home!” and “No to privatisation!” protesters clashed repeatedly with police in riot gear under the 40 degree-plus heat.Several protesters and police were injured, and 24 were arrested, many of them union leaders.Backed by 35 trades unions and NGOs, yesterday’s “general strike and protest for communal survival” came just weeks after a similar protest against the selloff of ‘state’ airline Cyprus Turkish Airlines (CTA) to private Turkish carrier Atlas Jet. The protesters claim the administration, under pressure from Ankara, is now planning to sell off ‘state’ assets like KIBTEK, the electricity provider, the north’s telecommunications network and Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). The unions are also angry at the ruling National Unity Party’s (UBP) implementation of an economic austerity package widely seen as having been drawn up by Ankara. The UBP was elected to govern in April last year on the understanding that it would not implement the package.Yesterday’s protest ended outside the Turkish Embassy in north Nicosia, where newly appointed Turkish ‘Ambassador’ to the north Kaya Turkmen was spending his first day at work. He arrived on the island yesterday after moving on from his previous posting in Lisbon.
The seperatist political regime which was established in the north part of our island, have been continuing its economic and political pressure upon the Turkish Cypriots in order to push them to immigrate from the island. Current measurements about salary, wages and taxes which are all imposed by Turkey are trying to be put into practice by the comprador authorities these days. Our trade unions organized a general strike as well as an existential meeting today, in order to protest the tax measurements which was on the agenda of the parliament. Our trade unionists confronted the police’s aggressive attitude. Because of the aggression between police and activists, the police used disproportional power in the meeting and arrested 7 trade unionists first, and then they arrested the trade union presidents who claimed their friends release and ended up with the probation of 24 people. Among the arrested trade unionists were Guven Varoglu – President of KTOS, Adnan Eraslan – President of KTOEOS, Ahmet Kaptan – President of KTAMS, Mehmet Özkardaş – President of KAMUSEN, Yakup Latifoglu – President of HURIS Federation, Sami Dilek – President of KAMUIS, Ersin Hurdoganoglu- CAGSEN Secretary General, Tulug Kalyoncu- ELSEN President, DEVIS President Mehmet Seyis, HAVASEN President Buran Atakan and Oguz Kose - President of Nurses and Midwives Trade Union.
The main target is, to omit the trade unions without administration and to eliminate the trade unions as a whole. Turkey, as the guarantour, sent military troops to the island in 1974 in order to protect the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and in order to stop the conflict; so divided the island and created a subordinate local administration in the north of the island. The only responsible element for what has been happening now is the Turkish Government. Moreover, the Turkish Cypriots are being forced for immigration with these pressures.
In order to protest the systematic pressure upon Turkish Cypriots by the police state which is created and in order to release the arrested trade unionists, we kindly invite you for solidarity to raise our voices even louder.
Best Regards
On behalf of Trade Union Platform,
Sener ELCİL
August 3, 2010
THOUSANDS of Turkish Cypriot civil servants and their supporters clashed with police in north Nicosia yet again yesterday as unions reiterated their opposition to what they say are Ankara’s plans to privatise the north’s public corporations.Carrying banners reading “Turkey go home!” and “No to privatisation!” protesters clashed repeatedly with police in riot gear under the 40 degree-plus heat.Several protesters and police were injured, and 24 were arrested, many of them union leaders.Backed by 35 trades unions and NGOs, yesterday’s “general strike and protest for communal survival” came just weeks after a similar protest against the selloff of ‘state’ airline Cyprus Turkish Airlines (CTA) to private Turkish carrier Atlas Jet. The protesters claim the administration, under pressure from Ankara, is now planning to sell off ‘state’ assets like KIBTEK, the electricity provider, the north’s telecommunications network and Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). The unions are also angry at the ruling National Unity Party’s (UBP) implementation of an economic austerity package widely seen as having been drawn up by Ankara. The UBP was elected to govern in April last year on the understanding that it would not implement the package.Yesterday’s protest ended outside the Turkish Embassy in north Nicosia, where newly appointed Turkish ‘Ambassador’ to the north Kaya Turkmen was spending his first day at work. He arrived on the island yesterday after moving on from his previous posting in Lisbon.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Translation of anonymous communique (photos: Polizeiinspektion Harburg; click here to view TV news report about the action):
"On the night of July 29-30, 2010 a poultry factory farm under construction in Sprötze (Lower Saxony) was targeted in an arson attack. The entire building collapsed. Property damage is estimated at €500,000. The factory farm was going to be one of over 400 suppliers for Europe's largest chicken slaughterhouse, planned for Wietze. There were many reasons for this action:
The environment is substantially harmed by the building of new factory farms. Ammonia, contained in the manure of animals, contaminates the soil. This causes acid rain, which leads to the death of forests.
Water is polluted and permanently damaged.
Enormous amounts of food and water are wasted in raising non-human animals. To produce 1kg of chicken meat, on average 10kg of grain and/or genetically modified soy and more than 1,500 liters of water is required. Rainforests are cleared for the cultivation of soy. CO2 is emitted speeding up climate change. Numerous animal and plant species are exterminated as well. Even more CO2 is produced by the trucks needed to transport animal feed and the non-human animals.
Non-human animals are viewed and treated merely as a resource. For example, in zoos and circuses, as pets, for fur, leather, meat, eggs and dairy, animal testing, etc. All their needs, feelings and desires are denied them. They do not have the freedom to be in charge of their own lives.
This operation was carried out in order to directly save lives, as all previous discussions and arguments had failed.
We are aware of the psychological pressure and the financial loss that will burden the property owners. However, this is not in proportion to what chickens would have to suffer there. All attempts to rebuild the factory farm, to make profit at the expense of individuals, will be stopped! As long as non-human animals are subjected to the domination of humans, all animal exploitation enterprises will be the target of similar actions. This action shows how animal abuse can be confronted directly.
We would like to take this opportunity to point out that we reject comparisons of the situation of non-human animals today and the victims of Nazism. Causes and effects of different forms of domination are complex and differ on many points. These should not be rated against each other but all confronted and fought against. The fight against oppression is a part of the fight against speciesism, capitalism, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, etc.
We encourage everyone to fight, in their own way, for the liberation of all individuals from all forms of tyranny.
The environment is substantially harmed by the building of new factory farms. Ammonia, contained in the manure of animals, contaminates the soil. This causes acid rain, which leads to the death of forests.
Water is polluted and permanently damaged.
Enormous amounts of food and water are wasted in raising non-human animals. To produce 1kg of chicken meat, on average 10kg of grain and/or genetically modified soy and more than 1,500 liters of water is required. Rainforests are cleared for the cultivation of soy. CO2 is emitted speeding up climate change. Numerous animal and plant species are exterminated as well. Even more CO2 is produced by the trucks needed to transport animal feed and the non-human animals.
Non-human animals are viewed and treated merely as a resource. For example, in zoos and circuses, as pets, for fur, leather, meat, eggs and dairy, animal testing, etc. All their needs, feelings and desires are denied them. They do not have the freedom to be in charge of their own lives.
This operation was carried out in order to directly save lives, as all previous discussions and arguments had failed.
We are aware of the psychological pressure and the financial loss that will burden the property owners. However, this is not in proportion to what chickens would have to suffer there. All attempts to rebuild the factory farm, to make profit at the expense of individuals, will be stopped! As long as non-human animals are subjected to the domination of humans, all animal exploitation enterprises will be the target of similar actions. This action shows how animal abuse can be confronted directly.
We would like to take this opportunity to point out that we reject comparisons of the situation of non-human animals today and the victims of Nazism. Causes and effects of different forms of domination are complex and differ on many points. These should not be rated against each other but all confronted and fought against. The fight against oppression is a part of the fight against speciesism, capitalism, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, etc.
We encourage everyone to fight, in their own way, for the liberation of all individuals from all forms of tyranny.
For the freedom of all animals!"
‘Conditions in Youth Prisons’ by John Bowden (UK)
In 2004 15 year old Gareth Myatt died whilst bring “restrained” by three members of staff at a privatized children’s prison called Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in Warwickshire. In the same year 14 year old Adam Rickwood hanged himself in another privatized children’s jail, Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in Co. Durham. A Judge later ruled that the guards who “restrained” Adam shortly before his death had used unlawful force on him. Six years later and following a sustained campaign by parents of imprisoned children and groups like the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) a shocking government document detailing control methods used on children, some as young as 12, in custody has been revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Published by the Prison Service in 2005 and classified as a restricted government document, the manual provides staff in secure training centres with authorization to inflict physical pain on children with so-called “restraint and self-defence techniques”. The methods of physical force described in the manual are so legally questionable that the government was prepared to be taken to a tribunal to fight against disclosure of the document despite a ruling by the Information Commissioner that it should be publicly released. Previously government officials had even refused to provide a copy to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee. Eventually the Ministry of Justice was forced to back down and release the document; it’s contents made the reticence of the Justice Ministry to shame with the public, such information all too self-explanatory.
Some of the “restraint” methods used against children in custody approved by the Justice Ministry, currently headed by the liberal-thinking Ken Clark, include ramming knuckles into the ribs of children and raking shoes down the shins. It also authorised staff to: “Drive straightened fingers into the young person’s face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person’s groin area”. “Use an inverted knuckle into the trainee’s sternum and drive inward and upward”. “Continue to carry alternate elbow strikes to the young person’s ribs until a release is achieved”. “Nose distraction techniques” – sharp blows to the children’s nose –had already been found by the Court of Appeal to have been routinely and unlawfully used against children in at least one secure training centre. The contracting out of such brutal methods of control and punishment to institutions run by private firms for profit raises an obvious moral question and issue.
Instructions issued to staff in the secure training centres reveal a calculated understanding that such “control techniques” could lead to serious injury to the child and even death; “the techniques could risk a fracture of the skull and temporary or permanent blindness caused by rupture of the eyeball or detached retina”. There is also an acknowledgment that some techniques could cause asphyxia; staff are told that while applying headlocks to children that “if breathing is compromised it could lead to a medical emergency”.
Carolyne Willow, national co-ordinator of CRAE, said: “The manual is deeply disturbing and stands as state authorisation of institutionalised child abuse. What made former ministers believe that children as young as 12 could get so out of control so often that staff should be taught how to ram their knuckles into their rib cages? Would we allow teachers. etc., to be trained in how to deliberately hurt and humiliate children?
Images of Abu Graib prison in Iraq are evoked by instructions instruction to force difficult children to “adopt a kneeling position while a second member takes control of the head by grabbing the back of the neck while cupping the chin”. Whilst in this position steel handcuffs are applied to the child. Ms Willow describes such methods as ”The ritualistic humiliation of children and a clear abuse of human rights”.
Phillip Noyes, director of strategy and development at the National Society for the prevention of cruelty to children said: “These shocking revelations graphically illustrate the cruel and degrading violence inflicted at times on children in custody. On occasions these restraint techniques have resulted in children suffering broken arms, noses, wrists and fingers. Painful restraint is a clear breach of children’s human rights against some of the most vulnerable youngsters in society and has no place in a decent society”.
During the 12 months up to March 2009, restraint was used 1.776 times in the UK’s four secure training centres.
In the Houses of Lords on 21 July 2010 Lord McNally in response to questions about the methods of control described in the manual said “we use the word “children” very casually to describe often very large and quite violent young people in these centres”, and “we also have a duty of care to the staff who deal with these often very violent young people”. Often disturbed and unruly children, some as young as 12 years of age, are metamorphosed in Lord McNally’s mind into large and physically violent young adults as he tries to defend what Ms Swaine the legal director of CRAE, describes as “Guidance given in a staff authorised manual to violate human rights because is allows staff to deliberately hurt children outside cases of life-threatening necessity”.
What the manual actually reveals is an attitude and mindset that believes damaged and already brutalised children can be made to conform by the use of even more brutality and cruelty. In reality what such treatment creates is more severely disturbed young people seriously alienated from and actively hostile to society. What is being manufactured in these secure training centres are ticking time bombs that are then delivered into the wider community. A disproportionate number of seriously violent offenders and long-term prisoners are the product of a childhood spent in children’s homes and youth custody institutions where physical abuse and violence formed a routine part of their treatment. When the lesson being taught to children in custody is that power is represented by the power to hurt and control then that lesson will eventually be learned and practised in their own lives. What is sown behind the walls of child prisons will eventually be reaped by the wider community. The campaign to stop the abuse of children in custody shouldn’t be viewed as it is by tabloid newspapers and those responsible for that abuse as the prerogative of “wishy-washy liberals”; the wider society should realise that it has a vested interest in stopping the de-humanization of imprisoned children.
John Bowden
August 2010
HMP Perth
CALL: ALL AT THE PROTEST GATHERING, OUTSIDE THE FRENCH EMBASSY ATHENS
TUESDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 7AM THE POLICY OF DISCRIMINATION, FASCISTIZATION, "CLEANSINGS" WILL NOT PASS
ALL AT THE PROTEST GATHERING, OUTSIDE THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN ATHENS
TUESDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 7AM
THE POLICY OF DISCRIMINATION, FASCISTIZATION, "CLEANSINGS" WILL NOT PASS
TUESDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 7AM
THE POLICY OF DISCRIMINATION, FASCISTIZATION, "CLEANSINGS" WILL NOT PASS
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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
VIDEO FROM THE COMRADES IN THE SUPERMARKET IN SALONIKI 15/6
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!!
Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles
1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom
(December Riots in Greece)