Text by Stella Antoniou, arrested on 04.12.2010 (Case of 6), accused of involvement in an unknown terrorist organization, ... and of committing vague terrorist acts.

On 4/12/1910 I was arrested outside my house in Platonos Street in Kalithea, in which I was living with my partner Kostas Sakkas. They kept me for 3 days in detention without telling me why, did not allow a lawyer to me or to my co-defendants, we were kept 6 days in the cells of the 12th floor of the Athens police headquarters, with the light lit 24 hours a day, without windows, which negates the sense of time. When I refused to give fingerprints and a sample of DNA, I was stripped by force and my T-shirt stolen, apparently to get it. 

Finally, on 10/12 detained in women's prison of Korydallos, Athens, as a member of an organization whose name and action neither I nor the prosecutors know. First, I would like to clarify that I do not recognize the term ''terrorist organization'' as assigned by the state to revolt. But I do clearly recognize a criminal organization, which in contrast to the “organization'' which they accuse me of, is named (DAEEB)(Response Directorate of Special Crimes of Violence ) and address (173 Alexandras Avenue), which knows very well that there can be no armed organization between 6 people who do not meet (as they even agree in the constructed file), let alone 6 people that do not know each other. I belong to the anarchist movement, and I'm proud of my participation and my action in it. 

The state is making the imprisonment of anarchists a phenomenon of our time, whether they have enough, incomplete or no evidence, which is of no importance because I believe that no fighter should be imprisoned. But we are now being faced with constructed files and cases from the police, in cooperation with the Media and those who play the role of cops, talk about specific organizations that do not exist, etc. They baptize my house ''giafka Kallithea'' (Kallithea hideout) in the sense that when there is something ''illegal'' in a room, that space becomes a giafka. They talked about the dismantling of such and such an organization, which is related to another organization, and eventually, unfortunately for them, the weapons are ''clean'' and the organization has no name. They publish my personal letters, present various false physionomy profiles, giving me my role in this alleged organization. With grotesque titles like ''she paid for her love'' or ''love'' in the lair, they present an alleged personal drama, hoping to sell their gossip scandalmongering pages. They chose to highlight specific pieces of my statement ... adding words that I did not say ... without mentioning any trace of the political stigma that I gave to the questioning. 

But the story does not end there. Then I had to face the false testimony of a female police officer from Kallithea police station, which reached me two weeks after being put on remand.The witness said that one or two days before arresting me ... I walked into the police stationKallithea, went to the department that leads to where the guns are stored (!), with the apparent aim of checking out the area, with an eye to a future theft of the weapons ... And here come the questions: 

-Why did they allow me to penetrate a police station so easily? 

-On what grounds did I decide to go with my face uncovered into a section of it and look for guns?! 
 -Don't police stations have cameras outside the building? Where is the recording from the camera showing me entering the police station? 

Is this fact also a plan of the criminal organization DAEEB? (Response Directorate of Special Crimes of Violence )

I think that my prosecution, as well as that of other social fighters, amid socio-political instability which is now, given the economic crisis, part of state planning aiming to create a climate of fear and REAL TERRORISM. And this seems little compared to the long sustained action of the criminal clique that I mentioned: Turning their guns on 15 year old children, at people that don't stop at roadblocks, shooting fugitive comrades in the back, murdering militant fighters in cold blood. 

At a time when the world's patience is exhausted and various parts of society have begun to act, power is ceasing to make even rudimentary excuses, culminating in imprisoning an anarchist comrade with the only ''aggravating'' evidence her mention that all these anarchists in prison are political prisoners! Thus depriving all of us of even the right to defend the most important part of our being, our political identity. They are trying to eliminate the most radical part of this society by constantly taking fighters hostage, believing that they can deny us what nobody can take from us: 

THE PASSION FOR THE STRUGGLE, SOLITARITY, AND FREEDOM

      NO FIGHTERS HOSTAGE OF THE STATE 

               FREEDOM FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CELLS 

Stella Antoniou

Korydallos Women's Prison
B-wing, cell 35

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Anarchist Leonardo Landi on the streets! (italy)

Leo on the streets!

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

 

Anarchist Leonardo Landi arrested (Italy)

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

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

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

arnaud borderer | 20.02.2011 

Activists held a solidarity action outside the Steenockerzeel 123bis detention centre in Brussels this afternoon. Inside, prisoners took matters into their own hands and started a revolt which led to one escape and a wing destroyed by fire. Currently the area is shut down by police.

The group "Voices Without Borders" organised a solidarity action this afternoon at the 127 bis detention centre in Steenockerzeel, Brussels this afternoon starting at 16.30. The action was a show of solidarity with prisoners in the immigration prison who have been on hunger strike for more than ten days after an 18 year old Egyption migrant was tied up and beaten by guards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

brussels indymedia:

A POSTER February 23, 2011 General Strike in greece

February 23, 2011

General Strike athens greece


To fill the streets in anger,rage,

dignity, sensitivity, our dreams ...


We are here now for all of us ...

LETTER FROM M.NIKOLOPOULOS AND G.TSAKALOS 4/2/2011

We are experiencing all over greece a period which at the same time is one of the most critical moments and one of the biggest bets of the anarchist revolutionary movement. Sovereignty steps on the qualitative and quantitative raising of the benchmark of hostilities from our side, increasing more and more the intensity of repression. The arrests of comrades, the publication of photographs, the raids in houses, and the more general climate of diffuse fear that is attempted to be imposed are a piece of this counter-attack.

The penalization of friendly and comrade relations constitutes henceforth a guaranteed method of the juridical and police authorities. The anarchist comrades S.Antoniou, D. Michail and Ch. Politis are the latest on a list of individuals that are imprisoned, no for their action, but for their political perceptions and their friendly and comrade relations. A list to which the juridical authorities are also trying to add the anarchist comrade Fee Meyer, with the ridiculous argument for the “offence” of possession of texts from imprisoned revolutionaries.

In this climate began the trial of members of the organization together with individuals that are accused without evidence for participation in it. A trial which being the first in a line of other that will follow for cases of revolutionary action will determine on one level the behavior of the special courts towards the political prisoners, concerning the conditions of the upcoming trials. From the beginning of the procedure it became perceptible the effort of isolation and cutting off of the defendants from the comrades in solidarity via the blackmail of registering those who arrive to the courtroom.

Solidarity as a bidirectional relationship could not leave uninvolved the accused comrades in this decision of the court. Leaving the procedure and their refusal “to legalize” this registering with their presence there, constitute a decent and proud political attitude. A attitude that includes also the proportional cost to the comrades that are accused without evidence for heavy charges and are in danger to be judged in absentia. A fight that puts as a priority the relation of solidarity between the defendants and the comrades that arrive to the room of the special court in order to support them and give them strength.

This fight is given no for a precarious victory in this court, but in order to impose it as a vested to all the following political trials, the possibility of unhindered attendance of those in solidarity.

A fight that climaxes with the start of a hunger strike. What our revolutionary conscience commands us to do is stand next to our comrades and begin a hunger strike to support them.

First Gerasimos Tsakalos began on 3/2/2011 with the remainder of the comrades a hunger strike, and soon Michalis Nikolopoulos will begin as well, because of practical difficulties that are related with his very short time within the walls.

In this critical moment for the anarchist-revolutionary movement we answer with confronting attack. We do not take a step back. We declare our respect for the comrades that are accused in this trial and select the difficult path of the fight, their attitude raise the benchmark of revolutionary consistency. We send our warmest greetings to those that even under the pressure of difficult times continue acting in the direction of rupture with the diffuse dominating construction. To all the comrades and the organizations that corresponded through their acts and their texts to the call for a co-creation of the INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION – INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY NETWORK. We raise our fists through from inside the walls. And finally, we dedicate to the brothers of the Illegal Sector of our organization the paraphrased extract from Jan Marc Rouillian. “For a long time I remain there stiff as a rock, the head leaning, hands in the pockets, the memories bombard me, the ones from outside, those from our struggles… The friendship and the tenderness of those who fight embraced, are unleashed by our laughters and the untidy discussions to the morning. We are of course full of the absolute, of the intoxicating freedom of the undisciplined, but also from the hard certainty that we hold, at any cost, one of the last barricades before the crushing. And we laughed. We laughed always while oiling our guns, until goodbye, with an old cry of war, DARE TO FIGHT, DARE TO WIN…”

LONG LIVE THE R.O. CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE

LONG LIVE THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTIONaries

LONG LIVE ANARCHY

Michalis Nikolopoulos-Gerasimos Tsakalos

Members of the Prisoners Cell of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire

4/2/2011

Communiqué from Jean-Marc Rouillan

from:       http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/communique-from-jean-marc-rouillan/

19022011

From Hommodolars Contrainformación (February 17, 2011) and Tokata(February 16, 2011):

On February 16, the Paris criminal appeals court decided to grant Action Directe prisoner Jean-Marc Rouillan a partial release from Muret Detention Center. The partial release period is scheduled to begin on March 7 and last for one year, after which Rouillan will be granted a conditional release.

The Paris District Attorney immediately appealed the court’s decision, as he has always done for decisions favoring Action Directe prisoners. Thus, Rouillan’s partial release may have to be postponed for a few weeks to a few months, depending on how long it takes the court to rule on the appeal.

During the partial release period, Rouillan will be allowed to leave prison during the day to go to work, but he will be subject to electronic monitoring and will have to spend nights and weekends in prison.

Rouillan was previously granted a conditional release over two years ago, but the court revoked it after 10 months, ruling that certain comments he made to the press contravened the conditional release’s speech restrictions. Those same speech restrictions, which prohibited Rouillan from speaking about the actions and events that led to his life sentence, will also apply to his upcoming partial and conditional releases.

Rouillan was imprisoned in February 1987 for his participation in the assassination of Renault executive Georges Besse and French general René Audran.

He recently released the following communiqué to mark the second anniversary of his return to prison:

Two years in prison for a few words. I, who in May ’68 opted for armed revolutionary action, am imprisoned here at the age of 58 just for speaking. How ironic! The counterterrorism magistrates thus justify the choice I made as a teenager, when like thousands of others throughout Europe, I realized that it was impossible to take revolutionary action within the limits of bourgeois politics. It seems this system won’t allow us to speak freely unless we regurgitate the pronouncements of our masters.

Blinded by their reactionary certainties and pleased with the widespread despair they cause, these judges are placing their bets on the definitive disappearance of a true far-left opposition in our countries—a class opposition able to spoil the appetites of the predators who control the fruits of the workers’ labor; an opposition coherent enough to rejuvenate the politics of the exploited. Intentionally or not, my detention reveals the fear that has always tormented the governments of the imperialist countries. It is a detention that originates from the will to annihilate any sign of a radical alternative capable of replacing the ritual customs of respectful petitions and promenading protests, the paralyzing verbal diarrhea of the “more leftism kills” crowd, the hopeless activities, the false ruptures with the system, and all the rest. Despite everything, the struggle continues: Every fight, every confrontation, every rejection carries a revolutionary alternative in its heart. I have learned from our failures. But I have never told myself that they are stronger, that nothing can be done. I have never retreated from sharing our combative experience and taking full political responsibility for our past actions. Two years in prison for a few words. This detention is based on an arbitrariness spawned by the vulgar proliferation of freedom-killing laws and decrees. Governments safeguard the impunity of hooligan bosses and millionaire thieves while increasing the number of laws that augment the severity of their coercive relationship to the exploited. Not a single year passes without a rushed (and often secret) vote to pass or amend a law that turns the screw even tighter. Extraordinary tribunals and counterterrorism squads frame the authoritarianism of this Police State and are its omnipotent expression. But these days, even “ordinary” tribunals—the ones that deport the Roma and foreign workers, acquit murderer policemen, and imprison slum-dwellers by the truckload—are introducing the arbitrary into every “ordinary” relationship between the State and its poorest subjects, coordinating with a whole stream of special squads that racially profile, search, beat, and play with their stun batons and tear gas canisters. How long will we accept the “ordinary” dictatorship of the far right? If this State were looking to give even more meaning to my militant life, it couldn’t have managed to do any better! Allow me to show my gratitude by quoting the poet Heinrich Heine: “The hatred of my enemies may serve as pledge that I have fulfilled this duty truly and honorably. I will ever show myself worthy of that hatred.” And to conclude this second anniversary, I thank—from the depths of my cell—all the comrades, friends, and people I’ve never met who include my liberation in their project of revolutionary emancipation.

—Jean-Marc Rouillan, Muret Detention Center

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

informa-azione

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

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

Arturo Fazio
Guido Mantelli

Letter from prison by the anarchist Fee Marie Meyer, 18.2.2011

Greek original
Behind bars…
So sometimes even the most wild scenarios become reality, and so here I am in pre-trial detention at the Female Prison of Korydallos [in Athens] precisely because I possessed already published documents, because I am anarchist. Of course, the original list of charges against me has grown, with an extremely serious crime added to it – namely my reference to the imprisoned anarchists as “political prisoners”. These are the findings upon which the decision of the Committee of Misdemeanours was based [which ordered Fee's pre-trial detention –trans.], the only findings with which they have sent me to prison. I am not surprised yet I wonder, if what I am going through is not a political persecution, then what would ever be one? Perhaps all the persecutions of comrades based solely on their relationships and their beliefs are not political. Perhaps even the detention of people awaiting trial in high-security prisons, or underground dungeons, are random phenomena, entirely unconnected to the political identity of the detainees. Not to forget the transformation of political trials into military tribunals acting under special circumstances, in absentia of the accused and the withholding of the ID of the people who chose to attend…
Are you kidding us?
Authority itself gets rid of the dipole of innocence and guilt, the same dipole it had used for so many years in order to divide the front of the people in struggle into good and bad ones, legal and illegal. From now on, everything is related; dividing lines become fluid and everyone who resists is placed on the shore of the guilty ones. Everyone is potentially incarcerated in the hospitable cells of the greek prisons.
Divide and conquer is no longer required, the junta is by now shameless, people are one again divided into two parts. Into the exploited and the powerful.

In this situation, it is not only acts who matter anymore but thoughts too. Books and publications are categorised as dangerous and we should expect the new publication of the “index librorum prohibitorum” (list of banned books by the Inquisition). The anarchist/ anti-authoritarian word is criminalised and most certainly needs to be repented as it is subversive. This is an attempt to silence and dispose not only the people in struggle but also the thoughts and our ideals, the ideas that our texts carry with them.

All this is extremely dangerous at the present time.

Dangerous because in the times that we live in a new liberal totalitarianism has made an appearance; the perfectly post-modern and always socialist junta.
Dangerous as the parts of people who resist are widening out, networking, recognising the importance of a multiform struggle.
From the dignified residents of Keratea and the nearby areas, the 300 migrant hunger strikers who demand the obvious dream in life with complete consciousness of their class, to the strikers at the Mass Transportation Systems and other working sectors refusing to bow to the blackmailing of their bosses; the “I won’t pay” movement, the members of which are facing incarceration. Them and how many, how many more…
This junta lacks nothing compared to the previous ones as it has adopted from them the military advantage of the quick, versatile and always-present forces of “Security” and the security para-state that moves around, armed, hooded up and with no initials – specialising in the chasing and torturing of people in struggle; specialising to truly terrorise. Terrorists with new and older methods, abductions in the middle of the street with cinematic effects, publication of photographs even before charges are brought forward (the recent case of comrade K.S in Thessaloniki), invented groups with no name nor action being included in the list of charges against comrades; terrorist laws with special clauses, more laws, more incarcerations.
This entire climate is sustained and reproduced via the media which take on the role that the state would never be able to fulfil on its own. With lies upon lies, TV shows about indifferent celebrities targeting only dumb people and offending the intelligence of those who watch them, they attempt on the one hand to break up and terrorise and on the other hand to keep people drugged up and subordinate to a cheap dream.
At this moment then, for all the above reasons, solidarity as a main co-ordinate unifying the front of the repressed beholds even greater value. Solidarity meaning proximity, not consonance: a recognition of the common ground of the state of our struggle. This fundamental political virtue of higher social organising combined with the utmost individual fulfilment.
Comradely regards, my friendliness and my thoughts go out to all the comrades and friends behind and outside the bars – stay strong! Because until the tearing down of the last prison and total freedom, no-one is free. Because the darkest hour is just before the dawn!

Fee Meyer
Cell 35, Wing B
female prison of Korydallos

Anarchist squat PIKPA in Heraklion, Crete is evicted; three people arrested, constant clashes with the police; anarchists occupy two local TV stations and branch of the Ministry of Health in response

from:   http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/02/18/498-anarchist-squat-in-heraklion-crete-is-evicted/

In the early hours of Wednesday, February 16th, riot police stormed the self-managed occupied building PIKPA in Heraklion, Crete. As soon as the news spread, three people who rushed to the spot were arrested by the police. In response to the eviction and the arrests, around 70 people who quickly gathered there occupied a branch of the Ministry of Health, demanding that those arrested were freed. A few hours later they were released; one of them however faces charges.
At the same night, a counter-information event took place at the main square of Heraklion. People attempted to re-approach the PIKPA squat and clashes with the police followed; police chase, beat and arrest four people, all of which were injured during their arrests.
In the morning of Thursday 17/2, the arrested appeared before the prosecutor general – two of them face felonies. After this procedure had ended, riot police once again attacked those who had gathered in solidarity with their batons and tear gas.
In response to all the above events, people in solidarity occupied two TV stations on Thursday night.
A demonstration against police repression has been called for Friday, 18/2 at 6pm at the Lions Square in Heraklion.

"Solidarity is Our Weapon - No Persecution Against the 4 Arrested"

„Scherbendemo“ - 30 shops got attacked-Berlin the 4th of february 2011

from: https://directactionde.ucrony.net/en/node/998

Berlin the 4th of february 2011
„Scherbendemo“ is a german expression of the autonomous scene for a demo thats only aim is to unleash the anger by destroying property (mostly windows). This demos happened the last time in the 90s.
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Again there have been left-extreme riots in Berlin in the night from friday to saturday because of the eviction of the house project Liebig 14. In the closer area of Hackescher Markt the windows of fashion stores got destroyed.

The reason is the eviction of the house on Liebigstraße 14 last wednesday. On friday evening around 9pm about 200 sympathisers gathered at Revaler Straße in Friedrichshain. The manifestation was anounced in the internet.
Police says that they checked several persons and found masks and even knifes. That they found knifes is doubted by the autonomous scene.
The police finished the gathering, which hasnt been registerd, at 9:30pm and people were sent away. The left protesters spreaded in small groups in different directions.

Nearly at the same time around 50 masked people marched down Alte Schönhauser Straße, Weinmeisterstraße to Rochstraße in the district of Mitte. They smashed the windows from nearly 30 stores and demaged cars. Before the cops arrived the group escaped. The secret police investigates.

More protests are expected on saturday night- the residents of the house on Liebigstraße 14 called out to make the evictions as expensive as possible. Already on wednesday riots broke out in Friedrichshain.
Even 3 days after the eviction of the house, which is known outside of Berlin aswell, Autonome showed their solidarity in Hamburg and Kopenhagen. In both cities leftradicals were fighting against the police on saturday night. Traditionally there is a big autonomous scene in both cities, leftradicals from northern germany and denmark participate regularly at protests in Berlin. In the district of St.Pauli and Altona stones and bottles got thrown at the cops. In front of the city council the cops used pepperspray and sticks to drift the protesters apart.

SOLIDARITY GATHERING HALKIDAS COURTS FRIDAY 18/2, 13:00

THE POSTER SAYS:

On the 17^th of September M.T., A.K. and M.O. are arrested for the case of the bank robbery at the National Bank of Greece at Psahna in Evia, the first two are imprisoned. Six months later another comrade, V.P., is added to the list of “suspects”. On Friday 18/2 at the courts of Halkida he is going to appear before the prosecutor accused as an accomplice.

The case is part of the general frame of prosecutions of anarchists based on fake accusations, pre-made cop scenarios, always of course with the help of the journalists who cant wait to throw mud and misinform, paving the ground for continuous persecutions and imprisonments of fighters.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TO COMRADES M.T. AND A.K. WHO ARE IMPRISONED FOR THE BANK ROBBERY IN PSAHNA AND STOP EVERY PROSECUTION AGAINST COMRADE M.O. WHO IS PERSECUTED FOR THE SAME CASE

NO NEW PROSECUTION

OF COMRADE V.P. WHO IS APPEARING BEFORE THE PROSECUTOR ON 18/2

SOLIDARITY GATHERING

HALKIDAS COURTS

FRIDAY 18/2, 13:00

Solidarity Assembly

Shell action in Solidarity with Rossport glasgow UK -Three BP petrol stations shutdown in Birmingham UK

 

Earth First! | 16.02.2011 

Today three BP petrol stations in the Quinton, Longbridge and Selly Park areas of Birmingham were shutdown.

The action was taken in response to BP's involvement in the Canadian Tar Sands, the role it played in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and more recently the joint venture with Russian energy firm Rosneft to exploit potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in Russia's Arctic shelf. The deal will result in the exploration of 125,000 square kilometers in three areas known as EPNZ 1, 2 and 3 located on the Russian Arctic continental shelf in the South Kara Sea. The deal will also see an Arctic technology center established in Russia which will develop technologies and engineering practices to make Arctic oil extraction easier. [1]

The pumps were all shut off after the safety switches were pushed up into the off position and a metal rod then inserted into the switch handle which was used to wrench it off, making it difficult to switch back on again. The doors were sprayed with the words "Climate Criminals"

One activist said "BP cannot be allowed to continue to destroy our planet for corporate greed. We will continue to fight back against them, and all other corporations that put profit before planet and people"


[1]  http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7066710

Earth First!

 

 

FROM:      http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/02/474259.html

Rossport solidarity glasgow | 16.02.2011 

Services were distrupted at the Shell garage on Alexandra Parade in Glasgow in solidarity with the approval of Shell's gas pipeline in Rossport, Ireland and to raise awareness about the crimes against humanity committed by Shell around the world.

The Shell garage on Alexandra Parade saw a group of activists with banners reading "Crack your pipe habit," "free Rossport," and "Shell to Hell" disrupting services for the afternoon with many drivers being turned away from the petrol station or choosing to go elsewhere themselves. The group gave leaflets to drivers entering the garage and passers by which highlighted Shell's plans to bring at least 1 trillion cubic feet of high-pressure gas from west coast County Mayo and pump it 9km inland through an inhabited area, risking people's lives.

The action was carried out in solidarity with the people of Rossport, whose lives are threatened by the high pressure pipeline which would go through their community to bring money to one of the most damaging companies in the world. Whilst the people of Ireland are being crippled by the cuts in public services, the corrupt government is giving away the country's natural resources to a company well known for environmental damage, disastrous accidents and human rights abuses. The action was also done to highlight other atrocities committed against people and the environment by Shell, such as the Niger Delta and the tar sands in Canada.

People around the world are resisting by defending their communities and environment against Shell.

Rossport solidarity glasgow

Atos attacked- Nottingham U.K

FROM:       http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/955

Published: February 16, 2011 18:30 by Some Angry People 

Tagged as: atos disability repression
Neighbourhoods: beeston

On Sunday Night, windows were smashed at Atos Origin offices in Beeston. Also, a graffitti message reading "Atos profits from oppression" was left on the entrance to the site. Atos is responsible for designing and implementing the tests used to determine eligability for incapacity benefits etc, and so this was an act of solidarity with all those who have had their lives turned upside down by being thrown off their benefits. Atos make a profit out of our misery.
As the government increasingly pushes its ruthless agenda in cuts to social welfare, it is companies such as Atos who are paid to do the dirty work. We are being forced into work, to chain ourselves to an unstable, exploitative and inhuman labour market that makes us ill. It will always be politicians and business owners who benefit from our wage slavery. Poeple who refuse, or are unable, to be pliant and flexible workers are being punished for not conforming to the demands of the economic system, and it is from this oppression that companies such as Atos profit.

We believe that the work that healthcare professionals carry out for Atos is in direct conflict with the duty of care that should be shown to people in need of medical help. Atos' money has paid for their ethics to be put aside so that profit can be made for the company at the expense of people's health.

Atos are becoming experts in the business of identifying groups to contain and exclude them. They were one of the groups who tendered for the government's ID cards contracts whilst the scheme was still going ahead.

This is a message to Atos and other companies who profit from this system of denial and abuse that our rage will bring down your empires.

Viva l'anarchia! 150 years of anarchism and revolt in Italy bristol u.k.

12/13 Kings Square/ jamaica st.

Anti-info weekend about anarchist struggle in the past and present in Italy and beyond.

Saturday 19th (3 till 8pm)

Meet, drink tea, enjoy the zines/texts and nice tunes.
beginning with the text Viva l'anarchia! we will discover , discuss , listen and share the rich and passionate anarchist past in Italy. We will begin to relate its relevance and consequences to the present day struggle.

Afterwards we will enjoy gourmet food and documentaries!

Sunday 20th (3 to 8 pm)

To follow up from saturday we will continue to reflect and explore how anarchist struggle in Italy, past actions, ideas and individuals are actually significant to todays struggle, not just in Italy but everywhere.

Afterwards we will delight our tastebuds with Italian food and watch films about anarchist struggle in the present day .

UPDATE ON C.C.F. TRIAL 15/2/2011

The application of exception that was submitted by the four comrades of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire against the regular and surrogate judges was rejected today by the three-member Court of appeal of felonies of Athens, that sat today with a different composition.

The advocates of the three defendants (Emmanuel Giospas, Nikos Vogiatzakis and Errikos Rallis) who are free under conditions, as well as the lawyer of the imprisoned Alexandros Mitrousias repeated their demands against the members of the court, which they ascribe a series of procedural infringements for the decisions they have taken regarding the retaining of the identities of people that enter the court, in order to watch the trial, the non recording of the procedure, on the self appointed nomination of advocates of defence and the sending of the proceedings to the prosecutors office and the Lawyer's Association of Athens.

The court decided that no suspicions exist of partiality at the expense of the defendants from the regular and surrogate judges. Thus, the trial was adjourned until next Tuesday 22/2

SOLIDARITY GATHERING HALKIDAS COURTS FRIDAY 18/2, 13:00

 THE POSTER SAYS:

On the 17^th of September M.T., A.K. and M.O. are arrested for the case of the bank robbery at the National Bank of Greece at Psahna in Evia, the first two are imprisoned. Six months later another comrade, V.P., is added to the list of “suspects”. On Friday 18/2 at the courts of Halkida he is going to appear before the prosecutor accused as an accomplice.

The case is part of the general frame of prosecutions of anarchists based on fake accusations, pre-made cop scenarios, always of course with the help of the journalists who cant wait to throw mud and misinform, paving the ground for continuous persecutions and imprisonments of fighters.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TO COMRADES M.T. AND A.K. WHO ARE IMPRISONED FOR THE BANK ROBBERY IN PSAHNA AND STOP EVERY PROSECUTION AGAINST COMRADE M.O. WHO IS PERSECUTED FOR THE SAME CASE

NO NEW PROSECUTION

OF COMRADE V.P. WHO IS APPEARING BEFORE THE PROSECUTOR ON 18/2

SOLIDARITY GATHERING

HALKIDAS COURTS

FRIDAY 18/2, 13:00

Solidarity Assembly

Informal Anarchist Federation / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire-responsibility claim for the incendiary package send to the minister of justice in greece 2/2

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I do not feel loss for my arrest…

I do not feel loss for the clandestinity …

I do not feel loss that I am imprisoned…

I do not feel loss for the Struggle that we conduct…

(Michalis Nikolopoulos member of the prisoned cell of C.C.F)

The real defeat in a war is not captivity in the hands of the enemy, but capitulation, loss of conscience, surrender, penitence, statements of loyalty. Because that is where the game of power is played, in the moral decline and depreciation of its dissident opponents. It wants to force rebels to bend, to kneel, to conciliate to make clear that “every struggle is lost, all resistance is useless” . However the only lost fight is the one that never began. Its commands are clear. “You must not think, you must not resist, you must not fight”. And where its rhetoric does not work, either with the illusion of consuming frenzy, or with the threat of the violence of truncheons, guns and tear gas, there are the judicial “clergies” and correctional establishments ready “to accommodate” the most undisciplined for an indefinite time. They also want to send this message “we decide and we give the orders” inside the special political martial court that is judging the case of the revolutionary organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. 
 There is no need for somebody to be an anti-authoritarian in order to see the overt fascism that prevails in the special court of Koridalos prison. The refusal to  install microphones for the recording of the trial and the fact that the cops hold all the identities of the people who want to express their solidarity and stand next to the defendants are the “virtues” of the admirable world of democracy. Those that with their predatory appetites have “mortgaged” the life of an entire population, now speak about the “unsustainable cost of recording the trial” while simultaneously they are restoring in modern history the publication of new testimonial beliefs, by keeping the identities of the people that want to attend the trial, obviously in order to use them in no “innocent” way, but for the input of the Police and the Counter-terrorist department.
We will be brief.


The comrades of the cell of the imprisoned members of C.C.F and the dignified rebels P. Masouras and G. Karagianidis have highlighted the political and repressive policies of this trial a thousand times better than us.

The essential wager that is being played at this moment on the part of the anarchists, revolutionaries, those in solidarity and undisciplined is to not allow power to make one more step towards strengthening its coup d'etat. 
The cell of the imprisoned members of C.C.F and the dignified comrades placed a limit of life and dignity by beginning a HUNGER STRIKE on 3-2-2011. “This struggle is given, not for a precarious victory in this court, but in order for it to be imposed as an non-negotiable term in all the political trials that will follow, the possibility of the unhindered attendance by all the people who want to express their solidarity. A fight that comes to a peak with the start of the hunger strike”(Gerasimos Tsakalos- Michalis Nikolopoulos - members of the cell of prisoned members of C.C.F) The comrades turned the court of power into a victory not only for the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire but also for the wider revolutionary front. Everything that happened and everything that will happen constitutes the new legacy of courts and prosecutions that the system is preparing for its political opponents.
Comrades…! in this court is being conducted one of the most important battles that goes far beyond the action and history of a revolutionary organization. The state “tests” the resistance and tolerance of the radical-subversive area.

Certain coincidences, such as the facility with which the police and the public prosecutors fill the TV screens and the front pages of the newspapers with photographs of suspects, where it is proved afterwards that these persons, such as the anarchist Fee Meyer or K.S. that was arrested as a suspect for a robbery in Thessaloniki and turn out to have no relation with these “charges” against them, are not accidental. (We add that for that particular robbery the anarchist Rami Surianos was arrested and for sure if he is innocent he deserves our solidarity, if guilty he deserve it a thousand times more). The new fashion of arrests of persons that are accused for unknown-anonymous terrorist groups, such as the case of the 6 and the arrest of the 4 comrades in Thessaloniki, is also not accidental.
This witticism of the unknown-anonymous terrorist tgroup, as anyone can understand, is an “elastic argument” that stretches and opens depending on the appetites and interests of power and the law enforcement authorities in order to justify the huge increase in future charges (special provisions of terrorism law). 

It was heard from the public prosecutor that in the case of F. Meyer “it is not reasonable to possess texts written by suspects for terrorism”. That is to say the possession of texts that are already published, that contain thoughts, concerns, proposals, regardless whether somebody agrees or not, is considered a punishable offence. Thus perhaps the season of the thought police is not far away. We must not forget that what gets used by the eye, gets used by the brain as well. Anyone can remember the reactions that existed to the first special court years ago for the R.O. 17November, and compare them with the present trial. Now the fact that special courts exist seems to be normal and only a few react (a fact that honours them).

Here exactly we must pass to the counter-attack. Exactly here we must stop getting used to retreating. Exactly here we must stop fearing the ghost of repression. The repression exists because action exists. Qualitative, quantitative and unrepentant action.
The imprisoned members of C.C.F. and the dignified comrades sparked something off. Our brothers from Thessaloniki of the case of the 4 together with G. Skoyloudis as well as Stelios and Panos Anastasiadis (the NADIR case) turned their solidarity into action by participating in the abstention from taking prison food. Here we want to add that the 4 comrades D. Dimtsiadis, D. Fessas, M. Tsilianidis, S. Tzifkas gave “lessons” in revolutionary dignity, disdaining and offending the judiciaries with their proud attitude as they did not give one word, refusing to recognize the process. We remind them that they are always in our thoughts and that the dangerous journey of revolution has not finished…
Now it is our time. We, “the free”, all of us, anarchists and revolutionaries that say that we refuse this world, that we are fighting for freedom, that we are demolishing their false god that is money because ours is the human being, will we leave our comrades alone? Will we tolerate the fascist delirium of this worthless president (of the court) and her collaborators that pronounce “death” sentences for the comrades that go on hunger strike?

There is no need for anyone to answer to himself with emotion. There is no space for emotion, or for humanitarian sympathies. It is a matter of a clear conscience. If the values and the moral code of persons that still believe in anarchy and her beauty, allows them to delay their attack and make up excuses, they should stay away from the affair We will not wait for them neither will history ….
Now or never there is a need for our most decisive step. We say again that here is being played a total wager from the side of power. The development and the way in which the court of C.C.F turns out will be the guide for the trials to come. What remains unanswered will be considered a defeat. Their wager is in our hand, to make it our opportunity. Because times can be hard, our brothers can risk their lives with the hunger strike, many comrades can be imprisoned in the cells of democracy, however it is always one more chance for attack, for the destruction of this system. Of course, the need for strategy is now more clear than never before. Lightning never travels in straight repetitive lines. It bursts out suddenly. Even a phenomenal “silence”, is not a retreat, but the silence before the thunder…

As a minimal expression of solidarity to the struggle of the imprisoned members of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and the dignified comrades we sent an incendiary package to the minister of Justice X. Kastanidi who is responsible for the refusal of one of the two requirements of our comrades for the recording of the transcript of the trial. We will not answer his lies concerning the quantity of allegedly powerful explosives that he claimed for reasons of communication policy in order to present himself as victim. We will make do with repeating that the precautionary measures were the same as those of the previous 14 packets so that it is impossible for anyone uninvolved to be injured.

Moreover, we want to say a few things about the recent events in the Law faculty.
This is the season of murderers. When the walls of a building have more value than 300 tortured souls, then it is sure that something is not going well. We have spoken about the contradictions of immigrants in a previous text, however when the majority of Greek society cares more about the windows and doors of a building, then do not search for criminals and murderers in the thieves and the desperate. Look around you, they speak the Greek language fluently and some go around in expensive cars wearing ties. Because you should know that when somebody is cruel in words, it rarely stops there ..

Finally we declare that from now the illegal sector of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire will also participate in the International Revolutionary Front - Informal Anarchist Federation. The explosive expression of solidarity at international level for the trial of C.C.F. and also the publications that put organizations such as the FLT-FLA (Mexico) and Praxedis G. Guerrero in their texts, we consider that they initiate powerful bases for the opening of a revolutionary dialogue through action, but also proposals of co-ordination.
We send therefore the most powerful revolutionary greeting to the comrades revolutionaries in all the world with the belief that our voices and action can meet and coordinate our total attack against power. 

The sabotages in Turkey and the attacks of the informal cells of insurrection, the attacks in Chile, the letters with bullets in Madrid and Barcelona, the paint bombs on the Greek embassy in Austria, the arson of courts in Switzerland, the acts of solidarity in Poland, in Bristol, in London, but also in other places- heart of the capitalistic civilization (sources of counter - information culmine, viva la anarquia, act for freedom, 325, safa.espiv e.t.c.) fill us with strength and courage in order to continue. And not only, but also in order to commit through our participation in the Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front that the quiet days are over for ever.

At the same moment the internal enemy in Greece, is developing, becoming more effective and is organizing for its confrontation with the system. The attacks of the International Revolutionary Front - Deviant Behaviour for the spread of revolutionary terrorism, Informal Anarchist Federation - Cell of Aggressive Line, Informal Anarchist Federation - Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity, Warriors of Revolutionary Conscience, commando Lambros Fountas, revolutionary formations for the spread of chaos and other comrades, show that the prospect of international networking in the formation of the Informal Anarchist Federation and its values is effective here and now. Now every anarchist group can participate in this open platform of action and thought, contributing with its own way in its development and co-ordination. Also we send our warm solidarity to the anarchists Monica Caballero and Andrea Urzua Cid who are to be found in the women's prisons of Chile and to all the arrested for the bombs - case, to the anarchists Adrian Magdaleno and Braulio Arturo Duran (jailed in Mexico), to our brother Gabriel Pombo Da Silva in prison of Germany and to Billy, Costa, Silvia, M. Camenich (prisons of Switzerland).

Finally we embrace our own people, Michalis, Gerasimos, Panagiotis, Xaris, Takis, we grit our teeth and give them this promise and commitment:

As long as the sun rises from the east we will not stop fighting for your release even for a moment, to be all together again in the most beautiful plans that we left unfinished in order to fulfil the most wild and “mad” adventure of revolution. Our day will come...

We dedicate you these few words to you...

“Love danger. What hardre? That is what I want.
Which road will you take? The most rugged uphill.
Love responsibility
Do not look for friends, look for comrades.
Do not ask “will we win?”... “will we be defeated?”... just FIGHT...”

Illegal sector
Informal Anarchist Federation / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire




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