Saturday, June 26, 2010

Explosion in Ministers office in Athens.24/6. time around 20:00

ATHENS  GREECE NOW...





According to the media a heavy bomb went off in Mihalis Chrisohoidis (minister of citizens protection) office on the 7th floor of the ministry building around 20.00 tonight local time. According to the same sources, it was a parcel bomb that was sent to his office. The parcel managed to pass through metal and explosive detectors in the capitals safest building as they call it. From the explosion part of the building collapsed. The explosion occured when the minister's adjutant was unwrapping the parcel. He died from the explosion. Its the first of this kind of attacks in greece as there was no warning phonecall.

THE BANNER SAYS: NO TO STATE REPRESSION FREEDOM TO ARIS!

LETTER FROM ARIS SIRINIDIS ANARCHIST COMRADE

The text that was read on behalf of Aris Seirinidis at the concert in Exarchia square on the 25th of june against state oppression.

Urban democracy has always tried to hide its identity. The sonorous constitutional orders about freedom and equality, the pompous statements of human rights, the providence for the socially weak, even the invocation of a revolution as a founding myth, constituted their ideological nutshell, inside of which the urban-democratic state diachronically smoothed and defused the deep class contrasts,that it expressed. The periodical excerbation of these contrasts, the intensity of conflicts, the revolts, but also the innate contrasts of the capitalist system itself teared the humanistic cover of the state and revealed the feigned and coincidental character of democracy. It was the moment state oppression, as a constant threat and as a reality, recieved its position there were the rest of the manipulative machanisms had failed.
The state undressed of the cloak of the social and revealed without restrains its character, as the main tool of class authority.
Especially in regard of the greek state, its position in the world distribution, made it bring less humanitarian alibis compared to the adanced capitalist ones: from the constable and the certificates of beliefs of the post civilwar period, to the non-existent social expenses, the scimming an the fraud of the socialist management, the greek state never achieved to hide its antisocial character.
Traditionally hard for it to acquire social legalisation, the greek state finds itself today also confronting its budgetary bankruptcy. Today, that the suburban "sandcastle" of consumerist prosperity of the last two decades is shattered by the waves of poverty, unemployment seediness, raw, without pretexts, repression comes into the daily provision: on one side as a mean to manage poverty and on the other side as a mean of revenge against anyone who dares to resist. The state imprisons, mutilates, murders and pushes fighters to death.
In its vengefull fury it cannot, however, hide its panic infront of the possibility of the transformation of the generalized social rage into a social revolt.

We stand in solidarity to our hostages, we give strength to our wounded ones, honour our dead and continue!

From Koridallos prison, the ultimate expression of state terrorism, i send my fighting greetings to todays event-barricade against state oppression, aswell as Exarheia, the diachronical laboratory of the struggle for social liberation.

Aris Seirinidis
1st wing Koridallos prisons

Friday, June 25, 2010

Vandalism disrupts Oxford-London trains

DAMAGE caused by vandalism in west London in causing major disruption to Rail services between Oxfordshire and the capital.

First Great Western is warning passengers that problems are likely to continue until late this evening after signal equipment was damaged at West Drayton and is advising passengers leaving London to travel from Marylebone station, using Chiltern Railways services to Oxforshire, or from Waterloo station, using South West Trains services to Reading, where they will be able to change for onward services to Didcot and Oxford.

Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry Trains and South West Trains are accepting FGW tickets on all reasonable routes. from signalfire blog

HANIA CRETE


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Yesterday 24/6 morning on tzanakaki street outside "papadopetrou" building, a gathering was set up against the states attempt to destroy comrade Simos Seisidis physically and psychologically. All during the gathering flyers with information about the comrades case were given out.

NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

No comrade stays alone
Immediate release of Simos Seisidis assembly of anarchists/antiauthoritarians "saltathoroi"

Greek'' Guantanamo'' 25/6




Three prisoners dead within two weeks in Felios prison in Grevena penitentiary.
Theres one 51yearold bulgarian that died of a heart attack and two greeks, one 26year old that died from drug use and a 34year old that died of heart attack aswell.
These prisons were built for 600 prisoners maximum and now has about 650 and without medical facilities and a rehab center.

FIRE TO THE PRISONS

Thursday, June 24, 2010

SANTA CRUZ -- An arsonist or arsonists set five cars ablaze early Sunday in a potentially dangerous crime with no clear motive.




Investigators are probing whether the rash of Eastside arsons is connected to recent suspicious car fires on the Westside and in Aptos.

Sunday's fires, reported between 2:50 and 3:30 a.m., destroyed BMW, Jaguar and Acura sedans, a Honda Passport and a Toyota pickup, police said. The vehicles were parked on Market Street, Grunewald Court, Branciforte Drive and Grant Street.

On Branciforte Drive, flames from the Acura leapt into a tree feet away from a propane tank. And on Market Street, a fire in the Passport came within about 9 feet of the home, police said.

"This is an unusual act of vandalism," Capt. Steve Clark said. "And it's very frightening to have someone light your car on fire in front of your house. Not only is there the costly damage to the car, but the potential for residual damage and injury."

One DEAD in Athens from Bomb explosion in Ministry of Public order


Minister of Public order Hrysohoidis

One DEAD in Athens from Bomb explosion in Ministry of Public order next to the office of Mr Hrysohoidis , Minister of public order a bomb explodion in parcel had as result the destruction of most of the 7th floor of the ministry of public order. Minister Hrysohoidis was not injured but one of his close asociates and partner is Dead his name is Giorgos Vasilakis (probably)

Update on imprisoned comrades in Greece 17/06



-On June 8th Polikarpos Georgiadis was transferred with no warning to Kerkura prisons. These prisons were built in the 19th century(!)

in the Bentham panopticon (disambiguation) prototype with 10 wings around the main round administration building. They are of course known for their awful conditions and are considered one of the hardest prisons in Greece.
Polikarpos Georgiadis
Closed Prison of Kerkura
TK 49100
Kerkura [ Corfu]

-About 10 days ago Pola Roupa was transferred from Thiva prison to Korridalos female prison because of her pregnancy and because she will soon give birth.

Strength and Freedom to all comrades in the hellholes of democracy, especially strength and condolences to Aris Seirinidis for the loss of his father and our comrade Kostas.

The struggle inside and outside the cells continues...

...boubourAs translations...

The Polish comrade Michal Pawlak was released from prison Wednesday 9 / 6.
The release of our comrade gives us courage and strength to continue.
The Social and class Struggle cannot be imprisoned or suppressed.
We will continue until all comrades and all of us free ourselves from the prison of power and capitalism.

THE STRUGGLE Continues!!
Athens 14/6

For Comrade Kostas, father of Aris Sirinidis


Kostas was everywhere. In the street, on the side of the oppressed, the political prisoners, all those that are being chased by the state. A clean and honest presence of those that will be missed in society. This is why he couldn't accept the sad story that was set up against his son. Aris arrest, the attempt by cops and journalists to connect the 34 year old with a army robbery (besides the fact that there was proof all along that showed that he has nothing to do with it). His ten-day detainment in g.a.d.a. and his imprisonment without any evidence as "the crazy one with the sombrero and sandals" that shot against the riotcop van.

It was the last and most crucial of Kostas' struggles, who didn't see his son free.
farewell comrade.

...boubourAs translations...

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Terminal 119 & Cafe Morgenland [ June / 2010]

Terminal 119 & Cafe Morgenland  [ June / 2010]



When the knife comes out of the bag...

"When a woman kills her rapist, then the result of this action is not that we have a murderer on one side and a victim on the other, but we have a dead person on one side and a free person on the other"

On Sunday June 6th, two teenagers, 15 and 16 years old, met up in the village of Kerkini in Serres (northern Greece) to find some money to put their plan to leave their "troubled family environment" into effect, as they said in their testimonies to the interrogator. There they met a friend of one of the girl's grandfather who promised to help them financially as long as they pleased his sexual appetites. When the two girls refused to make the deal he tried to harrass them and started touching them. The two young women, two young kids in reality that didn't act within the predetermined framework, carrying for self protection a small knife, pulled it out and started stabbing him to get him off them. The 80-year-old died. The girls were arrested and today are imprisoned after the common agreement of the prosecutor and district attorney in Nigrita police station. They are waiting there to be transferred to a juvenile prison, accused of murder and robbery since they took ten euro from him when they tried to leave.

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With this article we would like to declare our unconditional solidarity to the two young girls and ask for an investigation to start in the village of Kerkini Serron because this case only came up now and this is usually only the tip of the iceberg.
-IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE TWO GIRLS, 15 AND 16 YEARS OLD!!


Terminal 119 – For social and individual autonomy
Café Morgenland

boubourAs tranlations

Paris - Some reflections still hot from the reactionary riots in Belleville


Tuesday 23 June 2009

All the versions of this article: [English] [français]

Coming back from a not very country walk, we went into the Belleville quartier in Paris. Hours earlier, a demonstration had started to denounce, in the words of the organizers: "The chronic abuse suffered by the Chinese community". The reason: Bags snatched, assault, etc. A demonstration with quite reactionary overtones, as evidenced by the slogans shouted and inscribed on the banners and placards: "Safety for Everyone", "Long live citizenship", "stop crime", French flags, Chinese and European anthems. It is not clear what violence they are talking about (having been more accustomed to the phenomena of violence within the community which will be discussed later), but we will understand later what was behind this event.

After the official end of the demonstration, the atmosphere is very hot there, people are flocking, trucks of cops arrive en masse. On all sides we hear the sound of fighting, then a torrent of violence is unleashed on the cops attacked in a melee by hundreds of unarmed people, they throw eggs, stones and glass bottles. Cars are overturned, CRS [anti-riot cops] are charged and are forced to retreat. Faced with this explosion of anti-cop violence, we almost enter the dance, but wait, out of "ethical prudence".

All of a sudden people start running. We believe that everyone is fleeing yet another load of cops, but we realize very quickly that it is something else. Demonstrators are chasing kids, that they are calling "blacks and Arabs", by throwing glass bottles. One of the kids falls down, and tries to hide under the porch of a doorway. Running to their side, we have to calm the fury of the lynch mob. They let go this time. We understand, listening to conversations: that "the cops don’t do their job, leaving thieves at large, the protesters have decided to take matters in hand and avenge themselves." We also understand that everything started from the theft of the handbag of a demonstrator by a kid in the neighborhood, then the attempt by protesters to deliver the kid to the cops, who did not want him. It is from here that the demonstrators unchained their violence against the cops. Unrestrained violence, such as one was not used to seeing. Violence to punish the cops for not doing their job well enough.
The cops decide to retreat, flooding the place under a thick cloud of teargas fired into the crowd. More than fifty cop vehicles disappear in the blink of an eye, just as the violence was beginning to reach a peak.

Clearly, the cops decided to abandon the place to let the inter-community violence unfold, while an hour earlier it was against the cops that everyone was insisting. This then led to a ballet between three to four hundred members of the Chinese community and some black and Arab kids, sometimes beaten to the ground by dozens of people and accused in a rush of being thieves, in front of thirsty journacops having smelt the smell of blood and large-titles, good scavengers that they are. But at the time of writing, nothing definite has yet emerged in the media about what really happened. We have seen some sort of makeshift militias, bringing together over a hundred Asians, to the neighbouring estate to beat up black and Arab people in a man-hunt reminiscent of the pogroms.

During the riots, we felt in Chinese rioters a fierce hatred against the "thieves". For example, after an unmarked police car was overturned, and its lights broken off, people began searching the trunk, immediately taken to task and being lynched, accused of being thieves by the very people who had upturned car. Suffice it to say that we didn’t understand anything at this point.

This hot afternoon, and the events that marked it, seem to foreshadow a civil war scenario that is developing here and there, in these times of "crisis". The attitude of the police reinforces this impression, they left the scene when they felt the anger against them was being replaced with ethnic hatred between people. We can imagine that for the prefect a good racist riot is preferable to a riot directed against the cops and other State symbols and capital (banks and McDonald’s are intact). Basically what need is there for a police presence in a riot against "offenders"? Note that every week, Chinese people are round up in dozens by the cops, to general indifference, without a single demonstration being called. Similarly, we never hear any of protest against the exploitation of Chinese people by other Chinese. That violence there, exploitation, is never denounced. Powerless and sad in the face of this shameful spectacle, we still want to express some clear positions.

This day showed that not all riots are good, despite what some a few hooligans and nihilists still believe, by their advocacy of civil war. In addition, we believe it is necessary to abandon the war between the poor, between ethnic groups and between all imagined communities, between all equally imaginary social roles "honest Chinese workers" against "Arab thieves".
The social war is not war of all against all, but the war of who has always opposed power over all those who are against it.

Again and again, we will have to fight against nationalist, ethnic, communal, religious and political cancers.

Anarchists.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Montréal - Attack in Solidarity with the 3 Arrested in Ottawa



Yesterday morning the police arrested 3 people in Ottawa, saying that they are our dear ones, the FFFC.
Yesterday evening, we broke windows and wrote our solidarity on the wall of the RBC on Sherbrooke, corner Victoria.
Innocent or guilty, we are in solidarity with the arresteds.
Fuck the banks. Fuck the police. Fuck the prisons.
No repression without response.
Solidarity means attack.

-The Support Committee – Night Tendency


Hier matin la police a arrêté 3 gens à Ottawa, disant qu’ils sonts nos chéris, le FFFC.
Hier soir, on a cassé des vitres et écrit notre solidarité sur le mur du RBC sur Sherbrooke, coin Victoria.
Innocents ou coupables, on est solidaire avec les arrêtés.
Fuck les banques. Fuck la police. Fuck les prisons.
Aucun répression sans réponse.
La solidarité, ca va dire l’attaque.

-Le comité de soutien – Tendance de la nuit

Carlo Giuliani

undefinedWe haven’t forgiven the death of Carlo Giuliani; an Italian activist born in 1978, he was one of millions of protesters who participated in the Genoa’s demos against the G8 leaders’ violence. Comrades had witnessed his assassination by Italian riot police’s Carabinieri in 20 July 2001.

After nine years, still no justice is served. Just this year, 2010, the case ‘Giuliani and Gaggio v. Italy’ was referred to the Court’s Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. If you follow the link above, you’ll read the outraging summary description of so-called ‘Principal facts’, including: ‘As to the officer who had fired the fatal shot, the judge took the view that he had fired into the air without intent to kill and that he had in any event acted in self-defense in response to the violent attack on him and his colleagues (sequence of photos of the Giuliani’s mord here).

What does this remind us of? Statements made from Greek authorities in regard of the assassination of Alexis Grigoropoulos, which led to December 2008 Uprising in Greece. Alexis Kougias, the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, the police special guard who shot dead the teenager in Exarchia, central Athens, in 6 December 2008, argued in court that the fatal bullet was fired into the air and not toward the victim.

Dallas Court attacked by migrant solidarity protestors

Manchester and Salford’s immigration reporting centre for people seeking asylum was attacked in the early hours of this morning by protestors. A group broke into the car park at Dallas Court where they sabotaged the vehicles used by the UK Border Agency’s notorious ’snatch squads’.

image by stephenbroadhurst on flickr

According to reports, the vans were immobilised and defaced with spray paint, while the access gate to the car park was also put out of action. Stickers reading “This vehicle has been tampered with” were left at the scene to notify staff.

In a statement the group said: “The action was taken in solidarity with detainee resistance. In the past months media reports have covered the hunger strikes in Yarl’s Wood, protests in Harmondsworth and struggles against chartered deportation flights. These are acts of resistance against an arbitrary system of control and surveillance policed by the UK Home Office and European immigration authorities.”

Dallas Court is home to officials from the UK Border Agency. The snatch squads which operate from the centre often head out in blacked-out vans early in the morning to detain those asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected. They are known for kicking in doors before the children go to school in order to catch the entire family at once. Asylum seekers are also made to sign in at Dallas Court at regular intervals, not knowing whether or not they will be detained on the spot.

When arrested, detainees are taken to detention centres such as nearby Pennine House, the holding facility at Manchester Airport, where they wait indefinitely until their cases are resolved. After long periods of incarceration, despite having committed no crime and having had no trial or sentence, most detainees can expect deportation back to the countries from which they fled.

This is the second time in recent years that Dallas Court has been targeted by campaigners seeking to obstruct dawn raids and disrupt the centre’s day-to-day activities, which today’s protestors described as a symbol of the “constant uncertainty and fear” that asylum seekers and migrants live under.

They said: “Every person has the right to fight against these conditions irrespective of circumstance, and as long as these policies exist people will struggle against them. New arbitrary controls such as the immigration cap proposed by the new government will only intensify resistance. Such resistance will centre on the frontline of border security at sites like Dallas Court and Pennine House.”

Monday, June 21, 2010

San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina - One dead after residents attack police station for murder of 15 year old by by policeman

2 DEAD FROM COPS!! IN ARGENTINA! MORE NEWS SOON...................

Friday, 18 June 2010


Indymedia Argentina

Violent clashes between police and protesters left a toll of the death of a man of 29 years and one serious injury. It was when residents attacked a police station after the death of a 15 years old at the hands of a policeman.
The cold evening in San Carlos de Bariloche was shaken by violent riots that left one person dead and several arrests. It all started around 16 hours when a group of about 150 people, mostly teenagers, shouted "justice" for the death of a young man of 15 who died after being shot at while being chased by police. The alleged victim of trigger-happy Bonefoi was named Dario. The tension during the demonstration was to increase until the riots started. Black River Police fired teargas and rubber bullets against the crowd, while the group of protesters set fire to one vehicle that was parked outside a supermarket. Injured in the scuffle a 29 year old man, surnamed Cardenas, who died just after 18 hours at a local hospital. In addition, eight policemen were wounded, including the chief superintendent of Station 28.
Judge Martin Lozada, called for the alleged abuse by police, came to the home the first of the victims where the wake was taking place the boy and the family of the victim severely rebuked him. "I do not mind that guy has a criminal record, I care who killed him. It's a shame this happens, the police can not control a situation with teenagers," said a neighbor in the very face of the judge. At that time the mayor came to the scene but, in the face strong public questioning, had to retreat quickly.
Meanwhile, the father of Bonefoi called on people to stop what it called "a war." "Please, let's stop the violence, let us watch over the body of my son in peace," he said.
The riots began around near the Escuela 278, San Carlos de Bariloche Five districts were affected by the riots and rioters torched a car parked outside a supermarket.
City residents say there have been no similar acts of violence in the city Rio Negro. translate from angry news from around the world in english.


Video de la prensa argentina:

Video de la prensa chilena:

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Five teens, 13 to 15, charged with rioting, fighting with police


U.S.A 20/6

POUGHKEEPSIE – Five students have been charged by Poughkeepsie City Police with rioting following a melee near Poughkeepsie High School on Thursday.

Four boys and one girl, ages 13 to 15, were charges after police were called to the scene of a fight in the roadway at Fox Terrace and Edgar Street. When officers tried to arrest one boy who had refused to disperse and was inciting the crowd, he and other youths began attacking the officers.

The five taken into custody were arrested on charges ranging from riot to resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, attempted assault on a police officer and attempting to take an officer’s weapon. One had a box cutter on him.

All five were taken to Family Court. Two youths were sent to secure detention, but because of limited space, the other three were sent to a non-secure facility.

Germany - Cars in flames, bank attacked





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18 June 2010 - Spandau. A Corvette and a Volkswagen Passat were set alight. Unknown persons set fire early Friday morning, to two cars in Spandau. The Corvette and the Passat were both burnt out, the police reported. The sports and the middle class cars were both parked in the district Wilhelm city, but around two miles apart. Whether it was a politically motivated act was initially unclear
16 June 2010 - Berlin. On Wednesday night in old James Street two cars of the rail company DB were burnt. A parked Opel Astra Deutsche Bahn was set on fire on early Wednesday morning in Kreuzberg been by unknown persons. An adjacent VW Caddy was damaged in old James Street, as police said.
15 June 2010 - Hamburg. In the early hours of Tuesday unknown perpetrators set fire to eight cars in the Hohenfelde district. Another car was damaged by the heat radiation, as a spokesman of the Hamburg Fire communicates. No one was injured, according to the information.
Only on Monday also unknown set three medium size cars on fire. The cars were completely burnt out. Another vehicle was damaged by the flames. In these fires, no one was injured. Overall, this year more than 70 cars have been burnt in Hamburg, last year, about 150 cars were set on fire.
12 June 2010 - On Saturday morning unknown persons damaged a bank branch New Roßstraße, in the middle of the entrance and pelted it with by bottles filled with paint. A passerby alerted police at 3 o'clock.
In total, four windows were damaged by a small paving stone thrown at the entrance. The State Security Police at the State Office of Criminal Investigation has taken over the investigation.

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…”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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


Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".
NEW YEAR OUTSIDE IN KORRIDALOS PRISON 2011
Watch live streaming video from agitprop at livestream.com
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.


ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS IN GREECE


Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles

1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom

(December Riots in Greece)