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April 14, 2012
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Chile: Preparation of the oral trial against Luciano Tortuga begins

from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:

 

In light of the information, we make a call to the comrades close to Tortuga to inform us of how the judicial process against the comrade is going. Perhaps it is not necessary to inform day by day, but rather by weekly update.

The dates of the hearing is all that we could retrieve from the press, due to all their vengeful morbidity and their support of the prosecution.

The past March 20, the hearing was postponed, this at the request of Luciano’s defense, saying that some experts were missing. On that day, the hearing was set for this April 11th.

Yesterday, Wednesday April 11, the hearing for the preparation of the oral trial against the comrade happened in the 7th Warranty Court of Santiago, located in the Justice Center.

The preparation of the oral trial, is the legal step where the Prosecution presents the evidence and witnesses with which they intend to carry out the trial. Which then afterwards the defense also does. It is at this time that the judge determines which evidence and witnesses are omitted.

At around 10 AM, the hearing began with the Southern Prosecution, represented by the prosecutor Raúl Guzman, reviewing the evidence and witnesses’ testimony.
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April 14, 2012
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Urgent: International Call for Solidarity to Billy’s Health (Indonesia)

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“Most of all, this is an attempt to send me your hug. Coz I send many greetings for you guys.”Billy Augustan

We are asking for donations and solidarity for our brother, Billy Augustan (proud member of Long Live Luciano Tortuga Cell – FAI Indonesia). As many of you know that he was detained since last year (with our brother and camerad Reyhard Rumbayan a.k.a Eat) by the pigs for a political action by setting fire to ATM belonging to BRI Bank in Jogjakayarta. He is still being held and is currently on trial.

Last year in June 2011, Billy was in a motor accident. He was admitted to the hospital with a fractured skull and concussion. He left the hospital after 3 days because of misdiagnosis and poor medical treatment. After leaving the hospital he saw a specialist who stated he appeared to be alright but to IMMEDIATELY seek medical attention from a specialist if he was to have any symptoms or pain later.

Now, for 2-3 weeks Billy has complained of frequent and severe headaches. He is also experiencing blurred vision and extreme pressure build-up, and his neck loses circulation from time to time. Due to these symptoms he’s having great difficulty sleeping, writing, reading and seeing, and they seem to be getting rapidly worse as time goes by. And like all of us knew that the medical care in prison is a nightmare…

That’s why we call an international solidarity and donation to help Billy.

Here’s our step by step list of what needs to happen in order for Billy to get the medical attention he urgently needs:

EXPENSES:
1. Pay Guards
2. Pay doctor at in-house clinic for consultation and referral letter
3. Get referral letter to a specialist (this will also cost us money and
we will most likely have to find the specialist)
4. Pay to exit the jail or to have a doctor come there
5. Pay outside doctor
6. Pay for treatment

Thanks in advance for all your support and help. Any and all donations will go directly to these medical expenses. For more information or updates on his condition please contact: sandria.k(at)gmail.com

To send donations please send via paypal to: demonica22(at)gmail.com

Sincerely,

Friends and Family of Billy

April 13, 2012
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Anti-fascists pelt TV presenter with eggs and yogurt live on air after he promoted Neo-Nazi groups in local TV station of NW Greece

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Antifascists in Greece attacked with yogurts and eggs a TV News broadcaster, during a live TV interview, because a week before he hosted an interview with the representative of the greek Neo-Nazi party “Golden Dawn”.

It has to be reminded that the aforementioned fascist party was being supported in his emetic “manifesto” by the psychopath mass murderer Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway, where he murdered 69 people, mostly teenagers.

 

April 13, 2012
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Greece: Solidarity with the NO TAV movement from Corfu

Translated fromit.contrainfo.espiv.net by act for freedom now/B.pd

Yesterday evening, 10-4/2012, as comrades of the social centres of Corfu we organized a demo in the Georgaki piazza, projected a counter-information video, distributed texts and unfurled a banner. But why are we interested in the NO TAV movement? The Italian reality clearly presents many similarities with the Greek one.

In Greece (Papademos) as well as in Italy (Monti), the prime ministers are bankers. In both countries we are ‘fed’ the same lies concerning development as beneficial to society.
In fact their development, be it the TAV or the wind turbines on Mount Pantocratoras in Corfu, is crashing down people’s and nature’s life. The only benefit is for capital, as usual.

In fact these kinds of work are being done in favour of big contractors, which are the mafia in Italy, and big companies working in the public sector and controlling the media in Greece.
In fact the media play the same role everywhere, a role which has always been in favour of all bosses. The media defame and distort all social struggles. They split demonstrators into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. They try to turn public opinion against any movement, and they only offer the ‘truths’ of contractors.

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April 13, 2012
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Italy- NO TAV – Luca Abba’s letter to the resistance against expropriation land of 11th April


Translated from informa-azione by act for freedom now/B.pd

 

Here is another small contribution from me so that I feel closer to the mobilizations of the next days.

I ask you to be there, strong and determined as always, also on my behalf. I won’t be able to be present because I’m still hospitalized at the Cto in Turin.

 
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April 12, 2012
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Trial report of the process against Eat & Billy, members of Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell / FAI-IRF (Indonesia)

Important update: We got news about our brother Billy’s health. He’s sick and getting worse since the prison conditions are so bad. More details coming as soon as possible. Strength and health to Billy, united in struggle and affinity for insurrection. War against the existent…

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We received late news that the State continued the trial against our brothers (Eat & Billy). The fourth trial held in Friday 6, April 2012 in Sleman Courthouse (Yogyakarta). This trial itself showed that the State and Capital want to force the Anti-Terrorism Act as a tool of repression against the rise of new generation of anarchist urban guerrilla in Indonesia under the name of Revolutionary Organization – Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesian Section.

The lawyer who is appointed to stand next to our brothers in the trial declared that the State ignored the law itself by it’s denial to call the [so-called Anti-Terrorism'] expert and listening his statement. The reason behind this clearly is another form of State repression because the judges knew that the expert will give a statement which that can put aside all the “public opinion” why our brothers must be accused with the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Our brother, Billy also stated that the interrogators used violence to get the information from him. That all the statement signed by him is done caused by pressure by the pigs. He also said that the capture of himself showed the truth of his choice, it shows that the State (and all the tools it has) just have one single mission: to protect Capital.

In other side, our brother Eat made a statement that his capture by the State is ‘illegal’ in the view of their own laws because the pigs came and captured him without the right paperwork. He showed clearly how tragic is the State and the misery of life under it. But he declared that he never want to be trapped in the logic of laws or others similar. Eat stated that his choice always followed by consequences. That’s why he claimed the action and proudly stated he is a member of Long Live Luciano Tortuga Cell – Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesian Section.

This fourth trial was itself a starting point set by the State to try to make our brothers (Eat & Billy) declare against each others by separating the document papers and lawyers.

When we were still gathering all the information about the fourth trial, we got news that the trial continued Tuesday 10, April 2012. We still trying to get the details about the trial process and will update soon [the actual charges sought will be decided during this 10/4/12 trial].

No Combatants Will Left Alone
Burn Down The Prisons and Courts
Freedom for Eat & Billy
Long Live the R.O Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesian Section
Long Live the new generation of Urban Guerrillas

April 12, 2012
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Protest of Solidarity to those arrested on Friday (12/4 18:00) Nicosia-Cyprus

SOLIDARITY  CALL POSTER

Solidarity to the arrested / Nothing is over, everything continues

Protest on Thursday 12/4 at 18:00 Liberty Square (Pl. Eleftherias)

Student group Skapoula / those arrested/ others in solidarity / comrades

Freedom suffocates from the decisions of the powerful,the media strangle free thought, and imagination stops at the police’s batons.

On April 6th, at 10:30, special antiterrorist forces and other trained squads of the police entered the squatted social center within the green line with uncontrollable brutality, answering our questions with beating and pushing. When they realized that the majority of people there were underage, their behaviour reflected a systematic psychological violence, despite the fact that there was no resistance from the arrested. The attempt to excuse the raid came out to be false, since there was no warrant for a drug search, and there were also no requests from the building’s owners (Kykkos Monastery). After many hours of detainment at the Pyli Pafou police station, the arrested were accused of illegal entry without permission, an accusation that on its own is not an actual crime under the legal code, since there was no evidence of a purpose to commit a crime. Those who were beaten during their arrest were accused of resisting the police, assault and obstruction of police work, so that they could justify their own actions.

Is it logical to arrest, beat and kick out those who took a derelict, dead building and transformed it into a social center? A space that hosted a projection area, a self-organized cafe, a collective kitchen, a working out space, and recording station – for music and a radio station. A space that when we entered it, even the floors had holes, and yet despite this we did not undermine its historic value, the view of the sunset from the roof, and its unusual architecture. Filled with passion and energy, with a profound creativity, in one month we made the building able to host both people and various activites, and meanwhile we discovered that this attempt was a necessity for EVERY cypriot, as you expel the wounds from the invasion, materialistically and mentally, with creation upon the ruins. Throwing away the military’s sandbags, fixing the doors and the windows, filling up 40-year-old holes from bullets of automatic rifles, drawing around – and not on – the decomposition of the walls, as we do not forget the mental death caused by the invasion. We dare to give back life to everything they have stolen from us and we do refuse passiveness. We contest every piece of land, every building, and every human relationship. Not in theory, but in practice, a social example that surpassed the schedule of the leader’s ‘discussions’ and lived a reunification, proving that borders cannot keep us apart.

The media’s misinformation was based on photo-documents taken after the police’s invasion, and the building is projected as a ruin, which was infact caused by the actions of the police. A space that was built upon horizontal structures of collective participation faced the political authorities of the island, which is trying to destroy any social effort that does not come from its authoritarian structure (political parties/ state/ church). Due to the coming presidency of the European Union in Cyprus, any such social experiments do not fit in the image of a quite, lawful island that the cypriot state and the capital behind it want to present.
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April 12, 2012
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A letter from Tomo on the recent crackdown against anarchist comrades in Italy

On Thursday, March 29th, during the night, by order of the general prosecutor’s office of Perugia and the pubblico ministero (public prosecutor) Manuela Comodi, diverse house searches were carried out against four anarchists in various cities (Pisa, Ravenna, Genoa, etc.); different divisions of the carabiniers were mobilized, including the Anti-Crime Section from Bologna and the Anti-Subversion and Technical Investigations units of the Special Operations Group (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, ROS) from Rome.
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April 12, 2012
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Spain: Claim for various actions in Barcelona in solidarity with Greek comrades on hunger strike

“We want to forge a generation of wild youth, disposed to destroy the city and the capitalist economy. From the Barcelona suburbs, we make a call to the rest of the youth for you to assume the nihilist branch of anarchism, to investigate your perceptions and to unite, under a black anti-authoritarian fist, let’s subvert the old order. Let’s go beyond.”
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from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety, communique:

THE CITY FROM THE BOMBS WILL BURN ONCE AGAIN.

Metropolitan area of Barcelona.

Maresme Av:

- We claim the arson of two FedEx vans at 10:30 PM on February 4, 2011.
- We belatedly claim the arson of two luxury cars in the early hours of September 7-8th, 2011 at 10:50 PM.
- Also, on March 7, 2012, we claim the arson of a van of the Presegur security company.
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April 11, 2012
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CCF imprisoned member Michalis Nikolopoulos read the following political statement in the day 13 (Monday, April 2) of 2nd Halandri Case trial of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire- Athens

 Translated by Actforfreedomnow!/boubourAs

 

Gerasimos Arsenis is a recognized officer of authority. In his long
political career he has served as minister of Economics, Defence and
Education, while he has also run for the leadership of PASOK.
In a few words, across us is person of power whose decisions contributed
to the formation of today’s reality.

 

No one can forget the infamous “Arsenis law” which showed once more, that
schools are nothing more than intensive laboratories of serene and trained
subjects.

Institutionalised education is a structural value for the system of
authority. Its role is nodal for the manipulation and construction of
consciences of the young people…

It is the second link after family in the chain of submission, which
basically teaches the smooth integration of the individual into the social
factory of authority.

But arsenic knows very well that insubordination, disobedience, the
insurrection does not sit at desks, does not fit in class rooms, does not
accept indications.

The time when he served as minister (of education) and attempted to
realize his law, he met the total black refusal of many troublemakers of
the school community.

We could say a lot also about the rest of the actions Gerasimos Arsenis
carried out as a institutional political officer. But its time to get to
the substance.

We did not attack Arsenis, Hinofotis or Katseli for their political work
they produced in the past.

We attacked their choice to include themselves in the structures of
political authority which is one of the founding stones of the
authoritarian social machine.

We did not attack the symptom, but the illness.
The austerity measures, the economic crisis, the increase in oppression,
the changes in education, the economic poverty is nothing more than
symptoms of the illness called Democracy.

An illness which brings the existential poverty which flourishes in the
metropolises of modern western world, and the main role of which is to
function as a cover-up of the monstrous machine of capitalism.

Because like our organization had wrote in the communique which followed
the hit on parliament: “Capitalism is the boss and democracy is the public
spokesperson. We are not naïve to think that three hundred ‘chosen ones’
are in charge on their own in reality. Obviously they are the balance
managers, the suppliers of state checks, the ‘honourable ladies and
gentlemen”.

This is why as an Anarchist Revolutionary Organization had mentioned many
times in the past that we do not seek a better democracy. On the contrary,
we fight democracy just like we fight every authority system.

With our weapons we aim at the expressers of dominance, while at the same
time with our speech we apply intense critique on every behaviour which
reproduces, conserves and perpetuates the existence of the authoritarian
society.
We spread the new nihilism, anarcho-individualism, so much in the greek
land, as well as worldwide through the Informal Anarchist Federation and
the International Revolutionary front.

The new nihilism which will Exterminate the expressers of the system, will
rise the individual from the values of submission, apathy, consumption of
wage slavery, the whole spectrum of behaviours located in the larger part
of the social total.
The behaviours of compromise, misery, the vanity of a silent crowd.
A crowd which has learnt how to fall in love with window fronts, changing
their mood with the tv remote, blaming everyone else without ever looking
in the mirror and see their responsibilities for the world they built and
conserve.

A crowd that only know how to shout when their economic interests are at
stake, without even looking at the substance.

The substance for real free life. A life guided by the values of respect,
solidarity, friendship, understanding. The creation of an anarchist
culture which will toss away every form of authority from every human
relationship.

These things sound and are in the distance.
But on the paths we take we will remain intolerant in every battle,
prouder than ever.

Our day will come and until the completion of our target we Will Fight,
Will Fight, Will Fight.

Because we know, just like you do, that insurrectionist anarchy is and
will be the internal enemy of the regime. So you should be sure, all you
modern inquisitors of the juridical mafia that no matter how many years
you share out through your courtmartials you will never be able to
imprison the ideas of the Anarchist Revolution, you will never be able to
imprison the C.C.F.
Because a stream of ideas can never be imprisoned.

April 11, 2012
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Italy-With regard to a certain kind of solidarity- we publish some reflections from Juan and Alessio, anarchist prisoners currently detained following the repressive operation of 26th January against the NO TAV resistance.

 

translated from informa-azione by act for freedom now/B.pd

With regard to a certain kind of solidarity, we publish some reflections from Juan and Alessio, anarchist prisoners currently detained following  the repressive operation of 26th January against the NO TAV resistance.

Juan’s response to AUT AUT

I feel I must write to you, AUT AUT, I don’t want to write hypocrisies or lies.

I’m of the opinion that solidarity can be accepted or refused, most importantly it must have a minimum of coherence from my point of view.
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April 10, 2012
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Chile: Claim for bomb threat to the Greek embassy and death threats to Greek diplomats

from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety,

communique:

To ask for something from the State would be to recognize its authority over us. But knowing that there are imprisoned comrades who interact daily with the most brutal face of the enemy, we support those who demand dignity within and outside of the prisons, above all those who decide to risk their integrity fighting against power.

Our solidarity is offensive action. Therefore this week of April 9 we carried out a call alerting the Greek embassy in Chile of a false bomb. We also sent emails with death threats to Greek diplomats in Chile.
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April 10, 2012
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PERSONAL INFERNO – For a clearing of solidarity

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‘… I don’t want and don’t give solidarity,
Because I’m convinced that it is yet another chain
And because, like Ibsen, I believe that the one who is most alone is the stronger.’

Renzo Novatore – I’m also a Nihilist

PERSONAL INFERNO
For a clearing of solidarity
Invitation to Egoist nihilist action addressed to the comrades hit by the law of the State issued by society under the disguise of nun Manuela Comodi*.

No prayer!
No sign of abating!
The rebel who triumphs on his EGO knows, and he knows how many abysses his existence has. Alas! ‘There are too many abysses for the lonely ones’ Zarathustra used to say

No prayer!

No profession of faith or creed for the lonely one!

No fanatic religious solidarity for the lonely one!

No prayer or rosary!

This is the path, the non-path!
So rise up you single vagabonds of the Ego!
Do not kneel down!
If you die your soul will die even before your body!

Do not pray!

‘I am a guardrail on the flow: those who can, take me.’
So your EGO speaks!
‘But I am not your crutch’

Do not trust man Christ recommended! I add, not even God!
Trust yourself!
Do not beg!

To the comrades of Culmine and Parole Armate
Edizioni Cerbero – Maurizio de Monte and Federico Buono

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* M.Comodi is the public prosecutor directing the case.

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April 10, 2012
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Claim for arson at UDI headquarters in Rancagua, Chile

From Liberación Total (April 9, 2012):

 

Whichever color political parties may be, whether right or left, they are one of the principal supporters of the existing order of domination and exploitation, legislating and trying to manage people’s lives so that everything stays the same. Many (some naively) believe their false promises, but it’s clear that politicians are only looking out for their personal benefit and that of their class.

In the face of this reality, early on Sunday morning we carried out an arson at the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) headquarters in Rancagua. This is our first attack, and we undertook it in solidarity with our brother Tortuga and all the anarchist and antiauthoritarian prisoners around the world, since the best way to demonstrate our solidarity is to spread attacks on power and the existing order.

Authority, with its penalties and punishments, wants to scare off anarchist activity. But instead, it should know that we will keep attacking harder each time, that we will not rest until we see every trace of domination and exploitation reduced to ashes, that we will not allow them to sleep peacefully.

FOR THE  SPREAD OF ATTACKS ON POWER.

FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SYSTEM OF DOMINATION.

FOR TOTAL LIBERATION.

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

—FIRE BRIGADE (INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION/INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY FRONT)

April 9, 2012
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Europol und das Gespenst des Anarchismus (Europe)

German language article about a meeting of the Europol, which is a conference against “Euro-Anarchists”, called at the request of the Italian authorities. The topics for the repressive meeting include Val Susa Struggle in Italy, the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), ELF/ALF & Militant Ecological Struggle, No Border Camps, Counter-Summits etc.

Written by Matthias Monroy 22.03.2012 >> Click for original with links-reference
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April 9, 2012
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Argentina: Claim of responsibility for two incendiary attacks

from vivalaanarquia, transl waronsociety:

 

Cities condition us to an awful life of commerce and submission.

We extend critique and combat through the subversive extension as a form of life, our goal (among others) is to make daily the generalized revolt of the oppressed and rebels.

On the nights of March 25 and 29, we set fire to a Rinault Picasso car at the intersection of Fitz Roy and Paraguay, and we left another incendiary device at the intersections of Guemes and Gallo. Continuing the work that other comrades started.

Everything continues…

FOR THE SPREAD OF SABOTAGE AGAINST SOCIAL PEACE!
WAR ON THE STATE-CAPITAL!

Núcleo de la Cólera / Informal Anarchist Federation

April 9, 2012
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Chile: 7 days since the attack on the comrade Bengalas

Posted on April 8, 2012

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from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:

Note by LT: In the following text they make reference to hoping that the bastard who shot the comrade be judged. From our part, we hope for nothing from the laws, nor the judges, nor from administrative reviews made by the wretched police institution. The action of the police is backed up by Power and we can hope for nothing from our enemies. Solidarity with the comrade Bengalas, it makes us deeply happy that he is recovering. Nothing is over, everything continues.
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April 9, 2012
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Athens: CCF imprisoned members Gerasimos Tsakalos , Panagiotis Argirou, And Christos Tsakalos declare hunger strike

When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead’
[Tasos Livaditis]

I am not a humanist and therefore will not talk like a humanist. I place myself on the side of the anarchists of praxis. In the battle for a free life without leaders and minions, often a price to pay is the prison. This price has been imposed on me a year ago, since I am imprisoned–CAPTIVE by the State. Captive but not defeated; because for me, as an anarchist urban guerrilla, prison is a temporary stop but never the terminal. During this whole year, I did not allow prison to tame or to ‘correct’ me, or to subdue my body and my memory through the dead repetition of the time-jailer.
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April 9, 2012
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SOLIDARITY TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS from Anarchist Vaggelis Kailoglou Athens-Greece

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As a minimal contribution to the struggle of anarchist prisoners who since 6/4 are on hunger strike in Koridallos prisons protesting against the extension of the imprisonment of anarchist Stella Antoniou and against the new prosecutions applied to them and those who from 8/4 also begin a hunger strike demanding their non-transfer from Koridallos prisons, I begin a prison food abstention as of 7/4. Because the obvious ignorance of the health problems of Stella Antoniou, the awakening of old trial briefs and the numerous transfers, are nothing more than episodes of an oppressive tactic which is applied having a s target the political extermination of fighting people.

Vaggelis Kailoglou

Koridallos prisons

7/4/2012

April 9, 2012
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Food abstention in the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons- Athens-Greece

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8/4/12

We the prisoners of the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons begin a food abstention in solidarity to Stella Antoniou, Alexandros Mitrousias, Kostas Sakkas and Giorgos Karagiannidis who are on hunger strike demanding the lifting of their imprisonment and the immediate release of Stella Antoniou.

Also in solidarity to the members of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire Gerasimos Tsakalos, Panagiotis Argirou and Christos Tsakalos who are on hunger strike demanding that G.Tsakalos and P.Argirou are transferred to Koridallos prisons.

As well we are in solidarity with Spiros Dravilas who is on hunger strike because the prison regime of Domokos refuses to give him leave days, in a vengeful way and with random justifications.

NO PRISONER IS ALONE SOLIDARITY – DECENCY – RESPECT

This text is co-signed by 130 prisoners from the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons and was accompanied by the equivalent food coupons.