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On Saturday the 10th of March some anarchists dropped a "postcard" at the Italian Ambassy in Helsinki. This small and symbolic action is in solidariety with the "NO-TAV" struggle in north-west Italy.

Estonia's capital Tallinn will simultaneously host two international gatherings at the end of May. On the 25th of May, both the spring session of NATO's parliamentary assembly and the first Baltic Anarchist Meeting will start.

The aim of BAM 2012 is to exchange experience and improve co-operation between anarchists from the Baltic Sea region. Although the focus will be on the Baltic area, like-minded people from other places are welcome aswell. The three day event will have a number of lectures, presentations, discussion panels etc. On the 26th of May an anti-NATO demonstration is planned in the city center.

Finnish original

Around 30 anarchists gathered at the Sörnäinen penitentiary in Helsinki on New Year's Eve to make some noise in response to the Pelican Bay Solidarity Network's call for international demonstrations of solidarity with the struggle of the imprisoned. The demonstration in Helsinki lasted for about 15 minutes during which fireworks were shot above the prison, messages were sprayed and paint bombs and flares were thrown on and over the walls. The crowd dispersed before the police arrived.

We organized this energetic and noisy demostration to raise awareness about the connection between prisons and the capitalist social order also in the Finnish public sphere. Our banner read: "Solidarity with those imprisoned by the State and Capital". This was done to emphasize the anarchist notion of the prison system only serving the ruling class' purposes of securing its own place in the hierarchy and disrupting working class unity.

The so-called rehabilitatory role of the prisons was criticized in posters we wheat-pasted on the walls. The posters declared that the only true purpose of prisons is to dominate and punish people, and that their "rehabilitatory" function serves only to reintegrate prisoners into the capitalist society.

We wish to send out our warm greetings to all prisoners fighting for their rights from Finland to the United States and all around the world. We also wish to contribute our methods to the discussion about supporting prisoners' struggles and finding new ways of working towards abolishing the prison system.

Solidarity and direct action!

We don’t demand anything, we want everything !

People all over the world are taking their protest to the streets fighting for their rights and freedom to overturn the current conditions. But why not here? The German reality is marked by social exclusion and cuts in the supply of basic essentials.

Simultaneously, the media is brainwashing people’s mind against every existing resistance that criticises this inhuman oppression by the state and capital. It isn’t just the police who beat us up or arrest us and it isn’t just the political legislative which establishes laws to enslave us. Also responsible are those people who are not offering resistance to this situation and those who are making it possible through their ever-so-important (wage-) labour so that the “machinery of administration” runs smoothly. This machinery kills in agreement with German bureaucracy whether on the street or from one’s desk. Silence gives consent. We don’t know why hardly anyone says “Stop!”. Maybe it is because it is not yet bad enough for people or is it just the result of a traditional submissiveness resulting from centuries of monarchist and subsequently fascist leadership, which is burnt in people’s brains. There are nearly no noteworthy protests in Germany against the current shitty situation. That’s a fact. For sure, there are demonstrations which are sometimes joined by a quarter of a million people but the majority of these people, most of whom are members of parties and unions, are therefore directly responsible for what is going on here. Besides, these people are not willing to fight for real changes. Just complain and that’s all. Real changes would mean the loss of one’s own social rank and of all the privileges with which some people have made themselves damn comfortable. For example, economical privileges that exist because other parts of the world were continually ransacked.

Solidarity with Sonja and Christian!
After 33 years in French exile, Sonja Suder, 79, and Christian Gauger, 70, were extradited to Germany on September 14, 2011. Christian was transported across the border in an ambulance! Sonja was jailed in Frankfurt-Preungesheim; Christian in a prison hospital. Christian, who suffered cardiac arrest in October of 1997 and has since been under constant medical and personal care, wasn’t released from detention until one month after his extradition; he now is forced to report to the cops twice per week. Sonja, who continues to be detained in Preungesheim, is likely the oldest woman in Europe awaiting trial in jail. Prosecutors brought charges in November and are planning to bring the cases to trial in 2012.

Yesterday morning around 7 am two seperated fires broke out in the house, one in the basement, another one in the stairway of the house. At that time not only the residents were in the house, but also several party guests, at the whole around 150 people. The fire left 12 people injured, two of them with multiple broken bones, after they jumped out in panic from the windows of the first floor. Two kids are also among the injured people.

As the world economy falters the power elite holds on to capitalism with tooth and nail, even though around them, the house of cards is wavering. The people who suffer from this listen to the money-grabbing power elite without calling into question the orders the elite hands out just to save their own hinds.

The police are a model example of obedience. The decisions are made high up in the hierarchy and the people who execute these commands can not and will not put them into question. Bureaucracy will always prove too slow and rigid for life that is characterized by being fast-paced and ever-moving.

On the night of Friday the 16th of December 2011, we set two police cars on fire in the backyard of a Volkswagen-dealership in the Herttoniemi district in Helsinki. We set fire to both cars by lighting and placing a handful of lighting briquettes on the front wheels and then fled the scene.

According to their communiqués the police have apprehended people in the vicinity of the dealership on the same night. It is not unheard of that the police bungle arrests without any evidence.

We claim responsibility for the arson of these cars and wish to say, that no arrests will resolve this situation.

Solidarity with all who are imprisoned!

Will Potter on November 17, 2011
(from greenisthenewred.com)

Two animal rights activists in Finland have been found not guilty on nearly all charges related to their undercover investigations of factory farms, which revealed sick, injured, and dying pigs.

Karry Hedberg and Saila Kivelä of Oikeutta Eläimille (Justice for Animals) were charged with "aggravated defamation" because of their exposés.