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![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/sasta.espivblogs.net_-1024x768.jpg?04346c) (banner in Thessaloniki: Let’s combat states of exception with factual solidarity – Freedom for Evi Statiri)
September 15th 2015:
It is a longstanding as well as an infamous tactic of the State — particularly of the police-judicial mechanism — to use fabricated charges against relatives so as to hold them hostage and put pressure on fighters and political prisoners. It was done in 2002 [against Angeliki Sotiropoulou, wife of 17N prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas], it was done in 2010 [against Marie Beraha, wife of Revolutionary Struggle prisoner Kostas Gournas], and it was done again in March 2015 [against Evi Statiri, wife of CCF prisoner Gerasimos Tsakalos, but also against Athena Tsakalou, mother of the Tsakalos brothers]. This is because the repressive policy applied against imprisoned members of armed organisations is an ongoing process of political extermination by any means.
After its capitulation on February 20th, the SYRIZA-led government was faced with the first class confrontation — that is, the hunger strike of political prisoners during Spring — and was compelled to vote favorably — among others – on an amendment that theoretically opened the way for the relatives of CCF members to be released. Today, after being refused her liberation six times by judicial councils, Evi Statiri, companion of an imprisoned member of the organisation, is still in prison. Her case is the clearest proof, not only of the acceptance of a state of emergency surrounding the memorandum by the government of the Left, but also of the strict application of a state of exception for political prisoners.
For those in society who had the clarity and determination to approach the ‘no’ vote in the referendum in a class manner and to oppose every memorandum, though without being able to take the next step forward, the question of an alternative way other than the one of delegation or relinquishment, which all the bourgeois parliamentary forces are charting, is more pressing than ever. And this is no other way than struggle and solidarity. Evi’s way…
SOLIDARITY WITH EVI STATIRI
on hunger strike since September 14th 2015
The 7th September 2015, a vivisection laboratory website was sabotaged by using the technique of “deface”. It was entered to the website server and some of their directories were modified. The result was a more realistic image about what the laboratory does and a message we hope never forgot.
Because we don’t care about the excuses and lies they use to justify their experiments. What really matters is that people see and know what really happens inside the laboratories, and to cause the biggest economic damage as possible.
After few weeks, the website has disappeared. What probably means it has been closed (hopefully permanently). We are proud that the goal of this action has been reached, and we’ll go on until we close all laboratories.
WE ARE APPROACHING!!
ALF
Note from Contra Info: The website referenced is the Chudasama Laboratory of Brain and Behaviour, a part of the McGill University campus in Montreal, Canada, that previously looked like this.
Update 23.9.15 at 23:30pm: The person in a tree-house has been taken down by the cops on 23.9.2015. The operation required cutting trees, building a new road, a special unit of cops and fire department, 3 big vehicles, guards, and many hours. Finally the mop of pine martens caught the squirrel. Our comrade was taken into hospital to get liquid, but was already released this night. We are happy that the person is quite ok. All the hunger strikes ended this evening.
The anti-nuclear struggle continues in Pyhäjoki, Finland. The Hanhikivi anti-nuclear camp was almost evicted last week, 15th September, but the cops left one person in a tree-house. Some people started a new camp just next to the construction site, in a cottage which had been a second base of the camp until now. Isolating the person in a tree led to the hunger strike of 5 people.
The nuclear power company Fennovoima doesn’t allow activists to bring vital supplies to the person in the tree. He has been without food since Saturday 19th September. In this situation he started a hunger strike demanding to get food, more warm clothes and other needed supplies on Monday 21st. Four more people started a solidarity hunger strike with the same demands. Three of the support strikers are camping next to the Fennovoima office in Pyhäjoki centre and one in Helsinki.
The order to deny all entry to the area was made by the Fennovoima’s construction manager Jouni Sipiläinen and the Oulu police as his loyal friend, despite the fact that there doesn’t actually exist a legal restriction of trespassing in the area yet.
We, supporters of the hunger-strikers, are really concerned especially about the condition of the person protesting in the tree-house. The person has stayed there one week. The weather is cold, rainy and windy, the situation in the area is very stressful because of large amounts of private security guards, who don’t let supporters inside the area. The situation for the protester is hard.
We strongly ask you for solidarity actions and sharing of information! For example your local Finnish and Russian Embassy would be a good place to do protests and actions. The Fennovoima company is partly owned by the Finnish state. Fennovoima has plant supplier contracts with Rusatom Overseas, which is a subsidiary of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.
Background
On Tuesday 15th September, at midday, 16 police patrols, border control with a helicopter and g4s security attacked the camp. At this moment there where just a few people in the camp who climbed up to two tripods and two tree huts. Soon after a bulldozer and an excavator demolished the entrance of the camp. The first tripod was taken down by pulling the legs while there was a person sitting on it, with the bigger one the cops first cut it’s legs using chainsaw. One tree-house was unreachable for the cops, and at the moment, one week later, there is still a person up a tree.
The camp started on the 21st April, so it was 5 months old yesterday. Originally Fennovoima demanded that the area should be empty at the end of May, as it wanted to start massive operations in the beginning of June, but the eviction happened only 3 and a half months later. The camp managed to delay and mess up the plans of the construction site for the whole summer. In July the cops announced that around 100 “crimes” (including blockades and all kinds of minor disruptions of the work, specifically against the fence under construction) occured during the protest.
In the last two weeks of the camp people had to row a boat to get in the camp, as the fence was finally ready and the gate was closed. It’s evident that the company have their reasons to do everything to get rid of the protesters, even if it still hasn’t got the legal means to do so.
All the cottages are still not owned by the company, even if last week, after the eviction, Fennovoima finally managed to buy the land it needs. According to the Finnish Nuclear Act they actually should of had all the land under their control 6 years ago, when they made the application to the government. But, big companies do what they want; this really doesn’t surprise anyone.
There are still multiple problems related to the project, including the fact that there are several shareholders who are trying to get rid of their shares. Next summer Fennovoima must have a reliable report of long term nuclear waste disposal, which will require a lot of imagination. The support of nuclear power and Fennovoima are decreasing all the time. We have no clue what kind of political and economical turbulences we might face in the Finnish or Russian near future, so this story is not at it’s end yet.
You are still welcome to join the struggle, in one way or another!
Hyökyaalto-network
Email: hyokyaalto [at] riseup [dot] net
Camp phone: +358 465 98 1080
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On the evening of friday September 18th, around 400 people walked from Claraplatz to the deportation prison “Bässlergut” in a demonstration against the military exercise “Conex15” and to show our solidarity to the prisoners. When the demonstration arrived there, about 60 riot-cops were waiting to protect the prison. From the outside we could hear the prisoners banging on the bars and shouting slogans, amongst others against the cops.
As the demonstration tried to get closer to the prison and the cops were attacked to drive them away, they responded with teargas and rubber bullets. There were a lot of slogans shouted and the attacks on the cops continued, but unfortunately we didn’t succeed to get closer to the fences. After these confrontations, which lasted for about half an hour, the demonstration continued to walk into the direction of the harbour, where originally a part of the military exercise was supposed to take place. On the way buildings of a local newspaper (Basler Zeitung), of the ISS and the border police were attacked and one ISS car was set afire. Several public transport ticket-machines were smashed.
The “Basler Zeitung” takes part in the racist campaigns against the migrants, the ISS participates in the facility management in prisons Europe-wide and the reasons for the attacks against the border police are self-explanatory. After the demonstration 8 people got arrested, but all of them are free again.
This demonstration was a sign of solidarity to the people who are imprisoned and deported and shows our anger against this society which is accepting this situation. And it is an expression of our rage against the cops, the military and the border guards, who are protecting these structures of power like prisons and borders.
Fire and Flames to the (Deportation-)Prisons!!!
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Received September 21st:
The police (sent by Nuclear company Fennovoima) evicted most of the anti-nuclear action camp on September 15th in Pyhäjoki. Police also arrested 5 people. The camp has been successfully resisting the nuclear power plant project for 5 months. The police still haven’t managed to evict one of the protesters who is now in the tree-house. Fennovoima will destroy the forest if the protester is evicted. Security companies G4S and Arlia have been preventing anyone from helping this person in the tree-house and ambulance workers also haven’t provided any assistance. The person who went on hunger strike since September 19th is in critical situation because liquids don’t stay in his body anymore.
We now call for immediate solidarity from comrades everywhere! Solidarity is our weapon!
Spread the word!
Monday, September 21st 2015, inside the occupied Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens in Egaleo — ten minute walk from Aghia Marina metro station
Graffiti Festival + Open Mics (bring your spray paints) at 16:00
Rap Live by ‘to miasma’, ‘ex nihilo’, ‘ola denoun’ at 20:30
–Assembly of anarchists/antiauthoritarians at the occupied TEI of Athens
Note of Contra Info:
The TEI of Athens has been occupied by comrades since September 13th, putting forward demands such as the immediate granting of educational furloughs to the anarchist prisoner Nikos Romanos, the immediate release of the hunger striker Evi Statiri, and the lifting of the restrictive measures imposed on Athena Tsakalou, as well as the necessity of crushing fascism in all its manifestations, of factually supporting refugees/migrants, of sabotaging and attacking every institutional and electoral process.
In the context of the occupation’s activities and info-meetings, this is an event of urgently-needed financial support for legal expenses of arrestees of the antifascist-antistatist-anticapitalist demonstration that took place in central Athens on Thursday 17/09. The particular protest was organised by the ‘Assembly of anarchists against the State, Capital and fascists’ on occasion of the second anniversary of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas.
That night, some 150 anarchists gathered at Canningos Square and took to the streets of Exarchia neighbourhood where clashes erupted, after the local police station on Kallidromiou Street was attacked with Molotov cocktails. Footage: 1, 2 (+ photos and reportback in Spanish).
A total of 9 people were arrested, most of whom were heavily beaten up by cops. Five arrestees (2 adults and 3 minors) are still being held at the Athens police headquarters facing felony charges. The 5 captives are expected to appear before investigating judges at the Evelpidon courts (building 9) on Monday 21/09, at 12:00, and Tuesday 22/09, at 10:00.
No comrade left alone in the hands of the enemy! Solidarity is our weapon!
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/nicosia_evi.jpg?04346c) “No State will halt the passion for freedom – Solidarity with Evi Statiri”
On September 19th, within a small and rotten city, we hung a banner as a small gesture of love and solidarity with the prisoner in struggle Evi Statiri, contributing our part so that her voice resonates in every corner of the earth.
FREEDOM FOR EVI STATIRI HERE AND NOW
Anarchists
in Greek | Spanish
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica0.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri, on hunger strike since 14/09”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica00.jpg?04346c)
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/s9-1024x576.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica2-1024x576.jpg?04346c) “Struggle against fear and injustice”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica3-1024x576.jpg?04346c) “Evi, hold strong until freedom”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica4-1024x576.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri, hunger striker since 14/09”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica5-576x1024.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/salonica6-1024x576.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri, hunger striker since 14/09”
A minimal gesture of solidarity with the hunger striker Evi Statiri.
Victory in Evi Statiri’s struggle, until liberation
Lifting of the restrictive conditions imposed against Athena Tsakalou
Strength to the imprisoned members of the Revolutionary Organisation CCF
Solidarity with all the prosecuted fighters
in Greek | Spanish
Between the 12th and 17th of September 2015, some participants in the network of Contra Info carried out a series of actions in solidarity with Evi Statiri, prisoner in struggle in Greece, who has undergone hunger strike since September 14th, demanding an end to the preventive detention that was imposed on her six months ago.
Evi Statiri is incarcerated as a result of the vengeful mania that the repressive apparatuses of Greek democracy unleashed, after the failed escape plan of the imprisoned comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire in early 2015, targeting relatives and friends of members of the organisation. When the Power fail to make subversive prisoners bow down to them, they lay their hands on their close and supportive environment, seeking to sow fear and punish what does not fit into their heavy bibles of legislature, what transcends the prison walls, what goes beyond the polarity between innocence and guilt: solidarity.
Following the decision of Evi Statiri to choose hunger strike as a means of struggle, we’re calling out to comrades worldwide to strengthen this cry for freedom through multifaceted anarchist action. So that it resonates in the streets: EVI STATIRI OUT ONTO THE STREETS!
Below are a few photos from actions that took place in the territories controlled by the states of Bolivia, France, Greece, Portugal, Chile and Spain. We look forward to receiving your contributions at contrainfo[at]espiv.net
A banner was hung in La Paz (Bolivia), reading: “From Bolivia we salute you, compañera Evi Statiri, abducted by the Greek state”; flyers were also distributed: “From Bolivia to Greece, freedom for Evi Statiri – Your struggle from inside the prison is a sign of indomitable ferocity in the face of the Power and repression”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/lienzo_la-paz-1024x768.jpg?04346c) Leaflets and flyposting in Toulouse (France): “Solidarity with Evi Statiri, political prisoner in Greece – Evi Statiri is detained on remand at Koridallos prison, in Greece, since the 2nd of March 2015, arrested for being the life companion of Gerasimos Tsakalos, imprisoned member of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (international anarchist revolutionary organisation). After being refused her liberation once again, she commences a hunger strike on the 14th of September. Fire to the borders – Fire to the prisons”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/toulouse1-768x1024.jpg?04346c) ![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/toulouse2.jpg?04346c) Banners at the Athens Polytechnic School, Exarchia (Greece): “Neither innocent, nor guilty – Solidarity with Evi Statiri” / “Evi Statiri, hold strong – We are all family of the Cells of Fire – Death to the judges!”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/athens_gr0-1024x768.jpg?04346c) ![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/athens_gr4.jpg?04346c) ![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/athens_gr2.jpg?04346c) A banner was placed in one of Lisbon’s most central and tourist locations (Portugal): “Freedom for Evi Statiri”; leaflets signed by Some Anarchists were also handed out, providing an update on Evi’s situation: “Internationalist and anarchist solidarity with Evi Statiri – After 6 months in preventive detention, an act of pure vengeance and arbitrariness of the Power, Evi Statiri initiated a hunger strike on September 14th 2015, in the dungeons of Greek democracy, until her unconditional release. (…) Freedom for those who are in prison cells – Immediate release of Evi Statiri – Lifting of the restrictive measures against Athena Tsakalou!” (PDF in Portuguese)
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/evi-statiri_lisboa-1024x530.jpg?04346c) ![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/lisboa-evi-1.jpg?04346c) Banner in Santiago (Chile): “«Fear may rule, but it cannot reign in the hearts and minds of free human beings» – Evi Statiri out onto the streets!”
Slogans were spray-painted in the streets of Iruña/Pamplona, Navarre (Spain) — Evi askatu! (“Free Evi!” in Basque) and more…
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/Nafarroa10-1024x768.jpg?04346c) “Until the total destruction of all the prisons – Evi free”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/Nafarroa11-1024x768.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/Nafarroa2-1024x768.jpg?04346c) “Freedom for Evi Statiri, compañera in Greece”
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/Nafarroa4-1024x768.jpg?04346c) “Solidarity with Evi Statiri”
Spanish, Greek
Five days of gatherings and debates
September 29th – October 3rd 2015 in Brussels
The program of events can be found here.
If the state counted on silently building in Brussels the largest prison complex in Belgian history, it was mistaken. Against this maxi-prison project, a struggle was born and has intensified. An uncompromising struggle that has taken the initiative, which creates paths without political parties or formal organisations, that embodies itself in self-organisation and direct action against what makes the maxi-prison possible.
The project to build a maxi-prison is inscribed into a wider economic and political context. In this time of new economic and political instability, the Belgian State, like other States, level up with strengthening the repression. Whether this translates into tougher laws, more control at all levels, cameras everywhere, militarisation of borders, soldiers in the street, urban regeneration to “restore order”, there are also all types of extensive prison building programs. Because prison will always be one of the threats used to try to make us fall into rank as well as a powerful state tool to keep in order its world divided into rich and poor, powerful and excluded, oppressors and oppressed.
If ideas and actions have to join hands, if thought and experience can sharpen the fight we lead, if the construction of the maxi-prison is not just a question of four walls, but perhaps above all a social issue that affects the whole of this society, these five days of gatherings around the struggle against the maxi-prison could be a valuable opportunity.
At these meetings, comrades from different corners of the world will chat about their experiences of struggle, bringing along their reflections around insurrectionary struggle and explore ways to deepen the fight against the maxi-prison, but not solely.
Tuesday 29th September, 7:30pm
Le Passage – Rue Rossini 11, Anderlecht
The hour of the revolt (comrade from London)
Wednesday 30th September, 3pm
Lion D’or – Avenue Jamar 5, Anderlecht
The struggle against the maxi-prison
Wednesday 30th September, 7:30pm
Pianofabriek – Rue du Fort 35, Saint-Giles
The struggle against the new Type C prisons in Greece
Thursday 1st October, 7:30pm
Acrata – Rue de la Grande Ile 32, Brussels
Towards the insurrection (comrade from Italy)
Friday 2nd Octoer, 5pm
Acrata – Rue de la Grande Ile 32, Brussels
Undermine the prisons of the democracy in Chile
Friday 2nd Octoer, 7:30pm
Le Passage – Rue Rossini 11, Anderlecht
Rebellion in Spanish prisons (comrade from Spain)
Saturday 3rd October, 2pm
L’eau Chaude – Rue des Renards 25, Marolles
Feedback and perspectives of struggle
in French, Italian | Program of events in French and Dutch (pdf)
Further reading: “The struggle against the maxi-prison” (pdf)
Wrecsam, Cymru: Ail-Feddiannu’r Caeau – Tuag at byd heb garchardai
O’r 28ain Awst i’r 2il o Fedi 2015, fe atynodd Gwersyll Ryngwladol Ail-Feddianwn y Caeau dros 130 o bobl i Wrecsam, i wrthsefyll ‘Project Carchar Gogledd Cymru,’ ac adeiladu yr ail garchar mwyaf yn Ewrop. Cynhalwyd y digwyddiad yng Ngwersyll Amddiffyn y Gymuned Borras, gwersyll a sefydlwyd i wrthwynebu ffracio yn yr ardal, yr oedd yr ymgynulliad yma o bobl yn ceisio i gysylltu brwydrau tir ag ymwrthedd i’r cymhleth diwydianol carchar (the prison industrial conplex) (1) a mecanweithiau parhaus o drais gan y wladwriaeth a difeddiant.
Cysylltu brwydrau
O ddydd Sadwrn i ddydd Llun, yr oedd rhaglen cynhwysfawr o weithdai, trafodaethau a gweithgareddau ymarferol. Fe wnaeth pobl wneud cysylltiadau rhwng brwydrau yn ymwneud a’r system carchardai, sofraniaeth bwyd, ffiniau, ac agweddau eraill ar y byd ar ol cau y tiroedd comin. Fe wnaeth nifer o’r gweithdai archwilio i greulondeb y system carchar, cyflwyno’r cymleth diwydiant carchardai, y brwydrau parhaus dros garcharorion IPP, carchardai i’r sawl nad ynt yn fodau dynol a sut y mae carchardai yn ymwneud â brwydrau rhywedd a cwiar, yn ogystal a hyn yn ystod y penwythnos fe ddatblygwyd cynllun permaddiwylliant ar gyfer y gwersyll a dechreuodd pobl gweithio ar yr ardd berlysiau, system biochar a phaneli solar ar gyfer y safle.
Byth ar pen eich hunain, Byth yn angof
Drwy gydol y gwersyll fe ddigwyddodd nifer o weithredodd. Yn ystod y nos, cymerodd pobl systemau sain, uwchseinyddion, ac offerynnau gwneud sŵn eraill i garchardai lleol er mwyn dangos carcharorion nad ydynt yn cael eu hanghofio ac nid un ar pen eu hunain. Fe ymwelwyd a HMP Stoke Heath, HMP Drake Hall a HMP Altcourse. Ymwelwyd a rhain i gyd, gyda llawer o garcharorion yn gweiddi yn ôl a yn curo eu drysau. Yr oedd pobl yn bloeddio “If you hate the screws, clap your hands” o dan lleuad llawn.
Fel rhan o Wythnos Ryngwladol Unoliaeth gyda Carcharorion Anarchaidd, fe wnaeth plant yn y gwersyll wneud baner ar gyfer garcharor anarchaidd o Wledydd Prydain, Emma Sheppard. Cafodd llythyrau eu hysgrifennu a straeon carcharorion eu rhannu. Cafodd baneri hefyd eu gwneud ar gyfer gymrodyr ar dag ac ar amodau mechnïaeth gormesol nad oedd yn gallu cyrraedd yr ymgynulliad o ganlyniad i hyn.
Yn y Strydoedd
Roedd yna hefyd gweithredoedd ar y stryd fawr, gyda pobl yn dosbarthu taflenni am y carchar yn Wrecsam a sut y gallant gymryd rhan yn y frwydyr yn ei herbyn. Ar ddydd Llun yr oedd protest yn erbyn Tirlunio P & A. Nhw yw tirlunwyr y carchar ac maent wedi darparu nifer o ffensys a deunyddiau i’r carchar. Fe wnaeth pobl ymweld a’i canolfan arddio cyhoeddus. Ymwelwyd a hysbyswyd cwsmeriaid am eu rôl yn ehangu carchar.
Blocâd drwy’r dydd ar y Carchar
Ar ddydd Mawrth y 1af o Fedi fe wnaeth tua 20 o bobl rwystro tair porth mynediad i’r safle adeiladu Mega-Garchar Wrecsam. Yr oedd y weithred syml hon yn hawdd i gydlynu, a gyda heddlu a staff y safle yn ddryslyd a heb baratoi, cafwyd effaith fawr heb angen llawer o ymdrech. Cafodd ciw o dryciau eu hatal rhag mynd i mewn ac allan o’r safle, gan gynnwys cyflenwad sment enfawr oedd yn rhaid cael ei droi yn ol cyn iddo ddifetha. Yr oedd Simon Caron, Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect Lend Lease, yn ymbil protestwyr i adael wrth ddweud, “We’ve been reasonable letting you protest, please just allow this one to get through”. Ni wnaeth unrhyw un symyd fe oedd cerbydau cyflenwi deunyddiau yn methu mynd i mewn.
Targedu cyflenwyr yn rhanbarthol
Wrth i gyfranogwyr y gwersyll rwydweithio a dod i adnabod eu gilydd, ffurfwyd grwpiau rhanbarthol i weithredu yn erbyn targedau yn eu hardaloedd eu hunain. Ymwelodd un grŵp â swyddfeydd Swydd Gaerloyw o Precast erections Cyf, y cwmni sy’n cyflenwi blociau concrid a ddefnyddir i adeiladu’r carchar. Mae mwy o weithredoedd yn cael eu cynllunio. Cysylltwch â’ch grŵp lleol i gael gwybod sut y gallwch gymryd rhan yn Ngweithredu Cymunedol yn erbyn Ehangiad Carchar.
Protest Unoliaeth yn y Llys
Ar ddydd Mercher yr 2il, fe aeth pobl o AilFeddianu’r Caeau i gefnogi dynes leol, Vanda Gillett a oedd wedi ei cyhuddo o ymosod yn ystod Blocâd Cymunedol Barton Moss. Yn dilyn rheithfarn euog, fe ffrwydrodd gwylltineb yn ei hamddiffyniad. Cafodd y llys ei feddiannu a yr oedd “ysgarmes” gyda’r heddlu y tu allan i’r llys. Cafodd pedwar o fobl eu harestio a symudodd pobl i ddangos unoliaeth yn y gorsafoedd heddlu lle oedd yr sawl a arrestwyd yn cael eu cadw.
Oherwydd yr arestiadau a bod blaenoriaeth i gefnogaeth tu allan gorsafoedd Heddlu, cafodd gweithredoedd pellach ym Manceinion wedi eu gohirio, fodd bynag, mae pobl leol sydd wedi eu cymell gan y frwydr gwrth-garchar yn awyddus i barhau i dargedu cwmnïau lleol ac oedi adeiladu y mega-garchar.
Ail-feddiannu’r Caeau, Adfer ein Bywydau
Mae adennill y Caeau yn gyster o fobl a phrosiectau ar y cyd sydd yn barod i fynd yn ôl at y tir a ail-feddianu rheolaeth dros gynhyrchu bwyd. Rydym yn benderfynol o greu dewisiadau amgen i gyfalafiaeth trwy dulliau cyd-weithredol, ymreolaethol, yn cynhyrchu dros anghenion a mentrau ar raddfa fach, gan roi theori ar waith a chysylltu gweithredu ymarferol lleol gyda brwydrau gwleidyddol byd-eang.
Mae’r gwersyll yn un rhan o’n stori. Nid ydym yn ‘ymgyrch’ na ‘chlymblaid’. Yr ydym yn bobl, prosiectau a brwydrau amrywiol yn cydgyfeirio ac ddargyfeirio ar hyd a lled Ewrop. Mae sawl ffordd y mae economeg cyfalafol yn dod i dra-arglwyddiaethu ar y tir (boed hynny drwy adeiladu carchardai, dryllio am nwy neu ecsbloetio amaethyddiaeth diwydiannol) yn berthnasol ac yn cysylltu bob un ohonom. Er y gall crynoadau a gwersylloedd gweithredu fod yn gyfyngedig yn wleidyddol, nid ydynt yn bopeth nac yn ddiwedd ar ein holl waith. Maent yn fannau ymgynnull ac yn gyfle i gymrodion i gyfarfod ac adfyfyrio’n feirniadol ar sut y brwydrau hyn yn llunio ein bywydau.
Daeth yr ymgynulliad yn fyw trwy waith grŵp anhygoel o bobl sy’n gweithio ar y cyd ac yn llorweddol. Yr oedd nifer o cyn-garcharorio a’r sawl sydd wedi cefnogi anwyliaid yn y carchar yn bressenol a fe wnaeth y profiad eu cyffwrdd. Yr oedd yr angerdd a’r casineb tuagat y system garchar yn bresennol iawn ac yn weladwy iawn. Hefyd yr oedd yr awch am rywbeth mwy, ar gyfer tyfu bwyd, adennill tir a byw yn wahanol.
Byddwn yn parhau â’n gwaith i adennill ein bywydau gan y wladwriaeth, gan ein system economaidd gyfalafol a chymdeithas carchar gormesol. Hyd nes bod OLL YN RHYDD!
– Ail-Feddiannu’r Caeau, Medi 2015
(1) Diffinir yma fel buddiannau sy’n gorgyffwrdd y llywodraeth a diwydiant sy’n defnyddio gwyliadwriaeth, plismona a carchar fel atebion i broblemau economaidd, cymdeithasol a gwleidyddol.
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Finland: Police attacks occupation in Pyhäjoki and Squat Venetsia, Helsinki
On Tuesday September 15 the cops and security guards from local security company Arlia and G4S started to evict the protesters on Fennovoima´s planned nuclear construction site on Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. 4 arrests where made but people where released the day after. Updates from a treehouse tell us that by 11 o´clock Wednesday evening the cops have not yet succeeded to empty the area, but the destruction is in progress.
Eviction of Squat Venetsia
On the same day that the eviction in Pyhäjoki started, Squat Venetsia in Helsinki showed solidarity with the occupation in Pyhäjoki. The day after, on wednesday, Venetsia was evicted.
Squat Venetsia had been planning solidarity events for the Pyhäjoki occupation and was also going to play an important role in housing people during the major strikes, protests and anti-government activities planned in Finland on friday.
The resistance on Hanhikivi Cape, Pyhäjoki
The protest camp, which has been around since April, is now moved to a different location in the remaining forest. The diverse activities that has taken place in Hanhikivi Cape – ranging from blockades, occupied trees and acts of sabotage- have significantly delayed Fennovoima´s plans to start the construction of the nuclear power plant together with energy company Fortum and Rosatom – Russian state owned company that specialises in the manufacturing of nuclear arms. Since the start of the occupation the situation on Hanhikivi cape has become more and more oppressive. A couple of weeks ago guards from the security company Arlia entered the camp in the night, armed with knives. A person was dragged away by the hair and two occupants were arrested by the police.
Both the camp on Hanhikivi Cape and Squat Venetsia – as part of the finnish squatting scene – have lately played important roles in spreading autonomous culture of active resistance and direct action against state and capital, in Finland. It is no coincidence they have been targeted now, on the verge of the protests taking place on Friday.
More info and images on Takku and Hyökyaalto.
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Received on September 15th:
We’re not sure what’s going on, but Sean Swain has been blocked from receiving (and presumably sending) JPay emails. He also has not called his primary supporters, or The Final Straw for a new radio segment. We’ll probably hear from him via snail mail sooner or later, but until then, we’ve got to assume he’s cut off.
When we called the prison, they told us he was not in the hole, and did not have any restrictions on his communication. We suspect they may have transferred him back to a 3B spot, undoing the success of our recent call-in effort. They refused to tell us what security level the block he is held in is on and they got surly and authoritarian when we asked. It seems that the officers at Sean’s newest prison, Warren CI need to learn that their jobs are a whole lot easier when they don’t provoke anarchists from across the country to call and check in on the welfare of our friend who they hold captive.
WARREN CI: 513-932-3388
You can call Warren CI and ask the same questions we asked- why does Sean not have access to communication, what security level is he currently housed in, and does the JPay kiosk in his (or any Warren Unit) actually work right now? You can also leave Sean’s Case Manager a voicemail by punching extension 2281, or try and talk to deputy warden Robert Welch, who maybe got Sean moved from 3B to 3A a few weeks ago, he’s at ext 2005. Whatever lucky anarchist happens to be on the call when when of these officers breaks and spills the beans, please drop a line to AnarchistSwain [at] gmail [dot] com.
Sean doesn’t like when they fuck with his communication access. Being a writer, getting his voice out is one of the things that help Sean feel connected to the outside world. So he’s probably feeling alone and frustrated. Also, his birthday was Sept 12th, so if you haven’t written for a while, or missed sending him birthday wishes, please consider dropping a line and letting him (and the mailroom monkeys who have to read all his incoming communication) know that he is loved and missed.
Sean Swain
243-205
Warren CI
P.O. Box 120
5787 State Route 63
Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Current address, as of Aug 14, 2015
From the 28th August to the 2nd September 2015, the Reclaim the Fields International Action Camp drew over 130 people to Wrexham, North Wales, to resist the ‘North Wales Prison Project,’ the construction of Europe’s second largest prison. Held at Borras Community Protection Camp, a site camp established to oppose fracking in the area, the gathering sought to link land struggles with resistance to the prison industrial complex (1) and ongoing mechanisms of state violence and dispossession.
Connecting the dots
From Saturday to Monday, a comprehensive programme of workshops, discussions and practical activities took place. People connected the dots between struggles around the prison system, food sovereignty, borders, and other aspects of the world post-enclosures. Several workshops explored the brutality of the prison system, introducing the P.I.C., ongoing struggles around IPP prisoners, nonhuman prisons and how prisons relate to gender and queer struggles, and over the course of the weekend a permaculture design was developed for the camp and people began work on a herb garden, biochar system and solar panels for the site.
Never alone, Never forgotten
Throughout the camp several actions took place. In the evenings, folk took sound systems, megaphones, and other noise making instruments to local prisons determined to show prisoners they are not forgotten and not alone. HMP Stoke Heath, HMP Drake Hall and HMP Altcourse were all visited, with many prisoners shouting back and banging their doors. Chants like “If you hate the screws, clap your hands” rang out under a full moon.
As part of the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners, children at the camp made a banner for UK anarchist prisoner, Emma Sheppard. Letters were written and prisoner stories shared. Banners were also made for comrades on tag and repressive bail conditions who couldn’t make the physical gathering.
In the Streets
There were also highstreet actions, with folk leafleting Wrexham about the prison and how they can get involved in fighting it. On Monday a protest was staged at P&A Landscaping. They are the prison’s landscapers and have supplied several fences and materials to the jail. In response their public garden centre was visited and customers were informed about their role in prison expansion.
Day-long Blockade of the Prison
On Tuesday 1st September, around 20 people blockaded the three access gates to the Wrexham Mega-Prison’s construction site. This simple action was easy to co-ordinate, and with confused and unprepared police and site staff, had a big effect with very little effort. A queue of trucks were prevented from entering and exiting the site, including a huge cement delivery which had to be turned away before it spoiled. Simon Caron, Project Director for Lend Lease, begged protesters to let it in saying, “We’ve been reasonable letting you protest, please just allow this one to get through”. No one budged and vehicles delivering materials failed to enter. […]
Suppliers targeted regionally
As camp participants networked and bonded, regional groups formed to take actions against local targets in their own areas. One group visited the Gloucestershire offices of Precast Erections Ltd, the company supplying concrete blocks used to build the prison. More actions are planned. Contact your local group to find out how you can get involved in Community Action on Prison Expansion.
Solidarity Protest at the Court
On Wednesday 2nd, people from Reclaim the Fields supported a local woman, Vanda Gillett who had been charged with assault during the Barton Moss Community Blockade. Following a guilty verdict, anger erupted in her defence. The court was occupied and ‘scuffles’ with the police took place outside. Four people were arrested and people moved to demonstrate at the police stations where they were being held. […]
Due to the arrests and priority of station support, further actions in Manchester were postponed, however local people motivated by the anti-prison struggle are keen to continue to target local companies and delay the construction of this super prison.
Reclaiming the Fields, Reclaiming our Lives
Reclaim the Fields is a constellation of people and collective projects willing to go back to the land and reassume the control over food production. We are determined to create alternatives to capitalism through cooperative, collective, autonomous, real needs oriented small scale production and initiatives, putting theory into practice and linking local practical action with global political struggles.
This camp is one part of our story (read the UK history here). We are not a ‘campaign’ or ‘coalition’ or a ‘mass movement’. We are diverse people, projects and struggles converging and diverging all over Europe. The manifold of ways in which capitalist economics comes to dominate the land (whether that be through the construction of prisons, drilling for gas or the exploitation of industrial agriculture) implicates and connects us all. While gatherings and action camps can be politically limited, they are not the be-all or end-all of our work. They are points of encounter, a chance for comrades to meet and critically reflect on how these struggles shape our lives. […]
The gathering came alive through the work of an incredible group of people working collectively and horizontally. Numerous ex-prisoners and people who have supported loved ones through jail were present and moved by the experience. The passion and the hate for the prison system was very present and very visible. As was the desire for something more, for growing food, reclaiming land and living differently.
We will continue our work to reclaim our lives from the state, from our capitalist economic system and oppressive prison society. Until All Are Free!
– Reclaim the Fields, September 2015
(1) Defined here as the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.
in Welsh
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A banner was hung in Bloomington in response to the call for an international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners, August 23–30.
via Rififi Bloomington | in German, Greek
Received on September 10th:
We claim responsibility for the burning of a luxury SUV in an affluent area of Buenos Aires. The big luxurious and destroyer, polluting motor is now scrapped.
With this gesture, we remember Angry, and we salute Sol Vergara, Tato, Javi and the recently abducted by the $hilean State.
Sebastián Oversluij Conspiracy
in Spanish | Greek
7 weeks ago our comrade Jus got taken from us at the eviction of Remi’s Tower, a huge baricade build in honour of Remi Fraisse, who got killed by the freakin cops.
The first 3 weeks Jus was on hunger strike and as a reaction to that the cops told him he did not have a lawyer registered (which he had) and put him in a isolation cell, where it is hard to sleep cus they check every 15 minutes if your not dead yet by turning the lights on and off. All the letters he receives now get checked and it takes about 2 to 4 weeks for them to get to him. He is in prison for 6 weeks and was only had two visits. It is extremely difficult to arrange visits, because there has to be a interpreter at all times, and they want audio visual surveillance. Also his phone privileges are restricted to only his lawyer (even though everyone else can call whoever the fuck they want) and even about that they are being assholes.
All of that for allegedly breaking a bulldozer window, he has never touched a single individual. These charges would seldomly result into imprisonment before trial, and almost never result into such extreme measures, unless of course cooperate climate and Eco-extreme energy criminals like RWE are involved.
Now off his hunger strike, and still in fucking isolation, Jus is not permitted to join any group activities since he is considered a ‚violent offender‘. He is awaiting trail, they especially kept him for not having a permanent address, even though he has one, they still do not want to let him go. we want our comrade back!
Statement from Jus out of jail:
‚As i sit, work out, and read in my cell, from one side echoes the yell of ’sieg heil‘, and ‚fuck the forest‘ and threads of violence, as on the other side half of the wing erupts in ISIS related chants and slogans. A good illustration of how right wing and fundamentalist extremism is silently tolerated and even endorsed by the state, while all who appose the special interest of capitalist machine of greed and destruction, find them selfs confined and isolated . After regaining my health, following of 22 days of hunger strike, i am planning 3 prison resistance projects and i will keep you all updated.‘
We would like to ask everyone to support Jus, in his struggle in jail.
You can do a couple of things:
Write him! He really likes to read and can read English and Polish. Books and magazines are not allowed, but a article on a piece of paper, or a chapter of a book is.
Write him about the squat you life in, a workshop you been to, send pictures, make a drawing!
For someone so involved in environmental struggles its really hard to be cut off from news sources that you would normally have access to. So keep him updated of what is going on, to show that people care, and are still fighting the machine.
Dariusz (Jus) Brzeski 3236156
JVA Köln
Rochusstr. 350
50827 Köln
Do a solidarity action and make pictures, you can send them to: hambacherforst@riseup.net
or leave comments on our blog: hambachforest.blogsport.de
Tell the story, get involved, make a poster, visit Hambach Forst, organize benefit gig, everything helps.
We will try to keep everyone updated, also on Jus his prison resistance projects, for more info you can call the meadow phone: 0157 – 54 136 100
burn all prisons, freedom for Jus, freedom for all prisoners!
From March 2nd to April 4th 2015, the ten imprisoned members of the anarchist urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire/FAI-FRI, Gerasimos Tsakalos, Christos Tsakalos, Olga Ekonomidou, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Haris Hadjimihelakis, Giorgos Polidoros, Panagiotis Argirou, Damiano Bolano and Theofilos Mavropoulos — along with anarchist captive Angeliki Spyropoulou — conducted an exhaustive hunger strike demanding the release of their relatives, Athena Tsakalou (mother of the Tsakalos brothers) and Evi Statiri (wife of Gerasimos Tsakalos), who were arrested six months ago and absurdly charged in connection with the CCF escape plan, which was foiled in January 2015.
On April 6th, Athena Tsakalou walked out of prison under extremely harsh and restrictive measures.
Half a year after her arrest, Evi Statiri is still being held in pretrial detention in Koridallos women’s prison, solely on the basis of being the life companion of CCF member Gerasimos Tsakalos.
On September 7th, it became known that a judicial council chaired by judge Chalevidou rejected Evi Statiri’s latest motion to be released. On the same day, Evi published an open letter announcing that she will commence a hunger strike on September 14th, demanding her immediate liberation from prison.
Below are excerpts from a letter titled “From the Country of The Forgotten; Against Oblivion” which was recently written by CCF member Olga Ekonomidou as a contribution to Tamara Sol Farías Vergara and Natalia “Tato” Collado, compañeras imprisoned in Chile, as well as a gesture of solidarity with captive Evi Statiri (the full text is being translated from Greek into Spanish):
« For the domination, the extension of Evi’s detention is of double significance. On the one hand, the endurances of urban guerrillas and the tolerances of solidarians are being put to the test, and on the other hand the broader tactic of criminalising family relations is thus being legitimised. It is the psychological game of Power that, among other things, invades the consciences as a battering ram. It aims at the minds of relatives so as to wear them down, dismay them, make them feel frustrated and eventually turn them against us, corrupting the relationship of trust we have with them because they find themselves paying the price of our own choices. And if in the path of every personal history some comrades, friends or close ones stayed by our side and others gave up on us, this is because one easily stands next to people when they succeed in doing something, but hardly in their difficult times. However, the domination has not won this game. They placed a bet on the weakening of emotional ties and their conversion, a bet they lost already. Because, even six months later, the persons who are close to us, either from inside the prison or from the restrictive, delimited areas where they find themselves due to judicial orders, continue to give us smiles of patience and trust while maintaining their own dignity.
So, the wager is ours to make, of every anarchist cell and individuality that promotes the continuous attack, the insurgency, to prove that there will be no truce with the enemy, neither now nor ever. Especially amid repressive operations, one does not back down, but instead reignites the outbreaks of attack so as to become truly dangerous; to remain a threat as an internal enemy of the heart of the system. Because everything that rolls downhill can only be stopped when a barrier is erected in front of it, otherwise it will continue to do so indefinitely by continuously increasing speed, sweeping away anything that’s inferior to the proportions. It is a live wager, without end but with duration, advance and tension, having only one direction… liberation, anarchy.
“I do not need, nor do I want your discipline. With regards to my experiences, I want to have them for myself. It is from them, and not from you, that I will draw my rules of conduct. I want to live my own life. Slaves and lackeys terrify me. I hate those who dominate, and those who let themselves be dominated sicken me. He who bends before the whip is worth no more than he who wields it. I love danger, and the unknown, the uncertain, seduces me. I’m filled with a desire for adventure, and I don’t give a damn for success. I hate your society of bureaucrats and administrators, millionaires and beggars. I don’t want to adapt to your hypocritical customs nor to your false courtesies. I want to live out my enthusiasms in the pure, fresh air of freedom. . . . I’m going to follow my own path, according to my passions, changing myself ceaselessly, and I don’t want to be the same tomorrow as I am today. I stroll along and I don’t let my wings be clipped by the scissors of any one person. . . . I hate every chain, every hindrance; I love to walk along, nude, letting my flesh be caressed by the rays of the voluptuous sun. And, oh, old man! I will care so very little when your society breaks into a thousand pieces and I can finally live my life.
— Who are you, little girl, fascinating like a mystery and savage-like instinct?
— I am Anarchy.”
(Émile Armand, French individualist anarchist)
Olga Ekonomidou
member of the C.C.F.-F.A.I.
Koridallos women’s prison »
Call out in Polish, Spanish, French, Czech, Russian, Italian, German (original)
On the 12th of September 2015 Nazis, right-wing hooligans and right-wing populists want to carry out a “Day of German patriots” in Hamburg, Germany; with which they want to resume and connect on the racist marchings of Hogesa (right-wing alliance of hooligans against salafists) and Pegida (right-wing alliance of „patriotic Europeans against the islamization of the Occident”).
Last winter ten-thousands of Pegida supporters showed their long existing racist potential openly on the streets. Furthermore, with the AfD (“Alternative for Germany”-party) the right-wing spectrum found an parliamentarian representation that – contrary to the NPD (“Nationalistic Party of Germany”) – is not (directly) associated with the NS.
Following the presence of AfD, Pegida and Hogesa there is a drastically increase in attacks against Refugees in Germany. According to ProAsyl there were 35 arson attacks and 118 cases of vandalism against Refugee-accomodations as well as 256 manifestations against Refugees and their accomodations.
Just as well in Hamburg and the neighboring states these tendencies can not be left out of attention. Since 2014 there is a racist mobilization against a Refugee-accomodation in Farmsen (neighborhood in Hamburg), while at the same time “upright citizens” in Harvestehude (another neighborhood in Hamburg) try to prevent the built of a Refugee-accomodation with juristic measures. In Escheburg and Lübeck (both towns in Schleswig-Holstein) in February & June 2015 arson attacks against Refugee-accomodations were commited.
The German and European governments failed in dealing with Refugees. In 2014 worldwide 60 Million people were trying to escape from miserability and missing perspectives – on which the Industry nations of the West also have an account for. Increasing european-”shield” and a harder deportation-regime are used as answers against masses of deaths during the escapes across the Mediterranean Sea.
Instead of a welcoming culture, politics of deterrence are being used.
Pegida, HoGeSa, „Nein zum Heim“-initiatives (“no to HEIM”) and racist attacks can be seen as consequences of a political discourse that is reaching far into a middle-class camp or even arise from it.
Together with the HbgR (Hamburgs alliance against the right-wing) we are calling for protest against the marching of the Nazi-Hooligans.
Stop Nazis and their marchings!
Lets travel together to the HbgR-demonstration against the “Tag der deutschen Patrioten” from Pinneberg on the 12.09.2015.
Friday, 18th of September 2015
19:00, Claraplatz / Basel, Switzerland
Neither borders, nor nations. Sabotage Conex15.
More information on NoConex15!
From the 16th-25th of September 2015, a Swiss military training called “CONEX15” will take place in Northwestern Switzerland and formulates the threat scenario as follows: “In a fictional Europe of the future, with new countries and borders, there is an economic crisis. The following consequences also have an impact on Switzerland: supply shortages, a black market, and criminal organizations. Big oil, gas and grain stocks are the target of sabotage and looting. Moreover, ethnic tensions lead to larger refugee flows to Switzerland.
In today’s Europe, the economic crisis is driving more and more people into poverty and in part, the most basic necessities of life can not be satisfied. For millions of people there’s only one reality: an empty wallet and daily struggles to somehow keep afloat.
In presentday Europe, as well as in Switzerland, the borders are already militarized. Migrants fleeing war, repression and misery to search for a better life in Europe, are met with fortified border protection systems, are hindered from crossing the borders with aircraft, drones, ships and monitoring satellites. This is even more grotesque when you look at how European countries are involved in the exploitation and “destabilization” of other countries.
For the people who manage the dangerous entry, a life in the camps and prisons of the democracies of Europe is waiting for them: a life under surveillance and control, at the mercy of the mills of asylum laws and subjected to the constant threat of being deported again. At the same time, a profit is again reaped from the people, either while they are exploited as cheap labor or by their administration, which makes an independent life an inpossibility. This is how Switzerland and many companies also benefit, such as ORS (a Swiss asylum company), Securitas etc., in the management of the administration of the camp, the control of migrants, etc.
The questions, the scenarios, which seek to be answered in the scope of this military exercise, are for us the questions of the rulers and those who have power in this capitalist system and/or adhere to its continued existence: it is the question of how the worldwide social and political positions of power are maintained and how capital profits can be secured; how the people are brought to let themselves be exploited more and more; how the “unwanted” migrants are prevented from coming to Europe, or to come to Switzerland, resp. And finally, how one silences those that fight against it or simply strive for self-empowerment.
Their answers are always the same: strengthening of the laws, expansion of the repressive apparatus with its cops and prisons and when it appears necessary, the use of the military.
The military exercise, Conex 15, is an example of what such an answer looks like and only a visualization of the strategies and goals of the rulers.
In addition, the psychological effect that the military exercise should have on the population: a threatening scenario from the “outside” is evoked while insisting that one must “protect stable democracy and economy.” Militarization and repression should be legitimized, whereby people should get used to the presence of soldiers on the streets, as well as the fact that people are imprisoned in camps.
We do not ask for more democracy or a fairer capitalism. Even democracy is just a form of government that is used in a capitalist system to control, manage, and prevent people from thinking for themselves in which they’re deluded into thinking they have a say in things. Democracy, the nation-state and capitalism serve the same logic: The usability and control of the people. In this logic, borders, prisons, deportations, etc. will always exist.
We have no answer to these questions within this order and this system. Our only answer is the anger over this world with its borders and walls, and solidarity with all those who disappear in the camps and prisons of this system, because they allegedly do not belong here.
For a world without borders and nations! For a world without camps and prisons!
This is a call to disrupt and sabotage Conex15 and the entire migration system!
Received on August 30th:
![](//web.archive.org./web/20150926021355im_/https://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2015/09/1.jpg?04346c) Melbourne, Australia: In the early hours of Sunday, August 30th we attached a banner to a fence outside the Richmond railway station in inner-city Melbourne as a minimum expression of our participation in this year’s International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners.
INSURGENT SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS!
FIRE TO THE PRISONS AND THE SOCIETY THAT KEEPS BUILDING THEM!
– some anarchists
in Italian
Received on August 27th:
Hello Swainiacs!
Sean’s having a rough time and could use our help. We haven’t heard much from him since his transfer to Warren Correctional, and it wasn’t until one of us visited him yesterday that we fully understood why. His access to communication has been frustrated by a whole new set of obstacles. Read on for the details, and the simple action you can take to remedy the situation.
I visited Sean yesterday at Warren Correctional, where he was unexpectedly transferred two weeks ago. Sean’s transfer to a medium security prison was accompanied by a drop in his security level, from 4A to 3A. (Ohio uses a security scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the lowest security. Within each security level, “A” status is a lower security level, whereas “B” status is a disciplinary level of security).
Despite the security level drop to 3A, Sean is being held in a 3B unit at Warren with no indication of when he will be moved. The 3B unit at Warren is heavily-controlled by gangs and membership is a requirement for phone access. Sean is generally a well-respected prisoner, both for his many years in prison and for his reputation as an anarchist shit-starter, but he is in uncharted territory at a new prison among young wild-asses who, unfortunately, tend to direct their anger and defiance at one another instead of at the prison itself.
Without phone access and with the JPay kiosk out of order after being destroyed so many times by prisoners who don’t use them anyway, Sean’s only method of communication is letters and he’s unable to record his radio segments or communicate with his lawyer in a timely manner. Sean has sent many “kites” (inner-prison mail communication) to the administration about his move to 3A and gotten no specific indication of when he will be moved.
Sean requests that we call the prison and talk to Deputy Warden Robert Welch, who Sean says is a reasonable guy and may be receptive to our requests. His number is 513-932-3388 ext. 2005.
It’s important, though, that when talking to the prison administration, we not say anything to turn negative attention toward other inmates. Let’s talk to the prison about their failure to transfer Sean to the unit he’s supposed to be on and not focus our complaints on the actions of other inmates—such as the gang control of the phones or the destruction of the Jpay kiosk. Let’s remember who the real enemy is.
Stuff to say to Deputy Warden Robert Welch:
-Sean is a level 3A prisoner and needs to be transferred to a 3A unit immediately.
-Sean is trying to keep is head down and not risk his new level 3A status. His placement in a level 3B unit puts him at risk of getting in trouble. He will be safer in a 3A unit.
More than two years have passed since Til Schweiger obtained the closure of directactionde.ucrony.net. Since that time, it’s been more difficult to create an overview – and to definitively give some courage. Indymedia Linksunten is used and considered by many as a platform, but texts published on it soon become archived on back pages. Chronics in ‘underground notebooks’ or listings by topics create an overview from time to time. Much remains unnoticed, especially without a claim of responsibility in it’s stride. Therefore the city dweller receives hardly any agitation news happening in the country and in their own environment, if they do not take the trouble to study the tabloids and cop dispatches.
Overcome the isolation, creating suggestions
With this overview, we want it devoid as much as possible of any standard, calling to counteract the proven impotence and isolation that we so often hear of: lots of things going on!
As was already the case with ‘direct action from’: this website is independent of each group or individual whose actions will be published here, and vice versa. To contribute a translation, reference, link, etc… you can contact us.
Abolish borders, overcome language barriers
One of the goals of our blog will focus on translations. Contra Info is certainly for us as for many an important resource. Attaque.noblogs.org of France is less known but has the idea to collect translations in several languages with a large forum of actions and constitutes an example. How busy the category of foreign languages will be depends on you and your contributions!
Some remarks on the usage
To separately obtain translations in English, you can select the language by clicking on ‘English‘, in the top right column. On the main page, you’ll find articles in all languages categorized in chronological order according to date of action. The German chronicle will be a bit clearer after having selected the language ‘Deutsch‘ (top right).
A list of locations categorized by number of entries is located at the bottom right on each page. To filter according to city, click on the tag cloud, for example ‘Berlin‘ or ‘Leipzig‘, and you’ll get a chronological list of news from the selected city. Unfortunately, the choice of language and filtering by city can’t be combined.
In the calendar, you can select separate days to display for example March 17th. The days with publications are highlighted in the calendar. Contributions partly contain videos taken and other small details from the press, as well as claims of responsibility, police information and press links.
You can write to us via our email address or contact form. If you can’t find an action from 2015 or don’t see a translation or have a suggestion, write to us!
Wishing you pleasure, ideas and force,
chronik.blackblogs.org
Translated from French in collaboration with Chronik | in German
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Back to Heidenau, where the nazis are established…
As long as the racists, motivated by a campaign of fear in the mass media and supported by hypocrite policies, gather and run riot in front of the refugees under the eyes of police, we have the obligation to stand in their path – by all means necessary.
Not only in Heidenau, but everywhere and everytime that resistance is needed – as a daily routine…
Show your solidarity. Support the refugees. For a practical antifascism.
Stop pogroms! Racism arises in the mainstream of the society. Fight this conditions.
Germany kick the bucket!
Received on August 17, 2015:
CYPRUS: Two dogs were liberated after they were kept incarcerated by some scumbag on the island in a miserable, filthy cage, in terrible conditions and amid extreme summer heat, without food, with only slight dirty water, condemning them to a slow and painful death. Now they can live out the rest of their lives joyously without fear and pain.
Axes and cutters will always be our allies.
in Greek
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