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September 18, 2016
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Updates on anarchist comrade Daniele Cortelli editor of CROCE NERA ANARCHICA – Italy

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For Daniele visits have been accepted
He says he’s fine, and says not to send him any more books because he cannot have more than 5 in the prison where he is being held and would like some specific titles.

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To write to anarchist comrade:
CORTELLI DANIELE
C.C. Regina
Coeli  Via della Lungara n29 – 00165
ROME , ITALY
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September 18, 2016
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France,Toulouse: Solidarity sabotage of vehicles with the present repressive operation in Italy

Toulouse: Solidarity sabotage of vehicles
Indy Nantes, September 12, 2016
An Eiffage, a Bouygues [Telecom], 2 Orange vehicles and a private car had their tyres slashed over the weekend.
These companies are actively involved in the construction of jails, exploitation of prisoners or are auxiliaries of the cops.
We are thinking of our comrades involved in the present repressive operation in Italy.
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September 18, 2016
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Belgium – A motorway construction site burned down: road and rail traffic hampered

A motorway construction site burned down: road and rail traffic hampered
Lacavale, 31/08/16
pont_brugesincendie_pontEarly in the morning of 30 August 2016, a bridge under construction on the A11, the new section that will link Knokke in Bruges, was on fire. Given some difficulties, fire-fighters had to let the fire finish its job: nothing remains of the bridge in question. The traffic of trains between Bruges and Knokke was disrupted in both directions because of the fire. A detour had to be set up for motorists in both directions.
This new section of highway should facilitate road transport between the interior of the country and nearby Zeebrugge port. The work is being done by companies who, apart from building highways to improve the flow of the capitalist economy, also build prisons to defend the State, its law and private property. These are DG Infra + (builder of the new prison of Marche-en-Famenne) and Willemen (construction of the new prison in Leuze-en-Hainaut).
The fire broke out early in the morning before anyone arrived on site. The causes are unknown.
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September 18, 2016
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Italy , Rome: From ‘Sabot’ anarchist library

Rome: From ‘Sabot’ anarchist library:
On the morning of September 6, the prosecutor in Turin unleashes “Scripta Manent”, yet another repressive operation against anarchists.
Anna, Marco, Sandro, Daniele, Danilo and Valentina are put under arrest. Alfredo and Nicola are notified of the same in Ferrara prison. Another 8 comrades are under investigation. 33 homes endure unwelcome visits from the cops.
Yet again, as it was for the Marini trial and operations “Cervantes” and “Ardire”, the inquisitorial delirium of Dominion manufactures an imaginary “associative organization with terrorist aims” to which to attribute 13 years of direct actions to one “sole director”.
It is a well-known fact: Power needs scapegoats to strike its most bitter enemies more effectively.
In the face of all that we want to reaffirm that the informality of the anarchist tension is by its very nature irreducible to police / court representation and all its corollaries based on “vertical structures”, “occult directions”, “heads”, “followers”….
Our solidarity, love, closeness and complicity to the comrades seized and investigated.
The best way to deal with the repression and not abandon the comrades who are locked up is to continue the struggle for the destruction of this rotten existent, each according to their own conscience, desires, means.
So that those responsible for misery, exploitation, alienation and environmental devastation do not sleep soundly ….
Anarchist and libertarian library “Sabot”.
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September 16, 2016
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Magdeburg (Germany): 18 vehicles of the federal police and the Deutsche Bahn go up in smoke.

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Magdeburg (Germany): 18 vehicles of the federal police and the Deutsche Bahn go up in smoke

“Almost the entire fleet of federal police vehicles was destroyed by fire in Magdeburg.” (From an article in the regional press)
Wednesday to Thursday night, September 8, we set fire to the fleet of the federal police in Magdeburg.
Seven police vehicles parked at the Magdeburg central station went up in smoke, as well as eleven ‘Deutsche Bahn’ vehicles. The press writes that the damage is estimated at 750,000 euros.
Magdeburg police are now busy with the clearance works, searching for possible traces of samples by the forensics and blithering on the violence of the ultra-left. Thus, the final preparations for the big party are on hold. You said “party”?
Friday, September 9, under the slogan “Tatort Sternstraße 12. eine lange Nacht Partyarrest- auf dem Revier” [which could be translated as “A long night Festive Arrest at ‘Sternstraße 12’ crime scene – at the station”] the cops will practise new forms of public staging and recruitment attempts.
The police building voted the worst of all Germany by the police union became, in the space of a day, a cellar for partying before its renovation.
Estimations that there are high disease rates in the Magdeburg cops are related to the fact that the building is still infected with asbestos and mould. It is to be hoped that the guests will enjoy breathing the air of this rat hole! Concert, DJs, Lasershow, “where better could we come and talk with the youth than at a party?”

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September 16, 2016
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SARDINIA – ITALY – “WITHOUT DELAY” COMMUNIQUE FROM COMRADES MICHELA ORTU and PIERLEONE PORCU

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Tired of being an island within the island:
We are breaking the silence!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE RECALCITRANTS!
NO REPRESSION WILL DESTROY WHAT WE ARE.

‘[…]– Down the mask.

– The time is always ripe to get rid of injustice when injustice exists. – Do you wait for the man to be back on his feet before raising him up again? – That will be the moment to give him help? – Or when he is lying down? Or when the assailant is on top of him? Or when he asks you for help?’
Carlo Cafiero

What is our struggle. What is our life.

In the present totalitarian democratic regime, the multitudes of excluded thrown to the edges of this global society are rendered invisible, useless, left to themselves because they are considered the inevitable “waste” of the highly specialized technological / capitalist production. And just as many are those who, exploited and oppressed, are suspended on the edge of the abyss and plodding on the slopes of the system that makes them chronic medical cases and infantilises them in the oppressive network of laws and assistance-dependency for life by the booming business of the “tertiary sector” that makes them outcasts of blackmail and misery, distrustful of each other, in the contest for crumbs.
The most striking outcome of this incessant seesaw of economic, social, moral, cultural, sentimental etc. obscenities is that, between compulsory servitude and involuntary servitude, the most widespread practice between exploitation and oppression becomes the breakdown into individual categories, dispossessed of oneself and crumbling among millions of particles upon which hordes of vampires parasitize and fatten themselves to the point of their total cancellation.
Thus, under the weight of authority, religions, unbridled consumerism and subservience to the bitter end, hosts of workers, unemployed, migrants and excluded of all kinds of give up fighting, they cowardly accept to barter their dignity and, slaves of their own ignorance and opportunism, albeit discriminated against and humiliated on the one hand in turn reproduce discrimination and constant humiliation on the other; completely dependent on and addicted to delegating, they even feel proud to claim the “subjects’ freedom” of being allowed to decide who should be elected in the government of the day; and having internalized authority to such a point, at every turn appeal to so-called State security, the institutions, the rule of law, the courts, the cops, judges, politicians, religious leaders, psychiatrists, social workers, voluntary work of every kind etc., in the illusory expectation and hope of being inserted by and into the system if thrown out, or become integrated if they are not yet settled.

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September 16, 2016
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Netherlands – extradition approved for Amsterdam comrade prosecuted by Aachen court

The court of Amsterdam today, 15/9/2016 decided to comply with the German state’s request to extradite our comrade who will face trial in Aachen, for the accusation of bank robbery.
The verdict was pronounced around 12:30, and she was immediately taken.
The tribunal was full of friends and comrades in solidarity and support with the comrade facing repression.
solidarity in struggle.
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September 16, 2016
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USA – Burn Down the Plantation VIDEO (with Greek subtitles )

Burn Down the Plantation from subMedia.tv on Vimeo.
In this sedition we bring you an exclusive interview with prison inmate Melvin Ray, secretly filmed inside Holman Prison in Alabama. Melvin is a member of the Free Alabama Movement, a national organization against mass Incarceration and prison slavery. They have teamed up with the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, to organize the largest prison strike in history, set to kick off on September 9th. Read more about the actions leading up to the strike at It’s Going Down.

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Με ελληνικούς υπότιτλους..
Συνεντευξή με φυλακισμένο απο μέσα απ’τις φυλακές Χόλμαν της Αλαμπάμα που μιλά για τη μεγάλη απεργία εργασίας στις φυλακές 20 πολιτειών των ΗΠΑ, που ξεκινά στις 9/9/2016.

September 16, 2016
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MÉXICO: AFICHES EN SOLIDARIDAD CON LXS COMPAÑERXS ENCARCELADXS POR LA OPERACIÓN SCRIPTA MANENT

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“Invitamos a los/as compañeros y compañeras ha expresar su solidaridad de la única manera que creemos que es eficaz…”
En la madrugada del 6 de septiembre, una operación coordinada por la DIGOS (Divisione Investigazioni Generali e Operazioni Speciali) encabezada por el fiscal Roberto Sparagna de Turín, ha llevado a la persecución de una treintena de viviendas en Piemonte, Liguria, Lazio, Umbria, Lombardia, Abruzzo, Campania, Sardegna y Emilia Romana, así como a la detención de cinco compañeras y compañeros anarquistas con la acusación de asociación subversiva con finalidad de terrorismo: Anna, Marco, Sandrone, Daniele, Danilo y Valentina, además de a la notificación en la cárcel de Alfredo Cospito y Nicola Gai.
La operación, denominada “Scripta Manent”, pretende atribuir a una única dirección una serie de acciones que tienen en común la reivindicación de parte de la Federación Anarquista Informal, recalcando la estrategia represiva de algunos precedentes como la Operación Cervantes o la Operación Osadía y tratando de superponer una estructura asociativa y jerárquica en las expresiones de la conflictividad anarquista.
Para estructurar los indicios, parece que los investigadores se han dotado además de peritos lingüísticos y grafólogos, además de vigilancia informática, micrófonos ambientales y acecho.
Recordamos que en cuanto a la recolección de dinero para lxs compañerxs en prisión, el caso está activo.
Para enviar contribuciones solidarias
Tarjeta American Express Bank: 4023 6009 1934 2891
A nombre de: Omar Nioi
En cuanto a las direcciones, por el momento sabemos que lxs compañerxs están en las siguientes cárceles:
BISESTI MARCO: C.R. REBIBBIA via Bartolo Longo n. 72 – 00156 ROMA
MERCOGLIANO ALESSANDRO: C.R. REBIBBIA via Bartolo Longo n. 72 00156 ROMA
BENIAMINO ANNA: C.C. CIVITAVECCHIA via Aurelia nord km 79,500 n. snc 00053
CREMONESE DANILO EMILIANO: C.C. via San Donato n.2- 65129 PESCARA
SPEZIALE VALENTINA: C.C. via Ettore Ianni n.30 – 66100 CHIETI
ALFREDO Y NICOLA: SE ENCUENTRAN TODAVÍA EN FERRARA EN AS2
CORTELLI DANIELE: C.C. regina coeli Via della lungara n29 – 00165 ROMA

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September 15, 2016
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Poland: Warsaw Anarchist 3 granted bail -funds needed urgently to release them.

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Today during a court sitting concerning the complaint for prolonging the arrest of the 3 anarchists, a decision was made to release them on bail. A fee of 20 thousand PLN (4600 euro) was set for each of them. If the money is transferred in a week’s time (7 days from today), the arrested will be released and kept under police surveillance instead. 
60 thousadns PLN (13 800 euro) is a fortune for the families and friends of the arrested. Gathering these funds in one week seems barely possible. If you can – show your support, either financially or by forwarding the call for collecting funds. Every euro brings us closer to getting them out.
Leaving the arrest would mean for the arrested anarchists the end of everyday tortures they suffer after more than 3 months in solitary confinement. We cannot let this chance slip out of our hands!
Support here:
Account Holder: VpKK e.V.
IBAN: DE 4085 0205 0000 0361 5700
BIC: BFSWDE33DRE
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
Note: Donation ABC Warsaw \ ACK Warszawa
IMPORTANT: Do not forget about the note “Donation ABC Warsaw” or “ACK Warszawa”. Without it nobody will know that your donation is specially for three anarchists from Warsaw.

September 15, 2016
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UK – Bristol ,Vandalism of various prison workers property by Eco-anarchist vandals – FAI/IRF

This is dedicated to all the very young ones, youths with no direction yet, the kids that punch out at everything. Those that hate being told what to do and hate authority, who’ve fell foul of the law, who don’t even consider anarchy. Rebels without a cause. A prison gate is a border, it is a part of the class system, crime, scarcity and resource war. They need people to control and use in private prison labour. The prisons are exploding.
HMP Bristol, Horfield – 2 cars of screws are scratched up and tyres punctured, one a black sportscar – P6 SHT.
Horfield, Bristol – 12 Oak Road, house of screw has ‘bars’ sprayed on the windows and “screw” scrawled on the house in spraypaint.
Done in the International Week of Solidarity to Anarchist Prisoners, 23-30 August.
Solidarity to the anarchists in Italy arrested in Operation Scripta Manent and to all those in the prison uprising in America, 9 September.

Eco-anarchist vandals – FAI/IRF

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September 15, 2016
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UK – South London Nights against Borders #5 on Sunday 18th September.

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In June last year, an immigration raid on East Street, South London, was resisted by a motley crowd 100-strong. Though the man they arrested was ultimately detained and deported, immigration officers haven’t set foot in the area since. However, next month 3 people will stand trial in relation to events that occurred that day, and they deserve our maximum solidarity.
Come along to find out more about the case, the politics of immigration raids in London, and how we can support the defendants.
Free entry, donations always welcome. Drinks, vegan food & music, Sunday 18th September, 6-11pm, at the Field, 385 Queens Road, New Cross.

September 13, 2016
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Athens – Today, September 9th we raided Exarhia square unannounced and with a target, located drug dealers and gave them the message they deserve.

The struggle against the State, Drug mafias and Social Cannibalism
continues…
Video from the action:

Against the plans of transforming Exarhia square into a field of
control, consumerism and drug dealing, Anarchists and Communists we
moved organized and collectively, factually opposing the activity of
dealing drugs. An activity which continued in Exarhia square even today
despite the declarations of the minister of public order. In a world
that promotes profit and control as “values”, there is no room for
delusions.
Only our struggles, struggles against misery and subjugation, can really
liberate spaces, so social self-organization and class solidarity can
blossom. These struggles are the obstacle against state enforcement,
capitalist brutality and drug mafias who are sub products.
Today, September 9th we raided Exarhia square unannounced and with a
target, located drug dealers and gave them the message they deserve.
Comrades against the mafias.
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September 13, 2016
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Greece: Antifa «welcomes» the new fascists offices of LEPEN in Athens [video]

Greek antifascists paid a visit and literally demolished the new offices of the nationalist socialist party LEPEN, just few days before their planned official opening ceremony, not just on any other day, but purposefully on the day that Antifa rapper Killah P was murdered by neonazis (18 September) in Keratsini, Greece just 3 years ago.
As it seems, the fascists’s provocation was immediately answered by antifascists, before it was even materialized.

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September 13, 2016
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Seditiones volant et manent [Insurrections fly and remain] – Italy

A new consultant is floating around in the corridors of the prosecutor and the police headquarters in Turin. More skeletal than Fassino, more nauseating than Borghezio, more decrepit than Methuselah, he wanders through those rooms like a ghost. Also because he is a ghost.68b634a948b09f30bec97ea0c234a9d8ba593185_m
 During his lifetime he was called Caius Titus and officiated at the Roman Senate. It is rumoured that he was the author of the expression  ‘Verba volant scripta manent’ [Words fly away, writings remain]. Only – contrary to popular belief – the old senator did not intend to recommend leaving traces of thoughts that might otherwise have faded away in the wind, far from it! His was rather a call to caution, prudence, addressed to his honourable colleagues of misdeeds. Spoken words can always be denied, those in print cannot.
 One wonders what meaning was attributed to his famous words by the Savoyard cops, who have just appropriated them to christen the operation – Scripta Manent – that led to the arrest of some anarchists accused of being part of the Informal Anarchist Federation , responsible over recent years for a series of direct actions. Perhaps the meaning is just the more modern one that has entered common usage, as though to date all the mega-investigations against anarchists variously considered to be involved in the Informal Anarchist Federation had proved unsuccessful because they were based on ephemeral chatter, while this time the Turin Prosecutor has hard evidence in hand?

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September 12, 2016
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Italy – It Comes As No Surprise Operation “Scripta Manent” [en]

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As I had already written in a statement a few days ago about the operation “Scripta Manent” [“written words remain“], 32 comrades across the Italy were awakened by the dogs in uniforms at dawn of September 6. r-i-radioazione-italia-it-comes-as-no-surprise-1
The result of this new operation, ordered by Turin Prosecutor’s Office trough its inquisitor Roberto M. Sparagna, is 7 arrested and 15 under investigation.
The eight comrade, editor of Croce Nera [Anarchist Black Cross], Daniele was arrested following the search when are found the batteries and a handbook for electrician.
Apart from Alfredo and Nicola, already in Ferrara’s prison for the wounding of Roberto Adinolfi, the other arrested comrades are Alessandro, Marco, Danilo, Valentina and Anna.

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September 12, 2016
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Update on the US national prison strike – Bristol – UK

On Friday, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, the largest prison strike in US history was organised. Solidarity actions were planned in at least 50 US cities, and inside organisers like Siddique Hasan were put in solitary for their roles in agitating for the strike.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday the 7th, hundreds of prisoners rioted in anticipation of the strike in a Florida prison; riots lasted into the early hours of the morning and almost every dorm was damaged.
On the 9th of September itself, all inmates in Holman prison, Alabama, refused to report to their jobs without incident. Two Florida prisons were on lockdown for the day after work stoppages, with smaller revolts reported in prisons across the state. There was a riot in a South Carolina prison, with many more prisoners across the state refusing to go to work. On the 0th of September, hundreds of people rioted in Kinross Correctional Facility. For news of the many more revolts and resistances that happened in prisons across the US, as well as support actions from across the world, visit itsgoingdown.org.
Meanwhile in collaboration with IWOC in Bristol, we held a fundraiser and infonight in solidarity with the prison strike, raised a bit of cash for the strike fund in the US and watched this video about prison slavery from submedia TV

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September 11, 2016
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Greece – Poster about the prison strike against slavery starrting on the 9/9/2016 (USA and globaly)

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FIGHT PRISON SLAVERY
UNTIL THE LAST PRISON IS TORN DOWN
Mass incarceration today in the U.S. as well as slave labor in conditions of incarceration have reached unprecedented levels. State and capitalism feed their prisons with masses of poor and marginalized people, who are to be exploited in forced labor. The prison-industrial complex of the U.S. incarcerates millions of men and women, a number which is constantly on the rise, just as their exploitation through unpaid labor is on the rise. Many prisons have been privatized, but private and state prisons alike run on the forced labor of their prisoners, who work on a petty or no wage at all, for multinational giant corporations, plantations, the military industry e.t.c. Indicatively, we could mention companies such as Honda, McDonald’s, Victoria’s Secret, Starbucks, Wendy’s, Walmart, Whole Foods Market.
This is none other than the continuation of slavery
At the same time, overseers survey every move prisoners make and impose strict disciplinary and other measures. Prisons are increasingly counting on slavery and torture in order to maintain a stable function. They may have replaced the whip with pepper spray, but many of the other torments remain: isolation, restraint positions, stripping off prisoners’ clothes, and body search. Forty five years past since the bloody revolt with 43 dead and hundreds of injured in Attica prison, prisons in the U.S. are in turmoil once again. Prisoners have made the connection of their struggle today with the Attica revolt and so they chose to commence their struggle on September 9 2016.
In response to this call we stand in solidarity to the “struggle against slavery”, tracing the thread of resistance that connects the past with the present, that connects the struggles against prison around the world, from the U.S. to Mexico, to Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, whether the fight takes the form of uprisings, destruction, burning down the prison, mass hunger strikes ,and where regardless of the different demands and different means of mobilization, what unites these struggle is the fight against oppression, incarceration and authority.
BURN DOWN ALL PRISONS
SOLIDARITY TO THE “STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY” OF PRISONERS IN THE PRISONS OF U.S.A.
Solidarity Assembly to the struggle of prisoners against slavery
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