October 3, 2016
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October 3, 2016
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USA – Milwaukee in Flames: The Night the Pigs Got Bricked
It’s Going Down
It was a Saturday night. When we caught word that the BP on Sherman and Burleigh was in flames, we hopped in the car and headed over. It had finally happened, like we all knew it would. Police murdered another Black man. His name is Sylville Smith. We drove west on Burleigh from around Fon Du Lac. Cars packed the streets, just cruising and blasting music. Some people shot their pistols into the air. As we drove closer the air became thick with smoke. A huge black cloud poured from the flames. Hundreds of people were gathered in the area.
We went back the other way on Burleigh and saw a group of about 50 people masked up, smashing up huge cinder blocks to use as projectiles. They were heading east toward the intersection of Fon Du Lac, 35th, and Burleigh. We figured they might be going to the Police Station right there so we darted over. The Station was boarded up with no cops in sight. They had barricaded themselves inside, fearing the wrath of the neighborhood. But when the crowd showed up they didn’t go for the police station. People cracked open the beauty shop and liberated everything inside. A rebel grinned as they walked into the street with a huge bouquet of red roses. Down the block the O’ Reilly Auto parts store billowed black smoke. Then the bank went up in flames. We sat there in the middle of the intersection and watched flames engulf every corner for what seemed like forever. The firemen didn’t come for hours.
Finally we watched as police in riot gear escorted fire fighters to the front of the auto parts store. As soon as they smashed open the door a massive plum of black smoke engulfed the whole column of cops. Things continued like this late into the night. A few of us sat in a parking lot a block from the police station watching them cower. We listened to the mayor and police chief on the radio admit they have no control over the situation. They lamented that the criss-crossing streets of the neighborhood made it hard for the cops to maneuver.
October 3, 2016
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USA – Call For Renewed Actions In Solidarity With The Prison Strike, October 15-22
It’s Going Down
See a list of events at the bottom of the page. Submit your events to info [at] itsgoingdown.org
It hardly seems necessary to summarize what has gone down inside U.S. prisons since September 9th. Hunger strikes, work stoppages, and riots have spread throughout the country on a scale that we likely aren’t even fully aware of yet. Some uprisings appeared took us by surprise, such as in several Florida prisons, while others presumably grew from recent organizing endeavors on the inside, such as at Kinross in Michigan or Holman in Alabama. By rough estimates, over 20,000 prisoners were involved in some way. That’s huge.
On the outside, solidarity burned so brightly all over the world. Banner drops, graffiti slogans, noise demonstrations and more showed that we had the backs of all who would partake in the strike. It is worth noting however that the vast majority of this took place the first weekend of the strike. But this prison strike—and the struggle against prisons more broadly—is about more than a day or a week. It didn’t start on September 9th and it isn’t ending any time soon. Some prisoners may return to work while others decide to stop working for the first time. It’s easier when there is a definitive date to take action on, to build momentum towards, but that’s not going to be enough.
October 3, 2016
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France Paris – Scripta manent, volens nolens !
Solidariy with Anna, Marco, Sandrone, Daniele, Danilo, Valentina, Nicola and Alfredo !
sunday 11 September 2016
Some, because they are proud and probably a little outmoded, are used to saying, others to scoffing, “they are not one in a hundred, yet they exist …” with the familiar air of an old clown. At the AS2 prison section of Ferrara, they are one hundred per cent, and they do exist, the anarchists … The Italian State is expert in the field, operation upon operation, from Marini to Ardire, passing by Thor, Mangiafuocco and Cervantes, great repressive “hits” of the Digos or ROS against the anarchists set off in succession with a few cosmetic and poetic variations. Today’s special is more poetic than ever. “Operazione Scripta Manent” (“writings remain”) was deployed over the Italian territory the morning of 6 September 2016 on the orders of the Turin parquet, with arrests, a number of incarcerations and about thirty related searches concerning attacks claimed by the FAI. Currently scattered over several prisons, they could soon be regrouped in Ferrara AS2 for the men and Rebibbia for the women.
We could resign ourselves to this state of affairs: often, the Italian State updates files, harasses, detains, fantasizing scripts that often have more of a Hollywood spy movie both in their ridiculous methods and conspiracy scenarios (organizations structured like companies or proto-States, with hierarchies, complex financing and other crap of the investigating judges) than anything of the reality of the real antagonist and anti-organizer anarchist movement.
October 1, 2016
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France, Besançon (Doubs): Solidarity is attack!
Solidarity is attack!
Indy Nantes, September 20, 2016
On the night of September 19 to 20 the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Besançon was attacked.
More than a dozen windows were broken and inscriptions were traced on the façade with red paint bombs. One of them said, “Neither capital nor State.”
The repression that prevailed throughout France against the rebels of September 15 clearly pushed us to action.
This attack is a sign of solidarity with all the rebels of the movement against the labour law.
No law, no work!
October 1, 2016
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Solidarity gesture for the 6 recently imprisoned comrades in Italy, and Lukáš Borl in Czech Republic (Greece, Athens)
As a gesture of solidarity with the recently imprisoned comrades in Italy and in Czech Republic, we hung a banner in Athens, writing:
Armed attack until the total destruction of authority and enforcement
for all the imprisoned anarchist brothers, for all our stolen moments
SOLIDARITY & COMPLICITY WITH THE RECENTLY
IMPRISONED COMRADES IN ITALY & CZECH REPUBLIC
Unıon of anarchıst ındıvıduals Uroborus
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October 1, 2016
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Poitiers (Vienne): seize the moment when the cops are looking the other way…
Police car on fire in Poitiers
France Bleu Poitou, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 16:04
A police car was set on fire on Tuesday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Couronneries in Poitiers.
A police patrol was responding to a call in the Couronneries district in Poitiers on Tuesday afternoon around 15h when their car, parked outside, was set on fire. The windows exploded, which did not go unnoticed in the neighbourhood.
No arrests
This was a voluntary act. A group of people was seen around the vehicle but no one was arrested. Luckily there were no injuries and no other cars were affected. An investigation has been opened.
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http://cettesemaine.info/breves/spip.php?article1893&lang=f
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October 1, 2016
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Solidarity, Amsterdam: demonstration 15-9 and update Sept 21- Extradition
The lawyers have informed us that the extradition to germany, of the comrade arrested on the 15/9, by request of the prosecution of Aachen, will take place today.
Tomorrow she will appear in front of a judge who will confirm her preventive investigative detention (Uhaft).
Solidarity through struggle!
On the morning of the 15th of September, the courts decided to arrest and hold our comrade until her extradition.
On the evening of the 15th of September around 30 people gathered and walked in a demonstration in the city centre of Amsterdam to disrupt and shake the normality of the apathy of these shopping streets, the veins of Capital. The taking of our friend will not happen silently and complacently.
On the evening of the 16th a short but loud demonstration was held outside the prison our comrade is held in, to break the isolation that those cement walls and barbed wire try to impose. The fireworks and voices reached the other side of the wall, with more prisoners sending back echoes.
We are still angry…
solidariteit.noblogs.
October 1, 2016
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Genoa – Words from Carlo, anarchist comrade from Genoa
Greetings to Nicola, Alfredo, Anna, Daniele, Marchetto, Sandrone, Danilo and Valentina
The Solidarity I express to those arrested is unconditional.
They arrested my brothers and sisters and for this reason my heart is aching.You’ll never be alone!!!
Dear comrades, I’m close to you!!!
A few words to clarify the situation of the trial in which I’m accused of instigation to commit acts of terrorism.
I’m writing these few lines to explain the situation I’m facing concerning proceedings where I am accused of writing a piece (To those who don’t dissociate themselves) bitterly attacking those who dissociated themselves from the Action (later claimed by Alfredo and Nicola) that led to the kneecapping of Adinolfi.
After several delays and call-outs to comrades for participation in the trial (as many will remember), this phantom trial will take place on 28th September.
Obviously the call-outs didn’t please either the prosecutor or the judge, possibly both, and so they decided to hold it behind closed doors; being a summary procedure trial they can decide to do so.
The importance of the comrades’ presence will be missing and above all my presence will be missing as it would be pointless by then.
So I’m sorry I won’t get the chance to see the many people who showed their closeness to me, but there are other reasons to see one another, especially after the latest arrests.
A libertarian hug to all those who have shown me their solidarity.
Carlo from Genoa
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https://www.autistici.org/cna/2016/09/21/testo-del-compagno-anarchico-carlo-di-genova/
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September 29, 2016
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Italy : Two relay antennas set on fire in solidarity with the comrades facing the repressive operation “Scripta Manent”
Two Wind / Ericsson masts burned in Valsavignone
Wow! It’s hot!
On September 13, in the Valsavignone locality [Pieve Santo Stefano, Toscana; NdT], we burned two Wind / Ericsson relay antennas.
A small response to the recent arrest of our comrades Anna, Vale, Alfredo Nicola, Danilo, Daniele, Divo, Marco and Sandro.
May each blow of the enemy lead to a backlash against it: its face is everywhere … we are too!
May our daily life, with or without repression, be (also) destructive!
May solidarity, even more when repression strikes, be (also) attack!
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via:https://anarhija.info/library/valsavignone-toscana-italia-bruciati-due-ripetitori-della-wind-ericson-in-solidarieta-con-i-com
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September 29, 2016
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Italy: Updates on anarchist comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito
These updates have been made known to us directly by the imprisoned comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito:
Concerning Anna, she tells us that she is in isolation (no tv), is prohibited from meeting with other prisoners and saw censorship of her mail, which she says reaches her fairly quickly.
Alfredo, instead, is still in isolation, and not only for his solidarity action with the CCF, which the prison court has not yet ruled on yet, but also for the new investigation “Scripta Manent”. He also informed us that being in isolation he has nothing in the cell such as addresses, even the comrades arrested for Scripta Manent.
I urge comrades to send them the most news, newspapers, and stamps to break the isolation that the nation’s prisons are imposing physically at this time.
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http://www.autistici.org/cna/2016/09/27/italia-aggiornamenti-sui-compagni-anna-beniamino-e-alfredo-cospito/
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September 29, 2016
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UK – LONDON – SOLIDARITY WITH THE 3 people will stand trial on 3th of October 2016
Trial update
The trial is now on. Even though the public gallery is generally always full (so far…), support outside the court room is welcome. The sessions are 10am to 1pm & 2pm to 4:30pm (There is no afternoon session on Thurs 6th) at Blackfriars Crown Court, 1-15 Pocock St, SE1 0BT.
A short summary:
Day 1
Schedule estimation: first week for the Prosecution witnessess; next week Defence witnessess; third week, summarising and anything else needed. Selection of the 12 members of the Jury (out of a pre-selected panel). Opening notes.
Day 2
Two Immigration Officers (morning and afternoon) give evidence & get cross examined.
Day 3
Testimony & cross examination of the Police Inspector responsible for coordinating police response on the day (Inspector on duty for Southwark borough then).
The Inspector of the TSG (riotcops) gives evidence, the crossexamination starts and will carry on on day 4.
Day 4 last part of cross examination of TSG Inspector. First police Dog Handler: nearly finished, but the very last bit of cross examination got postponed until Monday.
Day 5 testimony & cross examination of two other police Dog Handlers, as well as two TSG officers.
On Day 6 in the morning, there will be one more TSG officer as well as the end part of the first police dog handler. Then it will be the turn of the Defense …
The Defense was meant to start on Monday, but a member of the Jury being unwell meant that the session was postponed to the day after.
Through out the last two days we’ve seen evidence & cross examination of the first defendant + one defense witness, as well as two character references, getting to complete the case.
Today -Thursday 13th, Day 9- the second of the East St 3 starts his case’s defense
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SOLIDARITY WITH THE EAST STREET DEFENDANTS
On Sunday the 21st of June, 2015, an immigration raid on East Street sparked an explosion of rebellion and Solidarity. When Immigration Enforcement officers forced a local man into the back of their van, a crowd of people who live and work in the area, including kids, gathered to prevent his removal. Because of this, riot police were called to the scene.
Without warning, the riot police violently charged the crowd, knocking people to the ground and attacking them with dogs. Instead of running away, the people in the crowd, now numbering well over a hundred, stood firm and defended themselves. Unable to disperse the crowd, the cops left the area.
Since then, the man originally detained has been deported and three people have been forced to stand trial at the beginning of October this year. They face massively inflated charges including “violent disorder.” If found guilty they could receive a serious prison sentence.
At a time when whole estates are being demolished to make way for luxury flats and many are being forced out of their area, when migrants are treated like criminals, held in indefinite detention away from their friends and families, when immigration raids and police harassment are part of daily life, it’s clear that the violence of the order is the real problem. And it is this violence that people on East Street were rebelling against.
The charge of “violent disorder” is a cynical tactic used to stop such rebellion. By singling out individuals for punishment, the authorities hope to spread fear among us so that we feel unable to defend ourselves. But instead of giving in to fear, the best form of self-defence is to stand in solidarity with each other, just as people did on East Street when their neighbour was detained by Immigration Enforcement in June last year.
In October this year, solidarity with the East Street Defendants can only mean one thing: continued rebellion against the violent order.
September 28, 2016
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Val Brembana (Bergamo), Italy – Hunting posts destroyed
We receive from anonymous mail and spread:
In the night of Saturday 10th September, just before the annual opening of the hunting season, two posts ready to be used were attacked and demolished in a little valley in Val Brembana.
For a free world for all!
Solidarity with all the beings in cage!
With blood in our eyes and anger in our hands!
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via:http://www.informa-azione.info/val_brembana_bg_liberazione_animale_distrutte_postazioni_di_caccia
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September 28, 2016
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Berlin[A-Radio in English] Azerbaijan: the „flower holiday“ of the dictator and the imprisoned anarchists
At the Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, IFA, we had the opportunity of talking to an anarchist comrade from Azerbaijan who told us about the case of two imprisoned comrades, facing long sentences.
For security reasons we re-recorded this interview with our own voices.
Length: 3:19 min
You can download the audio at: archive.org (wav | mp3 | ogg).
September 27, 2016
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Greece , Peloponnese – Krakatoa, Patras: Film projection and P.A.system gathering in solidarity with the prisoners in the U.S.A.
Krakatoa, Patras: Film projection and P.A.system gathering in solidarity
with the prisoners in the U.S.A.
projection:
Thursday 29/9 at the steps of Agios Nikolas, the documentary “Imprisoned
world”
gathering/p.a. system:
Saturday 1/10 at 12.00 noon at “Parartimatos” squat
SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF THE PRISONERS IN THE U.S.A. AGAINST
SLAVERY
FIRE TO ALL CELLS/CAGES
anarchist/antiauthoritarian collective for total liberation Krakatoa
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September 27, 2016
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THESSALONIKI – Poster that was fly-posted in the eastern part of Thessaloniki about the struggle of the prisoners in U.S.A.
Counter-information poster that was fly-posted in the eastern part of
Thessaloniki about the struggle of the prisoners in U.S.A. against the
labor they are made to perform in favor of companies.
Posters were put up on the entrance and signs of the offices of the
hellenic-american union on Fragon street in the city centre.
Solidarity with the imprisoned fighters in the U.S.A. and all over the
world.
Struggle against forced labor, waged or unwaged.
Struggle against state and capital.
Collective of anarchists from the east.
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September 27, 2016
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OCCUPATION OF HELLENIC-AMERICAN UNION OF ATHENS, in solidarity with the struggle of the prisoners against slavery in U.S. prisons.
OCCUPATION OF HELLENIC-AMERICAN UNION OF ATHENS.
26/9/2016 We occupied the hellenic-american union in solidarity with the struggle
of the prisoners against slavery in U.S. prisons.
DIAS and other cops have filled the street.
TORCH AND BURN EVERY PRISON
SOLIDARITY TO THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY OF THE PRISONERS IN THE U.S.
PRISON.
We also call for an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
GATHERING AT THE U.S. EMBASSY ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 1ST AT 6.00PM
Solidarity Assembly to the struggle of prisoners against slavery
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September 26, 2016
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UK , LONDON -Warsaw 3: London banner drop and solidarity events coming up
Free the Warsaw 3: London Banner drop and upcoming solidarity events !!
Last weekend, individuals handed out zines and dropped a banner at TRESPASS ( DIY Punk show ) to raise awareness and support for the Warsaw 3; three anarchists arrested and charged under new anti-terror laws. Donations were also collected to go towards their legal costs.
On the 7th October 8pm, come along to the solidarity SQUAT gig & party with London based bands and musicians to help raise funds for the Warsaw 3 !
Free the Warsaw 3 and all hostages of the State !
Links for events:
Info Night
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/london/decentre/2016-09-28/free-warsaw-3-info-night
Gig
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/london/decentre/2016-10-07/free-warsaw-3-solidarity-gig-and-party
via:rabble.
September 26, 2016
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Scotland, Edinburgh : Sabotage of construction machines and incendiary attack
via:antisocialevolution.blackblogs.We received and publish :
Inside the increasingly growing modernization in the already rampantly developed urbanization I feel my individuality to suffocate. The urban field in my eyes is an area of open prison. Inside it humans just exist, as pets of a god named Law separating their existence from any other form of life and environment. And those who don’t separate, in fact they still separate themselves, because they see themselves as regulators of ”wild” life. Desires have long ago been channeled in the sickness of consumerism concerning anything, from material things to the sphere of thought, where the poisons of the so many years of capitalism have been established in combination with the weakness of negating social roles and of every culture-prison, offspring of civilisation. The ”free life” is the ”beauty” of the choices of the urban field which incarnates the utmost characteristics of massification of the ideologemes of civilisation. This is where all rights have been transformed into the tomb of life. Though my desires seek the affirmation of life through experimentations of destructive deconstruction of theory and action.
This is why little before daybreak on 19/07/16 I headed towards a construction site with intention sabotage and destruction of property. Whichever companies are the same to me, wheels of civilisation and its procedures. After cutting the fences I severed a big amount of the cables of two excavators and the windows of another crane machine were painted black. Nihilistic symbols were also painted on the machines. Symbols that signify a procedure not a reification. There was intention for more destruction but because of the reason that I was possibly spotted from an opposite house I chose to bail out. Though the ideas still remain to come into effect.
On 12/08/16 I set an expensive sportscar on fire using the very simple method of placing firelighters under the fuel tank on top of the tire. This action is an expression of misanthropic feelings, generally but also specifically towards those who use the products of civilisation through the social logic of the spectacle. For the beauty of fire inside the darkness of the night. Against society itself and the reproduction of norms for adaption. Society is first of all a complex of ideological systems even conflicting between themselves and secondarily it is control and psychosomatic repression which spring up from the first and the individuality remains always a prisoner. Therefore attacks against society could not have a certain character. In no case I’m trying to justify my actions through a supposed universal value ideologicalized cause, these belong to others not me. My actions don’t have as starting point nor do they aim at politics, they are clearly actions of pleasure that begin from my personal values as a person. Egoistic nihilism is a tool not a product for consumers in the capitalist alienation, its aim is at expropriating the person from any universality and predetermined values with purpose the exposure of chaotic reality so as to destroy idealism and move towards the fulfillment of desire without imaginary chains or expectations.
I have to self-criticize myself here for some identifying ”identities” which I used in my previous communiques in claiming my actions, although I didn’t start this way. For me these were not reified identities and I think this is clear from my words, but I used them as an indicator generally nonetheless which would imply an imaginary uniform culture and myself an advocate of this, something that isn’t reflective of reality neither what I want. A mistake like this doesn’t offer anything besides the fact it can easily create new reification inside the civilised sewer we live in. So I dispose of these chains of language which are completely unnecessary if personal content is present. The name I use is not the attempt for the creation of a new fortress of ideas. I would never want to see the name undertaken by others (not that this is likely to happen, for many reasons), it represents only me because it simply is part of the content of my ego, not new reified idealistic propaganda for The Cause. Besides, even anonymity for me could as easily be another form of uniformity. What matters is the content, words in themselves are just trash, products of civilization. The cell falcon of chaos has been from the beginning an attempt of breaching the domestication inside the city, the unfolding of the direct anarchist experience that pays tribute to no prescriptions and the opening of possibilities for self-realization. The responsibility claims are an experiment of an attempt for interaction with other unique ones. A communique in itself is just a means inside ones own cause and not a ”complete and final” manifestation of the moment of the action or an end in itself. Always against every ideology no matter which name accompanies it but also all of their essentialist identities. I am not of those who draw directly from the images of authority and reproduce them with other mantle. All my communiques aim at the propulsion of theory and practise with starting point the self, anarchy as a vehicle, namely the situation that I negate even the physical authority over me and nihilism my weapon of choice, never leaving those to be dominated by ghosts no matter their name, always with the perception of chaotic pluralism in my mind into the war of all against all, which doesn’t confine me to care about compulsive predetermined unities neither a form of obligatory solitary asceticism. I never cared to be included in camps but only to conspire with real persons, egos of power, so I have also experienced ”excommunication” from Temples of anarchist Inquisition, because everyone has their sanctities, pillars of their constructs and few seem to like to smash their construct to the ground with the possibility of creating something more authentic and unchained. Because I attack and scorn any predetermined idealistic content. Sometimes of a ghost of the ”human”, the deity of many anarchist Temples, but also ”nature”, a metaphysical deity of eco-extremists and I will always be against anything idealistic or any idealized construct tries to rise above the uniqueness of the ego. Without duties of social constructs and without any proposal for the future, because I don’t care, I embrace the void and fight.
For the beauty of destruction into the prison of systems!
For the embrace of fire in the deafening silence of the night!
For the rise of nothing!
Destroy to create!
Falcon Of Chaos
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Italian
September 26, 2016
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