Defend Rhodri! Retaliation at Berwyn

https://prisonersolidarity.wixsite.com/psnldn/amp/defend-rhodri-retaliation-at-berwyn

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Friday, February 12, 2021. International day of solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitri Koufontinas.

We repost the following call for international solidarity with Greek rebel prisoner Dimitri Koufontinas who is on hunger strike. Full details below.

Friday, February 12, 2021. International day of solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitri 
Koufontinas.

At the end of last December the Greek government approved a reform of the national penitentiary system that, in addition to other measures that worsen prison conditions, establishes that those convicted of terrorism cannot access “rural prisons”, more “open” institutions to which long-term prisoners have access. The approval of this law has led to the immediate transfer of political prisoner Dimitri Koufontinas from the rural prison of Kassevitia.


Dimitri is a comrade convicted for participating in the revolutionary organization 17 November, in prison since 2002. The new set of laws stipulates that inmates in rural prisons are reclassified and then transferred to the last prison they were in. In Dimitri’s case it should have been the Athenian prison of Koridallos. However, the prison administration decided to transfer him, manipulating the transfer papers, to
Domokos prison. Although there are no differentiated circuits in Greece, in recent years, the prison administration has turned Domokos into a “hard” prison.


Such a punitive transfer is aimed at striking a comrade who has always struggled: as a free man, in courtrooms, in prison. Since his capture he has participated in numerous protests and has been on four hunger strikes. This repressive manoeuvre is not only aimed at annihilating Dimitri Koufontinas but also forms part of the Greek’s state repressive project: crushing the most radical and combative parts of society to avoid the hypothesis of future and general conflicts.


Faced with the transfer, Dimitri Koufontinas decided to strive once again, using his body as a weapon and last resort. Since 8 January he has begun a hunger strike which will continue indefinitely until he is transferred to Koridallos prison. As the strike continues, the comrade is in a critical and precarious condition in Lamia hospital: according to the doctors he could collapse at any moment. During the strike there were many initiatives and solidarity actions throughout Greece and beyond:
protests, demos, wall writings, banners, attacks against multiple objectives (politicians, banks, post offices, etc.). But time is running out and now we think extra efforts are needed.


Dimitri’s struggle is also the struggle of each of us.
The creation and expansion of international ties is as crucial as ever so we are calling for an INTERNATIONAL day of solidarity and action on FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY to support Dimitri Koufontinas.
THE DEMAND OF HUNGER STRIKE MUST BE IMMEDIATLY ACCEPTED
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Athens, 7 February 2021
Solidarity Assembly with Dimitri Koufontinas

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Fragment from the ‘Napier Barracks’ Concentration Camp

https://twitter.com/chooselove/status/1352544764432961536/photo/1

The following letter, currently gaining widespread circulation, comes from one of those confined in yet another prison island black site designated for infinite detention of migrants. 
The letter speaks for itself, the unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, militarised security, numerous self-harm and suicide incidents, the unimpeded surge of covid-19 cases, all paired with the snarling home office injunctions to ‘follow the rules’ whilst, of course, systematically removing any shred of safety or dignity. 
Also attached is a little dossier compiled by Corporate Watch on the mafia subcontracting system which administers this dark network of dungeons and slums the Home Office disappears people in. 
The vultures of Clearsprings, G4S, Serco etc, every part of the border, personnel and infrastructure, the sociopath auctioneers of the tory cabinet, their reprehensible lackeys in the press, the wannabe fascist grifters making YouTube videos in advocacy of the ‘barracks solution’: blood stains the gears of their death-machine. Every single profiteer and collaborator all the way up and down the chain is an enemy— strength and love to the incarcerated who are standing for dignity and demanding their freedom—solidarity with those who shake the fences! 
Boundless solidarity to those incarcerated in ‘Napier Barracks’-Concentration Camp! Fire to every prison and the world that permits them!

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Silence broken around the Modena prison killings

In march 2020 riots sparked in several prisons around Italy to fight against the inhumane conditions the prisoners are living under, particularly worsened by the pandemic in an already overcrowded situation.

After 2 days the riots came to an end, and the news reported several deaths among the inmates with a death toll that quickly raised up to 14. Fourteen people most of them migrants and 9 of which in Modena only. The screws, the government and the media rushed to label the killings as methadone overdoses and calling for a mafia conspiracy that organised the riots. Everything in order to cover up this homicides, bury the dissident voices and minimise the reasons of the protests to criminal acts.

But after months of silence, finally some voices managed to come out of the prison telling a very different story. In fact 5 prisoners from Modena released an official statement asking for an investigation, in which they gave a narration of those days made of torture, brutal beatings from the police and neglect.

It obviously took a lot of courage for this people to speak out as they are still in the same prison where the killings occured and with the same screws.

For this reason in solidarity with this people that decide to put their face, literally. We invite to write them to the follow address:

Mattia Palloni, Cipriani Claudio, Belmonte Cavazza, D’Angelo Francesco, Bianco Ferruccio

Address

Strada Statale Sant’Anna , 370, 41122 Modena (MO) Italy

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Viral Prisoner Letter-Writing 2020

This December London ABC wants to launch a special prisoner letter-writing: virtual, but with the same aim. Send some warmth and complicity, towards a world without cages or barriers.

Solidarity cards made during linoprinting with ABC 2019/2020

To write a letter just send an email with the content to london_abc@riseup.net with the number of the solidarity card of your choice (between 1,2,3 above). Include the name of the prisoner you would like send the letter to (choose from prisoner list, or the name and the address of someone you know is inside, if not in the list) and the address you want to the reply sent back to, or you can use this address: Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX. And we’ve done, you done, ABC will provide next day delivery.

When you write us the email with the content*(that will remain strictly confidential between few people from ABC London group), don’t forget your name or pseudonym, so we can recognise you in case the person inside writes back to the Freedom Bookshop address.

*content. If it’s a problem for you to share your thoughts, no worries, we understand. But we still encourage you to write: pick a name from the list and do so in your own pace and means.

If it’s the first time for you writing a letter to an inmate have a look here.

All around the world people are getting locked up because of their political or social struggles. Those people in many cases are left alone inside of the prison system that tries to crush them with all the power it has. However writing letters to the prisoners might be one of those small straws that will be able to pull the person out of the repressive apparatus of the state. We urge you to write letters to prisoners to help them survive hardships of prison! This video is a result of collaborative work between Anarchist Black Cross Dresden and Anarchist Black Cross Umeå groups. It was created as a mobilization for the 2020 Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners (23-30 August)

Love n Rage

London ABC

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ASBO interview – now in audio form!

A full reading of our interview with ASBO from May 2020 has been released by Radio Outbreak. You can listen to the reading (not the original interview audio) in this segment from Radio Outbreak (intro starts at 14:43)…

https://soundcloud.com/user-633481220-14145326/radio-outbreak-event-episode-1-music-and-thoughts-from-awate-an-interview-with-asbo

Many thanks again to ASBO, and special thanks to those who read and recorded the text, to the whole Radio Outbreak team, and to Radio AvA for hosting the audio.

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Free Siyanda!

http://freesiyanda.com/
An info-poster about Siyanda Mngaza, imprisoned for defending herself in a racist attack. Go to freesiyanda.com for updates, donation details, and contact with the campaign.

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Dissident Island July 2020 – show notes

International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
⦁ 23-30 August
⦁ worldwide prisoner address list available

London ABC plans to deliver prisoner lists and letter-writing materials to whoever might make use of them around London! More details coming soon. If you want to help with distribution please email london_abc@riseup.net

Greece:
https://www.firefund.net/imprisonedsoli

urgent call in April (after suspension of public events) via Act for Freedom Now!
email attached to call: tameio@espiv.net

Indonesia:
call for solidarity after arrests in Tangerang and Bekasi
https://www.paypal.com/adnandi
E-mail: fed.ao@protonmail.com

Italy:
’20 custodial measures in less than a month’

yet another wave of repression – the latest in a series – where as well as prison sentences, there’s a lot of imprisonment on remand, heavy bail conditions, house arrest, suspended sentences, and endless looming trials….

Bialystok – 7 arrests in Italy, France and Spain – 5 in prison – 2 on house arrest —-

English updates on Act for Freedom – but absolutely crucial to check roundrobin.info – there for the most up-to-date info and prison addresses

Scripta Manent – appeal started July 1st
⦁ info for financial solidarity – (cassamanent[at]anche.no)
⦁ updates and call for solidarity https://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=37374 / roundrobin

Prometeo – Natascia, Beppe still inside – a preliminary hearing was held on 22nd June – their names are on the International List

Czech Republic:
Fenix 2 – next hearing 13th July

Germany:
8th July 2019 was the date of the ‘Park Bench’ arrest in Hamburg

parkbanksolidarity.blackblogs.org

United Snakes:
Eric King
⦁ Urgent call for phone solidarity
⦁ and desperate need of legal defense funds https://fundrazr.com/e1cKo1

NYC ABC
⦁ Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
⦁ PP/POW Birthday Calendar
⦁ Updates & Announcements mail-out

13th July – 1st year anniversary of the death of Will van Spronsen
murdered by police for an attempted armed and incendiary assault on an ICE concentration camp in Tacoma, so-called Washington

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Current Political Prisoners of Black Liberation Movements

republished from Page One Collective (United Snakes)

In honor of the ongoing struggle for Black Lives and Black Liberation, we’re offering this zine on Current Political Prisoners of Black Liberation Movements. You can download it here.

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Greece: SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD-CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION, 29-30-31 May 2020 en/gr.

Shared from Act For Freedom Now! (published May 16, 2020)

SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION

The existing health crisis and its management from governments until now, globally, has unmasked the real character of authority, which was hiding itself behind the democratic mask. This oppressive system imposed an ultimate control of life, forbidding everything. Now, all civil liberties have become senseless words. This extreme condition that we live in, reveals that the prison-model is the true capitalistic model of society.

Prison is the most extreme form of bio-politics and extermination. Prisoners are under constant surveillance and control, something that, nowadays is happening to the whole society.

In this period of time, prisoners in greek prisons are dying, one after another, from minor causes such as rotten teeth etc. Selim Zerolari and Azizel Demiroglou were two prisoners that we were informed about their deaths, this month. Mass media, of course, managed to conceal or distort these news. Furthermore, the state has grabbed the opportunity, due to the curfew, to move the most active prisoners, anarchists and others, into other prisons. Silence in the streets gives more power to the state to repress the voices of the imprisoned people.

Incarceration has always been, and remains, a form of torture and a tool of submission for authority. If we don’t resist to this modern totalitarianism, we will live in this prison-society, which states systematically impose.

Throughout the planet, in the face of the corona virus threat, prisoners stacked in prisons and migrant concentration camps are shouting: We are prisoners, not death row convicts!

Korinthos migrant concentration camp, Greece: 1,200 migrants go on hunger strike, March ‘20

Italy, March ‘20: 27 prisons in revolt due to the corona virus, many prisoners killed in the clashes

Argentina, April ‘20: revolt in Concordia prison, guards respond with shootings

Palmasola, Bolivia, May ‘20: 2 prisoners left to die from the corona virus, prisoners revolt

Chile: stirke mobilization at high security prison in Santiago, May ‘20

Thebes prison, Greece: prisoners revolt after prisoner dies beause she was not taken to hospital, April ‘20

MEET ALL PRISONERS DEMANDS

FREEDOM TO ALL WHO ARE IN THE CELLS

PUBLIC HEALTH CARE FOR ALL – PRISONERS AND MIGRANTS

OPEN ALL CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR MIGRANTS

AS LONG AS BORDERS AND PRISONS EXIST NOBODY IS FREE

CALL TO INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS

29-30-31 MAY 2020

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GR : ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΑΧΟΥ ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΟΥΣ-ΚΑΛΕΣΜΑ ΣΕ ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΤΡΙΗΜΕΡΟ ΔΡΑΣΗΣ, 29-30-31 Μαϊου 2020
ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΑΧΟΥ ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΟΥΣ
ΚΑΛΕΣΜΑ ΣΕ ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΤΡΙΗΜΕΡΟ ΔΡΑΣΗΣ
Η παρούσα υγειονομική κρίση και η ως τώρα διαχείρισή της από τις κυβενήσεις, σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, ξεσκέπασε το πραγματικό πρόσωπο της εξουσίας, το οποίο κρυβόταν πίσω από τις δημοκρατικές φανφάρες. Το καταπιεστικό αυτό σύστημα επέβαλλε τον πλήρη έλεγχο της ζωής απαγορεύοντας τα πάντα. Πλέον, όλες οι αστικές ελευθερίες έχουν γίνει κουρελόχαρτα. Σε αυτή την ακραία συνθήκη που ζούμε, αποδεικνύεται ότι το μοντέλο της φυλακής είναι το αληθινό κοινωνικό μοντέλο του καπιταλισμού.
Η φυλακή είναι η πιό ξεκάθαρη μορφή βιοπολιτικής διαχείρισης αλλά και εξόντωσης. Οι κρατούμενοι βρίσκονται υπό συνεχή επιτήρηση και έλεγχο, πράγμα που αυτή τη στιγμή συμβαίνει σε ολόκληρη την κοινωνία.
Αυτή τη χρονική περίοδο, οι κρατούμενοι στις ελληνικές φυλακές πεθαίνουν ο ένας μετά τον άλλον για ασήμαντες αιτίες όπως σαπισμένα δόντια κλπ. Ο Σελίμ Ζερολάρι και η Αζιζέλ Ντεμιρόγλου ήταν δύο από αυτές τις περιπτώσεις που έφτασαν στα αυτιά μας τον τελευταίο μήνα. Φυσικά, τα ΜΜΕ φρόντισαν να θάψουν ή να διαστρεβλώσουν αυτά τα γεγονότα. Επίσης, με την ευκαιρία της απαγόρευσης κυκλοφορίας, το κράτος έχει προχωρήσει σε μεταγωγές αναρχικών και άλλων κρατουμένων, πρώτα-πρώτα των πιό δραστήριων, δηλαδή των πιό ενοχλητικών για το καθεστώς. Η σιωπή που επικρατεί στους δρόμους, δίνει στο κράτος την δύναμη να καταστείλει τις φωνές που βρίσκονται μέσα στις φυλακές.
Ο εγκλεισμός ήταν πάντα και παραμένει βασανιστήριο και εργαλείο υποταγής στα χέρια της εξουσίας. Αν δεν αντισταθούμε στον σύγχρονο ολοκληρωτισμό, θα ζούμε μόνιμα σε αυτή την κοινωνία-φυλακή που το κράτος διαχρονικά διαμορφώνει.
Σε όλο τον πλανήτη, αντιμέτωποι με την απειλή του κωρονοϊού, κρατούμενοι στοιβαγμένοι σε φυλακές και στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης μεταναστών κραυγάζουν: Είμαστε κρατούμενοι, όχι θανατοποινίτες!
  • Στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης μεταναστών Κορίνθου: 1,200 μετανάστες προχωρούν σε απεργία πείνας, Μάρτιος ´20
  • Ιταλία, Μάρτιος ´20: 27 φυλακές σε εξέγερση λόγω του κωρονοϊού, πολλοί νεκροί κρατούμενοι στις συγκρούσεις
  • Αργεντινή, Απρίλης ´20: Εξέγερση στη φυλακή Concordia, οι δεσμοφύλακες απαντούν με σφαίρες
  • Παλμασόλα, Βολιβία, Μάης ´20: 2 κρατούμενοι αφήνονται να πεθάνουν από κωρονοιό, εξέγερση των κρατουμένων
  • Χιλή: κινητοποίηση με απεργία στις φυλακές υψίστης ασφαλείας στο Σαντιάγκο, Μάης ´20
  • Φυλακές Θήβας, Ελλάδα: εξέγερση των κρατουμένων μετά από θάνατο κρατουμένης γιατί δεν μεταφέρθηκε στο νοσοκομείο, Απρίλης ´20
ΑΜΕΣΗ ΙΚΑΝΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΙΤΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΡΑΤΟΥΜΕΝΩΝ
ΛΕΥΤΕΡΙΑ ΣΕ ΟΣΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΚΕΛΙΑ
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑ ΥΓΕΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΟΛΟΥΣ-ΚΡΑΤΟΥΜΕΝΟΥΣ Κ ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΕΣ
ΝΑ ΑΝΟΙΞΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΠΕΔΑ ΣΥΓΚΕΝΤΡΩΣΗΣ ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΩΝ
ΟΣΟ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΣΥΝΟΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣ
ΤΡΙΗΜΕΡΟ ΔΡΑΣΕΩΝ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗΣ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΟΥΣ
29-30-31 ΜΑΙΟΥ 2020
σύντροφια, αλληλέγγυα με τους αγώνες των κρατουμένων
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