Week of mobilization and international solidarity from September 21 to September 30, for all our comrades kidnapped all over the world. in en-gr-es-it-ger (Chile)

August 30, 2012 by actforfreedom 

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Week of mobilization and international solidarity from September 21 to September 30, for all our comrades kidnapped all over the world.

The survival of capitalism is so monotonous and is structured in such a way that it is not so different from that of cruel prison. Cities, timetables, work, school, family and countless repressive bodies are  suffocating us in a way that resembles a big prison unit. Surveillance cameras 24 hours a day, thousands of cops defending property, severe judges smiling satisfied when they enforce their harsh laws, tight handcuffs before their impregnable cages, etc, etc: this is what society uses in order to keep individuals under control; those who, fearing the punishment reserved to those who trespass the codes of imposed behaviour, stay silent, get used to oppression, absorb it like an integral part of life, like something natural, and so they prefer to avoid conflict with authority instead of rebelling. The powerful in all States don’t spare any efforts to repress and imprison those who have set themselves against the existent.

But today we are not going to write about survival within capitalism. We want to greet those who did not hesitate to trespass their moral enclosures and fought power face to face, those who today are inside the most blatant edifice of repression, prison. We are writing to express our solidarity with our comrades in jail. Power attacks by imprisoning comrades and organizes itself in order to crush the ideas of freedom. The revenge of power particularly hits well known individuals who openly declare themselves antiauthoritarian or anarchist and make an important weapon of struggle out of the spreading of ideas-deeds, as happened in Italy, Bolivia and Chile. The spectre generating from the possibility of an international web (we don’t mean any kind of organization) must continue to materialize like a real proposal.

A web through which comrades in different parts of the world - who don’t know one another nor will they ever meet, don’t obey any kind of structure or need any ideologies or ‘leaders’, can unite their will, efforts and complicity in order to face dominion in all its aspects, and with different instruments can overcome language barriers and fictitious borders and establish links of solidarity by overcoming false impositions…

Therefore, from September 21 to September 30,  we call for a week of unrest and solidarity with our brothers and sisters, with comrades kidnapped all over the world. It shouldn’t be necessary to make calls for a week of unrest, as we normally don’t like to do this because ‘solidarity’ does not knows calendar dates. But actions are being diluted in the endless chasm of information and in ‘so-called local struggles’, whereas the concentration of our energies in a limited period of time will help us to give a renewed and constant impulse to the struggle against prison and the spreading of libertarian ideas. Any action, any word of support gives strength and courage to prisoners.  And in this struggle for total liberation we don’t forget the repression suffered by millions of animals locked up in zoos, circuses and laboratories. We must struggle for their liberation.

This is a call to say, by multiform actions and different instruments, that our imprisoned comrades are not forgotten. Our actions of solidarity elude all watchtowers and run over kilometres of ocean in order to embrace all the irreducible standing out in the struggle inside and outside prison.  However we put the abstract imposition of borders into question, since so-called internationalism shouldn’t be such, considering that ‘in the world of bosses we are all foreigners.’

Rebel greetings to:

-In Chile: Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga”, Carla Verdugo and Iván Silva, the comrades of so-called “Segurity case”: Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla. To Alberto Olivares, Juan Tapia and to the brother and sister on the run Gabriela Curilem and Diego Rios. And to those arrested in street struggles; Sebastian “Chasca” Fajardo, Eduardo “Mecha” Garay, and to all those standing trial for street clashes.

- In Bolivia: Henry Serragundo, Nina Mancilla and Mayron Mioshiro
- In Argentina: Diego Petrissans and Leandro Morel

- In Mexico: Mario Lopez, Braulio Duran and comrade on the run Felicity
Ryder’s.

-In the States : Mumia Abu Jamal, Douglas Wrigth, Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Joshua Stafford, Marie Mason, Eric McDavid .

-In Indonesia: Eat and Billy.

-In Italy: Stefano Gabriele Fosco, Elisa Di Bernardo, Alessandro Settepani, Sergio Maria Stefani, Katia Di Stefano, Giuseppe Lo Turco, Paola Francesca Iozzi, Giulia Marziale, Lucca Abbá and those sentenced for the clashes of the G8 Genoa 2001,, Massimo Passamani and Daniela Battisti (under house arrest).

-In Switzerland:  Marco Camenisch and Costa.

-In Germany: Gabriel Pombo da Silva, and Sonja Suder and her codefendant Christian Gauger (the latter two were captured last year after 33 years on the run

-In Spain: Tamara Hernández (now free on bail, she was sentenced to 8 years awaiting partial amnesty to shorten her sentence), Claudio Lavazza and Juan Rico.

-To the comrades imprisoned in Russia and Belorrussia.

And above all to all the prisoners in struggle and the comrades on the run in Greece (the comrades of the Cells of Fire, Revolutionary Struggle and all those imprisoned for their antiauthoritarian practice).

And to all the prisoners who set themselves at war also from inside the cages all over the world…
Until the destruction of the last bastion of the prison society!
With anger and love…
see you in the streets!
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[Χιλή] 21-30 Σεπτέμβρη: Μέρες αγκιτάτσιας και αλληλεγγύης με τα αιχμάλωτα
αδέρφια και συντρόφια μας ανά τον κόσμο

Η επιβίωση στον καπιταλισμό είναι τόσο καλουπωμένη και μονότονη, ώστε δεν διαφέρει πολύ από την ωμή φυλακή. Η πόλη, τα ωράρια, η δουλειά, οι σπουδές, η οικογένεια και ένα σωρό καταπιεστικοί οργανισμοί μάς πνίγουν με τρόπο τέτοιον που μερικές φορές μοιάζει λες και βρισκόμαστε σε κάποια μεγάλη πτέρυγα φυλακής. Κάμερες παρακολούθησης επί 24ώρου βάσης, χιλιάδες μπάτσοι να φυλάνε την ιδιοκτησία, αυστηροί δικαστές με χαμογελάκια ευχαρίστησης για την εφαρμογή των δρακόντειων νόμων τους, σφιχτές χειροπέδες που προηγούνται των ακατανίκητων κλουβιών τους και μια ατελείωτη σειρά αντίστοιχων καταστάσεων, είναι ό,τι χρησιμοποιεί η κοινωνία για να κρατά στη σειρά τα άτομα, τα οποία, τρέμοντας τις τιμωρίες
που τους περιμένουν αν σπάσουν τον επιβεβλημένο κώδικα συμπεριφοράς, το βουλώνουν, συνηθίζουν στην καταπίεση και την αφομοιώνουν ως δομικό στοιχείο της ζωής τους, ως κάτι το φυσικό, προτιμώντας να αποφύγουν τα μπλεξίματα με την εξουσία, αντί να εξεγερθούν.
Οι ισχυροί όλων των κρατών δεν τσιγκουνεύονται τα μέσα κάθε είδους
προκειμένου να καταστείλουν και να φυλακίσουν όσους κρατάνε στάση
σύγκρουσης με το υπάρχον. Σήμερα όμως δεν θα γράψουμε για την επιβίωση εντός του καπιταλισμού, αλλά θα χαιρετίσουμε όσες και όσους δεν δίστασαν να υπερβούν τους ηθικούς τους φραγμούς και αντιμετώπισαν πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο την εξουσία, όσες και όσους σήμερα πλαγιάζουν στην πιο προφανή απόδειξη της καταστολής, τη φυλακή. Γράφουμε για να εκφράσουμε την επείγουσα ανάγκη μας να δείξουμε την αλληλεγγύη μας στα έγκλειστα συντρόφια μας.
Η εξουσία επιτίθεται φυλακίζοντας συντρόφια και οργανώνεται για να
καταπολεμήσει τις ιδέες της λευτεριάς, με την εκδικητικότητά της να πέφτει κυρίως επί αναγνωρίσιμων ατόμων που χωρίς περιστροφές δηλώνουν αντεξουσιαστές ή αναρχικοί και φτιάχνουν μέσω της προπαγάνδας των ιδεών-δράσεων ένα σημαντικότατο όπλο αγώνα, όπως συνέβη στην Ιταλία, στη Βολιβία ή στη Χιλή. Το φάντασμα που γεννά η δυνατότητα ενός διεθνούς δικτύου (δεν αναφερόμαστε σε κανενός είδους οργάνωση) συνεχίζει να υλοποιείται ως μία πρόταση πραγματική, στην οποία συντρόφια από διάφορα μέρη του κόσμου, που δεν γνωρίζονται ούτε θα γνωριστούν μεταξύ τους, που δεν υπακούουν σε κανενός είδους δομή και δεν αναζητούν μήτε ιδεολογικούς ταγούς μήτε αρχηγούς, ενώνουν επιθυμίες, δυνάμεις και συνενοχές για να αντιμετωπίσουν την κυριαρχία σε όλο της το φάσμα, χρησιμοποιώντας διαφορετικά εργαλεία, υπερβαίνοντας τα γλωσσικά εμπόδια και τα κάλπικα σύνορα, εδραιώνοντας δεσμούς αλληλεγγύης και ξεπερνώντας τις ψεύτικες
επιβολές…
Γι’ αυτόν το λόγο, από τις 21 ως τις 30 Σεπτέμβρη καλούμε σε μια βδομάδα αγκιτάτσιας και αλληλεγγύης προς τα αιχμάλωτα αδέρφια και συντρόφια μας ανά τον κόσμο. Αν και δεν θα έπρεπε να είναι αναγκαίο να καλούμε σε εβδομάδες αγκιτάτσιας, μιας και γενικά είμαστε κριτικοί απέναντι σε αυτά τα καλέσματα, δεδομένου ότι η αλληλεγγύη δεν γνωρίζει ημερολογιακό προγραμματισμό, θεωρούμε ωστόσο ότι μερικές φορές οι χειρονομίες χάνονται στον καθημερινό καταιγισμό πληροφορίας και τους αποκαλούμενους «τοπικούς αγώνες», και έτσι η συγκέντρωση ενέργειας σε ένα χρονικό διάστημα καθορισμένο μάς βοηθά να δώσουμε μια νέα και συνεχή ώθηση στον αγώνα ενάντια στις φυλακές και στην προπαγάνδιση των ελευθεριακών ιδεών, με οποιαδήποτε δράση, οποιαδήποτε κουβέντα συμπαράστασης να δίνει δύναμη και
κουράγιο στους κρατουμένους. Σε αυτόν τον αγώνα για τη συνολική
απελευθέρωση δεν θέλουμε να αφήσουμε στην απέξω την καταστολή στην οποία υπόκεινται μυριάδες ζώα που βρίσκονται έγκλειστα σε ζωολογικούς κήπους, τσίρκα και εργαστήρια, και την ανάγκη μας να αγωνιστούμε για την απελευθέρωσή τους.
Αυτό το κείμενο καλεί να δείξουμε μέσω της πολύμορφης δράσης και
διαφορετικών εργαλείων πως δεν ξεχνάμε τα έγκλειστα συντρόφια μας και ότι οι αλληλέγγυες χειρονομίες μας ξεφεύγουν οποιουδήποτε πύργου επιτήρησης και διασχίζουν μίλια ωκεανού για ν’ αγκαλιάσουν οποιοδήποτε ανυπότακτο άτομο αγωνίζεται μέσα ή έξω από τις φυλακές. Παρομοίως, αμφισβητούμε την αφηρημένη επιβολή των συνόρων, γι’ αυτό ο αποκαλούμενος διεθνισμός δεν θα ’πρεπε να ’ναι ως έχει, γιατί «στον κόσμο των αφεντικών είμαστε όλοι ξένοι».
Αντάρτικους χαιρετισμούς σε:
- Χιλή: Σε Λουσιάνο Πιτρονέγιο «Τορτούγα», Κάρλα Βερδούγο και Ιβάν Σίλβα, στους συντρόφους της αποκαλούμενης «υπόθεσης σεκιούριτι» Χουάν Αλίστε Βέγκα, Μαρσέλο Βιγιαροέλ και Φρέντυ Φουεντεβίγια. Επίσης, στους Αλμπέρτο Ολιβάρες, Χουάν Ταπία, καθώς και στα φυγόδικα συντρόφια Γκαμπριέλα Κουριλέμ και Ντιέγο Ρίος. Ακόμη, στους Σεμπαστιάν Φαχάρδο, Εδουάρδο Γκαράυ, Αντριάν Ντίας και σε όλους τους αιχμαλώτους και διωκόμενους των οδομαχιών.
- Βολιβία: Σε Χένρυ Σεγαρρούντο, και Μάυρον Μιοσίρο.
- Αργεντινή: Σε Ντιέγο Πετρισσάνς και Λέανδρο Μορέλ.
- Μεξικό: Στους Μάριο Λόπες, Μπράουλιο Ντουράν και στη φυγόδικη
συντρόφισσα Φελίσιτυ Ράιντερ.
- ΗΠΑ: Στους Μούμια Αμπού Τζαμάλ, Ντάγκλας Ράιτ, Μπράντον Μπάξτερ, Κόννορ
Στήβενς, Τσόσουα Στάφορντ, Μαρί Μασον και Έρικ ΜακΝτέιβιντ.
- Ινδονησία: Στους Ητ και Μπίλλυ.
- Ιταλία: Στους Στέφανο Γκαμπριέλε Φόσκο, Ελίζα Ντι Μπερνάρντο, Αλεσσάντρο
Σεττέπανι, Σέρτζιο Μαρία Στεφάνι, Κάτια Ντι Στέφανο, Τζουζέππε Λο Τούρκο,
Πάολα Φραντσέσκα Ιότζι, Τζιούλια Μαρτσιάλε, Λούκα Αμπά, και στους
καταδικασθέντες για τις διαδηλώσεις ενάντια στη σύνοδο της G8 στη Γένοβα, Μασσιμο πασαμανι, Ντανιελα μπαττιστι(περιορισμενη μεσα στο σπιτι της)
- Ελβετία: Στους Μάρκο Καμένις και Κόστα.
- Γερμανία: Γκαμπριέλ Πόμπο ντα Σίλβα, Σόνια Σούντερ και Κρίστιαν
Γκάουγκερ (η Σόνια και ο Κρίστιαν συνελήφθησαν το περασμένο έτος ύστερα από 33 χρόνια αυτοεξορίας).
- Ισπανία: Στους Ταμάρα Ερνάντες (αυτήν τη στιγμή ελεύθερη, έχει
καταδικαστεί σε 8 έτη φυλάκισης κι αναμένει να λάβει μερική χάρη
προκειμένου να της μειωθεί η ποινή), Κλάουντιο Λαβάτσα και Χουάν Ρίκο.
- Στα έγκλειστα συντρόφια σε Ρωσία και Λευκορωσία.
Ιδίως στην Ελλάδα, σε όλους τους φυλακισμένους αγωνιστές και στους
καταζητούμενους. (Στα συντρόφια της Συνωμοσίας Πυρήνων της Φωτιάς, του Επαναστατικού Αγώνα και σε όλους κι όλες που βρίσκονται όμηροι για αντεξουσιαστική τους πράξη.)
Και σε όλους τους κρατουμένους που κρατάνε μαχητική στάση μέσα απ’ τα
κελιά οπουδήποτε στον κόσμο…
Μέχρι την καταστροφή και του τελευταίου προπύργιου της κοινωνίας των φυλακών!
ΜΕ ΑΓΑΠΗ ΚΑΙ ΛΥΣΣΑ… ΡΑΝΤΕΒΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΔΡΟΜΟ.

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ITALIANO:Settimana di agitazione e solidarieta` internazionale dal 21 al 30 Settembre per i nostri compagni e le nostre compagne sequestrat@ in tutto il mondo

La sopravvivenza nel capitalismo e` cosi` quadricolata e monotona da non essere poi molto differente da quella della cruda prigione; la citta`, gli orari, il lavoro, lo studio, la famiglia e un innumerabile quantita` di organismi oppresivi, ci asfissiano in tal modo che a volte sembrerebbe stessimo in qualche grande sezione carceraria. Videocamere di vigilanza 24 ore al giorno, migliaia di sbirri custodiando la proprieta`, severi giudici con sorrisetti soddisfatti all’applicare le loro leggi durissime, strette manette che precedono le loro gabbie inespugnabili e un lunghissimo eccetera, e` tutto cio` che la societa` utilizza per mantenere controllati gli individui, coloro che, timorosi dei castighi promessi a chi sconfina i codici di condotta imposta, tacciono, si abituano alla oppressione, la assimilano come parte integrale della vita, come qualcosa di naturale e preferiscono evitare i conflitti con la autorita` invece di ribellarsi.
I potenti di tutti gli stati non si sono risparmiti sforzi di tutti i tipi per reprimere e incarcerare coloro che si sono mantenuti in posizioni di scontro con l’esistente.
Ma oggi non scriveremo a proposito della sopravvivenza dentro al capitalismo, vogliamo invece salutare quell@ che non hanno avuto nessun dubbio a traspassare i loro recinti morali e si sono scontrati faccia a faccia con il potere, quell@ che ad oggi dormono dentro al piu`palpabile edificio della repressione, il carcere. Scriviamo per esprimere la nostra urgenza di solidarizzare con i nostri compagni e le nostre compagne in galera.
Il potere attacca incarcerando i compagni e le compagne e si coordina per combattere le idee di liberta`.
Questa vendetta ricade principalmente su individui ben riconoscibili che senza maschere si sono dichiarati antiautoritari o anarchici e hanno fatto del propagarsi delle idee-azioni una importantissima arma di lotta, come cio` che e` successo in Italia, Bolivia o Cile.
Il fantasma che si genera nella possibilita`di una rete internazionale (non ci riferiamo a nessun tipo di organizzazione) continui a materializzarsi, come una proposta reale.
Una rete nella quale compagn@ di differenti luoghi del mondo, che non si conoscono ne`si conosceranno mai, che non obbediscono a nessun tipo di struttura e  che non hanno bisogno di ideologi ne`leader, uniscano volonta`, sforzi e complicita`per confrontarsi con il dominio in tutto il suo spettro; che, attraverso differenti strumenti, superando le barriere linguistiche e le frontiere fittizie, stabiliscano legami di solidarieta` e superino le false imposizioni…
Convochiamo quindi, dal 21 al 30 di settembre, una settimana di agitazione e solidarieta’  con i nostri fratelli e le nostre sorelle, con i compagni e le compagne sequestrat@ in tutto il mondo.
Anche se non dovrebbe essere necessario appellare a settimane di agitazione, visto che in generale ne siamo critici perche` la solidarieta’ non conosce date di calendario, i gesti comunque si vanno diluendo nella continua voragine della informazione e nelle “cosidette lotte locali” mentre la concentrazione delle energie in un lasso di tempo ridotto, ci aiuta invece a dare un nuovo e costante impulso nella lotta contro le carceri e nella diffusione delle idee libertarie; qualsiasi azione, qualsiasi parola di appoggio apporta forza e coraggio ai detenuti e alle detenute.
E in questa lotta per la liberazione totale non vogliamo tralasciare la repressione che soffrono milioni di animali chiusi in zoo, circhi e laboratori, e della nostra necessita` di lottare per la loro liberazione.
Questo testo e` una chiamata per dire, mediante l’azione multiforme e con distinti strumenti, che i nostri compagni e le nostre compagne incarcerat@ non sono dimenticat@, i nostri gesti di solidarieta’ evadono qualsiasi torre di vigilanza e attraversano chilometri di oceano per abbracciare a qualsiasi irriducibile che si posizioni nella lotta dentro e fuori dal carcere.
Della stessa forma poniamo in dubbio questa imposizione astratta delle frontiere, ragione per cui il cosidetto internazionalismo non dovrebbe essere tale, visto che “nel mondo dei leader siamo tutti stranieri”.
Saluti ribelli a:
-In Cile: Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga”, Carla Verdugo e Iván Silva, a i compagni e le compagne del cosidetto  “caso Segurity”:  Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla. A Alberto Olivares, Juan Tapia e ai fratelli e sorelle profugh@  Gabriela Curilem e Diego Rios. E agli arrestati della lotta di strada; Sebastian Fajardo, Eduardo Garay, e a tutt@ quell@ che sono ora sotto processo per gli scontri di strada.
- In Bolivia: Henry Serragundo e Mayron Mioshiro.
- in Argentina: Diego Petrissans e Leandro Morel.
- in Messico: Mario Lopez, Braulio Duran e la compagna  prófuga Felicity Ryder.
-Negli Stati uniti : Mumia Abu Jamal, Douglas Wrigth, Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Joshua Stafford, Marie Mason e Eric McDavid.
-In Indonesia: Eat y Billy.
-In Italia: Stefano Gabriele Fosco, Elisa Di Bernardo, Alessandro Settepani, Sergio Maria Stefani, Katia Di Stefano, Giuseppe Lo Turco, Paola Francesca Iozzi, Giulia Marziale, Lucca Abbá e a chi e’ stat@ condannat@ per le proteste del G8 a Genova, Massimo Passamani e Daniela Battisti (agli arresti domiciliari).
-In Svizzera: Marco Camenish e Costa.
-In Germania: Gabriel Pombo da Silva. Sonja Suder e Christian Gauger (questi ultimi due arrestati l’anno scorso dopo 3 anni di fuga).
-In Spagna: Tamara Hernández (adesso a piede libero, condannata a 8 anni e aspettando l’indulto parziale per accorciare la pena), Claudio Lavazza e Juan Rico.
-Ai compagni e alle compagne incarcerat@ in Russia e Biolorrussia.
- E specialmente a tutt@ i/le prigionier@ in lotta e ai/alle profugh@ in Grecia. (Ai compagni e le compagne di Cellule di Fuoco, Lotta rivoluzionaria e tutt@ quell@ che sono stat@ incarcerat@ per la propria pratica antiautoritaria)
E a tutt@ i/le prigionier@ che si posizionano in guerra anche dentro le gabbie in qualsiasi parte del mondo…
Fino alla distruzione dell’ultimo bastione della societa’ carceraria!

CON AMORE E RABIA… CI VEDIAMO NELLE STRADE!

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GERMAN
Agitations- und Solidaritätswoche mit unseren gefangenen Schwestern, Brüdern und GenossInnen auf der ganzen Welt vom 21. bis 30. September.

Das Überleben im Kapitalismus ist so eingeschränkt und monoton, dass es sich nicht allzu sehr vom hartem Gefängnisleben unterscheidet; die Stadt, die Zeitpläne, die Arbeit, das Studium, die Familie und eine Unzahl an unterdrückenden Organismen ersticken uns, so dass es manchmal scheint, als ob wir in irgendeinem großen Gefängnistrakt wären. Videoüberwachung 24 Stunden am Tag, Tausende von Polizisten, die das Eigentum beaufsichtigen, strenge Richter mit zufriedenen Lächeln auf den Lippen, wenn sie ihre harten Gesetze anwenden, fest sitzende Fußfesseln, die ihren unerschütterlichen Käfigen vorausgehen und eine langen Liste an weiteren Mitteln, die die Gesellschaft benützt, um die Individuen in Schranken zu halten; die versprochenen Strafen bei Überschreitung der auferlegten Verhaltensmaßregeln fürchtend, halten sie den Mund, gewöhnen sich an die Unterdrückung, nehmen sie als Teil ihres Lebens, als etwas natürliches auf und ziehen es somit vor, Konflikte mit der Autorität zu vermeiden und sich lieber nicht aufzulehnen.
Die Mächtigen aller Staaten haben keinerlei Mühen gescheut, um diejenigen zu unterdrücken und einzusperren, die in Konfrontationsstellung zu den bestehenden Verhältnissen verharrt haben. Aber heute schreiben wir nicht über das Überleben innerhalb des Kapitalismus, sondern grüssen diejenigen, die nicht gezweifelt haben, ihre moralische Einzäunung zu durchbrechen und sich von Angesicht zu Angesicht der Macht entgegengestellt haben, die heute in dem greifbarsten Gebäude der Repression schlafen, im Gefängnis. Wir schreiben, um der Notwendigkeit Ausdruck zu verleihen, uns mit unseren GenossInnen im Gefängnis zu solidarisieren.
Die Macht greift an, indem sie GenossInnen einsperrt und koordiniert sich, um die Ideen der Freiheit zu bekämpfen; diese Rache fällt vor allem auf erkennbare Individuen ab, die sich offen antiautoritär und anarchisch erklärt und aus der Verbreitung der Ideen-Aktionen eine sehr wichtige Waffe des Kampfes gemacht haben, so wie in Italien, Bolivien und $hile. Das Gespenst, das ihnen die Möglichkeit eines internationalen Netzwerkes eröffnet (wir beziehen uns auf keinerlei Art von Organisation), materialisiert sich immer mehr als ein realer Vorschlag, in dem GenossInnen aus verschiedenen Orten der Welt, die sich weder kennen, noch kennenlernen werden, die keiner Art von Struktur gehorchen und die keine Ideologen, keine AnführerInnen benötigen, Wille, Anstrengung und Komplizenschaft vereinen, um sich der Herrschaft in all ihren Spektren entgegen zu stellen, Solidaritätsbände knüpfen und die falschen Zwänge überwinden, indem sie unterschiedliche Werkzeuge gebrauchen und die sprachlichen Hürden und erfundenen Grenzen überbrücken…
Deswegen rufen wir zu einer Agitations- und Solidaritätswoche mit unseren gefangenen Schwestern, Brüdern und GenossInnen auf der ganzen Welt vom 21. bis 30. September auf. Auch wenn es nicht notwendig sein sollte, zu Agitationswochen aufzurufen -im Allgemeinen stehen wir ihnen kritisch gegenüber, weil die Solidarität keine Kalenderdaten kennt, lösen sich die Gesten jedoch manchmal im fortlaufendem Strudel der Information und den “so genannten lokalen Kämpfen” auf. Die Energien auf einen engeren Zeitraum zu konzentrieren hilft uns, dem Kampf gegen die Gefängnisse und der Verbreitung libertärer Ideen einen neuen und konstanten Antrieb zu geben, jegliche Aktion, jegliches Wort der Unterstützung gibt den Gefangenen neue Kraft und Mut.
Ausserdem möchten wir in diesem Kampf um die totale Befreiung die Repression, die Millionen von Tieren eingesperrt in Zoos, Zirkusse und Labore erleiden, und unser Bedürfnis, um ihre Befreiung zu kämpfen, nicht unerwähnt lassen.
Dieser Text ist ein Aufruf dazu, aus der vielgestaltigen Aktion heraus und mit unterschiedlichen Werkzeugen auszudrücken, dass unsere eingesperrten GenossInnen nicht vergessen sind, unsere Gesten der Solidarität entkommen jeglichem Überwachungsturm und überqueren Kilometer von Ozeanen, um jedes unbezwingbare Individuum zu umarmen, das innerhalb oder ausserhalb der Gefängnisse Position bezieht. Ausserdem stellen wir jene abstrakte Auferlegung der Grenzen infrage, und damit auch den so genannten Internationalismus, dieser dürfte sich nicht so nennen, weil in “der Welt der Bosse sind wir alle AussländerInnen”.
Rebelische Grüsse an:
- In Chile: Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga”, Carla Verdugo und Iván Silva, an die Genossen des so genannten “caso Segurity” (“Segurity Fall”): Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla. An Alberto Olivares, Juan Tapia und an die Schwester und den Bruder auf der Flucht Gabriela Curilem und Diego Rios. Und an die Gefangenen des Straßenkampfes; Sebastian Fajardo, Eduardo Garay, und alle, die wegen des Straßenkampfes prozesiert werden.
- In Bolivien: Henry Serragundo und Mayron Mioshiro
- In Argentinien: Diego Petrissans und Leandro Morel.
- In Mexiko: Mario Lopez, Braulio Duran und die flüchtige Genossin Felicity Ryder.
- In den USA: Mumia Abu Jamal, Douglas Wrigth, Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Joshua Stafford, Marie Mason und Eric McDavid.
- In Indonesien: Eat und Billy.
- In Italien: Stefano Gabriele Fosco, Elisa Di Bernardo, Alessandro Settepani, Sergio Maria Stefani, Katia Di Stefano, Giuseppe Lo Turco, Paola Francesca Iozzi, Giulia Marziale, Lucca Abbá und an die Verurteilten wegen der G8 Proteste in Genua, Massimo Passamani und Daniela Battisti.
- In der Schweiz: Marco Camenish und Costa.
- In Deutschland: Gabriel Pombo da Silva. Sonja Suder und Christian Gauger (die letzten beiden letztes Jahr nach 33 Jahren Flucht erfasst).
- In Spanien: Tamara Hernández (auf der Straße, zu 8 Jahren Haft verurteilt und in Erwartung auf Strafminderung, um die Haftstrafe zu kürzen), Claudio Lavazza und Juan Rico.
- An die in Russland und Belarus eingesperrten GenossInnen.
- Besonders an alle kämpfenden Gefangenen und an die Flüchtigen in Griechenland. (An die GenossInnen der Feuerzellen, Revolutionären Kampfes, und all diejenigen, die auf Grund ihrer antiautoritären Praxis eingesperrt worden sind)
Und an all die Gefangenen, die sich innerhalb der Käfige wo auch immer auf der Welt im Krieg erklären und Position beziehen…
¡Bis das letzte Bollwerk der Knastgesellschaft zerstört ist!

MIT LIEBE UND WUT… WIR SEHEN UNS AUF DER STRASSE.

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SPANISH

Semana de Agitación y Solidaridad desde el 21 al 30 de Septiembre con nuestrxs hermanxs y compañerxs secuestradxs en todo el mundo.

La sobrevivencia en el capitalismo es tan cuadriculada y monótona que no difiere demasiado de la cruda cárcel; la ciudad, los horarios, el trabajo, el estudio, la familia y un sinnúmero de organismos opresivos nos asfixian de manera que a veces pareciera que estuviéramos en algún gran módulo carcelario. Cámaras de video vigilancia 24 horas al día, miles de policías custodiando la propiedad, estrictos jueces con sonrisitas satisfechas por aplicar sus durísimas leyes, apretados grilletes que preceden a sus inexpugnables jaulas y un larguísimo etcétera es lo que la sociedad utiliza para mantener a raya a los individuos, quienes temerosos de los castigos prometidos por desbordar los códigos de conducta impuestos, callan, se acostumbran a la opresión, la asimilan como parte integral de su vida, como algo natural prefiriendo evitar conflictos con la autoridad antes que rebelarse.
Los poderosos de todos los Estados, no han escatimado esfuerzos de todo tipo para reprimir y encarcelar a quienes se han mantenido en posiciones de enfrentamiento a lo existente. Pero hoy no escribiremos de la sobrevivencia dentro del capitalismo, sino que saludaremos a esxs que no dudaron en traspasar sus cercas morales y se enfrentaron cara a cara con el Poder, quienes hoy duermen en el más palpable edificio de la represión, la cárcel. Escribimos para expresar nuestra urgencia de solidarizar con nuestrxs compañerxs en prisión.
El Poder ataca encarcelando a compañerxs y se coordina para combatir las ideas de libertad, esta venganza cae principalmente hacia reconocibles individuxs que sin tapujos se han declarado anti-autoritarixs u anárquicxs y han hecho de la propagación de ideas-acciones una importantísima arma de lucha, como lo ocurrido en Italia, Bolivia o $hile. El fantasma que les genera la posibilidad de una red internacional (no nos referimos a ningún tipo de organización) se continúe materializando como una propuesta real, en la cual compañerxs de distintos lugares del mundo, que no se conocen ni se conocerán, que no obedecen a ningún tipo de estructura, y que no requieren de ideólogxs, ni jefxs, aúnen voluntades, esfuerzos y complicidades para enfrentarse al dominio en todo sus espectro, y utilizando distintas herramientas, superando las barreras idiomáticas, y las ficticias fronteras, establezcan lazos de solidaridad y superen las falsas imposiciones….
Es por eso que nos convocamos a una Semana de Agitación y Solidaridad desde el 21 al 30 de Septiembre con nuestrxs hermanxs y compañerxs secuestradxs en todo el mundo. Si bien no debería ser necesario apelar a semanas de agitación, en general somos críticos de ellas, porque la solidaridad no conoce de fechas calendarizadas, sin embargo a veces los gestos se diluyen en la continua vorágine de la información y las “llamadas luchas locales”, la concentración de energías en un espacio de tiempo reducido nos ayuda a dar un nuevo y constante impulso en la lucha contra las cárceles y la propagación de ideas libertarias, cualquier acción, cualquier palabra de apoyo inyecta fuerza y coraje a lxs presxs.
En esta lucha por la liberación total no queremos también dejar de mencionar la represión que sufren millones de animales encerrados en zoológicos, circos y laboratorios, y de nuestra necesidad de luchar por su liberación.
Este texto es un llamado a expresar desde la acción multiforme y con distintas herramientas que nuestrxs compañerxs encarceladxs no están olvidadxs, nuestros gestos solidaridad evaden cualquier torre de vigilancia y atraviesan kilómetros oceánicos para abrazar a cualquier irreductible que se posicione en lucha dentro o fuera de las cárceles.
Asimismo nos cuestionamos esa abstracta imposición de las fronteras, por lo tanto el llamado internacionalismo, no debería ser tal, porque en “el mundo de los jefes somos todxs extranjerxs”.
Saludos rebeldes a:
-En Chile: Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga”, Carla Verdugo e Iván Silva, a lxs compaeñros del llamado “caso Segurity”: Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla. A Alberto Olivares, Juan Tapia y a lxs hermanxs profugxs Gabriela Curilem y Diego Ríos. Y a los presos de la lucha callejera; Sebastian Fajardo, Eduardo Garay, Adrián Díaz y todxs lxs que se encuentran procesadxs por la lucha callejera.
-En Bolivia: Henry Serragundo y Mayron Mioshiro.
-En Argentina: Diego Petrissans y Leandro Morel.
-En Mexico: Mario Lopez, Braulio Duran y a la compañera prófuga Felicity Ryder.
-En Estados Unidos: Mumia Abu Jamal, Douglas Wrigth, Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Joshua Stafford, Marie Mason y Eric McDavid
-En Indonesia: Eat y Billy.
-En Italia: Stefano Gabriele Fosco, Elisa Di Bernardo, Alessandro Settepani, Sergio Maria Stefani, Katia Di Stefano, Giuseppe Lo Turco,
Paola Francesca Lozzi, Giulia Marziale, Lucca Abbá a lxs condenadxs por las protestas del G8 en Genova, Massimo Passamani y Daniela Battisti (con arresto domiciliario).
-En Suiza: Marco Camenish y Costa.
-En Alemania: Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Sonja Suder y su coacusado Christian Gauger (estxs últimxs capturados el año pasado luego de 33 años de fuga).
-En España: Tamara Hernández (en la calle, condenada a 8 años y a espera de indulto parcial para recortar la pena), Claudio Lavazza y Juan Rico.
-A lxs compañerxs enjauladxs en Rusia y Biolorrusia.
-En especial a todxs lxs presxs en lucha y a lxs prófugos en Grecia. (A lxs compañerxs de la Conspiración de Células del Fuego, Lucha Revolucionaria, y todxs aquellxs que han sido encarcelados por su praxis anti autoritaria).
Y a todxs lxs prisionerxs que se posicionan en guerra dentro de las jaulas en cualquier lugar del mundo…
¡Hasta destruir el último bastión de la sociedad carcelaria!

CON AMOR Y RABIA… NOS VEMOS EN LA CALLE.

Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty

July 15, 2012 Italy Calling

 The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. While some of the sentences have been slightly reduced, all 10 activists have been declared guilty of devastation and looting crimes against private property (for a little historical insight on this charge have a look at my previous article).

It’s the State that devastates, it’s the Capital that loots: everyone free!

Five of the defendants have been granted right to appeal against other related charges, and their cases will be re-examined by the judges. The other five have seen all appeals rejected and are going to be imprisoned within the next few days; the first, Alberto Funaro, a historical editor of the activist radio Radio Onda Rossa, entered Rebibbia prison in Rome the day after the sentence, but is likely to be transferred soon.

Once again the media and the “political world” have almost universally reacted positively to the sentences, commenting in particular on the clemency of the judges who have decided to reduce some of the sentences by a few months. According to some, justice has finally been done and there has been equal punishment for the police forces guilty of violence and brutality, and for the “violent” protesters.

Funny though: the police forces who stormed into the Diaz school battering sleeping people are still on the loose, with a slight possibility of losing their jobs, their bosses have been acquitted of all charges and promoted; in the meantime, ten people who did nothing but damage cars and shop windows and never harmed anyone are going to spend in some cases 14 years of their lives in jail. As usual, the Italian justice system clearly shows who it serves.

Elena Giuliani, Carlo’s sister, commented on the sentence: “It wasn’t enough that they judged his murder a lawful murder. After 11 years, they still had to take more lives. And they were not the lives of those who killed, tortured, battered, or the lives of those who ordered the beatings and covered them up. Once again, they took the lives of our comrades”.

In detail, here are the sentences:

Alberto Funaro, 10 years (already in jail)
Ines Morasca, 6 years and 6 months
Marina Cugnaschi, 12 years and 3 months (already in jail)
Vincenzo Vecchi, 13 years
Francesco Puglisi, 14 years
The following are out on bail and waiting for appeals on related charges:
Carlo Arculeo, 8 years
Carlo Cuccomarino, 8 years
Luca Finotti, 10 years and 9 months
Dario Ursino, 7 years
Antonino Valguarnera, 8 years
Watch this space for more detailed info and addresses to write to them.
Based on various articles published on Contropiano, for originals see here.

Translated by Italy Calling

Final sentences for police forces involved in Diaz school butchery at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa

July 8, 2012 Italy Calling

 

After a 9-hour debate, the Italian Supreme Court has issued its final sentence against the 25 defendants – policemen and heads of security forces – responsible for the violence against the activists sleeping in the Diaz school during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. Result: most of the charges have been declared time-barred, leading to impunity for all the people involved. In the meantime, 10 activists are facing a total of 100 years of jail between themselves for crimes of “devastation and looting”.

Most of the criminal offences with which officers had been charged, including those of serious bodily harm, have been declared time-barred and therefore void. Torture is not even a crime on the books of Italy’s domestic legislation, therefore officers have never been charged with it. The only charge miraculously within the statute of limitations – that of fabricating false evidence – won’t have any major consequences thanks to the prison amnesty approved in 2006 for this type of crimes.

The only measure taken against the defendants (and whether it will actually happen or not is another matter) is a disqualification from public offices for a period of 5 years, which in theory should mean the immediate removal of all officers involved from their present jobs. Curiously, though, the same sanction hasn’t been applied to the squad leaders who led the school raid: once again, it would seem because of the statute of limitations.

In the meantime, the executives who directed the whole operation have, over the years, being promoted within the police forces, the Secret Services and other State forces: for example, the infamous Gianni De Gennaro, back then head of the police, has been made under-secretary to the Council of Ministers by the present Monti government. De Gennaro was definitively acquitted of all charges since “the fact does not subsist” – that is, in legal Italian terms, there isn’t any evidence that what he’s accused of actually happened. Now, don’t go saying the Italian state doesn’t know how to reward its most loyal workers.

Heidi Giuliani, mother of Carlo Giuliani, commented that “this justice is not complete, and more people were responsible, I’m talking about the then head of the police being acquitted, and the lack of trials for my son’s death”.

Most media reacted positively to the news, stating that justice had been finally done and everyone should live happily ever after. In a little while everyone will start saying that yes, maybe a couple of cops took it too far, but that the protesters weren’t innocent either, and that maybe the violence was only an excessive but justified reaction to the protesters’ violence. You’ve heard it all before…

So, while all the state forces go back home with a pat on their backs and a “Don’t do it again, son, it’s cost me money to get you of this mess”, 10 people who were among the protesters are facing the possibility of spending a good part of their lives in jail for crimes of “devastation and looting”, a legal legacy of the Fascist regime and one of the most serious charge in terms of public order in Italy.

Based on an article published on Contropiano, original here.

Background info: Amnesty International’s report on the G8.

For the support campaign to the G8 defendants, check my previous article on the topic and spread the call-out far and wide.

For a very personal and honest account of those days read my translation of fellow blogger psikosomatica‘s article here.

Translated by Italy Calling

Italy: More updates regarding the ‘operation boldness’; reports on police raids; all prison addresses

June 16, 2012 Contra Info

 

The new Inquisition, anarchists hunting
The witch hunt continues!

Just like the inquisitions once, yet this time the victims are not women suspected of witchcraft but anarchists accused of terrorism, word that is very much in vogue for nearly 12 years.
This time, however, the news we receive upset us somewhat more than usual as it also affect us of punk4free.org.

This morning (13/6), at around 4am, the ROS carabiniers raided in over forty Italian households, from north to south, carrying out the so-called ‘ardire’ crackdown against the anarchist movement.
The operation resulted in about a dozen arrest orders, including one in Germany and another in Switzerland, and in as many as 24 investigated people.

The accusations include criminal conspiracy with the intent of terrorism and subversion, association with the intent of international terrorism, as well as charges of single attacks, like the ambush on the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare.

Immediately, like vultures, all the newspapers and nationwide television newscasts have spread the word, releasing (in a cowardly way) names of ‘extremely dangerous’ Informal Anarchists, including one editor of Informa-Azione and two of Culmine, among whom is our very own Sghigno.
We express total solidarity to all the comrades affected by the raids, investigations and arrests!

Free Sghigno! Free them all!
This text was shared out during a spontaneous protest march in Catania on June 13th:
More than 40 house searches, 24 investigation warnings and 10 arrest orders are the interim budget of a repressive operation orchestrated by the public prosecutor of Perugia Manuela Comodi and executed by the ROS carabiniers on June 13th.

Our friends, acquaintances and/or comrades are accused of subversive association with the intent of terrorism. In these hours, newspapers, TV channels and radio stations continue to bombard with news that are sibylline as much as they are alarming, attributing the responsibility of some explosive parcels and various direct actions on them. In this moment of crisis, the State appears to be very preoccupied, but its attentions are not drawn by the high cost of living, the unemployment, the abrupt diminution of purchasing power, the critical situation of social services, the new poor and the disadvantaged. Its fear is rather growing on whether someone might unmask the role and connections that the State and the system of Capital bear in human misery, which is rampant in the existing way of life.

We do not care if the ten arrestees are guilty or not, what we want to make evident is that locked up, deprived of their freedom and their dearest loved ones are ten people who have dedicated effort and all their energy in struggle, without ever sparing anything and without asking anything in return. Their struggles, those against the concentration camps for immigrants and against racism, against the unchallenged dominion of banks that are ruling the economy, those against the arrogant multinationals and their damaging system of production, those against the State and other authorities that are ruling our lives, are also struggles of our own.

Our solidarity goes not only to the arrestees and investigated people but also to all relatives, friends and housemates whom the law enforcement units did not hesitate to inconvenience by harassing, frisking and badgering with the aim of terrorizing and isolating them, in pure mafia-style.
The customary judicial fabrications will not quench the social conflict; detention will not halt the struggle for a world free of hierarchy and exploitation.


Photos of the mess that the ‘dirty operations division’ ROS left behind after yet another house search on June 13th, this time in Florence.
On June 13th, at 5am, the Digos (Italian political police) raided activists’ places in Reggio Emilia. In related announcements, the Collettivo AutOrganizzato R60 clarifies that the specific police searches have nothing to do with the so-called operation ‘ardire/against international anarchist terrorism’, despite the fact that they took place on the same day.

First the cops searched the residences of two activists, who are affiliated with the R60 space, and seized personal items of theirs. Then the operation extended to the social space itself. Computers, cameras, memory cards, etc. were confiscated. Both detainees were released by midday. R60 members mention, among others, that the police in Reggio Emilia have been persecuting political activists, and in particular those who engage in struggles against environmental devastation and support self-organization and direct solidarity with earthquake sufferers.

As a first response to the incidents of 13/6 in their city and as a token of solidarity with all arrestees of the ‘operation boldness’, the NO TAV arrestees, the struggle in Susa Valley and other prosecuted comrades, on June 15th the collective held an evening anti-repression rally in Piazza del Monte (Reggio Emilia), and later people gathered in the R60 space to collect materials for earthquake sufferers.

In Emilia Romagna, the party CARC (Committees to Support Resistance-for Communism; nothing to do with anarchism) has also expressed solidarity with the R60 collective, with the NO TAV movement, as well as all comrades arrested and investigated under the ‘operation boldness’.

The poster reads:
Back off, you scoundrels!

Anarchism is not sullied by your aptitude for disgracefulness and neither by the pen of the scribes. It is defended against everything and everyone instead, even when the storm sweeps away all the hard work put into it grain by grain.
—Severino Di Giovanni

Boldness for our revolutionary dignity!
Boldness for conserving the traditions of our history!
Boldness for enhancing our realizer will!
—Severino Di Giovanni

FREEDOM for Stefano, Elisa, Alessandro, Sergio, Katia, Giuseppe, Paola and Giulia! FREEDOM for Marco and Gabriel!
Radical Ecologist Group ‘Il Silvestre’ & Pisan Anarchist Garage
Given below (last updated: June 15th) are all know prison addresses so you can send letters or telegrams to the eight comrades arrested within the ‘operation boldness’, including imprisoned anarchists Marco and Gabriel, who have also been ‘implicated’ in the case.

Stefano Gabriele Fosco & Elisa Di Bernardo
Via Don Bosco, 47, IT-56127 Pisa
Alessandro Settepani & Paola Francesca Iozzi
CC Capanne, Via Pievaiola 252, IT-06132 Perugia
Sergio Maria Stefani
CC Regina Coeli, Via Della Lungara, 29, IT-00165 Roma
Katia Di Stefano
CC Rebibbia Femminile, Via Bartolo Longo, IT-00156 Roma
Giuseppe Lo Turco
CC Marassi, Piazzale Marassi, 2, IT-16139 Genova
Giulia Marziale
CC Teramo, Contrada Castrogno, IT-64100 Teramo
Marco Camenisch
Justizvollzugsanstalt Lenzburg, Ziegeleiweg 13, CH-5600 Lenzburg District

Gabriel Pombo da Silva
Justizvollzugsanstalt Aachen, Krefelderstr. 251, DE-52070 Aachen


read also ‘The Triumph of the Destroyer Genius’ by one of the two comrades of Edizioni Cerbero (contact mail: VerticeAbisso@distruzione.org)

more info as it comes / follow the tag of feartosleep

Anti-terrorist ‘operation boldness’: Arrests and house searches across Italy

June 13, 2012 Contra Info

 

previous related update here

At 4 o’clock in the morning of June 13th, 2012, the carabiniers of the Special Operations Group (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, ROS) raided about forty homes, implementing the so-called ‘operation boldness’ (operazione ardire), a crackdown against people from the anarchist movement ordered by Manuela Comodi, public prosecutor of Perugia. According to the regime’s media, a total of 10 arrest warrants were issued—eight within Italy, one sent to Germany and one sent to Switzerland—while 24 suspects have been put under judicial investigation. The Italian bourgeois Press did not hesitate to connect the arrested with ‘the anarcho-insurrectionist FAI/FRI’.

The eight comrades, who were arrested in Pisa, Roma, Perugia, Genova, Terni and have been remanded in custody, are Stefano Gabriele Fosco, Elisa Di Bernardo, Alessandro Settepani, Sergio Maria Stefani, Katia Di Stefano, Giuseppe Lo Turco, Paola Francesca Iozzi and Giulia Marziale.
As for Germany and Switzerland, the precautionary measures were ordered against two anarchists that have already been kidnapped by the State several years ago, namely Gabriel Pombo Da Silva and Marco Camenisch.

Among the names of investigated suspects are also those of some imprisoned comrades that are prosecuted for the CCF case in Greece.

Informa-Azione will try to publish the addresses of Italian prisons in which the eight arrestees have been incarcerated, inviting anyone who has relevant information to contact them.

In addition, according to the independent Radio Azione, it is possible that house searches have taken place against three comrades in Naples, too.

Among the raided houses—where the police were officially in search of explosive materials and electronic and printed documents—was the residence of an editor of Informa-Azione; apart from other items, the cops confiscated the editor’s computers that were necessary for updating the website. The homes of comrades from Culmine (who are now under arrest) and ParoleArmate (one of them is under arrest, the other one is investigated) were raided as well.

LETTER BY TOMO, MEMBER OF PAROLE ARMATE

Chaos is just around the corner… (about the operation ‘ardire’)
The same story repeats itself.

In the context of a maxi-operation (‘operation boldness’… but what the fuck is that name?) against anarchists and arsonists of social peace, at 4am in the night from 12th to 13th June, my house was raided by the ROS units of Perugia and Bologna, backed by a couple of local carabiniers (unlike the last time my house was searched, now they didn’t find anything). They were looking for the same stuff they wanted to find the other time: computers, explosive material, etc.

This time, however, there was a charming surprise: the gentlemen in uniform, following the orders of the renown nun M.Comodi, informed me that I’m now under investigation on the basis of the customary Article 270bis of the Italian Criminal Code.

I would like to clarify that, although I have been currently assigned a duty solicitor, I intend to refuse any legal defense because I do not recognize any authority, be it judiciary or other.

I also want to specify that as an individual at war with society I support the practice of direct action and, therefore, support the actions of the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI).

In any case, this was a classic raid in grand style which, among others, led a dozen anarchists under pretrial detention and more than twenty people under judicial investigation, including some comrades of the CCF· nevertheless, it’s still too early to get a general picture of the situation.

What can one say? Needless to point out that, in spite of all the years of imprisonment under which they can bury us, the fire we carry within us is by now unstoppable.

It’s expanding, fierce, and meets the flames of our comrades in affinity everywhere; those who, in a world like this, accept a single position: that of attack.

These wonderful comrades, whose hatred burns like one thousand suns shining in the sky, are the friends and the brothers and sisters with whom we share rage and pain, tears and smiles, doubts and passions that weigh as boulders and whistle as lead; those that threaten society, its laws and its defenders with their very existence; the indomitable rebels that illuminate the nights and paint the cities with colours of destruction and rebellion.

Even from behind prison bars or inside the courts, their gazes, their words and their thoughts are dangerous weapons and become sharpened handy files for escape, despite the fact that judges and public prosecutors attempt to suffocate any glimmer of individual strength in them.
But these human wastes cannot halt the iconoclastic fury that’s spreading like a virus.
We are the infection… and there is no cure; neither for the ‘masters’, nor for the ‘servants’.
Chaos is just around the corner…

A gigantic, incandescent, complicit embrace of fire to you, comrades.

TOTAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARRESTED AND INVESTIGATED REBELS
FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIETY
MAY THE ROAR OF POWDERS RIP THE SILENCE OF SOCIAL PEACE

VIVA L’ANARCHIA! LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
Tomo, June 13th, 2012, dal mio Nulla
… from my Nothing.

sources: informa-azione, parolearmate, feartosleep

INCENDIARY SOLIDARITY WITH ALL COMRADES
PROSECUTED AND REMANDED IN CUSTODY

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
AND WE WILL USE IT

Call for an international mobilization in solidarity with the convicted rioters of Genoa 2001 (Italy)

June 11, 2012 325 Magazine

From informa-azione.info:

On 13th July the last grade of judgment against 10 comrades, convicted for
having participated in the clashes occurred in Genoa in 2001 on the
occasion of the G8 summit, will be held.

The comrades were given heavy sentences, ranging from 10 to 15 years, by
the Court of Genoa and now their imprisonment may become executive.

Ten people are being used as scapegoat: through them, the State wants to
attack the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets in
those days, and particularly those who contributed to unleash the revolt
against the arrogance of the Powerful. We won’t accept the reprisal of the
State; condemning these comrades means to attack the whole movement.

In the meantime the responsible for the indiscriminate massacre, the raid
at the Diaz school, the tortures in the Bolzaneto police barracks and the
murder of Carlo Giuliani can sleep soundly in their beds as they were
awarded for their actions of slaughter.

We think it is our precise responsibility to give solidarity to the
convicted comrades, to denounce and fight against this act of repression
and to vindicate the importance of the days of Genoa.

We also think that in this period of violent attacks by the capitalist
system against the exploited, it is important to oppose the
criminalization of all those struggles that go beyond the restricted space
of what is allowed… This criminalization also manifests itself through the
heavy sentences brought about by the charge of “Looting and Devastation”.

For these reasons it is important to organize a mobilization in support of
the convicted comrades. This is our call for international solidarity, for
actions and initiatives to be held during the week before the day of the
trial.

Furthermore, we invite everyone to the solidarity demonstration that will
be held on the day of the hearing in front of the Court of Cassation in
Rome, so that the inquisitors will hear our voice directly.

06-12 July- days of action

13th of July- sit-in next to the Court of Cassation in Rome

Anarchists

Cyber-raid against Culmine – Email account violated and copied by state forces (Italy)

March 31, 2012 325 Magazine

Message from counter-info website Culmine via Contra-Info:

Culmine is informing you that in the context of an investigation against
anarchist comrades from Italy, our mail has been violated and copied. So,
we notify that we will no longer use culmine(at)distruzione(dot)org and
that in the next days we are going to decide if and how we’re going to
continue operating the blog culmine.noblogs.org

We ask from all individuals and/or groups not to send anything to
Culmine’s e-mail address, which is currently in the hands of the ROS
TECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS unit of Roma Carabinieri, who are now controlling
with Spytech Spyagent Software[*] all computer traffic we receive.

We would also recommend that all comrades, who got in contact with
Culmine, urgently change their password or even their email account
itself.

We will publish the new email at which you can contact Culmine as soon as
we manage to change it. What is more important, with or without
technologies, is to continue our attack filled with rage and hatred!

With the memory of our comrades fallen in battle! A strong and warm hug
for all anarchist hostages in the prisons of the world!

Rebellious greetings
Culmine, March 30th, 2012
_

There’s a similar message on ParoleArmate’s blog too:
Careful! Due to a police investigation, do not write anymore to us!
parolearmate(at)distruzione.org

Italy: NO TAV comrades still in prison

February 13th, 2012 Contra Info

These are the latest news about our comrades who were arrested on January 26th. Many of the NO TAV resistants were released and are now under house arrest and other restrictive measures. Nevertheless, the judges have decided the continuation of pre-trial detention for the following comrades (we add their addresses):

Alessio Del Sordo, C.C. via Pianezza 300, 10151 Torino
Matteo ‘Mambo’ Grieco, C.R. San Michele, Strada Statale 31, 15100 Alessandria
Maurizio Ferrari, Carcere San Vittore, Piazza Filangeri 2, 20123 Milano
Marcelo Damian Jara Marin, Carcere San Vittore, Piazza Filangeri 2, 20123 Milano
Gabriele Filippi, Carcere di Marassi, Piazzale Marassi 2, 16139 Genova
Giorgio Rossetto, C.R. loc. Cascina Felicina via Regioni Bronda 19/b, 12037 Saluzzo (CN)
Luca Cientanni, C.C. corso Vercelli 165, 10015 Ivrea (To)
Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez, C.C. Via Beccaria, 13, Loc. Spini di Gardolo, 38014 Gardolo, TN
Antonio Ginetti, Casa Circondariale, Via dei Macelli 13, 51100 Pistoia – Riesame il 16-2-2012

Occupy Italy: Police raid homes after riots

by Hanna Ingber Win October 17, 2011 Global Post

Italian police conducted raids, including house searches, Monday against
suspected leftist extremists following a weekend that saw some of the
worst violence to hit Rome in years.

Interior Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano told local media that
police targeted far-left suspects in an ongoing operation in cities across
the country, the Associated Press reports.

Police reportedly raided homes and youth centers in Florence, Palermo and
Ancona.

The riots began Saturday when Italians took to the streets to join the
global campaign against corporate greed and economic inequality inspired
by the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. Protests took place in
cities across the world Saturday.

The protests turned violent Saturday when several hundred protesters
started setting cars on fire, breaking store windows, smashing bank ATMs
and store windows and torching police vehicles in Rome. Italian police
responded by firing teargas and using water cannons to break up
demonstrators.

On Thursday, protesters stormed into Goldman Sachs' Milan office. They
were quickly dispersed but left behind graffiti denouncing Italy's Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi and saying "Give us money."

Arrests at New York and Rome 'Occupy' rallies

TG3: la cronaca dell'inferno a Roma (15/10/11) by TheResearcher80

Dozens detained in New York as anti-Wall Street protesters march on Times
Square, while protests turn violent in Italy.

Oct 16, 2011 Al Jazeera

Dozens of people have been arrested in New York as thousands of
anti-corporate protesters marched to the city's famous Times Square at the
culmination of a day of global demonstrations inspired by the 'Occupy Wall
Street" movement.

Police, some on horseback, packed 71 protesters in vans after thousands of
demonstrators mixed with tourists converged on the major commercial
intersection, divided by police barriers.

The demonstrators in lower Manhattan on Saturday banged drums and chanted
"We got sold out, banks got bailed out," "All day, all week, occupy Wall
Street," and "Hey hey, ho ho, corporate greed has got to go."

Protests were also held elsewhere in the United States and Canada, notably
in Washington DC, the US capital.

Violence in Rome

Violence broke out during the day in Rome as tens of thousands nicknamed
"the indignant" marched in several European cities in protest against
capitalism and austerity measures.

Black smoke billowed into the air in the centre of the Rome as a small
group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They
smashed shop windows, set vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews.
Others burned Italian and EU flags.

Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, said that those responsible
for the rash of violence would be identified and punished, calling the
rioting "a very worrying sign for civil society ... they (radicals) must
be condemned by everyone without reservation".

Italian police said that at least four people had been injured in the
clashes, while the ANSA news agency reported that as many as 70 had been
wounded, with three in serious condition.

Security forces locked down the centre of the city, closing metro stations
and major monuments such as the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.

Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome, blamed the violence on "a few thousand
thugs" who "infiltrated the demonstration".

Meanwhile, in Berlin, around 4,000 people marched through the streets,
with banners that urged the end of capitalism. Some marchers scuffled with
police as they tried to get near the country's parliamentary buildings.

In Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial capital, about 5,000 people
protested in front of the European Central Bank.

Assange address

Outside London's iconic St Paul's cathedral, WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange spoke to about 500 demonstrators.

"The banking system in London is the recipient of corrupt money," he said,
adding that WikiLeaks would launch a campaign against financial
institutions in the coming months.

Scuffles broke out in the UK capital between police and protesters, who
raised banners saying "Strike
back!"; "No cuts!" and "Goldman Sachs is the work of the devil!"

In Paris, the French capital, about 1,000 protesters rallied in front of
city hall, coinciding with a G-20 finance chief's meeting.

In the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, hundreds walked through the streets
carrying pictures of Che Guevara and old communist flags that read "Death
to capitalism, freedom to the people."

Another 500 people gathered to hear speakers denounce capitalism at a
peaceful rally in downtown Stockholm, holding up red flags and banners
that read "We are the 99 per cent" and "We refuse to pay for capitalism's
crisis."

The reference was to the world's richest one per cent, who control
billions in assets, while billions around the world live in poverty or are
struggling economically.

Tens of thousands of Portuguese, angry at their government's handling of
the economic crisis, also took to the streets of Lisbon. Other protests
were staged in Geneva, Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Geneva, Zurich and
Melbourne.

Authors sign online petition

A group of 100 prominent authors, including Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman
and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham,
signed an online petition declaring their support for "Occupy Wall Street
and the Occupy Movement around the world."

Occupy Wall Street in New York City's Zuccotti Park

Demonstrations of various sizes also took place in Asia, namely in Japan's
Tokyo, the Philippines' Manila, Taiwan's Taipei, South Korea's Seoul and
China's Hong Kong.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the headquarters of Tokyo Electric
Power Co. and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to show
dissatisfaction over the handling of the nuclear disaster triggered by the
March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Despite heavy rains in Seoul, the South Korean capital, members of more
than 30 civic groups congregated in the city's financial district.

In Manila, about 100 members of Bayan, an alliance of various left-wing
groups in the Philippines, marched to the US embassy, waving banners that
read: "Down with US imperialism" and "Philippines not for sale",
broadcaster APTN reported.

In Hong Kong, more than 200 people gathered at Exchange Square Podium in
the city’s central shopping and business district.

Some pitched tents to stay overnight at the site while others later
migrated to the HSBC building nearby.



Rioters hijack Rome protests, police fire tear gas

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO and MEERA SELVA | Associated Press • October
15, 2011


ROME – Italian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons in Rome on
Saturday as violent protesters hijacked a peaceful demonstration against
corporate greed, smashing bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.

Elsewhere, hundreds of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched without
incident in cities across Europe, as the "Occupy Wall Street" protests
linked up with long-running demonstrations against European governments'
austerity measures.

Heavy smoke billowed in downtown Rome as a small group broke away and
wreaked havoc in streets close to the Colosseum and elsewhere in the city.

Clad in black with their faces covered, protesters threw rocks, bottles
and incendiary devices at banks and Rome police in riot gear. With clubs
and hammers, they destroyed bank ATMs, set trash bins on fire and
assaulted at least two news crews from Sky Italia.

Riot police charged the protesters repeatedly, firing water cannons and
tear gas. Around 70 people were injured, according to news reports,
including one man who tried to stop the protesters from throwing bottles.

TV footage showed one young woman with blood covering her face, while the
ANSA news agency said a man had lost two fingers when a firecracker
exploded.

In the city's St. John in Lateran square, police vans came under attack,
with protesters hurling rocks and cobblestones and smashing the vehicles.
Fleeing the violence, peaceful protesters stormed up the steps outside the
Basilica, one of the oldest in Rome.

"People of Europe: Rise Up!" read one banner in Rome. Some activists
turned against the violent group, trying to stop them and shouting
"Enough!" and "Shame!"

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno blamed the violence on "a few thousand thugs
from all over Italy, and possibly from all over Europe, who infiltrated
the demonstration." Some Rome museums were forced to close down and at
least one theater canceled a show.

Protesters also set fire to a building, causing the roof to collapse,
reports said. The Defense Ministry denied reports it was one of its
offices.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi called the violence a "worrying signal," and
added that the perpetrators "must be found and punished."

Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote Friday, with many questioning
his leadership. Italy's debt burden is second only to Greece in the
17-nation eurozone and the country is rapidly becoming a focus of concern
in Europe's debt crisis.

ANSA said four people from an anarchist group were arrested Saturday with
helmets, anti-gas masks, clubs and hundreds of bottles in their car.

Elsewhere, bright autumn sunshine and a social media campaign brought out
thousands across Europe.

In Spain, the Indignant Movement that began around-the-clock "occupation"
protest camps in May which lasted for weeks held evening marches Saturday
that converged on Madrid's Puerta del Sol plaza.

"There is a huge crowd here," said Elsa Varona, whose choir sang an
excerpt from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco overture as the marchers arrived.
Organizers said 300,000 people took part, but police did not offer an
estimate.

Other Spanish cities including Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and Malaga
hosted similarly well-attended gatherings."

Portuguese protesters angry at their government's handling of the economic
crisis pushed against police lines in Lisbon, but officers stopped them
from storming parliament. Portugal is one of three European nations -
along with Greece and Ireland - that has had to accept an international
bailout.

In Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial hub, 5,000 people protested
at the European Central Bank, with some setting up a tent camp in front of
the ECB building.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke to protesters outside St. Paul's
Cathedral in London, calling the international banking system a "recipient
of corrupt money."

The London demonstration swelled to several thousand people by early
evening, and police said three were arrested. While protesters erected
tents and gathered blankets, food and water to settle down for the
evening, police urged them to leave, saying cathedral staff needed to
prepare for Sunday services.

In Paris, marchers shook their fists and shouted as they passed the city's
historic stock exchange, before congregating by the hundreds outside the
ornate City Hall.

"Stand up Paris! Rise Up!" protesters shouted. "Sharing will save the world!"

The Greek capital of Athens has seen near-daily strikes and protests as
the government fights to avoid bankruptcy, and Saturday was no different.
Some 2,000 rallied outside parliament against a new austerity package
being voted upon on Thursday, while teachers and civil servants held
marches elsewhere in the city. In Thessaloniki, Greece's second city,
3,000 took part in a peaceful protest.

Several hundreds more marched in the German cities of Berlin, Cologne and
Munich and the Austrian capital of Vienna, while protesters in Zurich,
Switzerland's financial hub, carried banners reading "We won't bail you
out yet again" and "We are the 99 percent."

That referred to the world's richest one percent, who control billions in
assets while billions of others are struggling to make ends meet.

In Brussels, thousands of marched through the downtown chanting "Criminal
bankers caused this crisis!" and pelted the stock exchange building with
old shoes.

Protesters also accused NATO, which has its headquarters in Brussels, of
wasting taxpayer money on the wars in Libya and Afghanistan, saying that
one European soldier deployed to Afghanistan costs the equivalent of 11
high school teachers.

Some 300 activists rallied in Helsinki with homemade signs and stalls full
of art and food.

Across the Atlantic, hundreds protested near the Toronto Stock Exchange
and the headquarters of major Canadian banks to decry what they called
government-abetted corporate greed. Protests were also being held in
Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax and Winnipeg.

In New York, hundreds marched on a Chase bank to protest the role banks
played in the financial crisis, and demonstrations culminated in an
"Occupation Party" in Times Square.

In South Africa, about 50 activists rallied outside the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange to demand more jobs, free education and universal healthcare.

Support for the anti-capitalist protest movement was light in Asia, where
the global economy is booming. About 300 people turned out in Sydney,
while another 200 chanted anti-nuclear slogans outside the Tokyo Electric
Power Co., which operates the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
plant. In the Philippines, 100 people marched on the U.S. Embassy in
Manila.

Lessons From Genova, 10 Years On: Remembering Carlo Giuliani

By MICHAEL LEONARDI; July 22 / 24, 2011 - Counterpunch

On July 20th 2001 there was a palpable tension in the air of the historic
port city of Genova in Northern Italy. Silvio Berlusconi was playing host
to a meeting of the G8 economic powers and hundreds of thousands of people
had converged from all over the world to show and to voice their
opposition to the direction these world leaders were taking us. Carlo
Giuliani was one of the rebels in the crowd that day who fought back when
the Italian and International police forces violently cracked down on the
Global resistance movement. Eyewitness accounts by residents of Genova
described the scene as a war zone and detailed how the military and police
units attacked anyone who was on the streets indiscriminately. One young
man on his way to the beach was beaten to the ground by riot police in a
cloud of tear gas. Old women and shopkeepers were attacked on their city
streets just for being there. This was the New World Order showing its
most ugly and violent of faces to send a signal to those of us who believe
that another world is possible!, as George Bush, Silvio Berlusconi, Tony
Blair and the others smirked over fine wines and a fancy lunch.

Carlo Giuliani was young and idealistic and happy to add his voice and
muscle to the growing international movement for a world that values human
dignity and the integrity of our natural environment over corporate
profits and capitalist plunder. His father was a leader of the communist
trade Union CGIL and he came from a family rooted in struggle for the
rights of working people with a deep respect for real democracy and
humanity.

It seemed that despite lacking a completely cohesive revolutionary
strategy, the global movement was heading in the right direction and an
international unification of struggle was coming together. 1999's Battle
for Seattle had inspired the forces opposed to global capitalism's human
exploitation and devastating effects on the environment the world over.
Further remarkable actions against George Bush's stolen election and
inauguration, at the World Bank/IMF meeting in Washington D.C., and at the
G7+1 meeting in Okinawa, Japan lead up to the G8 meeting in Genova, Italy.
Simultaneously [adding] to these mass mobilizations and actions that were
making it increasingly difficult for the world's most powerful leaders to
meet, strategies for Another Possible World were in the making. Finding
its roots in the Zapatista uprising on the day that the North American
Free Trade Agreement went into effect and in the First International
Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, the World Social
Forum met for the first time in Porto Allegre, Brazil in June of 2001. It
continues to outline and develop a vision for a post industrial capitalist
world today.

Carlo Giuliani was not ignorant of these developments, but was versed in
the development of this global movement. He, like most young Italians, had
been raised with knowledge of Gramsci, Marx, Malatesta, Sacco and
Vanzetti. Communism and Anarchism are part of the Social Fabric in Italy,
not obscure and scary as they are to most Americans raised in corporatist
isolationism, and with little knowledge of their own history let alone
others.

Genova, one of Italy's famed Italian port cities, hometown of Christopher
Columbus and historic center of global commerce and trade proved to be the
stage where the Western capitalist police forces showed their viciousness,
and like a desperate and cornered beast lashed out violently with their
chemicals and guns to send a message of repression to those of us that
believe Another World is Possible!! As word spread through the assembled
masses of the indiscriminate violence being used by the police to attack
the crowds, and as Carlo and his comrades were themselves attacked, they
responded with spontaneous and passionate outrage as they engaged in
street battles with the jackbooted thugs that had been ordered to attack
everyone on the streets. Carlo Giuliani was shot at close to point blank
range and then run over both backwards and forwards by a Carabinieri
police jeep. He was then left to die on the streets as his fellow rebels
and the world looked on in disbelief and horror.

At 23 years old Carlo Giuliani was the first Western European killed in
the newly energized and rising global struggle against Capitalism, but he
was not the only victim that day. There was a well coordinated, systematic
and full fledged attack led by the Italian police forces to repress this
demonstration at all costs. Later that evening two schools that were
housing activists and journalists were raided by police forces who
proceeded to torture and beat people that were sleeping on the floors.
Three people were left in comas, one suffered brain damage and hundreds
were injured. People reported being spat and urinated upon by the police,
as well as repeatedly beaten in the G8's first condoned use of torture,
setting precedence for the terror wars in post 9-11 Afghanistan and Iraq.

The murder of Carlo Giuliani and the human rights violations and violence
suffered by the people challenging the G8's global dominion did not go
unprosecuted. Carlo Giuliani's mother Haidi, a retired school teacher and
human rights crusader, became a senator for the Refounded Communist Party
in 2006 and help lead the creation of an Investigative Commission into the
facts surrounding the violence in Genova. After years of stalling and
obstruction, some convictions have been carried out against isolated
police officers and state medics. However, the entire legal process from
the European Court of Justice on down to the Italian court system has been
seen as an obvious collusion with the Italian authorities to cover-up the
strategy to repress the movement with a coordinated violent clampdown on
the demonstration from the top on down the chain of command. Much like in
the United States where isolated American soldiers were tried and
convicted for torture in Iraq, the criminals at the top have been let off
the hook and often times rewarded. The commander of the Carabinieri that
shot Carlo Giuliani was promoted to Major in the Iraq war, and the courts
ruled that the bullet that killed Carlo ricocheted off of a flying rock.
Video of the shooting that can easily be seen on youtube shows clearly
that a gun was pointed squarely at Carlo's head.

While the global corporate media quickly attempted to paint Carlo Giuliani
as a troubled street thug type youth, this story didn't fly for long in
Italy as his well respected parents came to the forefront quickly to
dispel these myths. Many historians have attempted to blame the violence
in Genova on the failings of an undefined and uncoordinated movement,
[but] this too is a myth. The reality of Genova is that the global
economic powers decided to draw their line and strike back forcefully
against the rapidly expanding movement for economic, social and
environmental justice. Our cockiness in thinking that the world's leaders
would only be able to meet in very remote locations or on the
international space station were quickly and violently squashed.

Ten years later the disaster of the global economy is more evident than
any of us could have imagined and the truths of the resistance movement
ring truer than ever: the censorship in the media, the repression of
citizens like Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, the BP oil spills in the
Gulf of Mexico, Yellowstone River and now on the Alaskan Tundra, the
Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe, tar sands, fracking, climate change, the
eternal wars spreading from the Middle East and Asia to Africa, the
dismantling of social safety nets and public programs across the world
through fraudulent "austerity" measures as the poor get poorer and the
rich continue to get richer are clear evidence that our predictions of
planetary disaster are coming to a head.

The promises of global progress and enough wealth to go around for
everyone if we just let the "free market" reign have proven to be hollow
lies. NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank have proven to be
nothing but instruments in the criminal ponzy scheme of global capitalism.
If Carlo Giuliani were alive today he'd still be struggling along side his
family and be excited for this past years referendum victory in Italy, and
the global uprisings from Egypt to Greece and from Barcelona to Madison.
As Carlo's mother put it this week, her son's death "has still not
received the justice it deserves," and nor have we or has our Earth.
Carlo's father, Giuliano Giuliani, put it like this "Carlo is not a
martyr, nor is he a hero, he is a young man that reacted to a profound
injustice." To honor his memory let us hope that we can all do the same.

Michael Leonardi is a writer, educator and activist. He splits his time
between North America and Italy and can be reached at
mikeleonardi@hotmail.com

Genoa: 10 years on

July 21, 2011 Anarkismo

Ten years have gone by. The very day after those tragic events of July
2001, along with Carlo's parents, we were demanding the truth and justice
for that body lying on the ground in Piazza Alimondi, that young life
ended by two shots from a pistol fired by those who are supposed to be the
protectors of "law and order". We also demanded truth and justice for the
hundreds of women and men during those days in Genoa who were maltreated,
beaten and humiliated by those who are supposed to be the protectors of
law and order.

Ten years have gone by, but we have still had precious little truth and
even that has been thanks to alternative media sources. Of justice we have
still yet to see any at all.

It is bitter, though not surprising, to think that in this country - known
throughout the world for its unsolved massacres - State officials found
guilty of abuse against defenceless citizens do not have to answer for
what they have done and go on wearing their uniforms and indeed, in many
cases, get promoted; it fills us with indignation but comes as no surprise
that here, in this unfortunate country, a killing on the streets in broad
daylight at the hand of members of the forces of law and order should be
hushed up without even a hint of a trial. Neither is anyone surprised by
the fact that the person who as it were politically directed the
activities of the armed forces in those days in Genoa should still be a
member of parliament, with one of the highest positions in the State.
Someone who certain areas of the "left" even consider a credible political
partner!

Italy is a country where with each budget more and more is stolen from the
poor and given to the rich, a country where dying in workplace accidents
no longer makes the news, where it is only too easy to spend your working
life flitting from temporary contract to temporary contract and be derided
by a Minister of the Republic for your troubles, a country where
foreigners who seek a better life are committing a crime and are expelled
(or even shot at while they are still at sea), where common goods (i.e.
those goods which belong to all citizens) are sold off or simply given to
Capital. A country whose political class has fully adopted the neo-liberal
ideology and infused it with racist and xenophobic overtones.

The Italy which hosted the G8 in Genoa 10 years ago is not much different
than today's, or that of the past. Faced with tens of thousands of people
from all over the world who wanted to show that another world was
possible, to debate questions of common interest, to shout out their
opposition to neo-liberal economic policies, the State could only do what
it always does: it offered armoured vehicles, provocation, repression,
with some wire mesh and a red zone thrown in for the occasion. In other
words they sought to reduce the demands of that wide, variegated,
intelligent and determined popular movement into a simple matter of public
order.

But that worldwide, visionary movement that died in Genoa in 2001 with
Carlo did leave its social and political testament, which in time was
adopted once mroe by those who fight against the destruction of the
environment, the privatization of common goods, for the right of free
movement of people, against war and military spending, against racism and
xenophobia, for dignity and safety in the workplace, for the right to work
and against casualized work, for the redemption of all the Souths in the
world.

We anarchist communists, we libertarians, were there in Genoa in 2001 just
as we have always been present wherever we need to defend and allow
humanity to progress in the face of barbarity. We are still here today and
we will be tomorrow, in the social, political and labour struggles,
bringing with us our ideals, our ideas and our vision.

"We have a new world in our hearts"

Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici
21 July 2011

   Meeting point for demonstration: 4.00pm in Piazza Settembrini. March
to Piazza Caricamento at 5.00pm leaving from Piazza Montano in
Sampierdarena.


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