Verdict against Mónica Caballero & Francisco Solar
Today, November 7, 2023: while a demonstration in solidarity took place outside, the court gave the verdict against Mónica and Francisco after four months on trial.
Today, November 7, 2023: while a demonstration in solidarity took place outside, the court gave the verdict against Mónica and Francisco after four months on trial.
From Act for Freedom Now!
Original title: Sardinia, Italy: Anarchist comrade Davide Delogu has been transferred to house arrest (15th October 2023)
We inform you that the Sardinian anarchist comrade Davide Delogu has been released after 14 long years, 12 of which deported in the prisons of the continent.
From The Moscow Times
Russian left-wing activist and anarchist Lev Skoryakin has been found inside a Moscow detention center weeks after going missing in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Memorial human rights group said Friday.
From It's Going Down
On this episode, we speak with Sam about the recent Block Cop City speaking tour across the US and the upcoming mass actions in Atlanta against the Cop City project from November 10th – 13th.
We also speak with hosts of the Final Straw podcast about the recent Asheville Anarchist Bookfair about organizing anarchist and autonomous events in the current terrain with COVID-19 still a looming threat, how to make gatherings accessible and engaging to as many people as possible, and much more.
From La Nemesi Via Abolition Media
We inform you that on 23 October the outcome of the hearing of 19 October at the Surveillance Court of Rome was announced: the appeal for the early revocation of the detention in 41 bis for the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito was rejected.
In night between 16th and 17th of October in Bishkek, according to DOXA, unknown people kidnapped activist of Left Bloc, anarchist Lev Skoryakin. Lawyers do not know about his whereabouts. In Russia, Skoryakin is accused of ”hooliganism with weapons”, due to action against a FSB office in the South-West of Moscow with another activist of the Left Bloc Ruslan Abasov. Skoryakin and Abasov were holding banners and burning flares at the office. They were remanded to Butyrka prison of Moscow but released court pending, and they escaped Russia. Skoryakin was arrested in absence in February 2022, and arrest warrant was issued in April of 2022.
From ABC Belarus
31 anarchists and antifascists continue to serve their sentences in Belarusian prisons, one more person is under the limitation of freedom regime at home.
From Informativo Anarquista, tanslated by Act for freedom now!
Activity in Solidarity with Monica and Francisco and Launch of Publication “Complicity & Sedition”
Thanks to everyone who came to the activity in solidarity with Monica and Francisco in Villa Portales, in the context of the trial that they are facing right now.
Michael Kimble is a passionate freedom fighter who has been held captive by the Alabama Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. After defending himself during a homophobic attack by a known white supremacist in 1987, Michael was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. His trial was typical of what could be expected from a racist criminal justice system in Jefferson County, Alabama.
From Prism Reports by William C. Anderson, October 3rd, 2023
State propaganda has long mischaracterized and scapegoated anarchism to maintain a violent status quo
From Act for freedom now!
Full title: Italy: Operation Scripta Scelera: Gino Vatteroni has been transferred from the prison of Massa to that of Alessandria (9th October 2023)
The anarchist comrade Gino Vatteroni has been transferred from the prison of Massa to that of Alessandria, in “Alta Sicurezza 2” [High-security 2], where many anarchist comrades have been imprisoned in the past and where some revolutionary communist militants are currently being held. The comrade finds himself in maximum security as the charge of incitement to commit crime (art. 414 c. p.) has been aggravated with that of ‘terrorist aims’ (art. 270 bis 1 c. p.).
From Act for Freedom Now! via lanemesi
We inform you that on October 4th an aggravation of the precautionary measures has been notified concerning two of the anarchist comrades accused in the operation Scripta Scelera of the 8th of August against the internationalist anarchist fortnightly “Bezmotivny”. Following some reports by the DIGOS relating to alleged violations of restrictions, the judge for preliminary investigations ordered transfer to prison for Gino Vatteroni (who was under house arrest with full restrictions) and aggravation of the precautionary measure for Veronica (originally placed under obligation to remain with night re-entry from 19:00 to 07:00 and is now under house arrest with all restrictions).
From Athens Indymedia, translated by Act for freedom now!
As I enjoy my freedom again, won through my second hunger and thirst strike, I reflect on the complex historical mosaic that not only shaped my personal choices but also wove the collective struggle against the state-capitalism complex. Far from being solitary acts of assertion, the hunger strikes were instead part of the social antagonism within the complex dynamics taking shape in Greece and the global landscape as the assault of the dominant powers deepens.
Via Avtonom
My friend shared his thoughts with me: he had arrived at this discomforting realisation that after my arrest, everything was finished – as if our world was sharply divided into “before” and “after”. [...] It seemed that that life had mutated into nostalgic reflections on those times when just to be yourself in Russia had not yet become so dangerous.