Vassilis Palaiokostas letter to the media

31 January 2010
by Πρακτορείο Rioters
http://rioter.info/2010/01/31/vassilis-palaiokostas-letter-to-the-media/
Click on link for a translation of the letter sent to “Eleftherotipia” newspaper on the occasion of Polys (Polykarpos) Georgiades and Vaggelis Chrisohoides jury on 2/2 accused of providing refuge to a “criminal” and being part of his “criminal association”. Vassilis Palaiokostas is on the run after his escape with a helicopter from Korydallos prison, on Feb. 22/2009, accused of robbing banks and kidnapping industrialists. It is worth saying, he has never harmed human life, not even a cop's life to avoid arrest. On the other hand, he and his older brother (a legendary bank robber and escapee, currently held in prison) are said to have helped many poor people and communities in mainland Greece’ mountains where they come from and are said to often find refuge at, continuing a tradition of “social robbery” that has blossomed around the Balkans since the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Prosegur car attacked in Barcelona

From Klinamen via Indymedia Barcelona
translated by this is Our Job

On January 1, we set fire to a car belonging to the Prosegur private security company in Barcelona by leaving a delayed incendiary device under the fuel tank.
We claim this action as a response to the recent assaults by “security vigilantes” on the metro and tramway. Let this be very clear to those responsible for the abuses, those who benefit from them, and those who carry them out. Let this be very clear to all those in uniform who gang up to beat people, who patrol the metro on the hunt for immigrants, who unleash attack dogs in the middle of public celebrations. We have made the decision to stand firm, to not allow even one more assault to happen in silence.
We are calling for self-defense, for active rebellion against all the forms of everyday violence imposed on us under this system.
No one is going to protect us from those who “protect” us
Active solidarity and direct action against parapolice attacks

- January 2010, Barcelona

Greek group claims bombing of former PM's office

29 January 2010 12:36

'ATHENS — An anarchist group called Revolutionary Liberation Action has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack against the office of former Socialist Prime Minister Costas Simitis.
The daily newspaper Eleftherotypia said Friday it had received an e-mail from the group claiming responsibility for Thursday's attack, which caused minor damage and no injuries.
In its e-mail, the group said it targeted Simitis as a representative of the country's political and economic elite. Simitis served as prime minister from 1996-2004.
The group has struck several times in the past few years, usually planting bombs at politicians' offices, ministry buildings or banks. Small anarchist groups frequently target symbols of wealth and authority in Greece.
Separately, arsonists carried out a spate of attacks overnight in the northern city of Thessaloniki, planting firebombs made with gas cannisters at a McDonald's fast food restaurant and a bank, and also torching 10 cars, police said.
The firebomb planted outside the McDonald's did not explode, while the one at the bank caused minor damage.
None of the attacks caused any injuries.'
Cyprus Weekly

Gabriel Pombo Da Silva: The Offensive Continues .

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From Ai Ferri Corti
ranslated by this is Our Job
January 24, 2010
full text: http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/gabriel-pombo-da-silva-the-offensive-continues/
Brothers and sisters, our informal yet coordinated gesture of insurrectionary love is behind us. It was expressed, experienced, and felt in as many ways as our creativity, imagination, desires, and means (personal/material) allowed and suggested.
I’m certainly not the only one who has been deeply moved by the response to the call, by the display of revolutionary solidarity and its results. Nor am I the only one who doesn’t want all we experienced and shared during those particular days to remain “just” a gesture. Gestures are for remembering (moments, comrades, situations, etc.). IDEAS and ACTIONS are for going on and moving forward.
We remember our own not to create “sanctuaries” where we go cry on the anniversary of each death, but to keep our comrades with us in our lives and actions.
Our comrades were neither “angels” nor “demons.” They were responsible individuals. They inspired us and continue to do so, because they remind us that the circumstances they fought against still exist.
What was Salvador Puig Antich’s “crime”? What was Agustín Rueda Sierra’s? What was Franco Serantini’s? What was Giuseppe Pinelli’s? What was Soledad and Edo’s? What was Carlo Giuliani’s? What was Paco Ortiz’s? What was Xosé Tarrío’s? What was Mauricio Morales’? What were the “crimes” of these comrades? What is more important: the “acronyms” of their organizations (if they belonged to any), or the IDEAS they defended?
Do you know where our comrades’ murderers are? Do you know what targets our comrades attacked? The lives they led? What they dreamed about?
read more..

Arson attacks in Greece

'In Athens, suspected anarchists staged a string of bloodless arson attacks. In the southern Athens district of Nea Smyrni, homemade bombs detonated under two parked cars belonging to United Nations diplomats. At around the same time vandals smashed the facade of conservative New Democracy’s local office before dousing the interior with gasoline and setting it alight. In Thessaloniki, several cars were destroyed in three arson hits.'
from Greek daily Kathimerini

Air France agency occupied in Paris

Indy Nantes, Thursday 28
January 2010

Another solidarity action
Wednesday January 27 about 40 people occupied the Air France agency in the Opéra area of Paris. Arriving as 6pm struck, the group blocked ticket sales for half an hour. After putting the cctv cameras out of action and setting off the fire alarms, the windows and walls inside were redecorated with the aid of numerous posters against the expulsion machinery. Fliers, "Let's sabotage the expulsion machinery" and "Some vultures from the expulsion machine" (mentioning "Opera Agency Occupation") faxes were sent to other Air France agencies as well as to its head office. Outside a banner was hung "Air France deporters - Freedom for everyone, with or without papers" and leaflets were handed out to passersby in that bourgeois area. After setting off some stink bombs everybody left by metro when the cops turned up.
All the big airline companies take part in the expulsion of immigrants without papers, but many are done by Air France-KLM (which also grans "miles", i.e. 'loyalty cards' that give free tickets to the jeufs [sic] of the escort).
This action, like many others elsewhere, should be seen in the framework of the week of solidarity with those accused of the incendiary revolt of the Vincennes detention centre; and obviously against all the scum of the expulsion machine.
See you next time!
The trial against those accused of burning the Vincennes detention centre will start again on February 1 at 14.00 in the Tribunal de grande istance (high court) of Paris.
We have just heard with joy of the liberation of the last accused still inside. Some respite before the trial...

Mapuche territory - Machinery belonging to big landowners burnt to the ground in Ercilla

A grain harvester and a lorry were completely burnt out this morning on the land of Santa Lucía, property of big landowner Maclobia Verdi Germani, of Ercilla.
At least 6 persons unknown entered Santa Lucia and set fire to the agricultural machinery and the lorry parked there, seemingly with the aid of some device to accelerate combustion.
This is the first attack since the presidential elections in Chile.
Police from Temuco arrived at the scene to search for evidence.
informa-azione
source: Radio Bio Bio, 25.01.10

Two mobile-phone antenna burnt in Genoa in solidarity with prisoners in struggle

from informa-azione

we receive and publish:

22 JAN AT GENOA 2 ANTENNA BURNT. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN PRISON BECAUSE OF CELL PHONES. LET'S DESTROY SOCIAL CONTROL. SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS IN STRUGGLE.

26/01/2010 – 12:07

Update on Asel Luzarraga

From Hommodolars Contrainformación
translated by This is Our Job

January 22, 2010

Firstly, we’re grateful for the concern, comradeship, affection, and extent of support for Asel. As you already know, he is currently imprisoned in Temuco, Chile on charges of illegal weapons trafficking, which flatly contradicts the ethical heart of our comrade, since he is a conscientious objector due to his refusal to learn how to use weapons.
As friends of his and as human beings, it seems aberrant to us that someone (we still don’t know who) is attempting to blame Asel for this act, given that the first indictment phase focused on the explosion of four bombs at various points in the city, three of which were impossible for Asel to carry out since he was in Euskal Herria on those dates. As the facts didn’t gel with the events, Asel’s home was raided without any explanation, and they confiscated what they consider evidence: a fire extinguisher, black powder, buckshot, and fuses for the “supposed” production of bombs. At no time has this evidence―which never was in our comrade’s home anyway―been submitted to the public or the court via either photos or video (lately, this has been the trend in the majority of cases).
It looks to us like Asel is being criminalized for being Basque, for his anarchist ideas, for his constant interest in social matters, and for sympathizing with the Mapuche people, who have been systematically oppressed and discriminated against by the Chilean state.
Criminalization for being a foreigner (stigmatization for being Basque)
Criminalization of ideas
Criminalization for solidarity with the Mapuche people
The following description is a short, informative summary of the context in which events are unfolding:
Asel is currently in prison. His health is good and his mood changes nuance by the minute, but he is always smiling with the strength and integrity that distinguish him. As he has said, he won’t let them condemn him for identifying with “one of the most marvelous ideas in the world, which is all about freedom and mutual respect.” More clearly than ever, Asel is taking a fighting stance against the criminalization of conscious anarchism in the hope that his situation clears up and he can resume his activities and interests, as he has always done. The project he was working on consists of establishing of a studio for shared learning via a diverse, horizontal, anarchist educational approach. At the same time, he wants to continue his writing, because as you should know, he was a dedicated novelist before being imprisoned.
In the future, you’ll receive information more fluidly. For the moment, we’re grateful for all the counterinformation on Asel’s behalf renouncing both his criminalization and the deprivation of his liberty.
Down with prisons!!!
Free Asel!!!
Every prisoner is a political prisoner

- Asel’s Friends

Arson attacks in Greece

'A homemade bomb made of gas canisters started a large fire at a branch of the Carrefour-Marinopoulos supermarket in Argyropouli, southern Attica, when it detonated late on Tuesday. Firemen managed to extinguish the blaze before could wreak serious damage. Early yesterday police reported two more arson attacks, one in coastal Glyfada and another in nearby Terpsithea. In the first incident, vandals doused a sports utility vehicle with American license plates with gas before setting it alight. In the second, three motorcycles were destroyed in the same way. There were no reports of arrests.'
from Greek daily Kahimerini

Political revenge against Alfredo Bonanno

Compañeras and comrades,
From within a climate of daily anarchist action and the brutal repression of every aspect of our lives I am taking the liberty of informing you of two important developments concerning the detention of Alfredo Bonanno.
As you already know Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos were transferred to Korydallos prison one day before the transfer of the murderer Korkonea to the prison of Amfissa.
There, the pharmacy refused to grant him his medication for diabetes and severe pain in the shoulder caused by a tumour diagnosed by doctors at the health centre of Amfissa.
Following pressure from their comrades a doctor sent by the Italian Embassy visited him in prison where his serious state of health was confirmed.
I would like to inform you that at this time the investigator in Trikala is deliberating the application for Alfredo's release on bail.
Following the new detention measures of the Ministry of Justice, Bonanno's advanced age (73 years), his compromised health and his detention for a misdemeanor (given that Stratigopoulos has assumed responsibility for the armed robbery), it is patently clear that his continued detention is an exemplary one of political revenge.
Alfredo Bonanno is a revolutionary anarchist comrade and a writer of many works. That why he is being held, if it wasn't him, he would already be free until the trial.
But for us, for whom solidarity is our weapon and who know that in any uprising we will be dynamite, we will not abandon our comrade. We demand the immediate release of Alfredo Bonanno.
Freedom now for Alfredo Bonanno.
Eva Tziutzia

Ps. Thefollowing fax has been sent to the Minister of Justice Trasparency and Human Rights, Athens, the Italian Embassy in Athens and the press.

We wish to denounce the abusive and illegal detention of Alfredo Maria Bonanno in unacceptable conditions in the prison of Koridallos (Athens). The vindictive politic of the State is aimed at the physical and psychological annihilation of the 73-year old comrade who is facing serious health problems. Alfredo Bonanno is an anarchist, who has been involved in the movement for decades, militant in the resistance against the dictatorship of the Greek colonels (1967-1974), and writer and editor of many works.

We demand the immediate liberation of Alfredo Maria Bonanno
Solidarity initiative
to Alfredo M. Bonanno

Paris: 27 cashpoints sabotaged in solidarity with those accused of torching the Vincennes detention centre

Indy Nantes, Saturday 23 January 2010

In the 9ème, 11ème, 12ème, 14ème, 15ème and 17ème districts of Paris, 27 cashpoints of the Post Office, Crédit Lyonnais, Société Générale and the CIC were put out of order with the aid of sulphuric acid or hammer blows during the night 22-23 January. Stickers were attached to them to point out that that all of these banks squeal the names of immigrants without legal ID papers to the cops.
In these banks the employees are instructed by the management to call the cops regularly and ask them to control their clients' documents. Fully aware of the consequences that this means for their clients without papers, they deliver them to the police headquarters. Most often these people end up in custody, then locked up in a detention centre before being expelled.. Sometimes they even risk prison.
As well as enriching themselves on exploitation (a bank is always a bank!) these banks are participating in the national sport of hunting undesirables. Like everybody, people without documents are obliged to open a bank account, take public transport, move around, go to police headquarters for their wretched papers. Each one of these moments becomes a border post: each one is a possibility of being caught, controlled, taken away. Even if the consequences are not all the same, with or without papers we all suffer exploitation and control.
Because indignation has never been enough, let's sabotage the machinery of expulsion!

Pablo Carvajal on the streets!

From Liberación Total via Hommodolars Contrainformación

translated by This is OurJob

January 22, 2010

On Thursday, January 21, just after 3 p.m., Pablo Carvajal Aracena was released from preventative detention due to lack of evidence. Nine days after the close of the investigation, the judge ruled that Pablo’s participation in the attack on a PDI (Investigative Police) barracks was not credible, and that he did not pose a flight risk because the police had the means to prevent such an occurrence.

In any case, he is under absolute house arrest; in other words, he can’t leave his home, and he is of course forbidden to leave the country.

Despite his release, attention should be paid to the actions taken by the prosecution and the rest of the state’s defenders, the most probable of which will be the filing of appeals to reverse the decision made by the judge of the eighth court of public safety.

Matías Castro remains imprisoned on charges stemming from the same PDI barracks attack.

Drilling-Rig Sabotaged at Mainshill Woods *

from Indymedia SCOTLAND
By Anonymous, submitted on Mon, 18/01/2010 - 12:00

In the early hours of January the 13th an Apex drilling rig at Mainshill The Machine was one of two drilling rigs working on the site of another opencast coal mine planned for South Lanarkshire.
Resistance is strong with a series of actions already this year.

See and take action against a list of contractors working in Mainshill Woods here: mainshill.noflag.org.uk

This action was taken by an autonomous group of people and is in solidarity with the Mainshill Solidarity Camp.

Philippine community blocks entry of large mining firm

Intercontinental Cry :The community of Anislagan on the island of Mindanao has successfully blocked the Philex mining company from entering their lands. According to a press release from the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-CdO), nearly the entire community gathered to greet Philex, the largest mining firm in the Philippines, with a makeshift checkpoint they put together, on January 11, 2010. The company was planning to commence work on a “livelihood training center.” However, “The Philex 6-vehicle convoy backed out after they failed to pass through the thousand residents of Anislagan,” states the LRC-CdO. To reinforce the checkpoint, the community formed into a human a human barricade, leaving the company with nowhere else to go
The Angryindian

“Are the babies in danger? – No!” Anarchists arrive in the remote town of Amfissa as the trial of Alexandros’ killers is set to start

to read the leaflet handed out by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in Amfissa, click here:
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/01/19/alexandros-killers-trial-set-to-start/

Bomb at the Ministry of Press claimed by a new organization

from occupied london

Friday, January 22, 2010

The organization “R.O. 6th December”, that appears for first time, claimed the responsibility for the bomb that was placed outside the ministry of press in Sygrou avenue in Athens and smashed absolutely the building. The communique was published on the mainstream regime-controlled web site zougla.gr

They also claim the responsibility for the bullets that were sent to Pretenderis (journalist) and to Kougias (lawyer of Korkoneas, the cop that killed Alexis Grigoropoulos last December) on 21st December 2008.

It’s not certain that the claim is genuine, but this is what is generally accepted until now, since there is no other communique by another organization.

Down with the courts and all prisons! Solidarity with the comrades in Lisbon!

On the 22nd of january, the trial of the arrested at the anti-authoritarian demo of 25th of April of 2007, began.

The trial takes place at the Campus de Justiça of Lisbon, a building block of about 10 buildings where all the courts of the city are concentrated. A place with all the worst things of progress: surveillance cameras on each corner and where the architecture is the opposite of communication among people, gathering, joy and rebelliousness.

In the course of the audience the defendants were identified and the accusation was read out.

Before and during the session there were leaflets handed out..

Throughout the audience some comrades gathered outside the court with a banner reading "Today as yesterday We continue on the streets Against all authority", and shouted words of solidarity, as "Freedom is in our hearts, Down with the courts and all prisons."

TEXT OF LEAFLET HANDED OUT OUTSIDE THE COURT

On the 25th of April 2007 happened in Lisbon an anti-authoritarian demo against fascism and capitalism. Close to 500 people took part on a march through one of the city’s richest areas, where paint was thrown at shops, banks and a riot cop van and slogans were spray painted on walls. To this shamelessness the guards of democratic order replied with a police charge and beatings against the demonstrators and everyone who were passing-by. As a result of this charge and of a few Hollywood-style chases throughout the city centre 11 individuals were arrested, charged among other things with insults and assaults on police officers. On the 22^nd of January 2010 the trial is due to begin, at the court Campus de Justiça de Lisboa.

Two years later, this incident comes to court; such a fact doesn’t surprise us nor should it surprise anyone, Justice delays but it doesn´t forget, nor is it supposed to forget, that´s its role, the role of never letting us forget that there’s always someone above us that has control over our lives. It can be a cop with a baton or someone in a gown with a little hammer. And it doesn’t stop here, it goes on with the military occupation of neighborhoods by the police, the deportation of immigrants, the intimidation of kids in the high schools looking for snitches, the surveillance cameras everywhere, the active role by the journalists paving the way for repression and the each day stronger call for everyone to snitch on each other, making us cops of others and of ourselves.

But this is what pops up in front of our eyes, day by day; then we have all the other things that we can only feel, that kill us without wounding us: the obligation of tasks and routines that are not of our choice and that rob us of our time and dry us inside; the flooding of images and sounds and relations that make it hard to breath even in the open air; the crushing daily survival in a society that is more and more an open air prison.

We know that the real point is more than a few damaged windows and offended cops. It is the attempt to grab the totality of life and of using all the tools we want in the struggle against a social order that consumes and destroys individuals, our relationships and the world we inhabit. It is precisely because this democratic order can not tolerate all the beautiful and wild things and people that still exist that in the last few years we´ve seen and felt a growing criminalization in the media, and the persecution by the forces of repression, of many of our and others’ actions and daily activities.

In the struggle for the liberation of our lives, we know who our comrades are and who are our enemies, and we go on finding all the others with whom we can meet in the joy of revolt, in the refusal of a controlled and manipulated life, where the will to live is greater than the comfort of a miserable survival.

A few anarchists

Bank bomb threat over avalanche pig experiment

21. 01. 10. - 12:00

A Tyrol bank was evacuated yesterday (Weds) after a bomb threat from animal rights activists.

Bosses at the Raiffeisen branch in Sölden said the threat had been sent in a letter after the bank was mistakenly identified as having been part of a controversial scientific experiment last week in which sedated pigs were buried in artificial snow to test what happens to human beings caught in avalanches.

Police said the bank had had nothing to do with the experiment.

Meanwhile 19 pigs were saved from the experiment Tyrol’s Sölden glacier after Social Democratic (SPÖ) Chancellor Werner Faymann stepped in and ordered they be handed over to animal protection groups.

Teams from the Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine in Italy and the Medical University of Innsbruck stopped the tests after killing 10 of 29 pigs following public outrage.

5 killed in Brazil prison clash

Rio de Janeiro, Jan 17 :
Five people were killed and 11 injured in a clash between two groups of inmates in a Brazilian jail, authorities said.
Three of those killed were burned to death while two others died of blows suffered in the melee in the Parana prison, an official statement said Saturday.
The clash, which involved roughly 1,200 of the prison's 1,600 inmates, was sparked off Thursday with a fight between inmates belonging to two rival gangs, who were being held in the same wing of the penitentiary, the state government said.
Military police intervened and managed to free three prison guards who had also been taken hostage during the upheaval and suffered minor injuries.
According to media reports, authorities were planning to transfer the inmates to other facilities because almost 90 per cent of the cells were destroyed.
A congressional report in 2008 described Brazil's prison system as an "inferno", where human rights were being systematically violated and some 400,000 inmates were packed into jails designed to hold only 260,000.
The lawmaker who presented the report, Domingos Dutra, said leaders of gangs operating both inside and outside prison walls were the "managers" of those facilities together with corrupt guards.
The report said that the government was failing to guarantee prisoners access to legal counsel and estimated that close to 30 per cent of inmates would have been free if they had attorneys to represent them.
Philippine Times

10 injured in clash after villagers hold cops captive

Lucknow, Jan 15

At least 10 people, including five policemen, were injured Friday when villagers clashed with a police party which reached an Uttar Pradesh village to free four cops who were being held captive by the locals there, an official said.
On charges of misbehaving with women and manhandling the locals, a sub-inspector and three constables who had gone to Surjanpur village in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district to question some men in an old criminal case were held captive by the villagers Thursday night.
"Residents of Surjanpur village indulged in arson and vandalism and attacked us when we tried to free our four policemen," Deputy Superintendent of Police Karan Singh told reporters in Lakhimpur Kheri, some 180 km from Lucknow.
Police baton-charged the locals in Surjanpur to bring the situation under control.
"In a series of protests, agitated villagers took to the streets and set police motorbikes afire and also pelted stones at the police.
Additional security has been deployed in Surjanpur and its adjoining areas, following the violence in the village," Singh added.
After hectic efforts, policemen were able to rescue the four cops who were being held captive since Thursday night.
"On the pretext of questioning the villagers, the policemen barged inside several homes and misbehaved with women. When we objected to their move, the policemen started beating us," said Ramkumar Walian, a resident of Surjanpur.
Locals alleged that the four policemen, who had barged into several homes, also made away with several valuables.
"Their sole intention was to loot us... They even threatened us not to tell any senior police officer about their operation," said another resident Vikas Maheshwari.
When contacted, district police chief R.K. Bharadwaj told IANS: "An inquiry has been initiated. It is yet to be ascertained what was the intention of the policemen who had reached the village to question some men in a criminal case."

Prisoners clash with jail officials, 17 injured
Lucknow, Jan 1
At least 17 people were injured when a group of prisoners at a district jail in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town clashed with jail staff, police said Friday.
Amongst the injured were six officials of the jail. The prisoners were angry with the authorities for seizing mobile phones and SIM cards during raids recently and attacked the staff Friday morning.
“Angry over the raids, the prisoners assaulted several jail officials while they were carrying out a routine inspection at the prison," a police official told reporters in Aligarh, about 300 km from Lucknow.
“The angry prisoners particularly targeted two deputy jailers - Dilip Kumar Pandey and R.K. Chaudhary - as they were mainly responsible for the recent raids conducted at the prison."
The injured are being treated in a government hospital and are out of danger, he added.
Additional security has been deployed at the prison.
Prokerala.com

We don't forgive, we don't forget

check for updates
http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/

'Amfissa braces for Grigoropoulos trial'

from Greek daily Kathimerini

'An extra 700 police officers will be on duty in the town of Amfissa as the trial is due to start today of two policemen charged in connection with the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in central Athens in December 2008.

Police have also set up checkpoints on the three roads that lead into the town, located some 200 kilometers north of Athens, amid fears that anarchists or even urban guerrillas might try to disrupt proceedings. Officers from Athens, as well as members of the anti-terrorist squad, have been in Amfissa since last week preparing the security measures for the trial of special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas, charged with shooting the 15-year-old, and his colleague Vassilis Saraliotis, accused of being an accessory.

The trial was moved to Amfissa from Athens because of security concerns and despite the repeated complaints of Grigoropoulos’s mother, Gina Tsakalian, who has expressed fears that some witnesses will not be able to attend the hearings.

A number of businesses in Amfissa have adopted extra security measures, such as installing metal window blinds. “Whoever could afford it has stepped up security,” said the head of the local traders’ association Chrysoula Matatana. “The police have assured us there is nothing to worry about. Whether store owners open their shops is another matter.” Deputy Mayor Dimitris Provias was hopeful that normal life would not be disrupted. “All the roads will be open and parking will only be banned around the courthouse,” he said.'

Belgium - Alexandre Varga suicided in prison after escape attempt

cette semaine 19 january 2010

ANDENNEA - Friday evening, Alexandre Varga took out a knife and took a prison guard hostage in the prison of Andenne. He forced the other guards to open the prison doors. When Varga was outside, the guard taken hostage managed to escape, supported by other guards who followed Varga, he started to run but was soon caught.
A day later, after they put Varga in isolation and after the guards announced that they were going on a 48 hour strike against "prisoner's violence", Varga was suicided in the prison. They say he hanged himself. Every death of a prisoner is a State murder.
Alexandre Varga was sentenced to 18 years for a number of robberies , one against a supermarket and others against security vans. In 2008 he appeared before the court in an orange shirt with "GUANTANA-MONS" written on it to denounce the violence committed by the screws against psychiatric prisoners in the prison of Mons.

19.1.210 http://suieetcendres

Explosive attack on pylon near Santiago prison

Society possesses various sticks. The one used to kidnap different beings is prison, where solitude and sadness reign.
The maginificent panopticon has seen a small flash of light at very close quarters. We hope that it broke the routine and stole a few complicit smiles from those who find themselves locked up for trying to expropriate something of their existence, for not submitting to the torture of work, and that the screws felt it on their skins, which is as sensitive as that of any other.
The place, a high voltage pylon, one of the reflexes of power, so our enemy. The chains of authority can be found in every breath. Liberation must be total, both for the earth and animals, humans and non humans.
We attacked very close to the prison of Santiago with an explosive device composed of an extinctor full of black powder and a detonator consisting of sulphuric acid in a condom and crushed match heads. Prison is not just a great edifice that is holding our comrades Axel, Pablo, Matias, Cristian, Flora (a particularly big hug). Authority takes many forms, it is also in each one of the institutions of the State starting from the family, then school, the psychiatric clinics and why not, even yourself. You can be your own prison warder. And as if that wasn’t enough, they are building prisons for children.
(...)
Our brotherly love to every individual that takes a position against any kind of authority, from the most simple gesture. We are launching an appeal for the free association of individuals as the way to organise oneself in contrast to the relations imposed by society, reflected from the genesis of our lives. To the warriors arrested in Mexico, who localised and attacked the enemy, power, and with it civilisation. Abraham and Fermin, a fraternal and antiauthoritarian embrace. We salute every action of solidarity with the last hunger strike. The spaces of power contiue to be struck without fear or respect. To Diego, may your flight be eternal, brother. You have offered us another choice and, even if we can’t see your smile, we hear your scornful laughter. To your memory, wild Mauricio Morales.
Against all authority: revolt and insurrection.
For the destruction of power and civilisation.
For the destruction of the prisons of humans, animal and the earth.
Marco Camenish Insurrectional Brigade

culmine, translated from informa-azione

From Lisbon: Ola, Alfredo and Christos

Freedom to Alfredo M. Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos.
Solidarity with those who struggle against this world.

On the 11th of January posters in solidarity with Alfredo M. Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos were glued on the walls of a few banks, universities and a train station, in Lisbon.
Below is the translation of the poster:

“The world of misery and authority in which we live, of walls that try to stop us from running and the despicable places they force us to inhabit is, in itself, the attempted elimination of any possibility to breathe freely, of all real communication between people and of all solidarity that dares express itself outside and against the institutions.
There’s no need for justifications or endless lists of examples for us to act.
In the search for a life without limits, we attack and smile. We smile inside, knowing that we share desires this world has no words to describe, nor bars to contain.
Ola, Alfredo and Christos!
Anarchists.”

(source and picture of poster: http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/418)

Italy - Rosarno: the revolt of the slaves. Spartacus is back!

translated from cette semaine
16 January 2010

On January 9 and 10, hundreds of immigrants rose up in Rosarno, a little town in the south of Italy. After some were shot at with an air rifle, the insurgents, armed with sticks and stones, blocked the main roads by building barricades. From the centre of Rosarno, windows of shops and businesses were shattered, barricades were set alight and there were hard clashes with the police ...and some of the local population demanding that ‘all blacks be expelled from Rosarno’. Some citizens used their cars to run down immigrants, others armed themselves with batons, axes and guns to quell the revolt. On the evening of January 10, police and citizens managed to chase the immigrants from the town. Over one thousand immigrants were transferred to detention centres to await expulsion, hundreds of others escaped from Rosarno on foot, by car or by train. All four thousand immigrants have been chased out of Rosarno.
In the south of Italy, especially in agriculture, tens of thousands of immigrants are exploited in conditions of slavery thanks to an alliance of mafias, local politicians, and businesses. Most of them sleep in abandoned factories, with no water, heating or electricity. Already there had been revolts, which were often repressed in blood by mafia mercenaries.
This leaflet was given out in Genoa:

SPARTACUS IS BACK. LONG LIVE SPARTACUS!

The slave ceases to be such from the moment in which he tries to break his chains. At that moment, unconcerned about the consequences of his attempt dignity, desire, rage and a profound sentiment of injustice towards the the boss who forces him into slavery, comes forth once again in a liberatory manner.
The revolt of the slave is a supreme act, it is above everything an act of love of oneself and the whole of humanity. The revolt of the slave is hope and justice forged into weapons to become the concrete possibility of emancipation. It is quite simply the will for another life, possibly happy, that is affirming itself. The slaves of Rosarno have spoken. they have spoken through their acts and their rage. In the fires, the broken windows, in the uprooted road signs, in the beating of the police, hides the poetry of a lover.
Perhaps love without calculation, desperate love, love capable of being given, is something old. Just like slavery is an old thing. Perhaps that is precisely why today, those capable of understanding, of knowing how to read the poetry of the slaves of Rosarno, are few.
In this pathetic Italy, plunged into the fear of the ‘different’ and impregnated with hypocrisy, governed by vermin supported by even more imbecilic mobs corrupted by hatred and grown up in the mirage of accumulation and wealth, are today outraged. Outraged because of the violence, clandestine immigration, work conditions, insecurity and exasperation.
Well, shocked Sirs, honest Citizens, whether you are of the right or of the left, whether you are gooey with the treacle of Christianity or forged by the hammer blows of the Right, You are corpses.
Because only one ‘dead in spirit’ can debate a lover’s declaration of love in legal terms or inside the pages of a newspaper. Either you accept such a declaration, or you refuse it.
Those who accept the increasingly unbearable yoke of the State day after day, just like those who kiss the hands of the mafias when they strike, those who lick the ass of the boss - then grumble about the ones who are poorer or less fortunate - just like those who profit from other people’s misery; all such people will certainly refuse the advances of the immigrants of Rosarno. But these people aren’t worth talking to, they are not the ones that we want to talk to.
Those who will certainly know how to listen are the ‘libertines’, the spirits that still know how to desire, that still know the difference between surviving and living, between slavery and freedom. Who know that a thousand burnt cars are nothing compared to a man’s freedom and dignity.
Slavery consists of people and goods, businesses and relationships. It is possible thanks to a politic that is increasingly xenophobic and classist, supported by uniformed armies and mafiosi in white shirts.
The love of freedom consists of complicity and fantasy. The revolt of the African immigrants of Rosarno is a gift to all of us, now it is up to us to give something back.
Because nobody will ever be free until the last chain is broken.
Anarchists and libertarians of Genoa

Greece - anarchist comrade Elias Nikolaou transferred from Amfissa to Thessaloniki prison

Elias Nikolaou, recently sentenced to seven and a half years with unprecedented suspension of right to appeal, has been transferred from the concentration camp of Amfissa, to Thessaloniki prison.

we remember:
7 and a half years' imprisonment imposed by the Grand Jury in Thessaloniki on 26year old Elias Nikolaou, for the explosion of improvised incendiary devices outside the building of the Municipal Police in Evosmos, on the morning of January 13, 2009. The Court decided to suspend the right to appeal.
After a hearing of two days, which ended late Thursday afternoon, the court found the 26year old guilty of possession of explosives (unanimously) and explosion hazard to people and things (a majority of 4-3 votes), and recognized mitigating circumstances in his former good character.
In his defense the 26 year old denied the charges, saying that a conspiracy was set up by the police against those of the antiauthoritarian movement. Members of the antiauthoritarian movement on the side of the accused, denounced the court's verdict, shouting slogans, while the withdrawal was completed without problems.
Meanwhile, the Alternative Initiative of the Thessaloniki Bar, announced its strong condemnation of police presence at the Court to mark the trial of Elias Nicholaou. The provocative presence led to abuse and civil rights lawyers recalled trials conducted in the emergency Military Courts of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile and the Military Courts of the Turkish junta.
Indeed, outside the Chamber of the trial there were two sets of riotcops prohibiting entry to those who were not "liked" it said in the communication, and even lawyers had to show their identity in four consecutive "blocks" in order to enter.

FREEDOM TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE ELIAS NICHOLAOU!
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS!
from actforfreedom

Ecuador - Radio Arutam shut down by Correa's govt.

informa-azione

At the end of December the radio La voce di ARUTAM of SHUAR nationality, was shut down and its licence permanently retracted.
Thanks to this radio, active since 1972, news of indigenous struggles was spread over all the Ecuadorian Amazon area. The message is clear: the means of communication must not gather witness accounts of peoples threatened by the regime's projects of extraction.
This radio was the voice of the Shuar nationality who for some years have been opposing the interests of the transnationals that own thousands of hectares of mining claims backed by the government of Rafael Correa.
The shutting down of this radio is also a message for the other organised sectors that resist against the mining and oilfield projects. It is a clearly fascist act aimed at giving free reign to the mines by weakening all resistance.
There is no difference between Correa's 'socialist' government and Alan Garcia, the Peruvian president responsible for the massacre of the indigenous populations who opposed themselves to the projects of the exploitation of the Amazonian region. Both criminalise, repress, kill and censure the people who resist the projects of devastation with the object of favouring the access of the multinationals into the country.

Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos transferred to Korydallos prison, Athens

Alfredo and Christos, imprisoned anarchist comrades awaiting trial following a bank robbery in Trikala, Greece, were transferred today from the Amfissa 'concentration camp' to Korydallos prison in Athens. It is not known whether this is a 'permanent' move by the Greek state, or whether it is merely a tactic to remove them from the town of Amfissa where the trial of the cop murderer, killer of 15 year old Alexis Grigoropolous, is due to start on the 20th of this month in spite of an appeal to the Greek prime minister by Alexi's mother for the trial to take place in Athens, which was Alexi's home town, and where the crime was committed.

Barcellona, Italy - the only church that illuminates is one in flames

source: Fondazione Roscigna

Durig the night of 13/14 January an explosive device was placed at the door of the parish offices of the church in the Sarria area (Barcellona), habitually frequented by people belonging to or close to Opus Dei.

The Church continues to be an institution of dominion of great importance and power, especially over women as we can see at the moment with the 'pro life' campaign (against abortion). Not forgetting that all religions negate the individual.

an embrace to all those, be they free or in prison, who do not bow down before power.

Hunger strike in Grevena prison, Greece

OLD OR NEW, ALL PRISONS ARE THE SAME

Press Releases

There is no doubt that prisons either old or new, ignore and violate the rights of prisoners to the same extent. The new prison of Kerala (launched in 2008) has nothing to envy of the known ones scattered throughout the Greek territory: hellish.
Moreover, the prison of Grevena is so remote as to preclude the possibility of even basic social control, hindering the access rights of prisoners with their families, but also with their lawyers.
Despite promises to improve conditions of detention, after the monumental struggle of prisoners in Greek prisons in November 2008 and successive bills, Grevena prison is a shining example of law enforcement intentions of governments and their indifference to and violation of basic prisoners' rights.

On 11 January, the prisoners in Grevena jail began a mass hunger strike demanding the obvious, denouncing the medieval prison experiencing:

-The usual tactic of humiliating rectal control persists even in very short transfer cases for medical reasons. Those who refuse in orde to try to protect their dignity, are locked in isolation and face disciplinary proceedings.

-Requests for permits are ignored and /or examined unacceptably slowly.

-The disciplinary regime is reminiscent of the junta, and the prisoners prosecuted for nothing.

-Demands to be heard are ignored, even for people who face significant problems.

-There is no doctor for 330 prisoners.

-There is no Secretariat to provide information and serve the needs of prisoners.

-The time schedule of visiting changed at random, so that detainees are deprived of the necessary contact with the outside world and relatives who undertake long journeys to the isolated prison often turn up only to find they are not allowed in to visit their loved ones.

-The exercise period takes place in a very limited space for a very short time. In the courtyard there are no exercise facilities for prisoners.

- Heating - only there for an hour in the morning.

-The prisoners are forced to buy everything, even the basic necessities that the prison should provide, for example, the pillow!

-At the prison supermarket there is no price list, so that prisoners pay arbitrary and illegal prices.

We stand in solidarity with the struggle of prisoners
We demand the immediate satisfaction of their claims

Attack on Deputy Justice Minister's office, Athens

Kathimerini

'A group of masked assailants broke into the central Athens office of Deputy Justice Minister Apostolos Katsifaras shortly after noon yesterday and beat two of the minister’s aides using batons and hammers before vandalizing the premises.

According to police, five of the attackers entered the office in Exarchia – a traditional anarchist stronghold – while another five or so stood guard outside. The intruders burst into Katsifaras’s office and beat his secretary and another employee using batons and hammers. The two men were hospitalized with bruises to their heads and bodies. Katsifaras was absent at the time of the attack, attending a Cabinet meeting.

Before fleeing, the attackers smashed up the office and scattered leaflets with anti-establishment slogans.

Police later detained five suspects but subsequently released them due to a lack of incriminating evidence.

Katsifaras’s office had been targeted by arsonists last November in an attack which caused minor damage but no injuries.

It was unclear yesterday whether the two attacks were linked.

In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, Katsifaras said: “Democracy cannot be exploited, terrorized or murdered. It responds by boosting individual and social rights, protecting the weak and eradicating inequalities.” Katsifaras added that he would press on with plans to improve conditions in jails.

Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaking on the sidelines of yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, condemned the attack as "an act ofsenseless violence".'

La Plata (arg) - explosive attack on Banco Galicia

source: Ai Ferri Corti - 14.01.10

Remembering that the banks are the heart of capitalism, December 31, we wrote slogans claiming the struggle of prisoners all over the world and placed an explosive device that blew up at the entrance to the Banco Galicia, causing damage to the cash point, in spite of the security measures that protect the building.

We greet all the comrades and those that in some way are striking the system with whatever methods, but with the sole objective of breaking the presumed invulnerability and showing up the scheme of reclusion for those who rebel against the oppression of the system.

grupo operativo rebelde DEL

Italy: anarchists claim explosions at Rovereto cash points and demand the release of Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopolous

source: trentinocorrierealpi

A letter reached the newsroom of the daily newspaper the 'Trentino' concerning the explosion of two cash dispensers in Rovereto on the night between Christmas and Boxing Day. In the communique there was a demand for the liberation of two of the main theoreticians of insurrectionalist anarchism.

TRENTO. A claim for the two explosions in as many cash dispensers in Rovereto that took place during the night between Christmas and Santo Stefano, reached the newsroom of the local daily paper the 'Trentino', and seems to open an anarchist trail.

In the missive, written with a ruler to compose each letter, there is the request to free two anarchists. They are Alfredo Maria Bonanno, 72 years, considered one of the main theoreticians of insurrectionalist anarchism, arrested in Greece for concourse in robbery last October 2, and the Greek Christos Stratigopoulos, active in the middle of the nineties also in Italy.

The carabinieri of Rovereto, who are investigating the case, are examining the letter, which bears a Verona postmark dated Monday December 28. Technical analyses will be carried out to look for fingerprints.

No outcome on the other hand from the declaration of a witness who saw two young people escaping, their faces covered by balaclavas, other than confirmation of the dynamic of the deeds: two rudimentary devices made from fireworks and the bank CCTV cameras obscured in order to avoid being taken.

(29 December 2009)

Monday, 04/01/2010 – informa-azione

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and Terrorist Guerrilla Group claim Greek parliament bomb

Kathimerini 13 Jan Policemen patrol the area in front of Parliament where a bomb exploded on Saturday night. In a proclamation posted on the Internet yesterday the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and the little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group claimed responsibility for the bloodless attack. The same groups had claimed a blast at an insurance firm on December 27. The proclamation, titled ‘Democracy will not win,’ calls on police to release three suspected members of the group.

The mother of Alexis Grigoropoulos appeals to Greek prime minister to have trial of policeman that shot him moved from Amfissa to Athens

from Greek daily Kathimerini
'The mother of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot dead in December 2008, yesterday sent a letter to Premier George Papandreou seeking his mediation to shift the trial of the policemen implicated in the shooting to Athens from Amfissa, 200 kilometers northwest of the capital.

Originally scheduled for Athens, the trial was moved to Amfissa amid fears of a mass turnout by protesters. But Gina Tsakalian insists that holding the trial in Amfissa will make it difficult for witnesses to attend. She said her appeal to Papandreou was “a final attempt to ensure a fair trial for the murder as previous appeals have fallen by the wayside.”

Tsakalian also wrote to Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes, who in November rejected her appeal for the trial to be held in Athens. She claimed that the investigation into her son’s death was riddled with “omissions and errors.”'

London - Info-night on the situation in Greece, click here

Thursday 14.1 at the Lift’N'Hoist

A brief outline of the solidarity in France with the Vincennes detention centre prisoners on trial and against all sorts of prison

On January 25th, 26th and 27th, ten former detainees of the Vincennes detention centre will be tried for a revolt.
During the first semester of 2008, revolts repeatedly occured in the Vincennes detention centre, a place where undocumented foreigners are locked up pending their deportation. On June 21st, a detainee died due to lack of care. The next day, the centre was burnt during a revolt. Later, a number of detainees were arrested and accused of arson and aggression against police officers. Most of them have been in preventiive jail for eight to twelve months.
A solidarity week is set from January 16th to 24th.
In solidarity with the rebellious of the Vincennes retention center who will be in court on January 25th, 26th, 27th 2010, for burning their prison during a revolt in June 2008. Here is a very brief outline of the solidarity actions (far from complete for reasons linked to translation).
http://www.non-fides.fr/?A-brief-outline-of-the-solidarity
http://www.informa-azione.info/vincennes_international_week_of_action_against_detention_centre

Chile : An anarchist group declare they are going to target the Paris-Dakar rally...

cette semaine
(Le 8 janvier 2010).
20 Minutes, 08.01.10 à 10h27

The Ramon Ramon group is as yet unknown. But its threats are explicit.« The silence of the Pampa and the desert has stifled our steps : but we have worked out the next attack. » The group communicated its message Thursday evening on the Bio Bio radio station, stating that they want to target « Dakar, spectacle of the powerful » when it goes through Chile, as they say they attempted to do, apparently unsuccessfully, during their passage through Argentina.

The group's name is inspired by that of an anarchist of the beginning of the 20th century. In Chile, anarchists have claimed a number of minor explosive attacks over the past few years, which have sometimes caused slight injuries. About one hundred such explosions have been reported since 2004, the latest in November, outside a hotel and two banks in Santiago. And the organisers of the Paris-Dakar rally have changed the course to escape the terrorist threats.

Attack on metropolitan police recruitment center in Buenos Aires

From Ai Ferri Corti translated by This is Our Job

January 11, 2010

Continuing the campaign of offensives against capital and the state, we decided to visit the executioners at their own house. So, this morning, Monday, January 11, we took a little trip to the metropolitan police recruitment center, right in the middle of Parque Chacabuco. We attacked with two powerful Molotov cocktails, causing minimal material damage to the front of the building and almost completely burning up a motorcycle parked near the entrance.

We again show our presence, and that nothing is going to silence the voices of the oppressed in revolt. We send a greeting to all the world’s fighters, and tell the executioners once more: THIS IS A WAR AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL YOU FALL!

Fire and hate for the metropolitan police!
Fire and hate for all police!

- Revolutionary Cells (Curt Wilkens Brigade)

Solidarity with Tamara from Soto del Real Death Camp

From Punto de Fuga

January 7, 2010

http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/solidarity-with-tamara-from-soto-del-real-death-camp/

Bomb explodes outside Greek parliament

ATHENS (AFP)

'An explosive device went off outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Saturday, prompting Prime Minister George Papandreou to condemn the attack and vow that "democracy will not be terrorised".

No one was injured in the blast and no damage was immediately reported, police said.

"This highly symbolic place for Greeks is not guarded and will not be," said Citizen's Protection Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis.

"We will not put Athens under a police regime; this is a free and open city."

Chryssohoidis said he was convinced that the perpetrators of the attack would be "arrested and brought to justice quickly".

Following the unprecedented attack on the parliament building Papandreou met with close aides at his office there.

"Democracy will not be terrorised," he said on arrival.

The explosion around 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) was preceded by a telephone call to the Eleftherotypia newspaper warning of the blast.

Police evacuated the area around the site where passers-by normally stroll close to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier guarded by the presidential Evzones guards.

The changing of the guard, famous for its unique kilt-like uniform, is very popular with tourists visiting the Greek capital.

The explosive went off 17 minutes after the phone call, a little less than the time given by the anonymous caller.

The device which was fitted with a timer was hidden in a garbage bin a few metres (yards) from an Evzones sentry box.

Anti-terrorism officers were investigating the attack, the first to target the centre of Greek democracy, which police blamed on extreme-left militants or anarchists.'

Turkey, Ankara: 23 arrested in solidarity demo with conscientious objector- 1 detained !

A-infos, 07 Jan 2010 17:09:04 +0200


On 6th of January 2010 in Ankara, cops violently attacked activists* from Solidarity Initiative with Conscientious Objector Enver Aydemir arresting 23 people. The activists were demanding release of the conscientious objector Aydemir who had faced torture in military jail. ---- They used their right to remain silent in the police station. 22 of them were released after spending over 24 hours in jail following their questioning by the public prosecutor. However, one of them (Volkan S.) was detained and will stay in jail waiting for the first trial. (Lawyers will appeal for his release tomorrow.)
* [Most of them anarchists, also some socialists, feminists & anti-militarists.]
click here to read declaration and appeal for support:
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos16848.html

Scotland: Coal Machinery Sabotaged at Pineal open cast coal mine

from INDYMEDIA SCOTLAND

By Anonymous, submitted on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 23:15

Late one night in early January Pineal open cast coal mine was visited by a number of people who sabotaged machines. A total of 13 pieces of machinery were damaged, including one giant earth mover, six giant dumper trucks, four standard sized earth movers and two flood light generators.

Recently Pineal open cast finished mining, but the machines Scottish Coal had working there were supposed to be moving to Mainshill Wood. However as we all know Scottish Coal's plans have been substantially disrupted by the occupation of the wood by the Mainshill Solidarity Camp.

This action was taken by autonomous people in solidarity with everyone who opposes the destruction of Mainshill Wood and it's development into another coal mine.

Police search with helicopters and dogs for two girls, 12 and 14, who 'robbed a bank and are on the run'

BlackVoices Jan 7th 2010 3:11PM
Filed under: News

Police are still searching for two Ohio teens that robbed a bank Tuesday afternoon. The young robbers, ages 12 and 14, handed the bank teller a note demanding money and implied that they would harm the teller if demands were not met. The teller cooperated by handing over "bait money", which has serial numbers that can be traced if spent.

In spite of attempts by police to track down the bank robbers using helicopters and search dogs, the girls are still at large.

Dijon : self-reduction attempt at Intermarché supermarket

Cette semaine 7 jan 2010

Source :Brassicanigra

Tuesday December 29 around 18.00, about 40 people invaded the l’Intermarché, atPort du Canal in Dijon. To the sound of discomusic, a dozen people blocked the checkout tills with some well-filled trolleys, while others shouted slogans « War on the high cost of living ! », « Champagne for the price of beer ! »,« Everything free on Tuesdays ! » Leaflets were given out and a banner hung 'Tax their profits'.
Customers and staff were quite enthusiastic about the action, even if some of them remarked « it would be better to take from the big distributors for the rich, such as supermarkets like Carrefour, than from distribution for the poor like Intermarché... » As if they weren't the same crooks..
We'll never forget the words of an old woman who said:« We should do that all the time, everybody should start doing it! ! »
No chance to get the trolleys out: the management preferred to sacrifice some of their profits (by closing the shop for the time it took for the police to arrive) rather than lose their merchandise. Ten minutes later, about 30 policemen (BAC, Police Nationale) burst into the shop, flashballs out to defend the booty. They surrounded the group of people, took photographs, searched each one of them, before letting them go. The participants refused all the same to show their faces and refused to have their ID checked and left happy all the same at having upset the commodity system a little.
New year's feast canceled, we're set to start again, because we should be doing that all the time!

Rosarno, southern Italy - Revolt of enslaved immigrants

source informa-azione

from rainews24

Hundreds of cars destroyed, garbage bins upturned and emptied on the tarmac, garden railings damaged. Scenes of urban guerrilla in Rosarno, in Piana di Gioia Tauro, with the revolt of a few hundred immigrant workers employed in agriculture and living in inhuman conditions in an old abandoned factory and another empty structure. The protest exploded following the wounding by unidentified persons of a number of 'extra-communitarian citizens' with an air rifle. The wounded, among whom also a political refugee from Togo with a regular stay permit, are not serious, but the will to react which had probably been hatching for a long time in the colony of workers crammed into the structure of Rosarno in terrible conditions, and of others in similar conditions in Gioia Tauro in premises of the Ex Opera Sila, did not take much to explode. Armed with sticks and metal bars, the immigrants, most of them from Africa, invaded the main road that goes through Rosarno setting up fires in some of the main streets of the town. The violent episodes saved nothing: everything the demonstrators came across, from cars, in some cases even with people in them, to houses, to bins and rubbish skips that were opened on to the road. The intervention of police and carabinieri lined up in antiriot gear in front of the fiercest of them had no effect, about a hundred people were held under strict control. Reinforcements arrived throughout the evening and, in a climate of palpable tension, negotiations were begun in the attempt to put an end to the protest. The population reacted to the situation of chaos that had come about and, during that time some young people from Rosarno, about one hundred, were following the progression of the situation a few hundred metres from the forces of order. All the heads of the police stations and the carabinieri companies of the Piana arrived at the scene. Between Rosarno, the abandoned factory, and Gioia Tauro in a building of the ex Opera Sila there are about 1.500 immigrants that work as labour hands in agriculture.

Fri, 08/01/2010 – 09:36

Berlin: 23 buses of a company under contract with the army vandalised

AFP,30/12/2009

Police in Berlin are investigating a mysterious attack by hoodlums, suspected of being of the extreme left, who damaged 23 buses in Berlin belonging to a company under contract with the ministry of Defence.
On the night between Monday and Tuesday a group of hoodlums forced their way into into a bus depot in the Treptow quarter, in the east of the capital, breaking many windows with the aid of hammers and emptying fire extinguishers inside the buses. A private car and a lorry were also damaged.
The company, that has estimated the cost of reparations at over 50,000 euros, had been warned by the police in the autumn that an extreme left paper had stressed that some of its buses had been used to transport soldiers participating in official ceremonies this summer.
Elsewhere, for the second consecutive night, an employment agency in Berlin was struck by an incendiary device according to local media. Like the night before, the attack caused little damage. Political slogans were sprayed on the walls.
The area of the extreme left is tending to become more violent in Germany, according to experts, but the damage is still far below that which occurs in France , for example, in Berlin, 260 vehicles were burnt during the first nine months of the year.

Arrest for B.C. pipeline blasts

08/01/2010 5:30:12 PM

CBC News
Wiebo Ludwig, an Alberta activist convicted of bombing oil and gas wells in the 1990s, has been arrested and faces an extortion charge in connection with more recent bombings at EnCana pipelines in northeastern B.C., according to his Edmonton lawyer.

EnCana targeted

Since October 2008, there have been six pipeline bombings in the Tomslake area of British Columbia, near Dawson Creek, targeting the facilities of the Calgary-based energy company EnCana.

Before the first attack, someone sent a handwritten letter to local media demanding a stop to oil and gas operations.

The letter called EnCana and other companies "terrorists" that are "endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells."

The note was followed by three successive explosions, two of which caused leaks of sour gas, which contains toxic hydrogen sulphide.

At the time of the sixth and most recent attack in July 2009, the RCMP labelled the attacks "domestic terrorism."

Reserves in the Tomslake area are mostly sour gas, which contains hydrogen sulphide that can be deadly in high concentrations if released into the air.

p.s. The arrested man was released after 24 hours

Greece: 'Terror suspect claims an alibi'

Kathimerini

'A 26-year-old man suspected of being a member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group is due to face a magistrate today but his lawyer revealed yesterday that the suspect can prove he did not take part in any of the group’s bombings.

The unnamed man was arrested on Tuesday night when he presented himself at a police station as part of his bail terms following a previous arrest for public order offenses. Police said that the suspect was taken into custody because his fingerprints were found at a house in the northeastern Athens suburb of Halandri which is believed to have been one of the terrorists’ bomb-making facilities.

However, the 26-year-old denies any involvement in the group and said that he had only visited the property once in 2007 to install a computer when he was a fellow student of another suspected member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, Harilaos Hatzimichelakis, who owned the apartment.

The suspect’s lawyer, Antonia Legaki, said her client can prove that he was not in Athens when bombs exploded outside the homes of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis and Economy Minister Louka Katseli.

According to Legaki, her client had been helping his father set up sound systems for political and cultural events in central Greece on both occasions.

Legaki also claimed that a senior police officer told the 26-year-old’s mother that her son is not a suspect but that authorities are simply following procedures in order to eliminate him from their inquiries.

Meanwhile, efforts to secretly observe another terrorist suspect were dealt a severe blow when it emerged that a 40-year-old suspect performed a citizen’s arrest on an National Intelligence Service officer who had been monitoring the former’s movements, forcing police at a precinct in Aghia Paraskevi to reveal the agent’s identity.'

"Athens: Officers freed over beating"

"Two policemen alleged to have stood by as three of their colleagues brutally beat a 30-year-old Chilean detainee in a central Athens police precinct on New Year’s Eve were released on conditional terms on Tuesday. The officers were freed on the condition that they do not leave the country and visit their police precinct regularly. The other three policemen, who are in custody after being charged with abuse of power and torturing a detainee, are to defend themselves before an investigating magistrate today. The two officers freed on Tuesday were charged with complicity.

All five policemen were suspended from the force on Sunday after Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis expressed his disgust that “a group of officers without consciences turned a migrant detainee into a punching bag.” An investigation is to determine the exact circumstances of the migrant’s alleged abuse at the Acropolis police precinct but initial reports indicated that it was prompted by a dispute over a broken public card-phone."

Kathimerini

"Terrorist suspect to appear in court in Athens"

from Greek daily Kathimerini

"A 26-year-old man arrested in Athens on Tuesday as a suspected member of the increasingly active Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terrorist group is due to defend himself before an investigating magistrate today.

Police said they had been seeking the suspect since a raid last September on the group’s hideout in the northeastern Athens district of Halandri where his fingerprints are said to have been found. The man, who was not identified, has been known to police since his arrest in May 2006 after allegedly participating in violence during a rally organized by the leftist European Social Forum in Athens. After his release on conditional terms, the suspect had been reporting to a police station regularly. It was during one of these visits on Tuesday that he was arrested.

Three suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire have been in detention since the September raid and arrest warrants have been issued for several more.

In recent months, the relatively new terror group had stepped up its attacks, targeting several politicians in attacks using small homemade bombs made of cooking pots and timers, which however did not cause any injuries. The group also claimed partial responsibility for a bomb attack on December 27 against an insurance firm in Athens. A message posted on the Internet after the bloodless attack said that the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire had orchestrated the attack along with the little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group. No one was hurt in the blast that was caused by a device containing some 3 kilos of dynamite.

Initially police had thought that the more established Revolutionary Struggle had planted the insurance firm bomb, as the attack resembled similar attacks claimed by the terrorist group in the past."

"Terrorist suspect to appear in court"

from Greek daily Kathimerini

"A 26-year-old man arrested in Athens on Tuesday as a suspected member of the increasingly active Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terrorist group is due to defend himself before an investigating magistrate today.

Police said they had been seeking the suspect since a raid last September on the group’s hideout in the northeastern Athens district of Halandri where his fingerprints are said to have been found. The man, who was not identified, has been known to police since his arrest in May 2006 after allegedly participating in violence during a rally organized by the leftist European Social Forum in Athens. After his release on conditional terms, the suspect had been reporting to a police station regularly. It was during one of these visits on Tuesday that he was arrested.

Three suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire have been in detention since the September raid and arrest warrants have been issued for several more.

In recent months, the relatively new terror group had stepped up its attacks, targeting several politicians in attacks using small homemade bombs made of cooking pots and timers, which however did not cause any injuries. The group also claimed partial responsibility for a bomb attack on December 27 against an insurance firm in Athens. A message posted on the Internet after the bloodless attack said that the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire had orchestrated the attack along with the little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group. No one was hurt in the blast that was caused by a device containing some 3 kilos of dynamite.

Initially police had thought that the more established Revolutionary Struggle had planted the insurance firm bomb, as the attack resembled similar attacks claimed by the terrorist group in the past."

Athens - Anarchist attacks against car showrooms and Pasok

ATHENS, 5 JANUARY - A dynamite attack, that can probably be attributed to anarchists, has completely destroyed or seriously damaged in the early hours of the morning 22 luxury cars in a car showroom in the outskirts of Athens.

A gas device exploded under one of the cars parked in an open space of the sales point in the Koropi area setting off a violent fire that extended to a large number of cars. The fire brigade and the antiterrorist police rushed to the scene. Yesterday evening a similar device was set off outside the Pasok party offices on the outskirts of the capital, causing light damage. Neither of the two attacks was claimed. In the previous days a 'Commando for real solidarity' claimed an incendiary attack on a Citibank premises in Athens on the eve of the new year. In the claim the attack was said to be in the name of some anarchists under arrest, among whom the Italian Alfredo Bonanno being held in Greece for complicity in a bank robbery.

from agenzie

Millions stolen in an explosive attack on a security van near Marseilles

lefigaro.fr
04/01/2010

A number of vehicles were set alight in the middle of the road to block the van

It only took the robbers a few minutes to sieze the precious haul. An armoured van of the Sazias company was attacked on Monday morning in the industrial area of the Paluds, in Gémenos (Bouches-du-Rhône) near Marseille, by six armed men.
According to the first elements of the inquest the van was full because it had just left the depot in the direction of the Banque de France de Toulon. The robbers managed to escape with eight million euros, according to the local paper.

The attack took place shortly before ten o'clock. When the van left the company the robbers set fire to a number of vehicles - including a 4x4 - in the middle of the road to block it. According to an eye witness they passed themselves off as policemen with the aid of a vehicle
with a flashing light.
They then took the guns from the conveyors of the funds and opened the back door of the van with explosives and escaped in a number of vehicles. The was a brief exchange of fire between the robbers and the municipal police, with no wounded.

Lyon: young man killed by security guards at Carrefour supermarket for two bottles of beer

(AFP) – 4 days ago

LYON — A 25 year old man died asphyxiated last Tuesday in Lyon after being held down for about one hour in a Carrefour supermarket by four security guards who are due to appear before an instructing judge on Thursday morning.

The young man, held on Monday evening by security guards, died "due to mechanical asphyxiation caused by compression of the thoracic cage " and had bruising in the arms and forehead", according to the results of an autopsy transmitted to AFP by the State attorney in Lyon .

The four guards are being held further for "aggravated violence leading to unintentional dicease" a crime punishable with 20 years imprisonment, and will appear before an instructing judge on Thursday around 8.30.

The events took place on Monday around 18.15 when a marginal young man "living in a hostel in Lyon" was stopped when trying to steal two bottles of beer at the Carrefour supermarket in the Part-Dieu area.

Three security guards took him into the control room where he was immobilised.

...The police, who had been called immediately, took 50 minutes to arrive. The young man had been pinned against the wall, then against a high table for about half an hour.

The young man then lost consciousness. He died in hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

France, Saint-Sylvestre: 1,137 cars burnt compared to 1,147 last year

AFP: 01/01/2010 18:40

The number of cars burnt during the night of Saint Sylvestre [new year] has 'diminished slightly' compared to last year, totalling 1,137 compared to 1,147 a year earlier, the Home minister, Brice Hortefeux announced yesterday.

In a communique, the minister addressed his congratulations to the 45,000 policemen and gendarmes and to the 50,000 firemen 'whose commitment and professionalism allowed the night of Saint-Sylvestre to conserve its festive character and take place calmly without any serious incidents.'

549 people were taken in for questioning (compared to 288 last year) and 481 were held.
During the night '16 gendarmes and policemen were slightly wounded.'

Athens: Blast at insurance company claimed

PANTELIS SAITAS/ANA

Police forensic experts examine the damage caused by an explosive device that went off outside the headquarters of Ethniki Insurance firm on Syngrou Avenue yesterday. Nobody was injured in the blast but it caused serious damage to the ground floor of the building where a branch of the National Bank of Greece was also housed.

The little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group and the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, of which five suspected members were arrested earlier this year, yesterday posted a message on the Internet claiming responsibility for a blast at the headquarters of the Ethniki Insurance firm in Athens.

The blast occurred at about 11 p.m. on Sunday [27/12] night and was heard in many parts of central Athens. Officers said that a device containing some 3 kilos of dynamite was placed outside the building, which is located in Neos Cosmos toward the northern end of busy Syngrou Avenue, not far from the center of Athens.

Nobody was hurt in the explosion but it destroyed the ground floor of the building, where a branch of the National Bank of Greece was also located, and smashed the windows of several cars parked close by. Some adjacent buildings also suffered minor damage.

Police had sealed off the area after warning was given of the imminent explosion in an anonymous telephone call to the Eleftherotypia daily newspaper 15 minutes before the bomb went off.

Initially it was thought that Revolutionary Struggle had planted the bomb as it has carried out similar attacks in the past. However, the joint claim of responsibility by the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire seemed to douse this theory.

The two groups claimed an attack on the home of PASOK MP Mimis Androulakis last month. In the online statement, the groups gave details about how the attack was carried out.

Fragments of the explosive device were recovered yesterday by forensic experts and officers will also be examining CCTV footage.

New Year’s vengeance in Compostela, Barcelona, and Madrid

From Klinamen via Indymedia Barcelona translated by This is Our Job

January 2, 2010

These three claims arrived separately via the web:

Two police stations attacked in Santiago de Compostela on New Year’s Eve

On New Year’s Eve, we attacked two police stations in Santiago de Compostela as a special way to welcome in the blessed year. We firebombed both a van and a car at the local police station (next to the Plaza del Obradoiro), and we left another device at the national police station on Rúa Pitelos.

Vengeance for Tamara, vengeance for the anarchist prisoners on hunger strike (Gabriel, Marco . . .), vengeance for the arrests of our Greek comrades, vengeance just because, vengeance . . . why not? It seems the vehicles were quite damaged, but it’s a pity the bad weather didn’t help burn them even more.

We are losing our fear.

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Vengeance in downtown Madrid

Yesterday, December 31, 2009, at 11:50 p.m., we placed an incendiary device with a delayed ignition at the Plaza de La Remonta, next to the police station.

The attack was specifically directed at the repressive organs of the state, which for the last few months have increased their level of repression, along with all that implies.

The device was only placed as a warning. It is nothing less than a preview of things to come.

Repression means attack!

LET’S DESTROY THE STATE, BEGINNING WITH ITS GUARDIANS

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Pigs’ union attacked in Barcelona

We have begun the year in the best possible way, by attacking the pigs’ union on Calle Bruc, right in the middle of Barcelona. An incendiary device was used, which damaged the entrance to the building. The damage caused will always be dwarfed by how much we hate them.

With this action, we salute all the comrade prisoners in struggle, all those underground, and all those who fight capital.

May the “celebrations” continue.

- Anonymous; January 1, 2010

Pretrial detention ordered for Basque arrested in connection with unsuccessful attack in Temuco

From Klinamen via 123 and Emol translated by This is Our Job

January 1, 2010

The 38-year-old Basque is under arrest in the southern Chilean city of Temuco for his alleged connection to an unsuccessful bombing at the Justice Ministry for the La Araucanía region on Thursday.

A court of public safety in the southern Chilean city of Temuco ordered pretrial detention today for a 38-year-old Basque arrested on Thursday for his alleged connection to an unsuccessful bombing at the Justice Ministry for the La Araucanía region.

Court sources indicate that the resolution was adopted during a detention hearing in which Judge Omar Mérida invoked the Antiterrorist Law in order to keep the suspect in custody.

According to sources, the Basque’s pretrial detention will last until at least January 6.

The accused, Asel Luzarraga, is a novelist and the lead singer of an anarchist punk band. He was arrested during a raid of his home, and police sources say he has lived in Chile since March 2009.

The Basque is suspect number one in the unsuccessful bombing by unknown perpetrators of the Justice Ministry building located at the corner of Calle Bilbao and Calle Vicuña Mackenna on Ñelol hill in Temuco. Prosecutor Sergio Moya is investigating the incident, along with at least four other bombings that have occurred in the region during the course of the year.

Luzarraga, who goes by the pseudonym “Aselluza,” was arrested in his home in the Pulmahue de Padre Las Casas neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, after Carabineros presented him with a search warrant from the Court of Public Safety.

In the suspect’s home, Carabineros also found an empty fire extinguisher, fuses, and powder for the construction of homemade explosive devices similar to the one found on Thursday morning in the front garden of the Justice Ministry. The same parts were used in a similar device that exploded two weeks ago at an Ahumada pharmacy branch located in a residential area between Avenida Alemania and Avenida San Martín in the regional capital.

Also, in December of last year, a bomb made out of the same materials damaged the door and windows of the Public Prison Advocate’s building.

Luzarraga has degrees in business studies and Basque philosophy, and he has published four novels in Euskara: “The Convex Mirrors,” “Karonte,” “The Charm of Disguise,” and “The Honeycomb.”

For several years, he worked as a high school teacher in his country. He was a member of the board of directors of the Basque Writers’ Association. Outside his literary activity, he was the lead singer for the band Punkamine, and he spread anarchist ideas through his articles and his blog.

Luzarraga had recently participated in protests demanding the release of Mapuche activist Juana Calfunao, who was sentenced and is facing other charges for property occupations and attacks on the authorities. In November 2007, Calfunao struck, spat, and cursed at two prosecutors during her hearing on charges of public disorder. In 1998, she headbutted Rodrigo González, the former head of CONADI (National Indigenous Development Corporation).