Jerusalem - Riots at funeral procession of Palestinian killed by Israeli security guard

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Violent clashes have erupted in parts of East Jerusalem after a Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard.
After the shooting in the Silwan area, protesters threw stones at Israeli police, who fired back using tear gas.
Hours later, Israeli police briefly entered the area around the al-Aqsa mosque to disperse protesters there.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the most contentious issues between Israel and the Palestinians. Both sides claim the city as their future capital and areas of East Jerusalem, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, are often the scene of clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians.
The trouble started in Silwan in the early hours of the morning, when a man named by Palestinian reports as Sami Sirhan, a 32-year-old father of five, was shot dead by an Israeli security guard. Israeli police said the guard had opened fire when stones were thrown at his car by local youths.
Silwan residents took to the streets after the incident, setting fire to cars and throwing rocks at police and passers-by.
Several people, including an Israeli policeman, were injured.
After the funeral of Mr Sirhan, the trouble spread to the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, as Israeli police pursued the protesters.
Silwan is a frequent flashpoint because of the number of Jewish settlers who have moved into the neighbourhood, our correspondent says.
There are also controversial plans by the city council to develop the area which include proposals to demolish the homes of many local Palestinian families.
The building of Jewish settlements is another thorny issue in the Middle East peace talks, which resumed earlier this month after a lapse of almost two years.
The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of peace talks unless a partial construction freeze, due to expire on 26 September, is extended.
Nearly half a million Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
They are held to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
On Tuesday, the international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators urged Israel to extend its partial freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

LONDON - the passion for freedom knows no borders, the same for solidarity

TODAY, Friday 24 September, around 2pm. a number of anarchists and sympathizers from various parts of the metropolis converged on the shopping centre in the middle of the busy intersection Elephant and Castle, chosen because of the thousands of people from Latin American countries living in the area. After dropping banners over the main entrance in solidarity with the Mapuche hunger strikers and the 14 anarchists arrested in Chile, they dispersed into and around the shopping centre and local market giving out hundreds of leaflets in English and Spanish.
Unnoticed by the State and private security who were too intent on defending the bosses' wares, the banners stayed in place for hours in full view of hundreds of bus passengers from almost every country on the planet on their way to and from their places of exploitation.
Today's outing, chosen to coincide with the international solidarity date for our Chilean comrades, rather than being a fait accompli is a call to action everywhere, without delay.
THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM KNOWS NO BORDERS
THE SAME FOR SOLIDARITY
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Chile: behind the media circus..

On 14th of August, 2010, 14 anarchists were arrested in Santiago de Chile and accused of being involved in a series of bombing campaigns in the country over the past year. Statements have since been released by several groups claiming responsibility for the attacks while the arrestees themselves have denied any responsibility since the very beginning of this charade. The evidence presented against them by the prosecution could not be more ridiculous; from magazines and newspapers to common household items apparently intended for the manufacturing of “explosive devices”, anything is welcome to bolster paranoia. A few months earlier, on July12th, 34 prisoners on remand of the Mapuche indigenous group went (and still remain, after 74 days) on hunger strike in the Chilean prisons of Temuco, Valdivia, Angol and Concepcion. They are demanding the abolition of the Anti-terrorist law as well as an end to the military occupation of their lands located in the South of the country and subjected for years to an ongoing plundering by western corporations. The Mapuche people are characterised by a strong bond with their surrounding natural environment. Their ancestral relation with their land as well as the destruction of the latter by national and international capital’s eternal quest to extract more and more profit from it has motivated the Mapuche to develop an increasingly militant line of action.
While these issues have been subjected to a total information blackout by the mainstream media, both Chilean and international, the mining ‘accident’ that happened on August 6 at the San José copper mine in Copiapo, Chile resulting in 33 miners remaining trapped over 2,300 feet underground, has on the contrary enjoyed a great deal of media attention. Piñera, the recently elected Chilean president, is using the incident to clean the poor image of his government after a series of highly unpopular moves. His sluggish and elitist reaction to what happened following lasts summer’s earthquake along with his extreme conservative policies badly hitting the poorest social classes, had made his level of popularity drop dramatically. Hence the deployment of this “Big Brother” operation aimed at creating a false image of national unity. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid by the mass media to facts such as the workers not receiving their wages, their appalling working conditions and their message of support to the Mapuche cause. Instead, the journalists have focused on unimportant details such as how many bibles the miners got or the number of wives claiming benefits for each one of their trapped husbands.
For the average respectable and law-abiding British citizen, commonly ignorant of facts such as the UK’s involvement as one of the chief arms providers to Pinochet’s dictatorship back in the 80s, this subject might seem to fall into the category “none of my business”. However, silly as it might sound, he or she might be wiping their ass every day with paper manufactured from trees taken straight from the deforestation of Mapuche lands. Every penny we have in our pockets is made from copper, involving us directly in the condition of these miners in Chile and quite sure many other countries. The same goes for the chips in our laptops, our mobile phone... the list could go on for a while. London is a major economic centre, meaning that many triggers are pulled, a lot of blood is spilled so that capital can keep flowing into the city. It is the ‘counterterrorism law’ enacted in 1984 by Pinochet, which still allows Mapuche activists to be charged as ‘terrorist suspects’ and tried in military courts today.Chile passes for a democratic country now. So maybe in your opinion everything is all right and no reasons should be left for protest or radical change. In the same line of thinking, all those Chilean anarchists might actually deserve whatever befalls them. The mistake is to think that any democratic country guarantees freedom, welfare and a fair life for everybody. Look around, look at yourself, can you really see that democratic paradise existing anywhere?
Even the most affluent democratic states like the UK keep their share of homeless, poor and beggars. A life devoted to the pursuit of a professional career soon reveals itself as an unsatisfactory senseless rat race driven by nothing but money and kept going in many cases by tonnes of anti-depressants. More and more families are struggling to make ends meet, while the vast majority of the population are granted the “freedom” of wasting their life tied to the chains of wage slavery. The same old story of exploitation and authoritarian abuse comes to the surface again and we find that under the auspices of our beloved democracy political power is exerted by a bunch of thieves known as professional politicians. They say we have the “power” and the “freedom” to elect them but this is starting to sound for an increasing amount of people like a bloody joke. What this fundamental lie hides is that we remain stripped of any power, whether personal or collective, to make decisions concerning our own lives.
On top of all this the “crisis” comes and as usual it is the poorest, whether the working or unemployed part of the population, who have to pay for the mess. At all times we are reminded how lazy we are and how little we do to increase productivity due to our lack of a “competitive” and market/business-oriented mind. Of course, it is always our fault; we are not perfect slaves yet, we still need a bit of a reminder so it’s time to cut this and that, it’s time to make things more and more difficult. Everything will be all right - unless of course, someone does not swallow these lies and tries to do something about it that does not follow the legally permitted (and therefore useless) ways of protest. Such is the case of the Chilean anarchists. Such is the case of the Mapuche people. Such would our case be if we were to confront the rules of our own democracy.
Immediate freedom
to the arrested anarchists!
Stop the plunder of
Mapuche land now!
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!!
AGAINST THE TERRORISM OF THE STATE AND CAPITAL!
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MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of squatters resist eviction

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23 09 2010 - MANILA — Thousands of squatters resisting eviction from a roadside shantytown won a temporary reprieve on Thursday after fighting with police and shutting the Philippine capital’s main highway, police and officials said.
Several officers were slightly injured as slum dwellers fought running battles, while traffic on the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue was backed up for several kilometres (miles) after the road was blocked, officials said.
The protest prompted a court order temporarily halting the demolition of the estimated 6,000 shanties at the 340 hectare (840 acre) site, according to Chito Cruz, general manager of the government’s National Housing Authority.
One section of the six-lane highway that bisects Manila was strewn with wooden barricades and rocks by early afternoon, five hours after the standoff began, with daytime traffic diverted to smaller, more crowded streets.
« There was some rock-throwing and scuffles. Some of my men were slightly injured, » senior superintendent Benjamin Magalong, head of the 300-member riot police deployed in the area told AFP.
A quarter of a million vehicles use the artery on a typical workday, according to government estimates.
Magalong said slum dwellers were resisting an initial court order to remove the settlement, called North Triangle.
The government wants to redevelop the site into a business district in a joint venture with a private firm.
Cruz, whose agency owns the occupied property said he was surprised by the violence of the squatters who resorted to blocking the highway and throwing stones at the police.
Police were pegged back by a hail of missiles as they attempted to charge the protesters, while water cannon blasts also failed to disperse the crowds, according to AFP photographers at the scene.
Shantytown residents stood with arms linked across the road, with their belongings stacked in the middle of the highway behind them.
By midday the largely unprotected demolition crews had been forced to stop their work in the shantytown after having torn down around 50 dwellings, an AFP photographer on the scene said.
Cruz said in a television interview there were about 6,000 families at the site and over 3,000 families had already been relocated.
He said that he was confident the court order stopping the demolition would soon be lifted.
The World Bank estimates up to half of Manila residents live in slums.

Mapuche hunger strike - 3 prisoners in very serious condition

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Source: http://paismapuche.org/ - September 21, 2010
About 30 minutes ago due to the severity of their condition Mapuche Political Prisoners 20 year old Víctor Hugo Queipul Millanao and 30 year old Huaikilaf Cadin were urgently transferred from prison in Angol to the hospital in Victoria. The prisoner Huenchullan Felipe, also on hunger strike, has been admitted to the same hospital.
Mapuche communication team.

COMMUNIQUE and PUBLIC DENUNCIATION
Concerning the serious health condition of the Mapuche Political Prisoners in the jail of Angol.

The Autonomous Mapuche Temucuicui Community responsibly communicate the following to public opinion :

1 .- For the past few days the government of Sebastián Piñera has been playing with the lives of our Mapuche Political Prisoners on hunger strike for 71 days and has deceived the public with a propagandised table of dialogue, which has no intention of responding to demands made by our brothers and supported by all the People of the Mapuche Nation. This is just a strategy for communication to the world to make it seem that the Right in power can control and manage social conflicts in Chile.
2 .- At this moment the Mapuche political prisoners are in very poor health. This racist and discriminatory government does not want to give a real solution to the demands posed by the hunger strikers. In all the prisons the bicentennial of Chile was celebrated with grilled empanadas and cuecas, while the hunger strike of our brothers continues without a glimpse of a solution or any credible and concrete dialogue giving assurance and certainty that the government and politicians will respect their word to listen to the demands of our imprisoned social fighters.
3 .- With these pictures we want to denounce the conditions of our brothers. Despite their delicate state of health, they maintain that the strike will not stop until their demands are taken into account by the Piñera government.
4 .- Our brothers Víctor Hugo Queipul Millanao, a member of our community and Waikilaf Cadin of the community of Juan Paillalef have just been transferred from Angol prison and hospitalized in very serious condition.
We call on all the organizations and the Mapuche communities not to fall for the dirty games and deception of this false dialogue table set up by Sebastián Piñera, and to come to Victoria hospital to try to visit our brothers that have been admitted there.
Comunidad Mapuche Autónoma TEMUCUICUI
WALL Mapuche, Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Belgium - attacks against police in Liège (7 police cars demolished with iron bar), Molenbeek, etc.

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September 21, 2010 - What went through Peter N.'s head on Sunday night? Having a "dispute" with the police, he took revenge by breaking the door to a police station with an extinguisher and vandalizing police cars.
Peter N. saw red on Sunday night in Liege. This resident of Seraing tried to demolish the door of the police station in Darchis Street shortly after 7:00 p.m., and broke several windows with a fire extinguisher. The individual fled the scene but had not finished with the police. He went to the police station in Liège outside which he attacked seven emergency vehicles with an iron bar, demolishing the windshield and mirrors.
He was apprehended on the spot and said he had acted this way because he had a "dispute" with the police in Seraing. He said he could not get at the police cars at Seraing because the vehicles were in a closed court. The man, Peter N., from Seraing, was taken before the public prosecutor of Liege.

MOLENBEEK - TRAP AGAINST POLICE WITH STONES AND MOLOTOVS
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6/09/2010 - MOLENBEEK - Around 23h, police were called to a spot in Molenbeek for a 'theft with violence'. On arrival, the police patrol bumped into a fence which had been put on the road. They sensed something was wrong and then stones, sticks and molotov cocktails started to rain on their car and another police patrol car. Police said they have caught one person, 19 years old, who would have participated in the trap. The person had already been arrested earlier that day for rebellion against the police. He will now face charges for assault, armed gathering and criminal association.---
BRUSSELS - Compared to last year, more policemen have been attacked during controls. Police speak about a "total lack of respect for the uniform" with 77 policemen of the central zone of Brussels wounded during confrontations. The other police zones of Brussels didn't communicate any numbers. Police are speaking about people not accepting anymore to get an identity control (they try to run away or attack the cops straigt away) and more rebellions during arrests on the spot of a crime.

Merksplas, Belgium - Simultaneous riots in the prison and detention centre for immigrants

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14.09.2010 - Sunday, about 70 prisoners of the prison of Merksplas started a riot. They started by refusing to go back to their cells; going on then with breaking windows and tearing down infrastructure of the prison. When police forces arrived, tens of prisoners barricades themselves inside a wing where they resisted till the arrival of the special intervention unit of the federal police. The rioters caused quite some damage and also tried to put fire by burning a ping pong table. The syndicate of the guards say the prisoners were protesting against the fact that they don’t have water or a toilet in their cells.Just at the moment that big part of the police force was coming again out of the prison, just on the opposite side of the street, in the detention centre for immigrants, a riot broke out. The Office des Etrangers refused to give any more information about the revolt, but the guards syndicate talk about sans-papiers trying a collective escape. Some sans-papiers had a confrontation with the police, but were finally overwhelmed and put in isolation. Two days before, on Friday, two sans-papiers escaped from the centre (a fact which the media didn’t mention). A part of the prisoners of the detention centre is currently on hungerstrike to protest against the conditions and ask an immediate liberation. They also denounce the fact that direction and guards try to make them shut up.On Monday, the guards of the centre went on strike, protesting against the ongoing insecurity and revealing that the police had to intervene already 4 times this month (September) to stop revolts. Police and the social service of the centre took now over the control of the centre.

Simon Chapman and 3 other defendants to again face the Greek Courts

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Statement of the London Thessaloniki Solidarity Group - September 19th, 2010 versionThe solidarity group was formed in 2003 soon after the arrests at the EU summit demonstrations in Thessaloniki.
The entire basis of the arrests in 2003, was and still remains, an arbitrary attack upon the demonstrations, where culpability was placed upon those that the Greek authorities sought to make examples of. From the beginning of the process of detention it was clear that evidence of guilt would not even be based upon recognition of legal facts or evidence but by association. In Thessaloniki during those days everyone was guilty, and for the Greek authorities, it was merely the case of charging those either unfortunate to be detained ( then beaten and tortured ) many of which coming from outside of Greece. The 7 which were detained, know as the Thessaloniki 7, consisted of 3 Greeks ( 2 of which were teenagers ), 2 Spanish, 1 Syrian and 1 British. In response to their continued incarceration, a hunger strike began in early September 2003, lasting 56 days and finally leading to the release of all 7 prisoners for humanitarian reasons. The embarrassment of negative publicity, along with the many solidarity demonstrations and actions throughout greece and the world, forced the hand of the Greek state in averting a greater problem of creating martyrs for a burgeoning movement. After the successful release and dropping of bail conditions for the 7, rumours of a re-emergence of the trials again began circulating. This time in late 2007 the initial confirmation for the start of a trial being 8th January 2008.For this story continues. Simon Chapman from London, UK was found guilty of the following charges in 2008• Culpable of repeated explosion from which there could result common danger for a human being• Repeated construction of explosive bombs• Possession of explosive bombs• Distinguished riot/rebellion• Distinguished cases of damages in confluenceHe was then sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison in his absence, with others receiving 5 years, most either being found not guilty or guilty of lesser non-imprisonable charges. Since 2008 the trial has left a legacy with 5 outstanding appeals to the conviction and inflated prison sentences. These appeals - now reduced to 4 defendants after the outcome of an earlier appeal hearing of one of the defendants - again sees 3 of the 5 hunger strikers of 2003 appear in court including Simon Chapman.At this stage, with just under a week left before the beginning of the trial (the trial begins on September 24th in Thessaloniki ) , the fact remains, that what we are fighting now is the same process of repression that we fought successfully in 2003. In Simon's case especially, documented video and photo evidence clearly shows MAT riot police plant molotov cocktails in black bags and strap them to his body. Simon has maintained, and which photographic evidence illustrate, that he was carrying a light blue rack sack with nothing more than water bottles. This blatant attempt to artificial manufacture culpability remains a reflection of the nature of these trials.We therefore express our solidarity to the 4 defendants facing the courts and prosecutors of the Greek state, and reaffirm our commitment to fight in solidarity with them.Our commitment for the freedom of the Thessaloniki 4!Solidarity and dignity against repression!London Thessaloniki Solidarity Group - September 19th, 2010

Mapuche Hunger Strikers Reject Dialogue with Chilean Government

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SANTIAGO – Families of the roughly three-dozen jailed Mapuche Indian activists on hunger strike said Tuesday that they will not take part in a dialogue with the Chilean government.The government’s initiative “does not have the goal of resolving the demands of the (hunger) strikers,” Mapuche spokesperson Natividad Llanquileo said outside a prison in the southern city of Concepcion, dismissing the planned talks as a “media show.”President Sebastian Piñera announced the dialogue last Friday at a ceremony on the eve of Chile’s independence bicentennial.Though the opening of talks on Indian grievances is one demand of the Mapuche hunger strikers, Piñera did not address more immediate concerns about the terms of their incarceration and prosecution.“We have a debt to our original peoples, and particularly to the Mapuche people,” the president said, heralding “Plan Araucania” as package of economic and social measures aimed at improving the Mapuches’ quality of life and expanding opportunities for their economic development.The talks are to take place at Ñielol mountain in the poor southern region of Araucania, heartland of the 650,000-strong Mapuche nation, which lost 95 percent of its land during a “pacification” campaign at the end of the 19th century.In recent years, Mapuche militants have been torching vehicles, highway toll booths and lumber shipments as part of a campaign to reclaim ancestral lands from the agribusiness concerns and forest products companies that now control much of Araucania.Successive governments in Santiago have responded mainly with repression, applying a draconian anti-terrorism law imposed during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.The legislation allows the state to hold people for up to two years without charges, to restrict defense attorneys’ access to evidence and to use testimony from anonymous witnesses.Chile’s government is currently holding 106 Mapuches – most of them still awaiting trial – for politically motivated crimes against property.The Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike are demanding the scrapping of the anti-terror act and the “demilitarization” of Araucania.“If there is a fatal outcome (to the hunger strike), the government of Chile will be the guilty party,” Llanquileo told Radio Bio Bio on Tuesday.Both Llanquileo and Rodrigo Curipan, a member of the Mapuche parliament, ruled out taking part in this week’s talks at Ñielol mountain.The conditions and agenda for the proposed dialogue “were imposed” by the government and have no bearing on resolving the prisoners’ hunger strike, opposition Sen. Jaime Quintana said.“This is a monologue, comparable to a ceremony for the delivery of subsidies to the indigenous world,” he said. “But a dialogue table, it’s not.”Speaking for the government, presidential chief of staff Cristian Larroulet said that while no one is excluded from the dialogue, the talks aimed at ending the hunger strike, mediated by Catholic Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati of Concepcion, are separate from the process at Ñielol mountain.Internationally acclaimed novelist Isabel Allende, winner of Chile’s 2010 National Literature Prize, used the word “terrible” to describe the situation of the Mapuche hunger strikers.“They could die, several of them are already on the edge of dying,” she told reporters after receiving the Bicentennial Medal from the Chilean Congress. EFE

Argentina – Car arson attacks in Buenos Aires

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Communique:
We took to the streets again to practice what we say with our words and think with our brains.
We feel the need to do so because, as we can see, a newspaper published an article in Villa Devoto about the burning of car in the barrio in which it speaks explicitly of the arrest of a person allegedly responsible for the attacks. For this reason we are making it known that what they are saying in this newspaper and / or the police themselves is just a lie, they probably have not caught anyone, or if they did, they got a person who has nothing to do with this. That is why yesterday, September 15, 2010, at the intersection Melincue Chivilcoy we set fire to a car around 23 hours. In addition, we claim responsibility for the burning of other cars before that.
As we always say, we are doing this to combat the destruction that society is causing to the earth, that is why we're not on its side and with these actions we are warning that we will continue to attack it to stop what it is doing to the world.
We know that they care little or nothing of what we say, but we won't get lost in chatter and writings, something that has already been done. Only the comrades will understand, while those subjected to this system are so locked into the routine of work they have "need" of machines. We try to live differently.
Amigxs de la Tierra
links of the press:
links della stampa:
http://www.devotomagazine.com.ar/files/infozonal_nota.asp?id=367
http://www.devotomagazine.com.ar/files/infozonal_nota.asp?id=384

Zurich - Statement on the attack on the Hardbrücke

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It would seem that something is burning ...
[NDT: The Zurich Hardbrücke is the most important north-south axis of the city. Renovations have been ongoing since 2009. In the night between 17 and 18 September, a fire destroyed the construction works and caused hundreds of thousands of francs of damage and no one was injured.]
Reasons:
Primarily: it had to disappear for a more beautiful city.
Second: to support the following people in their struggle against the rich: Billy, Costa, Silvia and Marco on hunger strike in prison
Solidarity with anarchists Philipp and Ivo
Marco Camenisch, Swiss political prisoner who has probably spent most time in prison and has always been in struggle, for that alone this action was worth it.
In memory of the thousands who die every day of hunger, AIDS or other effects of this system of shit everywhere.
For the Greek anarchist movement
For the squat movement all over the world
For the freedom of each and everyone, whether human, animal or plant
And certainly for Kneubühl, who dared to be thoroughly pissed off and shoot at a good target
Against ideology
Right-wing left: all bullshit
for anarchy
Burn the Cities
the only rule (for our group) is that there be no persons injured!!
Source: ch.indymedia.org/it

Greece - letter from Sarantos Nikitopoulos (accused in the Revolutionary Struggle case)

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Six months after my arrest I remain imprisoned in the idyllic conditions of the Greek prisons.
ACHTUNG ACHTUNG!!!
ANNOUNCEMENT OF GREEK POLICE HEADQUARTERS
a. Are you an anti authoritarian, anarchist-communist, leftist, unclassified with participation in social struggles? In a nutshell, are you part of all these “dirty ones”, that disturb the order in our otherwise lawful state with no reason or cause?
b. Are you an owner of a gas mask (for fighting the tear gas) consequence of your above choice?
c. Have you ever met in broad day light at a busy place with friends and comrades (without anything unlawful happening before, during or after your meeting)?
d. Have you ever been to a masquerade party, having also a wig in your possession?
e. Do you inform yourself from the media and happen to have a copy of “the pontiki” newspaper with the published communique of Revolutionary Struggle?
If you have all the prerequisites, than congratulations
YOU WIN:
1st An amazing arrest by our service, which includes a search in you residence, unlimited publicity for your face, plus free view of the new full face mask collection of the security forces during your interrogation.
2nd Your deliverance to “independent justice” with a mountain of articles and almost all of the penal code on your back… From there on try to figure it out…
And 3d and best: Your imprisonment, with immediate procedures, in a wonderful, airy and sunny basement cell in Koridallos prison.
Please, all interested-suspects phone 170 or 1971, so we don't have to bother, and to stop any further humiliation of our charges and service.
THANK YOU!!!
BESIDES THE JOKE THOUGH
Almost 6 months after my arrest I remain imprisoned in the idyllic conditions of the Greek prisons, since my application of release was denied, for the funny reasons above.
Which means my persecution is clearly political and of a completely sane type and is based on the fact that I am an anarchist-anti authoritarian with a continuous participation in social struggles, also because all these years (over 16) of my action I had the luck to know and be connected by friendship with the wonderful person and fighter Lambros Foundas.
BESIDES THAT, NOTHING:
Because obviously whoever goes on demonstrations with gas masks, reads the “pontiki” and other newspapers, meets with friends and comrades and owns a masquerade wig, is a member of Revolutionary Struggle or other organizations.
As an anarchist I never had illusions about “justice” and “lawful civilization” and this is confirmed creepily the last period of time on my life. This, of course, does not mean that I will sit and mourn and patiently endure the situation, which the cops and their political leadership has brought me to. This authoritarian click that through big talk such as “social justice”, “anti authorutarians in government”, “struggle to save the country” etc., led society to the vice of the I.M.F., at the same time updating oppression and sinking the weak social parts into a bleaker future, helping the capitalists and their economic interests.
THE WALL OF SILENCE MUST BREAK
It must break on all levels through struggles. Solidarity to the struggling prisoners is only one of these levels and my personal opinion is that we should not look at it with introversion and divide it from the present social situation.
Sarantos Nikitopoulos
6th wing. Koridallos prisons
September 2010
P.S. 1 To the prime minister of the troika and the I.M.F.: No more “anti authority”, we are full….
P.S. 2 To the minister of justice: My congratulations for your prisons… What ever any one says about you prisons is little. Bravo, continue this way.
boubourAs translations…
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Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike to protest Israeli prisons authority abuse

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; RAMALLAH -- Palestinian prisoners in all Israeli jails have announced they will go on hunger strike next Saturday Sept. 25 in protest of the heightened abuse they have recently suffered from the Israeli prisons authority (IPA).
“The IPA has launched an unprecedented campaign against prisoners since the direct negotiations started, which reflected the Israeli government’s lack of integrity in developing the so-called ‘just peace’ with the Palestinian people,” the prisoners said in a statement.
The brutal assault against the Ofer prisoners, usage of excessive force, and fierce means of repression, including dogs, batons, and tear gas without reasonable cause indicate that there is a plan targeting prisoners’ rights, the prisoners added.
They underscored in the statement that the IPA uses special forces to carry out provocative search campaigns, which include strip searches and other forms of humiliation, and transfers prisoners from one prison to another while holding other prisoners in solitary confinement.
The IPA has denied prisoners the right to visits, imposed fines on them, banned books and newspapers, and prohibited prisoners from purchasing needed foods during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Prisoners believe the IPA has kicked off an “open war” against their lives and rights without anyone to fight in their corner.
Gaza’s prisoner committee asked the international community to issue international resolutions to protect Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The IPA has a long time back set off an open war against prisoners using racist measures that are tantamount to war crimes that should be prosecuted in international courts, the committee’s media official Nashaat al-Wahidi said Saturday.
The transfer of sick prisoners from hospitals to prisons was an indication that Israel had begun an open war against prisoners as what happened recently in the Nafha, Ofer, and Hadarim prisons, Wahidi stated.

Israeli Troops Invade Bil’in And Clash With Local Youth

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September 20th, 2010 - Bil’in – PNN – an Israeli army force invaded on Monday midday the village of Bil’in in central West Bank and clashed with local youth.
Israeli troops stormed a number of homes and tried to arrest local youth, during the search campaign, soldiers fired tear gas at local youth who responded by hurling stones at the soldiers.
At least a dozen civilians suffered effects of tear gas inhalation and were treated locally, witnesses reported.
The village of Bil’in organizes a weekly anti wall protest for the past five years; after long fight in the Israeli courts, the army was ordered to remove the wall built on villagers lands; tell the day the military refuse to implement the court order and attack the weekly nonviolent actions organized by the villagers along with their international and Israeli supporters.
Last year the military fire killed, Bassem Abu Rahma, a local activist in Bil’in during the weekly actions. The army stepped up its campaign to target local activists who organize the weekly protest and arrest six of them during raids like today’s one.

Greece - Trial date for Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos set for November

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The date for the trial of Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos, arrested on 1 October 2009 in Greece on charges of robbery, has been set for November 22, 2010.
The current account remains valid for subscriptions to face the expenses linked to the comrades' detention. For any communication you can refer to the contact details of Edizioni Anarchismo (Mail: A. Medeot, CP 3431, 34128 Trieste - E.mail: edizionianarchismo@gmail.com).
Postal account No. 23852353, payable to A. Medeot - c.p. 3431 - Trieste, stating "subscription for arrests in Greece".

To write to the comrades:
Alfredo Bonanno - Christos Stratigopoulos
Filakes Solomou 3-5
18110 - Korydallos
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Hamburg - clashes around St Pauli / HSV match in the city

19/09/2010 - Hamburg. There were clashes on Sunday between rival fan groups between the two football clubs HSV Hamburgn and St. Pauli. In total 54 people were detained and 13 suspects were arrested. The police used water cannon on several occasions. Six officers and an unknown number of fans were injured.

Even before the match HSV supporters are reported to have attacked police with bottles and firecrackers. In addition, windows were smashed with stones and fires ignited.

After the game the rival fans had a go at each other in small groups in the area around the stadium.

HSV fans tried to storm the St. Pauli "Jolly Rogers", but were stopped by the police. Also later in the evening the situation was still not completely pacified. Despite common views of both clubs to a peaceful duel, the police had estimated in advance a so-called high- risk game. Some 1,100 police officers are quoted as been used. Also mounted police from Hanover were used.

Indianapolis - IMPD officer's home firebombed

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IMPD Investigating Arson at Officer's Home /20/2010
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police are investigating the alleged overnight "firebombing" of an officer's home on the city's far south side.
The IMPD officer radioed in to dispatch after someone allegedly threw a "firebomb" or molotov cocktail through a rear window of his house.
The fire has officially been ruled arson.
The officer, his wife and their two children escaped without injuries. But the fire spread from the family's back deck into the home and heavily damaged the roof. Damage is estimated at $100,000.

Tripoli , Lebanon - rioting breaks out at Qobbeh prison

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20 September 2010,TRIPOLI — Rioting broke out on Monday at a prison in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli with inmates taking hostage several warders to demand better conditions and reduced sentences, a security official said.
“The inmates at Qobbeh prison managed to seize five warders and are demanding that conditions inside the prison be improved and that their sentences be reduced,” the official, who requested anonymity, said.
The main road leading to the overcrowded prison inside the city limits was sealed off, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.
Rioting broke out at the same prison in January 2009 with inmates also seizing jailers to demand better conditions.
Qobbeh is the largest prison in northern Lebanon and houses 600 inmates.

Biel Prison, Switzerland - communique from Silvia Guerini concerning the hunger strike and its extension for Marco Camenisch

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Collective hunger strike with Billy, Costa and Marco 10-29 September 2010
I am undertaking this collective hunger strike along with comrades Luca Bernasconi, Costantino Ragusa, Marco Camenisch. For a period of 20 days. The contents of this strike are expressed and outlined in full in our collective statement.
This initiative represents an important and necessary continuity of the struggle, to continue the path taken in spite of these walls and these bars that hold us prisoner, and as continuity in the green anarchist affinity that unites us.
To be present in the revolutionary movement, in the animal liberation movement and that of the Earth as active subjects in the struggle even if in prison. This hunger strike overcomes the strong censureship, slowdown and restriction of mail that the three of us are experiencing in preventive detention, it breaks down the walls of isolation and unites us with all of you outside, all those who struggle against the existent.
To reaffirm the fundamental critique of the anthropocentric paradigm, which goes to the roots of this techno-industrial society and all exploitation. Roots inherent in the birth of civilization with the estrangement and separation of men and women from the rest of nature and the domestication of the plant and animal world.
To strongly boost the struggle against all harmfulness and scientific-technological development that sees its culmination in biotechnology and nanotechnology. Let's stop the advance of genetic engineering and the entry of GM crops in Europe, before it's too late!
Against the devastation of entire natural ecosystems and their biodiversity, against all exploitation and oppression on every living being and the Earth.
Against the whole system of domination in all its manifestations.
Cold metal bars, bodies piled one upon the other, iron hooks hanging from the ceiling, electric shock, gun to the temple, hooks embedded in the flesh, throat slashed, blood flowing, a body in pieces ...
Hands grip and lock limbs, needles under the skin, electrodes in the brain, whitish liquid in the veins, body immobilized, staring eyes, burning, pain, slow agony ... scalpels that cut, tear and dissect still warm organs ... bodies, just bodies in absolute negation of all individuality and sensitivity. Intensive farming, experimenting on animals ... Against every cage, for total liberation.
To the heartbeats one feels pulsating in the breast ... To the gasping breathe as one runs under the stars ... Far away a blast of lightning pierces the silence and darkness of a gloomy sky. Running without fear, a meeting with the storm, clenching one's fists to one's chest, starlight in the eyes, in the heart the passion of the fire of the struggle that will never stop burning ...
Silvia Guerini, Biel Prison – Switzerland, September 2010

San Carlos de Apoquindo (Chile): attack against a high voltage pylon in support and solidarity with Mapuche prisoners

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September 19, 2010 - San Carlos de Apoquindo, Chile: "Commando Alex Lemun" has claimed in writing that the attack occurred last night around 23:45.
Around 23:45, an explosive attack occurred in San Carlos de Apoquindo, damaging a transformer and high voltage electrical line, in addition to causing cuts in this area of Santiago.
Through a statement, the "Commando Alex Lemun" claimed the attack in support and solidarity with Mapuche prisoners [Translator's note: on hunger strike for more than 40 days]. In its text, the group also rejects "the system of oppression and death directed by the State and Capital".
The group takes its name from Alex Lemun Edmundo Saavedra, assassinated by police Nov. 7, 2002, during a land occupation of Mapuche communities of the forest land Santa Elisa. A group of carabinieri intervened to evict the families, and during a confrontation this young person was shot right in the head.

Ercilla, Mapuche land - about 20 masked people fire at police bus

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Ercilla Saturday, September 18, 2010 13:47 * About 20 individualss, identified by police as Mapuche, opened fire with shotguns and pistols at security guards of the Special Forces personnel on the land La Romana. * Police vehicle was hit by bullets in its front windshield, no injuries recorded.

A new incident occurred late on Friday in the so-called Mapuche conflict zone, near Ercilla, after a group of hooded people armed with shotguns and pistols fired at police during a confrontation.

As reported by the uniformed guards, about 20 Mapuche masked with scarves and ski masks and heavily armed, entered the fundo La Romana, belonging to the farmer René Urban.

The violentistas opened fire on a sentry box used by Special Forces personnel Carabineros, located within the property and also against a bus of the same institution. After nearly three hours of skirmishes, the antisocial group, which police identified as potentially members of the indigenous community of Temucuicui, though adding that there was no absolute certainty, retreated to the Alaska farm sector, adjacent to La Romana.

No people were reported arrested or injured in these violent events, but the B-268 police bus was shot in its front windshield.

France - Several motorways without video surveillance following theft of cables

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Le Parisien, 09/15/2010 - Cable thieves have struck again! Thirty metres of fibre were stolen in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, in the Landy tunnel, at Saint-Denis on the A1 Motorway. This theft has resulted in putting the CCTV north freeway sector out of use. Suddenly, all information on the A1, A3, but also the A86 between Rosny and Villeneuve la Garenne, and the A104 between Villepinte and Gonesse, are unavailable.
The cables were stolen while the tunnel was closed for renovation and the cameras were not running. At the reopening of the tunnel on Wednesday, several policemen have been deployed to ensure the safety of users, instead of video surveillance, said the prefecture. Examples abound "Instead of having a policeman behind screens, so you have to put several on the ground," this source said, explaining that this had been "very burdensome to implement." The system will be operational again in the coming hours.
These thefts are multiplying on the highways of the Hexagon including Ile-de-France, particularly because of the high resale price of this metal. On August 9, the tunnel under the river-A86 at the height of Fontenay-sous-Bois and Nogent (Val de Marne) had to be closed after the theft of cable making some security systems inoperable. On July 10, theft of cable on the common-A 4 A86 at the height of Joinville (Val-de-Marne), also disrupted the luminous information panels. In late July, other thefts have been committed, this time involving the decommissioning of the mobile slider A 4-A86 in the direction of the province. In the Val d'Oise, on the Highway 15 already deprived of lighting for a year and half, half of the breakdown terminal of the A15 are out of use.

BUENOS AIRES - American Airlines and Alitalia ticket offices attacked in solidarity

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BUENOS AIRES – A bomb went off early Thursday at a shopping mall in this capital, causing extensive damage to American Airlines and Alitalia ticket offices, Argentine police said.
Leaflets found at the scene bore the name of a Chilean anarchist group and included demands for the release of “political prisoners” and autonomy for the Mapuches, an indigenous people concentrated in Chile with some communities in Argentina.
While witnesses reported seeing a hooded man near the site of the blast, police are reviewing the tapes from security cameras.
Chilean anarchists have claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Buenos Aires and Argentine investigators are consulting with their counterparts in Chile, police said.
The attack on the mall came a day after the Argentine Supreme Court approved the extradition to Chile of Galvarino Apablaza Guerra, former leader of a guerrilla group that killed right-wing Chilean Sen. Jaime Guzman in 1991.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez could block the extradition if she decides to grant Apablaza asylum as a political refugee.
The “political prisoners” mentioned in the leaflets are likely the 15 Chilean anarchists accused of carrying out 23 bombings in Santiago and other cities.
Those attacks targeted banks, offices of foreign companies, embassies, churches and police stations, mainly in the capital. The sole fatality was an anarchist killed when a bomb exploded as he was transporting it on a bicycle. EFE

Zamora, Ecuador - local miners riot against eviction

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The Ecuadorian government mobilized some 1,500 policemen Wednesday, September 15, 2010 to dislodge a mining camp in the south.

It was on a bridge that hundreds of illegal miners and native people tried to block police. Burning tires, tree trunks, stone throwing, fighting lasted several hours and at least five wounded. Throwing tear gas grenades, some 500 police finally pass and enter the village of Paquisha, gateway to several encampments of illegal miners. With them, 17 semi-trailers supposed to ship away the retro-excavator machines which according to the government, cause serious damage to the banks of rivers.

The clashes have been particularly severe in this region, 20,000 families survive economically through the exploitation of gold deposits, with a lot of mercury. Officially, the government wants to professionalize the minors and legalize their concessions. The indigenous prefect of the region Salvador Quispe suspects, however, the authorities of wanting to leave the field open to large transnational mining companies, which the government denies.

The Indian movement, which traditionally opposes the mining industry, have decided to support the illegal miners. They were joined by leftist movements and environmentalists who are trying to mount a united front against the government.

Chilón, Chiapas - 170 Zapatista supporters attacked with guns, machetes and sticks

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Members of the Mexican political parties PRI, PRD and PVEM (the green party) attacked 170 Zapatista supporters and expelled them from their homes in the Tzeltal community of San Marcos Avilés, in the municipality of Chilón, Chiapas, in retaliation for the construction of an autonomous school in the early morning hours of Sept. 9.
The Zapatista Good Government Junta (JBG) based in Oventik, denounced the attack, which was led by Lorenzo Ruiz Gómez and Vicente Ruiz López, and said the attackers were armed with guns, machetes and sticks, and broke into two houses where they tried to sexually assault two women. So as not to respond with violence to these acts of severe provocation, the Zapatista men, women, children and old people left their homes and belongings and fled to the mountain "where they suffer hunger, cold, sleeplessness and fear."

Zapatistas from Pamalá, in the municipality of Sitalá, had previously informed the JBG that, at the end of August, a compa from their community, Manuel Vázquez, had been forcibly ordered by the authorities and leaders of the political parties in San Marcos and Pamalá to dismantle the autonomous school. The authorities told him that they were then going to attack other communities which had autonomous schools. The JBG stated that "the purpose of these attacks is to prevent the education of our children and to stop the progress of construction of our autonomy."

Manuel Vázquez was thrown into prison on the 21st August, where he was threatened, harassed and intimidated in an attempt to force him to abandon the project of autonomous education. When Pedro Cruz Gómez came from another nearby community to try to help Manuel Vázquez, he was also imprisoned. A knife was planted in his trousers in an attempt to accuse him of intention to murder. When the prisoners were freed, they were told to abandon the Zapatista organisation and to leave the lands they had bought ten years ago. Threats were made to cancel the land rights of fifteen families.

On the August 24 and 25 the aggressors seized 29 hectares of land with 5,850 coffee trees, 10 hectares of maize, along with beans, cattle, horses and three houses, and destroyed a banana plantation. On the 8th September, they took cattle, pulled down fences and fired shots into the air. They threatened to "take the land next, and to evict the men, kidnap the women and children, and burn the houses".

Hunger strikes by anarchist prisoners Marco, Billy, Costa and Silvia (Switzerland)

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Eco-anarchist prisoners Marco Camenisch, Luca Bernasconi, Costantino Ragusa and Silvia Guerini started a hunger strike the past 10th September.
Translation by ABC Bristol
Communique:
We – Billy, Costa, Silvia and Marco – eco-anarchist and revolutionary individuals hostages of the Swiss state have decided to start a hunger strike from 10th September 2010. Because of our situation and the delay in communicating with each other (which for 3 of us means we can’t communicate with each other at all because we’re under preventative arrest), the arrangements and organisation of this initiative are very difficult and most probably you will only be able to have more detailed news, confirmations, and individual declarations only later on during the month.
As revolutionary anarchist individuals this is what we want to affirm strongly:
Solidarity and international participation – from the inside and beyond each individual’s political inclination – with all revolutionary initiatives and struggles, outside and inside, against repression, prison, isolation, torture… For the liberation of all those who are hostages of the revolutionary war against the system; for the liberation of every individual; for the destruction of every prison, fence and society that needs destroying. This includes our total support and solidarity with the recent liberation campaigns for long-term revolutionary prisoners.
This strike is a continuation of our struggles together with all those who have never wanted to passively endure this war and the brutal social, economic, political and environmental crisis of the system. It’s a continuation of all those strong affinities and relationships as “green/anti-civilisation” anarchist individuals that connect us since many years. Against every state, priest and master; against every prison and repression; against the exploitation of humankind, animals and the environment.
The coalition – among us and with other individuals – in a radical war against all old and new toxicity and destruction and the system that produces them and makes them necessary. We mean this present system of techno-scientific production, industrial, capitalistic, monopolistic and imperialist consumerism practiced by corporations and their States. Despite the fact that, with their typical arrogance and deceit, the masters and their arselickers try to paint these things as humanitarian, necessary and sustainable practices – we’re talking about scientists, the media, politicians, cops, priest and all those organisations paid by and/or allies in the masters’ “democratic dialogue” who support, for example, bio-tech and GMO’s, “alternative energies”, and even nuclear energy! Despite the fact that this imperialist, warmongering and terrorist system of masters, institutions and accomplices defines as “vandals”, “terrorists”, “eco-terrorists”, and so on, us and anyone who dissents, resists and struggles for a society of free, autonomous individuals, without slavery, oppression, exploitation and destruction!
Our radical critique and struggle against the roots of the present system – the destructive expression of a millennial anthropocentric civilisation based on technological and industrial dominion (production-consumption), patriarchal domestication, social control and classism, massification and incarceration of our cities, exploitation, organised violence and war of man against man, man against woman, man against other species, against nature, and the rest of the universe.
Last, but certainly not least: This initiative is also a contribution in solidarity and greeting to all of you revolutionary individuals of every inclination that – as individuals or in groups – support us with your true and free revolutionary love, with your initiatives, with your resistance and revolutionary offensive in open daylight or open nightlight, by any means necessary, against every expression of the Monster State and Capital.
Together we’re strong, solidarity is our best weapon!
Write to them:

Silvia Guerini,
c/o Regionalgefängnis Biel,
Spitalstrasse 20,
2502 Biel/Bienne,
Switzerland

Costantino Ragusa,
Regionalgefängnis Bern,
Genfergasse 22,
3001 Bern,
Switzerland

Marco Camenisch,
Postfach 3143,
CH-8105 Regensdorf,
Switzerland

Luca Bernasconi (Billy),
Regionalgefängnis Thun,
Allmendstr. 34,3600
Thun,
Switzerland

Concepcion, southern Chile - About 30 sympathizers of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike attack guards

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September 14th, 2010 – Thirteen people were arrested in Concepcion, a city in southern Chile, in an incident that occurred at the city’s hospital when two Mapuche Indian prisoners on hunger strike were admitted after experiencing health problems, police said Sunday.
About 30 sympathizers of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike for the past 63 days on Saturday attacked the guards transporting Jonathan Huilical and Jose Huenuche.
At the Concepcion hospital another Mapuche – Ramon Llanquileo – was already receiving care after having injured himself with a sharp object in jail.
Some of the prisoners’ spokesmen were among those arrested in the disturbance, which spread to a nearby campus of the University of Concepcion, Carabineros militarized police precinct chief Hermes Soto told reporters.
The situation worsened when police beat Emilia Pilquiman, the 50-year-old mother of Ramon Llanquileo, Mapuche representatives said, adding that among those arrested is a 17-year-old boy who was injured in the head.
Also placed under arrest were “representatives of the alternative press,” Mapuche spokesman Natividad Llanquileo told Radio Bio Bio.
He criticized “the non-existent intention of the government” to seek a solution to the hunger strike.
The Mapuches who are not eating, among whom are two teenagers who joined the movement Sept. 1, consider themselves to be political prisoners and are demanding not to be tried under the anti-terrorist law or be subjected to a double trial before both civil and military courts.
The government sent to Congress two bills modifying both laws and if they are approved they could favor the Mapuche prisoners, but so far there has been no statement issued regarding the proposal of a dialogue put forward by the Catholic and Protestant churches and the political opposition.
The government, however, has made repeated calls to the Mapuches to halt their hunger strike and has taken measures to prevent any of the prisoners from dying.

Belgium - Simultaneous riots in the prison and detention centre for immigrants in Merksplas

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Sunday, about 70 prisoners of the prison of Merksplas started a riot. They started by refusing to go back to their cells; going on then with breaking windows and tearing down infrastructure of the prison. When police forces arrived, tens of prisoners barricade themselves inside a wing where they resisted till the arrival of the special intervention unit of the federal police. The rioters caused quite some damage and also tried to put fire by burning a ping pong table. The syndicate of the guards say the prisoners were protesting against the fact that they don’t have water or a toilet in their cells.
Just at the moment that a big part of the police force was coming aout of the prison, just on the opposite side of the street, in the detention centre for immigrants, a riot broke out. The Office des Etrangers refused to give any more information about the revolt, but the guards syndicate talk about sans-papiers trying a collective escape. Some sans-papiers had a confrontation with the police, but were finally overwhelmed and put in isolation. Two days before, on Friday, two sans-papiers escaped from the centre (a fact which the media didn’t mention). A part of the prisoners of the detention centre is currently on hungerstrike to protest against the conditions and ask an immediate liberation. They also denounce the fact that direction and guards try to make them shut up.
On Monday, the guards of the centre went on strike, protesting against the ongoing insecurity and revealing that the police had to intervene already 4 times this month (September) to stop revolts. Police and the social services have now taken control of the centre.

Ravenna, Italy - Fiat dealership damaged by fire

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received by anonymous mail:
night of August 2nd - Massa Lombarda (RA) Significant fire damage x fiat dealer.The bosses want us slaves, we won't bow down. Let's do like in greece

BEMBIBRE, Spain - miners block highway and railroad

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BEMBIBRE, Spain — About 150 miners and their supporters temporarily blocked a highway and railroad in northern Spain Friday with burning tires and other objects to protest against unpaid wages.
The protesters placed rocks and set fires to several car tires sending black smoke billowing into the sky on a stretch of the railway near the town of Bembibre, an AFP photographer on the scene said.
The protest caused delays for three regional trains transporting over 200 passengers, railroad officials said.
The miners also blocked traffic on a nearby highway by sitting on the road and overturning heavy metal carts used to move coal in the mines before police arrived and they dispersed.
Miners in several parts of Spain are protesting over unpaid wages and to demand government aid to the coal industry.
Fifty miners have since September 2 refused to leave a coal mine 500 metres (1,650 feet) underground near Guardo in the northern Palencia province until they receive the salaries they are owed for August from mining company Union Minera del Norte (Uminsa).
They are also calling for a guaranteed level of coal purchases so as to ensure that Spanish coal-fired power stations buy domestic coal rather than imports.

Chile - Riots and arrests on the anniversary of the 11 September 1973 military coup

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221 arrests. Four civilians and nine policemen injured in Santiago and other parts of the country.
...In the Santiago Metropolitan Region, 85 people were arrested, with many of the arrests occurring late at night. Three police were injured after being shot with pellet guns – two were shot in the eye and one was shot in the face.
In lower income areas of Santiago such as the Peñalolen borough, stones were thrown at passing cars. Special police forces had to intervene in the Villa Francia neighbourhood to stop a gas station from being looted. Power outages affected 104,000 households – as many as last year – after lines were cut during demonstrations.
A march from Plaza de Los Heroes to the General Cemetery in the Recoleta Borough started off peacefully, but ended in riot-like conditions near the cemetery.
The march began at 10 a.m. and was led by the Relatives of the Disappeared Detainees Association – a group representing the more than 1,300 people who were disappeared (and killed) during the 17-year Pinochet regime.
More than 8,000 people participated in the march, which culminated with the hanging of a wreath inside the cemetery.
However, just as the wreath was being hung, a mob appeared in the streets near the cemetery. Authorities did not intervene right away, and the protestors managed to destroy trash cans, tear down traffic lights, throw stones at police officers and assault two TV news cameramen. The police then stepped in with water cannons and tear gas.

Piombino, Italy - Red Cross headquarters attacked in solidarity with rebel immigrants

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The headquarters of the Red Cross in Piombino were raided, parked ambulances smeared with red paint, the walls written on with spray paint, including the phrase '11 / 9 Solidarity with the rebels of Corelli'; 'Red Cross murderers'. The news was published today by some local newspapers.
The raid, by about fifteen young people, faces uncovered, took place yesterday around 8pm. The reason for the action of the young group, as reported in writings on the walls, would be an incident last Saturday in a centre of identification and deportation in Via Corelli in Milan, managed by the Red Cross. Five non-EU immigrants held in the centre were arrested by police after a riot. The clashes had occurred after a few days earlier a boy had broken a leg and, according to other inmates of the centre, was beaten by police. At the moment of the break-in at the headquarters of the Red Cross, which police are investigating, a doctor and three volunteers were present.
The action of young people, unarmed and all with their faces uncovered, lasted only a few minutes and ended before the arrival of police and Digos[political police]. The fact that the protagonists of the blitz had their faces uncovered suggests that might not be from the area. Police are investigating a gathering of some politicized groups in Riotorto , which ended just yesterday afternoon.

Milan, Italy - Fires in via Corelli detention centre

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September 12, 2010 - Milan: Fire in the detention centre via Corelli. 4 days ago in the identification and deportation centre of via Corelli, Milan, a boy broke his leg playing football. He required treatment, but the Red Cross (always diligent in their duties as cops), instead of taking care of the detained boy decides to call the police directly, who start beating him. His companions chase the police out of the cell, barricade the doors and start burning mattresses. From there the fires of protest spread to two other sections, while police in riot gear try to get in to extinguish the fires.
After several hours, with difficulty, the police managed to extinguish fires and to take 4 or 5 selected inmates to jail. Among them is the young boy with his leg in plaster.
... Updated at 23h. 2 - whole sections are severely damaged: no window panes, no mattresses, walls completely blackened. Despite this, the detainees were brought indoors under the threat of assault and victimization. Five people were arrested and detained and two were released later in the evening.

Brest, France - Intruders cause mega-breakdown at Telecom

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(Ouest France) - September 4, 2010, Brest, west France - Tens of thousands of subscribers in Brest and the surrounding area were left without telephones for a long period. This nightmare scenario came about nearly a fortnight ago. During the weekend of 21 and 22 August, unidentified individuals entered the labyrinth comprising the buildings of the Post Office and France Telecom, between the Rue de Siam, Algeciras Street and Duquesne Street.
The intruders entered the premises through the archway of Algeciras street. At night there is nobody in these huge buildings. The central postal sorting centre no longer exists. The vandals took a walk in the premises. They ransacked an empty room, pulling out false ceilings, emptying the fire extinguishers.
According to information received, the vandals entered a room that houses a huge switch [commutator] of France Telecom. This device is used to link two correspondents. The commutator served about 70,000 subscribers.
The director does not confirm the figure of 70,000 subscribers, but refers to "switches that include other switches upstream". The central Algeciras street is called "sensitive and important." One thing is certain: both the Post and France Telecom premises were not equipped with alarms.

Argentina: Carrefour expropriation and Roma solidarity

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September 8, 2010 - The "Heroes of 1917 Nucleus" attacked a premises of the French exploitative company Carrefour and subtracted a large sum of money, evil gains of this company that is currently laying people off in secret with the support of the bourgeois government of the Kirchneriste governing mafia.
We also subtracted weapons and ammunition from a member of the Argentinan Naval Prefecture [an armed security guard] that was carrying out his repressive work in the exploiters' business. The repressor was heavily reminded with blows that he should not resist the revolutionary fighters of Arruga Luciano Brigade.
This action, in addition to recovering the money was made in protest against the xenophobic treatment of the State of France against the ethnic Roma expelled from the territory as in the worst Nazi era. And also against the policy of firing workers at Carrefour.
Heroes of 1917 Nucleus
Luciano Arruga Brigade
[More than 8000 Roma gypsies have been deported from France since the beginning of the year, with 9875 expelled last year.]

Genoa - incendiary device at ferry terminal claimed by anarchists

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2010 09 03 - (From Italian media) The incendiary device found this morning on the roof of a caravan used as a mobile office of the police parked in the area of the ferry terminal in the port of Genoa could be of anarchist insurrectionalist matrix. . The Digos [political police] in the Genoa police investigation is focusing on the anarchist world which with this action would intend to express solidarity with the Marassi prisoners and those of other prisons. The action was claimed by an anonymous email on the main anarchist and antagonists sites. This was the message: "On August 14 in Genoa a box with 3 litres of petrol and ignition was positioned and ignited on the roof of a mobile police station parked in the port in the ferry embarcation area. Solidarity with prisoners struggling in Marassi and in all other prisons." The claim, submitted by anonymous email is signed "Anticarceraria e prigionieri" ("Antiprison and prisoners") The Digos considers it a low profile action.
The bomb was made with a cardboard printer toner box and contained a woollen sweater drenched with petrol, a two-litre inflammatory bottle, triggered with cubes of fuel for fireplaces, matches and a cigarette. The type of ignition (common in the anarchist area) is the same as that used last April for an attack on mobile phone masts on the heights of Genoa. The bomb may have been placed from above from a causeway, with string on to the maritime police's camper omost likely at night. The forensic science are making specific tests on the material composing the bomb. THE CHRONICLE Incendiary device placed on a mobile police station parked in front of the ferry terminal. The action, foiled by police intervention, was claimed by an anarchist group of the area "Anticarceraria e prigioneri" with an anonymous email on the sites of Controinformazione e Lotta alla repressione. The text of the claim briefly describes the reasons for the action and concludes that the act is "in solidarity with prisoners who struggling in Marassi and in all other prisons." The bomb found this morning was packed with a cardboard box containing a sweater drenched with gasoline and ignited by a Molotov cocktail and cubes of fuel and matches. The type of ignition would convince the investigators of the authenticity of the claim: it has actually been used in several demonstrative actions mainly in northern Italy. According to preliminary information, the box was lowered from an elevated road on to the police vehicle that was in a designated parking area.

The 33 miners buried alive in Chile express solidarity to the Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike

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Some news, even if is on the surface, is less visible than that which must emerge from 700 metres of the earth's crust. A testimony to this obvious but no less important media condition, are the 33 miners trapped in the mine in San Jose Copiapo, Chile now, through no reason of their own, the main actors of a process of redemption from the bowels of the earth occupying the front pages of all the world news for almost a month. Their messages have been widely disseminated and give comfort concerning their living conditions, offering TV viewers everywhere dramatic images of faces tried by work and precarious conditions. Some of the first messages were on paper and the new Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, exhibited them to the world in front of the cameras stationed on the mouth of the mine, to show the proximity of government to the working class in Chile that concerns over 800 thousand people, many of whom emigrated from Peru or Bolivia and in all cases are social representatives of the poorest classes. Among these many are represented by the original peoples of the continent: Mapuche, Quechua or Aymara.

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Among the letters exhibited before the cameras, eager for news about the health of the miners trapped underground, apparently some that clearly challenged the government didn't find the way to appear on the screen. The miners, in two pages that were originally censored, declare solidarity with the civil battle begun almost fifty days ago by some Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike, and, contesting the words of the Prime Minister, ask him in writing to "Shut up".
Thirty-three buried miners have in this way made visible a civil battle that goes from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and has been taken up in July by 32 political prisoners, victims of "anti-terrorism special law" that discriminates the original Mapuche people and nullifies their legitimate demands for recognition. The letter draws a parallel between the two tragic stories and reads: "Free the Mapuche, 41 days on hunger strike."
This great example of brotherhood from a depth of 700 m should make blush those who, on August 30, the International Day of the “Desaparecido” prisoner [“disappeared” during the Pinochet dictatorship], easily forget the injustices still present in the "exemplary" Chilean democracy and refuse to deal with a story, perhaps still too recent and tame, woven of disappearances (over 900 reported in 2009 alone), violence and arbitrary detention often against the representatives of the Mapuche people, once the only population to have their lands recognized as an autonomous state by the Spanish crown and now branded as terrorists and persecuted by the blows of special laws and police violence.

Athens - breakout from Omonia police station in city centre

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Three policemen have been suspended after a mass breakout from the holding cells at the Omonia police station in central Athens, one of the city’s busiest.
According to authorities, at about 5 a.m. on Saturday, 13 prisoners who were in the same cell all complained that they were feeling unwell and needed to be transferred to a hospital. However, when the two special guards who were on duty entered the cell to help the suspects, they were attacked.
The guards managed to capture three prisoners just outside the cell. Another two were caught as they tried to exit the police station. One more was re-arrested in the Omonia area. However, the other seven – four Palestinians, two Iraqis and an Afghan – escaped.
The on-duty officer and the two special guards were suspended pending an internal investigation.

Maputo, Mozambique - At least two people killed in riots over rising food and fuel prices

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At least two people have been killed in riots in Mozambique's capital Maputo over rising food and fuel prices.
Unconfirmed reports say police opened fire on thousands of demonstrators and that at least one of the victims was a child. Injuries were also reported.
The protesters - mostly young men - threw stones at the police and blocked roads with burning tyres.
The authorities in the impoverished African nation had earlier warned the protests would not be tolerated.
The protests are against recent rises in the cost of essential foods, fuel and cement.
Shops have closed and public transport has come to a halt following Wednesday's clashes.
"I can hardly feed myself... I'm outraged by this high cost of living," Maputo resident Nelfa Temoteo told Reuters news agency.
Mozambicans have seen the price of a loaf of bread rise by as much as 25% as the value of the national currency, the metical, has fallen against the South African rand. Fuel and water prices have also risen.
In 2008, clashes between police and rioters over rising prices left at least four people dead and more than 100 injured.
The riots then forced the government to cancel plans to raise fuel prices.
(source: BBC news online)
PS: so far, 6 people died from the bullets of the police and many more have been wounded. Today (1st September) was the day when the prices of basic food ( water, bread, cooking oil, rice) were supposed to go up once again. There are burning barricades throughout the city, looting and clashes with the police. "The leaders are rich and well fed, why are we left to starve to death?", shouts a girl.
On tv they say there are revolts only in Maputo, being that Cidade da Beira and other large cities are going through their normal routines.
It is said the protests were called for through anonymous text messages, and they have "no face" (i.e., no leaders, no representatives).
(source: RTP tv company).

Miramas, France - two attack supermarket disguised as gendarmes

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Shortly after 6 am Tuesday two individuals attacked an Intermarche supermarket disguised as policemen, it was learned on Wednesday. The two men hooded, gloved, armed with a shotgun and a sawn-off shotgun, overpowered the manager, before taking flight, carrying off almost 11,000 euros.
One was wearing a gendarmerie sweater, the other black overalls bearing the word "gendarmerie". The two men left aboard an unmarked Ford Escort, equipped with a flashing light. The anti-crime brigade of the judicial police in Marseilles is in charge of the investigation.