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Opening Arguments and Testimony from Alvarado Officer at Center of Prairieland Case Marks First Day of Landmark Trial Against Nine Defendants (USA)

Posted on 2026/02/25 by darknights

Testimony of Lt. Thomas Gross Undermined Government Arguments that the Noise Protest on July 4, 2025 Was an “Ambush” and “Planned Attack”

FORT WORTH, TX – Opening arguments and testimony from the Alvarado police officer at the center of the controversial Prairieland ICE Detention Center case marked the first day of trial yesterday against nine defendants. The federal government offered no new or compelling arguments in their opening statement and relied heavily on First Amendment-protected activity to make their case. However, during cross-examination, Alvarado police officer Lt. Thomas Gross revealed information that undermines the government’s narrative that the noise demonstration on July 4, 2025 was an “ambush” and that police were the targets of a “planned attack.”

During today’s proceedings, the defense team was able to cross-examine Lt. Gross, who was injured at the scene. This is the first time Gross has spoken publicly since the incident. He described a hectic scene with few details, claiming to see only a small handful of male individuals, despite multiple women defendants in the case.

On cross-examination, Lt. Gross said he spent between 2-4 hours in the hospital before being released, and could not explain why he appears to have been shot from the back despite also claiming to have been facing the person who the government alleges fired at him. Gross could not say who drew their weapon first, but he admitted drawing his weapon without any obvious threat. Gross stated that when he arrived on the scene, there was no alleged criminal activity being committed more serious than “criminal mischief.” In response to questions from defense attorney Phillip Hayes, Gross admitted that he was pointing his firearm at a fleeing person’s back, before encountering the individual holding a rifle. This testimony seemed to contradict the government’s claim that the police were ambushed.
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Yogyakarta Burns Again – Free The Prisoners (Indonesia)

Posted on 2026/02/25 by darknights

https://x.com/__PASMANTAP/status/2026329222906884518?s=20

Feb 24, 2026
Yogyakarta Regional Police were visited by students and residents of Yogyakarta. The crowd are demanding the release of ALL remaining detainees from the August 2025 uprising.

Hundreds of students and residents held a protest in front of the Yogyakarta Regional Police Headquarters on Tuesday (February 24th). The demonstration was sparked by anger over the death of a 14-year-old student in Maluku, assaulted by members of the Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob).

The protesters marched from UPN to the Regional Police Headquarters without any written demands or a stage. The protest was described as spontaneous and an expression of disappointed anger.

Observations on the ground revealed that the fence on the east side of the Regional Police Headquarters had collapsed. Officers stood guard behind barbed wire to prevent the crowd from entering the police station area. Several police were injured. The people set fires at the police compound, launched fireworks and clashed with police and denounced the police-terror and the Prabowo regime.

Revenge for the prisoners, the tortured, the killed and the disappeared.

Destroy all states – Destroy all police and jailers.

List of Detainees Under the “Chaos Star” Label in Bandung, West Java (Indonesia)

Posted on 2026/02/23 - 2026/02/23 by darknights

PDF: List of Detainees Under the “Chaos Star” Label in Bandung, West Java

No# Prisoner Name Case Number Verdict Verdict Date Case/Charge Status

1 Very Kurnia Kusuma 986/Pid.B/2025/PN Bdg 6 months 29 Jan. 2026 Assault resulting in minor injury and serious injury Still in Prison

2 Joy Erlando 986/Pid.B/2025/PN Bdg 6 months 29 Jan. 2026 Assault resulting in minor injury and serious injury Still in Prison

3 Eli Yana 986/Pid.B/2025/PN Bdg 6 months 29 Jan. 2026 Assault resulting in minor injury and serious injury Still in Prison

4 Muhammad Vanza Alfarizy 986/Pid.B/2025/PN Bdg 6 months 29 Jan. 2026 Assault resulting in minor injury and serious injury Still in Prison

5 M. Subhan Abdul Ghoni 986/Pid.B/2025/PN Bdg 6 months 29 Jan. 2026 Assault resulting in minor injury and serious injury Still in Prison Continue reading “List of Detainees Under the “Chaos Star” Label in Bandung, West Java (Indonesia)” →

Jury Selection Begins Monday After Judge Declared Mistrial Last Week in Widely Watched Federal Prairieland ICE Protest Trial (USA)

Posted on 2026/02/23 by darknights

Concerns Grow Over Whether the Prairieland Defendants Can Receive a Fair Trial, Based on Severe Trial Restrictions, Prejudicial Statements at Highest Levels of Government—Press Conference Monday at 8am

FORT WORTH, TX – Nine defendants will proceed to federal trial on Monday in a widely watched case that stems from a July 4, 2025 noise demonstration in support of detained immigrants at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Following a mistrial declared last week by presiding U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman for a defense attorney’s attire featuring civil rights leaders, jury selection is scheduled to begin again on Monday, February 23. The trial is expected to last at least three weeks. Defendants Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Daniel “Des” Rolando Sanchez Estrada, Benjamin “Champagne” Song, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto were indicted in November on a variety of charges including riot, discharging a firearm, attempted murder, material support for terrorism, and conspiracy to conceal documents.

A press conference will be held at the southeast corner of Burke Burnett Park, across the street from the courthouse, on Monday, February 23 at 8am.

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Tokata Bingo Fur-Go (Santiago, Chile)

Posted on 2026/02/23 by darknights

Les invitamos esta tokata-bingo, para mantener activa la fur-go, vehiculo que nos ha permitido movilizar y levantar diferentes inicitivas
solidarias, y que ha estado a disposición de inumerables situaciones apañando desinteresadamente.
Apoyo mutuo para potenciar nuestra inquitudes…

Sábado 28 de febrero
16:00 horas (punktual)
Elefante Blanco (Luis Infante Cerda 5500, Villa Francia)

– Juegos de bingo premios hermonstruos donados por gente hermonstrua.
– Ruido en vivo
– Bandas por confirmar
– Comida deliciosa vegan
– Bebestibles e infusiones

Actividad sin humo, ni alcohol.

Salud y (A)

via Boletín de la Biblioteca Anárquica Nihil Sebastián Oversluij Seguel

Update on the Anarchist Prisoners Trial of Bandung (INDONESIA — Chaos Star Case)

Posted on 2026/02/23 by darknights

Monday, February 23, 2026 – The anarchist prisoners from the Bandung cluster of political expression hunting have undergone their verdict reading session at the Bandung District Court. Adit and Naufal were found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison, with time served deducted from their sentence. Meanwhile, Rhexcy, Jalus, Tebe, and Jihar were also found guilty, receiving a sentence of one year and four months, with time served deducted.

Now, six comrades from the Chaos Star Case have completed the lengthy trial process, and there are still several more anarchist comrades from the Chaos Star Case awaiting their trials, following in the footsteps of these six comrades.

Until all are free and for black international!

GOING UNDERGROUND / F.A.A.F

Rome, Italy: Claim of responsibility for sabotaging the railway line against the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics

Posted on 2026/02/22 by darknights

Claim of responsibility for sabotaging the railway line against the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics (Rome, 13 February 2026)

Rome – Claim of responsibility for sabotaging the railway line against the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics

Fire to the Olympics! No travelling today!

On the night of the 13th February, at various points and railway junctions, we set fire to and damaged the cables along the tracks, effectively blocking several high-speed lines.
These actions are our contribution to the warm welcome and best wishes for this edition of the Winter Olympic Games.

We participated in massive road and port blockades during the months of mobilisation for Palestine, we invaded stations and attacked the police whenever possible. But today we chose to act under the cover of moonlight, in a small group united by affinity and the desire to live up to the slogans shouted in recent months: let’s block everything!
Because we believe that, in addition to participating in large mobilisations and the conflict they can generate, it is necessary to spread autonomous action, so as not to let them be defused, recuperated and directed by the professionals of “militant” politics.

The powers that be are preparing for war, and we anarchists, revolutionaries and conscious individuals would like to do the same. The railway infrastructure is a key hub for the movement of military forces and materials, and the agreement between RFI and Leonardo, aimed at implementing military logistics on the peninsula, is the clearest example of this. Attacking RFI is therefore a concrete act of anti-militarism and a gesture of solidarity with all those who today suffer the atrocities of war and colonialism.

The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics are no exception: rivers of money fueling construction speculation, happy to arm rivers of concrete to build disposable facilities and change the social “intended use” of entire working-class neighbourhoods. A big business that, behind the glossy and prestigious image of the major sporting event, hides hectares of larch forests razed to the ground to make way for ski slopes and mountains irreversibly disfigured by the associated ski lifts.

Finally, this action expresses our anger at the presence at the Games of ICE agents, the anti-immigrant squads now sadly notorious for murders, round-ups, abuse and violence perpetrated against undesirables and internal opponents in the United States, which reminds us that every police force and every fascist group is there to be used against its own population when “reasons of state” require it.

Only a few ingredients are needed to take action against the world of exploitation, oppression and devastation: a little study, caution and determination in equal measure, a few accomplices, a few litres of fuel… and anything is possible! Good luck!

Solidarity with anarchist prisoners around the world
Solidarity with Juan, Stecco, Anna, Alfredo, Tonio, Ghespe, Dayvid, with our comrades repressed in Operation Ipogeo, with Palestinian prisoners

For Anarchy

Source: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/20/comunicato-di-rivendicazione-per-il-sabotaggio-della-linea-ferroviaria-contro-le-olimpiadi-milano-cortina-2026-roma-13-febbraio-2026/

Athens, Greece: Intervention at the offices of “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EFSYN)

Posted on 2026/02/22 by darknights

This text was published in the course of an intervention at EFSYN in Athens, Greece and translated by the Berlin Assembly in memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the persecuted in the Ambelokipi-case.

We are intervening at EFSYN’ in order to publicize the following texts. This intervention follows our presence and the distribution of these texts in the area of Ampelokipi and on Arkadias Street in order to show our solidarity with the residents of the apartment building.

At the same time, we went to the spot where our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris lost his life.

TEXT FOR THE APARTMENT BUILDING ON ARKADIAS STREET

On 31/10/24, my comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and I were in the apartment at 4-8 Arkadias Street. During the processing of explosive materials, an explosion occurred that took the life of my 36-year-old comrade, caused my own very serious injury, and resulted in damage to the apartment building. Since then, I have been detained in Korydallos women’s prison under horrendous conditions, having to confront the loss of the person closest to me, my own injury, and very serious accusations.

This explosion obviously was not part of any plan, nor did it happen due to carelessness. This tragic development was the consequence of defective material, something that unfortunately could not be foreseen.

The anarchist political space to which we both belong fights for a world of equality, solidarity, and self-organization. For a world where monthly survival does not cause anxiety, where interpersonal relationships are not based on competition, and where a life in dignity is not a matter of luck. And when this anarchist political space chooses to attack those who impose poverty, exclusion, and insecurity with such means, it takes all necessary measures, often putting the acting subjects themselves at risk, in order to ensure the safety of unrelated people.

Beyond protecting people’s physical integrity, our political spectrum targets those who oppress and exploit us. It sets its sights on the powerful of this world. Those who eat with golden spoons while we make do with the absolute necessities, those who live off rents while we beg that there not be yet another increase, those who reap profit while we work twelve-hour a day. Those who spread death through wars, misery through high prices, fear through racism, extermination through long and uninsured labor. Those who impose uncertainty, insecurity, danger even when you simply take the night train to Thessaloniki or try to cross the border for a life with dignity.

We struggle so that all of this does not remain unanswered. To win back the right to live. To put a stop to injustice, exploitation, oppression, cover-ups. Within this struggle we risk much, we are targeted, we receive violence and repression, we endanger our safety, our freedom, and sometimes even our lives. Not because we are indifferent to life, but because we care about the life of our struggle and then we feel responsible for many people. Thus, we consciously set social solidarity as a priority.

My comrade adopted this stance in life, and that is why he decided to struggle with all means. And if he was still here, he would be the first to try to help the residents of the apartment building, not because he would regret the means he chose to struggle with, but because for him, as for all of us, solidarity and mutual aid are a deeply human feeling, a driving force that pushes us to action.

“We are not terrorists, nor criminals. It is precisely because of our love for life, because we rejoice in the human spirit, that we became fighters for freedom against this racist and deadly imperialist system.”

Marianna Manoura
Korydallos Women’s Prison Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Intervention at the offices of “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EFSYN)” →

Germany: HAMBI (RE)BUILDING DAYS

Posted on 2026/02/20 - 2026/02/20 by darknights

The megamachine must expand constantly or else collapse. So it came to be that the Hambacher Forest, already a leftover from a much vaster ancient woodland, was almost completely destroyed by the expansion of a huge coalmine, the largest in Europe. Only a small portion of the habitat was spared, owing to fierce resistance centred around numerous occupations of the forest, starting in 2012.

The Hambi has been a focal point for anti-capitalist and radical ecological struggle in Europe. The autonomous zone opened up here is comparable in size to the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes and Exarcheia in Athens. Hambi also served as a key predecessor for many other land struggles in Germany alone, of which Lützerath and the Dannenröder Wald are but the two best known examples.

All the sites of resistance explicitly mentioned here, however, have since been evicted. Yet Hambi remains autonomous to this day, a lawless place where we can do what we want. Rather than being crushed outright, Hambi has mostly been forgotten about – both by comrades and broader society – since the supposed coal-exit was announced. It would be a strange conclusion for this struggle to wither into irrelevance.

The Hambi was never “saved”. Instead of being logged directly, it was sentenced to the slow-death of having its ground water stolen by a toxic pit which continues to expand. There are plans to further exploit the region by turning it into an eco-yuppie tourist resort, complete with a yacht harbour. And in times of militarisation and increased resource scarcity, the state is only an election away from forgetting about the coal-exit and finishing off what remains of the woodland. Continue reading “Germany: HAMBI (RE)BUILDING DAYS” →

Trento, Italy: Claim of damage to the headquarters of AXA Insurance

Posted on 2026/02/20 by darknights

Claim of damage to the headquarters of AXA Insurance (Trento, 16 February 2026)

AXA = GENOCIDE

During the night between Sunday 15 and Monday 16 February, under cover of darkness, we damaged the headquarters of AXA Insurance in Trento.
AXA derives enormous profits from the ongoing genocide in the occupied territories of Palestine, as it directly invests more than €170 million each year in companies that produce weapons, a large portion of which also deal in white phosphorus and depleted uranium weapons. Essentially, it contributes to supplying weapons of mass destruction to an army of fanatical Zionist murderers led by an unscrupulous colonialist elite. What could possibly go wrong?
A month ago, we learned of the sentencing of our comrade Juan to five years in prison for a terrorist attack (280bis) against the POLGAI police academy in Brescia, a school that also trained the Zionist militias who are now applying to Palestinians what they learned in Italy. Just one day later, Anan Yaesh, a Palestinian partisan detained in Italy on Israeli orders, was sentenced to five years and six months, also for terrorism, on charges of organising the Tulkarem self-defence brigades, a Palestinian resistance group formed in the same refugee camp.
In a spiral of internal war that the state wages against the proletariat, even more so if they fight for freedom, our task remains to identify the enemy in our own house and act accordingly. Even more so when the racist and murderous ICE militia peeks into our “home”, welcomed with open arms by all those incompetents who hide behind the issue of remigration.
We also report the victory of the British group Palestine Action which, despite having around thirty members in prison on the usual charges of terrorism, managed, with more than 50 days of collective hunger strike, to terminate a deal worth more than a billion euros between the Israeli military giant Elbit and the British government. Various prisoners joined their hunger strike in solidarity, including our comrade Stecco, a prisoner of the state in Sanremo prison.

Freedom for Anan, Juan, Stecco and Palestine Action.
Freedom for Palestine and for all the oppressed people of the world.
Until next time, who knows…

Source: La Nemesi