Prison Struggle – Page 35

UK: Update about Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone

Posted on 2022/04/04 - 2022/04/04 by darknights

Justice for Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone!

Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone is being held in the Category B facility HM Prison Parc, a privately run prison in South Wales, despite being in reality a Category C or D prisoner who was eligible for Release on Temporary License (ROTL) on 21 January 2022, according to paperwork he received on 26th March 2022. ROTL is home leave from prison in preparation for release. Category B prisoners are not eligible for home leave.

Despite being found Not Guilty of political offences in court and with no evidence linking him to the website and publication 325.nostate.net, Toby is being held without legal process and without possibility of
redress as a Category B, High Risk prisoner where he is not eligible for ROTL (home leave). A probation official told Toby previously that his categorisation is a consequence of his anarchist beliefs, and the fact that he is considered by the authorities to act on those beliefs. This decision has been taken at a level above the Offender Management Unit (OMU) which is the unit Toby personally deals with.

His beliefs are also the reason that police are pursuing a Serious Crime Prevention Order against Toby which will allow the police to monitor and control all aspects of Toby’s life and monitor his associates for five
years. The Order means he can be imprisoned again for an additional five years should he breach the Order which is so intrusive, it would be
impossible not to. The hearing for the SCPO is on the morning of 6 May 2022 at Bristol Crown Court. Continue reading “UK: Update about Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone” →

UK: Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone update

Posted on 2022/03/26 by darknights

Toby has been moved to HM Prison Parc in South Wales run by G4S. His new address is:

Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Prison Parc
Heol Hopcyn John,
Coity,
Bridgend CF35 6AP
UK

Prisoners are limited to sending 3 letters a week at HMP Parc,
so please write without expecting a reply.

Italy: Censorship of correspondence for anarchist Alfredo Cospito extended again (March 2022)

Posted on 2022/03/26 by darknights

We inform that in the middle of March the censorship of correspondence (incoming and outgoing) for anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, currently imprisoned in section AS2 (“High Security 2”) of Terni prison, was renewed once again. The censorship will last three months, until June. The measure had also been ordered between September and December 2021 and between December 2021 and March of this year.

We remind that the comrade, arrested in September 2012, already sentenced to 9 years and 5 months for the wounding of Adinolfi (CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare), was sentenced to a further 20 years in the “Scripta Manent” trial held in Turin, whose court of cassation hearing will be held on May 25 in Rome. In addition, the comrade has recently received an arrest order for the “Sibilla” operation of November 11, as he is accused of incitement to commit crimes with the aggravating circumstance of the purpose of terrorism, in relation with the publication of the anarchist paper “Vetriolo”. The arrest order was subsequently annulled by the Perugia re-examination court on December 16, while the investigation remains open.

Let’s break the isolation: revolutionary solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists.

The address of the comrade:

Alfredo Cospito
Casa Circondariale di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni (Italy)

Rome, Italy: Texts and materials distributed during the initiative of 26/11/21 at Bencivenga + Contributions of Alfredo Cospito and Juan Sorroche

Posted on 2022/02/20 by darknights

We receive and publish a series of texts and materials distributed during the initiative in solidarity with the Chilean prisoners, held at the Bencivenga Occupato on November 26, 2021. Two booklets: one on the hunger strike conducted by prisoners in Chile, the other is a collection of texts, many translated from the magazine Kalinov Most, which were intended to better focus the topics of the debate: the specific reality of Chilean prisons, solidarity, fight against prison. There are also two contributions of Juan and Alfredo for the initiative, which they asked to be disseminated.

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PRISON-SOCIETY

(leaflet of introduction to the debate distributed during the initiative)

This initiative was born with the need to send, in our own small way, a gesture of solidarity to the comrades prisoners in Chile who in the first months of this year have undertaken two hard hunger strikes. We want to support them, also through the translations contained in the pamphlets prepared for this meeting, by spreading the determination with which they have carried out their struggle inside the prison, with the aim of feeling it closer to us who are outside those walls and far from those territories. Although at the end of their mobilization the prisoners did not get all that they demanded, it still allowed them to build and establish bonds of complicity, both inside and outside the prison. Ties that have made this struggle transcend barriers and borders and that, since it has clearly positioned itself against all forms of coercion and domination, have made it recognizable and vindicable by refractory people all over the world.

But it is not for simple voyeurism towards distant rebellions that we are here today. With this initiative we also intend to underline our complicity with our comrades who today are prisoners of the State, so that they know that they are not alone. Also in this part of the world we have anarchist prisoners who have recently conducted several struggles inside the prison. Struggles conducted individually or collectively, strikes and mass uprisings such as those of March 2020 against pandemic management inside prisons. Struggles whose quality, to take up a concept expressed with emphasis in the contribution that Juan, a prisoner in the Terni prison, wrote for this initiative, is closely related to the relationships that exist between inside and outside the prison. These relationships are the same on which prisoners and Chilean comrades have repeatedly insisted, stating that “the prison is part of the options of the struggle, it is part of it and therefore, instead of being a parenthesis or a pause, it is configured as one more scenario in which to carry out the clash” and that it is necessary to understand “the prisoner as an active comrade, in struggle, who is in this particular condition as a result of a chosen path that does not end within [those] four walls”. Relationships in which it is necessary to invest if we want to recognize a prisoner as our comrade, as a complicit in the struggle against all power, especially at this time when these relationships are under attack. The latest repressive operations in Italy have in fact, among others, the purpose of hitting the communication between the world outside and inside the prison, putting pressure on the epistolary communication through which prisoners continue to be part of the anarchist debate and struggle, providing reflections, contributions, proposals for action and stimuli for action. Now more than ever it is therefore the time to increase efforts in the direction of greater communication and complicity with the prisoners, having as its objective not mere support in the charitable way, but rather the reinforcement of our offensive capacity against this system of domination and exploitation. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: Texts and materials distributed during the initiative of 26/11/21 at Bencivenga + Contributions of Alfredo Cospito and Juan Sorroche” →

Florence Prison, USA: Ted Kaczynski has terminal cancer

Posted on 2022/02/20 by darknights

Between the late 1970s and mid-1990s, a series of package bombs were sent by the Freedom Club to individuals and targets related to technological development.

It was during its last attack that the group published a manifesto entitled “Industrial Society and its Future“, which was circulated in the press at the time, allowing David Kaczynski to collaborate with the police, recognizing in the style of this writing that of his brother Ted Kaczynski, the only member of the Freedom Club.

Since then, Ted has been sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences, without any possibility of parole. After being in various prisons, he finally arrived at the Maximum Security Administrative and Penitentiary Center (ADMAX), also known as “Supermax,” in Colorado, essentially a concrete tomb.

The warden himself, Robert Hood [Wikipedia, citing newspapers, says that R. Hood was just a guard – never mind; NdAtt.], said, “The maximum security prison is life after death… in the long run it is, in my opinion, much worse than death.” For this reason, many people refer to it as the “Alcatraz or Guantanamo of the Rockies”.

On December 14, 2021, Ted was temporarily transferred to a federal medical facility for testing, which triggered a major police operation in the United States. Some time later, in a letter, Ted himself explained the reasons for the hospital transfer.

“Thank you for your loving letter, with a postmark of December 23, 2021, which I received on January 27, 2022. You conclude your letter with: “Get well soon. There is still work to be done.” You are correct. There is work to do. A lot of work to do. In fact, the work is just beginning. But there’s only so much I can do. I’m not going to “get better soon” – or ever – because I have terminal cancer. I can’t expect to live more than two years, outside, and it’s very possible I’ll die in less than a year, so the work will have to be done by younger people.”

To write to him:
Theodore Kaczynski
#04475-046
USP Florence ADMAX
P.O. Box 8500
Florence, CO 81226 (USA)

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Via: Attaque

Chile: Comrades Luis and Ignacio Avaca are released from prison!

Posted on 2022/01/30 - 2022/01/30 by darknights

In November 2020, an explosive package explodes in the Talca police station, slightly injuring a policeman. The action is claimed by “Entes sin Rostro, nada ni nadie que ustedes conozcan” (Faceless Entities, nothing and no one you know).

In May 2021, in a large operation, the police managed to capture Luis and Ignacio Avaca, after the investigation carried out by OS-9 personnel and the South Prosecutor’s Office. The comrades – twin brothers – were taken to the Talca prison and then transferred to Rancagua while the investigative process was underway.

In January 2022, both were able to reach an abbreviated procedure under the anti-terrorist law, that is, to assume responsibility in exchange for a sentence agreed with the prosecution.

This is how the comrades assume the action (We are responsible. About our participation in the fact that we are accused and take political responsibility) and get to be sentenced to 3 years, a sentence that after months of imprisonment, they will continue to serve in the street.

No repentance!
Good road to comrades Ignacio and Luis, in the street!
Solidarity with those who attack the police and arm themselves in their denials!

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Chile: Subverting sadness. Text by compañero Luis Avaca

Posted on 2022/01/30 - 2022/01/30 by darknights

SUBVERTING SADNESS
ACTIVE HOPELESSNESS AND PESSIMISM AS A BATTLE ZONE.

I admire the comrades who find in the heat of the struggle against the harmfulness of this world reasons to smile even when their freedom is curtailed and their lives crushed… I really admire it, but I will be true to my pessimism and sadness (perhaps pathological) when I say that I would feel complicit in being happy when looking around me I find nothing but misery, prisons, abuses, in short: When every morning when I wake up I realize that this cruel reality is still here.

To conceive of myself as pessimistic, negative, nihilistic (I won’t get rid of more adjectives than these) doesn’t really make me the enemy of joy. The pleasure of living a life according to my principles: The pleasure of constant tension and confrontation with “their” world is not alien to me… However, my true joy will only be possible when all this that I abhor disappears. I may not live long enough to feel it and see it with my own eyes, but that does not discourage me….

There is nothing comfortable about the negativity I seek to practice. I do not believe, unlike what some practice, that being in conflict with reality is a reason to stop fighting and, on the contrary: Far from a passive and hedonistic attitude of hopelessness that only destroys in our minds-bodies we have to aim at who destroys us, and not destroy ourselves. To aim at bleeding and conscious targets, to finish with the edifices time will take care of: There are no material apprehensions with my life nor with that of the enemy… Detachment is total.

I have decided to subvert sadness and transform sorrow into rage… May the tears of so many crushed, chained and tormented individuals be the acid that dissolves the foundations of this world… Of this civilization that has made of joy a merchandise that only some can have and that has made that so many others must pay for it from their misery losing their life in it…

Do not destroy yourself, destroy them….
Not having hope is not an excuse to vegetate,
Not having hope makes it possible for you to throw yourself into the conflict without fear of losing, we can only lose our chains.
The weeping will cease when this world falls,
Maybe we won’t enjoy those honeys, or see the fruits of our efforts, but I won’t rest in fatalism and I’ll shorten the road…

Luis Avaca
December 2021

Source: Contra Info

Czech Republic: Words against isolation: a benefit for persecuted anarchists in Belarus

Posted on 2022/01/27 by darknights

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, a D.I.Y. book was published under the title “Words Against isolation or As Long As There Are Prisons, Let’s Write Letters”. There are two main reasons to create this publication. First is to motivate people to write to prisoners, while obtaining funds for anarchists imprisoned in so-called Belarus.

On 110 A4 pages I inform you why and how to write letters. I’m connecting reflections arising from my personal experience of imprisonment as well as collage including fragments of prison correspondence. I want to demonstrate on concrete examples of what can be encouraging for a person behind bars and exciting joy. Perhaps this will allow people who are going to write letters empathize with the situation of the prisoner and it will inspire them.

I dusted off the “cut and paste” method I loved to use in the creation of punk zine graphics. I’m not a graphic designer, nor am I trying make such an impression. Creating collages and editing was fun for me. I hope it will amuse someone else too. And even if not, I don’t see a problem with that. Continue reading “Czech Republic: Words against isolation: a benefit for persecuted anarchists in Belarus” →

USA: Eric King’s Mail Ban Has Been Lifted

Posted on 2022/01/23 - 2022/01/28 by darknights

Update on anarchist prisoner Eric King

Eric King’s mail ban is over (for now) so please write him if you can. He would love to hear from people. It has been quite some time since he was able to receive letters from people outside his immediate family. (We have no idea whether there will be another mail ban).

Please do not talk about his case and be mindful that all letters are read by prison officials and potentially scanned/saved.

Write and Support Eric:

Eric King #27090-045
FCI Englewood
9595 West Quincy Avenue
Littleton, CO 80123

https://supportericking.org

Source: It’s Going Down

Athens, Greece: Claudio Lavazza – A whole life dedicated to the struggle

Posted on 2022/01/21 by darknights

Our anarchist comrade Claudio Lavazza has been in prison since 1996, having already completed 25 years of continuous detention. He is one of the longest serving political prisoners in Europe. Claudio was one of the militants who took up arms to oppose capitalist rule politically and militarily.

An insurgent proletarian who participated in conflicts and expropriations in the early years of joining the movement in the dynamic 1970s in Italy. Armed fighter of the revolutionary movement of the 70’s-80’s afterwards. Member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism, a horizontal guerrilla group with strong ideological influences from workers’ autonomy. Participant in the coalition of groups under the name ‘Organised Communists for Proletarian Liberation’, an armed project to support fugitives and free comrades and comrades-in-arms from prison. Accomplice to the 1981 attack on the prison in Frosinone where imprisoned militants were released.

At a time when the meaning and content of words had not been surrendered to museification, revisionism, and boundary activism. Instead, it found meaning through the practical cultivation of hope in those imprisoned and “exiled” from the legal order by the relentless repression of the state and the parastate. That words like freedom and solidarity would be put into practice with guns in their hands. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Claudio Lavazza – A whole life dedicated to the struggle” →