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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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anti-technology, Florence Prison, Freedom Club, Industrial Society and its Future, Ted Kaczynski, USA

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'entities without face nothing and nobody that you know', Chile, Ignacio Avaca, Luis Avaca, Parcel Bomb, Police Station Attack, Talca

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'entities without face nothing and nobody that you know', Anarcho-Nihilist, Chile, Luis Avaca, Nihilist, Pessimism, Rancagua Prison

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” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'Anarcho-Partisans', Anarchist Prisoners, Belarus, Czech Republic, Dmitry Dubovsky, Dmitry Rezanovich, Igor Olivenich, International Solidarity, Lukáš Borl, Sergej Romanov

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anarchist Prisoners, Eric King, Mail Ban, USA

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” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Armed Robbery, Armed Struggle, Athens, Bank Robbery, Claudio Lavazza, Corboda Case, Expropriation, France, Greece, Italy, Repression, Spain

Italy: Updates concerning Mauro Rossetti Busa

Posted on 2022/01/21 - 2022/01/21 by darknights

Mauro Busa tells us that since November his mail has been under censorship again up until 22nd May, subject to extension. He is continuing to do hunger strikes (he also writes about self-harming, for example cuts, but it is not clear whether this refers to the present or the past) in order to be transferred near Lucca so that he can see his family whom he hasn’t seen since 2018.

For anyone who wants to send him money, he says prison rules have changed and it is no longer possible to send money orders but only bank transfers:

Addressed to “Direzione del carcere di Ascoli Piceno”

IBAN: IT36D0760113500000012503637

BIC SWIFT Per bonifici – BPPIITRRXXX:

Rossetti Busa Mauro, nato a Lucca il 6/1/1958

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Rossetti Busa Mauro
C.C: Ascoli PIceno
via dei meli, 218
36100
Ascoli Piceno
Italia

Source: Il Rovescio

Via & Translated by act for freedom now!

DN Note: Letter from Mauro in 2020 explaining his case and reasoning for attacking the targets he claims.

Mauro was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment for fire, evasion and manufacture of explosive material, threats and with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism and social danger. The original attacks took place in the vicinity of the Casapound headquarters and to the Eni distributor in Sant’Anna in 2018. The Eni distributor, the multinational is for some time in the sights of anarchists for activities abroad, and a building near the Casapound headquarters. Previously, Mauro Rossetti Busa had succeeded in Florence, in March 2004, in an attack on a public prosecutor. During the hearing his convictions were unwavering: “I’ll send you a packet-bomb, the next one will be for you and these cops,” he said.

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anti-Fascism, Casa Pound, Censorship, ENI, Hunger Strike, Italy, Lucca, Mauro Rossetti Busa, Repression, Sant’Anna

Chile: Words from Ignacio and Luis Avaca. We are responsible. About our participation in the fact that we are accused and taking political responsibility

Posted on 2022/01/19 by darknights

“I deny the right to judge me to all those who do not understand the voice of my longing, the howl of my needs, the veils of my spirit, the pain of my mind, the emotion of my ideas and the anguish of my thought.

But only I understand all this. Do you want to judge me? Well then! But you will never be able to judge my true self.

Instead, you are going to judge the “I” that you yourself have invented. When you think you have me in your hands to crush me, I will be high above, laughing in the distance.”

-Renzo Novatore

We have testified before the old prosecutor…It was not easy at least for us who faced a process like this for the first time. We recognized the authorship of the fact that we are accused and we have expressed our political and ethical motivation.

The act itself we have seen as a step from words to action in demonstration of our destructive criticism of the institutions that exercise violence in the name of the State.

“We wanted to instill terror in part of the population” specifically in the uniformed; there are plenty of reasons for this, starting with our political leanings and ideology and ending with specific facts that have given the Carabineros a worse reputation, be they massacres, murders, scandals, operations and other public and secret situations. Even so, we believe that the fact speaks for itself and even without the respective vindication the message would have been more than clear. Continue reading “Chile: Words from Ignacio and Luis Avaca. We are responsible. About our participation in the fact that we are accused and taking political responsibility” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'Anarcho-Partisans', 'entities without face nothing and nobody that you know', Chile, Greece, Ignacio Avaca, Luis Avaca

Athens, Greece: Updates news about Anarchist prisoners Marios Seisidis and Charis Mantzouridis

Posted on 2022/01/11 by darknights

After his transfer to the Korydallos Prisoner Psychiatric Hospital on 24/12 and resulting negative in a rapid test conducted for preventive reasons, comrade Charis Mantzouridis was placed in “quarantine” in the only space they have, in the disciplinary isolation infrastructure.

We talked about this space in the previous update, when the comrade was transferred there. It is a cell with a broken window, freezing, with mattresses ripped open, with blood and excrement everywhere, with food discarded by everyone, with prisoners constantly being added to the same place, abolishing even the supposed concept of quarantine. As we said at the time, the situation in this place is but a small example of the overall barbaric condition of keeping all prisoners in prison and the minimal measures taken to protect them from the pandemic.

On 30 December, after six days of his stay there, a rapid test was carried out again and he tested positive for the virus, and since then he has remained in isolation without the possibility of communication. It has been 17 days since the comrade has been in the prison within the prison, without medical supervision and without his relatives knowing anything about his health, both physical due to covid and mental.

Immediate release of comrade Charis  Mantzouridis!
Prisoners’ lives matter!

Assembly of Solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted militants

Via: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1616329/

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Charis  Mantzouridis (Χάρης Μαντζουρίδης)

Prisoners mental hospital of Koridallos

(Ειδικό Κέντρο Υγείας Κρατουμένων Κορυδαλλού)

Koridallos

181 22  Athens , Greece

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The Court of Appeal of anarchist comrade Marios Seisidis, continues Friday 07/01/22 at 11am at the Loukareos Court of Appeal in Athens.
On Friday 07/01 at 11am at the Loukareos Street Courts on the 1st floor, the second degree trial of comrade Marios Seisidis continues for the case of the armed robbery of the National Bank of Solonos Street in 2006.

Seisidis Marios  (Σειχιδης Μαριος)

Dikastiki Fylaki Korydallou
A .Pteryga,
TK 18110,
Korydallos,
Athens

EVERYONE ALONGSIDE THE COMRADE

NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

FIRE TO THE PRISONS!

Act for freedom now!

Source: Act for Freedom Now!

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Athens, Greece, Haris Mantzouridis, Korydallos prison, Marios Seisidis

Chile: Text from comrades Ignacio and Luis Avaca in response to the events of November 12

Posted on 2022/01/11 - 2022/01/11 by darknights

14/11/2021

In view of the events that took place on November 12 of this year, in which we were involved, we declare that it will never be an option for us to put our dignity at the disposal of the jailers, whether they are procedures completely subject to regulations, or simple humiliations. At times these may be perfectly regulatory, however, we are not guided by their rules, much less by the orders they expect us to obey, and, without wishing to victimize us, we consider that this whole spectacle was nothing more than a provocation and a targeted attack, from which they did not expect the aggressive response we gave them, always in defense of our dignity and integrity.

The facts:

At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a procedure takes place in module 85, in which, until now, we are locked up. This raid was attended by gendarmerie personnel from outside the module and officials from CEAC (gendarmerie canine training). From the beginning, the provocations by one of the latter officials became evident towards Luis, who received at least 3 open-handed blows to the head, as well as insults from the official. Up to this point we had decided not to get too worked up over the matter, but later, and again Luis was forced to perform a squat, a completely unnecessary humiliation in our eyes, but supposedly regulatory for the gendarmerie.

Faced with his refusal to perform the movement, the officer who was ordering him to do it pushes him to the ground, and a pack of other gendarmes accompany him, hitting him with their fists and even sticks. Ignacio attacked one of the officers who were beating and trying to reduce Luis, receiving the same treatment from another group of guards, who threw a large amount of pepper spray on his face and body. Once reduced and handcuffed, we were led away from the rest of the inmates, being constantly insulted and threatened by the gendarmes, who tirelessly repeated to us that “we were going to go to wash” to the high complexity modules, as a reprisal for our action, and for being ” anarchists” and/or “subversives”.

After this we were taken to the penitentiary hospital, where we were made to sign an injury report that did little or nothing to clarify the aggressions suffered. Once we were taken to the punishment cells, where we were isolated in a room together. At about 11 p.m. we were visited by the warden of the penitentiary complex, who was accompanied by an official with a Gopro type video camera, with which he recorded our narration of “our version” of the events.

The next day, we were taken to the internal guard cells, and only Ignacio (although the result applied to both), was interrogated and reclassified by one of the captains, who was present during the procedure, who after lying about his supposed knowledge of the consuctacion of the other subversive prisoners, not only repeated the previously mentioned “our version” of the events, but also told us that he was not the only one to be interrogated, not only repeated the aforementioned threat of “sending us to wash or be stabbed to death”, but also dared to say that we were not “subversives”, but only “kids”, that self-defense “did not apply” in prison, and that if we acted the way we did again, we would be moved to another module or prison. Subsequently we were informed that we would return to module 85 but in “conditional” status.

None of this surprises or frightens us, and if we have to defend ourselves again we will not hesitate to do so. We know that more attacks by the gendarmerie will come, either against us or against the anarchist-subversive comrades of modules 1 and 2, and we call for action, to show solidarity with facts, in the face of future institutional harassment and/or reprisals against those of us who resist this treatment.

Caged and never defeated!
Death to prison and to the society that needs it!

Ignacio and Luis.

Source: Buscando la Kalle

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'entities without face nothing and nobody that you know', Chile, Ignacio Avaca, Luis Avaca, Repression, Text

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