Social Control – Page 23

Athens, Greece: DNA samples & arrests in the mess of war we live everyday here

Posted on 2021/11/04 by darknights

It is a fact that worldwide the system of monitoring and control using biometric data is growing with the creation of data banks for everyone with the cooperation of State, European and international organisations.

At the same time as the majority of society is subjected to the violence of the State and capital, the increasing impoverishment and the rising cost of living, the beating of strikers and students by the repressive forces, the murders by the cops, the killings in the sweatshops of wage slavery , the repatriations and murder of immigrants.

At the same time they are also expanding their legal arsenal and sharpening their attack on anyone and everyone who raises their head and anyone and everyone who attempts to resist modern totalitarianism. The Greek State is seeking to use trumped-up charges to break the morale of those who are struggling. We, the fighters, the comrades, the comrades declare our presence, we do not retreat, we stand on the side of every exploited and oppressed person, on the side of the persecuted and imprisoned comrades. Anyway, in the beginning DNA identification comes for the fighters, then it will be established for all.

-OPPOSITION TO COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION OF THE 14 STUDENTS
-IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE HARIS.M.
-NO PROSECUTION FOR COMRADE KOSTAS. Κ.

Source: Act For Freedom Now!

Comrade Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz “El Oso” was sentenced to 15 years in prison

Posted on 2021/11/04 by darknights

Today, Wednesday, October 20, the oral criminal court of Melipilla sentenced our comrade Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz, “Oso”, to 15 years and 1 day for transporting arms.

To those who assume the conflict against the state and power, let there be no doubt that subversion does not die or stagnate.

To propagate the creative destruction and strengthen the bond of insurgent complicity with Pablo and with all our imprisoned comrades who do not flinch or repent, assuming the conflict with conviction and dignity, a behavior typical of warriors that not even prison can defeat.

THERE IS NO JAIL OR PUNISHMENT CAPABLE OF DEFEATING THE SUBVERSIVE CONVICTION OF STRUGGLE AGAINST POWER AND ALL AUTHORITIES!

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Bristol, UK: Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone Sentenced

Posted on 2021/10/29 by darknights

Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone was sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison for 8 drug offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 13, 2021 after Terrorism charges were dropped. He has already served 8 months of this sentence on remand.

The ‘drugs’ were psychedelics and medicinal plants (LSD, DMT, cannabis, THC oil, MDMA and magic mushrooms) found at two of the four properties raided by counter-terror cops in the UK South-West on November 18, 2020 in their hunt for the administrator of anarchist website 325.nostate.net.

Toby was originally charged with providing a service enabling others to access terrorist publications contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006, fundraising for terrorist purposes contrary to section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and two counts of possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He had pleaded not guilty to these charges earlier this year and was due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on October 6, 2021. However, with no evidence to put before the court, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was forced to drop these charges on October 1st. This was a landmark attempt by the British State and the deranged Home Secretary Priti Patel to prosecute an anarchist under modern terrorism legislation.

The investigation into 325 continues and cops continue to harass and attempt to intimidate one of Toby’s comrades at her home.

Toby is in good spirits and remains strong. He hopes to delay being transferred to another prison until he has had his annual MRI scan for cancer which is scheduled for this month with his medical team in Bristol, so please continue to send letters of support and birthday cards (it is his birthday on October 20th) to:

Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Bristol
19 Cambridge Road
Bishopston
Bristol
BS7 8PS
UK

Or email him via emailaprisoner.com

Solidarity with Toby!
Some Anarchists

Source: Bristol ABC

Italy: The truth can be upsetting but it is still the truth

Posted on 2021/10/22 by darknights

via:terreinmoto. Translated by act for freedom now!

THE TRUTH CAN BE UPSETTING BUT IT IS STILL THE TRUTH

In the night between 1^st and 2^nd September we were stopped in Via Cavour and accused of having put up posters without permission. A simple administrative sanction was not enough for the police, they wanted to pile it on by charging us with “publication or spreading of fake, exaggerated or tendentious news aimed at upsetting public order” (Art. 656 of the penal code). To be accused of spreading fake news precisely by those who defend a system which always lies, manipulating and terrorizing the population with the aim of legitimatizing the most abject political and repressive practices is paradoxical to say the least.

But what did those posters say that was fake?

Is it not true perhaps that society is aiming for the complete digitalization of every aspect of our lives, even the most intimate? Continue reading “Italy: The truth can be upsetting but it is still the truth” →

Metz, France : Anarchist comrade Boris is out of the coma

Posted on 2021/10/22 by darknights

For about two weeks now, Boris has not been sedated, which means that he is gradually coming out of the artificial coma. His treatment and legal proceedings (1) may still be long. It is now up to him to decide whether or not to give any updates.

Let each one continue their path towards a world rid of all authority.

Anarchists in complicity and solidarity,

(1): September 28(https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2021/09/29/france-anarchist-comrade-boris-gets-out-of-prison-but-is-not-out-of-danger/): Boris is released from prison but is not out of danger

P.S.: Boris no longer needs money for canteen, since his hospitalization. It is possible to contribute to the transportation costs of the people who visit him in hospital. For this you can write to besakattak@riseup.net

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Via: Attaque Source: Indymedia Lille

Barcelona: International Call for Direct Action against Catalunya

Posted on 2021/10/22 by darknights

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR DIRECT ACTION AGAINST CATALUNYA

Postcard Barcelona SUCKS! In the last years we have seen, from near and far, how the Catalan institutions have managed to continue selling an image of “inclusive city”; when it is an ultra-capitalist city that expels and mistreats its own population (not to mention the thousands of migrants who are sold at ridiculous prices, or are dragged into the vilest prostitution) in order to have something to eat. Colau is a fake who plays to establish pacts with the most aberrant powers, to exercise her second mandate as mayor. She skillfully negotiated with many squatted spaces -to legalize them- and thus reduce her refractory actions against the System. Unfortunately for us, the tactic has been successful: they have “tamed” us. The once called rose of fire only burns when interclassist nationalism orders it to do so. And there is no lack of sheep…

On February 27th, in the context of a demonstration (promoted by the most Stalinist and retrograde communist authoritarianism) they arrested a group of comrades, previously arrested by the organizers themselves – read Arran, the youth of the CUP – in a disgusting set-up, tending to blame “Italian anarchist insurrectionalists”, for the riots resulting from the imprisonment of the unclean rapper Pablo Hasel. We do not forget that it was an act of revenge for a previous set-up in Girona. The so-called ‘purge-of-Girona’ perpetrated by anti-anarchist groups to sweep out of their city those who did not conform to their political interests… Currently 6 of our people are still in prison, in the territory dominated by the Catalan pseudo-state. And there is a silence (complicit) on the part of an infinity of supposedly “libertarian” collectives, about this alarming situation. It is time to shout ENOUGH!

The so-called “casals catalans”, numbering a hundred in 40 countries, are good targets to express our rage. And there are also many economic interests in Catalonia, for those who are willing to do a little digging. Any of these sites is a good place to remind these cretins that active international solidarity with our prisoners of the Social War is not just words: LET’S ATTACK! That is why this OCTOBER 27th, eight months after the captivity of our comrades, we will make the voice of those who have tried -in vain- to muzzle, heard. Organize your group, plan a fire, an attack, a protest canvas, a sabotage, or whatever you want; but do not remain impassive? There is too much posturing among so many verbose groups that do NOTHING. To the street already the kidnapped ones, for that story of the damned burned police van…

NOT ONE MORE MINUTE OF SILENCE!
SIX ANARCHISTS BEHIND BARS! BOURGEOIS AND COMFORTABLE CATALONIA, DIE!
AND LONG LIVE THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL!

Some Pissed Off Insurrectionists (FAI/FRI)

(Rigaer94) First statement on the raid of 6th of October, 2021 (Germany, Berlin)

Posted on 2021/10/09 - 2021/10/10 by darknights

The Berlin cops, today, 06.10.2021 at 7am, wearing their dirty trash-bag uniforms and carrying shields full of color from the resistance on 17^th of July and armed, raided our political structure and living space, Rigaer94. Once again, as everyday, the servants of the state fulfill their commands and obey to the capital.

The state guarantees the order of the capitalist system, so to squeeze even more profit from people and their living spaces, gain power over every life, destroy any political idea that fights against them and oppress any individual who does not fit to their plans in this capitalistic, patriarchal and racist society. It is clear that the Berlin cops still work with Lafone Investments Ltd. and are their mercenaries, who execute orders of the plan to get rid of Rigaer94 and so to force the gentrification process of Nordkiez, Friedrichshain – after they lost their last attack on us in June this year.

They entered our political structure and house today morning by smashing windows of the side house on 1^st floor, destroying once again our doors and even removing the entire wall of one of the flat-doors which was barricaded on the 4^th floor front house. They were carrying their useless papers from the court with warrants to identify everyone who is in the house at the moment of entering. They also made drawings of floor plan to check for construction changes. The warrant is based on ASOG. This law makes it easy for the cops to raid and repress political structures and individuals when they want. Officially the aim of the raid is to prepare for eviction trials of all the flats of the house. However, there is no doubt, that the raid is used to weaken our structures and the movement who fights against state and capital, capitalism and gentrification, one week before the eviction of Köpi Wagenplatz (15^th October). It is a common tactic which tries to attack and isolate structures and individuals in solidarity with threatened projects, shortly before an announced-planned attack. As it also happened with the eviction of our neighbours L34 last year, when our structure got raided and sieged for some days on July 2020, few months before the Tag-X. Continue reading “(Rigaer94) First statement on the raid of 6th of October, 2021 (Germany, Berlin)” →

Italy: Sentence of the trial for the Prometeo repressive operation: Beppe, Natascia and Robert were acquitted

Posted on 2021/10/09 by darknights

Waiting for further contributions, we publish the news of the acquittal of Beppe, Robert and Natascia in first instance in the trial for the Prometeo repressive operation. According to the newspapers, they were acquitted “for not having committed the fact”, with the formula of insufficient evidence.

Waiting for the sentence, comrades have made a gathering turned into a demonstration.

In the last hearing, the prosecutor Federico Manotti had asked 18 years and 4 months for Beppe and 17 years each for Robert and Natascia.

Beppe, being detained for another case, for now remains in prison, while Natascia, after two years, is free!

[Update published in italian by roundrobin.info].

Natascia, Beppe and Robert were arrested on May 21, 2019, in the context of the “Prometeo” operation, carried out by the ROS (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, “Special Operational Grouping”) of carabinieri, on the main charge of “attack with the aim of terrorism or subversion”, as they were held responsible by the repressive forces for sending, in June 2017, three parcel bombs addressed to public prosecutors Rinaudo (prosecutor in several trials against the antagonist movement and anarchists) and Sparagna (prosecutor in the Scripta Manent trial), and to Santi Consolo (then director of the Department of Penitentiary Administration in Rome). The three parcel bombs were defused. Robert was released from prison in December 2019. On June 22, 2020, there was the preliminary hearing of the first instance trial, which ended on October 4, 2021, with the acquittal of the three comrades.

The court ordered the release of Natascia after two and a half years of imprisonment, while Beppe remains imprisoned due to another case (he is accused of having placed an incendiary device against a post office in Genoa in June 2016, for which he has already been sentenced to 5 years in prison). Below is the address of the comrade:

Giuseppe Bruna
C. C. di Bologna “Dozza”
via del Gomito 2
40127 Bologna
Italia – Italy

[Published by malacoda.noblogs.org].

UK: Update on the situation of anarchist comrade Toby Shone

Posted on 2021/10/09 - 2021/10/09 by darknights

Toby’s trial began on 6th October at Bristol Crown Court. The charges for administration of 325.nostate.net, funding of terrorism through the website and dissemination of and collection of material useful to terrorists have now been dropped due to lack of evidence.

The other charges of possession of Class A and B drugs with intent to supply, producing a class B drug and a further count of class AA drug possession are still being pursued. At this present time we understand this could carry a jail term of 3-6 years imprisonment.

The Operation Adream that has been unleashed by the British state is an attempt to destroy 325 & its publications, an attack on counter-information that is connected to the repression that has been ramped up on this island since the pandemic and resulting lockdowns, a repression that has always existed, an attack on any form of active revolt here.

We do not believe in guilt and innocence, neither in passivity, only in solidarity that contributes to the continuation of the conflict against the existent.

Strength & Solidarity to anarchist comrade Toby Shone!

Nothing is over, the conflict continues!

Dark Nights Collective

Berlin,Germany: Fight For KøpiPlatz TAG X 15.10.21

Posted on 2021/10/03 - 2021/10/03 by darknights

Køpiplatz bleibt, damn it! The Wagenplatz needs your support and your presence now more than ever! We have received the date of eviction for the 15th October, but we will still not be silenced.
After a year of ups and downs, empty promises from politicians and the city, discussions in the BVV (the Berlin-Mitte district politicians assembly), false hopes and crushing realities, we are still shocked by the devastating news that we will be evicted from our homes in just three weeks.

But we will continue to fight! KøpiPlatz is here to stay!

We suspected that the election would have an impact on our date. In fact, we received the letter only six days before the German elections. This conveniently takes away the responsibility of this Government and the next during the interim period.

At this point, everyday leading up to the eviction is crucial. We are sad, emotional, and ANGRY, but we are not afraid. We have been preparing for these weeks to use every available way to fight. But now is the time that we also need our friends and supporters. With solidarity comes strength. If we plan to continue with our collective spaces in Berlin, where we live together, work together, laugh and cry together, we must also fight together! This is why we would like to call on our friends and community in Berlin and around the world to stand with us in the weeks before the eviction, to scream a message to the system that we are bigger and more powerful than they can possibly imagine.

Berlin is a city full of alternative and autonomous spaces, particularly in our beloved unruly neighbourhoods. Each one weaves something special and different into the fabric of our communities. But this does not mean that we should be complacent, and let these spaces slip through our fingers. We should not allow our streets to become beige and uniform. We need to stop this now before it is too late. Wir Bleiben Alle!

Upcoming action from Køpiplatz and Comrades

‘DEFEND KØPIPLATZ’ DEMO: Saturday 2nd October at 8pm Køpiplatz will organise the ‘Defend Køpiplatz’ demo. It will take place in and around our rebellious neighborhoods and on OUR streets.

Continue reading “Berlin,Germany: Fight For KøpiPlatz TAG X 15.10.21” →