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Berlin, Germany: Fire for Green Capitalism – Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/01/24 by darknights

In the night from Thursday (the 19.01.) to Friday an electric car charging station at the Engelbecken in Berlin Kreuzberg was set on fire. It happened in a night full of international actions to show solidarity with our comrade Alfredo Cospito. It is reported that he will soon be force-fed, against which he clearly and forcefully opposes. In a letter to his lawyer he writes:
“[…] Life is meaningless in this grave for the living.”

This act is also an act against green capitalism, which is sold as a holy solution to today’s capitalism. This is, of course, nonsense and continues to reinforce mechanisms of oppression that are already inherent in the system today. Among these can be named colonialism, from which many countries in the global South suffer because capitalist companies from the global North plunder the resources there. Because, in order to satiate the rush for an electric mobility, tons of rare earth, minerals and raw materials have to be extracted and thus countless human lives are stolen, families torn apart, communities ruined, ecosystems destroyed. We would like to share with you a detailed article about the connection between capitalism and colonialism with the following link:
https://kontrapolis.info/7953/

Furthermore, consequences of destructive capitalism, to a lesser extent, are also felt near us. We think of, the people who have defended Lützerath to the end and welcome those who have resisted with all means. But after the eviction is unfortunately still before the eviction, so we send out a lot of strength to all other (forest) occupations (Heibo, Fecher, etc.).

These charging stations are often used to charge electric SUVs or car sharing cars, for those who can afford something other than public transport. This sends electricity into inefficient individual transportation options and money into the pockets of private companies. Even more money is wasted in this, as the Berlin Senate is supporting the “implementation of the electrification of commercial motor vehicle fleets in the capital” through the WELMO funding program. At a time when more and more people are having trouble paying their (electricity) bills…. we do not need to explain further.

This one action remains symbolic in itself. One column among hundreds that exist in Berlin is not much. But this night we have seen that these stations are relatively easy targets for direct actions and are difficult to delete. Once you need good strength and a DNA-free tool to crack the door, and a flammable package that can be placed inside.

Herein we also want to call for the days of action in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito! https://de.indymedia.org/node/253254

Source: de.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, arson attack, Berlin, Car Sharing, Colonialization, Electric Car Charging Point, Extractivism, Force Feeding, Germany, Green Capitalism, Hunger Strike, Kreuzberg, Lützerath, Neo-colonialism, WELMO

Leipzig, Germany: Anti-State-Attack in solidarity with the hunger strikers

Posted on 2023/01/21 - 2023/01/21 by darknights

Our small cell of anarchists decided to attack as our declaration of solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and the other hungerstrikers around the world. On the 11th January we damaged two buildings of the state in Leipzig. One is the citizens administration and the other is “Support”-center for criminal youth. Both represent institutions the state uses to control us. We consider the state our enemy that stands between us and our liberation, so we have to attack it relentlessy.

On our minds this night was the way the italian state tortures Alfredo Cospito. We see the fight in the prisons around the world and wanted to support the hunger strikers, too. Your writing and your actions as part of the Black International were always very similar with how we like anarchy for our self. Anarchy as the attack of every authority without compromise. We will keep doing that as long as we are free!

The 11th January was also the day that the subversive part of the activists in Luetzerath called for an action day. On our way back from the action we saw a car of one of the biggest housing-corporations in Leipzig – “Kühne Immobilien”. In solidarity with the brave defenders of Luetzerath we destroyed their car, too. The climate movement could learn a lot from Cospitos actions. What a dream it would be to hear of the detonation of a bomb in front of the police station in Aachen or the kneeshot for the CEO of “RWE”. Maybe we will get there in Germany at some point.

One night later in leipzig anarchists burned 6 cars from Hertz in solidarity with Cospito! That is music in our ears! https://knack.news/4783

Power to all prisoners! Free them all!

Source: de.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Aachen, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Black International, Citizens Administration, Criminal Youth Support Centre, Germany, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Kühne Immobilien, Leipzig, Lützerath, RWE

Berlin, Germany: You are the crisis – Fleet of climate killer and crisis profiteer AMAZON set on fire – Solidarity with Lützerath and the prisoners on hunger strike

Posted on 2023/01/19 - 2023/01/19 by darknights

In the early morning hours of January 16, 2023, we gained access to a well-secured area in the Germaniastraße in Berlin-Tempelhof and took 25 Amazon Prime vehicles out of circulation using incendiary devices. A fire of solidarity with the squatters in Lützerath and the prisoners on hunger strike.

The consumer mania on Black Friday and the lucrative Christmas business are over. The pompous charity and the little bit of contemplation give way to the usual routine of everyday life. The elbows are again extended to be able to exist in the competition of the present society. Inflation and the rising cost of living apparently defying the commodity rush and the associated plundering of the planet and its resources continues unperturbed in the new year and fills the coffers of the crisis winners of the online trade. Amazon’s monopoly position and extensive business model have long revealed it to be a dependency factor for many. But the company stands for much more than just flushing products onto the market at rock-bottom prices.

Your thoughts and feelings are worth their weight in gold

The IT giant’s technological developments point to a bleak future of a dystopian surveillance and control society. Amazon, as a driving force in the establishment of digital capitalism, is not only permanently changing the economy, but also everyday life, social behavior and even our ways of thinking. Artificial intelligences and algorithms are able to contr ol and manipulate needs. Calculations that can be derived from this are already shaping today what will be made into money tomorrow. With a wide range of products and technological infrastructure (servers), the company is pushing into more and more areas of life to satisfy its insatiable hunger for data. Be it through the surveillance software Amazon Ring, which acts as an all-seeing eye guarding the properties of the rich and – now also installed in vehicles – subjects the environment to permanent monitoring. By the voice assistance Alexa, which lurks as ears of the AI in the living rooms and bedrooms and attends even the most intimate moments. By means of facial recognition programs and sensors that are supposed to interpret emotions and direct customers through the self-pay stores of Amazon-Go. Or with a variety of developments in the fields of health and biotechnology to capture everything physical and break it down into numbers. Amazon knows that anyone who has large amounts of information and data at their disposal and can translate the present into mathematical dimensions also has the power to influence the future to their own advantage. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: You are the crisis – Fleet of climate killer and crisis profiteer AMAZON set on fire – Solidarity with Lützerath and the prisoners on hunger strike” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alexa, Alfredo Cospito, Algorithm, Amazon, Amazon EDGE Tower, Amazon Go, Amazon Prime, Amazon Ring, Anarchist Prisoners, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Berlin, Biotechnology, Digital Capitalism, Germany, Hunger Strike, Incendiary Attack, International Solidarity, Ivan Alocco, Jeff Bezos, Leipzig, Lützerath, Surveillance, Techno Industrial Military Complex, Thanos Chatziangelou, Turkish Imprisoned Fighters, Vehicle Burning

Cologne, Germany: Sabotage arson attack against RWE coal train

Posted on 2023/01/19 - 2023/01/19 by darknights

In the night of 12.01.2023 we set out in deep solidarity with our friends in the Zad Lützerath to sabotage the coal railroad in the Cologne city forest.

With two strategically placed incendiary devices we hope to have stopped the delivery of the coal at least for a small moment.

RWE deserves nothing but our deepest hatred!

Even if the cops occupy the whole Rhineland they can’t watch us everywhere.

The night belongs to us!

Our action is part of a militant campaign for the preservation of the autonomous zone and against the global climate destruction.

Fossil energy production and its exploitation of the planet must be stopped at all costs.

We greet all those who oppose climate destruction and oppression throughout Germany and the world.

Freedom for all!

For a militant climate movement!

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/252012

Via: Abolition Media & translated by Nae Midion

Posted in Direct Action, Eco StruggleTagged arson attack, Coal Mining, Cologne, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Incendiary Attack, Lützerath, Rail Sabotage, Railway Sabotage, RWE

Leipzig, Germany: Arson attack against Hertz vehicles in solidarity with anarchist prisoners

Posted on 2023/01/19 by darknights

Cheap thrills

 

Come on, come on, put the mask on
It’s wednesday night and I won’t be long

Gotta do my hair, put my gloves on
It’s wednesday night and I won’t be long

‘Til I hit the target, hit the target
I got all I need
No, I ain’t got cash, I ain’t got cash
But I got you, baby

Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight
(I love cheap thrills)
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight
(I love cheap thrills)
But I don’t need no money
As long as I can feel the heat
I don’t need no money
As long as it keeps burning

(Cheap Thrills, Sia & Sean Paul)

With this earworm in mind and inspired by the prisoners in Hamburg, in Rome and in Athens, we attacked Hertz with fire on the night of January 12. Hertz cooperates with the enemies of our freedom and must pay for it.

In solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike, Alfredo, Ivan, Thanos, and with the 11 prisoners from Turkey. For all the anarchist prisoners imprisoned by the state and for all the others who continue to fight outside.

Greetings go to the people who militantly defend Lützerath

For an international solidarity full of hate and passion!

Until the next parking lot.

Anarchists

******

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/252149

Via: Abolition Media & translated by Nae Midion

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anarchists, arson attack, Athens, Germany, Hamburg, Hertz, International Solidarity, Ivan Alocco, Leipzig, Lützerath, Rome, Thanos Chatziangelou, Turkish Imprisoned Fighters, Vehicle Burning

Bavaria, Germany: Camera and microphone found in front of apartment

Posted on 2023/01/14 - 2023/01/14 by darknights
A tool bag for mounting under the bicycle saddle (symbol image)

On Friday, November 25, an audio and video surveillance installation was exposed outside an apartment somewhere in Bavaria. The listening device had been discovered on a bicycle parked there and installed on it with the help of a tool bag under the saddle (see symbol picture). The interception device itself consisted of a main unit measuring approx. 12 x 12 x 1.5 cm (see technical details), to which a camera and a microphone were connected, as well as an approx. 25 x 5 x 4 cm Li-ion battery (16 Ah). The whole installation was hidden in the saddlebag in such a way that it could not be seen from the outside. Only the camera (max. approx. 1 x 1 x 1 cm with a lens diameter of max. 0.5 cm) was led to the outside via a tiny hole and was pointed at the entrance to the corresponding apartment. With the naked eye, however, this was so nevertheless impossible to identify.

A few minutes after removal of the bugging device, the bicycle was picked up by the suspected spies. Recordings made by the listening device were presumably transmitted via the mobile network with the help of a SIM card.

The design and installation of the bugging device on the bicycle make it at least conceivable that this is a spontaneously deployable installation that could be used in this form at short notice and without much lead time. In fact, numerous suppliers of surveillance technology have been marketing corresponding installations for use in the helmet storage boxes of scooters for many years. Continue reading “Bavaria, Germany: Camera and microphone found in front of apartment” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged Audio Surveillance, Bavaria, Germany, GPS, GPS Surveillance, Repression, Video Surveillance

Germany: ‘Solidarity with Alfredo – beyond all walls!’ – Thomas Meyer-Falk

Posted on 2023/01/13 - 2023/01/13 by darknights

Alfredo Cospito is in prison in Sardinia under the prison regime “41-bis” and is kept in strict isolation. He defends himself against the prison conditions with a hunger strike, stakes his life for the protest against the inhuman prison conditions.

No visits (with the exception of relatives), books are not allowed to be sent to him, no access to newspapers – and he is no longer allowed to write articles. Thrown back completely to purely physical existence, ultimately at the mercy of mental death.

The intensification of his imprisonment goes back to a decision of the Court of Cassation, which considered a bomb attack in 2006, in which no one was killed or injured, as a completed political assassination and, since Alfredo showed no remorse, sentenced him to life imprisonment under the infamous “41-to” article of the penal code.

That here the state takes revenge on an unbowed anarchist and activist, who did not let himself be broken even during the years in prison, is obvious. Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote very clear-sightedly:

“Punishment is the name of revenge itself: with a lying word it feigns a good conscience” (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra).

Life imprisonment is itself a form of hidden physical death penalty, but subjecting people to further isolation extends the spectrum of the execution of revenge to the psychological, the spiritual level. Humans need more than something to eat and to drink to survive! The human relations are essential to be able to live. But locked up in the bare cell, almost no human contacts, no access to books and other things, all this can and should, according to the logic of justice, break people. Revenge in its purest form!

Alfredo fights against this with his means and possibilities. He does not physically attack prison staff, no, he stakes his own life! He starves! And starves! And starves!

Solidarity with Alfredo!

Abolish the “41-bis”!

Thomas Meyer-Falk

– himself from 1996-2007 in solitary confinement –

currently JVA (SV)

Hermann-Herder-Str.8, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

https://freedomforthomas.wordpress.com

http://www.freedom-for-thomas.de

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Freiburg, Germany, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Isolation, Solitary Confinement, Thomas Meyer-Falk

Germany: Berlin greets Athena

Posted on 2023/01/12 by darknights

Get out where the homes are and the large families and the subproletariat and the proletarian women who are just waiting to punch the right people in the face. They’ll take the lead. And don’t get caught and learn from them how not to get caught – they know more about it than you do.
Unleash the class struggles. Organize the proletariat.
Gudrun Ensslin – Building the Red Army, June 1970

The clamor is great, the petty-bourgeois mob rages in the networks and media, fascists and Greens finally united in the cause. The Minister of Health has completely internalized the permanent state of emergency of the pandemic, anyone who obstructs operations by cops and firefighters should be obligingly thrown out of his apartment.

Everyone who wanted to know knew what was going to happen. Anyone walking the streets of this city, moving outside their comfort bubble, talking to the proletarian youth, knew that the night of reckoning had come. Almost three years of pandemic state of emergency, everywhere harassment, repression and cops, now the next solidarity effort of society, all have to make sacrifices for the just war. Where the coal is not enough at the end of the month anyway, it is not even enough for half the month. The everyday racism of the cops, the poverty that you only escape if you earn your money in a creative way beyond the bourgeois rules of the game. You are the dregs of society, educationally distant sounds more elegant than antisocial milieu, but it means the same thing.

For days the proles have been stocking up on pyrotechnics, the weapons of the little people, long queues in front of the stores, the smartest were beyond the borders, it must be really rumbling when the cops come. Already 2 days before New Year’s Eve the first confrontations with the cops in Berlin, partly the are lured with burning garbage cans and then attacked from a tactically clever position. The surplus proletariat of Berlin studies the actions of the French banlieue. Partly on Netflix. That’s how the times have become. Continue reading “Germany: Berlin greets Athena” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 'Merry crisis and a happy new fear!', Anti-Social, arson attack, Athena, Berlin, Cop Attack, Firecrackers, Firework Attack, Germany, Molotov Attack, Neukölln, Riot, Surplus Proletariat

Hamburg, Germany: Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a truck of the company Strabag in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and the fighters in Lützerath

Posted on 2023/01/12 - 2023/01/14 by darknights

January 5, 2023

In memory of the hunger-striking anarchist Alfredo Cospito we set fire to trucks of Strabag in the Schanze on the night of Jan. 5.
Strabag does not only build jails. At least since the struggle for the Dannenröder forest, they have also often been the target of attacks because they actively destroy nature. Our fire should also give strength to those fighting in and around Lützerath. Day X has already been proclaimed.

“We are in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike since October 20, 2022 against his imprisonment in the 41-bis isolation regime and against life imprisonment without option of release. Alfredo’s detention conditions at the moment are slightly better than the previous weeks. He has lost a lot of weight and his health is relatively stable, but could become critical at any time. Two other prisoners in Italy, Anna and Juan have been on prolonged solidarity hunger strikes and Ivan Alocco, a prisoner in France is also supporting Alfredo through hunger strike. Toby Shone, who is in jail in England, is also supporting Alfredo by refusing to eat several days a week. (DN Note: Now out of Parc prison, under strict conditions, in a ‘semi-open’ detention structure.)
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/01/italy-update-about-the-he…
We are also in solidarity with Thanos Chatziangelou of the Anarchist Action organization, who was illegally transferred from Korydallos to Nigrita prison in Serres on Dec. 19. Thanos started a hunger and thirst strike that day. The comrade is involved in the recent mobilizations in prisons in Greece against the new harsh laws that are currently taking place in many places and in which many prisoners have participated in recent months. Continue reading “Hamburg, Germany: Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a truck of the company Strabag in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and the fighters in Lützerath” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, arson attack, Dannenröder forest, Extractivism, Force Feeding, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Greece, Hamburg, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Korydallos prison, Lützerath, Nigrita prison, Prison Profiteer, Strabag, Thanos Chatziangelou, Toby Shone, Turkish Imprisoned Fighters, Vehicle Burning

Berlin, Germany: Attack with Fire for Thanos Chatziangelou

Posted on 2023/01/08 by darknights

“The state is not something that can be destroyed by revolution, but it is a condition, a certain relationship between people, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by entering into other relationships, by behaving differently.”

– Gustav Landauer

When we carried the spirit of solidarity to Berlin-Neukölln in the first hours of January 3, Thanos Chatziangelou was in the 15th day of his hunger and thirst strike.

Our target was a truck from the car rental company Hertz, which we burned completely because Hertz – not only in Greece, but especially there – provides vehicles to the enemy (police, military, private security forces) at reduced prices. In the USA, in December, Hertz had to pay almost 170 million dollars in compensation to former customers who were falsely accused by Hertz of stealing rental cars, some of whom ended up in jail.

We found the Sonnenallee in Neukölln, a neighbourhood where there are frequent clashes with the police, to be a suitable place for the fire. After the riots there on New Year’s Eve, the politicians and the press went on a rampage against the “migrant youths”. We, on the other hand, welcome every rocket and firecracker used against the cops and show solidarity with the rioters.

For the fulfilment of Thanos Chatziangelou’s demands!

Solidarity with the 11 Turkish prisoners who are also on hunger strike in Greece!

Freedom for Alfredo Cospito, on hunger strike in Italy!

Strength to all the resistant prisoners whose names would make any text endless!

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/250220

Via: Abolition Media

Coach burned during the New Year riots in Neukölln.

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, arson attack, Berlin, Germany, Greece, Hellenic Police, Hertz, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Neukölln, Sonnenallee, Thanos Chatziangelou, Turkish Imprisoned Fighters, USA, Vehicle Burning

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