Giannis Michaildis – Announcement of a hunger strike for my release

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from Athens Indymedia via Dark Nights

After 8.5 years in prison, after all these arbitrary actions against me, I decided to put an end to my 11 years of suffering, by putting a stop to the practice of pre-trial detention, or the additional punishment of escape through legal loopholes. After 5 more months of pre-trial detention, I start a hunger strike for my release. This choice, with the deep motivation of the much desired freedom, I intend to support it with the same consistency that I have supported my choices so far and for which I am being persecuted.

Political text by Anarchist Georgia Voulgari

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from Athens Indymedia via Act for Freedom Now!

Political text by Georgia Voulgari, a prisoner in the women’s prison of Korydallos.

I proudly declare myself anarchist, proud that in this rotten society, the society of submission and spectacle, I did not bow my head before exploitation and power and chose to stand next to comrades who, by supporting the multiform struggle, also wrote their own page in the revolutionary historical memory. So far, living my new life next to them, in squats, through their common struggles for freedom, I learned what solidarity and comradeship is, what it means to give everything for what you believe in even if you are going to lose your freedom. I take the political responsibility that is due to me for my complicity in the incendiary attack that took place on 8/2 at the Foundation for National and Religious Reflection. A fragmentary action, which was not carried out by an organisation, namely the Anarchist Action organisation of which I am accused as a member, but was motivated by the desires and anger of two people against religious obscurantism, patriarchy and state power.

Olympia: Attack on 4 anti-abortion churches

So no arson?

from Puget Sound Anarchists

submitted anonymously –

Last night we vandalized four anti-abortion churches in Olympia. All of these churches have ties to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers,” religious fake clinics that manipulate mostly poor people into having & keeping children they don’t want or aren’t ready for and marrying whomever impregnated them whether or not that relationship is healthy or safe. Crisis pregnancy centers are exploitative and serve the aims of upholding the patriarchal family, a primary site of violence against women, queers, and children.

The Untold Story of Chumbawamba with Dunstan Bruce

from The Final Straw

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band’s 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Dunstan’s recently finished documentary “I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba” and his accompanying one man show “Am I Invisible Yet?, aging and the battle for relevance, staying involved in politics and more.

Organise 96 PDF Released

from Anarchist Federation

Organise 96 is out for Summer 2022.

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TOTW: Manifestos

manifesto gun

When a white supremacist mass shooter, rich politician-turned-tech-executive, and anonymous anarchists all release public declarations to the media in the same week, perhaps there’s reason to pause and reflect on the form. Whether you call them manifestos, communiqués or marketing campaigns, there’s a patterned reliance on rhetoric to complement provocative deeds.

An ATM machine of Intensa-San paolo bank destroyed

Did hammer smash face before there were Automated Teller Machines and there were only tellers? If people use cash app, are smartphones valid targets as well? Yes.

from Il Rovescio via Dark Nights

May 11–An ATM at the Intesa-San paolo bank branch on Via Rapisardi in Milan was smashed with a hammer.

This action is aimed at targeting one of the many businessmen involved in the war in Ukraine. Intesa-San paolo, the leading banking group in Italy, has 28 branches in Russia, holds 1.3 billion in assets, has issued more than 5 billion in loans to Russian companies and owns more than 50 million in government bonds. In 2017 it acquired 19 percent of the share capital of Rosneft, a Russian oil giant. In Ukraine it controls Pravex bank. It is currently undergoing a strategic review to reconcile its profits with Western sanctions.

Responsibility claim for arson attack on BRINKS security vehicle

ATTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

via Dark Nights

Our lives are daily subjected to the devaluation and the all-out attack of the state in all areas of socio-political reality. Understaffed hospitals where people are dying without even having the possibility of a decent hospitalization, labor sweatshops where workers are murdered as security measures are non-existent, uniformed scumbags chasing and shooting unarmed minors because they are Roma in the name of property and security, arrests with inflated charges linking people to organizations because of friendly relations. These are all examples that display the dystopia that the rulers want to establish. [...] We take responsibility for the arson of a BRINKS security company vehicle in the Triandrias area on the evening of 16 April.

For an international revolutionary solidarity

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from Fuori dalla riserva via Dark Nights

“…I think that the new can only come from their collision (of anarchist terrorism and creative anarchy), because life is contrast: rational and irrational, hate and love, everything but the mortal, static “balance”. Harmony is the daughter of “imbalance”, of chaos. “*

Well, what has been hovering for a while has finally manifested itself: on May 5, the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, already detained in the AS2 section [High Security 2; Att.Nt) of the Terni prison, received the notification of the application of the 41 bis against him.

Assembly for the relaunch of revolutionary solidarity

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from Athens Indymedia

On May 25th, a hearing is scheduled at the Court of Cassation (Appeal) in Rome, for the "Scripta Manent" case, in which some anarchist comrades are being charged for association with crimes for the purposes of terrorism and provocation of massacres that carry heavy penalties. Among them is Alfredo Cospito, who has already served nine years for the wounding of Roberto Adinolfi, managing director of Ansaldo Nuclear. A few days before the hearing, our comrade was transferred to the 41 bis section of Terni prison. The 41 bis is under a regime of torture and annihilation, a hard prison justified with the fight against the Mafia.

Poster: Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, anarchist imprisoned in 41 bis

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from Fuori dalla riserva via Dark Nights

On May 5, imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito was notified of his transfer from “High Security 2” to 41 bis. The decree was ordered by Justice Minister Marta Cartabia. The 41 bis is an afflictive penitentiary regime that provides for: isolation and silence, the absence of sociability and any internal activity, censorship of correspondence and the blocking of a good part of it, one hour of monthly interview with the dividing glass, recording of the interview itself, ten minutes of phone calls per month with an authorized and forced family member from a barracks, the prohibition to receive and buy newspapers and books, and the limitation in the availability of objects inside the cell.

University asylum, campus cops and student struggles in Europe

from Freedom News UK

Features,

Anarchist students consider New Democracy’s intervention in Greek universities in the broader context of an EU-wide remaking of education along neoliberal lines. This is the second of a two-part series: Part one, Greek Cops Out of our Universities! is here.

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