Today's Topics:
1. Anarchist Political Organisation APO: Demonastration -
Thessaloniki International Fair 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, Three Lamia: Information from the anti-fascist
protection Iot Spot Thermopylae (3/9) (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ucl-saguenay: Declaration of anarchist Emma Goldman
Collective in Saguenay (fr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. anarkismo.net: Announcement of Nationally Coordinated
Prisoner Workstoppage for Sept 9, 2016 by Support Prisoner
Resistance - Free Alabama Movement - IWOC (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. A-Radio Berlin - Antifenix: Interview on the repression
against anarchists in Czech (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The global attack by the state and bosses on the majority of society modulates an ambit
characterized by a constant enforcement of new, rougher terms of exploitation and
repression. In to line with state and capitalism, todays political system is pushing
relentlessly to enforce those terms. ---- The constant antisocial terms, the economic
exploitation, the social repression, the intensification of war to the capitalist
periphery, the further reinforcement of Fortress Europe, the immigrants’ and refuges’
murders at the borders and their debarment from the social life by their confinement to
detention centers, the state and para-state attacks against migrants’ housing squats and
the sentence of solidarity lead to a world of state and capitalism in an absolute
bankruptcy incapable of promise anything else than wretchedness, poverty, repression,
cannibalism, war and death.
We have to fight against state and capitalist repression that throw up poverty and death.
By collaborative resistance let’s stand against the onslaught of modern totalitarianism.
Let’s stand in solidarity with immigrants’ and refuges’ struggle, for the affiliation of
the struggle with the oppressed and exploited. For the rebuild of a new and
self-management society based on dignity, justice, freedom and solidarity οn the wreckage
of the world of power, state and capital.
LET’S STRENGTHEN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STRUGGLE
FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION ANARCHY AND LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM
Thessaloniki International Fair 2016
Demonstration: Saturday 10 September 17:00, Kamara
Anarchist Political Organisation (APO) – Federation of Collectives
apo.squathost.com | anpolorg@gmail.com
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Message: 2
The Saturday, September 3, held anti-fascist protection at HOT SPOT of Thermopylae, in
order to ensure the physical integrity of 350+ refugees and migrants / three, by fascist
thugs of the Golden Dawn, who held their annual gathering at the statue of Leonidas, few
meters next door. - Through the calls, the Assembly and the local Solidarity Initiative,
about fifty people gathered gradually from the morning until late in the afternoon, on the
site of the camp. - Are the police forces, impressive in number, with blue squads, OPKE,
cops, tzipakia, patrol, etc., made a barrier between us and the meeting point of the
fascists. ---- Throughout the duration of the guard, locals and foreigners together,
supervised around the area of the camp, while in three cases before the start of
fasistosynaxis two miles and one walk, fascists attempted to reach, but the repellent
directly.
The number of fascists estimated around 300-350 people.
The assembled comrades / -isses and solidarity / s, leaving the site of the camp at night
much later than the official end of fasistosynaxis, only when we were absolutely sure how
all fascists had finally departed from the area.
To restore the truth, we learned that the fascists, faithful to the teachings of Goebbels,
spread rumors how our antifascist calls, calling for concentration in their own pool, the
statue, which is not true, and how from Dili never appeared. It is not the first time
however that the fascists kept phony wins, phony pooled numbers (thousands ...), staged
and fake photos "testimonial evidence". Their whole this sacred "event", ostensibly for
their "ancestors" is nothing more than a copy and then the Nazi concentration "price to
Aryan White Man" made its occupying troops German first time in the same place and with
exactly the same way.
However, at some point and the kinematic world, you should start a meaningful
conversation, for the final smashing and this nationwide fasistosynaxis Golden Dawn ...
WE LIVE TOGETHER, WORK TOGETHER
GREEK AND FOREIGN Crushed THE NAZI
Assembly of Anarchists antiauthoritarians / -Three Lamia, a member of the Anarchist Federation
https://anarxikoilamias.squat.gr
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Message: 3
Hereby, the Collectif anarchist Emma Goldman wishes to recognize certain breaches in
recent years and apologize to those who have broken their trust. The facts are discussed
in connection with the behavior of a man participating in collective past few years.
Despite repeated interventions and several organizational rifts at different times of the
facts reported were reproduced. There is no doubt in our minds that too little has been
done to change the situation and that, even considering our limited resources. These
errors and difficulties will not cause us to give up or to reconsider the importance of
the fight for a libertarian social transformation. We accept our collective responsibility
for these failures and have therefore modified our interventions accordingly.
Consequently, the participation of man referred to in the collective has been and remains
conditional on recognition of the injuries and a concrete commitment to take the necessary
steps to that the facts happen again.
This story allows us to observe all the difficulties that represent transformative justice
among activists and progressive circles. Despite the pitfalls, give up in the feeling of
impotence appears to us as the solution to only be a last resort. We advocate with
ordinary people and our environment is not free of social problems around us. That is to
say that we do not conceive the life of an anarchist collective in Saguenay as an
experiment in isolation. However, without being the absolute model of our aspirations, we
have strived to be a laboratory of alternative practices rooted in local realities. The
foreshadowing of non-oppressive social relations remains for us an integral part of the
libertarian commitment. It is on this basis that we wish to apply the necessary measures
to end the denounced behaviors and attitudes. We also open the door to those who would
like to testify, discuss problems experienced e and-or who would suggest interventions in
the process . You can reach us at: cegsaglac@riseup.net anarchist Emma Goldman Collective
September 9, 2016
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2016/09/declaration-du-collectif-anarchiste.html
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Message: 4
Prisoners from across the United States have just released this call to action for a
nationally coordinated prisoner workstoppage against prison slavery to take place on
September 9th, 2016. ---- This is a Call to Action Against Slavery in America ---- In one
voice, rising from the cells of long term solitary confinement, echoed in the dormitories
and cell blocks from Virginia to Oregon, we prisoners across the United States vow to
finally end slavery in 2016. ---- Announcement of Nationally Coordinated Prisoner
Workstoppage for Sept 9, 2016 ---- On September 9th of 1971 prisoners took over and shut
down Attica, New York State's most notorious prison. On September 9th of 2016, we will
begin an action to shut down prisons all across this country. We will not only demand the
end to prison slavery, we will end it ourselves by ceasing to be slaves.
In the 1970s the US prison system was crumbling. In Walpole, San Quentin, Soledad, Angola
and many other prisons, people were standing up, fighting and taking ownership of their
lives and bodies back from the plantation prisons. For the last six years we have
remembered and renewed that struggle. In the interim, the prisoner population has
ballooned and technologies of control and confinement have developed into the most
sophisticated and repressive in world history. The prisons have become more dependent on
slavery and torture to maintain their stability.
Prisoners are forced to work for little or no pay. That is slavery. The 13th amendment to
the US constitution maintains a legal exception for continued slavery in US prisons. It
states "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."
Overseers watch over our every move, and if we do not perform our appointed tasks to their
liking, we are punished. They may have replaced the whip with pepper spray, but many of
the other torments remain: isolation, restraint positions, stripping off our clothes and
investigating our bodies as though we are animals.
Slavery is alive and well in the prison system, but by the end of this year, it won't be
anymore. This is a call to end slavery in America. This call goes directly to the slaves
themselves. We are not making demands or requests of our captors, we are calling ourselves
to action. To every prisoner in every state and federal institution across this land, we
call on you to stop being a slave, to let the crops rot in the plantation fields, to go on
strike and cease reproducing the institutions of your confinement.
This is a call for a nation-wide prisoner work stoppage to end prison slavery, starting on
September 9th, 2016. They cannot run these facilities without us.
Non-violent protests, work stoppages, hunger strikes and other refusals to participate in
prison routines and needs have increased in recent years. The 2010 Georgia prison strike,
the massive rolling California hunger strikes, the Free Alabama Movement's 2014 work
stoppage, have gathered the most attention, but they are far from the only demonstrations
of prisoner power. Large, sometimes effective hunger strikes have broken out at Ohio State
Penitentiary, at Menard Correctional in Illinois, at Red Onion in Virginia as well as many
other prisons. The burgeoning resistance movement is diverse and interconnected, including
immigrant detention centers, women's prisons and juvenile facilities. Last fall, women
prisoners at Yuba County Jail in California joined a hunger strike initiated by women held
in immigrant detention centers in California, Colorado and Texas.
Prisoners all across the country regularly engage in myriad demonstrations of power on the
inside. They have most often done so with convict solidarity, building coalitions across
race lines and gang lines to confront the common oppressor.
Forty-five years after Attica, the waves of change are returning to America's prisons.
This September we hope to coordinate and generalize these protests, to build them into a
single tidal shift that the American prison system cannot ignore or withstand. We hope to
end prison slavery by making it impossible, by refusing to be slaves any longer.
To achieve this goal, we need support from people on the outside. A prison is an
easy-lockdown environment, a place of control and confinement where repression is built
into every stone wall and chain link, every gesture and routine. When we stand up to these
authorities, they come down on us, and the only protection we have is solidarity from the
outside. Mass incarceration, whether in private or state-run facilities is a scheme where
slave catchers patrol our neighborhoods and monitor our lives. It requires mass
criminalization. Our tribulations on the inside are a tool used to control our families
and communities on the outside. Certain Americans live every day under not only the threat
of extra-judicial execution-as protests surrounding the deaths of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice,
Sandra Bland and so many others have drawn long overdue attention to-but also under the
threat of capture, of being thrown into these plantations, shackled and forced to work.
Our protest against prison slavery is a protest against the school to prison pipeline, a
protest against police terror, a protest against post-release controls. When we abolish
slavery, they'll lose much of their incentive to lock up our children, they'll stop
building traps to pull back those who they've released. When we remove the economic motive
and grease of our forced labor from the US prison system, the entire structure of courts
and police, of control and slave-catching must shift to accommodate us as humans, rather
than slaves.
Prison impacts everyone, when we stand up and refuse on September 9th, 2016, we need to
know our friends, families and allies on the outside will have our backs. This spring and
summer will be seasons of organizing, of spreading the word, building the networks of
solidarity and showing that we're serious and what we're capable of.
Step up, stand up, and join us.
Against prison slavery.
For liberation of all.
Find more information, updates and organizing materials and opportunities at the following
websites:
-SupportPrisonerResistance.net
-FreeAlabamaMovement.com
-IWOC.noblogs.org
Related Link: https://supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29600
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Message: 5
Dear all, In the context of the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
(23.-30th of August 2016), we had the opportunity of talking to a comrade from Anarchist
Black Cross (ABC) in Czech Republic. The interview gives a short summary of the repression
that started in 2015 and explains the singular cases and their current development, but
deals also with the problems the movement had in the beginning to show solidarity. Last
but not least, you get very good advice on the topic of solidarity and what to do
yourselves. ---- Since the interview, another comrade is in prison. Lukáš Borl, who had
been living underground, has been arrested by the police on September 4. ---- You'll find
the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes)
here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/09/08/a-radio-in-english-antifenix-interview-on-the-repression-against-anarchists-in-czech/
Length: 22:30 min
You can find other English and Spanish language audios here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/.
Among our last audios you can find:
* Reflections on the NoBorder Camp Thessaloniki 2016:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/08/25/a-radio-in-english-reflections-on-the-noborder-camp-thessaloniki-2016/
* An interview about the ongoing defense of the Rog factory squat in
Ljubljana:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/06/17/interview-on-the-defense-of-the-rog-factory-squat-in-ljubljana/
* An audio recording of a former anarchist prisoner in Belarus who tells
about his experiences in jail and how he survived:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/03/28/a-radio-in-english-belarus-former-anarchist-prisoner-about-his-experiences-on-how-to-survive-jail/
* An interview on an anarchosyndicalist struggle in vegan pizzeria in
Berlin:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/03/28/a-radio-in-english-belarus-former-anarchist-prisoner-about-his-experiences-on-how-to-survive-jail/
* An interview with the Anarchist Federation in Britain about its Safer
Spaces policy (about feminism and conflict resolution):
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/02/26/a-radio-in-english-feminism-and-conflict-resolution-the-anarchist-federation-britain-and-its-safer-spaces-policy/
* Mediterranean 4: An interview with the workers of the self-managed
soap factory Vio.me in Thessaloniki:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/24/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-4-the-self-managed-soap-factory-vio-me-in-thessaloniki/
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