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Madrid, Spain: Bringing the war home: about the defence of the occupied house Higueras in Tetuán

fr:Squat!net / Monday, October 25, 2021
In the early summer of 2021, Higueras (the fig trees), a squat in the Madrid neighbourhood of Tetuán, underwent the siege of a company that specializes in squat evictions. In the Spanish state many security companies sell their eviction services in a not exactly legal way but with the State’s complicity. Higueras managed to overcome this first siege, but a legal procedure is in progress. In the Spanish territory, evictions of housing, whether by cops or security guards, are often met with some resistance, which involves a gathering in front of the house with more or less tension, which attracts the media. Indeed, squatting is a favorite subject of the media and politicians there, much more than in France. Other forms of resistance exist: demonstrations in response, sabotage or symbolic occupations.
A few people have written a text giving their vision and some ideas on the forms that solidarity could take. Despite the difference in context, this text could enrich reflection and action as the police, thugs, landlords and media attack our homes and our spaces.
Toulouse, October 2021
Resistance to squat and rental evictions tends to be a struggle in which those resisting and those in solidarity don’t have the initiative. First of all, for many evictions we don’t even know on what day the repressive forces will appear. If you are dealing with thugs, the vagueness can be even greater. In any case, wearing down can weaken the resistance, and the state as well as the owners know this. In the first few days, when the eviction alert is issued, the solidarity response is powerful in numbers, but unsurprisingly forces diminish after a few days. Moreover, most evictions take place in the morning, when many people are at work or in class. This is also why there are fewer comrades available.

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Bern, Switzerland: fire against Securitas

Translated from German by Barrikade, 21 October 2021
In Bern yesterday night, October 21, a car of Contrafeu, a subsidiary of the Securitas Group, was set on fire. As long as Securitas profits from control, violence and coercion, they will be attacked.
Much has already been written about the role of Securitas in the detention regime for asylum seekers*.

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Oyonnax, Ain, France: cameras collected by the shovelful

Video surveillance cameras destroyed and a mast cut with a disc cutter in Oyonnax
Le Progrès, 18 October 2021
At around 8.30pm on Sunday 17 October, a small group of individuals destroyed a video surveillance camera at the corner of the rue de la Forge and rue Saint-Exupéry.
A video, which has since been circulating on WhatsApp in particular, (…) shows a group of people, wearing hoods, attacking the pole, using a disc cutter. In less than two minutes, the pole falls to the ground. The camera is then destroyed. The police did not have time to arrest the individuals.

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Joué-lès-Tours, Indre-et-Loir, France: school cattle truck gets heatstroke

Joué-lès-Tours: a school bus set on fire in La Vallée Violette
La Nouvelle République/France bleu, 20 October 2021 (extract)
Emotion and suspicion in the district of La Vallée Violette, this Wednesday 20 October in Joué-lès-Tours. A bus belonging to the Millet company, parked on rue Claude Bernard, was destroyed by fire last night at around 1:25am. The driver had to transport secondary school students from Saché and Pont-de-Ruan.

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Nîmes (Gard): sabotaging the daily train-train [routine]

Bus depot ransacked in Nîmes

France bleu Gard Lozère/Midi Libre, 18 October 2021
This Monday morning, several lines of the Tango network, the public transport network of Nîmes, were out of service.
The ransacking of eleven buses took place in the storage depot of a subcontractor of Nîmes Métropole public transport located in Mas de Cheylon. “It is an act of vandalism. Windows have been broken and seats slashed. The eleven vehicles are inoperative. Eight coaches are involved,” explains Ludovic Martin, general manager of Tango-Transdev.

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Berlin (Germany): With a smile on our faces – Covivo office hit with hammers

de.indymedia.org / Sunday 17 October 2021
Last Friday night was probably one of the best nights of the year. While earlier the eviction of the Köpi-Wagenplatz by a huge amount of cops had caused a feeling of helplessness, the night was quite the opposite.
Several thousand people took to the streets of Kreuzberg and expressed their anger in a self-determined way. Everything went well; the cops couldn’t get their lines in place, wild demonstrations broke out on all sides, the cops and their cars were overwhelmed, property managers, trendy cafes and hotels took their toll.

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Barcelona, Spain : Banner denouncing the state murder of Nikos Sambanis by DIAS bike cops scum in Perama, Attica on 22/10/21, at the tattoo circus in Barcelona

30/10/21
October 29 marked one week from the night when three different groups of DIAS cops on bikes chased then shot more than 35 bullets at some people inside a car that did not stop at a “signal”. The chase ended in Perama where bullets from 7 different service weapons wounded one and killed another of the guys in the car. 7 cops shooting at three unarmed minors in cold blood. Nikos Sabanis, 18 years old, was killed by state fire. In their declarations they identify the suspects as Roma and inform the centre that they have no wounded. The nation is informed that 6 police officers are in hospital and of course that they had no intention to kill or knowledge of the suspects’ identity. The infamous Kougias solicitor takes on the killers and the interrogator decides that it is not necessary to keep them in custody.
We are still watching the same play 13 years after the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos by cops Korkoneas – Saraliotis who continue to walk in our midst. In fact, the state apparatus and the fascists of the far-right are trying to increase our consumability and strengthen their media narrative. Killing by cops in Athens like their counterparts in America and the statements by ruling fascists about defence from the side of the killers are signs of the times and as such we take note of them.
We for our part, the oppressed, exploited, struggling, rebellious must take action while capital, states and fascists are arming themselves. As a minimal gesture to denounce this state murder in Greece we put up a banner on the opening day of the tattoo circus in Barcelona. This event is organized to provide material support for political prisoners and to strengthen the solidarity movement.
WE DO NOT FORGET OUR DEAD, WE DO NOT FORGIVE THOSE RESPONSIBLE
WHOEVER FORGETS THE PRISONERS OF THE STRUGGLE FORGETS THE STRUGGLE ITSELF
COPS, T.V., NEO-NAZIS, ALL THE BASTARDS WORK TOGETHER.
Gypsies – Choriyuri

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more photos from the Tattoo Circus 29, 30 y 31, 2021 Banc Expropiat in Barcelona

Via: athens.indymedia.
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29/10/21
Also a Banner in the Gracia area of Barcelona about the murder of Nikos Sambanis in Perama, Athens by the Greek police.
From Barcelona to Athens states are murdering.

via: https://athens.indymedia

EN/IT : Call for International solidarity through subversive action around COP26 ( Glasgow, Scotland)

received by email:
Who are we?
We are a group of friends, comrades and accomplices who are organising in various capacities in Glasgow, Scotland.
On COP26
Between the 31st of October and the 12th of November, representatives  of state and capital are going to descend upon Glasgow in the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP26). If we look at previous and historical UN attempts to “tackle” climate change, all we can find is three decades of inaction and greenwashing. There is no evidence that COP26 will be any different; in fact, this conference seems to be reaching new heights of hypocrisy, smugness and arrogance.

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EN/IT: Athens,Greece: What happen in Perama area,on Saturday 23/10/21

In the early hours of Saturday 23/10/21, 7 bike cops were chasing a car they thought was stolen. In it were three young guys, which the cops recognized as roma. A bit later, there were 38 fire-shots, aimed not at the tires of the car (in their supposed attempt to stop it), but higher; in a clear attempt to injure/murder the passengers of the car. All shots were fired by the cops. The three young guys were unarmed. Nikos Sampanis, the 18-year-old co-driver was instantly killed, as he was hit with 2 bullets on the chest. A 16-year-old is injured and still in hospital and the 14-year-old driver ran away amidst gunfire. The cops were initially arrested and were charged with the felony of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.
A few minutes after their *arrest*, Spyridon Georgiadis, Minister for Development and Investment, tweeted his congratulations to the murderous cops. The Citizen Protection Minister, Takis Theodorikakos, paid them a visit in jail. For “symbolic reasons” as he stated.

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Solidarity with the four persecuted comrades for the eviction of Gare (Athens,Greece)

On September 29, the trial against two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in Evelpidon Court in Athens. On November 26, 2017 the four persons were arrested during the eviction of Gare Squat, in the Athens district of Exarcheia. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted serious bodily harm, refusal of forensic identification and possession of explosive materials and explosive bombs. This eviction was the first of three upcomings in which the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released on conditions or bail and now, almost four years later, have to appear in court. Almost one month after the arrest of the anarchist revolutionary Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis, who was for 1.5 years undeground, accused for being a member of the guerrila group “Revolutionary Selfdefense” and one of the four arrested during the eviction of Gare on November 2017.
Gare was a squatted house in Exarhia area, in the center of Athens. For many years was a living space actively going against private property and the establishment of a house as a commodity.Trying to promote a communal way of life in which terms like private were always questionable.

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TURKEY: THREE DAF MEMBERS ARRESTED

Three people from the Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (DAF) who wrote about the October 10 massacre in Ankara Yenimahalle were detained. The detained DAF members were taken to the courthouse after being transferred to the Yenimahalle District Police Department.
The accusation made by the prosecutor against the revolutionaries who wrote “October 10 will be held to account” was “inciting the people to hatred and enmity”.

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Chelyabinsk, Russia: 2 anarchists imprisoned for placing banner with words “FSB — Main Terrorist” outside Federal Security Service [successor of KGB] building

Couple In Russia Handed Prison Terms For Actions Criticizing FSB, Pension Reform
A court in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk has handed prison terms to a couple who protested the arrest of a group of activists and criticized pension reform.
Pavel Chikov of the legal defense organization Agora wrote on his Telegram channel that the Central District court in the Ural’s city on September 10 sentenced Dmitry Tsibukovsky to 2 1/2 years and his wife, Anastasia Safonova, to two years in prison.

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Santiago, Chile: Claim for Explosive Attack Against the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies (ANEPE)

via: es-contrainfo translated by Act for freedom now!
Received 10/18/2021:
Two years after the October Revolt, there has been no retribution.
May our practices empower and move towards a new urban guerrilla
Because fighting the impunity of the murderers, mutilators and torturers will be our victory.
On the night of October 17, we placed an explosive device inside the headquarters of the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies (ANEPE), on the eve of a new commemoration of the October revolt.
This dive is a collaborator in matters of State security and maintenance of public order, carrying out permanent academic activities intended for police forces, in terms of intelligence, investigative and counterinsurgency strategies. It is a repressive body under the Ministry of Defence which also shares knowledge internationally with States such as Spain, Colombia, Israel, etc.
Different academics of this den of Power have written about anarchist practices and tendencies, trying to analyze our ideas, dynamics and proposals, with texts including alleged studies about international projects (Black International/FAI-FRI) or the current overview of our milieus.
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IT/EN: Grenoble,Francia : Tattoo Circus en soutien aux prisonnier.e.s anarchistes en italie 30 Ott, 2021 – 1 Nov, 2021

Tattoo circus a sostegno delle prigionierx anarchicx in italia.
Dal 30 ottobre al 1 novembre a Grenoble.
Tre giorni di tatuaggi, piercing, distro e discussioni contro le prigioni.
Tutti i giorni a partire dalle 11:30 fino a tarda sera.
Le discussioni in programma:
Sabato 30 – h14 : Punto sulla repressione dell’anarchichx in italia
Domenica 31 – h14 : Aggiornamenti sulla situazione di Boris e discussione sulle lotte contro le tecnologie e le galere
Lunedi 1 – Giornata in mistità scelta: senza uomini etero cis
La Cafarde
36, Rue du Drac
Grenoble
Francia
Per maggiori info: tattoocircusgrenoble @ riseup.net
via: roundrobin.info

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EN:
Tattoo circus in support of anarchist prisoners in italy.
From October 30 to November 1 in Grenoble.
Three days of tattoos, piercings, distros and discussions against prisons.
Every day from 11:30 am until late in the evening.
Scheduled discussions:
Saturday 30 – h14 : Point on the repression of anarchism in italy
Sunday 31 – h14 : Updates on Boris’ situation and discussion on the struggles against technologies and jails
Monday 1 – Day in mixed chosen: without straight men cis
La Cafarde
36, Rue du Drac
Grenoble
France
For more info: tattoocircusgrenoble @ riseup.net
by darknights

ES/EN/:Tattoo Circus 29, 30 y 31 ,2021 Banc Expropiat (BARCELONA, ESPAÑA)

· · TATTOO CIRCUS · ·
KCN – Banc Expropiat C/Quevedo 13-15
29, 30 y 31 de Octubre de 10H a 21H
< Porque amamos la tinta, porque odiamos las cárceles >
El Tattoo Circus es un encuentro anual enfocado a la recaudación de fondos para el apoyo a presxs o proyectos antirepresivos mediante la realización de tatuajes, piercings, escarificaciones o cualquier otra forma de modificación corporal, charlas, comedores veganos, conciertos, exposiciones y talleres.
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* No se tolerarán actitudes de mierda
* Por favor, entiende que este no es el lugar para gestionar/solucionar
conflictos.
* En caso de emergencia acude a la barra o la mesa de tattoo y pide
ayuda a la organización del evento.
* Nosotres hemos dejado les perris en casa, hazlo tu también.
· ESPACIOS PERMANENTES ·
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