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hardly any trees left, they continue to cut and clear; where concrete kills fertile soil forever, they continue to build; where people want to live in peace, they are evicted; where people want to be as they are, they are killed; where there could be air to breathe and room to grow, they impose bureaucratic forms with guidelines; where beings could meet, there are… CARS!Turin, Italy – Gathering outside the court in solidarity with the comrades on trial for operation Scintilla
Actforfree updates, notes: Italy: Op. “Prometeo’’ – Beppe, Robert and Nat acquittedand some info news about ”operation Scintilla”
via: roundrobin.info Translated by act for freedom now!
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Solidarity gathering outside the Court in Turin, 7th October at 10:30am
Gathering outside the CPR [detention centre for migrants] in Turin, 9th October at 4pm
Operation Scintilla was unleashed in Turin on 7th February 2019. That day Asilo, a historic occupation from where various struggles in the neighbourhoods of Aurora and Barriera di Milano had been organized over the years, was evicted. There was a strong determined reaction to the eviction involving hundreds of people who carried out initiatives and actions of solidarity over the days that followed.
Chile: URGENT! On the recent illness detected in the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar and his delicate health situation
Translated by darknights
In the first months of 2021, Francisco together with other anarchist and subversive prisoners carried out a hunger strike that lasted more than 50 days against the modification of Decree Law 321 and for the immediate release of Marcelo Villarroel.
In 2010 Francisco had already put his body as a barricade of combat in another strike of more than 60 days in the framework of the Bombs Case.
It is during the last mobilization that several blood tests were taken from Francisco by the prison administration, including a suspicious situation, where Francisco was urgently admitted to the prison hospital due to the bad result in the blood tests, but a few minutes later the jailers recanted and alluded to a mistake, returning him to prison.
Montreal ,Canada : Rail Lines Blockaded in Solidarity with Gidimt’en Week of Action
More than 50 people blockaded five parallel rail lines outside a CN rail yard in Point Saint Charles, Montreal for more than an hour and a half this Saturday, October 9th. We were there to support the Wet’suwet’en fight to defend their territory against the Coastal GasLink pipeline. There were two banners, one saying “#AllOutForWedzinKwa 1312” and the other “All Out For Wet’suwet’en #ShutDownCanada”. Multiple trains were stopped and some rerouted, and some still seemed be sitting idle on the tracks for at least an hour after the blockade ended. Maybe because of a backlog, or an inspection of the tracks.
We decided to leave as a demo, walking down the tracks for a while then and switching to the streets of the surrounding neighbourhood, chanting slogans against colonization and the police, and in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders. Some groups of young people were clearly excited to see us, took flyers, and followed behind us for a while before we dispersed. We significantly outnumbered the police who showed up, and they kept their distance. There were no arrests.
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RBC Targeted in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders (Montreal, Canada)
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
Canada is a lie. Reconciliation is dead. After night fell on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, RBC was targeted in the center of Montreal’s financial district. The Royal Bank of Canada is an investor in the Coastal GasLink pipeline. While they stage orange shirt photo ops to proclaim their commitment to reconciliation, CGL is attempting to drill under Wedzin Kwa, the sacred headwaters of the Wet’suwet’en people, with the help of the RCMP threatening, arresting, and torturing land defenders.
By morning they covered up the message we left them: “RBC funds colonialism. CGL off the Yintah”. Ashamed, RBC?
Reconciling with Canada’s genocidal history means confronting the institutions and infrastructures that reproduce colonial violence in the present. CGL, its investors, and the RCMP are playing with fire by prolonging their occupation of Wet’suwet’en territory.
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[EN/GR]: Εβδομαδιαίο Πρόγραμμα Ζιζανίων 11-16/10 – Weekly Schedule of Zizania 10-16/10 (Athens,Greece)
WEEKLY SCHEDUE OF ZIZANIA
Tuesday: 4-7pm Mutual aid structure assembly
We invite anyone who is interested in participating in the mutual aid structure of the squat in order to meet each other and discuss how to organise its functions. The structure will run the kitchen, food distribution and the freeshop that already existed, while exploring ways of covering other needs as well.
Come to meet and organise the cover of our needs collectivelly, self-organised, horizontal.
Greece: text written by comrade Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis on the occasion of the trial for the first police raid in squat GARE in November 2017
Here is the translation in English of the text written by comrade Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis on the occasion of the trial for the first police raid in squat GARE in November 2017.
At this eviction four comrades were arrested on heavy charges, two members of the squat and two comrades from squat Rigear94 (Berlin). This trial will take place, after getting postponed twice, on Wednesday 29th of Septembre ’21, in Evelpidon courts (Athens).
Across all borders, the enemy has the same face. Solidarity is our weapon. Defend squats, defend freedom.
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This text written by comrade Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis in 2020
Few words about the historical meaning of squats
The modern squatting movement in Europe began developing half a century ago, mainly in Germany and Italy, in a period of outburst of the revolutionary struggle, especially in those two countries. It was a social territorialization of the revolutionary power of that time. Squats invaded into history as a radicalized social ground within an a-social desert and against the class pacification policies of post-war Central Europe. With this character, the example was conveyed to the greek scene, in the period of post-modern musolinist PASOK and the coalition governments that followed. Historically, the squats were and remain “gates” for the highly fragmented social body into the anti-capitalist movement, gates of the social body towards revolutionary self-determination.
The identification of squats in general with the escapist mentality, with existing trends of alternativism and with policies of their assimilation, is counter-movement propaganda and slander inspired by political parties. In reality, this anti-squatting criticism contributes only to such directions and this is what it pursues in order to confirm itself.
(Rigaer94) First statement on the raid of 6th of October, 2021 (Germany,Berlin)
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 17th 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.
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International Solidarity with Le Marbré – Let’s Defend our spaces – Attack the city of the rich (France)
Le marbré opened its doors in september 2020, since then the marble dust and rockwool has made room for a living space and a space of radical autonomous* and self-organized political organisation. Diverse ideas carrying a discourse against market logic, against capitalism and all oppression , on the search of a rupture with the state and all existing cross and meet in this space. Some of the bigger lines around whichpeople around Marbré organize are housing, anti-gentrification, social struggles, encarceration, specism, feminism and borders. The place is organised through an open general assembly and happy to welcome new people and groups.
Some words on the situation
We met a first eviction in february 2021, but succefully reopened the building the next day which gave us a lot of strength. Since september 2021 we are facing a new threat following our eviction process. The ruling received in june 2021 admitted us cumulative delays of 3 month + a 2 months grace period + the winter eviction break(1.11-1.4.). But thebailiff seems deaf on that ear: he signed a request to leave the space by september 23. Our legal strategy is an appeal to the executive court (JEX) to go against this interpreatiion by the bailiff and a hearing took place on october 5. The JEX’s decision though will take until the
16th of november, several weeks during which the place technically stays evictable. Our political strategy has been to mobilize to the maximum of our capacities from september 23 to october 5 with different activities everyday, we invited local squats and collectives and prepared ourselves
for Day X. We are of course staying mobilized after the fifth and there are more workshops, discussion and so on taking place at marbré for as long as we manage to keep the place. We are learning how to collectively deal with stress, fatigue and the fear of loosing the space. We are exploring solidarity together and sharing knowledge and skills. The perspective of the eviction is of course worrying, but we also see it as possibility to live a strong collective experience and want to give all we have for it even if we’re just at the beginning of this marathon. Continue reading International Solidarity with Le Marbré – Let’s Defend our spaces – Attack the city of the rich (France)
Athens,Greece: Solidarity gathering at the appeal court of Anarchist comrade M.Seisidis
Friday 8 October 2021, at 11:00 am, solidarity gathering at the court of appeal trial continues of comrade Marios Seisidis for his alleged participation in the robbery of the National Bank in 2006 in Athens.
SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIOS SEISIDIS
NO HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
Anarchists
Solidarity from Athens (Greece)
imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks to raise material aid for anarchist prisoners while fostering communication between anarchists on both sides of the walls.