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EN/FR/IT/ES Updates about the situation of Claudio Lavazza (France)

Updates about the situation of Claudio Lavazza
The prosecutor Céline Bucau of the Mont de Marsan Court, after months of pretexts and procrastination to avoid pronouncing the total amount of years that Claudio still has to serve, yesterday – January 11 – came to the decision that the concurrent sentence (of his Spanish and French sentence) should amount to 30 years.
The French justice system thus adds 5 years (out of the 10 years to which Claudio was sentenced for bank robbery in France) to the 25 year Spanish sentence.
Now that the concurrent sentence has been defined, the lawyer can present an appeal to the Appeal Court of Pau for our comrade to be released on parole. The parole possibilities are going to be considered based on the years he has already served (25 years). Continue reading EN/FR/IT/ES Updates about the situation of Claudio Lavazza (France) →
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More Smashed Windows for RBC (Canada)

We noticed RBC is having some trouble replacing their broken windows. We’re going to chalk it up to supply chain delays that all of the branches that had their windows smashed two months ago still have tape and plywood patching up their facades. Meanwhile, RBC continues to fund Coastal GasLink, so on a recent night in late December, we gave them four more windowpanes to replace at the branch at the corner of Monkland and Harvard in Notre-Dame-des-Grâces.
Sending love and strength to Coyote Camp and land defenders everywhere.
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
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Hamilton: RBC Attacked for Funding CGL Pipeline (Canada)

There’s lots of smack to be said about Santa and, as anarchists, we aren’t big cheerleaders for the bearded guy; but we can appreciate that his sneaking game is on point. So a few of us celebrated this year by doing some sneaking of our own.
Late into the night on Christmas 2021, a call was answered to attack the banks and funding sources of the CGL pipeline that is being forced on the Wet’suwet’en people. Banks – like RBC – are very easy targets as they have many branches across the cities we live in that are relatively unguarded at night. A Hamilton branch, on Upper James, was one such branch visited and redecorated.

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ITALY: THE CENSORSHIP OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR ALFREDO COSPITO WAS RENEWED

We inform that in January the censorship of correspondence (incoming and outgoing) to anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, currently imprisoned for a 20-year sentence in the ‘Scripta Manent’ trial, was renewed. We remind that censorship was also previously ordered between September and December 2021.
Alfredo was recently subject of an arrest order in the context of the ‘Sibilla’ operation of November 11, as he is accused of incitement to commit crimes with the aggravating circumstance of the purpose of terrorism, in relation to the publication of the anarchist paper ‘Vetriolo’. The arrest order was subsequently annulled by the court of re-examination of Perugia on December 16, while the case against all the investigated comrades remains open.
Revolutionary solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists.
The address of the comrade:
Alfredo Cospito
Casa Circondariale di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni (Italy)

Library

Zündlumpen: An Anthology – Part 1 #1-85, Feb. 2019 – Sep. 2021. (Munich, Germany) 

Zündlumpen: An Anthology – Part 1      
#1-85, Feb. 2019 – Sep. 2021. Munich. 
For reading
For printing (A4)
For printing (Letter)
  • The Destruction of Individual and Collective Healing Knowledge and the Rise of Medicine
  • Inoculated
  • Of human experimentation, genetics and the subjugation of humans: A foray into the world of medicine
  • Quarantine…
  • Corona and the totalitarianism of the technological 
  • If not now, when? 
  • Rebellion in times of the curfew
  • Everything in Perfect Order
  • Fragments for an insurgent struggle against militarism and the world that needs it
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Words of the subversive comrades Pablo Bahamondes and Marcelo Villarroel for “Antikarceral and Kounterkultural Day”

Words of the subversive comrades Pablo Bahamondes and Marcelo Villarroel for “Antikarceral and Kounterkultural Day”
Note: These words were read in their entirety at the “Antikarceral and Kounterkultural Day” that took place in the Simón Bolívar neighbourhood in the commune of Quinta Normal in Santiago on December 18 in solidarity with the subversive prisoners Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz and Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda.
ANTIKARCERAL GREETING ACTIVITY SIMÓN BOLÍVAR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Behind these walls we send our komplicit and affectionate greetings to all those who are attending this antikarceral and kounterkultural day.
The resistance to confinement is a daily challenge that reflects in part our life experiences marked by permanent learning in the kontinuity of the struggle that we have decided to carry out.

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“Between the weichan and the social war: An urgent and necessary path of encounters”. Words of Marcelo Villarroel for the activity “Complicity in Resistance”. (Chile)

We share the following words of Marcelo Villarroel sent for the activity “Complicity in Resistance” carried out by Espacio Fénix on December 12 at the Comedor Popular Luisa Toledo in solidarity with the autonomy of the Mapuche people. Reading this that same day allowed us to nourish the event with even more experiences, for which we thank the comrade who accompanied us from prison with his words and reflections.
Between the weichan and the social war: An urgent and necessary path of encounters.
I was born in a country that bequeathed me a nationality that does not represent me and that I rejected in a practical way since I embraced the path of struggle, receiving from it only punishment, repression and death.
A set of codes and values of a history that feel alien to me, a hybrid identity written with ancestral blood, mashed up with hegemonic western European rationality until the present and with strong identity ties between power and its supporters and false critics. Continue reading “Between the weichan and the social war: An urgent and necessary path of encounters”. Words of Marcelo Villarroel for the activity “Complicity in Resistance”. (Chile) →
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Bremen, Germany: The enemies of freedom are ours! Offices of the arms company OHB System AG in flames

We usher in the new year with restless nights for Marco R. Fuchs and his billion-dollar space and defense company Orbitale Hochtechnologie Bremen (OHB System AG). With hammers, we smashed several windows of a building of OHB and then set the offices on fire.
The damage to the company’s image is certain. Happy new fear!
OHB System AG is considered a respected space and high technology company. Since the 1950s, OHB has mainly been building satellite-based systems used for military interests. Due to direct orders from the German Armed Forces, OHB can no longer even attempt the fig leaf of dual-use, i.e. using its satellites for both civilian and military purposes. OHB is an armaments group.

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18 to 20 years’ imprisonment for Belarusian anarcho-partisans ( Belarus)

The sentence was announced today for a group of anarcho-partisans who held a series of direct actions against the dictatorship about a year ago. In an attempt to isolate the activists, the trial was held in camera and only the pronouncement of the sentence was made public.
Sentences:
Siarhei Ramanau – 20 years
Ihar Alinevich – 20 years
Dzmitry Rezanovich – 19
Dzmitry Dubousky – 18 years
Enormous sentences for symbolic actions are an example of the dictatorship’s fear of anarchists. So far, these sentences are the longest in the history of political repression in the country.
Donate to their crowdfunding campaign here https://bysol.org/en/private/anarchopartisans/
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Chile : A few simple words. Statement from anarchist comrade prisoner Ignacio Avaca

A few simple words. Statement from comrade Ignacio Avaca
There are many things I’d like to say to you and in my opinion words will always fall short to express the intensity and particularity of what I feel. I would like to thank each and every one of you without having to repeat “thank you”, but rather with a hand when you need it, with deeds, not letters. However, at this moment, perhaps the only action I have left is to continue resisting as I have done till now, together with my blood brother, and with the subversive brothers and sisters here in Rancagua, Santiago or any prison in the world.

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MADRID, SPAIN: TALK-DEBATE “AN ANARCHISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY”.

11/01/2022
We remind you of the call for next Saturday January 22nd at 18:00 hours in the ESLA EKO on the street Ánade 10 (Ateneo Carabanchel 2nd floor) Oporto subway of Madrid.
We want it to be an important debate on the synergies and forms of organization that we need in this XXI century for anarchism; do not miss it.
Cheers to all, we hope to see you there
via: https://anarquia.info
Translated by Act for freedom now!
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Updates news about Anarchist prisoners Marios Seisidis and Charis Mantzouridis (Athens,Greece)

After his transfer to the Korydallos Prisoner Psychiatric Hospital on 24/12 and resulting negative in a rapid test conducted for preventive reasons, comrade Charis Mantzouridis was placed in “quarantine” in the only space they have, in the disciplinary isolation infrastructure.
We talked about this space in the previous update, when the comrade was transferred there. It is a cell with a broken window, freezing, with mattresses ripped open, with blood and excrement everywhere, with food discarded by everyone, with prisoners constantly being added to the same place, abolishing even the supposed concept of quarantine. As we said at the time, the situation in this place is but a small example of the overall barbaric condition of keeping all prisoners in prison and the minimal measures taken to protect them from the pandemic.
On 30 December, after six days of his stay there, a rapid test was carried out again and he tested positive for the virus, and since then he has remained in isolation without the possibility of communication. It has been 17 days since the comrade has been in the prison within the prison, without medical supervision and without his relatives knowing anything about his health, both physical due to covid and mental.
Immediate release of comrade Charis  Mantzouridis!
Prisoners’ lives matter!
Assembly of Solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted militants
Via: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1616329/
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Charis  Mantzouridis (Χάρης Μαντζουρίδης)
Prisoners mental hospital of Koridallos
(Ειδικό Κέντρο Υγείας Κρατουμένων Κορυδαλλού)
Koridallos
181 22  Athens , Greece
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The Court of Appeal of anarchist comrade Marios Seisidis, continues Friday 07/01/22 at 11am at the Loukareos Court of Appeal in Athens.
On Friday 07/01 at 11am at the Loukareos Street Courts on the 1st floor, the second degree trial of comrade Marios Seisidis continues for the case of the armed robbery of the National Bank of Solonos Street in 2006.
Seisidis Marios  (Σειχιδης Μαριος)
Dikastiki Fylaki Korydallou
A .Pteryga,
TK 18110,
Korydallos,
Athens
EVERYONE ALONGSIDE THE COMRADE
NO ONE HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
FIRE TO THE PRISONS!
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Interview with an Anonymous Anarchist On the Mapuche Struggle Against the Occupying Chilean and Argentinian States

Would you like to introduce yourself?
Mari mari pu lamngen ka pu wenuy inche ta domo Santiago warria mew. (Hello brothers, sisters, and comrades; I am a woman in Santiago). I am an antiauthoritarian/anarchist, mother of two children, almost 40 years old, and a part of various networks of independent/radical media and counter-information.
I am currently active in a radio project based in Santiago, focused primarily on anarchism and various other ramblings, now on its 130th episode. I am also involved in the 18th of October Coordinating Committee formed in solidarity with political prisoners in so-called Chile. In this project I work with comrades and lamenten (brothers, sisters, and friends) both in Santiago and in Wallmapu (Mapuche ancestral territory), two places where I have strong personal and political connections. I actively take part in trawun (gatherings) of territorial recuperation, autonomous organizing, and feyentun ka kimun (the preservation of Mapuche spirituality and ancestral knowledge). All of this is from an autonomous viewpoint and with the goal of contributing to a broader struggle from where I stand. For me, under my circumstances, this means my resistance primarily takes place within the reality of the futxa warria (big city).
Could you shine a light on some of the history of Mapuche people’s organizing and resistance against the colonial Chilean state?
To understand the so-called Mapuche conflict, we must know that Wallmapu is the name given to the territory that today is dominated by the Chilean (gulumapu) and Argentinian (puelmapu) states. The resistance and struggle for autonomy and the reclaiming of ancestral territory dates back to the time of the invasion and subsequent colonization, by the Spanish monarchy. The peak of this process occurred between 1800 and 1880 with the “Pacification of Araucania” in this territory and the “Conquest of the Desert” in so-called Argentina. When Chile became a republic, its army continued the legacy of its origins as a violent colonizing force against the Mapuche people.

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CHILE: ON THE SITUATION OF MÓNICA CABALLERO SEPÚLVEDA.

On Tuesday, December 28th, our Anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda, had a verbal and physical altercation with the inmate Denisse Llanos, detainee, who was returning from a punishment due to another quarrel she had provoked the same day in the morning. Monica expressed her refusal to share a cell with the inmate due to multiple differences with her behavior.
It is necessary to mention that the gendarmeria’s measure of installing Llanos right in the cell of her companion, returning from her punishment, is a clear provocation, in a context of tension both internal, such as overcrowding and the pressure of the prison itself, and external, such as the placement of explosive devices in gendarmeria’s facilities. It is for this reason that close to Monica went the next day to interviews with staff of the OSI (in charge of security of the prison) and the Chief of the prison Denisse Melgarejo to whom all the apprehensions, concerns and discomfort generated by this serious event in which our colleague was involved were expressed. Together with this, an authorized visit was requested, in which we were able to give Monica the support and affection of many.

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Chile: Arson attack on forestry truck on Itata Route, Penco

“People want to make their own decisions on small matters, but making decisions on difficult and fundamental problems requires facing psychological conflicts, and most people hate them.”
“Every human being who is raised on the banks of a river, the highest concept he or she has is freedom.”
During the early morning of December 20, an arson attack was carried out against a forestry truck in Ruta Itata, Penco, Bio Bio region. Due to technical complications it was not possible to issue this communiqué on the day of the action, however, the motivations of our actions remain more valid than ever, that is why we understand that the delay of this communiqué does not mean a problem, much less a limitation to communicate the reasons that fuel our attacks.

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