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February 2025, ticket machines and entrance gates were smashed with hammers in Amsterdam (Netherlands)

In the night of 4 to 5 February, ticket machines and entrance gates were smashed with hammers at the Jan van Galenstraat metro station and Lelylaan metro/train station in Amsterdam and the message “Thales kills” was left with paint.

Thales is a global military company (52 percent military) with production and research facilities in 68 countries on all continents. The head office is located in Paris.

Thales is responsible for supplying and maintaining the ticket machines and access gates of public transport in the Netherlands and can therefore be found everywhere and in just as many places you and I can break them.

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Grete Chania ,Greece : Event – discussion of solidarity with the imprisoned comrades of the Susaron Case – Grupo de Respuesta Animal in Chile

Event – discussion of solidarity and financial support for the comrades of the Susaron Case – Grupo de Respuesta Animal

On the night of September 18-19, 2022, comrades from Grupo de Respuesta Animal attacked the central branch of the Susaron meat processing plant in Santiago, setting fire to trucks, refrigerators, and the entire company infrastructure. This attack, their stance inside Chilean prisons, and the movements of the solidarity world, constitute a clear, imperative call for anti-speciesist action – now.

-Presentation of the SUSARON case

-Anti-speciesism and direct action

-Meat industry

*Preceded by a video screening of “Industrial Culture, Meat Production and Consumption” ( adamasto , 2014, duration 21′)

SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 19: 30 PM

Laivadiko of the Occupied Rectory, Kastelli Hill

TOTAL LIBERATION BY ALL MEANS
UNTIL SOCIETY IS DESTROYED – AND PRISON IN EVERY ITS FORM
FREEDOM TO CAPTIVE COMRADES OF THE ANIMAL RESPONSE GROUP

Anarchist Anti-Speciesist Assembly

*There will be a new brochure of the Anarchist Anti-Speciesist Assembly with translated announcements-communications of the Grupo de Respuesta Animal. (For contact for copies: antispe_xania@riseup.net)

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via : athens.indymedia

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Chile: CASO SUSARON STATEMENT, DECEMBER 2024

Below is a translation of two of the comrades prisoners from Caso Susaron, translated from Spanish:

We hope that our first words represent a push of strength for those who are doubting whether the value of their beautiful actions and their consequences make sense or not.

Two years and almost two months after our captivity, we continue to reaffirm that the path of war and confrontation, with all its bitterness and misfortunes, continues to be the only dignified way of life that we understand as valid.

UPDATE:
In recent months there have been several developments in our case.
Comrade Ru was sentenced to 5 years in prison, with the prosecution and the court denying the possibility of a supervised release on the grounds that he is a danger to society, with no intention of reinsertion.
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(Chile) Considerations On Freedom: Writing of Anarchist Comrade Francisco Solar

December 24, 2024 / informativoanarquista

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Considerations On Freedom.
Writing of Anarchist Comrade Francisco Solar

Freedom is, without a doubt, a fundamental principle within the various anarchist discourses and tendencies. It constitutes an touchstone from which proposals, projects and practices are elaborated, on the basis that the existence of a centralized power determines the different oppressions that affect communities and individuals. It is the State or any other expression of power which ultimately creates and strengthens this system of exploitation along with all of its consequences. Its tentacles, scopes and manifestations point in multiple – increasingly imperceptible – directions, covering practically all of the aspects of people’s lives.

Understanding freedom as a permanent process of taking back our lives step by step, in which we strive to eliminate any vestige of authority that tries to coerce us as well as those found in our own behaviours, doesn’t constitute an end point to which we should aspire to arrive. Therefore, it’s very likely that freedom as an established entity, as a culminating point of a path, doesn’t exist except maybe as a daydream. I believe our gaze shouldn’t be focused on this, but rather on the process of struggle contained in this concept. As Don Quijote put it, “the road is more important than the inn.” It’s the construction of relations that aim to be free and the destruction of any expression of authority that should be the center of our preoccupations and undertakings, since it’s through deepening daily practice that we seize moments of freedom.
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(Chile) Barricades in Solidarity with Prisoners and in Memory of Comrades Lupi, Tortuga and Belén

January 19, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Masked people raised barricades in the Maipú commune, with the impetus of demonstrating the living memory of those who aren’t with us physically in the streets, and at the same time, fostering solidarity with those who find themselves in prison.

Anticarceral memory for the 81!
Lupi, Tortuga and Belén are with us!
Freedom for anarchist and subversive prisoners!

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Reportback on the Night Demo at mcgill on February 5th (Canada)

Yesterday in Tiohtia:ke, forty anarchists (and our friends 🙂 ) attacked the buildings of mcgill university. Armed with rudimentary tools, we succeeded in destroying all windows that stood in our way. With the help of hammers, rocks, and glass bottles, we vandalized this symbol of the colonial capitalist system. Within 15 minutes, we smashed over 30 windows on multiple pavillions of the institution, as well as the electronic locks of the administration building. An exam in progress during the protest was cancelled for 350 students. According to a mcgill spokesperson, the damages are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two comrades who were momentarily detained by the failed pigs of a private security agency, subcontracted by mcgill, were gloriously de-arrested. The police response was slow and ineffective, the protest led to no arrests or injuries. We dispersed completely before the arrival of the spvm.

Graffitis were left behind denouncing the acquisition of the royal vic hospital (site of unmarked graves) by mcgill for $700 million, and its complicity in the genocide in Palestine. We also denounce the desecration of the tree of peace, planted on the lower field by decolonial activists this summer, as well as the historical complicity of mcgill in psychiatric experimentation on Indigenous children, and the transphobia and racism of mcgill’s administration. For us, mcgill is nothing but a symbol of a colonial and capitalist system, of which we call for the complete destruction.
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Düsseldorf (Germany): the “Angry Birds Commando” and collapse…

[Note of Sans Nom: In Germany’s seventh-largest city, Düsseldorf, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, the “Angry Birds Commando” is a regular topic of conversation.

In August 2024, for example, they claimed responsibility for setting fire to railway signal cables in Mettmann, adding to their previous sabotages against rail traffic: one in Düsseldorf in January 2024, and five others in the same city claimed in May 2023. And since the angry birds can also be generous, last September they published a little manual entitled “Kabel anzünden für Beginner” [“Setting fire to cables for beginners”], which contains a number of homemade delay techniques.

But let’s move on to more recent news: on Thursday night, shortly before 6 a.m. on Friday January 24, a fire broke out in a cable shaft near Eller station, a district in the south-east of Düsseldorf, interrupting rail traffic on the city’s most important freight line, as well as passenger line S1 between Düsseldorf and Solingen. This time, while the Angry Birds Commando’s communiqué no. 3 was written in rhyme, the one published the following day on de.indymedia and entitled “Switch off Deutsche Bahn – Communiqué no. 4” is in the form of an open letter. 

Below is a translation, which develops its own vision of collapse, as a contribution to the ongoing debates within the revolutionary movement.]

On Friday morning (January 24), we used tried-and-tested methods to take Düsseldorf’s most important freight line out of service for at least 12 hours. For at least 24 hours, its use was only possible with severe restrictions. In addition to the immediate economic damage, we would like to draw your attention to the following appeal. We would also like to apologize to the travelers affected, and hope that at least a few commuters were able to enjoy a day off as a result.

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Bâtie-Rolland (Drôme): fire at extractivist company (France)

via: sansnom

A violent fire ravages two company hangars

Le Dauphiné, November 28, 2024 (excerpt)

The alarm was sounded shortly before 2 a.m. on the night of Wednesday November 27 to Thursday November 28. A violent fire was ravaging buildings along the Route de Montélimar (RD 540), in La Bâtie-Rolland, east of Montélimar. On arrival on the scene, the fire department found two hangars of the Soterex company, part of the Poisson corporation, which specializes in public works in quarries, completely engulfed in flames.

A large-scale fire-fighting operation was launched. At the height of the response, almost 80 firefighters were engaged to fight the flames. For safety reasons, the nearby departmental road was closed to traffic. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but the damage was considerable. One of the two hangars housing equipment and two vans collapsed. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, twelve hours after the start of the fire, the blaze was not considered to have been extinguished.

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Dimitra Z. And Marianna M. : With Kyriakos until the end (Greece)

With Kyriakos until the end

Call for support for two days of action 7 & 8/02

Commemorative Demonstration, 7/02, 20:00 (placing of a plaque on Mesologgiou st)

Panhellenic March in Memory & Struggle, 8/02, 13:00 (meeting at Propylaia)

“The true defeat is not that you have lost.

The true defeat is having made yours the idea of defeat.

That you cannot win and change things”

The comrade Kyriakos was one of us. He was one of those who believe there is a deep dividing line between the bourgeois justice of the powerful and true justice. The justice of those whose children were killed at Tempi by the state – murderer. The justice of those who participated in militant strikes. Of those who expropriate the accumulated wealth from the bank safes. Of those who turned the knife on their rapists and abusers. The justice of the tiger that hunts its hunter. The justice of the fast-flowing current that breaks through the dam. Of those armed indigenous peoples who took vengeance on their conquerors. Those who bombed their settlers. The justice of those who burnt down the modern concentration camps. Those who escaped from prison for a breath of freedom. Those who doubted the state monopoly on violence. Those who struggled with every means. The justice of those who refused selfishness. Those who thought of us and not me. Those who, during the course of history, took positions of battle next to the oppressed. As the comrade Kyriakos did.

A comrade that chose the path of revolutionary responsibility. That was consistent with his self. Participating indiscriminately in all fields of struggle. A child of 2008 and the December insurrection, the burning barricades, the enraged consciousnesses, the vows for vengenace in teenage conversations. And then a protester of ’11 and ’12, the era of austerity, of the IMF and the Troika, the revolts and clashes, the day-long demonstrations and the hand-to-hand battles. From there, an anarchist in the Berlin of gentrification and social isolation, of the militant defence of squats and the solidarity with persecuted fighters, with busy hands, full nights and an open heart. Returning to Athens now, a decided militant of the anarchist movement. Participating indiscriminately in all fields of struggle. An anarchist of the squats, of antifascist and feminist patrols, of antiracist struggles and strike mobilisations, of struggles against prison and touristification. He stood firmly within the convictions of the anarchist struggle, with immense camaraderie, with sensitivity, solidarity and perceptiveness.
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Election Office Vandalism – Portland, OR (USA)

January 20, 2025

Portland police are still searching for multiple suspects seen vandalizing the Multnomah County Elections Office around 2 a.m. Monday.

A group of eight to 10 vandals smashed 33 windows and two doors at the elections office, located near Southeast 10th Avenue and Morrison Street. Crews worked until 9 a.m. to clean the glass and graffiti.

Surveillance footage provided by Multnomah County shows vandals dressed in mostly gray or black all wearing hoodies, throwing rocks and other heavy objects through the windows.
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