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Treviso, Italy: Juan Sorroche. A call to all comrades for an energetic presence at the cassation trial on January 26 in Rome for the action at the League of Treviso

  Juan Sorroche. A call to all comrades for an energetic presence at the cassation trial on January 26 in Rome for the action at the League of Treviso

A call to all comrades for an energetic presence at the Cassation trial in Rome on January 26 2024 for the action at the League of Treviso. Or what each individuality feels with creativity being the only limit.

On January 26th the Cassazione trial against me is due to take place in Rome for the action at the League of Treviso. l’azione alla Lega di Treviso.

—In the first instance trial, even after the PM removed the charge of political massacre, they sentenced me to 28 years’ prison plus 3 years’ parole.

— On Appeal they sentenced me to 14 years and 7 months, reducing it almost by half.

The prosecution made an appeal to the court of Cassation to have it negatively requalified, so as to go back to the preceding sentence of 28 years and three on parole, or worse.

My lawyer has also appealed, given the sentence to 14 years and 7 months, which are not peanuts.

Now I won’t be present at any of the hearings of the trial for the action at the League of Treviso, in protest against videoconferencing, as I already declared during the first instance trial. This is what I have done up until now.
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Prison of San Remo, Italy:  Luca Dolce, aka Stecco: – Letter from the prison of Sanremo

25/12/2023

Prison of Sanremo

This is not a communique. You will not read reflections on my arrest or concerning this new prison experience, or about other political questions. These will come at the appropriate moment, that is, when I consider some personal matters settled, and some reflections have matured over these first months of detention.

This humble piece has the simple purpose – for me necessary – to thank, greet, and bring solidarity even from within these walls.

I waited a little before deciding to put down these words, even if the decision to put them on paper had already been made the evening of December 4th, day of the hearing at the court of Imperia for the fake ID found on me the day that my experience as a fugitive was ended by an operational group of the Nocs.

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Solidarity Events, e.t.c.

Caught in the Net: Breaking Free from the Digital Enclosure ,presentation Anti info open event discussion. (Tijuana, Mexico).

First International Gathering of Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Practices to take place January 25, 26 and 27 2024, in the borderlands of Tijuana, Mexico.

Caught in the Net: Breaking Free from the Digital Enclosure

Saturday 27th  2:30 pm

Most of us will remember when cell towers first started popping up and tech companies tried to make them look like trees. Only ten or so years later, they’ve abandoned even this pathetic effort to mask the expansion of the techno-world, as society has become accustomed to accepting and even welcoming each new technological innovation that is handed to us. Even when one gadget fails to capture consumers (remember Google Glass?) the technologies behind the product (augmented reality, AI, etc.) find use in the military and industry, allowing techies to advance their product while simultaneously molding social acceptance through a combination of propaganda and coercion (hello Apple Vision).

In anarchist circles in the US, critiques of the role that technology
plays in our relationships and struggles have fallen out of style; the
presence of phones and use of social media in spaces of struggle is
largely taken for granted. The immense violence, death, and devastation to the earth that is required to bring phones and computers into our hands has become grotesquely normalized as our ability to interrogate our own dependency on and attachment to these technologies has eroded.

This presentation will look at the process of technological advancement and how it functions on the individual, relational, and societal levels, and the impact this has on struggles against domination. In particular, we will focus on the technologies used to construct borders and surveil non-citizens, tying this to the ways that these technologies occupy our own lives and struggles as well as the dangers it poses to our networks in terms of security. After, we’ll have a group discussion in which we will attempt to break out of the artificial constraints that prevent us from putting this world into question.

https://eninpaacf.noblogs.org/

Solidarity Means Attack

Anarchists claim responsibility for torching local politician’s car (USA)

On the first new moon of 2024, some anarchists torched a car in front of portland city commissioner rene gonzalez’s house. This was accomplished with a fire starter, which can be found in the outdoors section of any big box store.

Gonzalez lives in an extravagantly wealthy neighborhood adjacent to a golf course, where the roads have no potholes, the sidewalks are intact, and the countless “neighborhood watch” signs serve as a reminder to any poor outsiders and undesirables that this is not a place for us. The car was one of three at the residence and was parked in the street. Our only regret is not attacking the other two vehicles.
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Revolutionary Prisoners News

$hile: Faced with life imprisonment in disguise, action is always worthwhile. Words by Francisco Solar.

Facing a Covert Life Sentence, Action is Always Worth It: Words of Francisco Solar

December 27, 2023 / informativoanarquista

Facing a Covert Life Sentence, Action is Always Worth It

Did you expect anything else from Power? Although the 86 year prison sentence has provoked surprise and a certain consternation, Power acted accordingly. It has punished forceful actions aimed at its defenders and representatives, the boldness of open rebellion that struck its spaces which it believed were unassailable and also the blatant and unambiguous vindication of these attacks, demonstrating that it sees the danger that spreading ideas and action implicitly carries.

The State has acted how it is and this shouldn’t surprise us.

It proceeded how it has historically when it’s been directly attacked, when they have really felt the threat of seeing their lives at risk and when, further, it found no submission nor repentence.

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ALF. ELF. E.T.C.

2023 IN REVIEW – UNOFFENSIVE REPORTS.

Another year has passed and because we apparently enjoy spending hours doing the maths, we have a list of the 2023 reported animal liberation actions by country, type and target!

It is worth mentioning, as always, that this list is in no way exhaustive as many people might decide to take action and not report it and because we keep an eye on platforms that use English, Spanish, Italian and German as their main languages, but we might’ve missed many other actions published in other platforms or by other countries! 



The total of reported animal liberation actions in 2023 is 99. Of those, 58 are sabotages, 30 are liberations and 11 are arsons.

Surprisingly and unlike other years, action against the flesh industry and sabotage against hunting infrastructure have equalised, with 40 reported actions against the meat industry and 41 against hunting. This is notable as in previous years we have seen a huge disparity in the numbers, with hunting infrastructure reported a lot more times than any other kind of target.
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Revolutionary Prisoners News

$hile: “Words from the confinement, necessary letters” by Marcelo Villarroel

“Words from the confinement, necessary letters” by Marcelo Villarroel

On December 16, 2009 I was expelled from Argentina after 21 months of confinement in different units of the province of Neuquén to be at the disposal of the Chilean state and it has been 14 years since then.

In 2014 I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. Strictly speaking, I am serving this sentence in its entirety, from beginning to end, without any benefit and it ends today December 16, 2023 and still the state keeps me behind bars.

According to the gendarmes, I must serve 12 more years of imprisonment to be able to apply for some intrapenitentiary benefit only in 2036. According to their retroactive modifications of the illegal Chilean law, in 2056 I will definitively expire my sentences, all of them from events that occurred more than 30 years ago.

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Italy - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation

Brief update on Zac (Marco Marino) and a text distributed at some initiatives. ( Italy)

Brief update on Zac

 Following a request signed by the police commissioner of Naples Maurizio Agricola, the Naples supervisory court has ordered special surveillance to be applied for two years and six months with the following restrictions for Zac: not leave the house without prior warning to the supervisory authority, not leave before 7 am and not return after 8pm, not associate “habitually” with persons who have been sentenced or are under preventive or security measures, not have access to public facilities and public entertainment, to live honestly in respect of the law, not possess or carry weapons, to look for a job, not participate in public meetings, always carry a residence card, show up at the supervisory authority every Sunday or, in any case, on any invitation.  Added to this a deposit of 3000.00 euro to be paid as guarantee, but divided into five convenient instalments.

Recourse has been made. The measure will be carried out as soon as Zac gets out of prison, regardless of the outcome of the trial for 280 bis and 270 quinques, which meanwhile continues with scheduled hearings from now until the end of February (9th January, 31st January, 12th February and 21st February).  More in-depth updates and reflections to follow.

To write to Zac:
Marco Marino
C.c. di Terni
Via delle Campore, 32
05100 Terni (TR)

Italy

For ever under surveillance, never controlled
ZAC FREE!

Below is a text distributed at some initiatives.

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Rome, Italy: Incendiary attack against two offices of Eni Plenitude (1st January 2024)

Rome: Incendiary attack against two offices of Eni Plenitude 1st January 2024

On New Year’s Eve we attacked two offices of ENI PLENITUDE of Rome, one in Viale Somalia and another in Via Togliatti.

The action was carried out by placing three incendiary devices (composed of fireworks and gas cannisters) between the windows and shutters of the premises.

We struck Eni due to its responsibility in the exploitation and pollution of the Earth and the militarisation of territories, supposedly in course of being developed.

Wars are inherent to capitalism, thanks to which capital is expanding, creating new markets and resources to be plundered. Eni has interests in the search for deposits off the Gaza strip and is closely linked to Italian geopolitical interests.
Striking national capital to strike capital’s war.

This action is a contribution to the SWITCH OFF! Campaign.
https://actforfree.noblogs.org/?s=+SWITCH+OFF%21

Solidarity to Juan, Alfredo, Anna, Zac, Stecco, Paska, Poza, Rupert, Nasci, Stefano, to Ilaria and Tobias imprisoned in Hungary.

An incendiary greeting to those on the run

Death to the State and its enterprises

Viva l’Anarchia

IT) Attacco incendiario contro due sedi di Eni Plenitude (Roma, 1° gennaio 2024)
(EN) Incendiary attack against two offices of Eni Plenitude (Rome, Italy, January 1, 2024)

via: lanemesi
Translated by Act for freedom now!

Italy - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation, Revolutionary Prisoners News, Solidarity Means Attack

Rome, Italy: Claim for the incendiary barricade and stone-throwing against the headquarters of Terna (Rome, 2nd November 2023)

Rome: Claim for the incendiary barricade and stone-throwing against the headquarters of Terna (Rome, 2nd November 2023)

Claim for incendiary barricade and stone-throwing Rome – 2nd November 2023
In the night of 2 November we placed and set fire to tyres to block the traffic in front of the headquarters of Terna spa of via Egidio Galbani in both directions and threw stones to break the windows. Terna is the main company in Italy as regards the construction and maintenance of electrical infrastructure, but also operates abroad in countries such as Chile.

Terna is not only responsible for the environmental devastation and pollution resulting from the construction of power lines and related transformer stations, as a leading player in the process of electrifying the world as a result of the unhealthy idea of progress that this deadly system propagandises, but is also promoter of the “green revolution” caused by the recent needs of restructuring of capitalism which will only bring further exploitation of ecosystems and people. Denouncing its responsibilities is one of the objectives of our action.
This action is to be included in the international campaign for the liberation of Marcelo Villarroel. Marcelo is an anarchist prisoner in the prisons of the State of Chile, imprisoned after being in hiding in 2007 for a series of bank expropriations.
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Solidarity Means Attack

Action targeting Chase Bank in NYC (USA)

Action targeting Chase Bank in NYC

On Friday night 12/21, a Chase Bank located near Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn apartment was shut down with ample amounts of superglue in its door lock and card reader. Its windows and walls were redecorated with “Stop Cop City” and “Free Gaza”.

JP Morgan Chase is a funder of Atlanta’s Cop City, the genocidal regime in Israel, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, as well as numerous capitalist and imperialist projects destroying the earth and causing immense suffering. It must be stopped by any means necessary.
To Chase, we are the New York rats that can’t be poisoned. We are the cockroaches that won’t die. When you least expect it, we will crawl all over your fancy dinner. We will jump out from the darkest corners of your fears to bite you in the ass. Watch out.

Submitted Anonymously Over Email

via: Scenes from the Atlanta forest

General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

With fists in the sky: Video of the recapture of Self-Managing Steki Ano – Kato Patisia and what followed (Athens,Greece)

The following is the text of the Self-Managing Steki Ano – Kato Patisia, Katalipsi Naxos 75 & Krassa for that day:

“WHEN WE SAY WE’RE NOT GOING AWAY, WE MEAN IT

Today, Saturday 9/12,/23, with stubborn smiles and self-confidence, we put our slogans into practice again and take our lives back. Dozens of comrades re-enter the garden we grow and learn to we live. We reopen our shelter and defend it so that it can welcome so many more generations. We light the oven and the stove and let our fire travel, sending our own signal of resistance to the struggling squatter movement. We climb the roofs of the shelter and we salute the sky with our fists, we send our kisses to all the world that perseveres and struggles We break the fear and take what is rightfully ours. Continue reading With fists in the sky: Video of the recapture of Self-Managing Steki Ano – Kato Patisia and what followed (Athens,Greece) →

General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for a raid on a MAT (riot cop) bus

The constant distortion of reality by the authorities and their sycophants everywhere.

On 22/10/2021 the 18 year old Roma Nikos Sampanis was shot with 36 bullets by the uniformed scum of the DIAS unit (motorcycle cops) in the area of Perama. This was preceded by the torture of Vassilis Maggos, which led to his death, followed by the rape at the Omonia Police Station, while on 22/09/2022 16-year-old Michalis was dragged and abandoned by an police vehicle in Ampelokipi in Thessaloniki, resulting in him breathing his last breath in hospital.

A little over a year after the murder of Sampanis, the 16-year-old Roma Kostas Fragoulis was murdered in Diavata, Thessaloniki on 05/06/2022 with a bullet in the head by a cop of the DIAS unit as he committed the crime of not paying for twenty euros worth of petrol.
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Barcelona: the police install a camera to spy on a squat in the district of Gràcia

A camera hidden in a dark box on the roof of a restaurant monitored the activity of a squat house in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, at least since December 22 when it was detected. As disseminated by the group Ègida -Defensa Collectiva Anarquista, the video surveillance team focused directly on the door of the squat, which is why they rule out that it is the restaurant’s security system.

Neighborhood witnesses have told La Directa that during the last weeks they had observed the presence of “strange” individuals and vehicles parked with people inside the house all day: “I saw them in front of the house, I am convinced that they were plainclothes policemen,” says a neighbor. One of the managers of the restaurant, where the state security forces had placed the camera, told this media outlet that they have “nothing to say”.
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