25.7.22,Lamia,150 comrades hold a rally outside the Court of Appeal in Lamia. The decision for whether the comrade will be released is delayed until Friday 29th prolonging the hunger strike and making it clear the state’s murderous intentions on the comrade’s life.
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The hunger strike continues – and so does the breaking
A few hours before the appeal in Lamia court regarding the decision on whether or not to grant the request of Giannis Michailidis, we broke the windows of the ELTA [post offices] in Kaisariani on the road of Ethnikis Antistasis.
Of course the council is not interested in this, but Giannis will know that the breaking continues until his release. The answer to the state’s repression is given in the streets. If the forces of the state destroy our marches, the city will be filled at night with alarms interrupting the illusion of security with their sound.
Freedom to Giannis Michailidis until the destruction of every prison
Anarchists
source: Translated by Act for freedom now!
Intervention on airbnb in Exarcheia area
The analyses of the gentrification of the Exarcheia neighbourhood are now well known and are part of the words and practice of the anti-authoritarian space. House evictions, cop culture, bawdy tourists frolicking undisturbed in their new playground. Squat evictions, mega real estate companies, and so much more that we see in our neighbourhood every day.
Gentrification is our forced replacement with first-class citizens and visitors. For what purpose? For political denaturalization, for counter-insurgency, for profit. But the actions of our diverse movements will sweep them away once again.
Continue reading Athens, Greece: Intervention on airbnb in Exarcheia area
This morning 25.7.22,some anarchists interrupted a commuter train on the Docklands Light Railway, connecting the (rapidly transforming) ghettoised districts of Newham and Lewisham to London’s financial centre.
Words from the heart were sprayed on the exterior of the train, especially the name of Giannis Michailidis. A banner carrying a quotation from his public letter from 2013 (‘Tracking my journey in the world of insurrection resistance and solidarity’) was hung from the rail bridge over the central junction of Deptford.
The following text was distributed by throwing hundreds of flyers into the train carrige and off the railway bridge:
Freedom is not an array of consumer choices and ‘experiences’. It consists in the living choice to take your life into your own hands in the struggle.
We can see what happens when, for years, each project of power is left to expand its tentacles over us.
– Neighbourhoods are wrecked to construct vacuum-sealed palaces for the pleasure and profit of the beneficiaries.
Continue reading South London,UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’
Following the call to an international campaign for freedom of Giannis MichailidIs, we join the solidarity movement with our hunger striking comrade.
Michailidis is an anarchist, a bankrobber, a fugitive, a political prisoner, a hunger striker. A hunger striker whose life is in danger because the greek state decided to apply a state of exceptional imprisonment for him, that is, the practice of preventive custody. This is not a greek peculiarity. As the Berlin based Assembly in solidarity with Giannis MichailidIs notes “the last years Europe sees a practice of consolidating a classical police state, where people are getting judged on the base of their estimated potential to be dangerous to the state and its order”.
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/fight-class-justice-for-giannis-michailidis-and-all-prisoners-who-fulfill-the-conditions-of-release-berlin/
Michailidis remains in prison despite the fact that he has already been incarcerated for more than 8 years and has served 3/5 of his time, because “he is considered a “danger” and not because he is accused of a crime. He served his sentence but is kept as a hostage in preventive custody without accusation and without any hope to be released”.
“THE ONLY STRUGGLE THAT WAS LOST IS THE ONE THAT WAS NEVER GIVEN”
“The struggle for the freedom of one, the struggle for the freedom of all.”
To stand in solidarity and support to the fight for freedom that Giannis Michailidis has embraced against a putrid system is to support the yell of one for many, for all those who are subjected to state oppression and its vengeance, against preventive imprisonment.
Despite having served the necessary terms for his release, preventive imprisonment is still decreed for him, in a totally arbitrary way, because he is not ‘sufficiently correct’ since he has not surrendered, he is insubordinate to their mechanism of maintaining and reproducingpower, he has taken up arms and turned them against the banks and thebase of the capitalist system. His struggle is an active struggle within the conflict, using his life as a weapon against the vindictive attack of the state. They want to drive him to physical extermination, killing him slowly and torturing him.
Continue reading Italy: Banner in Greek embassy in Rome on 22/7/2022 – 59th day of hunger strike of the political prisoner Giannis Michailidis.
On 21/7/22 a banner of solidarity for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis was hung at the entrance of the Greek embassy in Sofia.
THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ANY CELL
Immediate release of the anarchist hunger striker from 23/5/22
KIPSELI, A NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF
GENTRIFICATION, SEXISM &
SPECIESISM
The following text was written because we were informed
by a passerby about the verbal, physical assault
and videotaping of a queer femininity and her
non-human companion in Kipseli by a boss- shop
owner, for leaving the dog tied up for two minutes
in the flower bed next to his shop.
So, welcome to Kypseli! To one of the main spikes of
urban gentrification, in recent years, in the center of
Athens that has made us experience our presence in
the public space more and more enclosing. Speaking
from the position of people living on minimum
wage or are unemployed, we see increases in rents,
while Greek bosses and their shops are expanding.
Observing the simultaneous and increasingly frequent
displacement of migrants living and working
in the area, their impoverishment and the grabbing
of an ever larger piece of our living space, makes
us furious. Against the backdrop of the metro works
and the imminent further increase in rents, bosses
and posh artists rub their hands together and believe
that all public space belongs to them. Whether
that means they don’t want to see non-human animals
in the flowerbeds, or that they want to take the
public benches and turn them into tables, or setting
up their hipster alternative shops on streets, (like
Agia Zoni- that until recently were mainly inhabited
by immigrants).
Continue reading ATHENS, GREECE: KIPSELI, A NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF GENTRIFICATION, SEXISM & SPECIESISM
Text – beginning of V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis
How sure are we that there is no death penalty in Greece?
Remaining imprisoned for three years in solidarity, I directly experience the vengeance of the prosecuting authorities in the cells of the alt-right government! What we are experiencing today as an Anarchist movement is clearly an open war on all fronts by the regime.
The current junta really shows who they are with their daily behaviour on the street, with repressive laws on marches and strikes, while authoritarianism has been imposed on the whole society, with a constant cruel police state. The vindictiveness against political opponents, those they consider dangerous to their plans, is aimed at their political extermination, going as far as the physical extermination of those who continue to resist.
Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike
Anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis is on hunger strike since 23/5, demanding his release. Today he completes 61 days of hunger strike without his request being accepted. His health condition has deteriorated greatly, as he has a very difficult time in getting out of bed, standing up, reading and writing, his spleen and gall pains are becoming more and more severe, while he has reached a point where it is difficult for him to drink much water.
His body weight has reached 54.1 kg. Having started the hunger strike at 73 kilos, he has now lost 19 kilos, 26% of his initial body weight. His high blood pressure is 9 and low is 6, and his blood sugar was measured at 67. Having lost over 25% of his initial body weight, and with his health indicators constantly deteriorating, his possibilities for permanent physical damage are now very high. At the moment, comrade Giannis Michailidis is on the verge of hypoglycemic shock and doctors are reporting that there is a possibility that he could fall into a coma. The state and judicial authorities are gambling with the life and integrity of anarchist Giannis Michailidis.
Continue reading BREAKING: Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike
