24th June – International Day of Action and Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis
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Athens,Greece : CLAIM OF THE ATTACK ON THE OBA STORE.
On the night of May Day we chose to attack the new store in the Exarchia area, at 45 Themistokleous Street, called OBA. We broke its storefront and left the political message of our action with stickers saying that since the opening of this store the homeless person who lived in front of its storefront was displaced.
This action was our response to the displacement of the homeless person who had resided for years in the arcades in front of that store and who, after its opening, was forced to seek shelter in another corner of the neighborhood.
How the surplus is displaced to make way for urban and middle class shoppers is also demonstrated by the fact that on the opposite side of the store we attacked there was a squat, which the State evicted a few years ago, sealing the building to prevent its reoccupation.
Continue reading Athens,Greece : CLAIM OF THE ATTACK ON THE OBA STORE.
Athens,(exarxeia area) Greece: Taking responsibility by Anarchists, for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
Taking responsibility for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
On Saturday 28/5 we chose to given a life to the neighborhood of the exarxeia little more.
It was clear in our minds to give the state a clear message about how things will be from now on if the struggle of the anarchist G. Michailidis is not vindicated.
The comrade has been incarcerated since 2013 in the Greek prisons and already since 29/12/2021 he fulfils all the formal conditions for his conditional release. However, the judges of the Amfissa Magistrate’s Court rejected his application. Continue reading Athens,(exarxeia area) Greece: Taking responsibility by Anarchists, for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
Greece: Text by Nikos Romanos on the release of Korkoneas cop killer of Alexis Grigoropoulos.
On June 28, the Lamia Court of Appeal secured for the unrepentant murderer Korkoneas the mitigating circumstance which opens the way for his release for the second time. No thinking person was surprised by this decision, which was the logical continuation of the favourable criminal treatment of the cop-killers by the civil justice system.
A look back at the recent post-communist history of incidents of police brutality confirms our claim. Dozens of deaths from police guns and batons were covered up under tons of media mud, Administrative Inquiries that ended up in drawers, Disciplinary Prosecutions that were withdrawn, court decisions that put them on easy street or exonerated them, political decisions that rewarded their murderous services to the Greek state directly or indirectly.
It must be made clear that we are not faced with the exception but with the absolute rule where civil justice plays its role. The institutional defence of the state monopoly on violence.
The political and historical responsibility of those whose attitude contributed to the depoliticisation of the case is enormous, those who made sure that the events were presented in a way that was detached from the historical and social environment in which they took place, those who with political expediency established in the courtroom of Lamia a climate of confrontation of legal arguments as if it were a simple criminal and not a political case, where criminal laws and legal interpretations will allow developments cut off from the social factor. Continue reading Greece: Text by Nikos Romanos on the release of Korkoneas cop killer of Alexis Grigoropoulos.
GREECE: KOSTAS SAKKAS «VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF HUNGER STRIKER G. MICHAILIDIS».
In the era of the normality of speciesism, of the normality of the exploitation of animals (human or non-human), of the normality of confinement and prisons, of the normality of the culture of deprivation of freedom and, essentially, of life itself, of the normality of poverty, misery, sadness and depression, one does not fight for the obvious but for its reconceptualization.
Confinement, surveillance, lack of self-determination, deprivation of dignity… Prison. Giannis knows that to win the self-evident he must risk everything he has.
To win life he must risk the condition of survival.
Continue reading GREECE: KOSTAS SAKKAS «VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF HUNGER STRIKER G. MICHAILIDIS».
Szczecin,poland: Solidarity banner for Anarchist Giannis Michailidis.
Szczecin,poland: Solidarity banner for Giannis Michailidis.
In this difficult moments our hearts and thoughts are with you, Giannis.
Anarchists
Exarcheia, Athens, Greece: 25 June – Day of national and international support for the Exarcheia – Demonstration in Exarcheia Square videos:
Exarchia, Saturday night, around 20:30, 25 June 2022. People are starting to gather in Exarchia Square for the march against gentrification, evictions, political denaturalization and state repression in Exarchia. In front of the astonished eyes of the assembled people 5-6 motorbikes of the police group DRASI are defiantly passing by Exarchia Square. Apart from voices denouncing this provocative move by the police and warning of the response they will get the next time they provoke, there is no aggressive move against the police.
What are the police officers going and doing on their part? They leave and come back with more reinforcements to provoke incidents, about 15-20 motorcycles. The result of this is what is recorded in the video.
During their panicked retreat and after once again suffocating the area with asphyxiating gas, they even left behind radios, according to witnesses.
The march through Exarchia moved dynamically with the participation of hundreds.
Below is the text calling for the march:
“25 JUNE – DAY OF NATIONWIDE AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEPENDENCIES
To defend the neighbourhood of the world that holds many worlds.
A neighbourhood where people of all genders, ages and backgrounds can co-exist with respect. Where the militant history of yesterday meets the struggles and resistances of today.
Against gentrification, evictions, political denationalization, state repression. To fight for the Exarchia of social self-organization, class solidarity, revolt
– NO Metro in Exarchia Square
– No surrender of the Strefi Hill to private interests
– Let the Polytechnic remain a place of meeting and struggle
– Reduction in rent prices / No eviction
Medical opinion for the anarchist comrade hunger striker Giannis Michailidis(Greece)
Medical opinion for the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis
On 24th of June 2022, I examined as his personal physician the detained hunger striker Mr. Michailidis in Lamia Hospital, who is hospitalized in the pathology clinic under surveillance.
From the clinical examination, as well as from the examination of his laboratory and paraclinical tests, the following results emerged: The hunger striker Mr. Michailidis, who is already on his 34th day of strike, has lost more than 21% of his body weight and has started to present serious health problems.
Specifically, I must point out that vital organs such as the liver, heart and spleen have already started to malfunction. Hunger striker Giannis Michailidis is already suffering from anaemia, thrombocytopenia, hypercholesterolemia and hypoalbuminemia.
He suffers from tachycardia and haemodynamic instability, severe gastrointestinal disorders and blood clotting disorders.
My medical assessment is that, in a very short period of time, he may develop severe multi-organ failure (circulatory, gastrointestinal, respiratory) as well as severe and irreversible failure of vital organs (liver failure, kidney failure, heart failure, brain haemorrhage), which may lead to “multi-organ failure”, a life-threatening condition for the hunger striker, or to the creation of permanent damage that will result in significant permanent disabilities.
The medical director of the National Health System,
Virgopoulou Pantelia
Thessaloniki, Greece: Arson attack on Eurobank ATM by anarchists
The anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis is on his 33rd day of hunger strike and is being treated in Lamia hospital with his health condition being extremely poor.
The state, exhausting its vindictiveness, is pushing the hunger striker into a life-or-death struggle, a struggle for freedom or submission. The games played by the Ministry of Propaganda and the Amfissa Judicial Council, which for the umpteenth time rejected the comrade’s request for temporary release, clearly demonstrate that their “correction” against the declared enemies of the state and capital is extermination and torture. Continue reading Thessaloniki, Greece: Arson attack on Eurobank ATM by anarchists
CRETE, HERAKLION, GREECE: CLAIM FOR ATTACK ON DISTRICT COURT BY ANARCHISTS .
Solidarity to the hunger striker from 23/5 Giannis Michailidis
Comrade Giannis Michailidis has been on hunger strike for almost a month now, aiming for his release, refusing to accept that political, agonistic and generally «undisciplined» prisoners will be left at the mercy of each service and each council as to when they «qualify» for release. We support the comrade’s struggle, knowing that it is not an individual solution, but is added to the more general attack we face inside and outside of prisons.
We chose to attack, on 16/6, with paints at the Heraklion District Court, sending a signal of solidarity and strength to the comrade who continues his struggle and calling for a multiplication of aggressive movements until Giannis is released from prison.
We support the international day of action on 24/6
Immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker’s demand
Cops, Judges, Politicians have no reason to sleep in peace
SOURCE: ATHENS INDYMEDIA
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