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Eric King Statement 2023 for June 11 (usa)

Eric King Statement 2023

Greetings comrades. Let me tell you about this prison, the federal supermax ADX [in Florence, Colorado]. In this joint there are different levels and units with varying levels of physical isolation and communication, but there are things we all experience. Everyone is locked down at least 21 hours a day, at max 24. When you have inside rec you are by yourself in a room without a pull up bar. Outside rec cages are 8 x 10 foot dog kennels surrounded by concrete walls and a chain link roof — a cage within a cage. Unless you are in the pre-release unit (K-A) or long-term elder unit (K-B), you will never be in the same room as another person. And even in those units you only come around your ‘group’ — which is one to four other people — for inside rec. The other 22 ½ hours are in your cell by yourself. I have been in C-unit, the discipline unit and K-A; there is one other person in my group.

The cells are sparse. Concrete walls and double doors make any communication between convicts very difficult. Cells feature a low concrete beed, an oddly shitty mattress, a concrete desk, concrete stool, and in some units, a shelf above the desk. You never have solo interactions with staff — you are always double-manned with one of them carrying a steel baton, and you’re always cuffed behind your back. Depending on the unit, you can get 4–10 calls per month. I’ve made two ‘live-monitored’ calls in the past 10 months, but I’m being told that by participating in psychology programs I’ll earn a few calls per month. Time will tell. We’re allowed five visits per month, all non-contact in a concrete booth over the phone. All visits have to be scheduled in advance, which can be difficult with such restricted communication. I’m the only Anarchist here, but I’m definitely not the only political prisoner. Within this prison there is a group of prisoners the US government has attempted to bury. The general abolitionist community has consented to this, and it’s devastating.
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LAMB LIBERATED IN SOLIDARITY WITH MARIUS MASON AND ALL LONG TERM ANARCHIST PRISONERS. 3rd June 2023. (Midlands UK)

LAMB LIBERATED IN SOLIDARITY WITH MARIUS MASON AND ALL LONG TERM ANARCHIST PRISONERS.

“Lamb liberated in solidarity with Marius Mason and all long term anarchist prisoners.

We’d seen the lambs many times, we knew, while they were with their mums now, it wouldn’t be that long before they fattened up and the farmer sent them to slaughter. The field was easy to access but watchful mums keeping their babies close were hard to catch. Herding them into a corner and closing in we managed to grab one. Picking them up and taking them to safety we hoped their mum would understand that we’d look after them. We wish we could of taken her other lamb and her, the whole herd. They all deserve better than what awaits them. This lamb will get real care and never see the slaughterhouse or be left to die and decay in some field corner.

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2023 Statement from Marius Mason for June 11 ,2023 (USA)

2023 Statement from Marius Mason

Dear Community, Family and Friends,

Thank you for the work you are doing to make the change we need to make into the world for our collective survival. Your dedication, support and love are a constant source of inspiration and motivation for me; and I am betting for other prisoners, as well.

This has been as eventful year and a half here at FCI Danbury. My transfer to a male facility had been viewed with great trepidation both by those supportive of trans people and by those who are adamantly opposed to our existence. I’ve had many memorable experiences; some humiliating, some merely annoying and awkward. But, also several that have been rewarding and deeply affirming.

There has definitely been a sense of working things out as we go—the way strip searches have been conducted has been all over the board. Sometimes they have been done by one male staff person, sometimes by one female staff person and several times by several male staff people. Strip searches occur before and after visits, before and after medical trips out, and also when going into the SHU (I had to go there before a medical procedure to fast).
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Larissa prison,Greece:Thanos Chatzianggelou: The right of one is a matter for all of us – start of a hunger strike

Hunger strike of the imprisoned member of Anarchist Action Thanos Chatzianggelou alongside his comrade Giannis Michailidis.

Our struggles are like journeys. They carry all their contents along the road and not at the destination. And the value of a journey is in sharing it. It is the wild beauty of togetherness.

There is no more room for words – only actions. Today we each have to give a little something, so that some of us don’t have to give everything. And whatever the end, we will be by each other’s side to face it together.

From today, Sunday 11/6, I am starting a hunger strike alongside comrade Giannis Michailidis, demanding the immediate satisfaction of his rights.

No vacillation between duties and dispositions

The right of one concerns all of us

Thanos Chatzianggelou , captured member of the Anarchist Action Organization

Third Wing, Larissa Prison (Γ’ Πτέρυγα, Φυλακές Λάρισας)

11/6/2023

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via: athens.indymedia Translated by Act for freedom now!

Bern, Switzerland : Solidarity banner for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Bern: Solidarity banner for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

On Saturday night 3/6/23, as a minimum solidarity action we hung a banner for the anarchist Giannis Michailidis who has been on hunger strike since 12.05 fighting for his freedom.

Below is his text: https://barrikade.info/article/5968

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

FIRE IN ALL PRISON

In solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G.Michailidis

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Chile : Anarchist and Subversive Prisoners: Greeting to Mapuche People in Struggle against Repression and Dispersal of Prisoners in Chile.

Anarchist and Subversive Prisoners: Greeting to Mapuche People in Struggle against Repression and Dispersal of Prisoners in Chile

From the particularities and in autonomy, each with their gaze and worldview, we have in the direct struggle the same enemies: the State, the prison and capitalism.

In confrontation with these we have had to face persecution, prison and death, circumstances of this continuous and incessant walk of anarchic and subversive resistance.

The same racist military and police state that pursues, imprison and kills, today articulates a policy of dispersal and isolation towards the Peñi; nothing new for power and their jailers, who seek in this dispersion to dismantle an ancestral struggle.
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Athens, Greece: Update on the health condition for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis (12/5/23

Athens, Koridallos prison : Update on the health condition for the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis (12/5/23

Today 8/6/23 while the anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis is on his 28th day of hunger strike, resisting the regime of exemption imposed on him by the State and the judicial authorities, his blood sugar dropped to 47 and he was immediately taken to the “St. Paul” hospital for prisoners. He signed a paper to go back to Korydallos prison.

Today the comrade’s clinical observations are as follows:

Weight 57 kilos
Blood pressure 10 over 6
Pulse 60
Blood sugar 47

Our comrade, in the name of dignity and freedom, is again choosing the same torturous path which has already, it seems, created irreparable health problems. In this struggle, however, he has exposed the true face of the judiciary and continues to do so; all that remains is for us to support him in practice until he is with us again. We owe it to ourselves to respond to our comrade’s fortitude and to respond to the countless arbitrary acts of the State.

Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Athens

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Notes:  31 May, 2023 Update on the health condition of the anarchist Giannis Michailidis on hunger strike since 12/5/23

Gathering-demonstration against fur Friday 9/6 by Antispeciesists against fur and leather industry(Athens,Greece)

Athens: Gathering-demonstration against fur-leather industry and every type of confinement Friday 9/6 17:00 monastiraki square

It is difficult to depict with words what “fur and leather industry” means. We have been used to repeat terms without combining them with physical reality,to replicate them like they are abstract concepts, to forget that they come with the body pain of many,too many, individuals.Maybe the best description of the violent dissociation of animals’ leather and fur industry are these animals’ screams, their silences full of despair, their horror stares. All these happen far away from the well-polished cities,many kilometres away from the shining showcases of the stores that trade what has been stolen from the animals.

They happen for example in Kastoria,Kozani,Ptolemaida,Florina and Grevena where factories-prisons are full of small,dirty cages with weak,scared animals that have not been given even one day of freedom, without having ever been able to run,to play, to find comrades, to explore the forest and sleep quietly under one of its shadows. They grow up in bare minimum,merciless spaces,either being unable to come in touch with other creatures,or being piled up all together without their inherent competitiveness and their need for personal space. For example, minks fight fiercely each other,get seriously injured and stay with their wounds open and infected.Foxes are subjected to generical modifications in order to “offer” more fur while being slaughtered, and as a result they have heavy bodies and auto-immunes diseases that cause them pain every day.

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Athens, Greece: Intervention at central offices of general newspapers in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker from 12/5 /23  G.Michailidis

Athens, Intervention at central offices of general newspapers in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker from 12/5 /23  G.Michailidis

Today, June 6/23, as the anarchist comrade Giannis Mchailidis is on his 26th day of hunger strike, we are holding an intervention at the offices of “Εφημεpίδa suntaktwn “. We threw flyers, hung a banner and demanded that the text calling for a meeting and march on Saturday 10 June at 18:00 at Monastiraki area of Athens be published, as we want to demonstrate against the silencing of our comrade’s 26 day struggle by the mainstream media.

The anarchist political prisoner Giannis Michailidis has been on hunger strike since 12/5/23 resisting the regime of exemption imposed on him by the state and the judicial authorities.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DEVALUATION OF OUR LIVES

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST CAGE

by Assembly in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Mchailidis in Athens

Kaisariani area, Αthens : Coordinated attacks on windows and doors of the ΚΕΠ (Citizens advice office of the state) and the ELΤΑ (post offices) by Solidarians.

Kaisarian area : coordinated attacks on windows and doors of the ΚΕΠ (  Citizens advice office of the state) and the  ELΤΑ (post offices).

On Saturday 27 May, at 1am, we attacked the Κ.Ε.Π. Citizens advice office of the state)and the  ELΤΑ (post offices)  in Kaisariani area  at the same time, destroying their windows and doors. We carried out this action in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker from 12/5/23 Giannis Michailidis.

Our comrade is suffering at the hands of the state because of his ideas and action, and has been subjected to multiple mockeries by the bureaucratic apparatus. That is why we too have chosen two cogs of this mechanism as targets.

We attach the text of the statement of our comrade’s hunger strike.

Victory in the hunger strike of G. Michailidis

by solidarians

Via: athens.indymedia

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