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
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.
Athens: Squat schedule 05/06-11/06. Zizania squatted social center, Fylis and Feron, Viktoria.
TUESDAY
18:30 Greek Class
In Zizania we are having English and Greek classes in a shared and interactive learning environment, where we try to break the divide between student and teacher. We are not professional teachers and we believe teaching is a form of solidarity and skill sharing between people. We invite students to help shape the lessons based on their needs. There are no formal requirements to participate and you will not receive a diploma. The classes are free and open to all people. The languages of the facilitators will be English
19:00 Solidarity With Migrants Assembly
Continue reading Squat schedule 05/06-11/06. Zizania squatted social center. (Athens, Greece)
Against the war: break the front, sabotage, revolt
AGAINST THE WAR
The war in Ukraine is the consequence of 30 years of encirclement operated by the NATO towards the Russian Federation.
The war in Ukraine didn’t begin with the Russian invasion of February 2022 but with the military (and neonazi) aggression against the Russian-speaking populations of Donbass initiated and legitimised by pro-EU and pro-NATO governments since 2014.
The war in Ukraine, like all wars, is a war against proletarians: first of all against the Ukrainian proletarians, used as meat for slaughter in defence of NATO imperialism, and against the Russian ones, sent to die and to kill at the front. Indirectly, it is a war against all proletarians, starting from those of the countries of the EU and the NATO: we, the exploited in the west, will pay for the support of the war, the sending of weapons, soaring defence spending, the productive effort of the industrial-military complex, first of all with cuts in pensions, health care and wages. An increasing share of socially produced wealth will be allocated to the war, the war economy will be imposed with the state of emergency.
Continue reading Against the war: break the front, sabotage, revolt. ( Trentino, Italy)
In solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis
Our comrade, in the name of dignity and freedom, chooses again the same torturous path that has already created irreparable, as it seems, health problems. In this struggle, however, he has exposed and continues to expose the true face of the judiciary; 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.
Wednesday 31 May 19:00 Microphone Rally at Korydallos Town Hall | Saturday 3 June 19:00 Rally Gathering at Syntagma Square, Athens.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHISTGIANNIS MICHAILIDIS
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DEVALUATION OF OUR LIVES
UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST CAGE
Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece.
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KABALA CITY: Banner at Faliro Park Kavala on 28/5 /23 for Hunger Strike from 12/5/23 Giannis Michailidis & Against new prison code in prisons
SOLIDARITY TO THE HUNGER STRIKE OF GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS from12/5/23
NO PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PRISONS, FIRE TO THE PRISONS
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Athens: On Saturday 27 May we put up a banner in May Day Square as a sign of solidarity with the anarchist Giannis Michailidis, who started a second hunger strike on 12 May 2023.
Once again he puts his body and his life on the line to demand his given right to be released from prison.
PARASITA Anarchist Collective for the Total Liberation
parasita@espivblogs.net
parasita@riseup.net
Continue reading Greece: Some news in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis
AGRO-CRUST XI 10/06/2023 (cas/eng/cat)
Aupa amigxs & compas!
Disculpad la tardanza pero al final todo pa delante
con la 11ª edición del Agro-Crust el próximo
Sabado 10 de Junio 2023 en Kan Seitan.
Este año otra vez será solamente un día ya que
la organización y comunicación sin el uso de las
‘redes sociales’ cada vez se complica más.
Pero seguimos nuestro camino sin importar lo que
nos perdemos de sus trampas materialistas en las
que caen demasiadas personas.
Pues sin más palabrería, aquí está el cartel para
su máxima difusión. Estais invitadxs todxs a
participar activamente y a disfrutar del encuentro.
Libertad a todxs lxs presxs!
Fuego a las jaulas, por la liberación total.
Hasta la vista!
Salud & Anarquía
PD: Si necesitais más info, ubicación exacta o
quereis proponer una actividad espontanea
etc. podreis poneros en contacto via email:
liberacionomuerte@yahoo.com
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Oops friends & compas!
Sorry for the delay but in the end everything is ahead
with the 11th edition of Agro-Crust next
Saturday June 10, 2023 at Kan Seitan.
This year again it will be only one day since
organization and communication without the use of
‘social networks’ is getting more and more complicated.
Continue reading AGRO-CRUST XI UPDATE : 10/06/2023 (cas/eng/cat)
Call for actions internationally in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis (ENG/ΕΛ)
The anarchist comrade and prisoner of the Greek prisons, Giannis Michailidis, is on a new hunger strike since 12.05.2023. Exactly one year ago, on May 25, 2022, he had announced the start of another hunger strike demanding his release, which after 68 days of hard strike, last July, he decided to end, with his health condition reaching a critical point, awaiting the fulfilment of the commitments of senior judges for meeting his demands. A year later, the mockery of the comrade by the scum of the judiciary is ongoing, with his requests for leave or release being rejected one after another and a whole backdrop of interventions by senior judges and other high ranking officials of the Greek state to prolong Giannis’ captivity. Thus, with his health still burdened by the previous strike, the comrade is currently back in the position of using his own body as a barricade in the face of state machinations.
The comrade’s strike last year showed with certainty that there was a central strategy on the part of the state mechanisms to conceal the struggle for his release and to force the comrade into physical and psychological extermination; a dead end in order to lead to a retreat and not to release the comrade. The solidarity actions, the strike itself, were well concealed for most of its duration, thus seeking to have any state response taking place in a shadowy setting of silencing, behind-the-scenes mockery of the comrade and his legal defence by the judicial mafia, which stretched the timeframe for holding any relevant meetings to the limit.
Similarly, the also recent experience of the hunger strike of the captured member of the revolutionary organization 17th of November, Dimitris Koufontinas, which preceded that of Giannis (8 January-14 March 2021), highlighted on the one hand the state’s callousness towards a hunger-striking combative prisoner, and on the other hand showed how the escalation of repression against the solidarity movement, brought the opposite results and that zero-tolerance strategy brought more people on the streets, more stubbornness, more attacks on state and capitalist targets, social exposure and, ultimately, it was catalytic in creating explosive situations where the state’s omnipotence was shattered, as in the Nea Smirni uprising. And this is something that the state murderers have probably “read”. That is why the strategy in the immediate aftermath of last year’s strike of Giannis Michailidis was more akin to a posture of marginalization, targeted non-escalation and silencing, with callousness remaining a common feature. In order to prevent Giannis’ struggle from becoming a social event.
The struggle against cop city, and for the Weelaunee forest has been explosive, experimental, and wild for nearly three years now. In the process our enemies have brutalized us, charged people with domestic terrorism, leveraging 5-35 years in prison against them, murdered our friend and comrade Tortuguita, attempted to repress our struggle, and yet we are still here fighting.
As the forests we swore to protect get clear-cut, and people face hefty sentences leveraged by the courts, as we stare at the possibility of raids, repression, investigations, and the unknown, we desire to take the plunge. We will make our enemies pay for every inch. We will not let them know a moment of peace.
Continue reading International Call For Solidarity With Anarchists In USA Atlanta.
24/5/23 Updates on the health condition of the anarchist Giannis Michailidis
The comrade started his hunger strike on 12/5 with quite a deteriorated health due to last year’s big hunger strike in the summer and other smaller ones in between in solidarity with various causes.
When he started he was 67 kilos.
By the evening of 22 May his weight was 62.1 kg.
The other measurements were as follows:
Blood pressure 10.7
Blood sugar 76
Oxygen 98
Until the destruction of the last cage
Assembly in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker
GIannis Michailidis in Greece
2023 Call : Against Oblivion, Against Despair: A Call for June 11th
Another year passes, and another June 11th is upon us. Once again we’re appreciating all that has unfolded in anarchist struggle over this period, both triumphs and hardships, outside the prison walls, and within. We’re appreciating the beauty in fighting back, and the strength that can be fostered when we refuse to succumb to both oblivion, and despair.
Against oblivion: we refuse to let the state disappear rebels, to erase their sweet or sharp words from our discussions, or to remove or obfuscate their contributions to our shared struggles. Instead, we remember them. Their actions, words, laughter, potential, and humanity. We can act as conduit for each other through prison walls and among generations. They can be kept involved as our struggles shift and change, and we can keep them connected to the outside world, and too the outside connected to them.
