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Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military legislation has been constructed to criminalize and throw in jail anyone who dares to publicly voice dissent. Mohammed Khatib comments. more >>
RAY ROUGHLER JONES AT HOUSMANS SEPT.8th
‘Joe Strummer paid my mortgage’ Yes the great man himself will be telling anecdotes based on his totally brilliant autobiography ‘DROWNING ON DRY LAND’ at Housmans at 7pm on Sept. 8th. ‘Being in prison is like being in the pub……..but without the women and booze’ Drowning on Dry Land is the autobiography of Ray Jones. [...] more >>
Guerrero: Liberty for Raúl Hernández, prisoner of conscience
Raúl Hernández free (@ Tlachinollan) After having been held for 28 months in the prison of Ayutla de los Libres, Raúl Hernández Abundio, member of the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM), was released on Friday, 27 August. The judge overseeing his case, Alfredo Sánchez Sánchez, ordered Hernández’s immediate and unconditional release, basing his [...] more >>
400 days and counting: nonviolent Bil’in activist Adeeb Abu Rahmah to remain incarcerated
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 September 2010 Ramallah, WEST BANK A military court of appeal yesterday (1st Sept. 2010) rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a leading activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, imprisoned in Israel’s Ofer military detention centre since 10th July 2009. The decision comes 8 days [...] more >>
Blac Block and Giant Fishing Nets?
From Absurd Times Article - by Kent Shockerminster Yes, you read the headline correctly! At a Vancouver protest against police brutality this past Saturday, a fairly large group of Black Bloc protesters was able to throw giant fishing nets over police enforcements who showed up to protect the event. As dozens of police scrambled to untangle themselves from the nets, Black Bloc rioters rampaged through the city: fire-bombing banks, hijacking helicopters, and bulldozing down prison walls. Dannit Eschleton, a local journalist embedded in the trap said, "those criminals are going to pay for this, I was maced, tear gassed, and beaten with batons as the police tried to defend themselves and get out of the net". read more more >>
One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington.
From south sound indymedia One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington. One of them being Wells Fargo the main investor in GEO Group and the Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant detention center (prison) that sits comfortably in the Tacoma tide flats. “NO PRISONS (A)” was spray painted on the side of the building and 3 windows where smashed. Bank of America also had an ATM card slot glued. Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers (including Merrlin Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp. In solidarity with all imprisoned, in all prisons, And for the destruction of the prison world. - Anarchists read more more >>
A Call for International Days of Action in Support of Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, Sept. 17-20, 2010
On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building in Khimki, a suburb of Moscow. They demonstrated in defense of the Khimki Forest, which was at that time in the process of beings cutting down for the needs of big business. The demonstration, during which several windows were broken, received a great deal of public attention. The authorities responded with a wave of repressions. The day after the demonstration, two well-known social activists, Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, were arrested. They are now threatened with up to seven years in prison for disorderly conduct, although there is no evidence of their complicity in illegal activities. Meanwhile, the police continue to hunt down and harass other activists, especially those involved in the antifascist movement. more >>
SHAC Second trial begins
On Wednesday 21st January, seven activists from the campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) were sentenced to a total of fifty years in prison, after they were found guilty in December 2008 of 'conspiracy to blackmail' Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Heather Nicholson was jailed for 11 years, Gregg and Natasha Avery sentenced to nine years each, Gavin Medd-Hall an eight-year prison sentence, Daniel Wadham jailed for five years, Dan Amos and another were both sentenced to four years in prison. "They conspired to do A B and C ... with Persons or Persons Unknown." - Who were persons unknown? It really didn't matter, as the above conspiracy law linked the individuals even though they had never met them or talked to them. However, this was all ignored as the media falsely charged the activists with hypocrisy, extremism and terrorism, instead of acknowledging their own hypocritical standpoint, best portrayed by the Telegraph, with NETCU helping to further the hysteria following the activists guilty verdicts. more >>
Demand The Release Of Iranian Trade Unionists.
Instead of being released Mansour Osanloo has been sentenced to a further year in prison. Reza Shahabi was arrested and is held incommunicado. The long night of repression for Iranian Trade Unionists continues. But you can act and make a difference. Send the sample letter at the end of this article to address' provided. Mansour Osanloo, president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (a public transit company owned by Tehran Municipal government with about 17000 employees) has been sentenced this week to one year imprisonment by the City of Karaj Islamic Revolutionary Court for "propaganda against the system". Mr. Osanloo has been subject to increasing harassment in recent months and was put on trial recently at Karaj Revolutionary court. Osanloo had also been charged with "connection with the opponents of the system". He has gone through all this in recent months while he has been in prison for the past three years. more >>
Communique from hiding in South America concerning the frame up of August 14 in Chile
translated from the italian translation in culmineThursday, August 26, 2010We are writing from clandestinity all over South America. We delegates of the undersigned collectives are making an effort with the times to convene to send a message of truth to all aware people oppressed by the State of Chile.1 - We condemn the terrorist way of acting of the State of Chile over the past 200 years of systematic repression and social inequality maintained by blood and fire by each of its rotting institutions.2 - With the full force of our insurgent people we REJECT the performance of searches and arrests that plagued the young people on Saturday, August 14.3 - With total absolute responsibility we hereby WE DECLARE that ALL those arrested do not belong to, nor have they ever been part of, the collectives that have decided to respond to historic State violence with bombs. We know this and the government of the clown Piñera and Attorney Peña also know it.4 – WE ACCUSE, as directly responsible for this TV show, the State, the bosses and the fawning press, they have all hidden the social violence that they have imposed, pointing the finger at the occasional bomb explosions that are simply the outcome of the inequalities and oppression of this snob capitalism. THE STATE IMPOSES THE SOCIAL WAR, we did not invent it, we who are its victims. We, on the contrary, have stopped being victims and have risen up as free human beings.5 – WE HAVE NEVER BEEN in the Occupied houses. Any person of normal intelligence knows that those are cultural spaces in which young people meet to converse, debate, and hope to live at community level. If the state CRIMINALISES these places is only due to pure myopia and implicit defeat in wanting to destroy anything they cannot understand. The systematic indiscriminate repression of the young is the zenith of the orthodox fascist.6 – WE HAVE NEVER SUBMITTED TO nor have we entered into alliances with political parties or movements related to the right, centre or left. WE NEITHER HAVE NOR DO WE RECOGNISE the authority of anyone, either bureaucrats or marxist ex-combatants nor people with mental problems that claim actions that they never carried out (like this stranger who stabbed his girlfriend and still survives in prison). WE ARE libertarians. WE DO NOT HAVE MILITARY HIERARCHIES OR PARTY DIRECTIVES. WE ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. WE ARE EVERYONE.7 - We, the undersigned collective, WE HAVE PLACED BOMBS. Our objectives were: banks, financial corporations, embassies, police stations, barracks, churches, political parties, gyms of the lords of this country, everything that belongs to the historical oppressors of the working people. WE DO NOT REPENT, moreover IT IS OUR PRIDE, as is the fact that so far no police have approached us. WE ARE THEIR DEFEAT.8 – WE REALISE that the summer earthquake struck most of the structures of all the collectives, that limited our actions and so far it has not been possible to rebuild what was lost.9 - In these over 20 years we have been using different types of weapons. If we had wanted we could have caused fatalities. The famous TNT has been a part of the popular arsenal for a number of years. The office of Chilectra attack was not the first time that we have used it, all the comrades responsible for this attack confirm so here. If you want to know where we got it the answer is simple: from the market, the same that you idolize and the new prosecutor protects. (In the investigations the Chilean military intelligence are looking into the actions carried out with the explosive TNT, - NDT).10 - The Prosecutor Peña. What can we say about him. What everybody knows : that he was a cocaine addict as a student, called “jalandro” by his neighbors for being jalero, with a greater sense of inferiority than his stature, hungry for power and for the chair of national Attorney, a friend of big drugs traffickers at the expense of the small ones that he arrested, liar, coward and potential murderer. This is Attorney Peña. Journalists: DO NOT BE AFRAID to know the truth about this sinister bureaucrat.11 – WE DECLARE OUR COLLECTIVE REPUDIATION of the frame-up against the 14 young people. Those guilty of the libertarian bombings are the State and capital.FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERSANTISTATE RESISTANCE!FUERZAS AUTONÓMICAS Y DESTRUCTIVAS LEÓN CZOLGOSZBANDA ANTIPATRIOTA SEVERINO DI GIOVANNIFEDERACIÓN REVUELTA 14F – BRIGADA GAETANO BRESCIBANDA DINAMITERA EFRAÍN PLAZA OLMEDOMIGUEL ARCÁNGEL ROSCIGNATAMAYO GAVILÁNANTONIO ROMÁN ROMÁNCOLUMNA DURRUTICARAVANAS ICONOCLASTAS POR EL LIBRE ALBEDRÍO more >>
Tacoma, WA - Anarchists attack two banks
social rupture30/08/2010 - The communique goes down like this:"One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington.One of them being Wells Fargo the main investor in GEO Group and the Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant detention center(prison) that sits comfortably in the Tacoma tide flats. “NO PRISONS (A)” was spray painted on the side of the building and 3 windows were smashed. Bank of America also had an ATM card slotglued.Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers (including Merrlin Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp.In solidarity with all imprisoned, in all prisons,And for the destruction of the prison world.- Anarchists" more >>
Underreported Struggles #41, August 2010
In this month's Underreported Struggles: Chile Court says it's OK to force feed Mapuche political prisoners; More than 1,000 Indigenous people arrested for mobilizing in Nepal; Women from San Juan Copala announce third peace caravan; Enbridge gets a... more >>
Gradisca, Italy - 3 military police wounded in escape attempt from detention centre
informa-azione(ANSA) 29/08/2010 - TRIESTE - A new escape attempt, unsuccessful, last night in the middle of identification and deportation from Gradisca d'Isonzo. Three military wounded.Around 21:30 am thirty detainees were up on the roof of the centre of the structure trying to climb over the railings, but the intervention of the military surveillance foiled the attempt.It resulted in a brief scuffle, with three soldiers slightly injured by blunt objects used by immigrants.[No mention of the condition of the prisoners] more >>
Darwin - Fire, prisoners on the roof at Australian immigration centre
AFP29 August 2010 - SYDNEY - Masked men, some armed with long poles, are standing on the roof of an Australian immigration centre in which a fire broke out Sunday, reports said.One section of the Darwin Immigration Detention Centre, which houses up to 500 asylum-seekers, had been on fire but the flames had now been put out, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said.The immigration department refused to give details but said they were working with emergency services to deal with the incident."There’s an ongoing incident at the centre," a spokesman told AFP.Reports said about a dozen men were on top of the building, banging on the roof and making noise, and attempting to stop anyone climbing up to join them.The men appeared to be wearing masks while some were wearing hoods and others had paint on their faces, the ABC said.Australia has a policy of mandatory detention for boatpeople and generally processes asylum-seekers at Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean but increased numbers of arrivals has recently forced the reopening of centres on the mainland. more >>
Less Than Animals: Palestinian Women Imprisoned by Israel Speak Out
By Jillian Kestler D’Amours - August 30, 2010 “[Male Palestinian prisoners] can organize themselves in such a way and actually negotiate and resist and struggle to have certain rights and to have a certain level of relations because of the larger number...With Palestinian women, it's harder to be able to organize because of the smaller number. Whenever they try to [negotiate] they are subjected to harsh treatments." read more more >>
What the wall has done
Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed "Operation Defensive Shield." The immense scale of the 2002 invasion -- characterized by the destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, mass arrests, assassinations and massacres -- ensured that the construction of the wall would commence with as little resistance as possible. Jamal Juma' comments. more >>
Will The British Honour Maghaberry Deal ?- RNU
REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cathaoirleach/Chairperson, DANNY MCBREARTY has voiced concern about breaches of the agreement which resolved the protest by Republican political prisoners in Maghaberry and asked; “Does the failure to deliver on pledges made to Republican prisoners indicate bad faith by the British crown or the misconduct of its prison staff?” more >>
COP15 defendants Tash and Noah Aquitted on all charges!
Victory! Freedom for all political prisoners! Press release from Climate Collective The Copenhagen City Court has today ruled that Natasha Verco and Noah Weiss are innocent. The two climate activists were charged for organizing illegal activities during the COP15 summit in Copenhagen in 2009. But the charges didn't stand in court. The verdict discredits the violent methods adopted by police during the climate summit, when politically active people were denied their democratic right to criticize the climate negotiations. Natasha Verco feels that the entire process has been absurd: read more more >>
Last of the 3 from the Olympia 29 convicted
OLYMPIA - An Olympia woman convicted of kicking a police officer when she was arrested during an anti-police-brutality march in downtown Olympia was led from court in handcuffs Thursday to begin serving a one-month sentence at the Thurston County Jail. On Tuesday, a Thurston County jury convicted Margaret Belknap, 23, of one count of third-degree felony assault of a police officer. The jury acquitted her of an additional count of third-degree assault of a police officer. Belknap addressed the court, held by visiting Pierce County Superior Court Judge Susan Serko, before being sentenced Thursday. In a hushed voice, Belknap said that contrary to a prosecutor’s statement, she is remorseful for what happened the night of her April 8 arrest. read more more >>
"Solidarity tastes different inside prison"
"My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers without being recorded." The Electronic Intifada publishes an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 letter written by Ameer Makhoul from Israeli prison. more >>
Demo boosts spirits at Campsfield House
The monthly demos continue at Campsfield migration prison near Oxford. On Saturday a group gathered to show solidarity with those stuck inside the depressing place... more >>
#353 | Vaggelis Pallis severely wounded in the prison
The prisoner Vaggelis Pallis was found severely wounded in his cell a few days ago. The guards came after more than an hour, after the whole prison was yelling, and claim that Vaggelis was wounded with glass by himself, a claim that is not easily believed by most people that know him. Now he is [...] more >>
A U.S. Man May Face 16 Years in Prison for Posting a Video of His Arrest on YouTube
Via: Al Jazeera: When police arrested Anthony Graber for speeding on his motorbike, the 25-year-old probably did not see himself as an advocate for police accountability in the age of new media. But Graber, a sergeant with the Maryland Air National Guard, is now facing 16 years in prison, not for dangerous driving, but for [...] more >>
Letter from Iranian Political Prisoners to Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Honorable President Da Silva: We the signatories and endorsers of this letter know that you have traversed a difficult road to democracy -- from the grassroots level of union struggles to the level of the nationwide Brazilian workers' federations and the arena of global politics -- with the support of the votes of the democratic and freedom-loving people of Brazil. As a group of union and syndicate activists, political activists, and activists promoting various creeds, we have been incarcerated in the prisons of the Islamic Republic solely for having performed our union and professional duties and for our votes and opinions. more >>
PRISON? event at The Cube (Bristol)
Bristol Indymedia and Bristol ABC, in association with Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, present PRISON? – a one man performance written and performed by Charlie Ryder. This is a true story which is creatively told using a variety of theatrical devices including … Continue reading → more >>
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