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post-gazette: Iraqis who have helped Americans are still endangered
Where is Salam? My trusted Iraqi driver/fixer/sidekick through seven years of covering Iraq has disappeared into Iraq's murky prison system. His crime? He helped U.S. soldiers arrest radical Shiite militiamen who were killing his Sunni and Shiite neighbors as Iraq's civil war raged in 2007. more >>
Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation--an interview with Nancy A. Heitzeg
My interest in Angola is as both a paradigm of the Southern transformation of plantations into prisons and as a prototype for what we now call the prison industrial complex. Many old plantations in the South became prisons after the Civil War. Angela Y. Davis traces the initial rise of the penitentiary system to the abolition of slavery, writing: “in the immediate aftermath of slavery, the southern states hastened to develop a criminal justice system that could legally restrict the possibilities of freedom for the newly released slaves.” more >>
A Call to Action for Leonard Peltier
A Call to Action February 8, 2010 Attention, Supporters! February 6 has come and gone. We’ve had a day of rest, too. It’s time to get busy once again. As you know, Leonard’s application for parole was denied in August 2009. Leonard has appealed that decision and needs our support. Leonard has not given up. We can’t give up, either. In fact, let’s intensify our [...] more >>
Women organise secret arson campaign
July 1912Christabel Pankhurst began organizing a secret arson campaign. Attempts were made by suffragettes to burn down the houses of two members of the government who opposed women having the vote. These attempts failed but soon afterwards, a house being built for David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was badly damaged by suffragettes.In 1913 the WSPU arson campaign escalated and railway stations, cricket pavilions, racecourse stands and golf clubhouses being set on fire. Slogans in favour of women's suffrage were cut and burned into the turf. Suffragettes also cut telephone wires and destroyed letters by pouring chemicals into post boxes.Kitty Marion was a leading figure in the WSPU arson campaign and she was responsible for setting fire to Levetleigh House in Sussex (April 1913), the Grandstand at Hurst Park racecourse (June 1913) and various houses in Liverpool (August, 1913) and Manchester (November, 1913). These incidents resulted in a series of further terms of imprisonment during which force-feeding occurred followed by release under the Cat & Mouse Act. It has been calculated that Kitty Marion endured 200 force-feedings in prison while on hunger strike.(Spartacus Educational) more >>
No Borders Round Up: Yarls Wood, Calais, Bristol, Cardiff, Dale Farm
Hunger Strike: Yarls Wood Immigration Prison, Bedfordshire Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, who are protesting against the period of time spent in detention and the treatment that they receive while being detained.The strike was sparked to [...] more >>
South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register
From Raw Story - by Daniel Tencer Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina's Secretary of State and declare their intentions -- or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed last year and now officially on the books, states that "every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State." There's even a $5 filing fee. read more more >>
Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail
by Nina Bernstein Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government list of such deaths, few facts were available about who these people were [...] more >>
Protest at the US embassy in support of Will Viehl
Will Viehl received 2 years in jail after pleading guilty AND being recommended to serve only 1 year. more >>
Supreme Court Of U.S Needs International World Court Enlightenment On Wrongful Executions In America
Does europe condone executions in u.s. Of only poor Americans and many that are even innocent .... Scary how our U.S.supreme Court is well aware of the ease of the possibilities of wrongful executions continuing here in the wealthiest country in the world and really show no apparent signs of sincere concern ??? Troy Davis and Mumia Abu Jamal, lawyers for poor Americans has great faith that America will come to it's senses and offer you both new and fair trials with proper legal representation before any possible wrongful executions will ever take place in Georgia or Pennsylvania .... more >>
Infowars and Prison Planet Not Available for Most Internet Users in New Zealand
Update: Infowars and Prison Planet Are Accessible Again The sites are loading normally now on Telecom NZ. —End Update— The New Zealand site infonews.co.nz reported that infowars.com and prisonplanet.com are mostly not accessible inside New Zealand. I can confirm that this is the case on Telecom New Zealand, the main provider of Internet access in the country. Many [...] more >>
International activists arrested in West Bank raid
Israeli soldiers raided a Ramallah apartment around 3AM to arrest a Spanish and an Australian activist over expired visas in direct violation of the Oslo Accords. At three in the morning, the Israeli army forcefully entered an apartment in the Area A city of Ramallah and arrested two activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) on suspicion of overstaying their visas. The two, Ariadna Jove Marti, a Spanish journalist, and Bridgette Chappell, an Australian student in the Beir Zeit university, were then taken to the Ofer military prison located inside the Occupied Territories, where they were handed over to the Israeli immigration police unit “Oz”. more >>
NO FORTRESS OF POWER IS INVULNERABLE ...AS LONG AS WE ARE DETERMINED
They will never convince us, those fanatics of democracy, that life equals survival, that work liberates, that we have to be submissive slaves in the cogwheels of a global machine based on exploitation and oppression.We will never become “good citizens” submerged in the depressing loneliness of our couch, audacious cowards at the commands of the security doctrine, satisfied with the mediocrity of our existence.They will never correct our desires with laws, regulations and dungeons.There will always be those who dare and will continue to attack against the logic and morality of dominion, which will burn in the same fire we have lit the ashes of knowledge and the flame of action.We are not interested in creating myths of actions- tools in the hands of every oppressed with a conscience, as we are not interested in the construction of “innocent” and “guilty” by civic legality and all its lackeys.We salute and respect the personal choices and the polymorphous action of comrades – anarchists, revolutionaries and rebels- who look the enemy in the eye and charge holding a dream in their heart.Against the existent and its defenders we oppose our solidarity in practice and our raging desire for freedom, until the destruction of prisons and the society that creates them.FREEDOM FOR THE ANARCHISTS ALFREDO BONANNO AND CHRISTOS STRATIGOPOULOS IMPRISONED AWAITING TRIAL FROM 1/10/2009ACCUSED OF BANK ROBBERY.text of poster below, from Athens more >>
NO FORTRESS OF POWER IS INVULNERABLE ...AS LONG AS WE ARE DETERMINED
They will never convince us, those fanatics of democracy, that life equals survival, that work liberates, that we have to be submissive slaves in the cogwheels of a global machine based on exploitation and oppression.We will never become “good citizens” submerged in the depressing loneliness of our couch, audacious cowards at the commands of the security doctrine, satisfied with the mediocrity of our existence.They will never correct our desires with laws, regulations and dungeons.There will always be those who dare and will continue to attack against the logic and morality of dominion, which will burn in the same fire we have lit the ashes of knowledge and the flame of action.We are not interested in creating myths of actions- tools in the hands of every oppressed with a conscience, as we are not interested in the construction of “innocent” and “guilty” by civic legality and all its lackeys.We salute and respect the personal choices and the polymorphous action of comrades – anarchists, revolutionaries and rebels- who look the enemy in the eye and charge holding a dream in their heart.Against the existent and its defenders we oppose our solidarity in practice and our raging desire for freedom, until the destruction of prisons and the society that creates them.FREEDOM FOR THE ANARCHISTS ALFREDO BONANNO AND CHRISTOS STRATIGOPOULOS IMPRISONED AWAITING TRIAL FROM 1/10/2009ACCUSED OF BANK ROBBERY.text of poster below, from Athens more >>
Protest French Consulate UK Tues 9th Feb : re : Violent police raid in Calais
No Borders are a group who help desperate migrants and have rented a space in Calais that was being used to provide homeless migrants with a warm dry space to stay, food, drink, basic medical supplies, clothing and bedding etc. The French Police and UK Border / Immigration Police have smashed their way into the building via the windows and arrested almost everybody and continue to chase migrants through Calais. The migrants are fleeing political persecution, torture, rape, political imprisonment, starvation etc. more >>
WHO IS THE CRIMINAL? WHO IS THE ROBBER?
from Athens“Freedom, therefore Anarchy is perceivable but cannot be possessed. It is the qualitative whole which I lose at that exact moment that I wonder if I can maintain it and guarantee it against the demands of someone else. To give controls without a price in return the quality, to give yourself means to open yourself up without asking for something in exchange. Without this we will never reach quality but we will always remain in the impenetrable of the deed. The action that doesn’t involve me, that doesn’t change my life by placing me in danger, is just a deed, a routine that tends to pollute even my everyday existence.”A. Bonanno1st of October 2009, an expropriation of a bank in Trikala takes place. Later that same day, anarchists Christos Stratigopoulos and Alfredo Bonanno are arrested and imprisoned awaiting trial. Christos assumes responsibility for the action while Alfredo refuses the charges laid upon him.Up to this day the two comrades remain imprisoned having to face the appalling conditions that prevail in the prison cells of Greek democracy. As always also now, in times of crisis on all levels, the state- the unified party of the bosses, those legal robbers who amass social wealth in their safes and label, through the mass media, as a robber whoever fights against this condition of oppression and exploitation- knows how to punish in an exemplary way its stated enemies.Particularly in the case of A. Bonanno, the 73 year-old comrade with a long and polymorphous presence in the lines of the international anarchist- subversive current who faces serious- diagnosed even by the state- health problems (heart condition, diabetes, serious myosceletical problems), his continued detention takes on the characteristics of vengefulness and of his physical destruction and places his life in imminent danger.Like every captive of the statealso Christos and Alfredo are not alone IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALFREDO BONANNOSOLIDARITY TO CHRISTOS STRATIGOPOULOS more >>
Shell to Sea campaigners may face imprisonment despite vindication.
Preview of appeals due in Castlebar on the 9th Feb 2010. Judge Rory MacCabe is due to hear 14 Shell to Sea related cases scheduled for next Tuesdays sitting of Castlebar circuit court. The stakes are high: Five people are appealing prison sentences imposed last year, and may go directly to jail if they lose their appeals. Despite the vindication of the campaign by An Bord Pleanála - who in November rejected over half of Shell's latest on-shore pipeline route on safety grounds – those who have rightly campaigned against the project over the years continue to be dragged before the courts, and may well be unjustly imprisoned after Tuesday’s court in Castlebar. Shell, along with the Government, Gardaí and judiciary would like the event to pass silently, people to go to prison quietly and serve as an example of what can happen if you stand up for your rights. This is a summary of the cases to be heard, as a reminder of how unjust the situation in Mayo still is. more >>
Latin American pages being updated!
Dear anti-prison blog readers, our Latin American pages are in the process of being updated. We’re translating new articles and information on anti-prison struggles and anarchist/activist prisoners. Keep in mind that most of the links are in Spanish only, and most of the prisoners can’t write in English. A short file on common greetings and phrases [...] more >>
Leonard Peltier: Celebrate Freedom with Me
February 6 Statement by Leonard Peltier Greetings to everyone, 34 years. It doesn’t even sound like a real number to me. Not when one really thinks about being in a jail cell for that long. All these years and I swear, I still think sometimes I’ll wake up from this nightmare in my own [...] more >>
(en) Germany, FAU BERLIN - Protests at least 65 cities in 21 countries within the past 4 weeks
From january 29/30 (the global day of protest) until today there have been protests in at least 56 cities in 20 countries against a verdict that prohibits workers in Berlin from affiliating themselves with the union of their choice. The bosses at the Kino Babylon Mitte cinema managed to find a court to ban the FAU Berlin workers association from calling itself a union and are now trying to get the FAU Berlin charged with fines or even imprisoned. There is a month-long labor dispute between the FAU shop-floor and the management. Not for forget about the protests from the end of december until the global day of protest at the end of january. Those included another 14 cities in 5 countries. ... more >>
(en) Germany, Latest news about the repression against FAU Berlin / more mobilizations
Table of content: ---- 1. Dear comrades, friends and supporters ---- 2. Information: Fine or jail imminent for FAU Berlin -- 3. Mobilization during the BERLINALE festival - 4. More ways to support us during the BERLINALE festival ---- 5. More information / How to contact us --- (February 6, 2010) --- 1. DEAR COMRADES, FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS, ---- we'd like to thank you for your support during the global action days. The impressive international solidarity you have shown us has invigorated us in our struggle with German class justice and the bossholes at the Babylon Mitte Cinema. We were moved to see support pour in from around the world for the FAU Berlin's fight for recognition as a union. ---- Thanks to your participation, the action days were a complete success and have sent a signal that the de-facto ban of the FAU Berlin won't be accepted. The courts must now recognize that ... more >>
(en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle expand in number of locations and in scope of occupation aspects
The joint struggle keep expanding. We had again the Friday demonstrations in Bilin, Nebi Salah, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, and a Sheikh Jarrah... with many participating in two of them. The refusnics struggle continue with Emelia replacing Or released from the army after three terms in prison. More invitation for the anarchists Against the Wall to join struggles are received and activists participate during the week in Sheikh Jarrah and in court solidarity at Ofer military hearings (of Bil'iners mainly). At the south, both within Israel and the occupied west bank the struggle do not stop though no regular Friday action(s) there. The preparations for the 5th anniversary for the non stop joint struggle in Bil'in against the separation fence and occupation collect momentum. ... more >>
Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle expand in number of locations and scope of occupation aspects
BIL'IN MA'ASARA NI'ILIN NABI-SALIH OFER COURT REFUSNICS SOUTH SHEIKH JARAKH The joint struggle keep expanding. We had again the Friday demonstrations in Bilin, Nebi Salah, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, and a Sheikh Jarrah... with many participating in two of them. The refusnics struggle continue with Emelia replacing Or released from the army after three terms in prison. More invitation for the anarchists Against the Wall to join struggles are received and activists participate during the week in Sheikh Jarrah and in court solidarity at Ofer military hearings (of Bil'iners mainly). At the south, both within Israel and the occupied west bank the struggle do not stop though no regular Friday action(s) there. The preparations for the 5th anniversary for the non stop joint struggle in Bil'in against the separation fence and occupation collect momentum. more >>
RNU: End British Policing In Ireland Protest, Dublin
END INTERNMENT BY REMAND! SMASH 'SECTION 44' POLITICAL STATUS FOR REPUBLICAN PRISONERS more >>
Public Meeting in Liverpool
Learn how you could help a man who has been in prison for thirty years for a crime he did not commit. more >>
Army moves to strip jailed hip-hop soldier of civilian legal team
Immediate Iraq tranfser and court martial announced in violation of military regulations By the Friends and Family of Spc. Marc Hall. February 3, 2010 stoplossmusic.org Today, Fort Stewart, Georgia officials confirmed that the Army will attempt to separate Spc Marc A Hall from both his civilian legal team and his established military defender Capt. Anthony Schiavetti by sending him [...] more >>
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