Berlin: 8 March solidarity demo for Andrea, imprisoned anti-fascist

from ABC Berlin, by email, updated 25 February 2008:

Call for antifascist demonstration and women-block at the 8 March demo in Berlin

On the 8th March 2008 we gonna have a big demonstration in Berlin to the prison of Andrea, we call as well for a big and strong women block in in front of the demonstration, so if there is any interest to come or to get any information please let us know we will send your information.

Write to: freiheitfuerandrea@riseup.net
Information about demonstration: http://www.freeandrea.de.vu/

Solidarity with Andrea!

On the 1.12 the Berlin´s anti-fascist Andrea was arrested by plain clothes cops of LKA´s political branch. She was in a neighbourhood in south east Berlin where a neo-nazi demonstration was taking place. Since five months she had managed successfully to avoid her imprisonment, which should have happened already on the 2nd August 2007.

She will have now to spend her next 14 months behind bars and therefore she absolutely needs all our support from outside the walls. After one and half weeks spent in the prison of Lichtenberg, Andrea has been transferred by surprise on the 11th January to the prison of Pankow. Through this she lost a visit she had already applied for, and now she had to apply again for all the usual things like packets, sport, visit..

A bit of history

On the 12.07.07 the Münich local court sentenced her to 4 months without probation. She had a pepperspray on her. Even though on that day there was no lefty demonstration taking place, and therefore it was legal to carry a pepperspray, the court said that on that day a "state of exception" had been declared. Of course they forgot to inform the rest of the population about this.

Following this sentence, she faced also the loss of a preceding probation of three months, back then being caught with some eggs full of pepper during an anti-fascist action on 1st May 2005, in Berlin. During a process on 31st July, under which several accusations against her got regrouped, she has been sentenced to five months more.

She has been accused in participating within an action of the "Überflussigen" (an autonomous group active mainly on the theme of precarity) against the racist immigration office in Berlin-Lichtenberg, in October 2006, for a blockade attempt against a neo-nazi march in August 2006, for masking up during the protests against a neo-nazi demonstration towards the prison of Tegel in solidarity with Michael Regner "Lunikoff" (singer of a famous neo-nazi band, serving a couple of years in that prison), in October 2006.

On top of this come two months without probation following a squatting acton in the Liebigstrasse, Berlin-Friedrichshain.

These sentences are clearly political ones, meaning that an engaged and unwilling-to-bow activist has been sent down for quite some time.

Write her letters and postcards:

Andrea Neff
Bnr: 746/07/2
Justizvollzugsanstalt für Frauen in Berlin
Arkonastraße 56
13189 Berlin
Deutschland

For money donation:

Rote Hilfe e.V. Kontonummer: 7189590600 BLZ: 100 200 00
Berliner Bank Verwendungszweck: Soli Andrea

Solidarity actions are of course always welcomed!

See "Freiheit für Andrea!"
http://www.freeandrea.de.vu/

ABC Berlin

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