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Ceol at Castlerea Prison for Pat O'Donnell.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:02:18 +0000

Musicians and singers, residents of Erris and Shell to Sea supporters from around the country gathered together at Castlerea prison on Saturday 13th March for a public demonstration of solidarity and support for prisoner Pat O'Donnell. Special thanks to Frances Black for the pleasure of her company and her singing, and to all the musicians which included Gregory Daly on flute, Gerry Harrington on fiddle, Ciara Daly on flute, Seamus and Fiachna O'Mongain on concertina and accordion, Joe Carey on accordion, Rob O'Foghlu on bodhran, Seamus Mac Mathuna on flute, Ide Nic Mhathuna on concertina, Mystery Guest on guitar, singers Naoise O'Mongain, Astrid Ni Mhongain, Brid Smith and Finbar Cafferkey … … And to Benny Canavan on the pipes who led a march from the prison gates along the prison walls to the prison doors.

The New McCarthyism in Israel

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:35:03 +0000

By Jonathan Cook - February 24, 2010 The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago...[T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions. read more

National Protest for Pat ( The Chief ) O' Donnell

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:22:09 +0000

Pat O'Donnell is now entering into his second month in prison. There will be a national protest outside the prison on the 27th (Sat week).If you would like to book a space to travel down with Dublin Shell to Sea please text or ring Dublin S2S on 086 736 2417 . Tickets 15-20 euro depending on final costs.

Afghanistan’s Kandahar hit by suicide bombers, 30 dead

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:35:06 +0000

BBC News: At least 30 people have been killed and 46 wounded in four suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, hospital officials say. The first blast happened at about 2000 (1530 GMT). Officials said the biggest attack was aimed at the city's main prison. The Taliban said they carried out the bombings as a "message" to Nato.

BASQUE POLITICAL ACTIVIST SPENDS 75th BIRTHDAY IN JAIL FOR FOUNDING A NEWSPAPER

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:44:55 +0000

Basque activist sentenced to 12 years for founding a newspaper, reduced to eight years on appeal Jose Luis Elkoro Unamuno, a political activist for Basque self-determination for most of his life, also elected Mayor of his town, jailed for founding the newspaper Egin, which the Spanish state closed down years ago. Even though a court last year declared the closure to have been illegal, Jose Luis remains in a Spanish jail, far from his family and friends.

Mumia: Earthquake

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:40:38 +0000

Mumia’s radio commentaries for March 7: - Earthquake - Democracy of Puppets Write to him at: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL #AM-8335 175 Progress Drive Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090

Hong Kong: Long Hair arrested

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:43:05 +0000

From chinaworker.info March 11, 2010 -- Leung Kwok-hung, who by the name "Long Hair" is one of Hong Kong’s best-known political figures, was arrested at his home today, 11 March, and charged over his attendance at a demonstration on 25 December 2009 to protest against the 11-year jail sentence imposed on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Liu’s Christmas Day trial for “inciting subversion of state power” has attracted attention and protests around the world. read more

Sea Shepherd Runs Rings Around Prison

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000

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Britain: Activists Facing Jail for Shaking a Fence

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:14:27 +0000

SchNEWS - Friday 12th March 2010 | Issue 713 After nearly two years of stressful legal wranglings, five Smash EDO activists are facing possible imprisonment for allegedly shaking a crowd barrier at the Carnival Against the Arms Trade in June 2008 in Brighton...Some of them were seriously assaulted by police during the demo, and then suffered multiple arrests, house searches and changes of charges. read more

Anarchism and Its Aspirations — Book Excerpt

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:44:13 +0000

From Revolution by the Book Cindy Milstein’s new book, Anarchism and Its Aspirations, has been printed and is on its way to our warehouse. It’ll be available at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair this weekend (where Cindy will be giving two talks). For those of you who can’t make the bookfair, you can order it now (at a 25% discount!). Wherever you are, here’s a taste of what’s in store: two brief excerpts lifted from the book’s title essay. Enjoy! ♦♦♦ The aim of anarchism is to stimulate forces that propel society in a libertarian direction. —Sam Dolgoff, The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society, 1970 Classical anarchism’s aims were no bulwark against the brutal transformations that swept the globe with the rise of actually existing communism and fascism. Historical forces drove society in a murderous direction. Anarchism did not disappear during this time. Yet its ranks were decimated. Touchstone figures were killed, including Gustav Landauer by protofascists following the Bavarian Revolution in 1919 and Erich Mühsam by Nazis in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934. Others died in prison, like Ricardo Flores Magón in 1922, and some committed suicide, such as Alexander Berkman in 1936. Anarchists were increasingly isolated. Kropotkin’s death in 1921 marked the last mass gathering of anarchists—for his funeral procession, and then only with Vladimir Lenin’s permission—in Russia until 1987. Thousands of anarchists worldwide were incarcerated, exiled, or slaughtered. They were victims of repressions like the Red Scare in the United States and purges of radical opposition by numerous Communist parties. As a result, anarchism became far less vibrant, a ghost of itself. This made it difficult for people to discover the politics, further reducing the number of anarchists and anarchistic efforts. It was as if the antiauthoritarian Left skipped a generation or two. At the same time, the world itself was transformed—but in a polar opposite way from anything that anarchists had advocated. Fascism, Bolshevism, and Maoism; the rise of the United States as a world superpower; the birth of multinational financial institutions along with the “advancement” of capitalism; the cold war with its nuclear threat: these and other emergent phenomena dramatically expanded the forms of domination that any liberatory politics needed to address. Attempts to rebuild anarchism were slow going, but never truly disappeared. In the postwar era, through the 1960s and beyond, anarchism struggled to tailor itself for the late twentieth century. It gained insight from other overlapping or like-minded movements, such as radical feminism and queer liberation, or the Autonomen in Germany and Zapatistas in Mexico. It inspired, both explicitly and in less obvious ways, everything from the playful urban politics of Amsterdam’s Provos to new forms of radical ecology like the antinuclear movement and Earth First! to the British poll tax rebellion.28 While anarchism seemed behind the curve on some issues—the collapse of Communism and the subsequent rise of unipolar neoliberalism, for instance—it continued to grow and develop.

Kurds Call for Release of Children from Turkish Jails

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:03:00 +0000

Around a hundred people protested this afternoon (12 March) outside the Turkish Embassy in London against the 8 year sentence for 15 year old Berivan Sayaca for allegedly throwing stones at police vehicles during a demonstration. Photos (C) 2010 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

Amadeu Casellas is Free!

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:36:56 +0000

Catalan anarchist prisoner Amadeu Casellas Ramon was released from prison at midday on Tuesday, 9 March!!! The director of the penitentiary center at Girona (Catalunya, Spanish State) finally considered all the complaints and petitions submitted by Casellas' lawyers and concluded that Casellas had been imprisoned for 8 years too long, and ordered his immediate release.read more

Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:15 +0000

Via: Time: Amnesty International may be best known to American audiences for bringing to light horror stories overseas such as the disappearance of political activists in Argentina or the abysmal conditions inside South African prisons under apartheid. But in a new report on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal health care [...]

37 Years of Solitary Confinement: The Angola Three

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:48:40 +0000

At Angola, eighty per cent of the prisoners are African-Americans and, under the watchful eye of armed guards on horseback, they still work fields of sugar cane, cotton and corn, for up to 16 hours a day. "You've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night," says Warden Burl Cain, a committed evangelist who believes that the rehabilitation of convicts is only possible through Christian redemption. read more

Castlerea Street Concert Supporting Pat O'Donnell.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:38 +0000

Frances Black to play at Castlerea in support of Pat O Donnell. Seisiún Ceoil outside Castlerea Prison in support of Pat O Donnell this Saturday 13th March from 2pm to 6pm. Frances Black will join a host of musicians and singers to make music in support of the Chief who us entering his second month in prison at Castlerea. Bring your instruments and join us for ceol agus craic this Saturday in Castlerea, Co Roscommon.

Anarchist comrade Lambros Fountas

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:00 +0000

Honour to anarchist Lambros FountasComrade Lambros was a real fighter and an example for all of us. True rebel, sworn enemy of inaction. Austere, sober, selective, determined. UNTIL THE END, HEAD of himself. Furthermore, he did not fall into the trap of making a contract with his life. A contract with life is for those who get divorced into the selection of legal transaction.Consider these not-so-grand, but honest words, as a last farewell to a comrade and freedom fighter.Let history speak ...Giorgos Voutsis Bogiatzisprison, 11 Μarch 2010After the end of the big demo in Athens today a group of people approached the Ministry of Culture in Bouboulinas from the back street (Zaimi), walked into the parking and set fire to a State van parked in the internal courtyard of the Ministry, in memory of the comrade Lambros.from actforfreedom

To Shoot an Elephant – A documentary by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailah

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:53:04 +0000

Parts 2-17 “To shoot an elephant” website.

In Izhevsk, police is ready to any means to jail anti-fascists

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:32:08 +0000

Currently there is a fabricated case against 3 antifascists going on Izhevsk, we raised funds for this in autumn: http://www.avtonom.org/old/index.php?nid=2530 During court proceedings, defence presented as a proof a phone conversation which took place 3rd of March between one of the accused anti-fascists (Mark Kolbin) and one of the alleged Nazi victims (Andrey Agafonov).read more

BEING INNOCENT & POOR IN AN AMERICAN PRISON IS ALSO BEING GUILTY IN A U.S.PRISON !!!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:54 +0000

** AMERICAN APPEAL JUDGES NATIONWIDE ARE DENYING OUR POORER INNOCENT PRISON INMATES NEW RE-TRIALS (WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT THEIR APPEALS) RIGHT ALONG WITH THE GUILTY PRISON INMATES WHO DO NOT DESERVE NEW RE-TRIALS BECAUSE ALL OF THEM DO NOT HAVE PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO PROPERLY FORMULATE THEIR LEGAL CASES **

INNOCENT POOR AMERICANS BEING ENSLAVED WITH GUILTY IN U.S. PRISONS DUE TO $$$...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Korydallos prison, Athens. Jail shooting

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Police in Korydallos, near Piraeus, yesterday were seeking the two gunmen who shot a guard who had been on duty outside the local jail complex, causing him serious injuries. According to prison staff who witnessed the shooting, the assailants, both Albanians, had served time at the jail. The motive for the attack remained unclear.from Greek daily Kathimerini

Protests: Harmondsworth, Yarl’s Wood, Glasgow

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:12:09 +0000

3 protests against detention and deportation Over 20 women have been on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Prison since Friday 5th February. Last week 55 detainees began a hunger strike at Harmondsworth Immigration Prison. In Glasgow, following the suicide of three people refused asylum and facing eviction and destitution, people demanding an end to forced removals and [...]

Protest at Harmondsworth, Sat 13 March

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:27 +0000

Saturday 13th March at Harmondsworth Demonstrate outside Harmondsworth immigration prison, Heathrow 12 noon – 1pm Detainee Solidarity London is calling for a demo this Saturday at Harmondsworth in solidarity with the 55 detainees on hunger strike since last week. At any one time, over 2500 people are in immigration detention in the UK. Some have been detained [...]

Protest against the imprisonment and abuse of Kurdish children in Turkish jails!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:03:00 +0000

A 15 year old Kurdish girl Berivan Sayaca has been jailed for 8 years for allegedly throwing stones at police, she is just one of hundreds of children singled out and arrested indiscriminately and jailed unjustly in Turkey. We want to highlight this scandal and free the children. Join us!

State Repression in Iceland: Nine People Taken to Court With Serious Accusations

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:35:00 +0000

The legal aftermaths of Iceland’s last winter revolt are now being determined. A court case against nine individuals who entered the parliament with the intension to protest, was filed this morning and will continue in April. The people are facing very serious accusations; being supposed to have broken laws that might bring them years in prison.