WOMBLES - Europe

Soldarity demo at Harmondsworth this Saturday, 13 March 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:43 +0000

from email, 11 March 2010: "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 for months, others for years. We call for the immediate closure of all detention centres and stand in solidarity with all those in Harmondsworth, Yarl's Wood and elsewhere resisting this barbaric practice..." more

Poland: Demonstration in support of the Rozbrat squat, Poznan, 8 March 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:54:22 +0000

from email, 9 March 2010: "On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the officials were forced to turn back..." more

"The City is not a company! Rozbrat stays" - 37 anarchists detained in Poznan after clashes with cops

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:58:25 +0000

Anarcha-feminist Gathering, Manchester 10-11 April 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:56:43 +0000

from email, 9 March 2010: "Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11 2010, Manchester Student Union - Anarcha-feminists in Manchester, including the Anarchist Federation Women's Caucus, present two days of discussions, workshops, skill-sharing and fun for people of all ages and genders! Whether you're a committed activist, dipping a toe in the waters or just interested in finding out what anarcha-feminism is, there will be something here for you..." more

Bolzaneto: Convictions of abuse during Genoa G8 protests upheld

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:01 +0000

from email, 9 March 2010: "An Italian court has confirmed the convictions of 15 police officers, prison guards and doctors who were found guilty of the ill-treatment of detainees in the Bolzaneto detention facility in Genoa in 2001 during protests against the G8 summit. The court also overturned the initial acquittals of another 29 people who have now been convicted of ill-treatment..." more

Amadeu Casellas set free

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:54:11 +0000

from thisisourjob, 9 March 2010: "Amadeu Casellas walked out of prison this afternoon after 24 years behind bars. Justice Department sources disclosed that a 2008 Constitutional Court decision, in which it was ruled that time served in preventive detention should count toward a prisoner’s final sentence, has finally been applied to Casellas’ case. After a sentence recalculation based on statutory discrepancies between old and new penal codes, authorities concluded that Casellas had served eight years too many, and released him..." more

Leeds @ The Common Place: "Social Centres in a time of Crisis", 17-18 April 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:53:07 +0000

from email, 9 March 2010: "A weekend of workshops, discussions and socialising for everyone with an interest in radical autonomous social centres. How can a new generation of social centres learn from the successes and failures of established ones? What are the ways in which we can best face up to the challenges.." more

Detainee hunger strikes and arrests in Italy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:51:34 +0000

from imc-uk, 9 March 2010: "Hunger strike in detention centre in Italy; people involved in the grassroots campaign against detention and racist laws were arrested on 23rd February... On the 1st of March, as large demonstrations and numerous workers' strikes were taking place in various cities in Italy in occasion of "the day without migrants" (the first strike of migrant labour in Italy), protests were started also by the migrants in the detention centres ("the Centre for Identification and Explusion that detain undocumented migrants in Italy)..." more

New letter from anarchist prisoner Panagiotis Masouras

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:47:09 +0000

from various sources, 7 March 2010: "Captive behind the walls of a modern reformatory for democracy’s transgressors. The days, the months, the years will be gradually killed off with the discipline embodied by the proud stance of revolutionaries, the ones who are trying to achieve the impossible. Embraces will also die out in the echoing, funereal silence of submissive prisoners..." more

No Pasaran! No EDL in Sheffield!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:46:47 +0000

from afed-sheffield, 4 March 2010: "The English Defence League (EDL) have made plans to march in Sheffield on 30th May. We call on autonomist anti-fascists to make a stand against them. They have already held a series of actions elsewhere in the country, such as in Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds, apparently demonstrating against ‘extremist Islam’..." more

Legal progress for the EDO Decommissioners but one remains on remand

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:53 +0000

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from bristolabc, 3 March 2010: "Some good news today on the legal front for the EDO Decommissioners. The 6 EDO Decommissioners from Bristol, along with the 3 campaigners from Brighton allegedly implicated in the case, were in court in Brighton today, 1 March, to hear the judge rule on whether or not they could proceed with their defence..." more

Forgotten people of L'Aquila losing faith in Berlusconi promises

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:39:55 +0000

via imc-ie, 3 March 2010: "A taped conversation between building contractors has fuelled the anger of acquilani already disenchanted with the progress of reconstruction... Last Sunday, the patience of many of the L’Aquila earthquake victims ran out. An estimated 6,000 of them joined in a “wheelbarrow protest” in the old centre of L’Aquila, the Abruzzo town hit by a devastating earthquake last April which killed 307 people and left more than 40,000 homeless. Focus of the protest was the 4½ million tonnes of rubble which, 11 months later, still choke the eerily empty town centre..." more

Anarchist infoshop in Estonia needs support to survive the winter

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:05:58 +0000

from email, 28 February 2010: "The 'A-library' ('A-raamatukogu') which is an anarchist/alternative infoshop in Tartu, Estonia needs your help. The winter of 2009/2010 has been exceptionally cold and our heating expenses have been way bigger than expected. Since we don't receive funding from any organization, foundation or institution, and depend on individual donations from the local scene to pay for utilities and rent, for now our monetary resources have been exhausted. We are eager to keep A-raamatukogu functioning but for that we need to pay our bills..." more

Greece leads Europe's winter of discontent

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:57:20 +0000

from independent, 24 February 2010: "A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy. Huge protest rallies took place in cities across Spain last night; today a general strike could paralyse Greece while industrial action at French airports and oil plants as well as the narrowly averted stoppage at Germany's Lufthansa promise to be just the start of the greatest demonstration of public unrest seen on the continent since the revolutionary fervour of 1968..." more

The Freiburg Programme: A five-year plan on deviant behaviour

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0000

from email, updated 24 February 2010: "A five year plan on deviant behaviour, creating a European space of freedom, anti-capitalism and rebellion. The European wide network "Out Of Control" was created in 2009 with the purpose of a cross-border collaboration of activists against a European security architecture..." more