Greece: « Emotional blackmail » is a cowardly failure… CCF hunger strike is victorious!

(Traduction de ce texte ici bientôt)

Statement from the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire fighters who have ended their 32 day hunger strike after winning the release of their imprisoned family members. Other prisoners remain on hunger strike with a number of demands. For updates see Inter Arma,  Hunger Strike, Act for Freedom Now, ContraInfo, 325.

Inter Arma received and translated:

04/4/2015

THE  HUNGER STRIKE OF THE CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE WAS VICTORIOUS

Today is a day that a crack in the walls of the imprisoned world around us has opened. After 32 days of hunger strike, the mother of Christos and Gerasimos Tsakalos and the girlfriend of the latter will soon pass the exit of prison, free again…

32 days of hunger strike, with eight comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire being hospitalized, balancing between life and death. Mihalis found himself in the ICU the last few days, Olga has reached 40 kilos, Panagiotis had an already compromised health from previous surgeries on his head, George P. has a problem with his heart, with his heart-beats reaching 30 and all of them had medical measurements indicating that they lost 15-20% of their initial body weight.

32 days, the hunger strike became a daily, slow torment of death, in order for us not to make truce with the absolute death of emotional blackmail. An insidious blackmail which authority wanted to impose on us by abducting and keeping our relatives as hostages in prison. 32 days of hunger strike, every fading beat of our heart, reminded us of the promise we made together when we met for the last time, “Let’s go, until freedom …”.

After 32 days of hunger strike, the shadow of repression grew pale, the walls of captivity lowered and prison admitted defeat.

This victory is not only the result of the hunger strike of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. It’s a victory of a whole world of solidarity with arson attacks, occupations, sabotage, marches, gatherings, unexpected interventions, which broke social peace, turned cities into fields of insurrectional moments and occupied buildings into living labs of subversive situations. In an everyday life where the desire for freedom has been suspended indefinitely, life flooded with small and large liberation gestures, with fires, with slogans and sparkling eyes of persons who wore hoods.

We are flooded with many thoughts that want to fill with words the corresponding meanings. But now, there is neither a day for celebration, nor for accounts of victory. Today we stop the hunger strike, having beaten the scarecrows of authority who wanted our relatives in prison, BUT at the same time the hunger strike of the remaining political prisoners, for the overall requests that have been set, continues. The days that follow are critical both for their health and for the total bet of anarchist struggle. Therefore, there is no time neither for relaxing, nor for victory celebration. The die is cast long time ago… We, as the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, remain on the ramparts and prepare our counter-attack, supporting the struggle conducted within and outside prison.

Authority and it’s scarecrows should know that every judicial coup, every jail, every moment of oppression, every propaganda lie, every shade of bourgeois morality will return back to its instigators and owners, with multiple power and vehemence. With the power and vehemence of sabotage, fire, explosion, execution… In war, we answer with war. Time for us to attack first…

STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY with anarchist comrade Nikos Maziotis. member of R.S., and the Network of Fighting Prisoners

VICTORY TO THE STRUGGLE OF THE HUNGER STRIKE

EVERYTHING CONTINUES…

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – FAI/IRF,

Imprisoned members’ Cell,

August 23-30 2014: A week for all the anarchist prisoners

Call for an international mobilization

In summer 2013 members of several ABC groups discussed the necessity of introducing an International Day for Anarchist Prisoners. Given there are already established dates for Political Prisoners Rights Day or Prison Justice Day, we found it important to emphasise the stories of our comrades as well. Many imprisoned anarchists will never be acknowledged as ‘political prisoners’ by formal human-rights organisations, because their sense of social justice is strictly limited to the capitalist laws which are designed to defend the State and prevent any real social change. At the same time, even within our individual communities, we know so little about the repression that exists in other countries, to say nothing of the names and cases involving many of our incarcerated comrades.

This is why we have decided to introduce an annual Week for Anarchist Prisoners on August 23-30. We chose August 23 as a starting point, because on that very day in 1927 the Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in prison. They were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Their arrest was a part of a bigger anti-radical campaign led by the American government. The State’s evidence against the two was almost totally non-existent and many people still today believe that they were punished for their strong anarchist beliefs. Given the nature and diversity of anarchist groups around the globe, we have proposed a week of common action rather than a single campaign on a specific day making easier for groups to be able to organise an event within a longer target period. Therefore, we call on everyone to spread the information about the Week for Anarchist Prisoners among other groups and communities and think about organising event(s) in your city or town. The events can vary from info-evenings, screenings and benefit concerts to solidarity and direct actions. Let your imagination run free.

Till all are free.

325
ABC Belarus
Brighton ABC
Bristol ABC
ABC Cardiff
ABC Czech Republic
ABC Finland
ABC Kiev
ABC Latvia
Leeds ABC
London ABC
ABC Mexico
ABC Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod antirepression group
ABC St.Petersburg

Source: Anews

Manif de bruit du Nouvel an – New Year’s Eve Noise Demo

Quand: Le 31 décembre 2012 à 14h
Où: Métro Henri-Bourassa, coin Lajeunesse et Henri-Bourassa

When: December 31, 2012 at 2pm
Where: Metro Henri-Bourassa, corner of Lajeunesse and Henri-Bourassa

Le 31 décembre 2012, à la veille du nouvel an, nous marcherons jusqu’aux prisons de Tanguay et Bordeaux, dans le nord de l’ile de Montréal, à partir du métro Henri-Bourassa. En poursuivant la tradition, nous irons souhaiter la bonne année à celle et ceux qui sont enfermés derrière les barreaux.

Les prisons ont été créées pour isoler les gens de leurs communautés. Les manifestations de bruit aux prisons sont les preuves matérielles de la lutte contre la répression et l’isolement. Elle permet la création de liens entre les prisonnier.es et les personnes « en liberté », qui partagent tous deux leurs oppositions féroces aux barreaux, aux gardes et au monde qui en a besoin.

Durant ces dernières années, les contextes de la grève étudiante et du G-20 nous on rapproché un peu plus de cette réalité. Pendant la grève, certain.es de nos ami.es ont passé du temps entre les murs des prisons de Tanguay et de Rivière-des-Prairies avant d’être libérés avec des conditions extrêmes de couvre-feu, de non-association et d’exiles en attente de leurs procès. Dans le contexte du G-20, plusieurs ami.es accusé.es de conspiration, de méfaits ou autres, ont aussi passé plusieurs mois en prison. Plusieurs procès restent à venir.

Au cours des dernières années, le gouvernement s’est chargé d’élargir le système carcéral. Un budget estimé à 4 millions de dollars est présentement dépensé dans la construction de 22 nouvelles prisons et dans l’agrandissement d’établissements carcéraux déjà existants à travers le pays. Le projet équivaut à environ 9500 nouveaux lits pour les détenu.es. Dans la même ligné, de nouveaux projets de loi ont été adoptés, tels les projets de lois C-10 et C-38. Alors que l’objectif global du projet de loi C-10 vise à mettre plus de gens en prison pour plus longtemps, le projet de loi C-31 assure la détention obligatoire, la perte du droit de demander la résidence permanente pendant au moins 5 ans et la perte du droit de parrainer sa famille pour les réfugié.es qui sont accusé.es  d’avoir « traversé la frontière illégalement ». Il n’y a jamais eu de meilleur moment pour aller crier aux murs des prisons.

Venez nous rejoindre lundi le 31 décembre à 14h, au métro Henri-Bourassa, au coin des rues Lajeunesse et boul. Henri-Bourassa. Habillez-vous chaudement, amenez de quoi faire du bruit, des sifflets, des bannières, des feux d’artifices. Nous irons visiter à pied la prison provinciale pour femme de Tanguay et la prison provinciale pour homme de Bordeaux.

Parce que personne n’est libre jusqu’à ce que nous le soyons toutes et tous. Dedans comme dehors, révoltons-nous!

***

On December 31, 2012, New Year’s Eve, there will be a demonstration heading to the prisons, Tanguay and Bordeaux, in the north part of the island of Montreal, near metro Henri-Bourassa. Carrying on a tradition from around the world, we will go wish a happy new year to those who are being held behind bars.

Prisons were created to isolate people from their communities. Noise demonstrations at prisons are a material way to fight against repression and isolation. Noise demos permit the creation of links between prisoners and people on the outside, who can together share their opposition to the bars, the guards and the world that needs them.

In the last few years, the student strike and the G20 brought some of us a bit closer to this reality. During the strike, some of our friends spent time behind the walls of the Tanguay Prison for Women and the Riviere-des-Praries Prison for Men before being released with extreme conditions including curfews, non-association and exile to wait for their trial. In the wake of the G20, friends who were charged with conspiracy, mischief, etc, also spent many months in prison. We know there are more trials coming.

In the last few years, the government has been busy expanding the prison system. They are currently spending an estimated $4 million dollars constructing 22 new prisons and expanding many existing prisons across the country. The project adds up to about 9,500 new beds for prisoners. In the same vein, new laws are being passed, like C-10 and C-38. Bill C-10’s overall goal is to to put more people in prison for longer and Bill C-31 ensures mandatory detention, loss of the right to apply for permanent residency for at least 5 years and loss of the right to sponsor one’s family for refugees who are charged with “crossing the border irregularly”. It’s never been a better time to go yell at the walls of a prison.

So come join us on December 31, 2012 at 2pm at Metro Henri-Bourassa on the corner of Lajeunesse and boulevard Henri-Bourassa. Dress warm; bring something to make some noise, whistles, pots and pans, banners, fireworks. We are going by foot to the provincial prison for women, Tanguay and the provincial prison for men, Bordeaux.

Because no one is free until we are all free. Inside as well as out, let’s revolt!

Source