The trial against Giorgos Voutsis-Voutgiatzis, concerning a bank robbery in 2006, started Wednesday the 1st of April in the court of Athens. The charges against him were armed robbery and posession of explosives (a handgrenade was found on him at the arrest).
About 100 people gathered outside the building in solidarity, only 15 of them were allowed inside by the cops, wich caused some little disturbances from time to time on the stairs to the entrance.
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“With violence as a structural part, the system organizes the ignorance and fortifies itself from its deniers. Violence is everywhere. It is in the *peitharxika, in the penalties and in the isolation cells. In the city plan and in the war. In the news and in the commercials. In the murderous police and in the environmental looting. In the video games and in the juvenile correction institutions.

How much, mister president, does your democracy says that the life of a robber costs, and much the life of a police man? How much does the life of a prisoner cost in your modern Greek democracy and how much the life of a prison manage? How much does the life of a reputable judge cost and how much the life of the poor devil immigrant? Obviously the value of a human life gets a different meaning when the dead is a defender of the ruling class. But the bullets cost the same.“
Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis
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While most people try to enjoy their holidays, the temperature inside the cells of the Belgian democracy hasn’t lowered. For two years now, prisoners have broken the routine of the incarceration machine with collective and individual revolts, occupations, escapes…The latest facts speak for themselves once more.
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In the night of January 13th 2009, an incendiary device, composed of gas canisters and gasoline, exploded in the entrance of the (police) commissariat of Evomos (region of Thessalonica), and damaged the windows in the facade and the ventilation system. Shortly after, the police arrested the 26 year old anarchist Ilias Nikolau, who does not live far from there. Read the rest of this entry »

On Saturday, February 9th 2008 Natalja was arrested during the yearly demonstration against the NATO-Security-Conference in Munich (Germany). They accused her of resisting violently against police measures. A warrant was issued against her and since then she is in Munich behind bars.
Natalja already was arrested during the G8-summit at summer 2007 in Germany and was sentenced to ten months of imprisonment. Furthermore she has a third trial because of being arrested at a demonstration at may 1th at the same year.
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This text by anarchist prisoner Gabriel Pombo da Silva is about his interrogation by Italian police who came to Germany to demand information about the FAI (Informal Anarchist Federation), an subversive anarchist network who have been responsible for attacks against various targets within Italy. Gabriel is accused of being a “leader” of some kind, this move against Gabriel betrays the kind of ignorance which is endemic within police forces around the globe. Anarchists neither want nor need leaders of any kind – For the spreading of the struggle appropriate to the means available!

Dear comrades,
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Solidarity is a weapon – Support Natalja!

On Saturday the 9th of February, Natalja was arrested during a demonstration in München, Germany against the NATO ’security’ conference that is held there every year in February. She’s accused of having violently resisted police measures. A judge decided that she was to be taken to the prison of München. Natalja had been previously arrested during the G8 summit in Germany last summer and got convicted to 10 months imprisonment. She also has a third trial hanging after that she was arrested on the demo on the first of May last year. It is likely that she will have to spend some time in prison. During one month, she has not had any visit. On the 30th of April, her trial will take place in München.
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