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#Greece: Women Prisoners Occupied #Korydallos Prison

Posted on August 1, 2017by Enough is Enough!

On Thursday, July 27, women prisoners occupied Korydallos prison. We publish a statement of the women prisoners.

Submitted to Enough is Enough, translated by Black Cat

Statement Women Prisoners in Korydallos Prison Greece, July 27, 2017

Today, on Thursday the women prisoners in Korydallos occupied the prison in order to keep it open throughout the night, as a response to the death of Vasiliki Stathopoulou, a woman who was imprisoned here. Vasiliki was a cancer patient. She was in prison for over two months and all the while her health was in a terrible condition, the authorities and the doctors kept saying she was just faking it and nothing was wrong with her. She was eventually hospitalized after she collapsed. She died yesterday, on the 26th of July and we were informed of her death today.

We decided collectively to respond to the death of our fellow prisoner and the fact that she was not taken seriously during the previous period, so we attempted to keep the prison open throughout the night. At 22:30 the chief prison-guard Nikolopoulos came in, with ten men from the men’s prison and forcibly locked the women in wards, apart from those who were at the front of the building. In many cases, those who resisted were pushed violently. Next, none of the women were allowed to go out.

Our reaction to the death of our fellow prisoner is a minimum reaction against everything she went through and aims to show that women prisoners facing serious heath conditions -which are many- do not have access to healthcare and are not treated with respect.

The Ministry of Justice, the D.A. and the authorities in prison, repressed our mobilization through the use of violence. This repressive operation in the women’s prison constitutes a political success of the Syriza-Independent Greeks administration.

Women Prisoners in Korydallos Prison Greece

Exposed: Tsunami of Blatant Lies by Western Media on Venezuela

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote

teleSUR | July 30, 2017 (pics from http://drdawgsblawg.ca/ ) Venezuelans voted Sunday for representatives of the National Constituent Assembly, amid what the government has called a targeted media campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its sovereignty.

This one is so iconic! But CNN had to admit that the graphic photo was actually taken in Singapore:

International media outlets rushed to discredit the vote, sharing grossly misrepresentative accounts of the historic electoral process.

The U.S. newspaper Washington Post, for instance, wrote “the decision to hold the vote appeared set to prolong and deepen the suffering of the people of Venezuela” — despite assurances from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that the purpose of the election was to ease economic and political conflicts with the opposition.

The Washington Post also insisted the nation’s 2.8 million state workers “risked losing their jobs if they did not vote.” Continue reading “Exposed: Tsunami of Blatant Lies by Western Media on Venezuela”

The Hamburg G20 Riot was a Milestone and an Inspiration.. says Greek Anarchist Prisoner Panagiotis

by Insurrection News

Greece: Message from CCF-FAI/IRF member Panagiotis Argyrou in Response to the Solidarity Call for No-G20 Prisoners.

A response to the call for solidarity to the ones held in custody in Hamburg

During the exile of captivity few are the things that can make you smile, offer a warm thought or a pleasant feeling. I can, however, say with some certainty that these days of July when Hamburg surrendered to the chaos of riots during the G20 summit, the clashes with the police, the burning barricades, the store looting, the vandalism and burning of sovereignty targets, my thoughts were boosted, a great deal of “thank yous” as well as vivid emotions overwhelmed me, and a smile lit up my face.

I’ll be honest, however. Although from an early stage a large part of insurrectionary anarchism aspired at setting a high target, something that had become clear already since the call for a militant campaign of informal organization months before the summit; and although there was a large number of public texts and claims of responsibility responding to this call (some comrades were kind enough to even mention the heritage of Black December), I wasn’t that sure that the days in question would indeed involve such great momentum. Continue reading “The Hamburg G20 Riot was a Milestone and an Inspiration.. says Greek Anarchist Prisoner Panagiotis”

The Intergalactic Week of Zad: August 17th-24th: Amazingly Occupied since 2010

from freedomnews.org. The quiet, wildlife-filled countryside just outside Notre-Dame-des-Landes, north of Nantes has been a point of massive contention between various French governments and the country’s environmental direct action movement since 2008, when permission was granted to build a €580 million airport serving as “the international gateway” to Western France.

If you’re a French-speaker, or want a video impression of the Zad movement, try this from 2012:

Squats and camps sprung up on fields due for the rumble of the bulldozer in the early 2010s, and it came to be known as the Zone to Defend (zone à défendre, or Zad), inspiring dozens of other similar camps which have in some cases banded together into “back to the land” networks.

Next month will see a major gathering for the Zads in the form of a week-long camp at Nantes, the Intergalactic Week of Zad, building resources and establishing links between the disparate groups.

Organisers said the programme would be relatively open with a few broad themes, and would offer ample opportunity to learn and work on DIY projects:

Mornings will be dedicated to collective working opportunities, including the building of Ambazada, the Intergalactic cabin as well as collective work on various sites of the Zad (e.g., barn construction, carpentry, helping with collective crops, fence maintenance, collecting wood for the bakery, basket making…). Participants are asked to bring a tent, sleeping bag and a leash if you have a dog.

Running from August 17th-24th, logistics for the week only allow for 300 or so people, so interested campers should contact exclaimthezad@riseup.net ahead of time. Continue reading “The Intergalactic Week of Zad: August 17th-24th: Amazingly Occupied since 2010”