Received on 17.01.17:

During the night of 16.01.17 some anarchists painted the slogan ‘Grup Yorum Cannot Be Silenced’ on the Turkish consulate in Melbourne, Australia.

Grup Yorum are a left-wing folk band from Turkey who have been active for over 30 years. Their music is highly critical of the Turkish state and its members support and participate in activism against the state. They have been systematically targeted for represession by the Turkish state for decades. Currently 7 members of the band have been imprisoned since November 2016 on ridiculous charges of ‘belonging to a terrorist organization’.

This action is in response to the call from our anarchist comrades in the South East Asia region demanding the immediate release of all imprisoned Grup Yorum members and for worldwide autonomous actions to highlight the fascist nature of the Turkish state.

Grup Yorum Cannot Be Silenced!

From Indybay:

On January 3rd, a federal court granted Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition for immediate and effective treatment for his Hepatitis-C infection, which has hitherto been denied him. The judge struck down Pennsylvania’s protocols as “deliberate indifference to serious medical need,” said Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia.

Bret Grote, of the Abolitionist Law Center, and associate attorney Bob Boyle led the case in court. “This is the first case in the country in which a federal court has ordered prison officials to provide an incarcerated patient with the new [Hep-C] medications that came on the market in 2013,” said Grote.

This is a rare and important win for innocent political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in a court system that has routinely subjected him to the “Mumia exception,” i.e., a refusal of justice despite court precedents in his favor. Thousands of Hep-C-infected prisoners throughout Pennsylvania and the US stand to benefit from…

Estimadas compañeras,
Nos dirigimos a vosotros para haceros llegar la llamada a la solidaridad con las compañeras anarquistas de Barcelona actualmente encarceladas en Alemania bajo la acusación de haber expropiado una entidad bancaria de la ciudad de Aachen 2014.

El próximo día 23 de enero comienza el juicio oral durante el cual el Tribunal de Aachen someterá a prueba las acusaciones de la fiscalía, por las que corren el riesgo de ser condenadas a elevadas penas de prisión. El juicio probablemente se prolongará hasta la primavera.

Desde el grupo de apoyo a las encausadas queremos que nuestras compañeras afronten el inicio del juicio conscientes de que tienen todo nuestro apoyo, y es por ello que os animamos a participar de la dinámica de movilizaciones que estamos poniendo en marcha.

Sábado 21 de enero hay convocada una manifestación en Barcelona, en la que os invitamos a asistir, y en la que…