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[Rome] 41 arrested in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

from thefreeonline by thecollective at anarchistnews.org

Clashes and demonstration in Trastevere in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on 101st day of hunger strike (Rome, Italy 28th January 2023)

roma cops cowering behind debris likely thrown at them

We are publishing a short contribution on the demonstration held Saturday 28th January in Rome in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito 101 days from the beginning of the hunger strike.

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Near the gathering in piazza Trilussa – which lasted several hours and from which a demonstration had been unable to set off – after some of those present had slipped out of the encirclement, there were some clashes with the repressive forces, they soon found themselves in difficulty due to being partially surrounded and to the determination of comrades to hold the streets (but they managed to stop a comrade near Piazza Trilussa).

After the clashes, a demonstration was held in the small streets of Trastevere.

At the end of the demo a few dozen comrades were stopped by the DIGOS, police in riot gear and carabinieri.

All 41 people apprehended during the day, taken to the police station and released without restriction from the early hours of Sunday 29, were charged with Article 337 of the Criminal Code (resisting a public official). Below is a brief informative note issued on 29 January itself.

In these days when the comrade’s health condition is rapidly and dramatically worsening, with this initiative the comrades present affirmed the importance of a presence and consequent conflictual practice to be held in the streets, in solidarity with Alfredo in support of the hunger strike. We continue the struggle with rage and determination Alfredo out from 41 bis!

*****

Yesterday in Rome struggle in the streets against 41 bis and life imprisonment without parole, with Alfredo Cospito 101 days on hunger strike.

The police wanted to surround the demonstrators, they were surrounded. The riot police in total confusion charged the DIGOS twice, managing to send one of them to hospital.

The boss of the square wanted to prevent a harmless demo, he got two hours of wild demonstration in Trastevere, which resisted by barricading itself and repelling numerous charges in the alleys.

While it is true that most of the 41 arrested could have been avoided if it had been realised a few minutes earlier that the party was coming to an end, this does not detract one iota from the message of anger at the imminent execution of our comrade coming from the streets. If anything, it reinforces it.

A big thank you to all the rebels and solidarity with all those accused.

Long live anarchy

Alfredo Cospito – Wikipedia

Alfredo Cospito (born 1967) is an Italian insurrectionary anarchist convicted on terrorism charges. [1] He was sentenced to 10 years for kneecapping the head of the Italian nuclear power company Ansaldo Nucleare in 2012, and subsequently to life without parole for bombing a Carabinieri cadet barracks in Fossano………

Turkish Singer faces over 2 Years jail for ‘Insulting’ ex-soldier convicted of multiple Rape and Kidnapping – yet Freed and now Prosecuting Women Critics

from thefreeonline on 31st jan 2023 info from Turkish Minute /stockholmcf.org/

Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of over two years for famous singer Melek Mosso on charges of insulting a former ritghtwing soldier, Musa Orhan, convicted of raping an 18-year-old who was driven to suicide

Singer Melek Mosso.. facing 2.5 years jail due to a freed convicted nazi rapist prosecuting her for a tweet criticising him.

It all began in late 2021 when a Turkish court handed down a suspended sentence of 10 years to former non-commissioned officer Musa Orhan on conviction of sexual assault, raping an 18-year-old Kurdish woman, İpek Er, who later died by suicide.

Melek Mosso was a supporter of Esgi Mola, in a show trial where she was previously convicted of slandering the rapist. In October 2021 an Ankara court had convicted Ezgi Mola of insulting the freed rapist and ordered her to pay a fine of TL 5,200 ($276). New Charges of supporting Egzi and insulting the rapist were then brought against 22 more women including Melek Mosso and 8 celebrities

Orhan proudly gives the salute of the Turkish Nazis.- the Erdogan supporter got a suspended sentence for rape, kidnap and torture and continues prosecuting women for complaining about his impunity.

Since the sentence was suspended, Orhan wasn’t arrested but was rather placed under judicial supervision, in a decision condemned by human rights activists.

Many women’s associations in Turkey also criticized the decision, saying the judicial system was “protecting a rapist” by allowing him to walk free.

The latest indictment, drafted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office following a criminal complaint filed against Melek Mosso by Orhan’s lawyer Mehmet Erkan Akkuş, is seeking up to two years, four months for the singer on charges of “insulting” Orhan on social media, Turkish media reports said.

In the social media post Mosso said, “Shame on this system that protects rapists,” using the hashtag #EzgiMolayalnızdeğildir (Ezgi Mola isn’t alone), referring to a popular Turkish actress who was convicted of insult charges after she protested the release of Orhan in a tweet in August 2020.

Ipek’s horrific death

”Reminding the public that sergeant Musa Orhan abducted and raped İpek Er for 20 days and drove her into suicide in Batman province. Social media users have also denounced the fact that Musa Orhan is again free and criticized the policy of impunity in the country”.. Jin News.

Ipek’s horrific death: Turkish nazi, proven Kidnapper and multiple Rapist, gets suspended sentence from Erdogan’s misogynist and racist Court

The ordeal of Ipek Er, a 19 year old Kurdish woman who finally died in a hospital on August 18, 2020, 33 days after she ‘tried to take her own life’, was discovered in a letter she wrote and publicised on July 16, 2020, before her death, desccribed as suicide.

She said in the letter that she was abducted and raped by Orhan for 20 days in the southeastern city of Batman. Forensic tests later proved she was indeed repeatedly raped by Orhan.

Her rapist is a supporter of the Grey Wolves, the militant wing of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and whose ideology is mainly based on Turkish ultra nationalist racism, and leads persecution of refugees and minorities, especially Kurds like Ipek Er.

“Drown in your conscience that let you release this rapist low-life vicious bastard. Now you have deprived us of everything- law, prayer, wishes, petitions, hope!! What can I say! Shame on you ! Shame on you !!!” Esgi Mola had said in the offending tweet, referring to Orhan, who was released pending trial after six days behind bars by a Siirt court on August 26, 2020, despite a forensics report confirming that he raped İpek Er, and was later given a suspended sentence

Lies by Privileged Climate Deniers have Exploded on Twitter Since Musk’s Takeover

from thefreeonline on January 30, 2023 by E360.Yale.Edu/

This One Comic Perfectly Shuts Down Deniers of Global Warming

Misleading posts about climate change have flourished on Twitter since Elon Musk took charge of the company in October, according to a new report.

“What’s happening in the information ecosystem poses a direct threat to action,” Jennie King, head of climate disinformation at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which produced the report, told the Associated Press. “It plants those seeds of doubt and makes people think maybe there isn’t scientific consensus.”

Climate Deniers Unveil Their Latest P.R. Weapon | NRDC

The report finds that Twitter is actively recommending the term “climate scam” to users who searched for “climate” during the UN climate talks in November. The report found that “climate scam” often appeared as the top result in searches, despite greater user engagement with other terms relating to climate change.

The report says that it’s unclear why “climate scam” gained more prominence than these other terms, adding that the trend highlights “the need for transparency on how and why platforms surface content to users.” More likely it’s down to Twitter Management Tools.

Sudden US Dollar ‘Ponzi-Collapse’ now Possible in 2023 as States defy Coercion and use other Currencies

from thefreeonline on Jan 30th 2023 info from Brandon Smith via Rielpolitik/thefree/Liberty Nation

‘Many might be wondering why exactly the US dollar has yet to collapse. The United States maintains a $31.5 trillion national debt, runs an annual $1 trillion budget deficit, and forks out about $500 billion in interest payments. What’s the deal with the dollar?‘

For one thing, it helps that 90% of the world’s transactions are completed in Ponzi Greenbacks. If anyone dares dissent against US policy, the Washington leviathan and its many tentacles can cut off access.

US coercion is backed by sanctions control via the World Bank/IMF/Swift and over 900 military bases worldwide. We have to buy dollars to trade, and this is how the US can still JUST PRINT MONEY without collapse after all these years.

US debt impunity is a variation of a Ponzi scheme, enforced with sanctions and threats. But all Ponzi schemes are really giant Confidence Swindles, and finally face inevitable sudden and complete collapse.

Despite the RISE of the dollar at the end of 2022 and the huge US capitalist gains, due to oil and gas price inflation from sanctions on Russia, as well as the war profiteering boom of the key Military Industrial Complex, many economists still predict a great economic crash.

Now that Russia has defied the system, and profited economically, despite hundreds of economic sanctions and a full scale proxy war against it, many countries are beginning to break ranks and deal in their own currencies or in the ruble and yuan. Finally some nations are daring to not buy the now devaluing dollar from a USA again forced to increase its 31.5 Trillion debt limit or face default and meltdown.

Let’s send more weapons to Ukraine! And More. And More, more, more MORE MORE MORE…AND MORE! … And in the end peace will come, you’ll see… Eng / Esp

The war in Ukraine has become a bottomless pit into which we continue to throw tons of weapons after almost a year of destruction and death. Faced with the prospect of a long war, we can only think of sending more and bigger weapons.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion almost a year ago, we have sent to Ukraine (“we have”: NATO, Europe, Spain) several consignments of M142 HIMARS missile launchers, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, NASAMS surface-to-air missiles, Javelin anti-tank missile launchers, anti-aircraft missiles, Radar systems, missiles that spread dozens of mines when falling,

At4 and NLAW anti-tank weapons, M77 howitzers, Panzerhaubitze howitzers, Caesar long-range howitzers, M270 rocket launchers, Panzerfaust grenade launchers, kamikaze drones, bomber drones, drones with laser-guided bombs, artillery of all calibers, machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, ammunition for all weapons, hand grenades, helmets, night vision scopes, several hundred modified T-72 tanks, patrol boats, armored vehicles, vehicles tactical and transport…

It looks like a macabre shopping list, but it doesn’t even include all the items sent. Tens of thousands of tons of material, tens of billions of dollars.