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Criminalising Solidarity: The Case of Seán Binder

UPDATE… Greece: humanitarian workers’ lives remain on hold as TRIAL IS ADJOURNED.Nov 18, 2021..

— Sarah Mardini, a 25-year-old Syrian refugee, and Seán Binder, a 27-year-old German national, face a series of unfair and baseless charges …

In 2017 and 2018, Seán Binder, a 27-year-old Irish citizen, worked with the humanitarian organisation Emergency Response Centre International on the Greek island of Lesvos to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean.

Along with other 22 other humanitarians, including a Syrian refugee now based in Germany, Sarah Mardini, he faces criminal charges related to their lifesaving humanitarian work. Seán and Sarah face trial on four charges classified as “misdemeanours”: espionage; disclosure of state secrets; unlawful use of radio frequencies; and forgery.

In what can only be described as a political prosecution, Seán and Sarah were held in pre-trial detention for 107 days in 2018 while authorities investigated the “misdemeanours” and possible felony charges: facilitation of illegal entry; money laundering; and fraud..

If convicted on all misdemeanour and felony charges, they could face up to 25 years in prison.

The Digger Concept of ‘Free’ by Peter Coyote + Diggers fed the masses + The Diggers Songs

1960s: Days of Rage by-peter-coyote/ shared with thanks February 16, 2022

“The original Digger movement began in England in April of 1649. Oliver ‘Ironsides’ Cromwell, executioner of King Charles I, was now the protector of the empire.

Cromwell had participated in the great insurgency that established constitutional monarchy in Britain.

For many of his followers, however, this was not enough.

Gerrard Winstanley, a London cloth merchant and dissenting Christian, published a pamphlet, ‘Truth Lifting up Its Head Above the Scandals’, which established what became the basic principles of anarchy: that power corrupts; private property and freedom are mutually exclusive; and only in a society without rulers can people be free to act according to their consciences.

His pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform was dedicated to Cromwell. …

The Digger Free Store

The San Francisco Diggers originated in the conjunction of the visionary acuity of Billy Murcott, a reclusive childhood friend of Emmett Grogran’s, and Emmett’s own genius as an actor and his flair for public theater.

Billy had intuited that people had internalized cultural premises about the sanctity of private property and capital so completely as to have become addicted to wealth and status; the enchantment ran so deep and the identity with job was so absolute as to have eradicated inner wildness and personal expression not condoned by society. …

From the Digger perspective, ideological analysis was often one more means of delaying the action necessary to manifest an alternative.

Furthermore, ideological perspectives always devalue individuals and serve as the justification to sacrifice them when the ideology is threatened.

As a case in point, consider Robert McNamara, sacrificing a generation of youth in Vietnam after concluding that the war was pointless, because he did not want to tarnish the dignity of the nation’s leaders by criticizing them.

We used to joke among ourselves that the Diggers would be ‘put up against the wall’ not by the FBI or other forces of domestic oppression but by our peers on the Left who would readily sacrifice anyone who created impediments to their power and authority. …”
Found SF (Video)

Diggers fed the masses with ‘free’ as their mantra

Jonathan Kauffman San Francisco Chronicle

March 10, 2017Updated: Jan. 19, 2018 10:24 a.m.

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One day in October 1966, freaks on Haight Street found themselves clutching mimeographed flyers that some unknown passerby had pressed into their hands. It read: “Free food. Good hot stew. Ripe tomatoes. Fresh fruit. Bring a bowl and spoon to the Panhandle at Ashbury Street. 4PM 4PM 4PM 4PM. Free food everyday free food. It’s free because it’s yours.”