Internationalist anarchist solidarity with the insurgent comrades Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar, kidnapped by the Spanish state since November 2013!
Received on 26.10.15, slightly edited for clarity:
CONCENTRATION IN THE NATIONAL COURT IN THE SIGHT OF MONICA & FRANCISCO
Tuesday, October 27. 9:00 am. C / C Genoa / Farcía Gutierrez. National audience. (Madrid)
On Tuesday October 27 the hearing of two of the arrested in the case of November 2013 is at the National Court. After spending nearly two years on remand, (November 13 completes two years), the judges will have to decide if they extend the two year custody or give bail to those awaiting trial.
Therefore, this Tuesday at 9:00 we will be with them at the gates of the court, because they are not alone, because we will not cease our solidarity.
They can lock us up but it will not stand.
DEATH TO THE STATE AND LONG LIVE ANARCHY
If they enact the extension of preventive detention gather at 20:00 pm in the Plaza de Tirso de Molina
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CONCENTRACIÓN EN LA AUDIENCIA NACIONAL POR LA VISTA DE MÓNICA Y FRANCISO
– MARTES 27 DE OCTUBRE
– 09:00H
– CALLE GÉNOVA CON CALLE GARCÍA GUTIERREZ
Este martes 27 de octubre se celebrará la vista de lxs compañerxs Monica Caballero y Francisco Solar detenidos en noviembre de 2013 en la Audiencia Nacional.
Tras pasar casi dos años en prisión preventiva, (el 13 de noviembre cumplirían los dos años), tendrán que resolver si les prorrogan la prisión preventiva dos años más o les dan la libertad provisional a espera de juicio.
P
or ello, este martes a las 9:00 estaremos con ellos a las puertas de la audiencia, porque no están solos, porque no van a conseguir frenar nuestra solidaridad.
Podrán detenernos, pero no pararnos.
MUERTE AL ESTADO Y VIVA LA ANARQUÍA
Si decretan la prórroga de la prisión preventiva nos vemos todos a las 20:00 de la tarde en la Plaza de Tirso de Molina
(via Insurrection News)
On 2nd Nov 2015, Irom Sharmila will be completing 15 years of hunger strike to demand the Repeal of AFSPA, or Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Irom Sharmila’s hunger strike is now the longest running hunger strike in the world.
AFSPA is responsible for human rights violations in the Indian North East and Jammu & Kashmir, and is used to cover up hundreds of reported fake killings, rapes, disappearance and torture cases by the Indian Army.
No justice has been meted out to the murderers, as under AFSPA, security personnels are free to shoot to kill, with unchecked powers.
Irom Sharmila is demanding a repeal of this act through her peaceful hunger strike. The Indian Government has ignored her fast, and has instead, arrested and put her in jail under section 309, for attempt to suicide.
To mark Irom Sharmila’s 15 years of hunger strike and to salute her spirit to fight for this cause, activists are calling a Nationwide Protest to repeal AFSPA.
We are inviting individuals and organizations throughout the world to collaborate with us and to make it a joint effort.
On 1st/2nd Nov, we all may do one or more things in our cities to express our solidarity:
Submission of Memorandum to Prime Minister of India through a district magistrate
Submission of Memorandum to a local Member of Parliament to speak on this issue in
Parliament and within the party leadership he/she is member with
Candlelight vigil/torch rally in your city
Organizing a protest/demonstration/rally/busk/public film screening/distributing pamphlets/painting a mural/get creative!
Observing a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with Irom Sharmila’s 15 year long struggle
Photos/videos/articles about your protest to share with the world
We will be documenting the protest; please send photos/articles/videos/more ideas to eyeartcollective (at) gmail.com
Show Irom Sharmila that you stand with her!
Show her your solidarity on the 1st and 2nd of November!
Go on hunger strike with us, wherever you are. Go out on the streets. Write on the walls. Host a film screening. Protest. Demonstrate. And then document it. Write about it. Share it with us.
Every angry fist counts!
#StandWithIrom
#IromSharmila
#15YearsOfResistance
#India #Worldwide
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If you wish to create a separate event for a protest/rally/demonstration/etc in your city, please please do so, and give us the link to the event so that we can add it below with the name of the city. Thank you!
Facebook Event Page HERE
(via Eye Art Collective)
Some background information about Marius:
Marius Mason is an anarchist, an environmental and animal rights prisoner serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of sabotage carried out in defense of the planet. No one was injured in any of these actions. After being threatened with a life sentence in 2009, he pleaded guilty to charges of arson at a Michigan State University lab researching Genetically Modified Organisms for Monsanto, and admitted to 12 other acts of property damage. The sentencing judge applied a so-called “terrorism enhancement” to his term which added almost two more years than the maximum requested by the prosecution. This is the harshest punishment of anyone convicted of environmental sabotage to date.
Marius is incarcerated in the high security Administration Unit at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. According to the prison’s own literature, the unit is “designed for female inmates with histories of escapes, chronic behavior problems, repeated incidents of assaultive or predatory behavior, or other special management concerns.” Marius has never violated any prison rules. Clearly, he is being held in this unit because of his political beliefs and in an effort to silence him.
Marius’ gymnasium-sized unit, housing up to 20 prisoners, causes severe distress and worsens the debilitating mental illnesses and PTSD from which some of the prisoners suffer. The confinement and isolation result in periodic acts of violence and suicide attempts as women struggle to maintain sanity in these conditions.
The prisoners are only allowed to exercise in a small, fenced-in, concrete, outdoor area topped by double-coiled razor wire where there is little room for physical activity.
The unit is frequently and unpredictably locked down for hours on end due to violence and suicide attempts resulting from the claustrophobic and oppressive conditions. Prisoners leave the building for medical treatment, but only after a protracted wait and fierce advocacy on the part of the prisoner even though Carswell is ostensibly a medical facility. Access to mental health counseling, medical care, and educational opportunities are greatly diminished because of security issues.
Inmates who are housed there because of behavioral issues are told what they have to do to be transferred. They are given structured programs and measurable goals so that they may eventually return to the prison’s general population. But not Marius. As a political prisoner, he has no idea what he needs to do, if anything, in order to be released from his strict confinement.
The psychological corrosiveness of a sterile environment, the lack of adequate access to exercise and mental simulation, the psychological trauma suffered by all of the prisoners, and the seeming impossibility of attaining freedom from this unit constitutes a cruel, but unfortunately, not an unusual punishment. The unit exacerbates and worsens the behavior it says it works to correct. It should be closed and Marius and the other prisoners moved from it immediately.
It is urgent that we do everything within our power to move Marius to the general population of a low security facility and then work to reduce his outrageous prison term. The unfairness of his sentence can be seen when compared to those meted out to others.
Recently, a man who set an arson for profit fire that paralyzed a Detroit firefighter and injured six of his colleagues was sentenced to a maximum of seven years in prison. Rebecca Rubin, accused by the government of taking part in 20 fires attributed to the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front that did $40 million in damage, pleaded guilty and received the federal minimum sentence of five years.
It is unclear why the government has singled out Marius for such a harsh sentence and strict confinement, but every day he is forced to live in these conditions takes a toll on his mental and physical health.
We demand that he be removed from this restrictive unit and transferred to a prison near his family and friends. And, that his sentence be reduced to that of Rebecca Rubin’s.
For more information visit Marius's support site HERE
The hours in the room of the hospital where I am imprisoned pass slowly and I feel my body growing wearier day by day...more so as I hear the results of medical examinations that are continuously getting worse.
Yesterday afternoon for 2 hours this declining course of my body stopped, when all the comrades who were gathered under my window filled me with strength.
With freedom in our sights, let's move forward guided by dignity.
Until victory...
PS1: A warm embrace to my hunger striking partner Gerasimos Tsakolos standing in solidarity by my side.
PS2: I send greetings to all of the solidarity movements that have done so much here in Greece and overseas. Comrades you give me strength.
PS3: Fighting greetings to all the prisoners in this country that have disturbed the miserable daily routine to stand in solidarity and fight with me.
Evi Statiri
Nikaia General Hospital
18th day of hunger strike
(via Athens IMC)
Photo: Anarchists gathering in solidarity outside the 'prisoner's room' of Nikaia General Hospital where Evi Statiti is currently imprisoned.
