Famed Greek Anarchist Bails Out on Parole

From ekathimerini.com

A senior officer of the Greek Police on Tuesday expressed concern that Costas Sakkas, a 30-year-old self-proclaimed anarchist charged with participation in an urban guerrilla group, may turn to violence after violating the terms of his conditional release. According to the officer, who wished to remain unnamed, authorities have no clues as to Sakkas’s whereabouts after he failed to report in to his local police precinct in Kaminia in Piraeus by midnight on Monday. “We catch them on the one hand, and, on the other, they are let go,” the police officer told Skai on Tuesday afternoon. Another officer, serving with Greece’s counter-terrorism unit, estimated that Sakkas decided to cut loose because he was due to post 15,000 euros in bail on Tuesday imposed by a prosecutor as part of the terms of two separate release orders.

[Pics/Vid] Athens: Bomb Explodes at Tax Office in Rich Suburb

[BAI NOTE: The following is a compilation of pictures, reports and video from Keep Talking Greece , Zougla.gr & Down.com]  

Athens, Greece

A bomb exploded outside the tax office of Kifissia, a noble  suburb in the north of Greek capital Athens. The explosion followed a warning phone call by anonymous perpetrators at newsportal zougla.gr.

The device exploded at 4:58 a.m., while the phone call was done at 4:25 a.m. Zougla reports that the perpetrators announced, the blast could occur at 4:55 a.m.

– See more at: http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/09/26/athens-bomb-explodes-at-tax-office-after-anonymous-call-at-newsportal/#sthash.w7z2R4J4.dpuf

A bomb exploded outside the tax office of Kifissia, a noble  suburb in the north of Greek capital Athens. The explosion followed a warning phone call by anonymous perpetrators at newsportal zougla.gr.

The device exploded at 4:58 a.m., while the phone call was done at 4:25 a.m. Zougla reports that the perpetrators announced, the blast could occur at 4:55 a.m.

– See more at: http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/09/26/athens-bomb-explodes-at-tax-office-after-anonymous-call-at-newsportal/#sthash.w7z2R4J4.dpuf

An unidentified person called a Greek newspaper and a news website around 0200 GMT warning a bomb would go off in the upscale suburb of Kifissia within 30 minutes. Police cordoned off the area where many business executives and politicians live.

A Response to the Article “A Basic Explanation of Recent Events July 13-15, 2013”

Posted on Anarchist News

The article written by Anon is a misunderstanding of how things went down in Oakland over those three days and how locally anarchists and other militants interact more generally in the streets. The play by play put forth by Anon is an informative account but most of the analysis is inaccurate and detrimental to an understanding of our present moment. There is an essentialization of both race and anarchy in Anon’s piece. This response offers a counter analysis that attempts to push the discussion about the tensions around race and insurgency into a fresher terrain that reflects our recent experiences and especially our excitement around building racial solidarity through lawlessness. The terms “black” and “white” are used throughout to cut to the main racial dynamics, but obviously ignore the aspects of racial diversity that adds layers of complexity to the discussion that this piece can’t touch on.

Statement from Hannibal Shakur

Oakland, CA

The political nature of my charges cannot be over-stated here. To give human rights to a mechanical entity constructed solely for the sake of profit and exploitation is a perversion of those rights and what it means to be a human being. In Florida, a white man walks for the obvious murder of a black boy. That young boy, that black child, wasn’t even given the rights of a dog. When the verdict is released, black people across America rise up to protest our non-citizen status. What could be called a riot ensues. A handful of people are arrested with charges of felony vandalism of whom I am one defendant.

Black Rider Liberation Party: Building the Intercommunal Solidarity Committee

Oakland, California

Building the Intercommunal Solidarity Committee

Shango Abiola
BRLP Oakland

Author’s note: The Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) launched the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee in Los Angeles, CA with a gathering at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research on Saturday, November 10, 2012. At this event, numerous activist and community members from different races, philosophies and ideological lines came together to form the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee. The idea to form this committee comes from our study of the Black Panther Party’s (BPP) forming the National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF), which would later become the Inter-communal Committee to Combat Fascism (ICCF). This paper is a historical analysis of our theoretical framework for this development.

“Unitary Conduct implies a ‘search’ for those elements in our present situation which can become the basis for joint action. It involves a conscious reaching for the relevant, the entente, and especially, in our case the reconcilable. Throughout the centralizing authoritarian process of Amerikan history, the ruling classes have found it necessary to discourage and punish any genuine opposition to hierarchy. But there have always been individuals and groups who rejected the ideal of two unequal societies, existing one on top of the other.”

George Jackson, Blood in My Eye  

Tribute to Clement Meric: Behind Fascism Lies the Capital

Posted on LeChatNoirEmeutier 

Paris, France

[Rough Translation]: Several thousand people, 6,000 according to police, marched Sunday in Paris against fascism, a fortnight after the death of Clement Meric and many windows were degraded in their path.

Fourteen people were arrested, “especially for carrying a prohibited weapon” on the sidelines of the event announced the Ministry of Interior.

Minister Manuel Valls “salutes the fieldwork of the Prefecture of Police will continue to exploit the many videos recorded throughout the rally. ”

“The route of the procession, many windows, including banks, as well as street furniture, were ransacked by thugs who do not respect the spirit of this gathering”, the minister said.

These are ultra-violent radicals and highly mobile thugs who came to battle groups, “said a source familiar with the matter.

The dense and motley procession lunged to 3:00 p.m. in the Place de l’Opera (II), bringing together political activists (NPA Left Party), anarchist groups, associations (Attac, SOS Homophobia) and Union (UNEF, CGT).

Marching behind banners proclaiming “Fascism kills, kills Islamophobia”, or representing the face of Clement Meric killed on June 5 in paris in a brawl between fascist and right-wing activists, protesters chanted “Clement, Clement, antifa “or” No quarters for fascists, no fascists in our neighborhoods. ”

Hunger Strike Declaration by Kostas Sakkas

Art by Sabaaneh on ToonPool.com

Koridallos prison, Greece. 

29 May 2013

On the 4th of December 2010 I was captured along with the comrade
Alexandros Mitroussias in the district of Nea Smyrni, Athens, while I
was leaving a rented warehouse where arms were being stored.

Since the beginning, I have admitted my connection with this place as
well as the weapons found there. I have stated, since the first moment,
that I am an anarchist and that my presence in this specific place was
related to my political identity and the choices I make as a consequence
of this.

On the 7th of December 2010 they brought me before the head
investigator and I got in pretrial detention on charges of participation
in an unknown terrorist organization as well as aggravated possession
of weapons.

On the 12th of April 2011, when I had already been in the prison of
Nafplion for more than four months, I was called upon again by the
investigators Baltas and Mokkas, and without any new evidence, nor even
any new developments on the investigation, I was remanded for
participating in the R.O. CCF. It was obvious that this was because the
principal investigators realized that a case against an unknown
organization that hasn’t any registered actions, doesn’t have any bombs,
nor communiqués, that has not used guns, an organization without a
name, couldn’t stand up in a courtroom.

“My name is turmoil, and it is written in stone” (Graphic Video)

Rio De Janeiro. Posted on A Nova Democracia on 17 June 2013.

Rough Translation:

r R. Miner

We can see the streets, the greatest legacy of the Confederations Cup. Thanks Fifa.

The ministers and communication monopolies, astonished, say they understand the meaning of such revolt. Isolated in his artificial paradises are scared to face the country. There are at least ten years, I hope that things like this happen. The day dawned, “Every night – has auroras, rays – all the darkness.” “Brazil woke up”, this phrase could be read on posters of many manifestations. Waking to dream.

In a historic night, lucky those who could not sleep. Insomnia of that attack is much more pleasurable than the defenders of the old fort.

The reactionary ruling classes and, amidst the nightmare of the streets, outlining its strategy to empty the demonstrations. Last week saw the venomous attacks of its spokesmen. Arnaldo Jabor said that the youth was not worth a penny, Luiz Datena called us vandals and troublemakers. After it became clear that repression only increased the rebellion, the discourse changed. Yesterday, Jabor spoke of a generation that finds ideas; Datena told the CQC, which despite being in the journalism police, his specialty was human rights.

Clarity Within the Smoke: Thoughts From Inside Turkey’s Uprising

Istanbul, Turkey

“Mom, are these police human?”

 

The following is an almost word for word interview with three people engaged in the uprising in Istanbul:  Nina, 34, is a teacher, dreamer and activist. Yaren, 30, is a leftist and atheist, but grew up Muslim. Mehmet, 34, is a left-leaning Islamist and father of two, currently an unemployed architect. While the three were holed up in a French school, seeking refuge from attacks of riot police, red clouds of tear gas and ceaseless fatigue, they sketched out for us a multifaceted political horizon: the violence of the state, the actors in the streets, requests for global solidarity, the ridiculous rumors, their concerns on where things will go, and the role of Islam. By no means will this conversation answer everyone’s questions, but it will offer a candid and brutally honest look into the Turkish uprising.

The Incomprehensible Black Anarchist Position

[BAI NOTE:Last night our brother in struggle Hannibal Abdul Shakur was arrested by the Oakland Police Dept in the middle of street rebellions which started Saturday night after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the murderer of Trayvon Martin.

Today is Assata Shakurs birthday. It is also the anniversary of the SFPD murder of Kenneth Harding.

It is also going to be another night of rebellion in Oakland as the people have made calls for a gathering at 9pm at Oscar Grant Plaza.

In an instant everything has become connected.

We are asking those who know him and those who don’t to dig deep and donate to his case and help avoid  complications in his battle against Cancer. The following is a piece written by Hannibal Abdul Shakur. Raw and unapologetic the piece speaks to the anger we’ve see in the streets over the past few days and nights.

PLEASE DONATE TO THE TRAYVON 2: GO FUND ME]

Oakland, CA: reposted from Unflinching Antagonisms:

“Black brothers, Black sisters, i want you to know that i love you and i hope that somewhere in your hearts you have love for me. My name is Assata Shakur (slave name joanne chesimard), and i am a revolutionary. A Black revolutionary. By that i mean that i have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied.  I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots that protect them and their property.” –Assata Shakur

“I was born into the flames of slave insurrection.  My first recorded ancestor was a runaway slave named Felix.  In between him and me have been several butchered half lives.  My grandfather, the oldest ancestor I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to interact with, was, as a young man, captured and tortured with “electro-shock therapy” for months on end as a consequence of his very material defiance and resistance to this “constitutional violence” that Wilderson describes in “the vengeance of vertigo”.  As a result he was introduced to this “performative contingent violence” forever carving into our family tree the scars of his/our subjugation.  In the same way that many families pass down the stories of how grandparents met and the idiosyncrasies of ancestors long past, I was passed a narrative, a framework for my own identity, of pure unflinching antagonism.  I can only imagine this is part and parcel of the reason Michigan pigs pumped 40 bullets into my cousin’s chest a few months ago or why my other cousin is serving a life sentence.  It’s difficult to make distinctions between Oakland and Monroe, between prison and plantation when past and present meet in these spaces and moments.  What joins us, stronger than our own blood even, are the subjective and objective vertigos.