Friends of the Anarchist 5 / Amig*s de l*s 5 Anarquistas de Facebook

CAMPAIGN DEMANDING THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE 5 ANARCHISTS FROM BARCELONA IMPRISONED IN SOTO DE REAL PRISON

If you would like to collaborate  you can contact us at :  cincdebcn@hotmail.com

 

On 15th May were arrested at their homes, in the province of Barcelona, Yolanda, Silvia, Juan, Xabier and José by order of the Spanish National Court in a police operation that resulted also in the smashing and seizure of material from Catalan anarchists premises.

Accused of committing crimes of membership of a terrorist group , praising terrorism, recruitment and indoctrination and storage of explosive substances, they are currently remanded in  prison in Soto del Real (Madrid) far away from their family and friends, under third grade imprisonment.

The details of these allegations are: The alleged involvement of these five anarchists on Facebook pages (Bandera Negra and Front Solidari de Barcelona among others) that the state and regional police forces consider to be “terrorist gangs”-despite did not demonstrating any activity outside the networks -; their attendance at demonstrations in which there have been incidents and dissemination of opinions “that have aimed to disseminate subversive ideas and to incite and / or commit crimes against State and capitalist interests “(Writ of 17/05/2013).

Moreover, the prosecution believes that the material seized in their homes reinforces these accusations: Flags and shirts with anarchist iconography, libertarian philosophy books, gasoline from the garage, screws of various kinds, Valencian firecrackers and rockets whose marketing is legal.

In connection with these events, from this platform for the  release of the five anarchists arrested in Barcelona, ​​whose purpose is the dissemination and reporting of the unjust situation in which they find themselves, we here declare:

1. That, taking into account the “evidence” on which they are based, such charges are ridiculously disproportionate and extremely unfair, which demonstrates once again the lack of validity of the current political system, the imperious will of the repressing ruling class the  deeply fascist DNA of the Spanish state and the latent lack of political independence of our judicial system.

2. That the fact that despite accusing them of  such crimes they are not charged under the normal anti-terrorism law or processed with the usual procedure in such cases reveals the judicial circus that our colleagues are involved in and the lack of serious evidence that would lead anyone with common sense to think that they are terrorists.

3. That his arrest and continued detention clearly reflects a desire repressive and ideological persecution to those who reject the current political regime, which is absolutely unacceptable and unjustifiable.

For all these reasons we DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST FIVE OF BARCELONA and appeal to the solidarity of all those who, like them, reject the unjust economic system, political and social setup. That is why we ask for your help and support to publicise the situation of Yolanda, Juan Silvia, José and Xavier, till there’s no one is left who hasn’t heard of the vicious of political, media and police  frame-up they have been victims of.

We want them back, our comrades, friends, parents. We want them home free, with us.

cincdebcn@hotmail.com

Facebook Support  Page   https://www.facebook.com/Los5DeBarcelona

Campaña para exigir la liberación inmediata de los 5 anarquistas de Barcelona

encarcelados en Soto del Real.

Si quieres colaborar con nosotros, puedes contactarnos a través de cincdebcn@hotmail.com

El pasado día 15 mayo fueron detenidos en sus casas, en la provincia de Barcelona, Yolanda, Silvia, Juan, Xabier y José por orden de la Audiencia Nacional española, en un operación policial que tuvo como consecuencia, además, el registro, destrozo e incautación de material de varias sedes anarquistas catalanas.

Acusados de incurrir en los delitos de pertenencia a grupo terrorista, enaltecimiento del terrorismo, captación y adoctrinamiento y depósito de sustancias explosivas, se les ha impuesto prisión preventiva que actualmente cumplen en el penitenciario Soto del Real (Madrid) lejos de sus familiares y amigos, bajo fíes de tercer grado.

Los hechos a los que responden tales acusaciones son: La supuesta participación de estos cinco anarquistas en páginas de Facebook (Bandera Negra y Front Solidari de Barcelona, entre otras) que la fiscalía y los cuerpos de policía autonómica consideran “bandas terroristas” –pese a no poder demostrarse su actividad fuera de las redes –; su asistencia a manifestaciones en las que se han producido incidentes y la difusión de opiniones “que han tenido como fin el de difundir el ideario subversivo, para incitar y/o cometer hechos delictivos contra el Estado y los intereses capitalistas” (Auto judicial del 17/5/2013).

Por otra parte la fiscalía considera que el material incautado en sus hogares refuerza estas acusaciones: Banderas y camisetas con iconografía anarquista, libros de filosofía libertaria, gasolina en el garaje, tornillos de diversas clases, tracas valencianas y cohetes cuya comercialización es legal.

En relación con estos hechos desde esta plataforma por la liberación de los cinco anarquistas detenidos en Barcelona, cuyo propósito es la difusión y denuncia de la situación injusta en la que se encuentran, manifiestamos:

1. Que, teniendo en cuenta las “pruebas” en las que se basan, tales acusaciones resultan desproporcionadas hasta llegar a lo ridículo y tremendamente injustas, lo que pone en evidencia una vez más la poca validez del sistema político actual, la imperiosa voluntad represora de la clase dominante, el ADN profundamente fascista del Estado Español y la latente carencia de independencia política de nuestro sistema judicial.

2. Que, el hecho de que pese a incriminárseles tales delitos no se les haya aplicado la ley antiterrorista ni se haya seguido el procedimiento habitual en estos casos, pone de manifiesto el circo judicial en que nuestros compañeros están inmersos y la carencia de pruebas serias que induzcan al sentido común a pensar que se trata de terroristas.

3. Que su detención y permanencia en prisión responde a una voluntad claramente represora y de persecución ideológica a aquellos que rechazan el régimen político actual, algo absolutamente inadmisible e injustificable.

Por todo esto EXIGIMOS LA INMEDIATA PUESTA EN LIBERTAD DE LOS CINCO ANARQUISTAS DE BARCELONA y apelamos a la solidaridad de todos aquellos que, al igual que ellos, rechazan el injusto sistema económico, político y social establecido. Es por ello que pedimos vuestra ayuda y apoyo para difundir la situación de Yolanda, Juan, Silvia, José y Xabier, que no quede nadie que no sepa del burdo montaje político, mediático y policial del que han sido víctimas.

Queremos de vuelta a nuestros compañeros, amigos, padres y madres. Los queremos libres y en casa, junto a los suyos.

 

  Pagina de Apoyo, L*s 5 de Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/Los5DeBarcelona

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Womens ‘Red Brigades’ confronts India sex abuse

Group of Delhi women enforces its own vigilante style of justice, even using physical intimidation against harassers.

    Divya Gopalan… (reblogged from Al Jazeera with thanks)

The December 16 gang-rape in Delhi sparked protests across the country and opened India’s eyes to atrocities committed against women and girls on a daily basis.

The demonstrations and media scrutiny forced the government to respond. It drew up a new sexual offences bill that updated the archaic piece of judiciary that once constituted as laws to protect women.

US set to bomb #Syria with Ridiculous Pretext.

UPDATE 6th MAY

Re-Blogging this from a few months baxck as the US  gets ready to start bombing, with the ridiculous pretext of chemical weapons, see here  Washington fabricates chemical weapons pretext for war against Syria  and Israel already started bombing...

STOP STOP STOP THEM NOW

The final logic of Capitalism is war. The excuse of a ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria is as false as Saddam’s secret weapons. This time round more millions of innocents will die, to boost the profits of the US ‘War Economy’ Corporations who control the US Congress. This time round there is little protest, nobody believes they can be serious, but  this war is becoming daily more certain. Now is the time for the US  and UK public to stop a barbaric air blitz…

NATO poised to invade Syria – U.S. fleet on Syrian coast, 10,000 troops ready to go

In fact, we may be so close to another mid-eastern war that Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad is emphatically trying to find an exit:

Who’s to blame for 258,000 dying of hunger in Somalia?

 Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report, with the world body admitting it should have done more to prevent the tragedy. Senait Gebregziabher, director of the aid group Oxfam in Somalia, said “The world was too slow to respond to stark warnings of drought” and that “these deaths could and should have been prevented.”

SO WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

First we have racism, if this was a western country it would never have been let happen.

Montreal police arrest 447 at May Day

International Workers Day rally yields unlawful assembly fines for participants

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Montreal police arrested 447 people last night during a May Day demonstration in Montreal organized by a group called the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, or CLAC.

Those arrested at the demonstration that coincided with International Workers’ Day were released over the course of the night and handed a $637 fine for unlawful assembly.

The noisy, colourful rally Wednesday was almost festive when it began early on the unseasonably warm evening.

Restaurant patrons watched from outdoor terraces as drummers, musicians and chanting, flag-waving demonstrators gathered in Place Jacques-Cartier.

However, police declared the gathering illegal shortly after it started under the controversial Montreal public order bylaw P-6. The bylaw makes it illegal to participate in an assembly with a face obscured by a scarf, hood or mask, and requires protesters to disclose to police in advance the location and itinerary of their demonstration.

Police said they issued a dispersal order, and also confirmed criminal acts, which consisted mainly of wielding sticks and throwing billiard balls at officers, were performed.

“It was getting dangerous for peace and safety and the public order,” said police Sgt. Jean-Bruno Latour.

Dozens of demonstrators tried to make their way to the march’s destination, a private club known by its street number, 357c.

Witnesses at Quebec’s inquiry into corruption in the construction industry have referred to the club in testimony as a meeting place for entrepreneurs, high-level bureaucrats and politicians to discuss business.

However, the demonstrators never reached the club.

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Hundreds of police encircled the protesters at the intersection of de la Commune Street and St-Sulpice Street. They herded — and in some cases, physically carried— those detained into awaiting buses.

The CLAC denounced the police intervention, saying they used disproportionate force against protesters.

Latour could not say if anyone would face criminal charges.

reblogged  from  CBC

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Participa en la Campaña de Objeción Fiscal al Gasto Militar 2013.

  Apuesta es por un gasto militar del 0%

por Grupo Antimilitarista Tortuga y otros colectivos   Sábado, 13 de Abril de 2013 14:50

El más elemental sentido común nos dice que hay algo que no necesitamos para nada: el ejército.

Guantanamo guards try to break Hunger Strike

Many detainees, who have been refusing food since February, moved into solitary cells to be force-fed and monitored.

Guards clashed with prisoners as they sought to move hunger strikers out of communal cells [GALLO/GETTY]

Guards have swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and moved the inmates into one-man cells in an attempt to end a hunger strike that began in February.”Some detainees resisted with improvised weapons, and in response, four less-than-lethal rounds were fired. There were no serious injuries to guards or detainees,” Navy Captain Robert Durand said in a news release on Saturday. He said the action was taken because detainees had covered windows and surveillance cameras to block the guards’ view into the cellblocks.

Sack The King: Disabled Kids Fund looted by Royals

King Juan Carlos, sacked as president of WWF for hunting elephants, may soon be sacked as King for blatant family Corruption

Pressure is mounting as various protest groups and political parties add to the calls for the abdication of the Spanish King, and the creation of a Republic with a new Constitution.

The latest scandal is that Urdangarin, son in law and protegée of the King and now on trial for massive corruption, also plundered a foundation for disabled children.

Urdangarin and Torres totally looted the foundation for disabled children they  had been put in charge of by Royal patronage.
Only 9,800 of more than 620,000 euros in donations earmarked for social purposes were received by public and businesses, the rest was pocketed by the Duke and his partners.

Bradley told the Truth.. ‘Let him go. Let him go now!’

Bradley Manning: Wales DEMANDS he comes home

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

Ask any Welsh man or woman about whistleblower Bradley Manning and most will simply say, they want him back.

Back home to Wales, where he spent his childhood; back to a country that – like he – is small in size but grand in its visions; renowned more for its poetry and bards than the wars or arrogance of the country where Manning now finds himself prosecuted merely for telling the truth.

Today…today is the 1000th day of Manning’s incarceration without trial. And on this most inauspicious day we offer an asymmetric take on his prosecution, to examine how it can be subverted – via its ‘Welsh dimension’.

And should you be poetic too you may hear a cry, carried high by the eagles of Myrddin from the misty eyries of Yr Wyddfa, to the song-filled valley of Afon Mawdach and on to the druidic Preseli hills: ‘Gadewch iddo fynd. Gadewch iddo fynd nawr!’*

*Trans: ‘Let him go. Let him go now!’

READ MORE HERE   http://darkernet.in/bradley-manning-wales-demands-he-comes-home/

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KILL the DICTATOR: Stuart Christie, thoughts of an Anarchist

Stuart Christie: Thoughts of a Veteran Anarchist

Perhaps the biggest challenge anarchists face is combating the masses of disinformation out there about anarchism, to educate the 99% and explain ourselves, and what anarchism means rather than what government and other propaganda tells us that it means. That’s part of the reason we set up Forest of Dean Anarchists. So here is the first in what we hope to be a series of asking prominent anarchists what it’s all about!

Stuart Christie, since 1962 has been an active anarchist, through writing, publishing and action. The Glaswegian author of Granny Made Me An Anarchist, General Franco Made Me A Terrorist and Edward Heath Made Me Angry (his entertaining and inspiring three-part autobiography), and The Christie File: Enemy Of The State, first achieved notoriety in 1964 when at the age of 18 he hitch-hiked to Madrid to assassinate Franco, and was caught and imprisoned.

Aaron Swartz Laid to Rest with an Action Plan For Us

66 comments By Nicole Belle  In New York on Saturday, a public memorial was held for Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last week. Among the remembrances of Aaron’s genius, his commitment to progressive causes, his idealistic beliefs of making this a better world, there was also an action plan laid out by his partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman:

“Aaron was targeted by the FBI,” said ThoughtWorks chairman Roy Singham, Swartz’s employer before his death. “After PACER, they targeted him. He was strip-searched. Let’s not pretend this wasn’t political,” he argued before being interrupted by applause.

Swartz’s partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman framed her call to action in terms of Swartz’s beliefs: “Aaron believed there was no shame in failure. There is deep, deep shame in caring more about believing you’re changing the world than actually changing the world.”Stinebrickner-Kauffman, also an activist, named five targets for action:

Hold the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office accountable for its actions in prosecuting Aaron;
Press MIT to ensure that it would “never be complicit in an event like this again”;
“All academic research for all time should be made free and open and available to anybody in the world”;
Pass and strengthen “Aaron’s Law,” an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that would narrow prosecutorial discretion for computer crimes;
Advocate for fundamental reform of the criminal justice system.

“His last two years were not easy. His death

Kalashnikov attack on Greek PM after New Tax

Kalashnikov attack on the office of Greek Prime Minister Samaras, at the headquarters of his party in Athens14 jan 2013  agencies

translation:blame Google  In recent days, banks, offices of the ruling party and Electricity offices have been attacked by unknown
Government spokesman, Simos Kedíkoglu, told the media that at around 2.00 CET  attackers fired nine shots with Kalashnikov rifles against the second floor of the building, where the office of Samaras.

Police sources confirmed that a bullet was found inside the office of Samaras and another on the roof of the building.

Native Movement Sweeping Canada: Idle No More!

Theresa’s Hunger Strike on day 15 .. urgent support  needed

Idle No More: Women rise to lead when it’s needed most

By Muna Mire

Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today.

Chief Theresa Spence is now on Day 13 of her hunger strike. Too weak to leave the teepee she is living in on Victoria Island, a mere stone’s throw from Parliament, she called for a round dance yesterday at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Prime Minister Harper’s residence.

Throughout the duration of her hunger strike, Harper has maintained a chilly silence around the grassroots Indigenous movement now widely known as Idle No More, taking to Twitter instead to share his jokes about bacon with the Canadian electorate.

What started as a string of emails between four Saskatchewan women back in November in protest of Bill C-45 eventually became a hashtag on social media, snowballing over time into a global movement for Indigenous rights. 

US set to bomb #Syria. Looks for Pretext.

USS Eisenhower.. Mobile Massacre Group

The final logic of Capitalism is war. The excuse of a ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria is as false as Saddam’s secret weapons. This time round more millions of innocents will die, to boost the profits of the US ‘War Economy’ Corporations who control the US Congress. This time round there is little protest, nobody believes they can be serious, but  this war is becoming daily more certain. Now is the time for the US  and UK public to stop a barbaric air blitz…

NATO poised to invade Syria – U.S. fleet on Syrian coast, 10,000 troops ready to go

In fact, we may be so close to another mid-eastern war that Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad is emphatically trying to find an exit:

Alfon.. LIBERTAD. Freedom for General Strike comrade NOW!

On 14-N, day of the General Strike, our companion ALFON, was arrested in the neighborhood of Vallekas. After several days of confinement and interrogation in the dungeons of the Spanish State, he was sent to permanent prison, thanks to higher orders of the judiciary and the power of the government delegation, to this must be added the pressure of the mass media “communication “.