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International Action Day «Freedom not fear – Stop the surveillance
mania!» on 11 October 2008

A broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on
everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments
and businesses. On 11 October 2008, concerned people in many countries
will take to the streets, the motto being «Freedom not fear 2008#187;.
Peaceful and creative action, from protest marches to parties, will take
place in many capital cities.

Surveillance mania is spreading. Governments and businesses register,
monitor and control our behaviour ever more thoroughly. No matter what
we do, who we phone and talk to, where we go, whom we are friends with,
what our interests are, which groups we participate in – «big brother»
government and «little brothers» in business know it more and more
thoroughly.

The resulting lack of privacy and confidentiality is putting at risk the
freedom of confession, the freedom of speech as well as the work of
doctors, helplines, lawyers and journalists.

The manifold agenda of security sector reform encompasses the
convergence of police, intelligence agencies and the military,
threatening to melt down the division and balance of powers.

Using methods of mass surveillance, the borderless cooperation of the
military, intelligence services and police authorities is leading
towards new borders and walls, thus building true «Fortresses» in Europe
and on other continents, directed against refugees and different-looking
people but also affecting, for example, political activists, the poor
and under-priviledged, and sports fans.

People who constantly feel watched and under surveillance cannot freely
and courageously stand up for their rights and for a just society. Mass
surveillance is thereby threatening the fabric of a democratic and open
society.

Mass surveillance is also endangering the work and commitment of civil
society organizations.

Surveillance, distrust and fear are gradually transforming our society
into one of uncritical consumers who have «nothing to hide» and – in a
vain attempt to achieve total security – are prepared to give up their
freedoms. We do not want to live in such a society!

We believe the respect for our privacy to be an important part of our
human dignity. A free and open society cannot exist without
unconditionally private spaces and communications.

The increasing electronic registration and surveillance of the entire
population does not make us any safer from crime, costs millions of
Euros and puts the privacy of innocent citizens at risk. Under the reign
of fear and blind actionism, targeted and sustained security measures
fall by the wayside, as well as tackling peoples’ actual daily problems
such as unemployment and poverty.

In order to protest against security mania and excessive surveillance we
will take to the streets in capital cities all in many countries on 11
October 2008. We call on everybody to join our peaceful protest.
Politicians are to see that we are willing to take to the streets for
the protection of our liberties.

You can find the latest information on the protest marches and the list
of participating cities at our website:
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008.

Our demands

1. Cutback on surveillance

- abolish the blanket logging of our communications and locations (data
retention)
- abolish the blanket collection of our biometric data as well as RFID
passports
- abolish the blanket collection of genetic data
- abolish permanent CCTV camera surveillance and automatic detection
techniques
- scrap funding for the development of new surveillance techniques
- no blanket registration of all air travellers (PNR data)
- no information exchange with the US and other states lacking effective
data protection
- no secret searches of private computer systems, neither online nor offline
- no blanket surveillance and filtering of internet communications (EU
Telecoms-Package)

2. Evaluation of existing surveillance powers

We call for an independent review of all existing surveillance powers as
to their effectiveness and harmful side-effects.

3. Moratorium for new surveillance powers

After the homeland armament of the past few years we demand an immediate
hold to new homeland security laws that further restrict civil liberties.

4. Guaranteeing freedom of expression, dialogue and information on the
Internet

- Ban the installation of filtering infrastructure on ISP networks.
- Only independent and impartial judges may request the removal of
Internet content.
- Create a full right to quote multimedia, today indispensable to public
debate in democracies.
- Protect common internet places of expression (participatory sites,
forums, comments on blogs) today threatened by inadequate laws
encouraging self-censorship (chilling effect)

More informations

http://www.freedom-not-fear.eu

http://www.humanrights21.org/?p=26

Two of our comrades, Polys Georgiadis and Vaggelis Hrisohoidis were seized for involvement in the kidnapping of the president of northern Greece industrialists, and owner of ALUMIL industries.
below is a report circulated via the anarchist black cross network, more on the case once we establish some more stable communication with the two (after they move to some prison):

On 20th of august 4 people got arrested in Greece on the accusation
kidnapping with a large ransom being paid.
The people arrested are
Polikarpos Georgiadis, Vasilis Palaiokostas, Vagelis Hrisohoides and one
other, of whom the rest of the group has taken distance from because of
his behaviour.
On the 21st 4 other people got arrested for also playing a
smaller role in the kidnapping.
The person being kidnapped some months ago
concerns the president of the union for heavy industry owners (employers
syndicate) Georgos Mylonas, who not long ago caused some fuss over his
sayings about working harder and longer in the factories.
He was released
after sum of 10 million euro’s was paid, arranged by his wife.
Media and
police claim this money was meant for freeing Vasilis’ brother from
prison; Nikos Palaiokostas.
Pictures in the bourgeois press show the large
variety of ammunition, Kalashnikovs, an RPG, explosive devices,
bulletproof vests and fire brigade uniforms that were found at the arrest.
Stories of the amount of money being found back change every day.
Police
says that a big part of the coupons were marked and at about 150 different
places they found them back.

The history and traditions of Vagelis, Vasilis and Polikarpos in this
case, but also of many other strikes against the exploitation and slavery
of people, is important for the context of this kidnapping and social
rebellion in general reality.
Polikarpos and Vagelis are dear comrades in
the anarchist scene since many years and have been very active.
Polikarpos
was sent to prison before on the 16th of April 2004, accused for attempted
arson with an ignitable device against the vehicle of a private security
company.
The police tried to charge him with attempted arson and the
possession of explosive devices, but could not proof anything.
He stayed
in pre-detention for one year and was found guilty anyway.
He got out for
having served already the one year prison sentence he finally got.
During
his time in prison he got to know Vasilis Palaiokostas.
The bourgeois
media accused him a the time of being a bank robber as well, and from this
point of view it fits them well to claim these days that Vasilis had
“selected Polikarpos for a conspiracy in setting his brother, Nikos, free
from prison”.
These two brothers are well known “legends” in the country
for decades.
Since the fall of the Ottoman empire in 1821 Greece knows a very popular
and great tradition of social and class robberies, as a respond to poverty
and exploitation.
These people would take back the money of the rich, the
authorities, the exploiters, and usually hide in villages, with the help
of the people; they would refuse to help the police and protect them from
the authorities.
The rebels always had strong connections with the people
and provided for their communities for instance in forms of financial
support for education, medication and protection on their turn from the
police.
In this reality, the two brothers Vasilis and Nikos, and still many
others, who grew up in a very poor family, couldn’t take any longer the
exploitation and slavery of themselves as well as of the people around
them in this society, and thus have been living their lives as social
rebels for the last 30 years.
They made tens of bank robberies, car thefts
and escapes from prison, but never had fancy clothes, drove expensive cars
or lived in luxury houses.
Indeed have once thrown the money back on the
floor of the bank, because that little amount wasn’t what they needed.
Everything was always send to where it was needed and shared with the
people who protected them, hided them and still won’t say a word to the
police about their comrades.
During all these years they’ve been
underground, while being traced by the police from time to time as well,
either resulting in a successful escape by stolen cars, or unfortunate
prison time.
Always escaped from it however, with the loving and
spectacular help of the other brother.
Throughout the 80’s they did many robberies, until Nikos ended up in
prison in 1988, but was released from it by his brother only a few days
later, by throwing a rope over the wall of the prison outside.
Two years
later, in February 1990 he was arrested again.
One month later Vasilis was
unluckily caught with a friend, while trying to rescue his brother.
This
was supposedly the first time they were both in prison at the same time.
In December 1990 though, Nikos escapes from Korydallos prison in Athens
after a huge uprising in the prison, cops have then been looking for him
for the next 16 years, until they caught him by accident when he was in a
car crash in 2006. He has not been out ever since.
In 1991 Vasilis manages
to escape from Halkida prison. In 1992 he robs a bank.
In 1995 they rob a
bank together in Athens.
In December 1995 they’re being accused of having
kidnapped the president of a “halvas” factory, Haitoglou.
They supposedly
let him go after four days and 750.000 euro’s ransom.
The
minister of public order send out a warrant, on tv, radio and posters,
with their picture and a reward of also exactly 750.000 euro’s.
In 1996
Vasilis was traced by the cops in Korfu, but managed to escape from them
by taking a car.
Two years later the same situation appeared in Yanitsa,
and again in May 1999.
In 2003 Nikos makes a spectacular escape with a
helicopter.
In 2006 Nikos robbed a bank in Veria by bicycle and got away
because the masses of police out there were completely preoccupied with
the protection president visiting the streets of Veria at that very
moment.
In September of that year he had the car accident and got locked
up again after many years of living on the run and in hiding.

The police found out about the identity and whereabouts of the group
because the fourth men, was spending large sums of cash money on luxury
cars in Crete.
Also because Georgos Mylonas had stated to the police that
during his kidnapping he had heard airplanes flying over very frequently.
With the arrest of the man in Crete they found out he rented a house in
Souroti, a quiet area near Thessaloniki, close to the airport.
Police
claims that with 14 special force cops, and 10 civil cops (it’s very
likely there were way more), they surrounded the house in Souroti.
Both
Vasilis and Polikarpos were arrested there, where they had also kept
Mylonas and the artillery.

On the 22nd of August they’ve all been brought to the prosecutor, who gave
them 3 days to prepare the defense, and will decide over the continuing of
their pre-trial detention.
they face 9 charges (3 felonies, 6
misdemeanors).
After the trial he was dragged by two big elite troop cops
to the press, eager to take a picture of Greece’s most wanted, and proudly
showed them what they caught; the nightmare of every system that imposes
law, control and punishment on the people.

Sakset fra: http://anarcores.blogspot.com/

Who are the Action Network?

In November 2007 Andrei was given a 3 year prison sentence for participation to a fight, which took place in June of the same year. He was fighting with a Nazi, and wounded him with a screwdriver which Nazi dropped during a fight.

(A sharpened screwdriver is a weapon of choice of many Russian Nazis – against good opponent it is not as good as a knife, but it is better for finishing a hapless victim as it punctures tissue more deep). Russian mainstream media used the case in order to discredit anti-fascist movement.
Journalists supported claim of the Nazi that he was picked up as a random victim, and was not a Nazi but non-political goth, as he claimed in the court:

Here is another photo where you may spot his “gothic” tattoo:

Write support mail to Andrei to address
Andrei Mergenov
FGU IZ 64/1 OKB 2 komn.
73
Up.
Kutyakova 107
410601 Saratov Russia

Even better if you manage to write address in Cyrillic letters:
410601, г.
Саратов,
ул Кутякова, 107,
ФГУ ИЗ 64/1, ОКБ 2, комн.
73
Андрей Мергенов

(In case your e-mail client does not show Cyrillic letters properly, you may check the address in
http://avtonom. org/index. php?nid=1910)

(source: http://avtonom. org/index. php?nid=1911)

Skrevet af Venstreradikale Grupper Og Steder

I løbet af det seneste år har vi oplevet, at hooligankulturen har vundet indpas i dele af den venstreradikale bevægelse. Især i København har en mindre gruppe apolitiske fodboldhooligans igennem længere tid deltaget i fester, og indgået i sociale relationer med folk fra vores bevægelse. Den samme gruppe af hooligans har gentagne gange overfaldet og forulempet aktivister fra det venstreradikale miljø, i flere tilfælde på baggrund af aktivisternes seksualitet eller punk-look.

Samtidig er hooligankulturen blevet accepteret, på trods af dens machoide og voldelige udtryk. I nogle dele af vores kredse er det klassiske hooligantøj eksempelvis blevet mode.

Det skal nævnes, at hooliganbegrebet bruges på flere måder, end om de omtalte fodboldhooligans. Blandt andet bruges det af grupper og enkeltpersoner indenfor den antifascistiske bevægelse, der betegner sig selv som ”antifa hooligans”, uden at det er relateret til fodbold – men i stedet som en betegnelse for det, at være militant antifascist. Kritikken i denne udtalelse er alene rettet mod den fodboldrelaterede, machoide hooligankultur.

Det står, for de undertegnede grupper og steders vedkommende, helt klart, at hooliganismen er en hierarkisk voldskultur, der aldrig må få fodfæste i den venstreradikale bevægelse. Tilfældige trusler mod, og overfald på, folk fra det venstreradikale miljø er, og bliver aldrig, acceptabelt.

Derfor skal der lyde en klar og tydelig opfordring, om at folk tager stilling – man kan ikke både være en del af miljøet og samtidig omgås folk, der overfalder mennesker på baggrund af deres seksualitet eller udseende.

Folk der vælger side for hooliganidioterne er derfor ikke velkomne til arrangementer, på vores del venstrefløjen. Det er et fælles ansvar, at alle hjælper til med at løse problemerne, når disse folk bliver bedt om at gå, i stedet for at forholde sig passivt.

Antifascistisk Aktion
BumZen
Cafe Under Konstruktion
Fynske Antifascister
Kafa-X
Klubben
KRAN
Offensiv København
P:AK
Spektakel 14
Ungdomshuset

Jeg har valgt at poste denne udtalelse, da jeg mener at det er en vigtig udtalelse og vil gerne støtte den. Der har været stor debat, på baggrund af denne udtalelse, og derfor ønsker jeg at vise hvor jeg står i denne debat.

Som et input i debatten linker jeg her til en artikel af Antifa Hekto, fra Stockholm, hvor de har haft lignende problemer: We are, we are. Anti-Fa Hooligans…(pause) NOT!

Bands:

Under (A)l Kritik: Fynsk HC/Punk. Tjek deres Myspace

Endetarm: Fynsk lorte børnepunk, så det lugter. Tjek deres Myspace

Der er en rampe, så husk dit board.

Hands off our climate

Vi lever I en tid, hvis handlinger og konsekvenser vil afgøre verdens fremtid, i et hidtil uset omfang. Det er en tid hvor rovdrift på planetens miljøer og befolkninger, er almen praksis for magthaverne. De tror det er deres verden, og at de kan gøre med den hvad de vil. De tager fejl. Det er vores verden. Vi er befolkningen. Det er vores planet, vores klima, og vi er fucking trætte af at se millioner sulte, mens systemets skorstene og udstødningsrør, spyer sit kvælende affald ud over planeten og ødelægger klimaet, blot for at bevare et magtsystem, som er ved at forbruge planeten ihjel.
Destruktionen af vores klima er ny runde i den samme uligevægtige kamp vi har deltaget i længe. De socialt uretfærdige klimaforandringer, er drevet frem af præcis de samme pengegriske interessefællesskaber som forårsager sult, boligmangel, krig og nedrivning af autonome fristeder osv. Det er jordens fattige, de svage og udbyttede som kommer til at betale den højeste pris for den vestlige verdens grådighed. Vi vil ikke mere, derfor rejser vi os og går på gaden. Det er alles planet, alles klima.

Kom til kæmpe klimademonstration mod klimaforandringerne, mod dem der intet vil gøre, dem som kun søger magt og profit. For en bedre og solidarisk verden.

August d. 14 fra Israels Plads kl. 17:00

Organiseret i samarbejde med Shit-town festival

The European Social Forum is coming to Malmö, Sweden!