Received January 23rd 2016: In response to the call for an international day of action in solidarity with trans prisoners, some antagonist queers and accomplices paid a visit to the juvenile detention center in Minneapolis, USA. Two banners were unfurled that read: Not Gay As In Happy, Queer As In […]
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Comrades gathered in front of the local juvenile prison in the city of Volos and spent New Year’s Eve close to the prisoners. Demonstrators shouted slogans amid fireworks; “The passion for freedom is stronger than all prisons”; “Fire and blast at this brothel”, and more. Solidarity is our weapon!
“When a prison riot starts, even those who accept the rules of society are roused by the noble temptation of freedom; when the ceilings of the prisons are pulled off by fire or rebels, we throw their hands off our shoulders and identify the enemy.” Editor’s note: In their zeal, […]
The poster reads: Demonstration in memory of Ramón Barrios and for all the kids who lose their lives in youth detention centres. July 7th, 2013 at 6pm. From Ciudad de Los Ángeles to Agata Square. Metro: Ciudad de los Ángeles (line 3). It’s been 2 years since the death of […]
“Persons locked up behind bars stop living, they just survive in prison. Every one of them makes their own mold into which they’re supposed to fit, finding refuge in standardized behaviours and reactions (…) one becomes simply a number, another accusatory brief scattered on an iron bed, in a narrow […]
Greetings, comrades; I am still confronting the present here and obviously not giving up. My intention with this communiqué is the following: to clarify certain conflicts and rumors that have arisen about my person. I think from what I’ve understood people have been saying that I’m a police collaborator; but […]
September 11th was the day that, in 1973, the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army Augusto Pinochet took power over the democratically elected president Allende. Pinochet killed and tortured thousands in his dictatorial rule, until 1990. On the same day, in 1998, anarchist Claudia López was shot dead by cops of […]
Giannis Skouloudis was released from prison on Friday afternoon, June 22nd, 2012. The comrade had been remanded in custody in Avlona juvenile prisons since October 13th, 2010. Following the court decision on March 26th, 2012, for Giannis Skouloudis, Sokratis Tzifkas, Babis Tsilianidis, Dimitris Dimtsiadis and Dimitris Fessas regarding the case […]
2001: 8.343 inmates 2011: 11.674 inmates 6 new prisons in the last 5 years The circumstances prevailing inside Greek prisons are to a large degree known: overcrowding, illegal arbitrary refusal of exit permission, accusations of torture and abuse by prison staff, insufficient medical and pharmaceutical care and uncontrollable use of […]