Daily Archives: 31 Agosto 2015

Repression and borders: they will never stop us! [it, eng]

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Source: Presidio No Borders Ventimiglia – No Borders Oversee Ventimiglia

Updates/Aggiornamenti:

31.08
Sono trascorse le 24 ore e Andrea non è ancora stato rilasciato. Sappiamo che in questo momento si trova a Nizza ma ancora non abbiamo notizie della sua condizione legale. Siamo in contatto continuo da ore con gli avvocati che cercano con difficoltà di fare chiarezza sulla situazione.

24 hours passed and Andrea hasn’t been released yet.
We know he’s been transfered to Nizza, but we have no recent news of his legal condition. From hours we are in continuos contact with the lawyers who are hardly trying to understand the situation.

24 heures sont passées et Andrea n’a toujours pas été relaché. Nous savons qu’en ce moment meme il se trouve à Nice, mais nous n’avons pas encore de nouvelles sur ce qu’il risque. Depuis deux heures nous sommes en contact continu avec ses avocats qui tentent de comprendre la situation.

30.08
h.16:30 i tre compagni trattenuti negli uffici della PAF vengono rilasciati dopo piu di 4 ore.
Andrea invece si trova ancora garde à vue; seguiranno aggiornamenti!

h.16:30 les trois camarades qui ont été enfermées ou commissariat de la PAF ont été relachées après plus de 4 heures d’identification.
Andrea est encore en garde à vue, plus d’infos à venir.

h.16:30 the 3 comrades who were arrested and kept in the border police station have been released after more than 4 hours to check their identity.
Andrea instead is still retained in “garde à vue”, updates soon!

La repressione continua al presidio di Ventimiglia.
Ieri sera, Pasquale, attivista No Borders presente al confine sin dal primissimo giorno, è stato fermato sulla strada per Ventimiglia appena fuori dal campo dalle forze dell’ordine e invitato a recarsi in commissariato. Lì gli è stato notificato un foglio di via in cui gli viene contestata l’occupazione al presidio e la partecipazione alla manifestazione non autorizzata di sabato 22 agosto.
La misura adottata, risulta oltremodo grave e incomprensibile, Pasquale infatti vive in un paese limitrofo (Dolceacqua) e non può fare a meno di passare da Ventimiglia per svolgere le sue attività quotidiane.
Insieme a lui è stato fermato e portato in commissariato anche una altro attivista, arrivato al presidio ieri stesso. Dopo essere stato tenuto per più di quattro ore negli uffici della polizia, dopo essere stato minacciato di espulsione ha rifiutato di dare le impronte digitali e foto segnaletiche e per tutto ciò è stata aperta un’ indagine per resistenza a pubblico ufficiale a suo carico.

La stretta repressiva viene usata in maniera totalmente strumentale per attaccare il presidio e intimidire le volontà e la vita degli occupanti, in quanto espressione di una nuova sperimentazione di autorganizzazione.
Con questo comunicato vogliamo richiamare l’attenzione su tutti gli atti di repressione che stanno colpendo il campo in queste settimane. Ultimo tra questi l’abuso subito ieri mattina da due compagne, fermate durante una delle attività di monitoraggio alla stazione di Menton e trattenute dalla PAF (police aux frontiers) per 3 ore in frontiera assieme ai migranti rastrellati sul treno.

Dopo il brutale arresto di Fouad la notte del 23 agosto, dopo i sei fogli di via consegnati ai compagni/e la notte dell’11 Agosto e il pestaggio da parte della Police Nationale francese e della BAC (Brigade Anti-Criminalité), la stessa notte, di un compagno francese, fermato insieme ad altri due attivisti, affianco ai continui e massicci respingimenti di migranti che la polizia francese e italiana operano ogni giorno, contrastandosi e contraddicendosi continuamente.
Possiamo oggi osservare che almeno su un punto i loro interessi si congiungono: reprimere quelle persone che hanno deciso di fare uscire dall’invisibilità il movimento per la libertà che i migranti portano qui e nel resto d’Europa. In realtà, questa modalità di controllo dei movimenti migranti, della quale assistenzialismo e militarizzazione si nutrono, si ritrova ovunque. Dai lager che l’Europa costruisce in Magreb ai recenti rinforzi militari a Calais, passando per i molteplici sgomberi avvenuti a Parigi durante l’estate. La repressione continua laddove organismi parastatali come la Croce Rossa o France Terre d’Asile non riescono a far tacere la voce dei migranti in lotta per la dignità in ogni luogo che attraversano.

A tutta la repressione che viene e verrà dal potere poliziesco e istituzionale, le relazioni che qui si sono costruite e intrecciate continueranno ad attaccare e indebolire la loro pretesa di controllare e gestire i flussi migratori.
Pensano forse di fiaccarci con la loro repressione costante?
Credono davvero di poter fermare chi ogni giorno questi confini li oltrepassa?
Davanti a tutte le persone che la fortezza Europea assassina quotidianamente nel mediterraneo e sulle sue autostrade opponiamo una sete di libertà incontrollabile.
Non saranno certo vecchi e nuovi dispositivi di repressione a fermare questo viaggio. Ci allontanate da qui, ci troverete ovunque, nelle strade e nelle città pronti a far rinascere la lotta contro ogni confine.
Il contrattacco sarà la nostra pratica quotidiana.

Every cop is a border!
We are not going back!

Presidio Permanente No Borders Ventimiglia
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EN
Repression goes on at the Ventimiglia No Borders Camp.
Yesterday night Pasquale, one of the no border activists present at camp from the first days, was stopped just outside the camp from the italian police, which took him to the local station. He was expelled from Ventimiglia municipality for the occupation of the place and for his participation to the 22 of august unauthorized demonstration.
The measure adopted are worrying and unfounded. As a matter of fact Pasquale leaves in a nearby town (Dolceacqua), therefore he phisically needs to pass by Ventimiglia in order to carry on his daily acivities.
Together with him another activist, who arrived just yestrerday, was stopped and taken to the police station. After he has been kept for more than 24 hours inside the station, he has been threathend of expulsion from Italy and after he refused to leave fingerprints and photo identification a file for resistance to public officer was opened against him.

This enhanced pressure forces are used in a totally instrumental way with the aim of attacking the no border camp and intimidatimg the will and life of occupants, because of its power being a new form of self-organization. Through this press release we want to call the public attention on the repressive practices perpetrated against the camp in these weeks: last one being to the demage of two comrades who yesterday were stopped at the Menton train station while doing monitoring activity, and were brought by the PAF to the border police station, where they were forced to remain for three hours, together with the immigrants stopped on the train.

Both Italian and French police have been using repressive measures in the last weeks: Fouad arrest on the night of 23rd Agoust, six expulsion orders emitted on the night of 11th August together with the harassment of one comrade by part of of the BAC (Brigade Anti-Criminalité) police, together with the constant and and massive stopping and sending back police operations that both Italy and France carry on in absurd net of legal and burocratic contraddictions. It is clear that their interest converges in one specific point: to stop those people who decided to make evidentand shed a light on migrants movement for freedom across Europe. This kind of control, nourished by militarization and institionalized and racist charity, are to be found at every European border: from the European lagers in Magreb to the military reinforcement in Calais, to the several evictions carried on in Paris. This kinds of scenarios opens up in all those sposts where connivence between organizations like Red Cross or France Terre d’Asile and governaments do not succeed in covering the voices of migrants who are fighting for dignity in every and each country they are crossing.
Do they really think to stop us because of intimidation and repression?
Do they really think this is going to stop the power of an authentic fight for freedom?

Our answer to the daily killing of people in the Mediterrenean and on the streets of the European Fortress is an uncontrollable thirst for freedom.
Neither new nor old repression devices will ever stop this jouney. Those who are forced to leave from here are to be found again everywhere, on the streets and in the cities to make the fight against border go on.
Our strategy will be our daily and diffused actions and practices.

Every cop is a border!
We are not going back!

Presidio Permanente No Borders Ventimiglia

Kolchenko and Sentsov condemned to 30 years

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Source: Ukraine solidarity campaign-солідарність України кампанія

STOP THE RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR – ЗУПИНИТИ РОСІЙСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКУ ВІЙНУ
STEP UP THE CAMPAIGN TO FREE KOLCHENKO AND FREE SENTSOV
NO RETURN TO STALINIST SHOW TRIALS IN RUSSIA

The decision on 25th August by a military court in Russia to sentence the Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov to 20 years in prison and socialist and anti-fascist activist Oleksandr Kolchenko to 10 years has sparked an international outcry. They are to be held in a high-security penal colony, Sentsov has been denied the right to even see his children.

Both were arrested by the Federal Security Service (successor to KGB) on 11th May 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea, held on trumped up charges of ‘terrorism’. Despite being Ukrainian citizens both were taken from Crimea and the trial held in Russia’s city of Rostov-on-Don under Russian law.

Kolchenko a well-known anti-fascist activist has been absurdly accused of being part of a plot with ‘Right Sector’ the ultra-right nationalist organisation. The whole trial has been denounced by human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Amnesty International describing the trials as being “redolent of a Stalinist-era show trials of dissidents.” Stating that that it was “was fatally flawed and credible allegations of torture and other ill-treatment have been ignored by the court. Both Oleg Sentsov and one of the main witnesses for the prosecution have alleged that they were tortured.” See: Crimean activists sentenced after a fatally flawed military trial.

Human Rights Watch in their dispatches pointed to the political motive of this trial:

“Since the Russian occupation of Crimea, Russian authorities have been quick to silence those who oppose their actions there – be they Crimean Tatars, pro-Ukraine activists, or Moscow-based independent advocates. But this latest case, and the terribly harsh sentences for Sentsov and Kolchenko, is the starkest warning yet to Russia’s critics in Crimea: keep quiet or else.” See: Dispatches: Crimea keep quiet or else!

As the judge read the sentencing Kolchenko and Sentsov were defiant standing arm in arm and singing Ukraine’s national anthem including the lines “We will lay down our body and our soul for our freedom”.

Ken Loach has joined European film directors calling for their release and has informed the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign of his continued support for these prisoners.

Leading left-wing Labour Party MP John McDonnell has joined him in declaring:

“When Amnesty describes a trial as fatally flawed the world needs to sit up and listen. The return of show trials in Russia has to be condemned. I join with the thousands of other upholders of democracy in calling for the release of Sentsov and Kolchenko.”

Mick Antoniw a Labour member of the National Assembly for Wales has called for stepping up the campaign:

“The incarceration of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov for 20 years is a return to the Stalinist show trials of the nineteen thirties. He has taken a stand against Russian imperialism and aggression and is now paying the price for offending Putin. Now is the time for real international solidarity with Sentsov and the stand he has taken to defend democracy, freedom of speech and Ukraine’s national integrity.”

A view echoed by Michael Calderbank, Co-Editor, Red Pepper:

“The show-trial of film-maker Oleg Sentsov and anti-fascist activist Oleksandr Kolchenko in Putin’s Russia recalls the worst aspects of “justice” as administered under Stalin. The charges are plainly preposterous, and the only “evidence” of their guilt was obtained using torture methods. Their only “crime” is that they are Ukrainians, and wish to challenge Russia’s military aggression. Please support the international campaign to demand their release. ”

The Facts of the Show Trial

1. Sentsov and Kolchenko are Ukrainians that were arrested by the Russian FSB in March 2014
Oleh Sentsov was arrested on 11 May 2014 shortly after the Russian occupation of Crimea; Oleksandr Kolchenko was arrested 5 days later on May 16. Since then, they have been tortured and imprisoned for over a year.

Both men were Crimean’s and opposed Russia’s annexation of the peninsula. Sentsov is a film director internationally recognised for his feature Gamer, he was a Euromaidan activist and later involved in taking food to conscripts blockaded in their bases in Crimea. Oleksandr Kolchenko was a student and socialist, ecologist and anti-fascist activist; he had supported Euromaidan and opposed the Russian occupation. Russian authorities initially claimed Kolchenko and Sentsov “automatically” became citizens of Russia after the annexation of Crimea. Both denied applying for Russian citizenship. Sentsov said he was “not a serf to be transferred together with land.”

2. They were accused of “plotting acts of terrorism” and being part of a “Right sector terrorist group”
The prisoners are accused of committing acts of terror and of being part of a “Right Sector terror group” supposedly led by Oleh Sentsov. These accusations are based entirely on testimonies of Henadiy Afanasiev and Oleksiy Chirniy, who were also arrested and charged with participation in the same group. After holding Sentsov without charges for three weeks a statement by Russia’s FSB accused the four Ukrainians of being “part of a terrorist community, to carry out explosions with home-made devices on 9 May 2014 near the Eternal Flame memorial and Lenin monument in Simferopol and to set on fire to the offices of the Russian Community of Crimea public organization and the United Russia party branch in Simferopol on 14 April and 18 April 2014.”

3. The accusations are based on testimonies given under torture
The accusations against Sentsov and Kolchenko are based entirely on testimonies of Afanasiev and Oleksiy, who were also arrested and charged with participation in the same “terrorist group.” Both Afanasiev and Chirniy have stated they were tortured by FSB.

On 31 July 2015 Afanasyev retracted his testimony as given under duress. After that he was beaten again in prison. Sentsov and Kolchenko have stated repeatedly that they were tortured and beaten, and there is nothing to assume that the same didn’t happen to Chirniy.

4. A return of Stalinist show trials in Russia
The “Right sector” accusations made by FSB are ridiculous. Right sector is a Ukrainian far-right movement, while Kolchenko is a Ukrainian left-wing anti-fascist activist. There’s no evidence to link the prisoners to Right Sector, which is Russian propaganda’s favourite bogeyman. This forced prosecutors to change their accusations to claiming the group just “took on the ideology.” Memorial, a Russian human rights organization, assumed “that Right Sector is being foisted on the indictment in order to create a primitive media image of a nationalist threat in Crimea.”

5. The crimes which they are accused of are never classified as “terrorism” in Russia
One thing that united Kolchenko and Sentsov was their opposition to Russia’s annexation of their homeland, of which Putin’s ruling United Russia party was an active player. Kolchenko, Chirniy, and Afanasiev admit to planning to vandalise the United Russia offices, but in all cases the acts carried no significant damage.

There are numerous cases of such acts at United Russia party offices and administration buildings across Russia. These are never charged as acts of terror, the perpetrators instead being convicted for hooliganism and getting as little as two years in prison.

6. Free these political prisoners
Sentsov and Kolchenko are political prisoners and human right groups in Russia, Ukraine and internationally also recognise them as such. The campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist Kolchenko and film-director Sentsov must be stepped up.The trial being entirely based on forced testimonies, the alleged plot and connection to Right Sector speak of a return of Stalinist show trials in Russia, according to human rights groups.

Sabotaggio per commemorare i Mapuche assassinati

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Fonte: Comitato Carlos Fonseca

Collipulli/ Dopo la commemorazione dei codardi omicidi dei weichafe (guerrieri, ndt) Mapuche Rodrigo Melinao e Jaime Mendoza Collio, oggi nel territorio Wenteche sono stati compiuti degli atti di sabotaggio contro i principali nemici delle comunità mapuche in resistenza, 6 camion appartenenti all’impresa forestale Arauco sono stati completamente distrutti all’interno del Fondo Santa Cruz.

Bisogna precisare che queste azioni si inquadrano nella commemorazione dell’assassinio dei comuneri Mapuche:

RODRIGO MELINAO LIKAN ( 6 agosto 2013): Era stato processato varie volte per il suo attivo ruolo nel recupero della terra e per azioni di resistenza mapuche nella zona di Ercilla. Aveva eluso l’autorità dandosi alla fuga e fu decretata la sua cattura ad ogni costo. Si era mantenuto in clandestinità fino a quando, una notte, fu trovato morto con segni di crudeli torture. Fu freddamente assassinato da mercenari repressori, da yanakona (indigeni ausiliari, traditori, ndt) e gruppi anti mapuche che operano al margine della legge, per tutelare gli interessi dei grandi gruppi capitalisti. Fu un oscuro crimine pianificato.

JAIME MENDOZA COLLIO (12 agosto 2009): Durante l’occupazione di un fondo, nell’ambito del recupero delle terre ad Ercilla, Forze Speciali e GOPE (grupo operativo speciale dei Carabinieri, ndt) hanno fatto irruzione sparando sulle persone che si trovavano nell’occupazione del fondo conteso, i repressori inseguirono per chilometri il Weichafe Jaime Mendoza Collio fino a sparargli un colpo alla schiena, provocando così la sua morte. Successivamente le istituzioni e l’agente del GOPE manipolarono le prove per giustificare nei tribunali che lo sparo sarebbe stato effettuato “a propria difesa”, versione che è stata screditata.

Il fatto che lo Stato Cileno si rifiuti di rinunciare alle forze di polizia, alle imprese forestali e ai coloni che occupano con la forza i territori in conflitto nel Wallmapu, e che cerchi come unica soluzione le azioni giudiziarie, farà sì che le mobilitazioni, usando la violenza politica, continuino ad essere sulla prima pagina di vari mezzi dell’informazione e che i tribunali si riempiano di cause.

Fuori gli investimenti capitalisti dal Wallmapu.

Esercitando il controllo territoriale, avanziamo verso la liberazione nazionale.

Libertà per i Prigionieri Politici Mapuche

Marichiweu!

(Vinceremo 10 volte!)

7 Agosto 2015

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