Anarchic update news all over the world - 11.08.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  wsm.ie: Occupation of 35 Summerhill Parade in Dublin to
      protest evictions in May (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  alas barricadas - Greece: Police beat an anarchist refugee
      from Iranian Kurdistan in the neighborhood of Exarchia, Athens
      (ca, gr, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Palang Hitam Indonesia: The Last Trial of Sukoharjo
      Defendant [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, freedom news: Edinburgh Bookfair: ‘Vibrant,
      engaged, queer, feminist' (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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In May five houses on Summerhill Parade in Dublin were evicted on almost no notice with 
some 120 people being thrown on the street.  All were owned by the same landlord who in 
order to make super profits had packed people in, 6-8  to a room, charging them 350-450 
each  per month for space on a bunkbed.  Last night, August 7th, as part of a direct 
action month around housing people marched from the GPO to Summerhill and occupied No 
35.[see video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B4ZXiqDHkY ---- The occupation is demanding 
that the five houses "be compulsory purchased by Dublin City Council and given to the 
local community. We want to highlight that private, vacant properties can, and should be 
put into public ownership."
This situation if typical of Dublin where landlord dominated governments ensure tenants 
have no effective rights and both rents and house prices have risen out of control, far, 
far above the ability of workers to pay for decent housing.  Overcrowded conditions and 
rents that are still almost impossible to afford have become common for many, many low 
paid workers and migrant workers in particular are vunerable to being further exploited as 
they often lack awareness of the weak legal protections that do exist.

Shortly after occupying the buildings teams of housing activists started knocking on the 
neighbours doors to explain what was going on and to seek their solidarity.  The 
occupation has a Facebook page called Summerhill Occupation where you can read their full 
statement which concludes;
"We call for people to take action and get involved in the housing movement, a wider 
demand of homes for all. Those interested in setting up similar occupations, please get in 
touch with the page.
The housing crisis is not a natural disaster; we do not need to accept that this is simply 
the way it is. But things won't get better on their own - action is needed, by people and 
for people."

https://wsm.ie/c/occupation-summerhill-parade-dublin-protest-evictions

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 From the Rebellion of Words ---- Below follows the communiqué (which I collect and 
translate from the English version published in Indymedia Athens ) of a fellow migrant 
resident in the combative neighborhood of Exarchia, in the center of Athens, and that last 
July 27, at night, He was assaulted by a squadron of riot police, who beat him with a 
brutal beating trying to break several bones and joints, besides insulting him in a racist 
way and threatening him with death. The timbers themselves said that the "reason" for 
hitting them was their participation in anarchist groups in the neighborhood and in the 
riots against the police that occur with certain frequency in those streets. Fortunately, 
the assailant was able to escape and take refuge in the home of other comrades, who 
accompanied him to the hospital, and he is recovering.

Another example of the usual racism that the police forces of European democracies hide, 
also when the government that runs them is supposedly "leftist" and has a more "friendly", 
"popular" and "humanitarian" face. We should not be surprised if we consider the very high 
rate of vote for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party among the members of the Greek police forces.

Nazis and police, the same crap.

You will always be scum. Timbers, cowards, murderers.
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State Terrorism: Torture in the alleys of Athens

On Thursday, July 27, around 2 o'clock in the morning in Athens, on Bouboulinas street in 
the neighborhood of Exarchia, a squadron of the Greek police kidnapped and tortured an 
anarchist migrant. Immediately they began to torture me with a barrage of kicks, using 
racist and fascist insults. Meanwhile, the police declared that my offense was that I am 
an anarchist and belong to a well-known political group of Exarchia. Then, the squad of 
riot cops forced me into a dark alley. They threw me to the ground and tried to kick my 
ribs; I put my hand on my ribs to try to protect them. They removed my hand from my ribs 
and tried to break my fingers with their shields. To protect my fingers, I pressed my hand 
against my stomach. At that moment, they hit my ribs again to break them. This action 
lasted a long time, until one of the policemen proposed to break my wrists. So they put my 
hands on the stone of the sidewalk to break them with their truncheons, but I managed to 
push my hands away. He increased his anger, and pronouncing insults fascist and racist, 
all began again to beat me.

They beat me for more than an hour and a half. While, they were all the time taking many 
pictures of me getting hit, as well as when I was lying semi-unconscious on the street. 
When the cops realized that my body had been seriously damaged and that I could not move, 
they started playing a game with me, telling me "you have ten seconds to get out of here, 
if we catch you again, we'll kill you", and two timbers moved a little towards me to catch 
me again. They hit my knee several times with truncheons to make sure I was not going to 
escape. When one of them turned around to look behind him, with all the pain I had, I 
started to run. One of the policemen tried to catch me again but I was able to escape 
running down Tositsa Street and looking for help in the nearby house of some compañeres.

Paramedics solidaries came immediately and after examining me, they told me I should go to 
the hospital. There they discovered that, apart from strong bruises all over my body and 
head injuries, I also had a fractured spinal joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tIMjF4MOI

Exarchia, as an area with self-organized projects and revolutionary struggle, is under 
constant attack from the state because it is part of the international struggle against 
capitalism, the mafia, terrorism and in general against the system. Exarchia is a defense 
zone where different groups exist together to fight for freedom and equality against the 
oppression of the system. Through mutual support we can meet the needs of each without any 
authority. For this fight, the State is going to beat us.

The State, placing permanent police forces in the perimeter of Exarchia, has established a 
kind of border between us and the rest of Athens, thus putting us in a kind of prison. At 
this time we have no other way to resist this prison except the riots against militarized 
checkpoints. One of the reasons why the timbers wanted to break my ribs is that, as they 
said, I am one of the people involved in the riots. Many people usually participate in 
clashes with police forces, because they do not want to be in a prison, they do not want 
control of any authority.

As an anarchist immigrant I understand that the struggle for freedom is common among 
locals and migrants. For this reason I work towards unity and forming a collective body 
between locals and migrants. We will not fight only for the migrants, but for all, because 
we understand that our pain, our problems, are the same.

The immigrants are under constant attack from the state and the fascists and it does not 
matter what kind of government is in power, whether it is a right-wing or left-wing 
government. SYRIZA present themselves as defenders of immigrants but the reality is that 
they imprison migrants on a massive scale, every day they deport and kill people at the 
borders. We know that all authority is our enemy.

In Exarchia, immigrants today are under a growing threat of repression. Recently they 
started doing police cleaning operations in the square, arresting any migrant who is 
there. At the same time, there are groups in Exarchia that act like the police, using the 
same tactics, like pogroms in the square against migrants. For example, a group known as a 
security team, a military part of the political group "Movimiento Antiautoritario" (AK), 
which is related to the government and is presented as partisans of immigrants, but 
instead uses immigrants as a cover for your mafia business. As an immigrant I have to tell 
those groups: stop using our name for your dirty business.

It is clear that the police and the mafia work together for the same purpose: the control 
and crushing of resistance.

The message of this violent attack of the pigs was: to terrorize immigrants, anarchists 
and those who actively resist and fight against the police. We should not kneel. State 
violence makes it even clearer that our struggle is fair.

MADEROS MAFIOSOS ASESINOS

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40496

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Seven Sukoharjo prisoners charged considered for involvement in riots at the synthetic 
cotton factory PT. RUM, faces its final hearing on Tuesday, August 6. The riots followed 
the demonstration that took place in front of a factory that produced a bad odor that went 
on chaos and led to the burning of security posts and clashes with police and soldiers. 
The seven detainees have been arrested since February 2018. The trial was chaired by the 
Judges Chief Sigit Hariyanto. The seven prisoners were sentenced each as follows: ---- 
Muhamad Hisbun Payau (Iss), a member of left wing student organization Pembebasan was 
sentenced to two years and three months in prison. ---- Sutarno, a Karanganyar resident, 
was sentenced to two years in prison. ---- Brilliant, a Nguter residents, were sentenced 
to two years in prison. ---- Bambang, a Bulakrejo residents, was sentenced to three years 
and fined Rp 10 million.
Kelvin, a Plesan residents, is sentenced to two years and three months.
Sukemi, Celep residents, was sentenced to two years and three months.
Danang, a Nguter residents, was sentenced to two years and a fine of Rp 10 million.
The first three defendants were deemed to have violated Article 406 paragraph (1) of the 
Indonesian Criminal Code concerning "the destruction of other property." This judge's 
sentence was lower than the prosecutor's Rohmadi claim of 4 years and two months for Iss 
and 4 years for Sutarno and Brilliant.

While the last four defendants are considered charged with Article 187 paragraphs (1) and 
(2) and 170 paragraph (1) or 406 of the Criminal Code. The penalty for Danang is lower 
than the 4-year prosecutor's claim and a fine of Rp 50 million, and Bambang 5 years and Rp 
50 million.
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Seven Sukoharjo prisoners charged with involvement in riots at the synthetic cotton 
factory of PT. RUM, faces its final hearing on Tuesday, August 6. The riots followed the 
demonstration that took place in front of a factory that produced a bad odor that went on 
chaos and led to the burning of security posts and clashes with police and soldiers. The 
seven detainees have been arrested since February 2018. The trial was chaired by the 
Chairperson of the Panel of Judges Sigit Hariyanto. The seven prisoners were sentenced 
each as follows.

Muhamad Hisbun Payau (Iss), member of Liberation, was sentenced to two years and three 
months in prison.
Sutarno, a Karanganyar resident, was sentenced to two years in prison.
Brilian, a Nguter resident, was sentenced to two years in prison.
Bambang, a Bulakrejo resident, was sentenced to three years and fined Rp. 10 million.
Kelvin, a resident of Plesan, was sentenced to two years and three months.
Sukemi, a Celep resident, was sentenced to two years and three months.
Danang, a Nguter resident, was sentenced to two years and a fine of Rp. 10 million.
The first three defendants were considered to violate Article 406 paragraph (1) of the 
Indonesian Criminal Code concerning "the destruction of property of another person." The 
judge's sentence is lighter than the prosecutor Rohmadi's demands of 4 years and two 
months for Iss and 4 years for Sutarno and Brilliant.

While the last four defendants are considered charged with Article 187 paragraphs (1) and 
(2) and 170 paragraph (1) or 406 of the Criminal Code. The penalty for Danang is lower 
than the 4-year prosecutor's claim and a fine of 50 million rupiah, and Bambang 5 years 
and 50 million rupiah.

For more information:

Instagram account: @palang__hitam
Website: palanghitam.noblogs.org
Email: civilrebellion@riseup.net

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In this short reaction piece, a collective member from radical retailer Lighthouse Books 
comments on the hugely positive takeaways from yesterday's inaugural Edinburgh Anarchist 
Feminist Bookfair. The event was standing-room only for many of its talks. ---- We 
expected to have a great time - and we did! - but I wasn't prepared for just how inspired 
and heartened I would feel afterwards. It comes down to being part of a vibrant, joyous, 
engaged, queer, feminist, anarchist event in the heart of our community. ---- I'd like to 
take the opportunity to thank the creative, dedicated individuals who made it happen - and 
to encourage anyone hosting such gatherings in future to take a page out of their book, we 
certainly will be for Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair.
This was an event entirely volunteer-run, which provided something truly unique - an 
immensely welcoming space (even for those of us less used to feeling welcome in a church!) 
where there was a buzzing exchange of ideas, room to meet/ plan/ coordinate actions that 
can make the future tangibly better, and from which to take home new books and new 
perspectives.

Lately there have been a lot of tensions in the feminist movement as most of us turn away 
from a white, exclusive feminism that dominated the past. It was an unspeakable pleasure 
to be part of an event whose feminism was concerned with the liberation and empowerment of 
all those oppressed and marginalised by the capitalist, patriarchal world we live in.

This was a beautiful, powerful, inclusive and unapologetic feminism - and people flocked 
to it. From 11am-6pm the Augustine Church was full of conversation and laughter, of new 
encounters and meetings of old comrades. People streamed in and out of the events and then 
sat around in circles around main hall unpicking what they had heard, sharing their own 
stories and experiences and so much more.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/edinburgh-bookfair-vibrant-engaged-queer-feminist/

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