No Borders anarchist Joke Kaviaar comes out fighting against incitement trial

"Well excuse me for living!" Dutch anarchist and No Borders activist Joke Kaviaar goes on trial in Haarlem tomorrow for "incitement" for her writings over seven years slamming the racist border system in the Netherlands and across Fortress Europe. Anonymous put her site back online, and on the eve of her trial she's released this song on youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcTGdfVAkCM&feature=youtu.be. This is her story.

 

(Joke's blog in English from 26 September, before the new trial date was set. For latest news in Dutch see:  http://www.jokekaviaar.nl/)

My opinion is incitement! Resist and defy the terrorist state!

On september 13th police came at my door. I opened, expecting the mailman to bring yet another summons. “Nationale Recherche,” they said “Are you ms. K.?”. “Yes..” I answered a little hesitant. “You are under arrest for incitement!” and that was it.

Little over an hour later I found myself in police custody all the way in Zwolle and was held there for three days, under all possible restrictions. Meanwhile, they searched my home thoroughly, made photographs of the house and whatever documents I don't all know about, and took possesion of several computers, hard drives, USB sticks, recordings of poetry performances etcetera.

Now what did I do, according to the charges of incitement with a terrorist motive, to be labeled a terrorist suspect?

Well. All I did was write. I wrote and wrote and wrote over the past seven years, articles, poetry, prose, columns, all in words blaming and attacking the state of The Netherlands and the Fortress of Europe for it's murderous policy against migrants, asylum seekers, so called illegals. For it's detention centers, for it's Frontex hunting people down to drown, for it's racism, nationalism, for it's colonialism, for it's capitalist ideology, it's profits, it's democratic hypocrisy.

Now it seems that some, at least four, of my writings are considered to be call outs for violence against the minister of migration, Leers, against the council of ministers, and against government buildings. It also seems that it is not allowed to say that it is time for a new generation to take over from the 80's and 90's group RARA, that set fires to the MAKRO company to force them out of the South Africa apartheid regime.

Well, excuse me for living!

This repression that I am now facing is however not something new and was to be expected. The Dutch intelligence agency AIVD reported back in 2009 that activism against the Dutch asylum policy was extremist, and I was 'honoured' with a quote in this report, called 'The fire of resistence'. Since then, every now and then either media or politicians wrote and spoke of actions against the IND (dutch immigration office), and companies that are involved in building detention centers. Companies such as BAM, now responsible for building the new deportation camp at Schiphol. Several small arson attacks took place over the past few months. During a similar campaign against a new deportation center at Rotterdam Airport, fire was set to the offices of the building company that were placed at the building site. Responsible politicians and directors of companies were visited at home, just to let them know: STOP.

All groups involved are careful enough not to get caught. Bravo!

Now, in order to try to bring to an end resistance against the Dutch national-socialist immigration policy that is about to prohibit their self invented illegality, a special prosecuter has been assigned to lead all investigations. They have come up with nothing, again, so far.. So, what do they do, to make it seem not all in vain? They arrest the undersigned big mouthed anarchist writer to set an example.

What's next? Without a doubt, I refuse to take offline the texts involved, and I keep my website up and running. That must hurt. So the DA made a phone call to my lawyer and announced: “We are going to arrest her again. Keeping the texts online is a new offence.” Immediately my lawyer protested that this is not possible. Now the DA seems to wait for the lawyers letter, explaining his own laws to him. But this does not mean that I'm in the clear. It's only a stay of execution.

Right now, the texts get spread further, mirror websites are duplicating like cockroaches, and solidarity statements are made all around. Thanks everyone! Ofcourse, i would not in the least bit be surprised if the DA is not amused by all of this, loses patience and sends out that arrest warrant sooner. Also, it is very well possible that police investigators find on my website, or elsewhere on the web, new texts with new reasons for new charges. Some freedom of speech, huh? Is being censored freedom? Is being prosecuted for an opinion freedom? Freedom of speech is reserved for right wing extremist politicians, for racists, sexists, and all the like!

What do we expect of the state that we fight? A friendly face? Ha! Of course not. I predict that this is just the beginning of more opression that migration anarchist activists will face in the (near?) future. We all need to be preparing ourselves to defy, resist, to fight back. There is no reason to not expect repression. After all, it's been going for many years. It took the life of migrants. It made people set fire to themselves. Still the minister of migration thinks he can sleep at night, not bothered by even the least bit of consience!?

Let him lay awake about resistance then!

Joke Kaviaar, september 26 2011 The texts are in Dutch, but here they are:
1. RARA, wiens rechtsorde is het?
2. Leers, het vuur en de dood
3. Neederland wordt schoongeveegd
4. Waar blijft de Hollandse Opstand? 

bron :Indymedia.uk

more than 500 fascist attacks against migrants in the last six months!!!!

While the police is operating a huge sweep in Athens and Evros since August 2nd, racist attacks are getting more. Migrants communities speak of more than 500 hate crimes in the last six months and an organised wave of hate crimes in the last days. 


The government assumes that these hate crimes are the try of extreme right wing groups to subvert the “organised” (and highly repressive) approach of government to deal with the migration issue in order to keep their political gains as they had in the last two elections due to their xenophobic agenda. Government officials commented that this reaction was foreseeable when the starting sweep operation set out to take away the main agenda of the fascist party GD. While the government warns the extreme right and announces to encounter hate crimes in a very strict manner, migrant communities complain about more than 500 racist attacks in the last six months and an ongoing apathy by the police who is not reacting.

The most recent victim was a young IRaqi refugee who fell victim to his attackers stabbing him close to the place of worship he was visiting in the month of Rhamazan. He had visited the place in the early morning around 4:30 in order to eat before sunrise. The attackers came on four motorbikes in front of the mosq and attacked the young man with knives. He died yesterday due to the severe injuries after the transfer to he hospital.
Migrants communities see a planed series of hate crimes within the last days. Last Thursday at 21:30 15-20 persons attacked another place of worship in Piraeus while there were 20 Pakistanis. ON Saturday night attacked two other mosqs in Reddi and Nikaia, Athens. In Crete in the night of Saturday there was a fight between a group of fascists and migrants from Pakistan that evolved out of provocative comments by the first. The fight ended in the arrest of one Greek who had beaten an Pakistani badly on his head and a Pakistani who was lacking legal papers. Five days ago four unknown persons attacked some Indian migrants in Rethimno, Crete, stabbing them with knives. One week ago a similar incident was registered in Likovrisi. The victim is still hospitalized after the severe injuries inflicted to him.

In the police press release they refer amongst others to a hate crime on June 12 against Egyptian fishermen in Perama, the stabbing of migrants in Neos Kosmos by a group with motorbikes, an attack with metal globs against Pakistani workers in chalikida, the pogrom against migrants in Likovrisi by mid June and some other attacks in Nikaia. In most of the cases the perpetrators were not yet identified and arrested.

by Stelios Verderis in Ta Nea, republished in Preza.Tv. (in greek)

At the same time, the fascist party GD is preparing meetings all over the country in order to “map” the “problems” fascist Greek people have with Roma and Sinti and with migrants. The aim is to then “clean” the areas from the “problematic” population as GD has already done in some areas of Athens such as Agios Panteleimonas and Attiki Square. Fascist attacks might lead to vendetta like situations in the smaller towns of Greece and other severe hate crimes at places of agglomeration i.e. during the feast of Eid by the end of Ramazan.

preza tv (in greek)

also read and listen to the following reportage in english

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: REPRESSION POLICIERE CONTRE LES GREVISTES METALLOS GRECS: AGISSEZ

Ce matin, vers 5 heures, la police anti-émeute grecque a brisé les piquets de grève des aciéries grecques. La lutte des travailleurs dure depuis 9 mois maintenant, et a créé des élans de solidarité internationale. Les grévistes présents à l'usine ont été tabassés et arrêtés au QG de la police, où ils sont toujours en détention. Il semble qu'ils vont être jugés dans une procédure sommaire pour flagrants délits. A 17h30 ce vendredi 20 juillet, à Aspropyrgos, proche de l'usine, un rassemblement de solidarité est organisé par les partis politiques et les syndicats.

Si vous voulez soutenir les grévistes, envoyez un mail (voir proposition ci-dessous) au ministre grec du Travail, M. Vroutsis, à l'adresse suivante en mettant l'adresse de son ministère en copie
vroutsis@ivroutsis.gr
cc : info@ypakp.gr

Pour plus d'info voir le site http://solidarity-greece.blogspot.be/2012/07/police-repression-against-greek.html
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Re: Défendre les grévistes Aciéries grecs!

Monsieur le Ministre,

ce matin, la police antiémeute grecque (MAT) ont conclu par la force, frappé et arrêté dans leur lieu de travail, certains ont signalé 10 métallos héroïques. Défendre les droits des travailleurs à vivre sur un salaire décent et à résister à des licenciements abusifs ne peut pas être qualifié comme un crime.

Je vous demande de prendre des mesures urgentes pour garantir que les forces spéciales de police sont immédiatement retirés de l'usine, les travailleurs arrêtés sont libérés, et leurs justes revendications sont accordées en obligeant le propriétaire de l'usine, M. Manessis, à respecter le droit du travail.

Avec mes meilleures salutations,

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Re: Defend Greek Steelworks' strikers!

Dear Minister,

this morning, Greek Riot Police (MAT) have entered by force, hit and arrested in their workplace some reported 10 heroic steelworkers. Defending the workers' rights to live on a decent salary and to resist abusive layoffs cannot be qualified as a crime.

I am asking you to take urgent measures to ensure that the Special Police Forces are immediately withdrawn from the factory, the arrested workers are released, and their just demands are granted by compelling the factory owner, Mr Manessis, to respect labour law.

With best regards,