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Greece, URGENT : en/fr/, Negative decision of the Lamia council for the release of 67-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Urgent : Negative decision of the Lamia council for the release of 67-day hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

The killers of the Lamia council appeal courts have issued a negative decision on the release of 67-day hunger striker anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis. Their hands are stained with the blood of the poor, the oppressed, the fighters, and Giannis Michailidis… who demanding his freedom continues to fight from a hospital cell…

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‘’I think they are even using the hunger strike as an example now. They’ve set my appeal hearing for 25/7/. On that day I will have done 64 days’ hunger strike. The aim is clear. To exhaust me. A possible permanent disability reinforces the message they are sending. Perhaps my eventual death, which becomes more likely with each passing day. Such a perversion of the concept of justice is unthinkable. Let them enjoy their “justice”. Enjoy your careers.

As for me, who do not have access to their villas with their lavish tables paid for with bribes, I can greet this world fasting, but with the spiritual fullness of total existential conflict with their rotten system.’’

15/7/2022,

On hunger strike from 23/5, Giannis Michailidis

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FIRE TO THE PRISONS

DEATH TO THE STATE

Anarchists from Act for freedom now.

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Lamia (Grèce) : la cour d’appel refuse de relâcher Giannis Michailidis

Les assassins de la Cour d’appel de Lamia [qui devait statuer le 25 juillet] ont rendu une décision négative concernant la remise en liberté du compagnon anarchiste Giannis Michailidis, en grève de la faim depuis 67 jours. Leurs mains sont tâchés du sang des pauvres, des opprimés, des combattants, et de Giannis…, qui demande sa remise en liberté et continue de se battre depuis une cellule d’hôpital.

« Je pense qu’ils utilisent désormais ma grève de la faim comme un exemple. Ils ont fixé ma date d’appel pour le 25 juillet. Ce jour-là, j’en serais à mon 64e jour de grève de la faim. Leur objectif est clair. Celui de m’épuiser. Une possible invalidité permanente renforcerait le message qu’ils envoient. Peut-être même ma mort, qui devient toujours plus probable au fil des jours qui passent. Une telle perversion de la signification de la justice est impensable. Laissez-les profiter de leur « justice ». Je vous souhaite une bonne carrière.
Quant à moi, qui n’ai pas accès à leurs villas avec leurs tables somptueuses payées en pot-de-vin, je quitterai peut-être ce monde affamé, mais avec la plénitude spirituelle d’un conflit existentiel total avec leur système pourri. »
Giannis Michailidis, 15 juillet 2022
(en grève de la faim depuis le 23 mai)

Ndlr :
* un résumé de sa situation judiciaire et la lettre de Giannis d’entrée en grève de la faim du 23 mai 2022 se trouve ici,
* une lettre de Giannis du 11 juillet 2022, écrite depuis la cellule spéciale de l’hôpital de Lamia se trouve là
* on peut trouver ici (en anglais) une chronologie des nombreuses actions solidaires avec Giannis en Grèce et ailleurs

[Traduit de l’anglais de Act for Freedom now, 28 juillet 2022]

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Negative Entscheidung des Gerichts von Lamia bezueglich der Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis

Heute hat das Gericht von Lamia in letzter Instanz ueber die Freilassung des Anarchistischen Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis entschieden. Giannis wird nicht, auch nicht unter Auflagen, freikommen. Mit dieser Entscheidung haben sie das Todesurteil von Giannis unterschrieben. Sein Gesundheitszustand ist nach 67 Tagen im Hungerstreik extrem kritisch und er koennte jeden Moment sterben. Zudem hat das Ministerium fuer Buergerschutz vor einigen Tagen erlassen, dass die Polizei in diversen Stadteilen des Zentrums von Athen, Anlasslose Kontrollen, Video und Tonaufzeichnungen durchfuehren koennen. Eine Begruendung fuer diesen Erlass ist im offiziellen Schreiben nicht gegeben. Dieses Regelung soll vorerst bis zum 2. Oktober (!) andauern. Damit wird inoffiziell ein Ausnahmezustand verhaengt und der Bullenstaat taktisch eingefuehrt. Es ist ein weiteres Beispiel fuer den totalitaeren Authoritarismus des griechischen Staates und der regierung der Nea Dimokratia.
Gestern haben Anarchist*innen das Buero der ADEDY (Oberster Verband der Vereinigungen der öffentlichen Angestellten) im Zentrum von Athen besetzt. Dort finden aktuell Versammlungen und Kundgebungen statt.

Text von Indymedia Athen: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1620166/

Negative Entscheidung des Gerichts von Lamia bezueglich der Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis
Die Mörder des Gerichts von Lamia haben den Antrag auf Freilassung des seit 67 Tagen hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis abgelehnt: „Ihre Hände sind mit dem Blut der Armen, der Unterdrückten, der Kämpfer, Giannis Michailidis, beschmiert”.
In Kürze wird es ein ausführlicheres Update geben.
In der Zeit in der wir leben versuchen wir mit so viel wuerde wie moeglich gegen die ausbeutungen und pluenderungen die um uns herum geschehen, zu kaempfen. Gleichzeitig leben wir im Schatten von Staatsterror und kapitalistischer Ausbeutung.
Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der Wildtiere ausrottet, Wälder verbrennt, Minen und Windparks in den Bergen errichtet. Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der Meere, Seen, Quellen und sogar unseren lebensnotwendigen Sauerstoff verpestet. Wir kämpfen gegen einen Staat, der mordende polizisten, Faschisten deckt; Der reiche und beruehmte Persoenlichkeiten die Erwachsene und Minderjährige vergewaltigen, die zufällig ihrem Einfluss zum Opfer fallen, freilaesst.
Derselbe Staat, der arme, unbeugsame und politische Gefangene mit radikalen Positionen gegen das System in Haft hält. Derselbe Staat, der den Anarchisten und Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis, der sich seit 67 Tagen im Hungerstreik befindet und seine Freiheit fordert, langsam und qualvoll vernichtet; derselbe Staat, den Giannis in Freiheit bekaempft hat und heute aus der Krankenhauszelle aus bekämpft.

ALLE ZUR KRISENSITZUNG IM BESETZTEN ΑΔΕΔΥ, HEUTE 28/7 UM 13:00
ALLE ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN DIE WALDBRAENDE IN SYNTAGMA UM 19:00 UHR

„Ich glaube, sie benutzen jetzt auch den Hungerstreik als Beispiel und haben meine Berufungsanhörung für den 25.7. angesetzt. An diesem Tag werde ich 64 Tage des Hungerstreiks zählen. Der Zweck ist klar. Um mich zu erschöpfen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit dass ich bleibende Schaeden davon tragen werde verstaerkt die Botschaft die Sie damit aussenden. Mein bevorstehender Tod wird mit jedem Tag wahrscheinlicher. Eine groessere Pervertierung des Begriffs der Gerechtigkeit ist undenkbar. Sollen sie doch ihre „Gerechtigkeit“ schaffen. Was mich betrifft, der ich keinen Zugang zu ihren Villen mit ihren dekadenten, mit Schmiergeldern bezahlten und gefuellten Tischen habe, kann ich diese Welt fastend begrüßen, aber mit der geistigen Vollkommenheit eines totalen und existenziellen Kampfes gegen ihr verrottetes System.“
15/7/2022, Giannis Michailidis, seit dem 23.05. im Hungerstreik

Solidaritaetsversammlung mit dem anarchistischen Hungerstreikenden Giannis Michailidis

Kontakt und E-Mail: mihallil@riseup.net

via: kontrapolis

The hunger strike continues – and so does the breaking by Anarchists (Athens,Greece)

The hunger strike continues – and so does the breaking

A few hours before the appeal in Lamia court regarding the decision on whether or not to grant the request of Giannis Michailidis, we broke the windows of the ELTA [post offices] in Kaisariani on the road of Ethnikis Antistasis.

Of course the council is not interested in this, but Giannis will know that the breaking continues until his release. The answer to the state’s repression is given in the streets. If the forces of the state destroy our marches, the city will be filled at night with alarms interrupting the illusion of security with their sound.

Freedom to Giannis Michailidis until the destruction of every prison

Anarchists

source: Translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Intervention on airbnb in Exarcheia area

Intervention on airbnb in Exarcheia area

The analyses of the gentrification of the Exarcheia neighbourhood are now well known and are part of the words and practice of the anti-authoritarian space. House evictions, cop culture, bawdy tourists frolicking undisturbed in their new playground. Squat evictions, mega real estate companies, and so much more that we see in our neighbourhood every day.

Gentrification is our forced replacement with first-class citizens and visitors. For what purpose? For political denaturalization, for counter-insurgency, for profit. But the actions of our diverse movements will sweep them away once again.

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South London,UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’

This morning 25.7.22,some anarchists interrupted a commuter train on the Docklands Light Railway, connecting the (rapidly transforming) ghettoised districts of Newham and Lewisham to London’s financial centre.

Words from the heart were sprayed on the exterior of the train, especially the name of Giannis Michailidis. A banner carrying a quotation from his public letter from 2013 (‘Tracking my journey in the world of insurrection resistance and solidarity’) was hung from the rail bridge over the central junction of Deptford.

The following text was distributed by throwing hundreds of flyers into the train carrige and off the railway bridge:

Freedom is not an array of consumer choices and ‘experiences’. It consists in the living choice to take your life into your own hands in the struggle.
We can see what happens when, for years, each project of power is left to expand its tentacles over us.
– Neighbourhoods are wrecked to construct vacuum-sealed palaces for the pleasure and profit of the beneficiaries.
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Sweden: Attack against the Greek consulate in Malmö – solidarity with hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Following the call to an international campaign for freedom of Giannis MichailidIs, we join the solidarity movement with our hunger striking comrade.

Michailidis is an anarchist, a bankrobber, a fugitive, a political prisoner, a hunger striker. A hunger striker whose life is in danger because the greek state decided to apply a state of exceptional imprisonment for him, that is, the practice of preventive custody. This is not a greek peculiarity. As the Berlin based Assembly in solidarity with Giannis MichailidIs notes “the last years Europe sees a practice of consolidating a classical police state, where people are getting judged on the base of their estimated potential to be dangerous to the state and its order”.

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/fight-class-justice-for-giannis-michailidis-and-all-prisoners-who-fulfill-the-conditions-of-release-berlin/

Michailidis remains in prison despite the fact that he has already been incarcerated for more than 8 years and has served 3/5 of his time, because “he is considered a “danger” and not because he is accused of a crime. He served his sentence but is kept as a hostage in preventive custody without accusation and without any hope to be released”.

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Italy: Banner in Greek embassy in Rome on 22/7/2022 – 59th day of hunger strike of the political prisoner Giannis Michailidis.

“THE ONLY STRUGGLE THAT WAS LOST IS THE ONE THAT WAS NEVER GIVEN”

“The struggle for the freedom of one, the struggle for the freedom of all.”

To stand in solidarity and support to the fight for freedom that Giannis Michailidis has embraced against a putrid system is to support the yell of one for many, for all those who are subjected to state oppression and its vengeance, against preventive imprisonment.

Despite having served the necessary terms for his release, preventive imprisonment is still decreed for him, in a totally arbitrary way, because he is not ‘sufficiently correct’ since he has not surrendered, he is insubordinate to their mechanism of maintaining and reproducingpower, he has taken up arms and turned them against the banks and thebase of the capitalist system. His struggle is an active struggle within the conflict, using his life as a weapon against the vindictive attack of the state. They want to drive him to physical extermination, killing him slowly and torturing him.
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ATHENS, GREECE: KIPSELI, A NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF GENTRIFICATION, SEXISM & SPECIESISM

 

KIPSELI, A NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF
GENTRIFICATION, SEXISM &
SPECIESISM

The following text was written because we were informed
by a passerby about the verbal, physical assault
and videotaping of a queer femininity and her
non-human companion in Kipseli by a boss- shop
owner, for leaving the dog tied up for two minutes
in the flower bed next to his shop.

So, welcome to Kypseli! To one of the main spikes of
urban gentrification, in recent years, in the center of
Athens that has made us experience our presence in
the public space more and more enclosing. Speaking
from the position of people living on minimum
wage or are unemployed, we see increases in rents,
while Greek bosses and their shops are expanding.
Observing the simultaneous and increasingly frequent
displacement of migrants living and working
in the area, their impoverishment and the grabbing
of an ever larger piece of our living space, makes
us furious. Against the backdrop of the metro works
and the imminent further increase in rents, bosses
and posh artists rub their hands together and believe
that all public space belongs to them. Whether
that means they don’t want to see non-human animals
in the flowerbeds, or that they want to take the
public benches and turn them into tables, or setting
up their hipster alternative shops on streets, (like
Agia Zoni- that until recently were mainly inhabited
by immigrants).

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Text – beginning of Anarchist prisoner V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis

Text – beginning of V. Stathopoulos’ hunger strike for G. Michailidis

How sure are we that there is no death penalty in Greece?

Remaining imprisoned for three years in solidarity, I directly experience the vengeance of the prosecuting authorities in the cells of the alt-right government! What we are experiencing today as an Anarchist movement is clearly an open war on all fronts by the regime.

The current junta really shows who they are with their daily behaviour on the street, with repressive laws on marches and strikes, while authoritarianism has been imposed on the whole society, with a constant cruel police state. The vindictiveness against political opponents, those they consider dangerous to their plans, is aimed at their political extermination, going as far as the physical extermination of those who continue to resist.

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BREAKING: Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike

Significant deterioration of the health of Giannis Michaelidis – 61 days of hunger strike

Anarchist comrade Giannis Michailidis is on hunger strike since 23/5, demanding his release. Today he completes 61 days of hunger strike without his request being accepted. His health condition has deteriorated greatly, as he has a very difficult time in getting out of bed, standing up, reading and writing, his spleen and gall pains are becoming more and more severe, while he has reached a point where it is difficult for him to drink much water.

His body weight has reached 54.1 kg. Having started the hunger strike at 73 kilos, he has now lost 19 kilos, 26% of his initial body weight. His high blood pressure is 9 and low is 6, and his blood sugar was measured at 67. Having lost over 25% of his initial body weight, and with his health indicators constantly deteriorating, his possibilities for permanent physical damage are now very high. At the moment, comrade Giannis Michailidis is on the verge of hypoglycemic shock and doctors are reporting that there is a possibility that he could fall into a coma. The state and judicial authorities are gambling with the life and integrity of anarchist Giannis Michailidis.
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From the southeast of Mexico: A letter to our comrade Giannis Michaildis in solidarity with his just struggle for his freedom

14/6/2022

From the southeast of the territory called Mexico May 14, 2022.

To our comrade Giannis Michaildis:

From this corner of the world we have learned of your struggle outside and inside prison. We see with great admiration these 11 years of dignified resistance that you carry in the face of the Greek state. Since 2011, when you were arrested for your heartfelt solidarity with the wanted anarchists, which put me in their position when they were arrested, turned into an incrimination for your actions.
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Greece: EN/GR/ Update 20/7/21,about the health condition of the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

EN: Comrade and hunger striker Giannis Michailidis today completes 59 days of hunger strike. He has lost more than 24% of his body weight, as he has gone from 73 kg on 23/5 to 55.5 kg today. The threat to his life is now very serious as his white blood cell count has dropped so far below the lower normal limit (value: 2.43 with a range of 4.60-10.2 K/μL) leading to immunodeficiency.

Platelets are also counted much lower than the lower normal limit (value: 90 with limits 142-424 K/μL) and Thrombocytopenia can cause serious and threatening internal bleeding. Based on his latest medical examinations and according to the treating physicians, he is at risk of serious osteoporosis and already feels pain in his joints. In addition, he has strong chest pain when trying to move around. He already has a possible permanent neurological problem in his eyes as the neurological examination showed diplopia in extremities due to lack of nutrients.

The latest radiological examinations and ultrasound examination (on 18/7) showed that the organs that are now at immediate risk of permanent damage are the bile and the spleen, with the latest one facing an additional burden as Giannis has congenital Mediterranean anaemia (thalassaemia).

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From Chile’s jails to the dungeons of the Greek state, the same voice and fist against the jailers of the rebellious youth

07/14/2022

From Chile to Greece, the same struggle to free political prisoners…

From the San Miguel Prison (Chile) to the dungeons of the Greek state, the same voice and fist against the jailers of the rebellious youth

Last Wednesday 07/13, a rally was held outside the women’s prison in San Miguel (Chile) demanding that the minimum conditions of health care be met, due to the prohibition of using the patio during the hours that correspond to the female prisoners, etc. Thus dozens of fighters, activists and fellow militants from the October 18 Coordinator were present to denounce this situation that is being experienced in the women’s prison.

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Athens Greece: Taking responsibility by Anarchists for the arson of a UNISON vehicle of security company

Athens, Taking responsibility for the arson of a UNISON vehicle of security company

On the 55th day on 16th of July of the hunger strike of Giannis Michailidis, we burned a UNISON vehicle in the area of Metaxourgiou, on Constantinoupolis Street. To support the comrade in his struggle for freedom and as an effort to give strength to the movement in the coming days and nights.

UNISON is a company that collaborates with the municipality of Athens in the privatization and exploitation of parks and streets – with the end result being the death of life in all public spaces, and the transformation of the city into a commercialized Disneyland. The struggle to defend Exarchia also necessitates an attack on UNISON, as it is responsible for the gentrification of Strefi Hill. The company has an open mandate to facilitate the cops in the repression of public spaces and the eviction of squats. They are also part of the class war against the poor, as they exploit workers. Instead of decent wages and working conditions, the company pays peanuts and violates workers’ rights, earning goodwill for their rich bosses and shareholders.

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