All Cats Are Beautiful fine art print *FUNDRAISER*

Archival quality giclee print of original watercolour & ink drawing, 20 x 30 cm. All proceeds (after print costs) go towards the Solidarity Fund for imprisoned and persecuted revolutionaries from Greece who need urgent support. Pre-orders are now live: https://aqab.bigcartel.com/product/all-cats-are-beautiful-fine-art-print-pre-order

“From 2010 until today, the Solidarity Fund has been trying to obtain a regular and consistent political, moral and material support for collecting funds, which derives primarily from the conscious participation of each and every one of us, as well as from groups and collectives, that contribute to the continuation of factual solidarity. Continued state repression, however, results in a large number of political prisoners and legal costs, and consequently, in particularly high material needs. At this moment, the Solidarity Fund supports 24 prisoners on a regular monthly basis.
In many cases we also try to cover -as much as our (financial) capabilities allow-the legal expenses and bails of comrades who are persecuted for their political identity, their actions or even for their family or comrade relationship with imprisoned militants. ~ The slogan “no one left alone in the hands of the state” is becoming more crucial and tangible these days than ever. We urge you to defend it once again in practice. Factual solidarity will again be our weapon. UP UNTIL THE DEMOLITION OF THE LAST PRISON NONE OF US IS FREE SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS ” Solidarity Fund for imprisoned and persecuted militants, 2020

More info on the Solidarity Fund & to donate directly, here: https://www.firefund.net/imprisonedsoli

Prisons are for Burning papercraft zine

New zine! Prisons are for Burning papercraft diorama ????????????

Colour or black & white versions free to download.
3 pages, includes instructions for assembling. Works best printed on 200gsm paper but regular 80gsm also works. Download PDF’s here:

Prisons are for burning b&w zine PDF

Prisons are for burning colour zine PDF

As usual, downloading is free, but if you’d like to contribute some money, please make a donation to the International Anarchist Defence Fund https://afund.antirep.net/

Happy for people to print & sell for fundraisers.

Enjoy!

Free Jock

Support your local Antifa /// Free Jock !

‘27.07.19: Last week in Sofia, Bulgaria, 32-year-old anti-fascist Jock Palfreeman was denied parole on his 20-year prison sentence for murder. Jock was convicted in 2009 of the stabbing murder of Andrei Monov and the attempted murder of Anton Zahariev. The death occurred after Jock went to the aid of two Roma boys who were being attacked by a racist gang in Sofia in December 2007; he has now spent over 11 years behind bars as a result. All appeals against the conviction and sentence — along with attempts to convince Bulgarian authorities to allow him to serve the rest of his sentence in Australia — have failed, and it seems likely that Jock will not be released until the full 20-year sentence has been served.’
Continue reading here: https://anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org/post/2019/07/27/bulgaria-antifascist-prisoner-jock-palfreeman-denied-parole/

PDF poster download: Free Jock poster

For a World Without Borders

‘We are entering the seventh year of Australia’s inhuman offshore detention policy that has sought to destroy all of us who were transported to Manus and Nauru and has left us without hope.

When we decided to risk our lives and leave our home countries, it was because we had no choice. We knew that we were risking our lives, but if we had stayed in our homes then we were risking torture and even death. We believed Australia would be a safe haven for us. We thought that it was committed to its international obligations under the United Nations Refugee Convention.
We thought Australia respected human rights. But after six years in indefinite detention in PNG, in horrific living conditions, and after the deaths of 12 fellow refugees, we know that were mistaken. We have no chance of safety and freedom. My fellow refugees and I are being punished for nothing but seeking protection.

When I arrived on Manus six years ago, Australian officials said I had to go through PNG’s refugee claim and resettlement process. They told me that it would take three to five years. Now I am in my seventh year of incarceration. What kind of unjust and uncertain system is this?

Throughout our detention we have tried to make our voices heard in order to explain the miseries forced on us. Sadly, people refuse to listen. When we were transported to Manus we were healthy and fit, but after so many years of what writer Behrouz Boochani has identified as “systematic torture”, the lack of medical care and desperation have completely destroyed us.

We are mentally and physically sick, and our names have been taken from us and replaced with numbers. We have forgotten our talents, our passions and our abilities. We hardly recognise ourselves. While we could have been contributing to a community or moving forward with lives, families and jobs, we have instead spent six years wasting our talents and dreams. Most devastating of all, 12 innocent lives have been lost forever.

Why does the Australian government continue with this life-destroying detention policy? Because we refugees have become commercial commodities for local and international companies, profiting from our miserable situation. ‘Stopping the boats’ and ‘protecting borders’ are now commercial activities. Stopping the boats is merely a ruse. Even though 75 percent of us detained since 2013 have been removed from offshore detention, the boats have still not come.

The government is trying to defeat the life-saving Medevac legislation that brings desperately sick refugees to Australia for proper medical treatment. The refugees were made sick by the Australian government because they have been kept indefinitely as hostages. The Australian government forces us to languish here even though they can immediately find a durable solution for us.

The government of New Zealand has offered to take 150 of us each year, but Australia says “no”. They say they fear that we will still try to come to Australia. If that is the case, why has Australia not sought durable solutions with other countries that freely welcome the contributions of refugees, such as Canada?
On this six-year anniversary of the offshore detention policy it’s time for Australians to think about why they allow their government to spend their tax dollars to keep these camps occupied. It doesn’t matter whether you support refugees or not, it is your money that is being wasted.

On this day all of us who remain incarcerated on Manus and Nauru ask Australians to imagine themselves in our position. Have we been given a fair go? Can Australia claim to be a humanitarian country? If you can turn a blind eye towards our treatment, isn’t it your own humanity that is lost?
As we step into the seventh year of this inhuman offshore detention policy, we call on those countries that respect human rights and belong to the UN Refugee Convention to defend the rights of women and men on Manus and Nauru, people whose rights continue to be denied.’

*Shaminda Kanapathi is in offshore detention on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/394790/offshore-detention-anniversary-life-destroying

Download PDF image link: for a world without borders

Willem van Spronsen is Immortal

Willem van Spronsen was a 69 year old anarchist and antifascist who was shot and killed by Tacoma Police yesterday morning, 13.07.19, while setting fire to transport vehicles outside Northwest Detention Center, which houses hundreds of immigrants awaiting hearings or deportations, so-called USA.

Poster text:
Willem Van Spronsen is Immortal

“i have a father’s broken heart
i have a broken down body
and i have an unshakeable
abhorrence of injustice.

detention camps are
an abomination.
i’m not standing by.
i really shouldn’t have
to say any more than this.

i set aside
my broken heart
and i heal the only way
i know how – by being useful.
i efficiently
compartmentalize my pain…
and i joyfully go about this work.

i’m a head in the clouds dreamer,
i believe in love and redemption.
i believe we’re going to win.
i’m joyfully revolutionary.

i am antifa,
i stand with comrades
around the world
who act from the love
of life in every
permutation.

comrades who understand
that freedom means
real freedom for all
and a life worth living.”

Abolish ICE, Fire to the state, it’s prisons and it’s borders.

Read the full transcript of Will’s final statement here:
https://anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org/post/2019/07/14/usa-final-message-from-anarchist-antifascist-fighter-will-van-spronsen-killed-in-combat-on-13-07-19/

Link to download a hi-res PDF of this poster: Willem Van Spronsen is Immortal

Read a statement by Will’s comrades here: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/we-are-the-fire-that-will-melt-ice-rest-in-power-will-van-spronsen-olympia-wa/

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire to the streets!

‘Through direct action we break the stillness of thoughts,
we cancel the hesitant movements and we
sabotage the discipline’s watches,
creating free times and places
within the hostile environment of the metropolis.
Where the cameras record our movements,
the uniformed pigs of police monitor our glances,
and the screens of spectacle manufacture our desires,
we once again wear our hoods.
Our hands grasp stones, molotov cocktails, grenades, pistols and we surge into the streets searching for freedom.
Now we are in prison, we never forget that feeling
and with the first opportunity we will do quite the same again.’
~ CCF Greece, 2011

Freedom for Anarchist prisoners worldwide!
Abolish prison society!
Long live the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire!
Long live the Informal Anarchist Federation – International Revolutionary Front!

Free Christos Tsakalos, Gerasimos Tsakalos, Olga Oikonomidou, Giorgos Polidoros, Mihalis Nikolopoulos, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Damianos Bolano & Theofilos Mavropoulos.

https://conspiracycellsoffire.blogspot.com/

https://june11.noblogs.org/

Download image PDF’s here: LONG LIVE CCF  &  CCF neon

 

Free Baby Girl! Jennifer Amelia Rose to the streets!

“I’m an imprisoned anarchist and trans feminist prison rebel held captive behind enemy lines by the state in California (the occupied Chumash and Native Territories). I’ve been held as a political prisoner for nearly 30 years!
I need your solidarity & support!”

‘Jennifer Gann [now Rose] is a political prisoner/prisoner of war held in California State Prison since 1990. Originally sentenced to seven years for an armed robbery when she was age 21, Jennifer became politicised as a jailhouse lawyer and prison abolitionist during the 1991 Folsom Prison Food Strike, and as a result was targeted by the California Department of Corrections prison officials’ illegal brutality and torture. Jennifer spent more than a decade in solitary confinement at Folsom and Pelican Bay SHU where she engaged in self-defense and resistance actions, sabotaging/breaking prison cell windows and attacking the pigs. Jennifer was subsequently given multiple 25 year to life sentences for “non-serious” felonies after a trial where she was denied benefit of counsel and defence witnesses.

Jennifer is 48 years old and has continued to experience misogynist/transphobic violence by prison guards and inmates for the past several years, including a 2015 prison riot at Kern Valley State Prison between anti-racist Black and Queer prisoners against homophobic gang members and a 2016 police brutality incident where she was severely beaten and hospitalised by four male correctional officers.

Jennifer has earned 22 college credits at San Bernardino Valley College and Coastline Community College toward an Associate in Arts degree. She has worked in vocational welding class, as a recreation aide in the Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP), and as a Transgender Coordinator for the Inmate Advisory Council (IAC). Jenny also led a Siddha Yoga class in 2015, and received certificate of completion for therapy groups in Cultural Change and Getting Out by Going In (GOGI). Because of her age, educational achievements and decades in prison, she falls into the US Justice Department’s category of the extremely low recidivism rate of roughly 1%. Not only does she not pose a risk to society, Jennifer plans to volunteer work at the TGI Justice Project helping others in her community.

30 years is ENOUGH!!! Jennifer went to prison as a troubled young person, now she is a student, worker and activist. It’s time to bring her home to her mother, sister, family, friends and community.

Personal correspondence and support letters are welcome. Please visit the Anarchist Black Cross websites and www.junell.org for the latest news on Jennifer and other anarchist political prisoners and POW. Also check out www.jenichony.org for news on many other political prisoners/POW.
FREE ALL US HELD POLITICAL PRISONERS AND POWS!’

Visit Jennifer’s support site at https://babygirlgann.noblogs.org
Jennifer Gann E23852
Salinas Valley State Prison
PO Box 1050
Soledad, CA 93960

Read more from Jennifer on her blog: https://betweenthebars.org/blogs/490/jennifer-amelia-rose

June 11 blog: https://june11.noblogs.org/

PDF poster download: Free Baby Girl

Free Michael Kimble

Free Michael Kimble

Michael Kimble is a black, gay anarchist serving a life sentence in Alabama for the murder of a white, homophobic, racist bigot.

During his first years of imprisonment, Michael embraced communism, but soon moved away from it and toward anarchy because, as he describes it “anarchism is not about building a hierarchical structure for liberation somewhere in the distant future, but about living your life, now, in a fashion that’s liberating.

Michael has a long history of both individual and collective struggle against prison authority, and continues to engage in the fight against prison slave labor as part of the Free Alabama Movement.

June 11, Solidarity with Marius Mason & all long-term Anarchist Prisoners.

https://june11.noblogs.org/

PDF poster download: Free Michael Kimble

Tamara Sol to the streets!

Tamara Sol to the streets! June 11, International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & all long-term Anarchist Prisoners.

Tamara Sol is an anarchist serving a 7 year prison sentence in Chile. On January 21, 2014 she entered a bank and fired multiple shots at a security guard, shouting “this is for revenge!” for her comrade Sebastian Oversluij, who was killed a month prior at the same bank during an attempted expropriation. She took the guard’s gun and fled, but was arrested shortly after, and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment by the Chilean courts. Tamara’s family, having both participated and lost relatives in the struggle against the Pinochet regime, consistently defend her actions and vocally attack the system that imprisons her and killed her comrade Sebastian.

In January 2018, Tamara attempted to escape from Valparaiso Prison, and was injured by both the fence’s razor wire and the guards who beat her after the attempt. She has since been transferred between prisons multiple times, and is currently being held at the notoriously brutal Llancahue prison in Valdivia.

https://june11.noblogs.org/

PDF poster download: Free Tamara Sol

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