Prisoners at War to the Streets!

The deadlocks of capitalist domination, the authoritarian violence and the strategy of war for the neutralization of the internal enemy are now, more than ever, obvious characteristics in all states in which organized social resistance are developing. On August 14th 2010, a marvelous spectacle of repression took place in the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso in Chile that resulted in the persecution of 14 people, 8 of whom are held in custody facing charges for all armed, explosive, incendiary attacks that took place during the last three years against state and capitalist targets inside the country. The only sufficient evidence to put them in prison is their political identity, which is synthesized by their actions of struggles and their social circles.

Andrea Urzua, Camilo Perez, Carlos Rivera, Felipe Guajarado, Francisco Solar, Monica Caballero, Rodolfo Retamales, who since then are still in prison, have waged a very important struggle since February 21st 2011, by starting a hunger strike demanding their release as well as the end of the anti-terrorist law. After the beginning of the hunger strike, two other comrades were sent back to prison from house arrest. Vinicio Aguillera and Omar Hermosilla joined the hunger strike two days after their return to prison. Through this stand all of them make it clear that they are not willing to sit submissively in the cages of democracy. They actively reject the State plan for their social isolation by making it clear, through their second demand, the deeply political dimension of their case, which has significant importance for all social struggles. The arsenal of laws, that all modern totalitarian regimes have, is a tool for anybody that is a conscious enemy of domination. Even if the main recipients of this lawfully disguised violence are the anarchists, the force of the terror law is not going to be exhausted just with this case. The result of this struggle with be a historical legacy for the movement that is not going to remain trapped inside the border of any country. Let the same happen again with the solidarity that will be expressed towards these comrades from every corner of the planet.

We wish strength to the comrades, until freedom. We stand next to them in their difficult struggle against the cruelty the State’s dungeons, the class and discriminatory judiciary, the sewer of the media, and everyone else who would block their way to liberation.

Assembly for the promotion of solidarity, and other comrades,

March 15 2011

Thessaloniki, Greece

From: http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2011/03/chili-cnsulate-in-saloniki-occupied-in.html

Political prisoners of the “Bombs Case” on hunger strike since the 21st of February.

*Support, Solidarity, Diffusion, Attack, Multiply*

Seven months in “Preventative Detention” from the Bombs Case on Hunger Strike since 2/21

In the early morning hours there was an attack with rocks against the Peugeot outlet, in the Emabajadores neighborhood and at the Benetton store on Fuencarral street. In solidarity with our brothers and sisters imprisoned by the Chilean state.

Until we are all free!!!

We extend our rage, we multiple the attacks, and we get out of the ghetto!

From: http://madrid.indymedia.org/node/16658

Each day of this forced incarceration we review the 50 binders of “proof” from the investigation of the “Caso Bombas,” we find more reasons and spirit to continue with firm conviction our hunger strike we started on the 21st of Feb. to achieve the freedom we long for.

The binders are filled with 5 years of monitoring, tracking, and checkpoints of our movements laid out in print. Espionage by hundreds functionaries formed into various teams of the elite members of the Investigative Police (PDI) and the Carabineros, and coordinated by the National Agency of Intelligence (ANI), accumulated 60,000 recorded telephone conversations (1), in which our privacy was never important. Everything was ordered by a team of Prosecutors with an exclusive dedication, who asked for advice from Italian experts in anti-system groups and solicited advice from the very similar FBI in order to break up dissidents.

And what are the irrefutable proofs that this entire gigantic repressive apparatus wields to implicate us?  In order to show but not dwell on this, we will give some examples:

1. A telephone conversation between Rodolfo Retamales and the mother of his child, during which he asked her if she had been giving the cat food and if his son was still lying down. According to the prosecution, this constitutes proof of “communicating in code”

2.  A diagram found on Camilio Pérez Tamayo’s computer containing specific and transverse objectives, materials to utilize, etc. These educational plans are required for organization by all

schools.

3. A photograph of Felipe Guerra in which the youth is depicted writing his names and drawing an ACME type bomb on the beach.

4. The completion of only the minimum requirements and years in education.  According to the prosecution, this constituted a “criminal plan” of the organization, yet they never mention that the accused studied General Education at the university.

5. 44 images referencing the locations of bombings occurring in the last years. According to the prosecution, this “proof” demonstrates the sophisticated technology applied in preparation for the bombings. What they have “forgotten” to mention in the hearing is that these archives were not created by any of the accused, but by the designers of the newspaper La Tercera and they were published on the newspaper’s website.

What should be noted is that none of the the “scientific evidence” puts us at the site of any bombing, there are no videotapes, no fingerprints, no DNA, there were not chemicals nor materials to build bombs in our houses that were raided on the 14th of August, none of the evidence is categorical, only presumptions and dreams of a prosecutor desperate for fame and glory who has had us locked up for over 200 days without a drop of concrete evidence.

We are accused of illicit association only for living and visiting squatted houses and radical libraries. What they intend to do is illegalize friendship, and to criminalize affections between individuals who have similar emancipatory ideas, and whom at least half had NEVER met each other before the formalization of the charges.

Although they have not demonstrated out responsibility for the bombings, the government has condemned us for a long time. Minister of the Interior Hinzpeter repeatedly asked for results from the National Prosecutors, who ceded to his pressure and took the old prosecutor off the case and put prosecutor Peña in charge, who in only 58 days “resolved” the intricate case, using the same “evidence” that the prior prosecutor had. Meanwhile, smiling and happy the President of Chile Sebastian  Piñera declared: “I am happy to hear that our forces of order and security have been able to capture a band that acted with an illicit association to place bombs and terrorize the population.” (2) In every part of the world these words denote that a fair trial is impossible. But since then, the government has ridiculously assured that these statements are not to pressure the judges and that “there will be a fair trial.” ?!

Obviously this case signifies many things; the first is to make the public that the sophisticated investigation and the many resources wasted on control and vigilance have not been in vain. The second thing is to demonstrate to anyone and everyone who dissent, individuals or collectives,  that they will be persecuted without piety by the authorities

Power intends to make the attacks on the institutions and symbols of capitalism into a “small Baghdad”, arguing that they “terrorize society.” Nothing could be further from reality! There has never been a single bombing that targeted people nor indiscriminate attacks against the general population. We have never met anyone who is afraid to go out into the street because they are afraid of being wounded by a bomb.

Because of this we believe that the anti-terrorist law is unfair. This fatal law, which has among its attributes the ability to globally use unidentified witnesses, the tripling of sentences, and requires the unanimous decision amongst judges for an appeal for release, when normally only a majority is required to decide.

We don’t think it is necessary to continue extending this statement. We believe that the the evidence backing the accusations brought against us is clearly weak, because since the inception of the “bombs case,” it has been a house of cards falling to pieces.

We affectionately salute all those who have supported us during these 7 months of imprisonment y and to all of those who have demonstrated their solidarity and spread our hunger strike. Our love and spirit go out to them.

We continue to demand:

1. IMMEDIATE FREEDOM

2. AN END TO THIS JUDICIAL-POLITICAL FARCE.

3. AN END TO THE INVESTIGATION PERIOD AND AN IMMEDIATE TRIAL

4. TO NOT BE PROCESSED UNDER THE ANTI-TERRORIST LAW, AND THE ABOLITION OF THIS DICTATORIAL LAW.

Santiago, March 10, 2011, 17 days since the beginning of the hunger strike.

Notes:

(1): Diario El Mercurio, August 15, 2010

(2): Diario La Tercera, August 16, 2010

Various murals were painted in Buenos Aires in solidarity with our imprisoned comrades in Chile who have been on hunger strike since the 21st of February, for they are against their imprisonment and the anti-terrorist law. The murals are one more tool of propaganda for freedom, we hope that these gestures of support continue to be multiplied and also we encourage other comrades that live in the region dominated by the murderous Argentinean state continue to fight for freedom without looking back and always moving forward! Strength and active greetings of solidarity!

Imprisoned brothers and sisters in Chile on Hunger Strike TO THE STREET!!!

From: http://libertadalos14a.blogspot.com/

(Note: Pictures are of some murals, not all, more were painted.)

On March 2, the Fire Cells Conspiracy Prisoner Cell released the following letter in solidarity with the hunger strike being carried out by the imprisoned “Bombings Case” comrades in Chile.

We are have entered a period in which attacks on Domination and its conquered subjects are spreading with undiminished intensity to the four corners of the Earth. Our individualities, despite living and evolving in many different circumstances, share the same positive emotions: disgust and hatred toward this world. We collectivize our negations and arm them with the insatiable desire for action and the burning passion for total liberation. Different borders and languages are obstacles we will demolish to find ourselves side by side, rising up against this system’s orders and decrees, derisively spitting on each law-abiding way of life it offers.

We reject this world—this vast authoritarian construct—and we do not hesitate to point the barrel of our critique at the willingly enslaved majority of the social body, whose defeatist attitude contributes to the preservation of the existing regime. We refuse to degrade, in any way whatsoever, our revolutionary perspective and ethic in the name of wider “social acceptance.” We are proud to be part of the anarchist/antiauthoritarian movement, and we are in favor of all processes and projects that spread the idea and practice of revolution. To us, revolution doesn’t boil down to a specific period of time in the distant future. Rather, it is a response, here and now, to the totalitarianism we see in every expression of Domination. It is our own response to the existential void imposed by contemporary consumer civilization. It is an expression of the rage awakened in us by the agonizing urban environment that restricts our movements and desires, the same expression of rage that can’t be suffocated by the elaborate dead-ends presented to us as “reasonable choices.” It is also all the moments of attack we’ve shared with comrades, as well as the moments to come. It is the enchantment and the magic of connecting praxis to theory, causing little cracks to form in the shop window of determinism. It is all our points of view, and the means of achieving it is the new urban guerrilla war. Self-Organization, Solidarity, Attack, Respect, Trust, and Friendship are its cornerstones, forming the foundation of diffuse urban guerrilla war.

Dozens of our brothers, the well-known but also the unknown, are in prisons here as well as far away. Some of them remain captive on the basis of a few pitiful charges, others because they were unfortunately stopped while carrying out an attack. However, the legal duality of “innocence and guilt” is irrelevant to solidarity, which is a relationship between comrades that considers the dignity and political conscience of each revolutionary. In August 2010, a number of Chilean comrades were arrested during a repressive operation. Eight of them, plus two more arrested in September, were placed in preventive detention, while the rest were granted a provisional release. These comrades are being charged with dozens of revolutionary bombings despite a complete lack of evidence against them. The organizations that carried out said bombings have even stated via communiqué that they have no relationship with the arrestees, whose criminal prosecution by the Chilean state nevertheless continues. The comrades in preventive detention are locked up in high-security wings for 22 hours a day, in cells that measure six square meters. The extension of their captivity fills us with rage. They recently began a hunger strike, demanding their immediate release and the scheduling of their trial date, as well as the abolition of the anti-terrorist law inherited by the current Chilean democracy from the Pinochet regime.

We send our warmest greetings to Andrea Urzúa, Camilo Pérez, Carlos Riveros, Felipe Guerra, Francisco Solar, Mónica Caballeros, Pablo Morales, and Rodolfo Retamales, and from the bottom of our hearts wish them victory in the difficult struggle they are engaged in. From thousands of miles away, we send them our revolutionary signals, encouragement, courage, and strength. We call on all comrades, including ourselves, to carry out attacks and aggressive expressions of support for their hunger strike in the context of International Solidarity, thereby giving the powerful a taste of the flames that burn in our hearts. From Chile to Greece, the Netherlands to Mexico, Italy to Argentina, England to Switzerland, Germany to Russia, and the U.S. to Turkey, we will use every method to intensify the revolutionary anarchist war. Finally, many special thanks to comrades Andrea Urzúa and Mónica Caballeros for publicly expressing their solidarity with our case.

You aspire to the free heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your wicked instincts, too, thirst for freedom. Your wild dogs want freedom; they bark with joy in their cellar when your spirit plans to open all prisons.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

REVOLUTION FIRST AND ALWAYS.

LONG LIVE THE NEW URBAN GUERRILLA WAR.

—Fire Cells Conspiracy Prisoner Cell: Gerasimos Tsakalos, Panayiotis Argyrou, Haris Hatzimichelakis, Michalis Nikolopoulos

Note: The above statement doesn’t mention comrades Vinicio Aguilera and Omar Hermosilla, likely because news hadn’t yet reached Greece that Aguilera and Hermosilla were back in prison and had immediately joined the hunger strike. Another error is the mention of Pablo Morales as one of the hunger strikers, when in actuality he is the only one who has not joined.

From: https://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/

Yesterday, the 9th of March 2011, marked the 17th day since the beginning of the hunger strike initiated by the comrades kidnapped by the Chilean state, we met outside the Concepcion courts of “Ju$tice” to express our solidarity through an informational manifestation.

We released pigeons and blocked the street for a while with banners, and all the while our activity was recorded by the ever vigilant cameras of the oppressive and fascist state.

From Concepcion we send chaotic greetings to the comrades on hunger strike and to all prisoners, those in physical prisons as much as mental prisons.

FREEDOM NOW FOR ALL PRISONERS!!!
FREEDOM FOR THE A14 PRISONERS!!!
UNTIL EVERY CAGE IS DESTROYED!!!
IF WE LOWER OUR HEADS IT IS ONLY TO SPIT ON THE FASCIST STATE AND THE PRISONS!!!!