Is it too late for the Squating Movement in Holland?

Void Network Announcement:
Following many years of non violent trends, passive resistance, lack of serious confrontation with the State and separation from a society that becomes day after day more conservative the Squat Movement of Holland faces serious attack from the neo conservative Dutch Government and maybe is infront of the most serious thread of total elimination after 30 years of fight...
It starts to become obvious in many countries of long history of Occupations that the first generations of Squatters are militant defenders of their decisions to squat and organize their lives differently and antagonisticaly to the State, the second generation gain a lifestyle of violence without really fight and without creating new squats as they live in already constructed squats or they use legalization process and benefits from the fights of previous generation...and the third genaration forgets how to squat, forgets how to organize serious fight and confrontation, separates from the society and just use the buildings...Until the day that Police comes on their door to finish the fairytales....
It's a great suffereing for us that the only special international news we recieved all last years from Holland about a serious confrontation of squaters with the State and Capital didn't include any participation in a social struggle, not any Attack against the regime, not any importnat insurrection or great battle but unfortunately the Defence for the Right to Squat...
Unfortunately for all of us in many other countries that we never had "a constitutional right" to squat and squatting was always "banned", this struggle that is taking place these days in Holland seems a little bit distant.
Of course we express our solidarity and we care deeply for the fight of the Dutch comrades but we try to remind them that there were some great social and cultural struggles that created the legalization of squatting and have to exist some new great fights and struggles to defend them now
Is just that we think that....
you have to fight for your "right" to Squat, no one will offer this to you.
....And when you forget to fight, when you forget to attack against the regime, when you forget to be dangerous then you forget the ways to gain respect and the State feels this like a night butterfly feels the fire in the night...
Maybe this will be the arising of a great new generation in Holland that will confront the limitations of the previous generations and will fight against totalitarian European regime and fascist European elite with all of us that our squats are anyway "banned" for many years now...
Otherwise this will be the end of Holland Squating movement.... (or, we are wrong and the Dutch movement will make it and they will cuncel the efforts of Dutch neo conservative government to destroy their movement NOW?! We hope we will succeed to overthrough the Dutch government until 1st january 2010! That's the best way to defend the Dutch squats anyway!)

This is a message from the Dutch movement:

For the last three years a ban on squatting has been in preparation in Dutch politics. A new act that is to ban squatting in the Netherlands has passed through parliament on October 15th. Squatting empty houses that have been empty for over a year is currently still legal in the Netherlands. The new act, an initiative by the Christian Democrats, the Christian Union and the conservative opposition party VVD, is to make squatting a felony punishable by at least one year and up to three years of prison when refusing to evict. Despite strong critique from the High Court, the union of city councils and even the Amsterdam police force, the christian/rightwing majority in The Hague is pushing this law through. Having suffered from an immense housing shortage ever since the sixties, squatting has a long history in the Netherlands and has always been a legal means for thousands of people to acquire a roof over their heads. Not only will all these people be criminalized, no initiative to bring about other solutions for losing their homes has been brought up. This and the complete disregard for the culture that has been created by squatters and their vital role in activist infrastructure has been overlooked.

Currently the senate still has to vote on the new act, but given the same majority of parties that voted in favor in parliament also exists in the senate, odds are by January 1st 2010 all squats in the Netherlands will be up for eviction. Happy new year.

A three year campaign against the criminalization of squats, strongly focusing on improving the public image of the squatting movement has culminated on October 15th in the occupation of parliament square where a tent camp was set up on the day of voting. The moment the bill was voted upon the parliament had to disband as the meeting was disrupted by protest from the spectators bench, which was soon silenced by security and police. Hundreds of squatters on the square made an attempt to enter the parliament building to voice their dissent, but were driven away by riot cops. Later in the evening riot cops violently evicted the entire square, making over a hundred arrests.

for more info and photos:
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62251.shtml
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2009/10/62308.shtml
for a personal experience and photos:
http://yuriyr.com/blog/?p=224

Copenhagen in 60 seconds: key facts and figures. Against Who we Will fight in Copenhagen and Why?

For all people thinking to participate in the demonstrations against United Nations Conference for Climate Change in Copenhagen during first weeks of December 2009, Void Mirror here publishes some vital information about... Against Who We Will Fight in Copenhagen and Why ?

Copenhagen in 60 seconds: key facts and figures

Ecologist magazine

8th October, 2009

Do you know your COP15 from your CDM? Your UNFCCC from your REDD? If not, you need our 60 second guide to Copenhagen

What are the dates?

7th-18th December 2009.

Where exactly is it?

The Bella Exhibition and Conference Centre, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark.

How many people will attend the conference?

Traditionally, the COP/CMP attracts several thousand participants. At least 10,000 are expected this year. Included in this number are government representatives, observer organizations, government officials, representatives of UN bodies and agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and accredited members of the media.

From how many countries?

Officials and ministers from 192 countries are expected to attend.

How big is the press contingent likely to be?

Previous COPs have attracted nearly 1,500 accredited members of the media. There will be a significant number of press conferences held during COP15. The program for these press conferences will be put together by the UNFCCC, and will be available during the conference.

What’s on the agenda?

The climate agreement for the period from 2012; specifically obtaining an agreement that combines respect for the environment (a reduction in man-made greenhouse gases that have a negative effect on our climate system), living standards and long-term security of energy supply in the best way possible. Concrete proposals will be set out for action by the EU and the rest of the international community.

What predictions have been made for the outcome?

Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, has neatly summarised six very different possible outcomes:

1. A 'real deal': the US and China provide the driver for a new, ambitious and comprehensive agreement.
2. Business as usual: the various countries follow current national targets.
3. A limited deal: headed by for example the Group of Eight (G8) a deal outside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is found.
4. A mere prolonging of the present agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.
5. A stretching of the Copenhagen conference (COP15) into 2010.
6. 'Window dressing': a grand declaration but no real deal.

What are the key discussion points?

• The 'baseline year' against which specified reduction targets will be measured, the duration of the second commitment period, ie. 2012 til when?
• The proposed greenhouse gas reduction targets themselves for both the second commitment period and beyond.
• Whether the agreement will be expanded to include greenhouse gases that are currently excluded from the Kyoto Protocol, for example the international maritime industry and the international aviation industry.
• Whether the rules governing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will be tightened to ensure environmental integrity and avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, or whether they will be relaxed to encourage more investment.
• Whether the CDM will include as-yet-unproven Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to receive funding as a way of allowing coal-fired power stations to continue operating and new ones to be built.
• An agreement to include measures to curb the rate of deforestation, especially of tropical rainforests in developing countries – otherwise known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).
• Discussing a framework to help countries adapt to inevitable climate change. All developed and developing countries should be required to develop comprehensive national adaptation strategies. Financial and technological support should be provided to the most vulnerable developing countries.
• Boost to research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of low-carbon and adaptation technologies.

Source: sourcewatch.org and europa.eu

What are the likely stumbling blocks?

The United States in particular has refused to make binding commitments unless major developing economies, such as China, are included in an agreement. Developing countries – most actively represented by the G-77 block – have indicated a willingness to cut emissions, but only if developed countries take a leadership role.

Developing countries are reluctant to accept hard carbon emissions targets as they struggle to grow their economies. Richer countries don't want to accept hard targets, or be responsible for funding mitigation, if developing economies won't also accept limits.

Everyone is waiting for the other to act on how deeply to cut their emissions of gases that contribute to climate change. No one wants to standalone.

What key objections/proposals do nations have?

The United States in particular has refused to make binding commitments unless major developing economies, such as China, are included in an agreement.

South Africa won't consider the next round of climate change talks successful unless rich nations set aside money to help them address global warming. It is calling for financial and technological support.

Mexico has tabled a proposal for aid to be made available to poor countries in their struggle to cope with climate change.

UK proposes each of the G-20 nations find their own way of funding their efforts to control climate change. The position is opposed by India, China, South Africa and Brazil. UK also suggests that all national plans, such as the Five-Year Plans for India, shoudl would be open to international examination. Again, India opposes the idea.

Norway proposes to use funding from industrialised countries’ emissions budgets to generate revenue for international cooperation.

Members of the Alliance for Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) propose increased risk management and risk reduction strategies, including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance.

What greenhouse gas reduction target could we consider a success?

NGOs in many industrialised countries are calling for at least 40 per cent emission cuts by 2020, in line with the scientific evidence of the reductions needed to keep below a 2C rise in average global temperature.

The information here is coming from the important egological magazine The Ecologist:

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/329459/copenhagen_in_60_seconds_key_facts_and_figures.html

for more information about Copehagen Conference:
http://www.theecologist.org/_tag/0/0/0/25/copenhagen/

Human 2.0 - A Manifesto of a new kind of Human Being Alive Here & Now!

This is what I have to offer you. . .
All governments are lying theives.
Laws create Chaos.
Food makes you Hungry.
School makes you Stupid and Incapable.
Money makes you Poor.
Cars are the ultimate symbol of Poverty.
Working makes you Dead.
Property is Theft, Theft is Property.
"Property" is Impossible,
you can't even Own your Body,
but you can Take Care of it while you
are Here.
We are making it all up.
Providing basic needs for all with
Dignity will end war and start
the new golden Age.
Give everything away for Free.
Don't waste your Time or the Worlds
doing anything you don't Enjoy.
We need more leaders,
less followers.
Do It Yourself.
Zero dollar a day budget.
Less is more.
Steal your life back
by not participating in the madness.
....now it's your turn.
What are you doing here?

HUMAN 2.0?.
Where do we go from here?
The future will only contain
what we put into it.

HUMAN 2.0
Current mood: awake

A world based on suffer-age
(money)
is counterproductive and an
outdated concept.
To create a free world
in ourselves and out, we have
to value life and support all people.
Especially ourselves
(this is the whole point).
True Wealth is Quality of Life for All.
Quality of life for all
is the soil that grows "future".
To say some people,
by what they "do",
are more important than others is
immature and hinders true progress.
All people and life are
value-able whether we have
the ability to understand it or not.

Diversity is the survival of the species.
Graduate to a new city, a diversity.
And if the answer is not
"respecting diversity",
embracing so-called chaos,
what else do we got?
A truly
chaotic prison planet
mono culture system
that's going on now?

The current world
is based on entrapment
and a racket system.
ex:
"Work" and make
this other person rich
and then you are
"acceptable"
and not a "terrorist"
(indentured servitude).
Do what this insecure person says
and don't talk back creatively unless
your selling an ad for us
and then you might deserve
to live this "dream"
that we've made up.
If not,
you are dead and homeless
and no girl
or guy will want to hump you.

Our current belief system
is based on a fierce denial
of how things actually are.
We spend most of our time
repressing how we feel.
How we feel is Human 2.0
knocking at our deadbolt-locked,
primate doors.
If you have any clue of the inner
workings of "cult-ure"
then you will surely know that
most of the things we've been told
or are being told,
are bold yet pathetic lies.

The quickest way to Human 2.0
is to sit with yourself without
distraction and
quietly listen to how you feel.

...We are all two paychecks away
from being homeless.
If we are in debt,
we are homeless.
If we are in debt,
we are in poverty...

Yeah,
we all know
the old "Dream" fabrication
is a carnal sin against life on earth,
but we don't know the way out.
I've now explained
that what we think of as "work"
is just silly if not completely insane,
and that you'd have to be real conditioned,
indoctrinated, and suicidal
to live your life
in such a schizophrenic way.
(And to happily sell your kids off
into prostitution too is just
sick.)
Ok so most of us
are suicidal and schizophrenic terrorist
dorks,
so what it's normal right? uhh, sure.

The point is,
it's just not worth it anymore
to follow the so-called
dream
and be
a wage-slave zombie.
Ignorance
is no fun anymore.
Drugs are too expensive now
and only work for a limited time
before you die,
mortgages on a house are surreally
bullshit, rent is ha-ha,
dating is pathetic, the mall uniforms
are too expensive,
medical mafia costs are jacked
and the care is caveman
(take this pill and we'll steal the rest
of your money when you die)...

Not only that,
but the world mother herself will not
support this destructive lifestyle choice
that has been hammered
into us by well intentioned dorks.
There is just no more love in the
old ways and it doesn't satisfy
the human spirit as well as it did
10,000 years ago.

And remember,
it wasn't very long ago that we
thought the earth was flat.

It's for your ultimate benefit and mine
to do what just feels natural
and give everything away to everyone,
all the time.
Who wants to
"sell" their things anyway?

Do you invite people over for dinner
and than charge them for it?
of course you don't,
but you might
use the barter system!
Spending money these days goes to
corrupt governments
(every government is corrupt),
which goes
to irresponsible monster corporations,
state terrorism, etc.

The less we spend
the more we are!

This has nothing to do with being
stingy, spending money is stingy.
Working is for lazy people and
makes you poor.
Working is
counterproductive,
foolish, and
absolutely unnecessary.
It is the main cause of all suffering and
death on the planet.

Work riddled creatures
design Death riddled
products like :
Cars :
THE symbol of poverty.
Suburbs :
huge plastic graveyards.
Social Indoctrination Centers
(schools):
makes you stupid and incapable.
Urbanization :
a disease, a parasite.
Spineless, Lifeless,
Sucking Satans Scaly Pecker.

Work is the process of dying.

Have you ever had someone
being nice to you when you
probably didn't deserve it?
You probably thought hey, that's cool,
what a nice guy, I'm going to pass that on.
I know you've had plenty of people
rotten to you
when you didn't deserve it so we
won't get into that.

If you give everything away,
you will be given
everything as well.

You will just have to trust
in perfect time.

The alternative is what?
...Worry all the time?

Like that gets anyone anywhere.
But I know it's tough to change
our old rusty operating system.
I'm sure old mentality
was possibly useful hunting
mastodons,
but things are a little different now.
There is more than enough
on this planet
for everyone to live well lush lives.
If you not contributing to Human 2.0,
you are wasting everyones time
other than being very acidic compost.

You can't stop us.
It is happening now whether
your programming likes it or not.

We can live a smarter,
more advanced way.
I'd like your support, not your money,
more just your energy to direct.
I would like you to direct
that energy into yourself
and not so much into so-called
jobs, so-called schools,
so-called entertainment.

Why polish the brass on the titanic?
It's all going down.
But not completely...
There are some valuable items on board.
Them being compassion, love,
creativity, community, music,
art, peace of mind, etc..

I am living what the future
of the world will be
and if you desire to survive
and be happy,
you will start doing it as well.

I have respect for myself.
I see where the "money" is going and
understand true wealth is
QUALITY OF LIFE.
I promote a new system
that actually works
that is nothing new to the world.
To be creative,
alive, and productive
is a natural human trait if left to develop.

Play is the way.
Laziness is the excrement
of doing something
you don't enjoy.
In the new world
everything will be productive,
but not forcefully.
So this is another wake up call
for you to jump ship
now before life gets even harder.
It is kind of a threat
but you'll thank me later I promise.
The corporations don't care about you.
Prostitution doesn't pay.
Supporting state criminals,... no good.

Give everything away for free.
Life begins
at the end of your comfort zone.

With your support,
we can take this world back from the
scared, insecure people
of yester-millinia
and give them lots of
hugs..
Jump Out of the
"take pills and die" world
that we live in
now.

To play all day is the natural way.
There is no such thing as
"grown-up".

Setting up a system where everyone
is provided for is just the beginning.
I can't really imagine
what will grow out of this new
iridescent compost.
A foundation of awareness,
understanding,
and love is inevitable.
Staring now and now.
Buying is dying.
Less is more.

To quality of life,
liberty and justice for all
and not just for people with
the mark of the beast.

Quit Your Job And Get A Life!

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navigate to their site
(and listen 90 free albums of great
experimental electronica as a gift ):
http://takepills.org/why.html

Fight Against G-20 in Pittsburgh...What Happened There?

photos originaly from Reuters and Associated Press






























Void Network and Void Mirror international blog offers here analysis and review from Crimethic Ex Workers Collective about the riots took place in Pittsburgh-U.S.A. during the conference of G-20 there... As long as the "world leaders" and the financial elite will gather to organize the exploitation of human beings and the destruction of Earth, they will be allways sensitive and consciouss human beings to confront their power...

Disclaimer: This was written the night of September 24, immediately following the events described, without time to verify all the reports summarized or assemble additional information. There may be errors; if so, we will correct them shortly.

This is on-the-spot reporting just in from the first day of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, which has seen a great deal of spirited resistance and confrontation—perhaps as much as has occurred at any anarchist mobilization in North America in half a decade. This gushy, hastily composed account presents the context, attempts to convey the spirit of the day, and raises a few preliminary questions.

The basic narrative of the day runs thus: The protesters attempt to reach the summit site, but are brutally forced back by police. They eventually turn around and march through Pittsburgh neighborhoods and shopping districts, where the police pursue and attack them. Property destruction intensifies in response to these attacks, and the conflict culminates in a standoff between police and students during which a black bloc destroys a business district.

One might interpret all this as legitimate acts of revenge for the police murder in London at last spring’s G20 summit; but it also signifies the survival of militant street resistance in the Obama era.

Never Felt More Alive

In the monotony of capitalist daily life, it’s easy to forget that we have a negotiable relationship to reality. Streets are for faceless traffic; crowds are impersonal assemblies of strangers studiously ignoring each other; windows are for displaying merchandise, or staring out of as we wait for shifts or classes to conclude; decorative stones outside banks or fast food franchises are inert objects devoid of interest or possibility.

When all this is interrupted and the unknown opens before us in every instant, the world becomes a magical place. In these moments, we discover new organs within ourselves—or if not new, then atrophied or atavistic—adapted for an entirely different way of life than we are used to. It turns out we are creatures made for another world—and made well for it!—who are barely getting by in this one. Changing worlds, we shift from malaise and misery to incredible joy and pleasure: finally, we are at home in our own skin, in our own environment. Charging down the street together rather than driving down it separately, fighting or outrunning police rather than submissively accepting their authority, we come to life.

No words can do justice to this experience, but it is real—one day of it is realer than a decade of rental contracts, traffic tickets, service work, and nights at the bar.

continue reading the analysis and detailed review of the fights against G-20 in Pittsburgh here:

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/g20.php

The Federation Of Egalitarian Communities! Another World Just happening!

The Federation of Egalitarian Communities is a network of communal
groups spread across North America. They range in size and emphasis from
small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities to urban
group houses.

Principles of the FEC

Each of the FEC communities:

1. Holds its land, labor, income
   and other resources in common.
2. Assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving
   the products of their labor and distributing these and all other
   goods equally, or according to need.
3. Practices non-violence.
4. Uses a form of decision making in which members have an equal
   opportunity to participate, either through consensus, direct vote,
   or right of appeal or overrule.
5. Actively works to establish the equality of all people and
   does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, class, creed,
   ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
6. Acts to conserve natural resources for present and future
   generations while striving to continually improve ecological
   awareness and practice.
7. Creates processes for group communication and participation
   and provides an environment which supports people's development.

Why FEC Exist

Because we share so much, and because we are committed to a vision of community which transcends our individual groups, we have joined together to cooperate on publications, conferences, recruitment efforts, community support systems including health care, and a variety of other mutually supportive activities. Our aim is not only to help each other; we want to help more people discover the advantages of a communal alternative, and to promote the evolution of a more egalitarian world.

Connect With FEC

We cannot promise utopia, but if you are seriously interested in
our joyous struggle, we invite you to come and see for yourself. To
arrange a visit, read here and then contact the individual community
you want to go to. Other opportunities to connect with us include internships and conferences on community living.

If you are part of an existing community that is interested in potentially joining the FEC, see info on becoming an FEC community.

For other queries, please Email secretary@thefec.org.

History of FEC

The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) was founded in December 1976
when the first assembly was held at East Wind Community in Missouri. The
organization was originally inspired by the networks of mutual support observed
among Israeli kibbutzim by Kat Kinkade. Early ideas for cooperation ranged from
loans and labor exchange to sharing community-building skills with low-income
people, and eventually settled upon outreach as the core activity.

The FEC is presently comprised of 6 full member groups and a number of Allied Communities and Communities in Dialogue.

Find all info about Federation of Egalitarian Communities in:

http://thefec.org/taxonomy/term/3

6 Serb comrades from Anarchosyndicalist Initiative arrested by the Serbian state for an attack that they have completely no relation!

Void Mirror international blog and Void Network participates in the International Solidarity Movement for the 6 members of Serbian Anarchosyndicalist Initiative that have been arrested by the Serbian State accused for an attack to the Greek embassy. The comrades they are completely non relevant with this attack but even though, the European State see in their faces an inner enemy for the European capitalistic Totalitarianism. In their faces we see the international struggle for Freedom, Equality and end of Exploitation.
PUT DOWN YOUR HANDS FROM OUR SERB COMRADES!
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

On 25th of August a group of 5 persons attacked with molotov cocktails against the Greek embassy in Belgrade, without causing significant damage. The responsibility was claimed by an organization with the name Black Sun, which, according to its statement, made this attack in solidarity with the hunger striker Th. Iliopoulos.

For this reason, the government of Serbia detained 5 anarchists and persecutes another one, accusing them for “international terrorism”. All are members of Anarchosyndicalist Initiative (ASI), an organization that is not related with such attacks, while the arrested also made clear that they have no relation with the attack.

For one more time, the basic characteristics of the security state, that is being built in every country, become visible: increased repression, attack at the parts of the society that resist (in the particular case at anarchosyndicalists) and imposition of the doctrine of order and security. The state tries with every mean to accentuate the repression against politically radical groups: it names a simple attack with minimal material damage as “international terrorism” and afterwards it persecutes anarchosyndicalists without any clues. Purpose? The demoralisation of every political criticism against the dominating mechanisms and the cracking down of the “internal enemy”. It is not important if this is named “anarchist”, “immigrant” or “koukouloforos” [trans: the Greek state names like this the rioters that hide their face, it means hood-wearer]. The important purpose is the creation of an enemy, the creation of a (marginalized) social group that will lead the rest of the society to the conservativisation and loyalty. In the particular case the state mechanisms acted as they are used to act: two molotov cocktails and an alfadi [trans: alpha in a circle, Ⓐ] are enough to persecute 6 irrelevant with the attack individuals, that are facing imprisonment of decades.The fact that they are in an anarchosyndicalist union is enough in order for them to form the role of the “internal enemy”. An “internal enemy” that the state structures will try in any way to not let it from moving aggressively towards the power. In front of the repressive mechanisms of the state, we shall not stand back, but we keep walking with solidarity as our weapon.

FREEDOM TO THE SERB ANARCHIST PRISONERS

THE STATES ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Autonomous group of “University of Macedonia” (Thessaloniki)

http://appamak.blogspot.com/2009/09/6.html


call for donations for the Serbian comrades:

On 04.09.2009, following the decision of the investigating judge of the District Court in Belgrade, the groups of six anarchists who were arrested 3rd of September 2009 were sentenced to detention measures up to thirty days. year. The charge states that the suspects, on 25th of August, about three o’clock in the morning, initially wrote the graffiti on the facade, and then threw two “molotov cocktails at the building of the Greek Embassy in “Francuska” street in Belgrade.

Wanting to brutally deal with it’s hardest critics, the state acts, through it’s mechanisms of repression, with utterly banal logic. Those who have explicitly expressed their libertarian beliefs are mapped as the only suspects. The case ends with their imprisonment and gives a false picture to the general public about state’s expediency.

Due to the unusual course of action of the police and prosecution in this case, the arrested are suspected of having committed a crime of international terrorism. That act, in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, is treated in the same group with the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against the civilian population, organizing and encouraging to commit genocide and war crimes, the conduct of aggressive war, etc. Due to the legal weight of such characterization, the costs of the representation so far during the process have exceeded 10,000 euros.

For this purpose, the account was opened to help the arrested anarchists, which is listed at the bottom of this page. In addition, there is a phone number and e-mail that you can get additional information about the state of the arrested as well as the condition of the collected funds.

We hope that the freedom-loving individuals and organizations will get involved in this humanitarian fundraising action, and help the arrested anarchists to manage to prove their innocence.

FREEDOM FOR ANARCHOSYNDIKALISTS!

Instructions for the donation of money:

Account with institution:

RZBSRSBG

RAIFFEISEN BANKA AD

BEOGRAD, RS

Beneficiarz customer:

RS35265050000016043150

MILAN (MILUTIN) STOJANOVIĆ

SENJE.

http://asi.zsp.net.pl/appeal-from-asi/

announcement of Serbian intellectuals:

Announcement of the state prosecution institutions that they will press charges for an ”act of international terrorism” against six suspected of throwing two Molotov cocktails at the building of Greek Embassy in Belgrade made us write this letter and express our concern.

Without a desire to justify this kind of act in any way we consider it to be our duty to point out at what we believe to be political background of applying double standards that can have a devastating effect in further development of our society.

Not so long ago, during protest held on 21. February 2008 after proclamation of independence of Kosovo United States of America embassy building was burnt down in Belgrade. Embassy building was significantly damaged by fire while one of the attackers lost his life. The only participant of this attack that has been prosecuted is being charged for “heavy criminal act against public security”.

Contrary to this, state institutions have characterized the act of smashing a window on an empty building of Greek embassy with two burning bottles that didn’t cause fire as an act of international terrorism. In criminal law of Republic of Serbia that act is next to genocide, war crimes and leading an aggressive war.

We are afraid that such a different positioning of prosecution institutions regarding these two cases is motivated politically by some of the current authorities who are trying to improve their rating with nationalistically orientated voters.

This has an encouraging effect on strengthening chauvinistic and extreme right wing tendencies in our society just like those that have participated in burning down USA embassy in Belgrade without any significant legal consequences.

For this reason we are addressing the public as well as the state institutions hoping that by doing so we will contribute in making the law treat all members of our society equally and adequately concerning the seriousness of act that has been done.

Zaga Golubović, Želimir Žilnik, Todor Kuljić, Vladimir Ilić
Boris Dežulović, Sonja Drljević, Ljubomir Živkov, Vladimir Aresinjević

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