Fascist USA: police violently arrest peaceful anti-war activist for no reason and keep her incommunicado

Emily Yates, a member of Iraq Veterans Against War, cried "this is a police state" as she was arrested and she could not be more correct. That's exactly how a police state looks like: you are arbitrarily and violently arrested for no reason whatsoever and you are kept incommunicado afterwards.

They call it "democracy" but it is not.

Video of the arrest:

According to the Emily Yates Defense Fund, which is raising money for her legal defense, she has not been allowed any communication with the outside world since she was arrested. 

In fact we do not know even if she is alive at all, as the last we can watch in the video is how police agents choke her.

The incident happened in Philadelphia. 

Sources: The Raw Story, Webguerrillero[es].

Ukraine: FEMEN activists go to exile under threat of prosecution

The founders of the feminist and radical direct action organization FEMEN, Alexandra Shevchenko, Yana Zhdanova and Anna Gutsol, announced that they had to leave their country, Ukraine, after they were threatened with political trial. 

A police raid "found" in the offices of FEMEN in Kiev "objects resembling a gun and a grenade". The organization denounces they were placed by police themselves.

The pro-Russian regime of Viktor Yanukovic is known for using political trials and other more violent means against dissidents, much as it happens in Russia.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Turkey: the Islamist regime continues with repression as the masses march against war in Syria

At least 40 people were arrested in a journey of renewed protests, this time with the cause of peace. Again Gezi Park and Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul were the epicenter of protests and brutal fascist repression by police forces. The protest in Istanbul was not the only one, in the last weeks concentrations and marches have been spreading again through Turkey after a summer downtime, all them have been met with the brutal repression of a regime that calls itself "democratic" but obviously does not want to know what the word means. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Update: short video of some of the protests and police deployment:

Syria announces that it will retaliate, if bombed, by flattening Israel in three hours

Damascus has become outspoken about what may happen if Obama actually does what he says (what is intrinsically unlikely) about bombing Syria. 

They have announced that they would launch a thousand missiles against "occupied Palestine" (they mean Israel in essence) in just three hours. 

That would be just the beginning because Syria has some 200,000 missiles. 

They also warned that making war to Syria would end up backfiring because the retaliation would reach the Western capitals themselves. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es], citing HispanTV. 

While they said nothing about other targets, the US military base of Incirlik in SE Turkey looks like a candidate target as well. I am not sure if Syrian missiles can reach other targets like the very ships of the 6th Fleet or the US bases in the Persian Gulf without being knocked down in the meantime, what is certain is that Iranian forces can, and can also close the Strait of Hormuz in a matter of hours without the USA being able to do anything about it.

It is unclear if the US aggression would spillover to the Gulf or even to Russia, which has sent ships to the area in an unmistakable signal of warning. If so it could well escalate to nuclear holocaust in no time. 

Sincerely, I think that Obama will let Congress veto him on this matter, exactly as Cameron did in London. They have tested the waters and it's quite clear that they are too deep and unsavory. Al Qaeda will have to look for some other place to mess with.

Protests and clashes continue in Mexico

Images of the clashes before the Congressional Palace in Mexico D.F.:

These clashes took place at the crossroads between Venustiano Carranza and Eje Central, as granaderos (riot police) managed to surround some 50 youths who attempted to reach Congress by any means necessary.

There were previous clashes at the crossroads between Juárez Av. and the Paseo de la Reforma, as the police attempted the march to continue but were overwhelmed by youths who pushed them aside at the cry of "not violence!"

A perpendicular march of teachers to the Presidential Palace also took place. Regarding this march, the Revolutionary Action lamented that the CTNE (teacher union) autocratically revoked an assembly decision by the teachers to invite students to join their march, reason why this organization ignored this particular demonstration. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Update: more videos of the clashes now at Webguerrillero.

Greece: direct action against repressive governor

A group of people self described as "Solidarians" attacked on Saturday the luxury resort of the Governor of Epirus in retaliation for the eviction of squats, damaging elements of the property and the cars of his posh guests. 

In their own words:

Yesterday night, 30/8, we visited uninvited the private resort that the family of Epirus regional governor, Alekos Kachrimanis, maintains at the city of Ioannina. There occurred a feast for the celebration of his name day. We couldn’t have missed the chance to be there to wish happy name day to him warmly! The specific guy, along with other local rulers and the administrator of the Chatzikosta general hospital, Fotis Vavvas, had participated last April at a conference on the topic of finding a definite solution for putting an end to the months-long occupation of premises at the former Chatzikosta hospital. We hold the aforementioned gentleman co-responsible for the eviction of Antiviosi squat, and we remind him that buildings like this one are spaces that have already been reclaimed, and constitute cores of social resistance and struggle. Really, that’s the reason why they are being targeted by the repression of state power and all of its sidekicks.

For all these reasons, we got ourselves at the yard of the resort yesterday, where the banquet was underway, with a purpose to cause disruption and put an end to it, and as an act of solidarity with Antiviosi squat. We painted “Antiviosi squat will stay” at the wall of the yard, while we shouted slogans such as: “10, 100, 1000 squats against a world of organized sepsis”, and “Antiviosi squat will stay; the flame we lit cannot be put out by anyone.” Also, we smashed the windows and mirrors of two super luxury cars that belonged to guests of the regional governor.

IDEAS CAN NEITHER BE EVICTED, NOR SILENCED SOLIDARITY WITH THE SQUATS
 
solidarians

Source: Contra Info.

Basque Country: Altsasu occupied by military police in fiestas

Spanish military police (Guardia Civil) occupied on Friday the town of Altsasu (Sakana valley, Navarre) in the middle of its fiestas after fascist-like rampage by the Spanish-imposed provincial governor Carmen Alba. 

In 2011 the same fascist proconsul attempted to indict Mayor Garazi Urrestarazu on a festive parody of a royal discourse, now she charges again against the Ospa Eguna, which may be translated as Celebration Day (ospatu = celebrate) or as Go Away Day (ospa! = go away!, coll.) but hardly as Runaway Day, as the ignorant Alba said. 

Whatever the case she has unilaterally declared illegal the festive acts on the absolutely arbitrary grounds that such acts "have not been communicated to the state administration", as if we'd have to tell the occupants about every single local activity we organize in our towns and villages. The acts include a demonstration and the burning of a doll.

The military cops literally surrounded the town with controls and even entered the festive area threatening in Spanish to "clean it up of shit" (what "shit"? are you going to shoot yourselves dead?) 

In spite of all that the activities continued as intended, no matter that a helicopter roared threateningly above the fire of the doll. People showed a lot of bravery dancing and playing among the threatening police occupants.

Witnesses declared:

It was brutal, disproportionate! 

We suffered an incredible police deployment: the people were surrounded by automatic guns. 

For example, when some 200 people took part in the bertso* dinner, they were surrounded by almost the same number of armed cops. Forced identifications and verbal intimidation were common in the day. Town Hall representatives explained that:

It was to drive you crazy. We did not enter into the provocation and in a bertsolari* town as we live in, citizens went on improvising, and also sortzikoak, polkas, Basque dances and games they performed to impress the military policemen, as saying: "here we are and we will stay here". 

Repression no! Go away. Leave Altsasu in peace.

I must say that nothing of all this was in TV news yesterday, neither in the Spanish channels (of course) nor in the Basque ones.

Sources[eu]: Gara, Naiz Info.


* Bertsoak are a form of improvised song, usually in humorous duels, traditional among Basques. The singers are known as bertsolari(-ak).

Update (Sep 2): it has been known now that a young man was arrested, apparently for "answering back" to the verbal aggressions by the police forces → Topatu.info.