Repression

Following is a series of testimonies from several different voices with common experiences. It is the result of conversations between eight ex-detained migrants from Algeria – known from the case of the “8 of Petrou Ralli” – with female comrades from the Community of Kukaki’s Squats. The purpose of the text is to give visibility to the reality that the migrants imprisoned in the centres for administrative detention and camps face every day. Those who delivered these testimonies, do no want to serve the spectacle through which many westerners, in greece and elsewhere, consume the migrant’s situation. It is not written from the position of a journalist or an academic researcher. On the contrary, we fought to take these people out of the prison, we live together, in a community struggling against the same threat. It is the outcome of their political will and trust, products of a long term communication that was created by the Coordination of Collectives and Individuals Against the Detention Centres (SSAEKΚ) since the moment they were in greek prisons until today that are hosted in the structures of the movement. Political will to share their experiences and uncover fascism for the next. Trust in the ability of the movement to break the system that invisiblises them. These testimonies enable us to perceive better the structures we fight against, fascist structures of confinement that operate as businesses. In order to understand what it means to encage people, all the horror had to be laid bare. The horror of the greek, white supremacy and its concrete reality, that humans live in their flesh and through their existence.

Video der Internationalist Commune: Wir haben die Bevölkerung Rojavas nach ihrer Meinung zu Deutschen Waffenexporten und der Firma Rheinmetall gefragt. Die Menschen wenden sich dabei direkt an die Arbeiter*innen von Rheinmetall und fordern diese auf ihre Arbeit niederzulegen „bis niemand mehr in diesen Fabriken arbeitet.“ So Baran aus Derik. Weiter führt er aus: „Wir verurteilen dies zutiefst. Warum? Weil der Türkische Staat diese Waffen gegen die Kurdische Zivilbevölkerung, gegen Kinder, alte Männer, Großmütter, Mütter einsetzt. Darüber hinaus benutzen sie die Waffen um Wälder und Felder hier ab zu brennen. Die Bomben verseuchen die ganzen Seen und andere Wasserquellen. Wir verurteilen diese Praktiken.“

Melting permafrost in Alaska reveals ancient fossils and artefacts. Container ships can now save lots of time, going via a new shipping route through the Arctic. New mining opportunities in Greenland. Americans will be able to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Ain't it all great? Not really. The melting of the Arctic is a global horror story. Is anyone noticing? Does anyone care?  That is the question that our children and grandchildren will be asking. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIeU001iYTo&t=95s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqfSWy3IRWY

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Solifoto vom Donnerstag in Solidarität mit gefangenen Anarchist*innen