2009-10-12 

12th October 2009 Pittsburgh -- Istanbul -- Genoa

- The FBI kicked in our front door
- Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
- When They Kick Out Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come?
- Conclusion report of 1-8 October anti-capitalist resistance days against the IMF and WB summit
- Statement of the Resistanbul Ungovernables Committee
- Genova: Di seguito, il dettaglio delle condanne

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The FBI kicked in our front door

Friends of Tortuga

“On October 1st, 2009, at 6:00am, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (a union of local police departments and the FBI), kicked out the front door to our home—an anarchist collective house in Queens, NY, affectionately known as Tortuga.

The FBI spent 16 hours ransacking our house before carting off boxes of our personal belongings, everything from computers, passports and even stuffed animals.

The apparent reason for this predawn raid was the arrest of two members of our household a week earlier in Pennsylvania. Our two friends were arrested and charged with several felonies for sending twitter messages during protests against the G20 in Pittsburgh."

See http://friendsoftortuga.wordpress.com

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Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent

As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable intelligence.”

Take the case of Elliot Madison. The 41-year-old anarchist was arrested in Pittsburgh September 24 at the height of G20 protests.

Madison, a social worker and volunteer with The People’s Law Collective in New York City, was busted by a combined task force led by the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) and Pittsburgh’s “finest.” The activist was charged with “hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of instruments of crime,” according to The New York Times.

Did the cops uncover a secret anarchist weapons’ cache? Were Madison and codefendant, Michael Wallschlaeger, a producer with the radio talk show “This Week in Radical History” for the A-Infos Radio Project, about to detonate a “weapon of mass destruction” during last month’s capitalist conclave that witnessed the obscene spectacle of our masters avidly conspiring to impoverish billions of the planet’s inhabitants?

More: http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2009/10/battening-down-hatches-secret-state.html

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When They Kick Out Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come?

On October 1st, 2009, at 6:00am, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (a union of local police departments and the FBI), kicked out the front door to our home—an anarchist collective house in Queens, NY, affectionately known as Tortuga. The first crashes of the battering ram were quickly followed by more upstairs, as the police broke in on 3 sleeping people, destroying bedroom doors that were unlocked.

Three more people, awoken by the most unpleasant means of bounding footsteps, splintering wood, and shouting voices, waited in the basement—their turn at drawn guns and blinding lights came quickly.

We put our hands out where they could see them. They ordered us out of bed. They wouldn’t let us dress, but they did put a random assortment of clothes on some people. We were handcuffed, and although the upstairs and downstairs groups were kept separate initially, we were soon all together, sitting in the living room, positioned like dolls on the couches and chairs. We were in handcuffs for several hours, and we were helpless as our little bird, a Finch we had rescued and were rehabilitating, flew out the open door to certain death, after his cage had been battered by the cops in their zeal to open the upstairs bedroom doors by force. We shouted at them, but they stood there and watched.

More: http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20091004231103793

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Conclusion report of 1-8 October anti-capitalist resistance days against the IMF and WB summit

We are informed that on 7th of October while we were sieging İstanbul from all sides, the IMF and the World Bank meeting had to be finished in a haste. So we, as the ungovernable of resistanbul, gathered here to announce our own riotistanbul decisions against the so-called Istanbul decisions of the governors.

We are announcing our own economic and social program which is both a proposal for a libertarian anti-capitalist way of life that we have already started to create in different sectors of society, as well as a proposal for a way out of global capitalism. Our program consists of a series of resistance and counter-struggle tactics that can dig down the roots of the capitalist world system that has colonized all parts of our life.

More: http://resistanbul.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/conclusion-report-of-1-8-october-anti-capitalist-resistance-days-against-the-imf-and-wb-summit/

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Statement of the Resistanbul Ungovernables Committee

Dear activists, participators and media workers,

We are informed that, on 7th of October , while we have been sieging İstanbul from different angles the IMF and the World Bank has finished their meeting in a haste. So we as the ungovernable of resistanbul gathered here to announce our own riotistanbul decisions against the decisions the governors made.

We are announcing our proposal as an economic and social program for a libertarian anti-capitalist way of life that we have already started to work for public, as a proposal for a way out of global capitalism. Our program is formed by some resistance tecnics that can dig down the roots of the capitalist world system that has colonized all parts of life.

More: http://cia.bzzz.net/statement_of_the_resistanbul_ungovernables_committee

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Genova: Di seguito, il dettaglio delle condanne

Francesco Puglisi (10 anni e 6 mesi in primo grado), condannato a 15 anni;
Vincenzo Vecchi (10 anni e 6 mesi), 13 anni;
Marina Cugnaschi (11 anni), 12 anni e 3 mesi;
Alberto Funaro (9 anni), 10 anni;
Carlo Arculeo (7 anni e 6 mesi), 8 anni;
Luca Finotti (10 anni), 10 anni e 9 mesi;
Antonino Valguarnera (7 anni e 8 mesi), 8 anni;
Carlo Cuccomarino (7 anni e 10 mesi), 8 anni;
Dario Ursino (6 anni e 6 mesi), 7 anni;
Ines Morasca (6 anni), 6 anni e 6 mesi;

More: http://ilsecoloxix.ilsole24ore.com/p/genova/2009/10/09/AMDMdtzC-devastazioni_legittima_assolti.shtml