Black Cross Bulletin A Los Angeles Federation Publication Fall 2017 "The work isn’t done for the glory, but because we believe in Mutual Aid.” - Boris Yelensky Vol. 1 Issue 1 Medical Emergency for Robert Seth Hayes On October 15, members of New York happened to be in the clinic at Sullivan Seth should have been released in 1998! Jericho organization went to visit Robert when Seth was wheeled out on the gurney, While we have provided emails for Seth Hayes on his birthday. While the visit and reported to New York Jericho that he is some of the individuals we need to contact, was good, Seth informed them that his very concerned. we do NOT encourage people to use email, blood sugar levels were extremely high. Seth also reports that his A1C level is which is very easy to ignore. If you do According to Seth, his sugars were at 535 currently 11.6, which is very high. He has email, please copy the text into a letter for - in the morning and at 585 at 4 p.m. These been told that he has a high level of pro - mat and mail and fax in addition to email. high sugar levels are very serious and can teins in his urine and may soon need dialy - lead to Seth going into a diabetic coma. sis. All of this is because the pump is not Superintendent Keyser at Sullivan: Seth was very frustrated, since medical working properly, and his sugars have been 845-434-2080 staff at Sullivan keeps saying they are running very high. going to send him to Albany Medical On a positive note, Seth reports that he Carl J. Koenigsmann M.D. Center for an investigation of the pump, saw Dr. Wolf, the facility doctor, for his Deputy Commissioner/Chief Medical but this has not happened. They claim it diabetic ulcers. She prescribed an antibiot - Officer has a "glitch"; however, they are continu - ic and a topical corticosteroid, and this is NYS DOCCS Division of Health ing to use it. Also, the pump has somehow helping the ulcers to dry up and heal. Seth Services become locked and the endocrinologist at showed Anne Lamb, from New York Harriman State Campus, Building #2 Coxsackie cannot access the data in it, so Jericho, the ulcers on his arms and she is in 1220 Washington Avenue there is no record of his daily sugar fluctu - agreement that they are definitely healing. Albany, New York 12226-2050 ations. All of this could easily be resolved On Friday, October 20, Seth was taken Phone: 518-457-7073 by a simple phone call to technical support to Albany Medical Center for a check on [email protected] at Medtronic, who would then send an his pacemaker, which is working properly. expert to Sullivan to examine and repro - Seth reports that his sugars were very high Anthony J. Annucci gram the pump. We can only speculate as again on Friday. Sugar level was 267 in the Acting Commissioner to why medical staff at Sullivan has not morning, but soared to the high 500 range Harriman State Campus, Building #2 made this phone call. in the afternoon. On Friday evening, Seth's 1220 Washington Avenue The sensor that enables the monitor to sugar was 357. Fortunately, on both Albany, New York 12226-2050 work was not even ordered until recently Saturday and Sunday, Seth's sugar was in Phone: (518) 457-8126 and is expected to arrive at the end of the high 200's, still very high, but certainly [email protected] October. Seth has been told for several out of diabetic coma range. months now that the monitor, which We need people to call Dr. Carl Division of Health Services enables him to see whether his sugars are Koenigsmann, Commissioner Annucci, Nancy A. Lyng, MS, Dir. of Health high or low, will be "phased in". It has Governor Cuomo and the Superintendent Services / Operations and Management been more than a year since the DOCCS Keyser at Sullivan to demand there be a Harriman State Campus, Building #2 endocrinologist at Coxsackie recommend - full investigation of the pump at Albany 1220 Washington Avenue ed the insulin pump/monitor. Yet, Seth is Medical Center and that Seth be given the Albany, New York 12226-2050 still without the monitor. monitor as soon as possible. Phone: (518) 445-6176 Seth now has diabetic neuropathy in his Also, that the problem with his legs be [email protected] legs. He has fallen on several occasions in investigated and resolved to the fullest recent weeks. In addition, he says his legs extent possible. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo are swollen in his calves. However, his feet Please write, call, fax and email the fol - NYS Capitol Building and ankles are not swollen. He also has lowing people and insist that Robert Seth Albany, NY 12224 sores all over his body, which are not being Hayes, DIN No. 74-A-2280, be taken to Phone: (518) 474-8390 treated. Albany Medical Center as soon as possible https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/g Then on Wednesday, October 18, Seth for a full investigation of the insulin pump overnor-contact-form was taken to Catskill Regional Medical and a complete workup for the problems after he complained that he was feeling with his legs and the sores all over his Please write a letter to Seth to let him wobbly and woozy and had difficulty body. know that he is supported and that people breathing. While he was at Catskill, they We the people must prevent the medical on the outside have him in their thoughts: checked his heart, did chest x-rays, drew 4 murder of our captured freedom fighter, tubes of blood and put him on an IV for 4 who has been in prison since September Robert Seth Hayes #74A2280 hours. Seth does not know what medica - 17, 1973! Despite Seth's excellent prison Sullivan C.F. tion was in the IV, but reported feeling record, he has been turned down for parole P.O. Box 116 "much better" on Wednesday night. Jalil 10 times, adding 20 years to his sentence. Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116 In the 80s, however, the ABC began to gain popularity again in the US and Europe. For What is the Anarchist Black Cross Federation? years, the ABC’s name was kept alive by a The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) began provide support to those who were suffering number of completely autonomous groups shortly after the 1905 Russian . It because of their political beliefs. scattered throughout the globe and support - formed after breaking from the Political Red In 1919, the organization’s name changed ing a wide variety of prison issues. Cross, due to the group’s refusal to support to the Anarchist Black Cross to avoid confu - In May of 1995, a small group of ABC Anarchist and Social Revolutionary Political sion with the International Red Cross. collectives merged into a federation whose Prisoners. The new group, naming itself the Through the 1920s and until 1958, the organ - aim was to focus on the overall support and Anarchist Red Cross (ARC), began to pro - ization worked under various other names defense of Political Prisoners and Prisoners vide aid to those Political Prisoners who but provided the same level of support as the of War. were refused support by the PRC. other groups working as Anarchist Black Various groups have since merged in In the early decades, the organization had Cross. numerous networks throughout the globe chapters throughout Europe and North After 1936, the ABC expanded its aid to working on various prison issues. The America. These chapters worked together to places such as , Italy and Spain. Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) provide assistance to prisoners only in In 1958, the organization collapsed but has continued its mission to focus on the aid Russia. Soon other groups, such as the reemerged in 1967 in London, England. and support of Political Prisoners. We take Latvian Anarchist Red Cross, emerged to Once again ABC chapters spread throughout the position that PP/POWs demand our top provide aid in other Eastern European coun - the globe providing support for imprisoned priority. We strive to continue with the same tries. Armed with the ideas of mutual aid and comrades. Sadly, by the end of the 1970s dedication and solidarity to our fallen com - solidarity, these groups worked tirelessly to only a handful of ABC chapters still existed. rades as those before us have shown. Introduction: The ABCF is: “Crucially important to maintaining the anarchist integrity of this organization is the fact that Branch Groups and Support Federation Chapters Groups are freely autonomous to take on whatever initiatives they can to further the Unity of Purpose of the ABCF. So LOS ANGELES ABC S. BROOKLYN ABC long as these initiatives do not contradict any preexisting PO Box 11223 (PO Box contact is agreements (Tactical Unity) that have been made by the Whittier, CA 90603 available on request.) ABCF, it is not necessary for all groups to approve of and/or agree with programs, projects or work of other ABCF col - NYC ABC MIDDLETOWN ABC lectives.” [from the ABCF Constitution and Structure] PO Box 110034 (PO Box contact is Brooklyn, NY 11211 available on request.) The following definitions are used to describe the below terms whenever they appear in the ABCF Update or any LANCASTER ABC other ABCF literature. PO Box 8682 Lancaster, PA 17604 Political Prisoner (PP): A person incarcerated for actions carried out in support of legitimate struggles for self deter - mination or for opposing the illegal policies of the govern - ment and/or its political subdivisions. [Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of PP/POWs in U.S. Prisons and Jails, Dec. ’90] Prisoner of War (POW): Those combatants struggling against colonial and alien domination and racist regimes captured as prisoners are to be accorded the status of pris - oner of war and their treatment should be in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August, 1949 (General Assembly resolution 3103 ) Certain Days 2018 Calendar!

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www.abcf.net 2 VOL. 1 ISSUE #1 WINTER 2017 The same organization claimed respon - Alleged Anarchist is Guilty news from the front sibility for an attack on the Turkish Airlines Joseph Jakubowski has been found office in September, an attack on the guilty in a Wisconsin court after being red fawn Venue Changed Turkish embassy in July, and the Consulate accused of stealing an arsenal of firearms The trial for Red Fawn Fallis has been General office in Komotin earlier in early from a southern Wisconsin gun shop and moved to Fargo, North Dakota after con - February. sending an anti-government manifesto to cerns were raised that she would not Donald Trump. receive a fair and impartial trial due to five Acquitted in Prague After he sent his manifesto, the govern - “widespread prejudicial publicity regard - In late September, five anarchists were ment went on a manhunt for Jakubowski ing the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in acquitted in a Prague municipal court for for dear that he may engage in a campaign general, and her arrest in particular.” Her charges relating to an alleged plot to fire - of guerilla war. Ten days after the manhunt trial is set for December. It has also been bomb a train carrying material equipment. began he was captured hiding out in the reported that, as of October 28th, Red According to the government’s case, Petr woods. He was discovered by the owner of Fawn has been released to a halfway house. Sova, Martin Ignacak and Alexandra the property. Scambova planned the attack in order to Jakubowski has declared himself to be Jalil transfer to sullivan influence the economic and political land - an anarchist, but the details of what that Please note that Jalil has been trans - scape. exactly means to him is unknown. The only ferred and is currently at Sullivan. He can Two others were also charged. Radka details about him at this time is that he be written to at the following address: Pavlovska was accused of taking part in the holds anti-government views. Anthony J. Bottom #77A4283 meetings of the anarchist groups and was Jakubowski will has his sentencing day Sullivan C.F. charged with not reporting its plans to the on December 20th and could be looking at P.O. Box 116 police. Katarina Zezulova is also accused twenty years in prison. Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116 of taking part in some of the meetings and was accused of allegedly making Molotov Victim Charged in Attack water Protectors sentenced cocktails. If convicted, some defendants DeAndre Shakur Harris turned himself In North Dakota, a judge has sentenced could have been sentenced to life in prison. into Charlottesville Police Department on two water protectors to jail time after they All the defendants denied the charges, October 12th, after a warrant was issued were convicted on misdemeanor charges stating that two police infiltrators pushed for him for unlawful wounding. Harris was over an October 2016 protest at Standing the group to engage in violent acts, chose assaulted on August 12th in Charlottesville Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline. the target and paid for the material to make during the “Unite the Right” rally. His Alexander Simon was sentenced to 18 days the Molotov cocktails. attack gained national attention after a in jail for obstruction of a government The attorney for the government imme - video of the assault was released. function. Mary Redway was sentenced to diately appealed the verdict, moving the About a half of a dozen men were seen six days in jail for disorderly conduct. case to the high court. attacking Harris with sticks, who received Judge Thomas Merrick imposed the sen - head wounds and other severe injuries. So tences despite the fact that the prosecution BLm Activist Arrested far three of the men have been arrested had not recommended the two serve jail On September 9th, Jasmine Abdullah after they were identified in social media. time. They are the first two people convict - Richards, founder of Black Lives Matter In response to the arrests, individuals ed related to the actions related to the Pasadena, was arrested on charges of associated with the assault claimed Harris actions again the Dakota Access Pipeline. “interfering with officers”. Richards was injured them and the police issued a war - arrested after putting herself between three rant for him. He was taken before the mag - Journalist Acquitted police officers and a young black man who istrate and released on an unsecured bond. As the anniversary of her arrest is was the victim of constant harassment from approaching, journalist Sara Lafleur-Vetter the same police officers throughout the hunger strike in Alameda has been acquitted on misdemeanor day. It has been reported that the prisoners in charges stemming from her reporting on One officer by the name of Poirier was the Alameda and Santa Clara jails have the Dakota Access Pipeline protest. She recorded saying that Richards “would be begun a hunger strike. arrested on Oct. 22 with 140 other people handled differently if they were in a Third This hunger strike is a continuation of near the pipeline easement and was World country.” This same officer was one last years strike that ended just after four charged with obstruction and disorderly of ten officers involved in the killing of days due to some of the demands being conduct. She was filming for The Guardian Richards’ friend, Reginald “J.R.” Thomas, met. Roughly 300 prisoners participated in at the time of her arrest and indicated to the last year. that action. The hunger strike resumed after police that she was a member of the press. Officer Poirier threatened her, saying because despite the agreement made last she would be handled differently if they year, prisoners still continued to be the sub - Anarchists raid embassy were in a Third World country (a threat). ject of arbitrary practices. On October 11th, a Greek anarchist Officer Porrier is one of the 10 officers The prisoners have demanded an end to group raided the Spanish embassy in involved in the death of Richards’ friend, meaningless and arbitrary inmate classifi - . The group, Rouvikonas (Greek for Reginald "J.R." Thomas, last September. cation systems and the eradication of indef - Rubicon), entered the building while scat - Richards is currently on probation for inite solitary confinement. They also tering fliers and hanging a banner on the the ridiculous charge of “felony lynching” demanded the implementation of a behav - facade of the building in condemnation of — she stood up for a woman at a protest ioral system similar to what’s instituted in police violence in Catalonia. The group and the police didn’t like it. She remains on the California Department of Corrections. said the action was prompted by the high-risk felony probation for this charge. The prisoners also called for end of Spanish government’s ‘violence and This latest arrest puts her freedom in jeop - group punishment, arbitrary practices of repression’ but did not express support for ardy again. cruel and unusual punishment when Catalan independence. Each of them were She is currently going the court hearings inmates are out of the cell and the easing of sentenced to six months in jail. and the case remains unresolved. rigid family and friends visitation.

3 Fabio Vettorel, G20 Defendant, is Currently on Trial The trial for anti-G20 activist, Fabio After speaking with him on the and the German state of Schleswig- Vettorel, began in mid-October. Fabio is phone, his mother, Jamila Baroni, stated, Holstein. The cops confiscated 7 one of the individuals arrested during the "He is fine and has asked me to thank all iPhones during the raids, claiming they massive protests that took place against those who are worried about him. I per - were stolen from a store that was looted G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany in sonally thank the institutions for the sup - during the demonstrations on July 7th. July of this year. Under the motto port, the friends for the solidarity and Police held a press conference and “Hamburg G20: welcome to Hell”, for affection they continue to give us. claimed that they are investigating 2,000 four days the city of Hamburg experi - Tomorrow we can go to find him, to per - individuals but the number is expected enced an unprecedented wave of protests sonally realize his physical and psycho - to rise to 3,000. A police task force of against the world’s powerful. Since that logical conditions." 180 individuals is using face-recognition time, Fabio and others has remained in software to scourer through video mate - custody. rial from public transportation and other Supporters of the anti-G20 activists videos obtained during the demonstra - have argued that those arrested during tions. the G20 summit protests are being retal - The state prosecutor stated that they iated against by the German government are investigating 319 people, who have for their involvement in the demonstra - Fabio traveled to Hamburg from all identified. And currently roughly two tions. The government has displayed tac - Feltre, Italy to attend his first interna - dozen people who are still in pre-trial tics, such as conscious delay of trial tional demonstration. He was arrested in detention. dates, obstruction of legal defense teams the morning of the 7th July at Meanwhile, there have been some of access to their clients, prevention of Rondenbarg, where excessive police our fellow anarchists who have already family visits and severe charges based brutality caused most of the severe had the fate decided by the State. The on flimsy evidence. These acts of retali - injuries against activists during the Sicilian, Orazio Sciuto, after being sen - ation are especially harsh against non- protests. tenced to one year in prison, has been German citizens. Calls were made for massive demon - given a conditional release. Ricardo Fabio’s situation is a case in point. strations in support of Fabio during his Lupano was released on October 5th After a meeting with a judge, Fabio was trial dates (October 16th - 17th and after being sentenced to 1 year, 9 months transferred to Holstenglacis prison November 7th.) Actions in various cities with a suspended sentence. An anarchist instead of Hanofersand. Fabio, 18, found throughout Europe were already taking from by the name of Peike S. himself among older prisoners and place on October 14th with Banner drops has been convicted to 2 years and 7 should have been placed in a prison for and demonstrations in front of German months after being convicted of hitting juveniles. The “error” was discovered consulates. In Spain, several simultane - police with bottles and resisting arrest. several days later, after his parents trav - ous attacks took place in solidarity with Alessandro Rapisarda, one of the six eled from Italy to visit with him and the G20 arrestees. Italian anarchists currently imprisoned there was no record of Fabio at The German government is continu - will be tried at the end of this month. As Hanofersand. His family was able to dis - ing its pressure on the anarchist commu - for Fabio, his fate will soon be known. cover his whereabouts after visiting the nity. On September 27th, 100 cops raid - We hope for him and his family that he Italian consulate. ed 14 apartments and a store in Hamburg will soon be released. Anarchists in Italy Arrested in Repression Two comrades (Salvatore Vespertino seized pamphlets, computers, clothing and several actions in 2016, including an attack and Pierloreto Fallanca) and still remain in other everyday objects. with clubs and bricks on the fascist book - prison as part of an ongoing repressive An investigation was launched against store, a previous explosion at the same campaign against Anarchist in Italy. This persons unknown with the intention to bookstore and the distribution of anti-mili - repression brings reminders of the era that charge them with the offenses of “manu - tarist leaflets. They were also charged with took place in the late ‘60s and ‘70s known facturing, possession, and transportation of fight with police, which ended up with the as the “Strategy of Tension”, where several an explosive or incendiary device to a pub - arrest of three anarchists. anarchists were accused of a bombing lic place” and “attempted murder”. Police Two months following the end of the campaign through Italy. This led to the also began a separate operation called operation, a series of repressive measures death of Giuseppe Pinelli, a member of the “Operation Panic.” This campaign targeted were imposed against two comrades, con - Anarchist Black Cross in Milan. 35 individuals, leading several of them to stantly escalating in their severity from On January 1st, 2017, a homemade be ordered under house arrest, preventing daily signing on at the police station to explosive was planted in front of a fascist others from leaving the city, curfews and house arrest. A 3rd comrade was also bookstore in Florence. Before police could others forced to participation in daily ordered to report daily the police station. disarm the bomb, it exploded, cause a reporting to the local police station. It also This new wave of repression and arrests member of the bomb disposal unit to lose a lead to the eviction of Villa Panico, one of were linked to the simple appearance of hand and an eye. Florence’s historic squats which had been militant graffiti across the city. Police immediately suspected that this occupied for the past 10 years. On the 3rd of August, a joint nation- was the work of anarchists, leading to the Twelve people were eventually charged wide operation between the DIGOS (the raid of several homes. Under the guise of with “members of a criminal organiza - police special operations unit) , the ROS looking for guns and explosives, the police tion.” They stand accused of engaging in (the Carabinieri’s special operations unit)

4 and the counter-terrorism police ended up Vespertino, is still in jail because the organization” or for the several specific in 8 further arrests: 6 in Florence, 1 in authorities claimed to have found traces of offenses. Rome and 1 in Lecce. Five comrades were his DNA on components used to build the If you wish to contact these two com - charged with attempted homicide for the bomb. Paska, another comrade, who rades you can write them at: New Years Eve bombing. The others were should have been released for lack of evi - charged with the offense of “manufactur - dence for the events on New Years Eve, is Salvatore Vespertino ing, possession, and transportation of an still being held in prison for alleged “mem - Casa Circondariale Sollicciano explosive or incendiary device to a public bership of a criminal organization” based Via Minervini 2/r place”. The second charge relates to a on evidence gathered during Operation 50142- Firenze Molotov attack against a Carabinieri bar - Panic. Italia racks, which happened on the night of the As Paska’s case shows, the investiga - fight against police mentioned earlier. tion against persons unknown has there - Pierloreto Fallanca On Augusts 5th, 6 detainees were fore been incorporated with Operation Casa Circondariale released by the GIP (judge for the prelimi - Panic. This means that they have adopted Via Paolo Perrone, 4 nary investigation) due to lack of evidence the same line of inquiry be it for those 73100 – Lecce against them. One comrade, Salvatore charged with “membership of a criminal Italia The Body of Santiago Maldonado Has Been Found It is with a heavy heart that we report 2017, when he was arrested in Pu Lof, dur - social organizations in various parts of the that the body of Santiago Maldonado’s was ing a demonstration in support of city of Córdoba. Several of the locations discovered on an Argentine riverbank on Argentina’s Indigenous Mapuche commu - were anarchist organizations. Police have October 17th. The body was discovered in nity. The protest in Patagonia was part of seized flags, posters, drums, drones, the branches of willow trees on the Chubut long-running dispute between Benetton, aerosols, fliers and some clothing. River, about 1,500 meters from the com - the Italian clothing retailer, which owns International media has described munity guard of the Indigenous Mapuche 2.2m acres of land, and the Indigenous Maldonado as a “missing backpacker,” community in Pu Lof, near Esqual. The people who claim part of the territory. ignoring the fact that he was an anarchist discovery of the body at that location rais - According to witnesses, the rally was and that his presence and then disappear - es serious suspicion as why the body was interrupted by the federal police force. One ance from the Mapuche community was just now discovered, after three previous witness claimed to have seen officers force directly related to his political conscious - searches had taken place at that specific Maldonado into a vehicle after knocking ness. location. him unconscious. After the body was discovered, it was Santiago’s brother, Sergio, questioned His disappearance has led to massive taken to Buenos Aires for an autopsy and in the media how his brother’s body was demonstrations, clashes with police and to identify the body. According to the gov - discovered after they had searched the has become the dominant issue in the polit - ernment, a twelve-hour autopsy revealed location without seeing the body. He sug - ical discourse in Argentina. In response to no lesions in his body, leading them to gested that the body might have been the massive demonstrations, police forces make the suggestion that he had drowned. planted there. conducted simultaneous raids on different With all the controversy surrounding this Santiago was last seen on August 1, spaces and cultural centers of political and case, few believe the explanation given. Anarchist Professor Deported From Belarus On October 9th, police in Grodno, On October 11th the courts sentenced A banner was displayed in Minsk early Belarus broke in a lecture at “Tsentr Ryabov to 6 days of prison. He then September in solidarity and in honor of Garadskogo Zhytsia” (“The center of the declared a hunger strike in response to the Alekseev. The banner read: “We’ll destroy city life”) to arrest anarchist philosopher, political repression. the dungeons, so that together we can go to Pyotr Vladimirovich Ryabov, and the His arrest and sentencing is part of an the end!” twenty or so attendees of the lecture. ongoing repression against anarchists in As for Ryabov, he was released from Ryabov, a senior lecturer in the Belarus in the last several months. In Baranovichi IVS (Temporary detention Department of Philosophy at the Moscow August, police broke into lecture of facility) at around 9 p.m. on October 16. State Pedagogical University, was sched - Russian anarchist and ex-political prisoner He was then escorted on a train to ule to give two lectures in Grodno and Alexey Sutuaga. On September 28th, Smolensk, Russia and banned from enter - Baranoichi on the “Libertarian social police raided the two homes of Minsk ing Belarus for 10 years. thought of the last third of the twentieth anarchists, confiscating printing equip - and early twenty-first century.” ment and electronic. Police charged Ryabov with “small In September, anarchists in Kiev and hooliganism” and “distribution of extrem - other cities held demonstrations against the ist materials (statute 17.1 and 17.11 of Belarusian government for the imprison - codex of misdemeanors of Belarus.) ment of Dimitry Polienko and Kirill Ryabov has in his possession a copy of the Alekseev. Polinko is serving two years in 2007 Belarussian anarchist journal prison for his arrest in a Critical Mass after “Svoboda ili Smert №6.” It was this mate - he was accused of assault on a police offi - rial the police claimed to be extremist cer. Alekseev was arrested earlier this year material, but it clear that the real motive of for an arson attack on a billboard that pro - the arrest was to halt the lectures. moted compliance with the law.

5 Support the Family of Antifa Prisoner - Brighton Anarchist Black Cross At the beginning of May 2016 our com - which was to get rid of the core of the anti- enough money for school meals, clothes rade Patryk Cichoń from Poland was fascist resistance in Patryk’s home town. etc. and that his younger brother is not arrested by British police under a Rather than doing prison time, he pushed into poverty as a result of looking European Arrest Warrant. Patryk is a well- decided to escape abroad and came to UK after him. known anti-fascist militant notorious in 2005. He started his new life there, con - Our aim it to raise 4000 pounds, which among nazi-boneheads in his city for his tinuing to be involved in anti-fascist activ - means we can send monthly payments to uncompromising stance against them in ity: organizing gigs in London, including his son during Patryk’s incarceration. the past. Boneheads managed to convince United and Strong Fest which has seen lots Patryk was always there if others need - a few of their friends to testify against of great Antifa bands from all over Europe ed help and assistance, please make sure he Patryk and his friend for alleged assault performing, and raising money for antifas - is not left on his own now. and robbery. As it appeared later, his friend cist initiatives. He was also the editor of Fundraising is organized by Brighton had very good alibi and had the charges the ‘Skinhead Revolt‘ fanzine, which was Anarchist Black Cross. You can pay money dropped (despite being allegedly recog - the first left wing skinhead publication in to our paypal address: nized by the “victim” and his friends), so Polish. thebottledwasp@riseup . net (please Patryk ended up being sentenced on his Patryk lost his extradition case and is choose “payment to a friend” option and own. The whole trial was an absolute trav - being deported to Poland to serve his sen - add a note saying “for Patryk”) esty and Patryk as a poor, young working tence. He is leaving behind his 10-year-old or to our bank account: class person was not able to afford a proper son in care of his younger brother D, who Nationwide Acc. defense. He spent two months on remand became his legal guardian. As D has two no./Reference: 0321 / 704131186 in 2004 and was sentenced to three years in small children of his own and is only [NB: The sender will need to quote this prison. money earner in the household, we are account number in the additional reference It is clear that this whole case was polit - planning to support him financially. We section on their payment instruction] ically motivated and had only one purpose, want Patryk to know that his son has IBAN: GB97NAIA07009333333334 Courts Helping in the J20 Prosecution The J20 prosecution is still moving for - The government has also issued court ward as the judge in the case, Lynn ordered to obtain information pertaining to Leibovitz, denied a series of motions to online activity relating to the organizing of dismiss the charges against the nearly 200 the J20 protests. Facebook has been in a individuals accused of property destruction legal entanglement with the government of and felony rioting on Inauguration Day. its demand for the social media company The defendants, if convicted, to be facing to give up their private communications decades in prison. and information of several users. Dozens of defense attorneys packed a Prosecutors are demanding all of the D.C. Superior courtroom early in the sum - information from the Facebook accounts mer to argue that charges should be of Legba Carrefour and Lacey MacAuley dropped, because the indictments treated from November 1, 2016 through February the defendants as one group rather than as 9, 2017, as well as that of the “DisruptJ20” individuals. Defense attorney argued that Facebook group page (now called "Resist the government could only prove that their This") moderated by Emmelia Talarico, clients were arrested, not that they have who called the warrants "a direct attack on committed any crimes. D.C.’s organizing community." In the judge’s decision, she stated that The American Civil Liberties Union of the defendants operated as part of the black D.C. is trying to quash, or at least narrow, bloc, using those tactics to commit vio - those warrants, which it describes as "over - lence and evade identification. Because the In total two hundred thirty-four people ly broad" and therefore a violation of the government is using aiding and abetting were arrested by D.C. police during or in Fourth Amendment. The ACLU has and conspiracy liability, "each defendant the aftermath of Inauguration Day. Of argued, “The government under these war - charged in the indictment may be liable for those arrested, 19 have pleaded guilty (18 rants would be able to see intimate mes - the acts of others alleged in the indict - of them pleaded down to misdemeanors.) sages exchanged with romantic partners, ment.” Dane Powell was sentenced to four months prescription drug and psychiatric informa - As to whether the government has evi - in federal prison. Twenty others have seen tion, credit card and banking information, dence against the individual defendants that their charges dismissed. A total of 195 still accounts of users and third parties who would justify the charges, she argued that is face up to 75 years in prison for their suffered domestic violence. This is deeply better address at trial, which some will alleged role in what the U.S. Attorney's personal stuff. Opening up a person's begin in November. The judge also denied a Office for D.C. has called a “violent riot” Facebook account can open up a person's motion to see how the grand jury was that caused more than $100,000 in dam - entire life." instructed before it made its decision to ages to buildings, property, and vehicles, The warrants would also reveal a treas - charge more than 200 people with rioting. and minor injuries to six police officers. ure trove of information about political

6 activities and associations, including what for organizing efforts. Talarico was the lenging the request, a judge granted a more rallies and demonstrations the activist have moderator for the “DisruptJ20” Facebook scaled-back warrant under the condition organized or attended, political commen - group page (now called "Resist This".) that the court would be overseeing the tary or viewpoint. Such access would have Dreamhost, the online service provider search. a chilling effect on free speech and associ - that hosted the DisruptJ20.org website, The court has also been establishing a ation. also received a warrant to provide the IP process for an online portal with evidence It is important to note that none of the addresses for more than 1.3 million visi - gleaned from the phones confiscated by three individuals - Carrefour, MacAuley, tors to the DisruptJ20.org website, along police during arrests and mined for data, or Talarico – were arrested during the J20 with addresses, phone numbers, bank including those of legal observers and demonstration. However, Carrefour and accounts, and other personal information journalists. For more information on the MacAuley both served as press contacts for thousands of subscribers. After chal - case: http:// defendj20resistance.org/ ‘Scripta Manent’ Trial to Start in Turin The first hearing of the trial ‘Scripta • In September and October 2016, anar - Manent’ will begin on November 16th, chist Marco Bisesti refused to be subjected 2017 in Turin, Italy. In total, fifteen anar - to a tuberculosis test on his arrival in the chists, seven still imprisoned, are accused prison, following which he spent a long of being part of the Informal Anarchist time in the basement of the Rebibbia Federation [F.A.I.] — International prison. Revolutionary Front [F.R.I.] • In November 2016, anarchist Charges included the ‘creation and par - Alessandro Mercogliano refused to com - ticipation in a subversive association’, sev - ply with the identification procedure (pho - eral explosive attacks on carabinieri, tos and fingerprinting) in the prison of politicians, journalists and companies Ferrara. He was given 15 days in solitary involved in the construction of prisons and confinement. migrants’ detention centers – all claimed • In December 2016, anarchist Marco by the Informal Anarchist Federation, as Bisesti damaged the windows of the well as instigation to commit a crime and screws’ office in the AS2 unit of Ferrara, attempting to defend criminal acts follow - where he’s being held. Not satisfied, as ing pieces published in Croce Nera soon as he was in the cell he destroyed the Anarchica (Anarchist Black Cross.) this they have continued to show resolve opaque panels installed on the air vents. He Four those who stand charged are mem - and have found opportunity to resist. too got 7 days in solitary confinement. bers of the Anarchist Black Cross. Three of • In January 2015, 7 anarchists held in • From 3rd to 13th May 2017, anarchist them were the same individuals who were the AS2 unit of Ferrara were each given 15 Alfredo Cospito was on hunger strike the targets of the 2005 ‘Operation Black days’ solitary confinement following noisy against censorship, which had become Cross’ in which they were accused of sev - protests and strong confrontations with the more pressing after the end of the investi - eral bombings, as well as attempting to guards, gation; as a result, practically all incoming defend criminal acts. As is the case today, • In August 2016 anarchist Alfredo and outgoing letters are blocked. they were accused of being part of the Cospito smashed the partition glass Those individuals currently imprisoned F.A.I. between the visiting room and the guards’ and are awaiting trial are: Anna Daniele Cortelli, an editor of the Croce room in solidarity with the imprisoned Beniamino, Alfred Cospito, Nicola Gai, Nera Anarchica was also arrested after members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Marco Bisesti, Alessandro Mercogliano, finding some batteries and an electrician’s Fire. He was given 15 days’ solitary con - Danilo Cremonese and Valentina Speziale. manual. Although he was set to go trial, he finement. Eight other anarchist awaiting trial are: was released. We are not aware of what • In the days following operation Patrizia Marino, Carlo Tesseri, Stafano Del happened to his case. “Scripta Manent”, anarchists Anna Moro, Claudia Cospito, Stefano Fosco, The imprisoned comrades have been Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito went on Elisa Di Berardo and Gabriel Pombo Da subjected to constant harassment with hunger strike to put an end to isolation and Silva. severe communication restrictions the prohibition for those arrested to see between one another and outside. Despite each other. Anarchist Given 73-Months Sentence for Arson Damion Feller, an anarchist from Over twenty-five individuals were In March 2017, Feller was arrested along Portland, had been sentenced to 73 months arrested for vandalizing property, setting with several others during a demonstration in prison after pleaded guilty to first-degree fires, throwing rocks and other violence. against the police murder of Quanice arson, second-degree arson, riot and first- Other than Feller, only one other person has Hayes. He was charged with disorderly con - degree criminal mischief. Feller was arrest - pleaded guilty of crimes related to the May duct and reckless burning.Charges against ed during the May Day protests in Portland Day demonstration. Sarah Pugh was given him were eventually dismissed. earlier in the year. He was accused throwing three years of probation, as she pleaded He also was charged in federal court for burning flares into a Portland police cruiser guilty to second-degree arson and riot. It his crimes. But as part of his plea deal, he and in a downtown Target store during a seems that her sentenced was lightened by won't be sentenced to any additional prison May Day demonstration earlier in the year. the fact that she was homeless and as she time.Feller will be eligible for release from He was eventually identified through pho - indicted to police, it was her “first anarchist prison after four years, if he gets time off for tos and new film footage. riot.” good behavior.

7 Mumia Abu-Jamal Cured of Hepatitis C! In January, Federal District Court Judge progress to cirrhosis of the liver. We continue Robert Mariani granted political prisoner to fight for Mumia to obtain a full redress for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s request for a preliminary his injuries at the hands of the PADOC. injunction, forcing the PADOC to provide Mumia's recovery is a product of the him with drugs capable of curing his chronic ALC's Hepatitis C Project, aimed at organiz - hepatitis C infection. During an evidentiary ing a network of pro bono attorneys to pro - hearing in December 2015, it was shown that vide legal services to hepatitis C (HCV) pos - Mumia had a chronic hepatitis C infection itive inmates in the Pennsylvania prison sys - that was progressively attacking his liver, tem. Because of medical advances, HCV can causing scarring, a severe, itchy, painful skin now be cured with new direct-acting antiviral rash that had lasted more than 18 months, and medications, as seen in Mumia's case. anemia of chronic disease. The Court finally However, more than 6,000 incarcerated ruled in our favor and granted a preliminary patients in Pennsylvania are still being injunction at the beginning of this year, and denied the cure. Attorneys are needed to pro - on May 28, 2017, Mumia announced that he vide representation in this important public is now free of the hepatitis C virus. health effort to establish a right to the cure. The victory was bittersweet, however, as (This article was originally published by the PADOC's 2-year fight against providing the Abolitionalist Law Center. For more Mumia treatment allowed the disease to information: http://abolitionistlawcenter.org) Anarchists Convicted in a Paris Courtroom In October, a Parisian court convicted of time she was also being denied her hor - suspended, while his younger brother, several anarchists in connection to an mone treatment. Antonin, was found not guilty, along with arson attack against a police car during the Ari Rustenholz was sentenced to two another young man. May 2016 demonstrations against the gov - and a half years in prison and two years Having spent 10 months in detention ernment labor reforms. suspended sentence. Both he and Kara awaiting trial, Georges Bernanos and Joachim Landwehr, a Swiss man, was were accused of breaking the car windows Nicolas Fensch may not return to prison convicted in absentia and received a seven- while the police were inside. and could serve their rest of their sentences year sentence. He is accused of throwing a Nicolas Fsnch was accused of hitting under police surveillance, electronically teargas grenade causing the car to catch on police with a metal bar and received a five tagged. fire. Police are currently seeking him. year sentence and two and a half suspend - After the convictions were handed Kara Brault, aka Kara Wild, is a U.S. ed sentence. down, about forty of their supporters in the citizen who was sentenced to two years in Antonin Bernanos, an antifascist courtroom erupted in angry and defiant prison and two years suspended. Kara, a activist who is the great grandson of chants until they were eventually cleared transgendered woman, was brutally arrest - famous French writer Georges Bernanos, from the courtroom. ed week after the incident and has since was found guilty of assaulting an officer Last month in solidarity for the defen - been held within a men’s prison while and breaking the rear window of the car. dants, a group of anarchists allegedly set awaiting trial and conviction. For a period He was given a three years in jail and two fire to a gendarmerie building in Lyon. Eco-Activists Cleared for Necessity Defense A judge in Minnesota has cleared the activists who were arrested and charged trespassing, but he issued a guilty verdict way for an unusual and potentially ground - with felonies last year can argue that they in June, stating the defense failed to prove breaking defense, allowing climate violated the law in order to protect citizens "imminence", or immediate harm posed by activists to use the "necessity" of con - from the impacts of global warming and climate change. fronting the climate crisis as justification that they had no legal alternative. Use of a necessity defense is typically for temporarily shutting down two crude The ruling is the third recent case in used not for protests but for more clear cut oil pipelines last year. which a judge in the United States has cases of individuals intentionally commit - Three environmental activist, Emily allowed for such a defense in a climate ting a crime to prevent imminent danger. Johnston, Annette Klapstein and Benjamin case in a jury trial. A case in Massachusetts Political activists have, however, used Joldersma, are charged with felonies over in 2014 did not go to trial after the prose - the necessity defense in the past in opposi - the shutdown of two pipelines there in cutor dropped the charges. A judge allowed tion to issues including the Vietnam War, Minnesota on Oct. 11, 2016. A fourth the necessity defense in a Washington nuclear weapons and abortion. defendant, Steven Liptay, who filmed the State case in 2016 but then instructed The pipeline shutdowns in Minnesota pipeline shutdowns, is charged with two jurors they could not acquit on necessity. were part of a multi-state protest by the gross misdemeanors. There was also a recent non-jury case in group Climate to protest the During their last hearing on October 11, which a county judge in Slate Hill, New flow of tar sands crude into the U.S., and to a district court judge in Clearwater County, York, allowed a necessity defense for cli - show solidarity with the Dakota Access Minnesota, ruled on Oct. 11 that three mate activists charged with misdemeanor pipeline protests in North Dakota.

8 Herman Bell’s Beat-Down written by susie Day “Why don’t you Americans drop the “I’m curious,” continues my therapist, bullshit about the land of the free and the who really did ask this: “If these officers home of the brave? Admit you’re now are so thuggish and macho, why was basically a tinpot dictatorship.” Herman maced? Isn’t pummeling and This, from my playwright friend Diane kicking more satisfying than spraying a in London, with whom I’m Skyping. I’ve chemical into somebody’s face? Wasn’t just told her about what happened to Herman convicted of something serious?” Herman Bell, my friend in prison. He’s a Pause. Inwardly, I reel at the degree to former Black Panther who turns 70 this which TV shows like “Law and Order” January and has been locked up since have permeated even the most profession - 1974. On September 5, Herman survived a al, free-to-be-you-and-me brain. I blurt out “beat-down” by five to seven white correc - something rhetorical like, “How many US tional officers half his age at Great Army vets who wiped out whole villages Meadow prison — one of the more Klan- in Vietnam or Iraq do we pass every day on friendly joints in upstate New York. Two starts in punching him. Other guards pile the street? Do they spend any time in jail?” of Herman’s ribs are broken; he’s lost on, punching and kicking, and somebody “You have a big heart,” she counters. some vision in one eye; probably has a sprays mace in Herman’s eyes and mouth. “But what life choices have you made that concussion. They try to pull off his boots and break his would attract you to a friendship with Diane continues. “The mind fuck: legs. When they slam his head repeatedly someone like Herman? ‘Everybody’s created equal?’ Please…” onto the concrete floor, Herman thinks that “Why shouldn’t I be friends with I find it refreshing to hear my United he is surely dying. But Herman never hits Herman?” I ask. “He’s a good person.” I States besmirched by a non-American back. He knows how to act in prison. He realize this therapeutic relationship has (even one who shops at Banana Republic never hits back. reached its “sell-by” date. “You know when she comes here). This means a lot Herman Bell after a recent beat-down what, lady?” I say, “you just asked the kind when it pertains to Herman, who, after 40- in the upstate Great Meadow prison. of what’s-in-it-for-me question that keeps plus years inside, only wants to get out on I know this happened in this way us all in hell. It’s certainly keeping Herman parole, to live what’s left of his life with because Herman is widely respected as a in lockdown.” his wife and grandchildren. Herman isn’t a humble and peaceable man by the people Then I fire her. saint; he isn’t my hero. He is my friend, incarcerated with him. One of them heard Thing is, I believe Herman. I never had one of the kindest, funniest people I know. about the beating and called a friend out - any doubt. I visited him maybe 10 days Now, he’s badly hurt. side. From there, word got to Herman’s after his beating. With a “land-of-the-free” What happened to Herman isn’t unique lawyer, who managed to call Herman. sincerity, Herman talked about the “right in New York State, where brutal — some - Nancy stepped in. Immediately, people to remain innocent,” meaning everyone’s times fatal — assaults by guards on prison - started working on his case… need to expect justice. ers have persisted for years. As an Back at the prison, the guards, after And here’s a fucking miracle: American, though, I don’t usually hear beating Herman, do the usual thing cops Evidently, DOCCS believes Herman, too. about this, since the normalizing zeitgeist do: they charge him with assaulting an Because on October 5, they dropped his in this tinpot land o’ the free is that people officer. Herman is transferred to another charges and moved him into general popu - behind bars — especially “convicted cop prison and placed in SHU — an Orwellian lation at a prison closer to New York City. killers” — deserve whatever they get. acronym for “special housing unit,” which This bare-bones justice almost never hap - Herman’s beat-down happened when he means solitary confinement. pens — even to prisoners like Herman, was out in the rec yard. There’s a bank of About four days later, Herman and with several hundred supporters mailing phones there, and he was talking with his Nancy get one short, no-contact visit. letters and making phone calls. That’s why wife, Nancy, who was coming in a few Herman is brought in, beat-up and hand - we need to make this miracle an ordinary, days for a contact visit — their first in cuffed, stumbling in leg shackles. He and procedural occurrence for everybody almost three years. Herman and Nancy Nancy have to yell through a hole in a Herman describes as “the mass incarcerat - have been allowed to see one another sit - thick Plexiglas wall. ed and the voiceless.” Because we should ting across a divided table in a crowded At my regular therapy session, I not have to work so hard to prove that bru - visiting room. Recently, though, the describe all this. tality is wrong. Because incarcerated peo - Department of Corrections and “Herman must have done something,” ple have human rights and can be believed. Community Supervision (DOCCS) says my therapist — a well-mannered, Meanwhile, Herman remains in prison. allowed them family, or “trailer,” visits, white, liberal American, who believes in “Let’s hope,” says my stalwart, non- which is when a prisoner can actually be balance, symmetry, and National Public American friend Diane, “that life will now alone in a makeshift room with a family Radio. “What did Herman do to cause unravel in a way that leads to Herman’s member for a day or two. Herman and this?” coming home.” Nancy were planning their first time in “I don’t know,” I snap. “Maybe he did - (Since the writing of this article, the awhile being really together, when across n’t hang up the phone fast enough? Maybe charges against Bell have been dropped. the yard, a fight broke out. The officers he was looking too black that day? If he’d For more info: www.freehermanbell.org) announced the yard was closed, and raised one finger to defend himself, those Herman said to Nancy, “I got to hang up.” thugs would have killed him. And if he’s Please write letters of support at: Next thing he knows, one guard yanks convicted, he’ll spend an indefinite Herman Bell 79-C-0262 Herman away, drags him into a hall where amount of time in SHU, lose any privi - Shawangunk Correctional Facility there are no surveillance cameras. Then he leges, and kiss his last chance of parole PO Box, 700 slaps the glasses off Herman’s face and goodbye.” Wallkill, New York 12589

9 A Message on Running Down the Walls On September 17th, people came FCC Victorville (CA), FMC Carswell association and affiliation with anarchist together in various cities and prisons (TX), and Eloy (AZ) and other prisons organizations” and his “anti-authoritarian throughout North America to engage in the joined us behind the prison walls. This views,” the examiner took special interest annual event known as Running Down the year was the first run inside of a women’s in the run. He denounced “Running Down Walls (RDTW). This event is a 5k run that prison. the Walls,” but did not specify why. It is raises funds and awareness for political It should be noted that our comrade, clear that opposition is rooted in the fact prisoners and prisoners of war. Jaan Laaman, was unable to participate in that the event connects rather than isolates The idea for the event began as a pass - the event because of his continued lock - our comrades, letting them know they are ing comment made by a member of the down in Tucson. Jaan has been a critical not alone. Los Angeles ABCF back in 1998. It wasn’t agent in keeping this event going. While Over the years, former political prison - until the following year that we organized we know he was there in spirit, his absence ers, like Daniel McGowan, Sara Jane our first RDTW in Griffith Park. was recognized and deeply felt. Olson, Matt Lamont, Sherman Austin, Rob Thankfully, with the help of our impris - If the importance of this event is Middaugh and many others have taken part oned comrades - like Bill Dunne and Jaan missed, consider the fact that a critical in runs outside the prison walls. Their con - Laaman – and our friends in various cities, aspect of the event is that people engage in tinued support in the event shows us that the event has continued to grow. RDTW action that transcends beyond the prison there is value in keeping this event going. has now taken place in well over thirty fence, connects people in difference It is important for us, in Los Angeles, to cities, three countries and numerous pris - locales, and unifies individuals in one sin - thank all those who have continued to ons through North America. It can now be gle thought – the freedom and solidarity build this event. We thank you for taking said that Running Down the Walls has with our imprisoned comrades. ownership and building it with us. It is an become its own movement. The significance of this is certainly not honor to create this with you. We hope that This year alone we had runs in location lost on our enemies. In 2015, our dear others will join us in this endeavor. such as: Hamilton, Ontario, Puget Sound, comrade, Bill Dunne, received a 15-year We will soon be announcing the date Denver, NYC, Los Angeles, Middletown, hit on his parole hearing. Now while the for next year’s RDTW. We hope to expand Boston, Buffalo, Riverside, Minneapolis commission listed numerous reasons for this year to more countries, more cities and and Bloomington, Indiana. Comrades in their rationale, including Bill’s “continued more prisons - Until they are free. FREQUENTLY USED

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