Prison Struggle
Week of Solidarity without Borders- 9 to 16 June 2008
Update: From France (paris.indymedia.org and cettesemaine.free.fr):
"On Friday, June 6, 2008, Ivan and Bruno were released from prison and put under judicial control. Farid, who was arrested on January 23 at Vierzon with his companion Isa, has also been released under judicial control, but Isa is still being detained at the prison of Lille-Sequedin. The week of solidarity called for June 9 to 16 is obviously still on, for the freedom of Isa and all the other prisoners. There are solidarity events planned to take place in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Vigan, Sete and Brussels (Belgium)."
19th of January 2008 - Ivan Bruno and Damien are stopped by police on their way to a demonstration going to the detention centre for immigrants in Vincennes (near Paris). They had home-made smoke bombs and torn nails (crow's-feet) with them. They were arrested and taken to the police station where they refused identification through finger prints and DNA. Two were imprisoned; the third one was placed under judicial surveillance.
23rd of January 2008 - Two other persons are arrested during a road control by the border police nearby Vierzon. In the trunk, police finds chlorate, plans of a juvenile prison (EPM) and manuals for sabotage. They are imprisoned under a special jurisdiction: anti-terrorism. The cops accuse them of having wanted to attack an EPM, one of them is also accused of trying to sabotage a police vehicle.
The five were now all put under investigation for "possession and transport of explosive or inflammable material" and "criminal association with terrorist ends". Four of them are already four months in prison.
For two of them, the preventive arrest has been recently prolonged for four months by the anti-terrorist judges while for one of them, a decision has already been taken for a preventive detention of one year.
From the recent mutinies in the detention centers of immigrants to the strikes during which hundreds of people without papers occupied the working places: all this reminds everyone that exploitation and imprisonment are linked. Not only by the development of labor inside prisons or the always more and more prison-like aspect of the conditions of exploitation, but also because imprisonment (of people without papers, youngsters, those who try to survive outside of wage labor or the internal enemy) is one of the threats that makes the acceptance of always more miserable conditions of exploitation possible.
The necessary solidarity with the prisoners cannot be exclusively material. Solidarity consists also of the struggles, of all acts and resistance who oppose and attack the easy going of State and Capital. Solidarity means also the extension and intensification of the revolt...
From smoke bombs being lit in Dijon, Grenoble, Toulouse and Paris; banners being hung out; organisms linked with deportations which are attacked; tags and street blockades to a radio program being disturbed: a bit everywhere solidarity actions already took place. The idea of a week of solidarity without borders from the 9th to the 16th of June is to intensify diverse solidarity actions during this period who can spread and maybe not end there...
Solidarity with the two from Vierzon, with Bruno, Ivan, Damien and the others!
Freedom for all prisoners, with or without papers!
Freedom for all!
Every practical contribution to the solidarity week without borders
can also be sent to:
solidarite_sans_frontieres@riseup.net
[Translated from http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=100155]