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Call for Solidarity for imprisoned anarchist Giannis Dimitrakis

Assembly for Solidarity (Athens, Greece) | 07.04.2010 23:42 | Social Struggles | World

In light of the appeal on April 28th 2010, we call out for actions of solidarity everywhere.

It's been more than four years since the morning of January 16th 2006, when the anarchist Giannis Dimitrakis was arrested, heavily wounded by police fire, after a robbery at a branch of the National Bank in the center of Athens.

From the very first moment a storm of constructed information broke out, systematically supplied by the police and readily carried out by the mass media. The police constructed "the gang of thieves in black," so that other comrades could be named as members, to which was attributed a string of robberies but also a close association to armed revolutionary groups, and then it was proclaimed that the whole of the anarchist- anti-authoritarian movement is closely connected to organized crime !! Gianni's arrest, the slander and the manhunt unleashed against his three supposed accomplices (which were later on declared wanted for astronomic rewards) - four comrades known for their many years of political activity - on the one hand aims for their legal annihilation and on the other, promotes a holistic plan of stripping of meaning and criminalization of anarchists, anti-authoritarians and class struggle.

Because of his political identity, the state moved with rage against him from the first moment. Parallel to the crescendo of misinformation and impression creating by the media, the district attorney tried to interrogate him in the emergency room while he was bedridden and under pharmaceutical influence. The categories against him were based on the "anti-terror" law and enriched with six unsolved robberies, attempted manslaughter and money laundering. He was probably the first man in custody to be held at Malandrino maximum security prison, which is intended to hold convicts only, while attacks by prison guards, vindictive transfers and disciplinary sentences, the exhausting sentence of the first trial (an unheard of for a robbery sentence of 35 years) and the provocative deprivation of basic rights for the preparation of his defense at the court of appeals supplement the oppressive aggressiveness against him.

In these extreme conditions, the comrade defended from the beginning his choice to expropriate a bank, without statements of remorse and with clarity as towards his motives and intentions. He gave meaning to his act as a moment in his critique and action against the system of wage slavery and exploitation, against the antisocial role of the banks and as a part of the polymorphic social struggle.

Furthermore, in the wretched reality of the prisons, he stood dynamically and with dignity from the beginning. He participated in all of the prisoner's struggles happening the past years in Greece. Advancing to hunger strikes and abstinence from the prison meals - despite the permanent health problems given him by the cop's bullets - showing his solidarity for his fellow prisoners and fighting for the terms of his survival and existence in the difficult position of imprisonment. Along with other imprisoned anti-authoritarians he was an interactive channel of communication with the grandiose prisoner's movements in the fall of 2008.

All these reasons - and because Giannis Dimitrakis and the other three wanted anarchists are some of us, comrades and co fighters in the diversity of the struggles for freedom - fired off a mass of actions of solidarity and political defense for them in many cities in Greece. From the posters, texts and brochures to the flyers, banners and slogans on walls and from the attack actions against banks, other economic targets or government vehicles to the massive presence of people at the public events in the amphitheaters, the march in the center of Athens and the demonstrations outside of the prisons of Malandrino, Koridallos, Neapolis and Alikarnasso, the anarchists and anti-authoritarians made clear the way in which they respond to their comrades being held hostage by the state.

The appeal will be on April 28th, where the decision against our comrade will be finalized. Four years after his arrest, four years after the start of this particularly repressive undertaking, one year and some months after the December revolt, the state's constant and manic attempt to oppress, marginalize and criminalize the people of the struggle is becoming all the more clear. Our key weapon against this policy is active solidarity with all means possible.

The appeal of Giannis Dimitrakis is very important, as much for the legal outcome of his case, as for if we will allow the state's manipulations and experiments against us to flourish.

In light of the appeal on April 28th 2010, we call out for actions of solidarity everywhere. Collectives and comrades are organizing marches and actions for Tuesday April 27th, throughout Greece. However it would be significant if you also could organize actions for that day (or some day near to it) in your cities and your countries, for example demonstrations outside of Greek embassies or consulates. Many such actions would send a specific message of solidarity and would be important to us.

With comradely greetings,

Assembly for Solidarity
(Athens)

Assembly for Solidarity (Athens, Greece)
- e-mail: keimeno.giannhs@gmail.com

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cry baby!

08.04.2010 00:38

appeal? thats a fucking waste of time!

he's guilty, and he got caught, thats what happens!

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08.04.2010 01:04

Jo, make sure your mommy doesnt catch you wanking over the screen again. Now fuck off and crawl back into your hole yo utroll.

anarchist


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tosspot

08.04.2010 21:24

What exactly is his grounds for an appeal?

I just don't get it. Armed robbery = put in prison.
Whats he expect? To be let off! Completely deluded as to the consequencies of his actions.

Aimy


attack the banks

09.04.2010 09:27

use every which way to get free - never give up - never back down

the real terrorists are the states and capitalists - nothing is more ´criminal´ than owning and running a bank.

Free Giannis - for a combative and aggressive anarchist movement - attack and destroy.

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idjiots

09.04.2010 18:58

>> use every which way to get free - never give up - never back down

I am already free. Being stuck in prison like mr. idealist is not free
If you don't like the laws of the land, move to somewhere you do like.

>> the real terrorists are the states and capitalists
No they're not. They present no harm to me, unlike the ones that blow stuff up, typically modes of transport that I favour to use.

>> nothing is more ´criminal´ than owning and running a bank.
No it isn't. People aren't forced to borrow money or get into debt. Its all freewill. They just bitch about it afterwards when they can't afford to pay their mortgage repayments (which they agreed / promised to). Then they say that its unfair. You never here them bitching when they're house investment made a big fat profit. The only time you here people bitching about banks, is when they can't afford to pay back what they voluntarily borrowed.

>> Free Giannis - for a combative and aggressive anarchist movement - attack and destroy.
Not going to happen. Because the guy is a dangerous menace and the vast majority of people don't want to see him attack and destroy things in case they get caught in his random, reckless crossfire.

Ahmed


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ahmed= edl member

10.04.2010 15:16

yeah, yeah, go back to stormfront you prick.

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April 28th 2010

10.04.2010 16:45

>I am already free. Being stuck in prison like mr. idealist is not free
>If you don't like the laws of the land, move to somewhere you do like.

You sound like a nationalist, addicted to the lies you have been sold all your life. You live in a cell all of your own, with your whole life inside it, not only that, but you attempt to enslave others through your ignorance.

>No they're not. They present no harm to me, unlike the ones that blow stuff up, typically modes >of transport that I favour to use.

Unlike the British Army, Navy and Airforce raining murder on men, women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike the MI6 torturing people to death on the say-so of the Home Office. Killings you benefit from in your so-called 'free' country.

>No it isn't. People aren't forced to borrow money or get into debt. Its all freewill.

You understand nothing of the capitalist system nor the supposedly 'free' country you inhabit, you are simply a useful idiot of the government.

>Not going to happen. Because the guy is a dangerous menace and the vast majority of people don't >want to see him attack and destroy things in case they get caught in his random, reckless >crossfire.

It will happen, because : 'It's all freewill' - Contributing to another social uprising in Greece increases the chances of Giannis' release, this will be done through acts of individual and mass social insurrection. The vast majority of people in Greece accept that there will be another rebellion, quite likely at a serious level. You personally will not stop this, you pathetic parasite, nor the powers you submit to.

The only people caught in 'random, reckless' crossfire have been migrant youths killed by fascists and police. You do not know anything about the current events in Greece.

Solidarity with Giannis - April 28th 2010.


Solidarity with Giannis


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Lets all be like greece

11.04.2010 17:10

I don't want to know anything about the events of Greece - it sounds like a shit hole.
This is a UK web site, not a greek site.

Its a shithole because of your Greek values. The UK is such a better place because of the way we run the country. Its not perfect, but its a lot, lot better than Greece. So, you can moan all you want, but at the end of the day, its better living here than it is there.

You are just a victim of your own beliefs. Victim-mentality has caused you to become a victim. If your outlook is so great, then why are you so down-trodden?


Ahmed


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Ahmed

12.04.2010 08:27

Is Greece a Shithole? I'd probably agree with you there and say that yes it is. But probably not for the reasons that you pointed out. Your 'privileged' life in the UK is not down to some advanced mentality. Far from it, you are able to live in relative luxury due to a backward concept called imperialism. Britain owns and impoverishes half the world (financially) in order to multiply wealth domestically. Having said that even though you are the 4th richest country in the world you still have far fewer people owning property (house) than Greece does, far more people dying from the cold (particularly your pensioners who i see your advanced mindset includes as valued members of society), and has far more homeless people that Greece. Again not bad for the 4th richest country in the world. I'd also like to add that as a Nation, words like solidarity, and freedom probably mean less to the people (majority) of Britain than to the rest of the Europeans. In a nutshell people's mindset is more like the American one. That my friend is the definition of shithole. Again i stress that i am generalizing and there is a sizable minority which is not like that but still this is what i gathered after spending 7 years in the UK.

T


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