Solidarity - international prisoner hunger strike

Following the call out of Gabriel Pombo Da Silva for the hunger strike, from December 20th to the 1st of January, to include any revolutionary prisoner spread throughout the world, we have received the confirmation of the participation of Marco Camenisch (in Switzerland), Juan Carlos, Francisco, Honorio, Alberto (in Spain), Diego (Argentina), and Sergio, Mike and Evelyn (in Italy). In solidarity with the year end hunger strike

"Solidarity is a weapon, best used when it becomes gasoline to throw on those fires of revolt that their repression wants extinguished"
. Sergio

"I think it is clear that our oppressors are not afraid of our diy explosives (on this point they are far ahead of us) but of the ideas that drive us to break through the status quo, of the love that moves us to overcome anything in our way and makes us bold and reckless."
Gabriel Pombo Da Silva

Following the call out of Gabriel Pombo Da Silva for the hunger strike, from December 20th to the 1st of January, to include any revolutionary prisoner spread throughout the world, we have received the confirmation of the participation of Marco Camenisch (in Switzerland), Juan Carlos, Francisco, Honorio, Alberto (in Spain), Diego (Argentina), and Sergio, Mike and Evelyn (in Italy).

We find it important to point out that this call-out is coming directly from imprisoned comrades. This is an "act of insurgent love" to "incite and invite to the joy of rebellion"(from the first communique of Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, oct 2009). While each of these revolutionaries may come from a different context, affinities and points of reference, this hunger strike is meant to be a tactic of struggle in contribution to social war. Many have mentioned in their communiques their desire to commemorate the deceased comrades Marcelo (died in May 2009, while placing an explosive outside the chilean penitentiary police academy) and Zoe (died in May 2009 while preparing an explosive device). This is not for the purpose of wallowing in grief, but to extend direct action, by all means necessary. It is also the occasion to strengthen the ties of support and solidarity among social rebels who have been kidnapped by the state in their fight against the institutions of government and capital.

This is also an invitation for all those on the outside who want to show their solidarity, to take action. In the struggle against all forms of authority and repression, it is important to clearly show that our imprisoned comrades will not be silenced nor forgotten and their struggle is not isolated. We want to take this occasion to reinforce the communication and active solidarity between the “inside” and “outside”. Everyone can decide, within their own context and creativity, how to express their struggle for total liberation and their show of solidarity towards social rebels on the other side of the walls.

The organization for this hunger strike is completely decentralized. There is no main campaign nor central mobilization.
For continuous updates and communiques (mostly in Spanish and Italian) check out culmine.noblogs.org, while for more summerized versions and translations in English we will continue with updates on this website.

Destroy all Prisons, and the world that creates them.
Till we are all free!!!

some anarchists

Here are the contacts of the prisoners in hunger strike from the December 20th o January 1st.

Gabriel Pombo Da Silva - c/o JVA Aachen - Krefelderstrasse 251 - 52070 Aachen - Deutschland
Marco Camenisch - Postfach 3143 - 8105 Regensdorf - Svizzera
Juan Carlos Rico Rodríguez and Francisco Maya Rodriguez
Centro Penitenciario de Madrid V (Soto del Real) - Ctra. Comarcal 611, km. 37,6 - C.P. 28770 Soto del Real (Madrid) - España
Sergio Maria Stefani- Carcere di Spoleto/ via maiano, 10/ 06049-Spoleto (PG)
Honorio Gómez Alfaro Centro Penitenciario de Madrid IV/ Ctra. N-V, km. 27,7 / 28600 Navalcarnero (Madrid)/ España

Alberto Jiménez Alba- Centro Penitenciario de Madrid III/Ctra. Pinto-San Martín de la Vega, km. 5/ 28340 Valdemoro (Madrid)/ España

Diego Petrissans - C.P.F. Devoto (C.A.B.A.)/ Bermudez 2651 (C.P. 1417)/ P. 5 - C 2°/ Argentina

Evelyn and Mike are under house arrest, we have not been able to find any contact address.

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additional info:

PORTLAND – Dec 16, 2009 – Jeff “Free” Luers, political prisoner and environmental activist, was released from the Columbia River Correctional Institution this morning after serving nine and half years. Luers was originally sentenced in 2001 to twenty two years and eight months for the politically motivated arson of three SUV's at a car dealership in Eugene, OR. This sentence was deemed grossly disproportionate to the damage sustained by the car dealership and was condemned by legal professionals, human rights groups and activists worldwide. At an appeal hearing in 2007 it was ruled that Luers' original sentence was illegal, and was consequently reduced to ten years.

more: http://www.freejeffluers.org/assets/pdfs/JeffReleased.pdf