17 eylemci gözaltına alındı. Yeni Zelanda'da 300'den fazla polis evleri bastı
a 23 Oct 2007 21:08 GMT (translated by a)
Aotearoa/Yeni Zelanda'nın çeşitli kentlerinde 15 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi günü sabaha karşı 300'den fazla polisin katıldığı operasyonlarda 17 barış ve ekoloji aktivisti göz altına alındı. Auckland, Whakatane, Ruatoki, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington ve Christchurch'de arama izinleriyle baskınlar yapıldı. Polis ayrıca sorgulamak üzere 60 kişiyi arıyor. Gözaltına alınanların tümü Tino Rangatiratanga barış ve ekoloji hareketinin üyeleri.
Polis 6:00'da Auckland'de "A Space Inside" adındaki anarşist sosyal merkeze [ arama izni ] ve Wellington'da Community Centre'a saldırıldı [ polis saldırısının videosu ]. Ruatoki kentinde, Tuhoe köyü birkaç saat boyunca polis tarafından kuşatıldı, hiçbir aracın köye girişine izin verilmedi ve içi çocuk dolu bir okul otobüsü dahil pek çoğu polis tarafından arandı.
Gözaltına alınanlardan 14'ü Auckland, Rotorua ve Wellington'da mahkemeye çıkarıldılar ve kefaletle salıverilme istekleri reddedildi. İki kişi hariç eylemcilerin isimleri gizli tutuluyor. Eylemcilerin tümü çeşitli ateşli silahlar ve cephane bulundurdukları gerekçesiyle Silahlı Eylem suçlamasıyla karşılaştılar. Polisin gerekçesi ise, adı açıklanan Tama Iti adlı Maori aktivistinin Plenty Körfezi’nde kuırduğu kampta ateşli silahlar bulundurup, terörist eğitim yaptırması. Tama Iti sabaha karşı 4:00'de evinde yapılan baskınla ilk gözaltına alınanlardan biriydi. Ancak 17 Ekim günü 'Radio New Zealand'da verilen bilgilere göre, yapılan eğitim devletten alınan destek sonucu insanların vahşi ormanda yaşamlarını nasıl sürdürebileceklerine ilişkin; avcılık, balık tutma, yenebilir yabani yiyecekleri tanıma gibi etkinlikleri içeriyor. Ayrıca Maoriler, Tama Iti'nin Maori hakları için savaşan bir activist olduğunu vurguluyorlar. Televizyon kameralarının baskın sırasında hazır bulunması ve su ana kadar polisin bulgularını halka açıklamıyor olması da kafaları karıştırıyor.
Halkın yorumu ise, hükümetin Anti-Terör Yasası’nı meclisten geçirmek icin bu yola başvurduğu yönünde. Halk aynı zamanda ‘11 Eylül sonrası dünyada estirilen terör den sonra sivil hakların budanmasına, şimdi de burada mı sıra geldi?’ diye tepki gösteriyor. Tüm eylemcilerin yargılandığı mahkemeler önünde dayanışma gösterileri oluyor. Ayrıca Maoriler, aramalar sırasında okul otobüsünde çocuklara da terör estirildiği için ve baskına ilişkin diğer yorumlarını duyurmak için haka danslarını da sergiledikleri binlerce kişilik bir gösteri düzenlediler. Maorilerin siyaset, ekonomi ve sosyal hayatta etkin oldukları dikkate alınırsa, tepkilerin sürmesi bekleniyor.
Dayanışma!
- Heryer: lettersforprisoners@riseup.net adresine göndereceğiniz mektuplar yazılı olarak gözaltına alınan eylemcilere ulaştırılacak. KEndinize veya başka birine zarar verecek birşey yazmayın!
- Auckland: Bir dayanışma grubu oluşturuldu ve Perşembe günü toplantı yapılacak. Ayrıntılar daha sonra duyurulacak.
- Wellington: ";Yapısal bir tepki tartışması" başlığıyla Perşembe günü 19:30'da, 128 Abel Smith St. adresinde bir toplantı düzenlenecek ve Çarşamba günü 14:00'de Wellington Bölge Mahkemesi önünde bir protesto eylemi gerçekleştirilecek.
- Christchurch: Perşembe günü 17:00'de Cathedral Meydanında bir protesto eylemi yapılacak. Aynı yerde Cumartesi günü de öğlen 12:00'de protesto eylemi var.
- Melbourne, Avustralya: Gözaltına alınanlarla dayanışmak için Salı günü 11:00'de Suite 2, North Level 3 350 Collins Street adresinde bulunan Yeni Zelanda Başkonsolosluğu önünde bir protesto eylemi yapılacak.
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Police Terrorism
alert 16.Oct.2007 18:08
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Solidarity demos
Strypey 17.Oct.2007 04:52
Solidarity demos for the Urewera 17 have been going on around Aotearoa and around the world. 80 people attended a rally in Christchurch Tuesday night. Around 200 people attended a rally at the Wellington District Court in support of the 4 local people who were arrested. There were also demos in Sydney and Melbourne. Support messages have been pouring in from all over the globe. Kia ora koutou!
Strypey
Aotearoa Indymedia
Übersetzung auf deutsch / German translation
((i)) 17.Oct.2007 12:13
[Aotearoa|New Zealand] 17 AktivistInnen verhaftet, Kaution abgelehnt. +300 Polizisten im Einsatz ::
http://ch.indymedia.org/de/2007/10/53621.shtml
In einer Welle massiver staatlicher Repression haben mehr als 300 meist bewaffnete Polizisten, im ganzen Land Häuser überfallen und total 17 Menschen verhaftet. Durchsuchungsbefehle wurde ausgeführt in Auckland, Whakatane, Ruatoki, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch. Die Polizei suchte ebenfalls ca. 60 Personen für Befragungen. Die Verhafteten sind alles AktivistInnen der Tino Rangatiratanga, Friedens und Umweltbewegung.
weiter:
Info in Russian
Anonymous 17.Oct.2007 19:55
On the St. Petersburg Indymedia website.
http://piter.indymedia.ru/ru/node/3419
Solidarity, comrades!
Solidarietà se sono innocenti
FedericOria 17.Oct.2007 22:25
Tutta la mia solidarietà per questi ragazzi,ke se la caveranno se nn hanno fatto niente e torneranno sempre più forti.Ormai la giustizia non esiste!!
Message from a prisoner
Asher (Aotearoa Indymedia) 18.Oct.2007 01:29
A Wellington arrestee who is being held in Rimutaka sent his love and thanked everyone for their support. Knowing about the worldwide support they've been getting has made a real difference for those inside.
Additional Message from a Prisoner in Wellington
G. 19.Oct.2007 01:13
"Thanks so much for all the love and support and solidarity we've received from people in Aotearoa and the world! Conditions have improved: I finally received vegetarian meals and we can now ring our lawyers. We also got visitors, books, magazines, newspapers, and mail today which makes all
this a bit more bearable. (I'm reading the Graphic History of the I.W.W and some Bell Hooks)
The Solidarity has been really amazing with support from around the world,
protests in Australia (I saw a photo of the Melbourne rally in the papers
and Sina Brown-Davies gets quoted saying "We must remember that the ones who
are terrorists are those who came to Australia and Aotearoa and committed
genocide") and Aotearoa. If we dont reply to letters or emails, then it is
probably because we dont have pen, papers or envelopes which are tricky to
get hold of at the moment."
Please keep the letters coming people! New Zealand's prisons are shit and not all our letters will get through due to fussy cops about hand writing etcera... Letters don't have to be in English we can organize translation. Remember their in there for us and we have to be out there for them.
Love/Solidarity
-G.
Ways to help from overseas
anonymous 20.Oct.2007 10:29
***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY, PARTICULARLY TO YOUR CONTACTS OVERSEAS***
On 15th October, 300+ Police - in many cases armed - raided houses throughout Aotearoa (New Zealand) making 17 arrests. The arrestees are all activists in the Tino Rangatiratanga (Maori self-determination), peace and environmental movements. They have initially been charged with with various offenses relating to alleged past possession of various firearms and ammunition; however police are considering laying charges under the 2002 Suppression of Terrorism Act.
These aggressive raids are an attempt to criminalise dissent and smear critics of government and corporate policies with the “terrorist” label.
You can find more information on www.civilrightsdefence.org.nz www.scoop.co.nz or www.indymedia.org.nz.
Most of those arrested have been denied bail and remain in prison. As well as legal fees, they need help paying for their expenses while in jail, such as: phone cards and toiletries; paying any bills they are now unable to meet as in most cases their income has been or soon will be stopped; and petrol costs to allow family and friends to visit them.
Please donate whatever you can. You can send money via Paypal to prisonersupport (at) peacewellington.org or use the following link:
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
(You don't need to have a Paypal account, you can pay directly with your credit card.)
If you are currently in Aotearoa and want to donate, we ask you to make a direct bank account deposit. Obviously we greatly appreciate all donations however they are received, but Paypal charges a fee on most transactions, while bank account deposits mean that all your money can be used to help the prisoners.
The bank account details are:
Account Name: Peace Action Wellington
Account Number: 02-0536-0458570-00
Particulars/Code/Reference: LEGAL DEF
All the prisoners have our support, but donations will be prioritised to the four arrested in Wellington simply because there are other groups looking after prisoners in their local areas.
If you are not able to donate, here are some ways you can help from overseas:
- Forward this email as widely as you can
- Get the word out - educate yourself on what has been happening and tell your friends, co-workers, family
- Write letters of support - messages emailed to lettersforprisoners (at) riseup.net will be printed and sent to those in prison. Obviously do not write anything that may negatively impact on the prisoners, yourself or someone else.
- If you speak another language, translate this email - and then pass it on.
- Post this information on your website, blog or independent media site. See www.peacewellington.org/donate.txt for the HTML for a paypal button.
- Write letters of protest to your local New Zealand embassy or high commission (contact details at www.nzembassy.com/)
- Organise a solidarity demonstration - and send us pictures
- KEEP UP THE FIGHT. The arrestees were all dedicated to making the world a better place, one without war, oppression or the destruction of the environment. Police violence, accusations of terrorism and repressive legislation are all used to intimidate us and protect the status-quo - but it is only by standing up in the face of all that that we can really make a difference. Kia Kaha (stay strong).
RESISTANCE IS NOT TERRORISM
xXx 20.Oct.2007 16:14
RESISTANCE IS NOT TERRORISM
pm@ministers.govt.nz
A report on world wide repression
from Bologna to New Zealand
On Saturday 13 October at around 04:00 am, in Piazza Verdi, Bologna,
Italy, a girl was sleeping. Police officers awoke her and told her to
leave. The Police judged her attitude to be "abnormal" when she refused,
and called a team of Psychiatric nurses who, facilitated by the police,
tried to force her into an ambulance for Obligatory Sanitary Treatment, or
in other words, to be committed to a psychiatric prison.
5 by standing individuals tried to obstruct the nurses and police in
solidarity with the girl who was not consenting to being put into the
vehicle. She had committed no crime and therefore legally had the right to
refuse to be taken.
More police arrived and responded with violence beating 2 of the 5 and
also drawing a gun on them. After a struggle, the other 3 individuals
managed to escape onto via S. Vitale where police found them, beat them
badly, handcuffed and arrested them. The noises woke up some residents who
tried to stop the police violence and almost got arrested themselves.
A witness contacted Blackout Radio (Torino) in order to tell the facts
directly: he confirmed the violence from the police to the 5 and that
during the scuffle one police officer lost his hand cuffs and concluded
with out reason that one of the individuals had stolen them.
The accusations against the five are heavy:
Theft of police property (handcuffs),
property damage (of the vehicle into which a girl was been forced)
and resisting arrest.
3 are in detention and have been moved to the jail of the Dozza.
And 2 have been put into house arrest.
On the following night at around 1:00am 6 people were arrested in the
Bologna University district suspected of graffiti and detained for 36
hours.
One of the girls was released after 12 hours or so as she was under 18
years old. The other Woman was held in solitary confinement for 28 hours
in a tiny cell aprox. 3 by 2 meters with blood and shit smeared all over
the walls... the others were denied food, water and toilet for more than
12 hours straight...
They were brought to court Tues 16th, and over 12 more hours of detention
and process, charged under Terrorism acts with: destroying a Bank-o-mat
ATM machine, damaging an ancient stone, smashing a butcher window and a
whole mismatching assortment of graffiti in diverse locations and with
diverse materials including things which happened after their official
time of arrest.
(The judge was the same who some months before tried to charge a group of
people under Terrorism acts for squatting a house! The defendants won that
case though.)
Enragingly, 2 of the 5 were sentenced to 10 months in prison because
they had past records in Italy for "political crimes". The other 3 were
let free under the conditions that they stay out of Bologna for 4
months,
The police, lawyers and judge were not interested in proving who did what,
or if any one of these individuals did any of these crimes. It was stated
clearly in the court in so many words: Than these individuals need to be
punished for the ideas and beliefs they supposedly have against the state
and for anarchy, and because of their supposed connection to other
recently arrested "Anarchist Terrorists" in Bologna (referring to the 5
from the Piazza Verdi incident).
The only reason the 3 released were not sent to prison, it would seem, is
because there wasn't enough proof in past records that they believed in
insurrection.
Twice in the hours the group were detained, a manifestation of 40 or so
people passed the police detention center in solidarity with all prisoners
shouting: TUTTI LIBERE!! (Free them all!!)
Out side the court there were lines of anti-riot police blocking the
entrance and 20 or so people were waiting in solidarity, some of them had
been there for over 12 hours....
Once the 2 sentenced to prison had been driven away the manifestation
moved to the prison to continue an all night vigil of solidarity, throwing
fireworks against the prison walls and shouting for the companer@s inside
to hear.
Another individual in Switzerland was arrested this week accused of
painting a message on an Italian embassy in solidarity with the situation
in Bologna, but has been released.
The Italian news coverage has been shallow and sensational. Only
reinforcing the lies and opinions of the court and police. Fascist
journalists seem to be the only ones there are, or the only ones
interested in this story. And to top it all off, the Left political party
of Italy has extended its official solidarity to the Bologna Police
department, having been attacked by anarchist terrorists.
In these same days in New Zealand many activists from indigenous rights
and environmental campaigns around NZ have been arrested under new
Terrorism and Weapons acts. The police raided social centers and homes all
over the country.
The arrested are being detained waiting for trials to begin, denied bail
and under name suppression. There is an international day of solidarity
declared for Saturday 27th of Oct. Many demos of solidarity have been
taking place all over NZ and also in Australia, Germany and Greece.
for more info visit:
www.indymedia.org.nz
www.scoop.co.nz
or to express yourself to the prime minister of NZ :
Helen Clark
> Telefono: +64 4 471 9998
> Fax: +64 4 473 3579
> Email:
The names of those in prison in Bologna are:
Juan Antonio Sorruche Fernandez (Juan)
Miroslav Bogunovic(Bogu)
Andrea Tessarin (Texino)
Cristian Facchinetti (Faco)
Federico Razzoli (Fede)
Letters of support can be sent to:
C.C. La Dozza
Via del Gomito, 2
40127, Bologna, Italia
We know well which are the real crimes of our friends and companions:
To have chosen with courage to stand up against this system of legal
violence, repression and exploitation.
Being conscious that fighting is necessary in order to not be silent
accomplices in the injustices of our societies.
Resistance is not Terrorism. Terrorism in its original conception is a
political tactic for a government to use to control its people.
We will not be frightened by the terrorism of the state... we have an
international community based on solidarity that extends beyond the logic
of capital and forges connections in a web unfathomably diverse and
beautiful....
To the arrested goes solidarity and affection from all around the world.
No one is free while anyone is behind bars!!!