{"id":38298,"date":"2015-06-05T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=38298"},"modified":"2015-06-05T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:37:39","slug":"international-day-of-solidarity-with-antifascist-prisoners-saturday-july-25-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=38298","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners Saturday, July 25, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>Source<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/nycantifa.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/03\/july-25-intl-day-of-soli-with-antifa-prisoners\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYC ANTIFA<\/a> | <em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"https:\/\/antifascistactionsydney.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">antifascistactionsydney<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><href=\"https:\/\/nycantifa.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/free-all-antifa-prisoners1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-2098 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nycantifa.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/free-all-antifa-prisoners1.jpg?w=640&amp;h=329\" alt=\"free all antifa prisoners\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, July 25, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Antifascists fight against those who\u2014in the government or in the streets\u2014dream of imposing their fascist and other Far Right nationalist nightmares on the rest of us. Throughout the world, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and racist bigotries are on the rise. Antifas are on the frontline in confronting these reactionary politics, and we will not forget our comrades imprisoned in the course of this struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>July 25 International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners<\/strong> originated in 2014 as a <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=36634\" target=\"_blank\">Day of Solidarity with Jock Palfreeman<\/a>, an Australian who is imprisoned in Bulgaria for defending two Romani men from an attack by fascist football hooligans. Groups around the world took action: holding demonstrations, benefits supporting the Bulgarian Prisoners Association, writing to Jock, and talking about the plight of the Romani and Sinti people in general.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 we would like to expand this day of solidarity to all antifascist prisoners around the world. We encourage groups to take the day to plan an event of their choice\u2014whether it is a letter writing, demonstration, benefit, or other action\u2014and to focus on the prisoners and related issues that are of most importance to them locally.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of global antifascist prisoners; if there is an antifa prisoner who is missing, please e-mail us with his or her details and the language(s) they can read.<\/p>\n<p>No Pasaran!<br \/>\nUntil All Are Free!<\/p>\n<p>Send prisoner updates, announcements for local events, and additional group endorsements to <a href=\"mailto:nycantifascistaction@gmail.com\">nycantifascistaction@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>LIST OF ENDORSING GROUPS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nycantifa.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">NYC Antifa<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (US)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onepeoplesproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">One Peoples Project<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (US)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/RASH-Florida-Red-Anarchist-SkinHeads\/205660812811665\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">RASH Florida<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (US)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nycabc.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">NYC Anarchist Black Cross<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (US)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/torchantifa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Torch Network<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (US)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightonabc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Brighton Anarchist Black Cross<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (UK)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Slackbastard<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (Australia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AntiFascistActionSydney\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Anti Fascist Action Sydney<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (Australia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projektantifa.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Projekt Antifa<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"> (Denmark)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"more-2095\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>EVENTS:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTBA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>LIST OF ANTIFA PRISONERS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>EUROPE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Belarus<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Roman Bogdan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roman Bogdan was arrested on April 15, 2015, as part of the long-going state repression of anti-fascists in Brest, stemming from a fight between anti-fascists and fascists on May 8, 2013. Roman is facing up to fifteen years in prison on charges of group hooliganism and weapons charges.<\/p>\n<p>He can read Russian and simple English phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nRoman Bogdan<br \/>\n224030<br \/>\nBrest<br \/>\nul. K. Marksa, 86,<br \/>\nSIZO-7<br \/>\nBELARUS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dzmitry Stsyashenka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dzmitry Stsyashenka was arrested on October 4, 2013, for his alleged involvement in a fight between antifascists and neo-Nazis in Brest on May 8, 2013, that sent one Nazi to the hospital. He is also accused of another fight with neo-Nazis during the summer of 2013. He was sentenced to four years in prison, but in 2014 his term was reduced by one year due to an amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>He can read Russian and simple English phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nDzmitry Stsyashenka<br \/>\n224030<br \/>\nBrest,<br \/>\nul. K. Marksa, 86,<br \/>\nSIZO-7<br \/>\nBELARUS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc-belarus.org\/?cat=3&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/abc-belarus.org\/?cat=3&amp;lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dzmitry Zvan\u2019ko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dzmitry Zvan\u2019ko was arrested for his alleged involvement in a fight between anti-fascists and neo-Nazis in Brest on May 8, 2013, that sent one Nazi to the hospital. He was arrested the next day, along with four other people, in a police raid on the homes of known anti-fascists. Dzmitry filed a complaint to the prosecutor about psychological and physical abuse while in custody. He was accused of malicious group hooliganism and serious bodily assault and faced up to ten years of prison. Dzmitry was found guilty and sentenced to five years of prison, but after paying off about 4,000 euro in damages he was granted amnesty, which has reduced his term by one year.<\/p>\n<p>He can read Russian and simple English phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nDzmitry Zvan\u2019ko<br \/>\n225295<br \/>\nBrestskaya oblast Ivatsevichi<br \/>\np\/b 20 IK-22<br \/>\nVolchi Nory<br \/>\nBELARUS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc-belarus.org\/?cat=3&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/abc-belarus.org\/?cat=3&amp;lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Bulgaria<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Jock Palfreeman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?tag=jock-palfreeman\" target=\"_blank\">Jock Palfreeman<\/a> is an Australian anti-fascist political prisoner serving a twenty-year prison sentence in Bulgaria for the rather mysterious death of a neo-Nazi football hooligan who was part of a group attacking two Romani men in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2007. Jock came to the aid of the Romani, and quickly found himself the focus of the attack. Bulgarian authorities did everything they could to ensure that Jock did not receive a fair trial, and after his sentencing have refused\u2013in contravention of their own treaties\u2013to transfer him to Australia to serve the rest of his time closer to his family. Jock wants donations for him sent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bulgarianprisonersassociation.wordpress.com\/\">Bulgarian Prisoners\u2019 Association<\/a>, which he is part of.<\/p>\n<p>He can read English and Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nJock Palfreeman<br \/>\nSofia Central Prison<br \/>\n21 General Stoletov Boulevard<br \/>\nSofia 1309, BULGARIA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freejock.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.freejock.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightonabc.org.uk\/jock.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.brightonabc.org.uk\/jock.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Russia<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Aleksandr Kolchenko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aleksandr &nbsp;Kolchenko was arrested in Crimea on May 17, 2014, along with several others, and accused by Russian authorities of participation in a \u201cterrorist group\u201d which planned explosions near the Eternal Fire memorial and the Lenin monument in Simferopol, as well as having sabotaged railway tracks and electricity lines. Aleksandr is also alleged to have carried out two arson attacks in April: against the headquarters of the Russian Unity-Party, and the Russian Community of Crimea. He was transferred to Moscow and is being kept in draconian conditions. His lawyers are under a gag order, and have been refused elementary rights to defend him. He faces fifteen-to-twenty years in a labor camp.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities claim that Aleksandr is a member of Right Sektor, a Ukrainian ultra-right nationalist organization, but he has no connection to the group\u2014a fact confirmed by relatives and friends. Moreover, Aleksandr is an antifascist and anarchist who consistently opposed nationalistic movements in Crimea and faced constant fascist attacks for his activism. For example, after a film screening about murdered anti-fascist journalist Anastasiya Baburova, he was attacked by thirty Nazis with knives.<\/p>\n<p>Since this case is highly political, Aleksandr\u2019s legal costs are high, around 850 euro per month. The investigation has created a heavy financial strain on local ABC groups, and there is a call for financial support and information distribution. You can make donations via PayPal to abc-msk@<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">riseup.net<\/span> or using a bank account (write to the same e-mail address for details).<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nKolchenko Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, (born 1989),<br \/>\nLefortovskiy val, 5, p\/b 201<br \/>\n111020 Moscow<br \/>\nRUSSIA<\/p>\n<p><i>Please note: Moscow ABC advises that letters in English are seldom accepted in Russian prisons, so please write only in Russian (try using a translation program), or just send photos and postcards.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avtonom.org\/en\/news\/repressions-against-crimean-activists-political-context\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/avtonom.org\/en\/news\/repressions-against-crimean-activists-political-context<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.avtonom.org\/en\/index.php\/Aleksandr_Kolchenko\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.avtonom.org\/en\/index.php\/Aleksandr_Kolchenko<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexey Sutuga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexey Sutuga is a longtime anarchist and anti-fascist who was arrested in April 5, 2014, for a fight with members of the ultra right in Moscow. He was sentenced on September 30, 2014, to three years and one month in prison for his alleged involvement in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>However, this sentence comes in the context of an earlier case from April 2012, when he was arrested for allegedly taking part in a fight at a punk\/hardcore concert in Moscow on December 17, 2011. The conflict began after club security, consisting of members of the far right, provoked guests. The concert was stopped prematurely because of the fight, but the security then attempted to take some of the audience hostage and threatened to call their nationalist football hooligan friends in reprisal. The audience members resisted and the club security opened fire with rubber coated metal bullets. However, the club security was neutralized and sent to the hospital. The case against Alexey and several others was eventually dropped in January 2014 on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the amnesty bill, approved as a PR stunt on initiative of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nEarlier this year, Alexey was in transit to a prison in Irkutsk, Siberia.<br \/>\nWe are waiting to confirm his new address.<\/p>\n<p><i>Please note: Moscow ABC advises that letters in English are seldom accepted in Russian prisons, so please write only in Russian (try using a translation program), or just send photos and postcards.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.avtonom.org\/en\/index.php\/Alexey_Sutuga\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.avtonom.org\/en\/index.php\/Alexey_Sutuga<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Sweden<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Joel Almgren<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joel Almgren was sentenced to five years and six months for defending a local community-organized anti-racist demonstration in Stockholm against a brutal Nazi attack on December 15, 2013. The peaceful protest\u2014against fascist assaults on local anti-racists and the dissemination of Nazi propaganda in area schools\u2014was attacked with knives, sticks, and glass bottles by the most militant Nazi group in Sweden. Anti-fascists at the scene defended the demonstration from the attack and many were injured themselves.<\/p>\n<p>He can read Swedish and English.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nJoel Almgren<br \/>\nKVA Tidaholm<br \/>\nSkogsholmv\u00e4gen<br \/>\n522 85 Tidaholm<br \/>\nSWEDEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freejoel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freejoel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Linus Soinjoki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linus Soinjoki was charged and convicted for actions related to his involvement in the anti-fascist movement in Sweden. He was sentenced to fourteen months in prison and has large financial obligations relating to his trial.<\/p>\n<p>Linus can read Swedish and English.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nLinus began serving his sentence in mid-May 2015, and is moving around the prison system. We will post his address when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heyevent.com\/event\/keiajdw7gqvtga\/free-linus-break-down-the-walls\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/heyevent.com\/event\/keiajdw7gqvtga\/free-linus-break-down-the-walls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NORTH AMERICA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">United States<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Luke O\u2019Donovan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve of 2013, Luke O\u2019Donovan attended a house party in Reynoldstown, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Luke was seen dancing with and kissing other men at the party. Later in the night he was insulted with homophobic slurs, and attacked by several people at once. Luke unsuccessfully attempted to escape, at which point several witnesses reported watching between five and twelve men ganging-up on Luke and stomping on his head and body, evidently with the intent to kill him. He was called a faggot before and during the attack, throughout the course of which he and five others were stabbed. Luke was subsequently imprisoned and charged with five counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as well as one count of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Luke\u2019s trial concluded on August 12, 2014, when he accepted a negotiated plea deal. He agreed to a two year sentence beginning that day, and then eight years of harsh probation. The judge&nbsp; also banished Luke from the state of Georgia for the term of his probation.<\/p>\n<p>He can read English.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nLuke Patrick O\u2019Donovan<br \/>\n#1001372271<br \/>\nWashington State Prison<br \/>\nP.O. Box 206<br \/>\nDavisboro, GA 31018<br \/>\nUSA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letlukego.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/letlukego.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Hammond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jason Hammond accepted a non-cooperating guilty plea and was sentenced to forty-one months on January 2015 for his part in an organized direct action taken against a group of white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a group of racists and white supremacists organized a White Nationalist Economic Summit in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. Groups of anti-fascists and anti-racists from the Midwest confronted the meeting and successfully shut down the event through a righteous melee. In the aftermath, five antifascists were arrested, and dubbed the Tinley Park 5. The five were sentenced to upwards of three years and all have since been released. Jason was arrested later, and is the last person still in jail for this action.<\/p>\n<p>He can read English.<\/p>\n<p>Address:<br \/>\nJason Hammond, M50190<br \/>\nP.O. Box 500<br \/>\nVandalia, IL 62471<br \/>\nUSA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freejasonhammond.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/freejasonhammond.blogspot.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/0w0Ma\/ab\/94SfS3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/0w0Ma\/ab\/94SfS3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Source : NYC ANTIFA | See also : antifascistactionsydney] International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners Saturday, July 25, 2015 Antifascists fight against those who\u2014in the government or in the streets\u2014dream of imposing their fascist and other Far Right nationalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=38298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,16,9,893,15],"tags":[2067,2066,2072,2073,2069,2068,2063,41,2065,2064,1896,2075,2062,145,2071,2076,2070,2074],"class_list":["post-38298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-history","category-media","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","category-war-on-terror","tag-aleksandr-kolchenko","tag-alexey-sutuga","tag-anti-fascist-action-sydney","tag-brighton-anarchist-black-cross","tag-dzmitry-stsyashenka","tag-dzmitry-zvanko","tag-jason-hammond","tag-jock-palfreeman","tag-joel-almgren","tag-linus-soinjoki","tag-luke-odonovan","tag-nyc-anarchist-black-cross","tag-nyc-antifa","tag-one-peoples-project","tag-projekt-antifa","tag-rash-florida","tag-roman-bogdan","tag-torch-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-9XI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38305,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298\/revisions\/38305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}