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Anti-Olympic solidarity – Burn London Burn (GB)

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

… At the main gate of the Polytechnic School, on Patission Street, we dropped a banner against the London Olympics, now in progress. The banner reads: “Smash the OlymPIGS and the capitalist wankers – Arson and wildfire to the Olympic ideals – Burn, London, burn”… The Olympic ideals are stinking of money, militarization and repression. We don’t forget the comrades who, despite the super-spectacle set up by cops, military and mass media, are stepping forward and spitting the society of submission on its face. Let us also remind people of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the need to organize an international campaign against the displacements of oppressed populations who are living in the Brazilian favelas.

… From some place of Tenerife (Canary Islands), the name of which we don’t want to remember we have wanted to unite the callout made by Contra Info for actions of international solidarity.

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Athens, Canary Islands, Fuck the Olympics, Greece, London, Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Tenerife, UK
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Critical Mass in solidarity with the cyclist killed by an Olympic bus (GB)

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

From IMC UK:

Meet 6.30pm Southbank by Waterloo Bridge Friday 10th August.

This is a mid month Critical Mass to show solidarity with the cyclist killed on the road on 1st August by an Olympic bus. The headlines continually ignored the death and concentrated on the gold medals – particularly the one won by British cyclist Bradley Wiggins. All cyclists including Olympians, are invited to join us as well as wheelchairers, skateboarders, roller bladers, roller skaters and other self-propelled people.. This Critical Mass will be huge – spread the word.

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Critical Mass, Demo, London, Olympics, UK
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Fuck the London 2012 Olympics (GB)

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

Beyond the gold, silver and bronze glitter that bedazzles us through the corporate media (the myth), there is a dark & sinister shadow comprised of greed & destruction (the reality). This shadow is cast primarily over the poor and the natural world, who suffer the most from impacts of Olympic Games. While officials’ talk about the ideals of the ‘Olympic Spirit’, ‘Olympism’, & the ‘Olympic Movement’ (with vague references to the interrelation of sports, humanity, & universal ethics: myth), it would be more accurate to refer to it all as the Olympic Industry (reality). It can be defined as such because in spite of its ‘nonprofit’ image as a champion of amateur sports, it is in fact a multi-billion dollar industry comprised of government & corporate elites working together to maximize their profits, status and power. (more…)

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Canada, Fuck the Olympics, London, Olympics, Repression, UK, Winter Olympics
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London Olympigs 2012 – Enjoy the Games! (GB)

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Fuck the Law, London, Olympics, Olympics 2012, Police Bastards, Police need ca$h, Repression, UK
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Olympic repression begins – Mass arrest for Critical Mass last night (UK)

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

According to London Indymedia there was a mass arrest against the monthly Critical Mass bike demo last night, with many people detained (over 180) and bikes seized. Some of the people have been released, whilst today, 12 noon Sat 28 July, there takes place a demo backed by various leftist protest groups, social activists and London anarchists ALARM.

Full story about the mass arrest here:

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/12592

Follow-up story on IMC UK here:

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/08/498692.html

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Critical Mass, London, Olympics, Repression, UK
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Dark Nights #25 : ‘The Bosses Grand Idea – The Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power' – July 2012 (ACN)

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

Dark Nights is an international anarchist & anti-prison publication of resistance reports and repression news ready to print out and distribute on the fly.

Click to Download: Dark Nights #25

1. The Bosses Grand Idea – The Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power
2. 1–10 August 2012: Contra Info call for propaganda actions against repression
3. Graffiti Raids Across London as Police Sanitise City Ready For Olympics
4. International Call for Solidarity with those raided by the FBI in the Northwest of America
5. Solidarity with Kelly Pflug-Back, G20 Black Bloc militant jailed in Canada
6. DIRECT ACTION CHRONOLOGY

Anti-Copyright Network 2012

International Network of Counter-Information & Translation

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Canada, Counter-info, Dark Nights, G20, Kelly Pflug-Back, London, Olympics, PDF, Repression, UK, USA, Zine
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The Bosses Grand Idea – Against the Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power (UK)

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

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THE BOSSES GRAND IDEA – AGAINST THE OLYMPIC SPECTACLE OF MONEY AND POWER

“When the emperors must get their subjects to swallow something disastrous, they organise majestic games.” – leaflet against the 2006 Winter Olympics

Ever since they were founded in 1896, the modern Olympic Games have been more about money, power, and politics than they are about athletics and sport or celebrating some mythical ‘common humanity’. The financiers of this palaver and the economic system that underpins it have no ‘common humanity’ to share with us the excluded, despite the jingoistic London 2012 advertising forced down our throats for months and months now. (more…)

Tags: Fuck the Law, London, Olympics, Olympics 2012, Repression
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Dark Nights #23 – Chaos just around the corner – July 2012 (ACN)

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

11.7.2012 – Corrected updated version

Dark Nights is an anarchist & anti-prison PDF freesheet to download and print out on the fly.

16 pages A4 – PDF Download free.

Contents:

1. ‘Chaos just around the corner’ by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire & Theofilos Mavropoulos.
2. Against Society & ‘Civil Anarchism’.
3. Greece: Letter by Rami Syrianos in solidarity with Olga Ekonomidou of the CCF-FAI.
4. Greece: Solidarity with Olga Ekonomidou, member of the R.O. CCF.
5. Greece: Spectacle of police terrorism against the R.O. CCF and Theofilos Mavropoulos.
6. Switzerland: Silvia Guerini released from prison to Italy.
7. Italy: Letter from Stefano Fosco, one of the comrades of Culmine.
8. Italy: Peppe’s communiqué from the prison of Marassi, Genoa.
9. Against Media & State Terrorism.
10. Chile: Letter from Luciano ‘Tortuga’.
11. Mexico: Statement from compañero Mario López.
12. Action Chronology.
13. London, UK: Resist the 2012 Olympic Games of Profit, Control and Repression.

https://server.nostate.net/325-new/html/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/dark-nights-232.pdf

Anti-Copyright Network 2012

International Network of Counter-Information & Translation

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Chile, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Dark Nights, Greece, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, Italy, London, Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, Mario Antonio Lopez Fernández, Mexico, Olga Economidou, Olympics, Operation Ardire, PDF, Rami Syrianos, Silvia Guerin, Switzerland, Theofilos Mavropoulos, UK, Zine
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Anonymous, Occupy London and European Anarchists in London 2012 Olympics (UK)

Monday, June 25th, 2012

Tags: #anonymous, 2012 Olympics, Fuck the Law, London, Olympics, UK
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Rio de Janeiro: Genocide and Spectacle – PDF (Brazil)

Monday, June 25th, 2012

PDF : Genocide and Spectacle

An anarchist reflection on the current context in Rio de Janeiro, the operation Shock of Order, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.

Tags: Anti-Fascist, Brazil, FIFA, Flor do Asfalto squat, Homeless Liberation, Olympics, PDF, Police Brutality, Rio de Janeiro, Social War, Zine
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PDF Leaflet: No Military on our Streets (UK)

Friday, March 30th, 2012

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NO MILITARY ON OUR STREETS

In the last couple of years, the ‘Help for Heroes’ army PR campaign has tried to make us love Britain’s military forces. We have been told they are ‘our boys’, ‘our troops’. We have been encouraged to think of them as our friends, and our comrades. They are not. An army needs an enemy to be an army. They are an occupying force fighting the enemies of the bankers, the politicians, and the new social order. The people are this enemy. And so ‘our boys’ are our enemy. War abroad, repression at home. This summer, and already, a military state will be rolled out on the streets of Britain for the security of the Olympic games, as the Tories and Security Services continue their unrelenting demolition of people’s freedom and means of survival. The Army is being trained to quell future riots and widespread social unrest which is inevitable as we struggle to live in intolerable conditions. The people have been at the receiving end of intense propaganda via the ‘Help for Heroes’ campaign for years now, in order to make us accept the occupation which is coming and the role of the Army in breaking the back of any industrial action or strike which has the possibility to create any rupture of the ‘Queen’s Peace’. (more…)

Tags: Anti-Militarism, Fuel Prices, Olympics, PDF, Riots, UK
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Dark Nights #15 released – Bad Passions & More

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Dark Nights is an anarchist & anti-prison PDF freesheet to download and print out on the fly.

12 pages A4 – PDF Download free.

This issue features a front page of BAD PASSIONS : THE RIGHTS OF THE EGO : From an anti-Christian point of view by Maurizio De Simone, which will form part of a future collaborative publication concerning nihilism, egoism, refusal of society, etc by Edizioni Cerbero.

– Does Work Liberate (A poster from the streets)
– Letter from anarchist Rami Syrianos
– Declaration by Christos Tsakalos to the court
– Athens: Arson attack against ATM
– On a journey that hasn’t ended yet – Polykarpos Georgiadis
– Parole is denied for Marco Camenisch
– Thomas Meyer-Falk’s request
– Abuse of Children in UK Private Prisons by John Bowden
– Preparations for military repression at UK 2012 Olympics
– Anarchists attack the home of the President of Greece in Athens
– Belgium: Communique for arson of cars of two euro-parliamentarians, a NATO official and a diplomat

Download, print out and provoke…

Tags: Belgium, Christos Tsakalos, Dark Nights, Greece, John Bowden, Marco Camenisch, Maurizio De Simone, Olympics, Polykarpos Georgiadis, Rami Syrianos, Switzerland, Thomas Meyer Falk, UK, Zine
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