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Papua Prison Island

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An expression of people’s desire for freedom, cries of “Papua Merdeka” continue to ring out through the cities, mountains and forests of West Papua. The struggle is against fifty years of Indonesian rule, which throughout the last half-century has violently tried to subdue Papua, in its attempts to create a unified nation from the 17,000 islands that once made up the Dutch Empire.

Freedom as expressed by the word ‘merdeka’ is primarily a call for political independence, although the word is imbued with the clear hope that a new national sovereignty would also bring a wider liberation. Even when used outside the context of nations, ‘merdeka’ carries a sense of autonomy or self-reliance; from the same Sanskrit root Indonesian also inherited the word mahardika, meaning wisdom or nobility.
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Athens: Letter of captive anarchist Spyros Mandylas from Koridallos men’s judicial prison

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September 4, 2013

“Others unthinkingly followed the paths learned once and for all, to their work and their home, to their predictable future. For them duty had already become a habit, and habit a duty. They did not see the deficiency of their city. They thought the deficiency of their life was natural. We wanted to break out of this conditioning, (…) in search of new passions.”
Guy Debord

A short chronicle of my arrest
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COMUNICADO PUBLICO Comuneros Mapuche recluidos en la cárcel El Manzano de Concepción (seeptiembre 2013)

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Concepción, Septiembre 27 de 2013

 

Los comuneros Mapuche recluidos en la cárcel El Manzano de Concepción, informamos y denunciamos a nuestro pueblo y a la  opinión pública en general  la continuidad de la persecución política,  al interior de la cárcel, la que se expresa de las siguientes formas:

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Athens – Letter from detained anarchist comarde Giannis Naxakis (may 2013)

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Translated by Actforfreedomnow/boubourAs
A month after my arrest I still remain sunken in thoughts trying to find moments of calm and clarity, so I can finally put the pen down to write a couple of words. My mood changes at the speed of light, it goes up and down non-stop and is finding it hard to find a steady point to hold on to. The account of what happened in Nea Filadelfia sickens me, the renewed conclusions that come out hurt me, the realization of what exactly happened kills me. I relapse when listening to daily boring and endless discussions evaluating months, years, charges and all the other relevant matters.
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