Week Without Borders (June 9-16, 2008): Chronology Under Construction

Week Without Borders (June 9-16, 2008): Chronology Under Construction

19th of January 2008 – Ivan, Bruno and Damien are stopped by police on their way to a demonstration going to the detention centre for immigrants in Vincennes (near Paris). They had home-made smoke-bombs and tire-poppers (bent nails) with them. They were arrested and taken to the police station where they refused identification through finger prints and DNA. Two were imprisoned; the third one was placed under judicial surveillance.

23rd of January 2008 - Two other persons are arrested during a road control by the border police nearby Vierzon. In the trunk, the police find chlorate, plans for a juvenile prison (EPM) and manuals for sabotage. They are imprisoned under a special jurisdiction: anti-terrorism. The cops accuse them of having wanted to attack an EPM, one of them is also accused of trying to sabotage a police vehicle.

Solidarity actions take place in Paris, Dijon, Lille, Grenoble, Toulouse and Rennes from April to May of 2008. A call is made for a Week Without Borders (June 9-16, 2008), with actions and events to also take place before and hopefully afterwards.

Friday, June 6, 2008 - Ivan and Bruno are released from prison and put under judicial control. Farid, who was arrested on January 23 at Vierzon with his companion Isa, is also released under judicial control, but Isa is still being detained at the prison of Lille-Séquedin. The week of solidarity called for June 9 to 16 is obviously still on, for the freedom of Isa and all the other prisoners. There are solidarity events planned to take place in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Vigan, Sète and Brussels (Belgium).

Week of Solidarity Without Borders
Here's what's happened so far:

Portland, Oregon, United States, June 4 - The Wells Fargo bank branch on 39th and Powell had a window smashed. The action was claimed, "in solidarity with all those imprisoned in the ICE detention centers in the U.S. and all those imprisoned and oppressed by the industrial capitalist economy." The claim goes on to say, "Wells Fargo funds the GEO group, which runs the Guantanamo Bay detention center as well as the ICE immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington."
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/11/18506158.php

Lyon, France, June 7 - Just under a hundred people demonstrate with a banner reading, "Long live solidarity with the undocumented. Freedom for Bruno and Ivan." Smoke-bombs are also lit.
http://cettesemaine.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=1259

Paris, June 8-9 - Banners are hung in various locations with the following messages:
- "Resistance to controls, Paper no longer"
- "Riots in detention centres, solidarity"
- "Solidarity with the undocumented in struggle"
http://cettesemaine.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=1263

Lyon, June 8-9 - Windows are smashed and painted messaged are left on buildings involved in the "management" of the undocumented.
- ANAEM (migration agency), "The ANAEM deports and humiliates".
- Air France, "No to the deportation of the undocumented".
- The Air and Border Police, "PAF=NAZI".
- A sales office of Bouygues Immobilier, which builds prisons and detention centres, "No to prisons".
- A BNP bank branch, which exploits the undocumented.

Geneva, Switzerland, June 9 - Posters entitled "Who are the terrorists?" are put up on houses that were evicted this past summer. More actions to come are promised.

Moscow, Russia, June 9-11 - Many smoke-bombs are lit outside the French embassy and a banner in French and Russian is displayed reading, "Solidarity with the undocumented. Freedom for Ivan and Bruno".

Tacoma, Washington, United States, June 10-11 - A Wells Fargo bank branch "had many of their windows smashed." In addition, "the message 'stop prisons' was spray painted on one side of the building." The claim states, "this action is in solidarity with all struggle against deportation and the displacement of human beings internationally."
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/11/18506157.php

Grenoble, June 11 - About forty people occupy the Museum of Resistance and display banners reading, "Solidarity with the undocumented", "We resist again!" and "neither prison, nor borders, nor guards, nor deportations".

Further solidarity events are planned to take place in Vigan, Paris and Sète in France, as well as Brussels in Belgium.

Letter from Ivan and Bruno from the prisons of Fresnes and Villepinte,
"Who are the terrorists" poster,
Chronology of solidarity (April-May),
and "Solidarity & revolt across borders" PDF for printing:

http://www.325collective.com/prisons_letter-ivan-bruno.html


Fumigènes & Co.
http://cettesemaine.free.fr/spip/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=68