July 2010 – Solidarity with the members of R.O. Revolutionary Struggle / Epanastatikos Agonas and those accused in the same case

LETTER FROM KOSTAS GOURNAS FROM TRIKALA PRISON GREECE.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

As a member of Revolutionary Struggle and a political prisoner that continues to fight from inside the prison, i declare that i begin an

INDEFINATE HUNGER STRIKE as of today july 23d and untill the demands of comrade Nikos Maziotis. This move is just a minimal

debt and duty so i can stand next to the struggle of my two comrades. It is a action of solidarity and struggle for the unconditional

right of the prisoners to see their families. It is selfknown for me that a hunger strike, especially in the summer and with a existing

health problem (low blood pressure), is a prossess that has a personal cost. But it is also selfknown that the struggle and solidarity

require always the significance of sacrifice. And its this significance that the revolutionary, the fighter should have rooted deep inside

him that promotes the interests of the revolution, of the fight. If your not willing to lose everything, you will never be willing to aquire

everything.

“Struggle and solidarity is to leave your unborn son alone in the incubator of a maternity clinic with a likely infection, in order for you

to contribute to the revolutionary process”

– SATISFY ALL DEMANDS OF NIKOS MAZIOTIS
– NO PRESENSE OF POLICE DURING THE BIRTH OF POLAS AND NIKOS SON

Kostas Gournas, member of Revolutionary Struggle

Trikala prison

E1 wing

Solidarity gathering in hania Grete Greece 22/7

Yesterday there was a solidarity gathering for N. Maziotis and Pola R. and also to the struggle of the prisoners of Koridallos hospital

“saint paul”, aswell as the struggle of the prisoners in Trikala prisons,in the main market square of Hania Crete. Letters were read and

given out to passerbys and the gathering ended around 1pm.

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL ON FRIDAY 23 JULY 6:30 m.m.our comrade Panagiota Roupa since the birth has been scheduled by caesarean section for July 24th

Excerpts from Pola Roupa’s July 9 letter

Thursday, July 22, 2010

21 07 2010 translate from ”this is our job” blog/thisisourjob.wordpress.com/ From Lxs Niñxs Salvajes (July 20, 2010):
Note from TIOJ: For background on this story, see Nikos Maziotis’ letter from Korydallos Prison. Maziotis is Roupa’s partner, as well as the father of her child.
“Since my political opponents know that no ‘special’ treatment or pressure will break me, their vengeance is being directed at my unborn son, who is suffering the consequences of that ‘special’ treatment by the repressive mechanisms, and who is now a political prisoner.”

She goes on to condemn her frequent, intentionally delayed transfers between prison and hospital—which take place while she is handcuffed and heavily guarded—as well as her total isolation in cells and hospital rooms.

“A key issue for me is that, due to these ‘special’ security measures, my son’s health and life is endangered each time they transfer me to the hospital.
“Every hospital examination has been conducted under the supervision of abusive police officers, and without any semblance of medical confidentiality. The police at the hospital know all the details of my medical history.
“I am guarded during every exam and every discussion with my doctors and nurses, which flagrantly interferes with their work, but they are considered another possible ‘threat’ to security.”
Pola here recalls the experience of her comrade Simos Seisidis, who was harassed to such a degree by the police that he was even kept under heavy guard during the surgery to amputate his leg.
“Despite the regime’s attempts to politically discredit Revolutionary Struggle and its activities, our organization is winning the acceptance of a large segment of society, which has ultimately chosen practical rupture and violent conflict with representative democracy, capitalism, and the market economy.
“In these hostile, vengeful conditions, any turn for the worse in my pregnancy or any new threat to the life of my son would constitute a brazen political assassination attempt by [Citizen Protection Minister] Chrysohoidis himself, which means that my unborn son is a prisoner of war.
“However, blame also lies with the politicians and businessmen, [Prime Minister] Papandreou, and the entire government.”

From today hunger strike started in Trikala prison, Greece

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

. Today, Tuesday, 20 July, about 200 prisoners of Trikala prison
have begun a hunger strike after 2 weeks of abstaining from prison food. The Members of the Initiative for Prisoners’ Rights have made it known that “they are going on hunger strike for three particular demands:

That applications for authorisation for days out be granted, at the moment 97% are rejected. When granted, to be done without probation, or prison social workers because although their role is to defend the prisoners, they “have passed into the enemy camp”, that of repression. And concerning the serious conditions inside the prison.

UPDATE FROM KORIDALLOS HOSPITAL ST’ PAULS PRISON 20/7
* 8th day of abstaining from prison food Korydallos prisoners with chronic illness*
From yesterday prisoners with chronic diseases began to abstain from prison food in protest against the continued torture of the comrade Simos Seisidis, the delays of the ‘antiterrorism’ for accompanying him to have an artificial leg fitted…

Also 60 prisoners of Korydallos prison are abstaining from prison food from yesterday for the above reasons and in solidarity with the demands of Nikos Maziotis and Panagiota Roupa

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS! FIRE TO THE PRISONS! actforfreedomnow!