- Stop the anti squat law! Squatting will continue! -

The anti squat law will be discussed in the House of Commons (Tweede Kamer) before the summer. Right now the majority of the House of Commons will vote in favor of the anti squat law. If the law is agreed upon by the House of Commons, the House of Representatives (Eerste Kamer) will have to vote as well. In the worst case, when both Houses agree, squatting could be illegal in January 2010!

But you can help to stop this law!

In Rotterdam some people started with the initiative to start a petition against the anti squat law. They tried to make the petition as complete as possible, naming all the arguments against the anti squat law. You can read the text (right now only in Dutch) on http://www.kraakpetitie.nl.

But more important: You can sign the petition!
Because if we want the government to take the petition seriously, we need a lot a lot of signatures.

You will be asked for your name, city where you live and email. You can also choose to not publish your name on the website, then you have to remove the little x. After this you will get an email to actually activate your signature (it is not valid if you don’t activate). Then you will be asked for your date of birth, place of birth and occupation. You don’t have to fill it in, but when you do, only your occupation will be published, not your date or place of birth. This is used to give the petition more body (to prove it is not one person signing 10.000 times). Don’t sign with “squatter” or something like it, cause the government will not take those signatures seriously, so it won’t help.

What can you do right now?
- Sign the petition at http://www.kraakpetitie.nl.
- Ask all of your friends/collegues/class mates/ family members to sign as well
- Help to find organizations that want to support the petition
(you can find a list of the organizations already supporting at http://www.kraakpetitie.nl/met_steun_van.htm)

If you have any questions: info@kraakpetitie.nl

Orgue Electronique @ Golden Pudel, April 5th 09

I am happy to announce a very special Dutch Sunday night with analogue Elektro, Acid
and other fine dance tunes to jack your body:

Sunday, April 5th @ Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg

Orgue Electronique - live (Bunker, Creme Organisation, Eat Concrete) NL
and in the Mix:

The Fre2k with Double E (Eat Concrete, Bunker, Z-Bomb) NL
Sub-Sander (Mononom) NL
Evan-Odd (Mononom) NL


Golden Pudel, Am St.Pauli Fischmarkt 27, 20359 Hamburg

21.03.09 Dosis Decibel & Infraktion Kore @ TACHELES, B

Attention!!!
Weil die Location ausgefallen ist, wird die Party von der Zelle ins Tacheles, Berlin Mitte, verlegt und findet Samstag statt, nicht Freitag!!!
The Party had to be moved to Saturday 21st at Tacheles because Zelle closed down!!!

DJs:
EnErGia23 www.myspace.com/energia23
vortex dynamics www.myspace.com/vortexdynamix
sam.c (dosis decibel, nl ) www.myspace.com/djsamcdosisdecibel
ingredients www.myspace.com/normanduncan

LiVe:
emel (dosis decibel, nl ) www.myspace.com/emeldosisdb
b-art2 (dosis decibel, nl) www.myspace.com/klieksjeeker
anna bolena www.myspace.com/annabolena

visualisation:
boxikus www.myspace.com/boxikus
K-labo www.klabo.org

Romania Tek 09

is on! stay tuned for more infos.

Freekuency Festival 09, April 10th - 12th

Dragon Fest Is ON

Dear friends

Whatever you heard about this year’s festival – forget it. This is the real deal.

The Andalucían Environment Office together with the local council and various neighbourhood groups have made a very concerted effort to stop the festival, not that they haven’t before but this time their method has been nothing less than brutal.

Using huge diggers, with police escort protection they have dug enormous craters over every bit of public land (and some private land) from Tablones village till the end of the valley. Te damage to the local flora and fauna is horrendous and to add insult the whole operation is being passed off as a tree planting project. The reality is that the festival site has been reduced to fifteen privately owned plots of land.

All 15 of these owners are pro-festival and have come together as an alliance because they are the only people who can really take responsibility for the future of the Dragon Festival.

Any other gathering anywhere else is simply not the dragon so thankfully Dragon supporters everywhere can rejoice in the fact that we now collectively own the whole site! All be it a site with very limited access and absolutely no parking.

This year’s festival will be as fantastic as every with 2 live stages, an acoustic stage on the green field, several dance zones, a great kid’s area, solar powered cinema, art gallery, market place and much more.

If you are planning to join us for the 13th annual dragon fest, please remember, THERE IS NO PARKING AT ALL you will need to walk 3km and although it’s late in the planting season, please bring a tree and a shovel so you can fill in a hole positively. Do bring a torch as theirs not much moon and these 2m deep craters are a real danger (check out youtube.com for proof)

Happy equinox, love forever,

The new dragon alliance

20.03.09 Kore Infraktion @ Zelle, Berlin

destination nowhere...

This Blog was originally attached to the Cyberrise website. It is no longer and stands now completely by itself while the Cyberrise website is closed and will no longer be continued for personal reasons. As far as I am concerned the soundsystem formerly known as Cyberrise slowly stopped working under the premises it was founded under and it doesn't really reflect my attitude anymore. It would probably be a good thing if that name would be laid to rest. Anyway, on a personal level there comes a point when it is time to let go and move forward.

Records for Trade

Here is some stuff I have for swap // Einige Platten, die ich zu tauschen habe:::
(alle Platten VG+ - near mint)

Ukandanz 2 - Popof (original)
Zorp - Ki2 (original)
23 Bordell - Chrystal Distortion
Agent Orange 005 - Arzach (Spiral Tribe)
Agent Orange 016 - Beroshima
Analog Circus 01
Acid Assault 05 Punctual Areas (near mint copy)
Dynamo 002 - Fuck The Label / Support The Underground
Okupe 009 - Kiff Da Style
Industrial Strength IS011 - The Blood Of An English Muffin
Industrial Strength IS048 - Three Bad Brothers
D.Jungle Fever 003 - Shark Vol. 1 (green vinyl)
FIM 040 - Biochip C / Tribes Of The Moon
FIM 038 - Biochip C/Alec Empire - Das Duell
FIM 027 - Nexus & Blowback
Force Inc. limited - Alec Empire
Praxis 2 - Bourbonese Qualk
Praxis 4 - Metatron
Trackless 2 - Popeye You Know
Explore Toi 010/Cyber Core 001 - Mindfuck
Explore Toi 012/Cyber Core 003 - The Cyberminds
Troubles Fete 001
Poles MX - I.Shaker (Noisebuilder)
Red Fish Records - Arsenal E.P. (Breizh Sound System)
Six Shooter SX9501 - Somatic Responses
Trope 008 - Drax ltd. (picture disc)
Kickin Records Kick51 - Critical Mass (Psychotic Break Remixes)
KGB 007 - 69db
Domination 01
TMS 002 - TeknoMobilSquad
Wako 02/Haiderfuck 01 - Wako / Teamtrash
Bonzai Rec. Bam Bam - La Casa
Shockwave 1212 Shapeshifter - One More Record You Will Hate (this is the rare version with the Marusha sample)
Fischkopf 013 - Monoloop III
Highland Beats 011 - Loona

to be continued soon

Greece...

I should probably add a bit of an explanation as to why I started to post seemingly random tidbits from the Greece riots. The reason is simple - there is a contact in Greece who send over some infos about what was going on there and I relayed the information, admittedly not very consistent but then again at that point I didn't really maintain the blog consistently anyway. So there. I would lie if I said I didn't sympathise with an uprising against state violence and I admit I had a chuckle when I saw the picture of a burning x-mas tree in front of the state parliament. Way to go!
But basically the reason for the happenings is a rather sad one and as always there are all kinds of desinformation thrown around regarding the events and the consequences. From what I gather I can only urge everyone to start looking for truth by themselves and not in the mainstream media. It would be silly to believe that with social upheavals this size there wouldn't be deliberate misinformation produced by the state, the police and the mainstream media. I found the articles about the situation of immigrants in Greece after the riots quite interesting, a side you never ever heard of in Germany.
Here is a link to more information about what is going on in Greece:
http://greeceriots.blogspot.com/
http://athens.indymedia.org/?lang=en
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

Merry X-mas!!!

The picture shows the big x-mas tree downtown Athens in front of the parliament going up in flames during the riots following the murder of Alex G. by the police.
The text translates:
"EVERYTHING IS, UNFORTUNATELY A MISUNDERSTANDING ...
-statement of the lawyer who is defending the 2 cops that murdered in cold blood Alexis Grigoropoulos

EVERYBODY ON THE STREETS
OCCUPY, DEMONSTRATE, CLASH
...WITH NO MISUNDERSTANDING"

A wave of repression against immigrants during the riots in Greece

: A wave of repression against immigrants during the riots in Greece



In the last few days, there has been an explosion of violence and racism against immigrants by the police and the courts. In Athens only, over 50 immigrants have been sent to trial in flagrante delicto, with ridiculously insignificant accusations. This is the general picture: Express trials, no legal representation, no interpreters and a pre-decided charge of 18 months in prison followed by deportation. Most immigrants were arrested on the streets and not inside shops. Some were found carrying looted wares, some weren’t. In one characteristic case, an immigrant was charged with robbery while he insisted that the single cellphone he was found carrying was actually his own! He was imprisoned and is awaiting deportation. In another incident, an immigrant was incarcerated for carrying a cellphone charging device! He was also sent to prison. He will be deported too.




In Athens, Patras and other cities, cops, para-State groups and fascists seized the opportunity to organize pogroms against immigrants. According to the denouncement by Elias Ahmed, representative of the Union of Bangladeshi Workers: “In the last days extremist nationalists are ambushing immigrants’ meeting places. Most immigrants return home late at night, since they work in restaurants or do other evening jobs, and wherever the nationalists find them, they beat them up and terrorize them.” The representative of the Afghan Community Zacher Mahmat issued an accusation stating, amongst other things: “Two nights ago at Attiki Square 4 or 5 Syrians were beaten up. They were attacked by a group of 10 to 15 (…) Everyday policemen beat up immigrants”.




The police is working hard these days, with the excuse of lootings and unrest: Multiple arrests of immigrants, threats of deportation, beatings and mass transportations to police stations. On Monday evening, in an exhibition of atrocious violence in Omonoia Square, policemen were beating up immigrants for hours on end and dragging them to the nearby police station to be held (- let us note here that the Omonoia police station is notorious for its brutality).




And while all this is happening, the sensitive Interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, -also head of the Greek Police (a post which he publicly announced he wanted to resign from, expecting that the prime minister would never accept his resignation)- is zealously getting on with his own business: On Friday 12 he and Merchant Marine, Aegean and Island Policy Minister Anastasis Papaligouras signed a declaration for the supply of equipment with the European agency FRONTEX, responsible for coordinating efforts to curb illegal immigration into Europe, at the former public order ministry with the executive director of FRONTEX Ilkka Laitinen. In other words, FRONTEX is congratulating the Greek police and coast guard for doing a good job and is offering them more arms and equipment…As minister Pavlopoulos proudly stated: “This initiative was taken by the Greek prime minister, and after this FRONTEX could eventually evolve into an organisation like Europol…I warmly thank mister Laitinen that the greatly successful NEPTUNE Operation [by FRONTEX], which was so important to us, was given an extension until March 1, 2009”. Ilkka Laitinen returned the compliments by especially thanking the “Greek Police and the Greek Coast Guard for their cooperation”.


But that is not the only cooperation beyond borders that is going on. The same goes for social struggle and solidarity. Governments in various European states are expressing their fear and caution…Let us prove them right.




IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALL IMPRISONED IMMIGRANTS

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE LAST DAYS

We shall meet in the streets



Group of immigrants and refugees-www. clandestina. org

S statement describing how the Police shot Alex Grigorpoulos

Statement of Nikos R.
, a friend of Alexandros

Translation of the statement of Nikos R.
, which describes what happened on the night of December 6 and how the police shot his friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos

I go to the first year of high school at Psychiko Public High School. I knew Alexandros, or Gregory (the pet name we used for him, from his last name) since 4th grade in elementary school. We used to go to the same school. Until the first year of middle school we didn't keep close company. From the first year of middle school however, until yesterday when they killed him, we were close friends.


Yesterday 12-6-2008 were you with Alexandros?

Yesterday around 5:50 p.m. I went with a friend from next door to Larisis Station. Before I went there, however, I had spoken with Alexandros. He told me that he was going to go to a polo match... I told him to call me when the match was over so we could meet at Mesolongi Street, in Exarcheia. He was going to go to the match with his friend Nikos F. and P. Ch. At regular intervals we used to meet there. We planned to go to Faros Psychikou, to find our friends from our old schools and go do something together because yesterday I celebrated my name day.


In the end, Alexandros called you when the match ended.
Where was he going to go?

Yes, he called me and told me to start out and he would set out as well from the athletic field... From what I see on my cell phone the call from Alexandros happened at 7:10 p.m.


When did you meet with Alexandros on Mesolongi Street in Exarcheia?

I don't remember exactly. About 45 minutes before the incident. From my friend's house I went by foot. I went up Ipeirou (if I am not mistaken), then right to the Museum, left up on Stournari up to the square on the right, and 10 meters afterwards is Mesolongi. I waited for him 3 to 4 minutes.


When he came what did you do?

When he came we went to a convenience store 10 meters further up and we bought something to eat and two soft drinks... We went back again to the sidewalk on Mesologgiou Streeet to eat and talk.


Where exactly did you sit?

We sat there by the entrance of an apartment building at the intersection of Mesolongi and Tzavella, on the left side where we were watching Zoodochou Pigis Street. There they have three railings on the walkway where you can sit. We sat there. (At this point they show the witness a printed map of the area.) We ate the things we had bought and suddenly, as we were talking, we heard a somewhat loud bang. Near enough to us that we could hear it, but far enough away that we couldn't figured out what had happened. We didn't pay any attention...

Did you see light accompany the bang that you described to me?

No, because from the direction where we heard the bang, we didn't have visual contact, because there was a wall in front of us... In order to see what happens on Navarinou Street you have to leave down the middle of the walkway of Tzavella Street.


After a minute and a half we heard about 4 or 5 passers by "the cops are coming, something happened...". So out of curiosity, Alexandros and I went to the middle of Tzavella Street to see what had happened. A distance of 2 to 3 meters away... When we went out into the middle of the walkway we saw from a distance of 15 to 20 meters two police officers. They were right at the intersection of Zoodochou Pigis and Tzavella. One was taller than the other. Next they stopped at the intersection of the two streets... In front of us there was no one else. Alexandros was in front of me and I was behind and to the right of them. When the police stopped at Zoodochou Pigis and Tzavella, they had their hands, left or right I don't remember, on their weapons which were in their holsters which hang from the belt. Someone from behind me tossed an empty plastic bottle and naturally it did not reach the police. I forgot to tell you that when I saw the police, they started to curse at me and Alexandros, saying "We will f... you, come here and I'll show you who is the tough guy" and things like that. The guys behind us were yelling "get back" and "go to hell..." at the police...

When someone threw the plastic bottle, the police, both of them if I am not mistaken, took their weapons out of their holsters, aimed in front of them, that is towards the place where I, Alexandros and the other person were, and three continuous shots were heard. I forgot to tell you that I am sure that one of the two police officers held his weapon with both hands. I saw then - and I am absolutely sure - that the police weren't shooting either towards the sky or towards the ground.
They aimed towards our location and fired!

Alexandros fell down, if I am not mistaken on the first or second gunshot, surely anyways before the third... Afterwards, I didn't know what was going on. People were yelling and some people lifted up Alexandros' shirt. I saw that he had a hole in the middle of the chest and a little towards the heart. There was blood from the wound...

Let me tell you also that the police who fired, when they saw Alexandros fall, they left. I don't remember which direction... Then the ambulance came and took Alexandros, dead. I say this because he didn't have a pulse and there was blood coming from his mouth...

What light was there in the place where you described the incident?

Even though night had fallen, there was light from the street lamps on the poles which shines and also from the shops... Only one lamp wasn't working, to the left of Alexandros...

Do you want to tell us something else from everything you know?

The only thing I want to tell you is that they didn't kill Alexandros. They murdered him in cold blood...