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Columbia University Student Activist Detained by Department of Homeland Security Following Threats of Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Students

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The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—On March 8, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent graduate student at Columbia University, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university.

The DHS agents said that the U.S. Department of State had revoked Khalil’s green card.

At approximately 8:30 p.m. ET, Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves, instead asking Khalil to confirm his identity before detaining him without explanation. The agents proceeded to threaten his wife, telling her that if she remained by his side, they would arrest her too.

Later, the DHS agents stated that the U.S. Department of State had revoked Khalil’s student visa, despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident. An agent showed Khalil what he claimed was a warrant on his phone. Khalil’s wife went into their apartment to retrieve his green card while the agents remained with Khalil downstairs. When she returned, advising them of Khalil’s legal status and presenting them with Khalil’s green card, one agent was visibly confused and said on the phone, “He has a green card.” However, after a moment, the DHS agents stated that the State Department had “revoked that too.” Khalil’s wife then phoned his attorney, who spoke with the agents in an attempt to intervene. When Khalil’s attorney requested that a copy of the warrant be emailed to her, the agent hung up the call.

Khalil is currently being detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at 26 Federal Plaza pending an appearance before an immigration judge.

This significant deviation from normal immigration proceedings comes in the wake of increased and abnormal scrutiny concerning the actions of students alleged to hold pro-Palestine views. Axios recently reported that the State Department, Department of Justice, and DHS were launching a “Catch and Revoke” effort to identify alleged pro-Palestinian activists based on artificial intelligence screening of social media.

Khalil has been specifically and discriminatorily targeted by Columbia University for his Palestinian identity and outspoken activism on multiple occasions over the last 17 months. He served as a lead negotiator during the Gaza Solidarity Encampment last spring. He has frequently appeared in media interviews and press conferences. The university suspended him while he was on a student visa and reversed it within the same day.

Columbia University has published guidance on how best to collaborate with federal enforcement, including advising faculty and staff “not to interfere” with ICE agents even if those agents are unable to present a warrant. Over the last few days, there have been several reports of ICE agents approaching pedestrians and students in the neighborhood surrounding Columbia University’s Morningside campus, creating unsafe environments for students (particularly students of color), regardless of their immigration status.

Columbia’s continued acquiescence to federal agencies and outside partisan institutions has made this situation possible. A Palestinian student and member of the community has been abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges. Like many other Arab and Muslim students, Khalil has been the target of various zionist harassment campaigns, fueled by doxxing websites like Canary Mission. This racist targeting serves to instill fear in pro-Palestine activists as well as a warning to others.

An activist familiar with Khalil’s solidarity work said, “Mahmoud is foundational to our community. The state has escalated its repression of student opposition to the U.S.-backed genocide in Palestine, in which Columbia and all American universities are complicit.” Despite the chilling effect of this repression, the activist said that students “will keep fighting for Palestinian liberation and against state violence.”

Today, activists in solidarity with Khalil launched a petition demanding his release from ICE custody. The petition can be found at https://shorturl.at/Lm86S.

Source: tinyurl.com/MahmoudKhalilPR.

 

 

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Athens: Greece: Smashing front windows in multiple supermarkets ,and 1 ATM Bank in Athens by Next door sledgehammers.

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Monday I get something, Tuesday I can’t stand it, Wednesday I’m bored, Thursday I can’t wait, Friday morning… fuck the bosses.

What is a broken window doing on the pavement early in the morning? What does the anti-theft in the honey have to do with the control and shaping of our desires? Why aren’t discount offers another solution?

When the questions increase, sometimes you need to break down the wall that separates you from the necessary answers. And if the wall is made of glass, all the better.

The truth is we are impatient. We cannot wait for prices to fall on their own, nor for the state to stop selling us garbage and for supermarkets to serve it to us. However, we just as impatiently long for the smiles of people who do not find the “unexpected” answer to this regime of double poverty. Who turn up to work in the morning, and are happy to see the frightened faces of the scumbags who profit from our food when their property is affected.
We urge that the discontent be found in the shallow, ordinary, everyday exploitation and boredom of capitalist labour. Not in the organization of labour against its bosses. That the ways of creating and meeting needs become common. That we will not forever depend on others in order to live.

The “good” that you can neither buy nor steal, degraded in quality and standardized, nevertheless becomes the dominant object of our desire. Security systems, magnets, cameras, double glazing protect the things we need to live.

Having no direct connection to our basic needs, such as food and body care, we bind our desire to the greedy appetites of the state and the bosses.

Our imagination finds it difficult to free itself from the objects we lack. No matter how much prices rise, we will need supermarkets if we do not take charge of organizing our lives and our needs. We are breaking their windows so that we do not get used to death in stores. In the production-consumption chain, the windows that do not break have our bodies as commodities.
We choose to keep faith in communities that work for the self-evident, which are not related to those of harm and profit. For relationships that do not depend on intermediaries, agents and generally assholes who impose on us how to live.

On Wednesday 18/12 and Thursday 19/12 we carried out a barrage, smashing up the front windows of supermarkets and 1 ATM in the following neighbourhoods of Athens: Glyfada, Kaisariani, Zografou, Kato Patisia, Ilisia, Chalandri, Kypseli

WAR ON THE BOSSES’ WAR*

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THEIR POLITICAL ACTIVITY

SOLIDARITY TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

STRENGTH TO THE INJURED COMRADE MARIANNA M.

KYRIAKOS  IS ONE OF US
A COMRADE FOREVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

Next door sledgehammers

 

 

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“A better world, better for all” – Taking responsibility for arson attack on COSMOTE van – Kyriakos X. always present by Anarchists (Athens,Greece)

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“A better world, better for all” –

Taking responsibility for arson attack on COSMOTE van -Hellenic (Telecommunications Organisation S.A)
Kyriakos X. always present

Technology plays a primary role in shaping the modern dystopia. Human contact has been replaced by online interaction, which is based on the construction and promotion of a self-image aimed at strengthening fragile self-confidence, which ends up being ephemeral and dependent on an insatiable need for reassurance. Personal relationships have degraded completely and total alienation is prevalent. At the same time, technology, as a pillar of capitalism, creates artificial needs through systematized advertising propaganda, which is becoming increasingly effective with the use of profile personalization tools. It promotes consumption of material goods as a purpose in itself and as an idea of personal fulfillment.

Beyond the alienation and degradation it brings, technology, being a
loyal servant of the states’ interests, strengthens their repressive
mechanisms. Europe, citing the fear of invisible and visible enemies
that it itself has given birth to and nurtured, implements emergency
policies and fortifies the war and “defense” industry (army, police,
telecommunications and surveillance software manufacturing companies, artificial intelligence cameras, geolocation devices, etc.). Thus, the OTE Group, as an offshoot of the “defense” industry, has contributed in practice to the shielding of Fortress Europe, by designing and developing the technological infrastructure of Frontex and eu-LISA, making it an accomplice in the murders of immigrants at the borders and the strengthening of anti-immigration policy. At the same time, it participates in the normalization of surveillance, collecting and generously offering our data to the state mechanism, thus fulfilling the role of the ruffian.

We oppose this technological totalitarianism that determines the terms of our existence and seeks to turn us into obedient consumers, peaceful citizens who serve the doctrine of “law and order” and to subject us to the virtual reality of fictitious needs and ephemeral relationships. We seek to free ourselves from the shackles of technocratic reality and prioritize the establishment of unmediated and substantial comrade relationships. We prioritize direct actions as a total breakdown with the existent. That is why on Wednesday 19/2/25 we carried out an arson attack on a COSMOTE van ( Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A.) in Kaisariani, carrying out a symbolic strike against technology and everything it stands for.

This action is dedicated to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris who fell fighting in the social and class war. Kyriakos will remain forever engraved in our memory and will accompany us at every instant of disobedience.

FEBRUARY 28 ALL OF YOU IN THE STREETS AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST CRIME
AT TEMPI

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ONE OF US, COMRADE FOREVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

STRENGTH TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE DETAINED FOR THEIR POLITICAL ACTIVITY COMRADES

 

 

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Spain: Ghespe arrested in Spain and taken to Soto del Real prison to await extradition

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Ghespe arrested in Spain and taken to Soto del Real prison to await extradition

A few days ago we learned from the media of the regime that the anarchist Salvatore Vespertino (Ghespe) was arrested in Spain, in Madrid, on February 15th during a police control. The comrade was transferred to the prison of Soto del Real in Madrid and did not oppose extradition to Italy, which should take place before long.

Ghespe, untraceable and wanted since 2023, had been sentenced on appeal in the context of the so-called “Panico” trial for the action against the [fascist] bookshop “Il Bargello” (Florence, January 1, 2017), a place linked to Casapound. The device exploded in a cop’s hands causing serious injuries, among which the loss of an eye and a good part of one hand. The sentence of the court of cassation of July 2023 confirmed the appeal sentences, among which 8 years for Ghespe, who had already spent a long period imprisoned on remand.

Solidarity with the arrested comrade

Updates to follow.

* * *

The address:

Salvatore Vespertino
Carretera M-609 Km 3,5
28791 Soto del Real

Madrid
Spain

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City of Giannena,Greece: Attack Barrage: KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS PRESENTE ,by anarchist cell for the diffusion of hostilities

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On the occasion of the international calls for action for the anarchist

comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, we carried out the following actions in the city of Ioannina.

On November 16, destruction of the Piraeus ATM outside the Tax Office.
On November 21, destruction of the facade of the “Hotel Kallari”, now a property of the Kahrimanis family, purchased with 800 thousands, initial capital from the wondrous fortune of the Regional Governor Alexandros Kahrimanis.
On New Year’s Eve, vandalism/painting at the ATMs of the National Bank and Piraeus Bank at the Mosque area

The existence of the state presupposes the monopolistic exercise of
violence, let alone in the rebelled consciousnesses that practically challenge it. We therefore consider revolutionary memory to be of crucial importance, creating cracks in the bourgeois normality.

We do not forget the dead and the prisoners of the social war.

After the explosion of the apartment in Ampelokipi and the arrest of the anarchist comrade Marianna M., the cops launched a manhunt, arresting D.Z., D. and later N.R. using the pretext of his fingerprint on a bag found in the apartment. The ball is then thrown to the paid scum of the media, thus strengthening their continuous struggle forming the propaganda of the public opinion, against the armed struggle (with the well-known, media witch hunt). We have the first word for our comrades.
We propose the aggressive solidarity until we all find ourselves
together, walking the streets of fire.

STRENGTH TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADE K.K.

SIGNALS OF SOLIDARITY TO D.S., R.Z.

SOLIDARITY TO THE DETAINED COMRADES FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ONE OF US,FOR EVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

 

 

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KLM cars were slashed in solidarity with the prisoners in the detention center in Amsterdam( Netherlands)

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On the night of December 31 during the solidarity demonstration at the detention center Schiphol Airport, the tires of 5 KLM cars were slashed this was in solidarity with the prisoners in the detention center next to the cars parking.

KLM is carrying out their deportations, among other things. There are numerous other good reasons to attack KLM together.

Freedom of movement for all!
Fire and stones for KLM!

 

 

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New York Prison Uprisings

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As reported in mainstream media, all outside visits have been cancelled to New York state prisons.

 

Around midnight on Thursday, there was a militant uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, forcing correctional officers to retreat, vacate their posts, and call in police and emergency response teams to gain control of the situation. Last week there was another prison uprising at Collins Correctionnal Facility in Erie County.

Correctional officer pigs are currently on strike in 36 facilities across the state, so Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday signed an executive order calling up 3,500 members of the National Guard for service in the remaining unmanned prisons.

A statewide prison uprising is brewing in New York. Long live the spirit of Attica! Attica means fight back!

 

 

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Russia: Radical resistance 11.01-29.01.2005

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Saratov

On 11 January, a 16-year-old teenager was detained in Saratov for preparing the murder of Saratov regional Duma deputy Alexander Yanklovich. According to the investigation, the suspect was going to kill the deputy on the instructions of ‘unidentified persons’. He came with a hammer to the deputy’s house, but did not find him at home. The teenager was allegedly going to ‘continue his actions after receiving information about the man’s whereabouts’, but was detained on 11 January.

Yanklovitch is the head of the Saratov Regional Duma’s Veterans Affairs Committee, a Hero of Russia and a veteran of combat operations in the North Caucasus. He also headed the Saratov regional public organisation Saratov Association of Heroes, which accepted donations for the needs of participants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In September 2023, Yanklovitch left to fight in Ukraine as part of the Rosgvardiya, but a year later he cancelled his contract due to age.

tg-channel No future notes that the arrested teenager may turn out to be a bonhead from the Yubileyny neighbourhood. A local left-wing football fan identified him in a photo.

The servant of the people Alexander Yanklovych, who escaped death, naturally stated that the assassination attempt was supervised by the special services of Ukraine. He himself and his family were in the temple, that’s why he was saved, the MP claims.

If the detainee shared right-wing ideas as a child and really acted on someone’s orders (which we do not know), then the target of the attack was certainly chosen worthy. The enemies of the Russian people are not representatives of other peoples or migrants, but ‘native’ Russian authorities.

We wish the guy resilience and development of critical thinking.

Moscow

A UAZ Patriot military vehicle with Ministry of Defence plates was burnt down in New Moscow on 17 January. The car was burnt in a car park in the settlement of Desyonovskoye. UAZ ‘Patriot’ with military black and white numbers was standing in the car park near the house. At some point the car caught fire. There were no people in the car,’ eyewitnesses wrote.

Kazan

At about 16.00 Moscow time on 23 January an unknown person threw a Molotov cocktail into the foyer of the main entrance of the administrative building of the Kazan Gunpowder Plant (FKP ‘KGKPZ’) at 14 May 1 Street in Kazan, Tatarstan. This started a fire, which was extinguished by employees of the plant. The Interior Ministry said it had not found or identified the arsonist. The CCTV cameras show a lad of about fifteen years old with his face covered.

It is known that between 2023 and 2024 the plant has increased capacity to produce explosives for Russia’s military-industrial complex.

 

 

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Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the attack on the television station ACTION 24

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TRUE SNITCH JOURNALISTS YOU ARE INDEPENDENT

On 25/01/2025 at noon we chose to intervene with sledgehammers and paints at the television station ACTION 24 on Skiathou Street. Our movement was a minimal act of opposition to a medium that systematically reproduces the dominant discourse, consciously supports any decisions of the state, constantly kills characters at the discretion of the authorities, systematically incriminates and denounces victims of trafficking.

The reason for this event was the appeal of the cop-rapist Bougioukos in the case of the 19-year-old girl from Ilioupoli. The channel in question hosted Bougioukos last year after his conviction, in an interview of the rapist-pimp laundering, attempting firstly to recreate his character and reverse reality by incriminating the 19-year-old survivor and abusing her once again. The status of the cop who arrested the bastard seems to have been enough for the channel to placate him as the wrongdoer in the case.

The bastards at ACTION 24 have gotten us used to the whitewashing of abusers and rapists and correspondingly the framing of victims. In this context, we remember the disgusting lawyer Balta who, through his intervention in a channel programme, instructed the acquittal of rapists and the incrimination of female survivors, as a second Balaskas. In the case of the child rapist Lignadis, the station’s management had taken a clear stand against the victims.

ACTION 24 is accustomed to speaking the language of power and advocating for the sovereign, whatever form it takes, be it government, or “justice” and repression. Being one of the media on the Pecha list promotes every action of the current government from the COVID era to the present day. He is involved in justifying the many contradictory and repressive laws that have been passed. It participates in covering up all the scandals that have come to light such as the wiretapping, so many direct assignments and kickbacks, the relations of the National Police. and political figures with the Greek Mafia case and the cover-up of the state murder of Tempi. At the same time, it is complicit in the silencing and suppression of voices opposed to the mainstream system.

The latest incident of journalistic misery was the coverage of the events of Ampelokipi which in full alignment with the lies of the EL.AS. presented our comrades as ruthless terrorists condemning them before the trial. They also considered the death of our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris as a “gift from God”. Together with the other media, the Greek police and the political leadership paved the way for the arrest of our comrades with dubious evidence even for the democracy they claim to represent.

One understands that the reasons why we stand against this journalistic cesspool based in the neighbourhood of Gravas are innumerable. This area, like others, is characterised by the violence of work, unemployment, repression and patriarchy. Poverty, misery and the abuse of more and more of our fellow human beings are part of everyday life. We have every reason as struggling individuals to oppose domination, its word and those who spread it. ACTION 24 has long since chosen a camp and we are against it.

NO PEACE WITH THE BOSSES AND THE SNITCHES

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS COMRADESHIP FOR THE CASE OF THE AMPELOKIPI

WITH THE 19 YEAR OLD GIRL WE ARE TOGETHER

JUSTICE NOWHERE HAMMERS EVERYWHERE

Anarchists

 

 

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Athens, Greece: Arson Attacks in Memory of Anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris

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Forward, everyone!
Both with arms and with heart,
word and pen,
knife and gun,
irony and blasphemy,
theft, poisoning and arson,
let us wage… war on society!

~Josheph Dejacque (1821-1864), libertarian anarcho-communist

In a world of constant impoverishment, class inequalities, oppression and exploitation, social fascism advances through the dictates of the state apparatus, capital and its mouthpieces, leaving room for more and more impoverishment and repression. The reformist compromises of the once more radical sections of society, together with stupidification, selfish individualism and worship of oppressors, make it no longer able to conceive of conflict with all of the above.

Our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and anarchist comrade Marianna M. are an example of selflessness, revolutionary ethos and political commitment in all aspects of the struggle. From anarchist assemblies, to solidarity with prisoners, to struggles in defense of immigrants, labor gains, to the struggle against gentrification and repression, our comrades gave “body and soul” keeping the flame of the revolutionary cause always alight. The events of October 31st froze our hearts but at the same time convinced us to continue the struggle of Kyriakos and Marianna and so many other comrades over the years who gave their lives or were imprisoned in the battle for individual and social liberation, revolution and anarchy.

In the aftermath of the October 31st accident, we watched the media snitches try to portray the struggle of our comrades, to sell them as amoral bloodthirsty terrorists thirsting for the blood of innocent civilians, while at the same time selling death politics by showing videos from the destroyed apartment on Arcadia Street in order to increase viewership figures and satisfy their far-right audience. Naturally, a new cycle of persecution followed in the political and social circle of the comrades but also against people who had nothing to do with them.

In the intervening period, solidarity actions were carried out for the comrades accused of the Ampelokipoi case and for the memory of comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris worldwide. Marches, microphones, solidarity movements and direct action strikes from Greece to Chile and from Germany to Indonesia.

We know that the real terror is the constant abolition of labour gains, price increases in supermarkets and evictions of the lower social strata for the sake of the banks. Terrorism is the cover-up of state crime in Tempe, as well as trafficking rings in which a large part of the state and para-state apparatus participates (see the Greek police mafia case). Terrorism is the thousands of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean and the wars that push them to displacement, such as the genocidal war in Palestine.

For our part, we come to declare that the revolutionary-insurrectionary thread that connects generations and generations will not be broken. There will always be movements that challenge the monopoly of state and capital violence and return a percentage of it to those who carry it.

We assume responsibility for the following arson attacks between 18/12 and 28/12 on the following targets:

      • HEDNO van vehicle in Elliniko,
      • car dealership in Patisia,
      • police car in Holargos,
      • state SUV vehicle in Kypseli,
      • the study center of New Democracy MP G. Kallianos in Glyfada,
      • cop car in Zografou.

We call on comrades here and everywhere to raise the flame of direct action and insurrectionary prospects.

Kyriakos Xymitiris always present!

Solidarity with anarchist comrade Marianna M.

Immediate release of the anarchists Dimitra Z., Dimitris, Nikos Romanos and A.K.

Solidarity with comrade K.K. in pre-trial detention

Solidarity with former RAF member Daniela Klette in pre-trial detention and wanted former members Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub

night slalom / commando Kyriakos Xymitiris

 

 

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