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[importante] informe sobre a situacao dos presos na alemanha]
From:    "toya" <toya em riseup.net>
Date:    Mon, August 20, 2007 11:33 am
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pessoal abaixo vai a traducao do email da anna do cmi alemanha, acho que
todo mundo aqui esta acompanhando o que aconteceu na alemanha:
Ativistas sao presos na Alemanha:
http://midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2007/08/390276.shtml

eu traduzi soh o email da anna, nao traduzi a carta aberta que o pessoal
ta usando pra colher assinaturas. mas vou ta fazendo isso, quis mandar
esse email o quanto antes porque o pessoal precisa de uma forca.

tem muita gente do cmi que esta em universidade e faz parte dos 'meios
academicos' seria importante buscar apoio desse lado tabem. Acho que
divulgar as cartas pedindo assinaturas seria uma boa, podemos fazer um
editorial sobre isso, colocar a traducao da carta e ajudar colher
assinaturas para antes do dia 24 de Agosto - outra coisa tambem eh que
parece que vai rolar manifestacoes organizadas pela alemanha e em outras
cidades na europa no dia 15 de setembro, nas embaixadas.
abracos
toya


----- Forwarded message from anna em mail.nadir.org -----

No dia 31 de julho a minha casa foi invadida pela policia federal da
Alemanha e meu companheiro Andrej Holm foi preso. Nossas criancas
tiveram que encarar uma duzia de policiais armados acordando-os, e nos
acordando tambem. Andrej esta numa prisao em Belim-Moabit desde entao.
Existem algumas iniciativas se manifestando contra isso, inclussive duas
cartas abertas para o procurador federal feitas por pesquisadores da
mesma area. Eu ainda nao consigo escrever muita coisa, mas ha informacao
disponivel, maioria no site de um grupo que esta tentando apoiar todas
as pessoas que estao envolvidas: http://einstellung.so36.net/en para ingles,
e um pouco em frances aqui http://einstellung.so36.net/fr

Um resumo: Tres pessoas foram presas enquanto tentavam incendiar quatros
veiculos
do exercito. Quatro outras pessoas estao sendo acusadas de serem membros
de uma
organizacao terrorista chamada 'militant group' e estavam sendo
observados desde Setembro pelo menos - Andrej eh uma dessas pessoas
(isso inclui grampo nos telefones de membros da familia e amigos,
obersavacao dos de emails de todo mundo, bem de perto, etc etc).
Ja que ele encontrou com uma das outras tres pessoas duas vezes durante
esse ano em situacoes consideradas conspiratorias todos os sete estao
agora presos por serem 'terroristas' - mesmo que ainda nao seja clara a
razao pela qual eles se encontraram e sobre o que conversaram. A
situacao atual dos tres que foram acusados de terem incendiado os
veiculos do exercido e a de Andrej eh que eles estao presos. As razoes
dadas pelo procurador federal por que Andrej e os outros tres sao
suspeitos de serem 'terroristas' sao extremamente incriveis:
por pesquisar sobre gentrificacao, acesso a bibliotecas e habilidade
intelectual estao colocadas de formas explicitas como razoes no mandato
de prisao. O seu tratamento nas prisoes eh considerado o mesmo dado a
membros do RAF nos anos 70, de acordo com os advogados.

As cartas abertas ja foram assinadas por muitos academicos e ativistas
internacionais e da Alemanha. Eu estou colando o texto abaixo. Por favor
considere assinar e/ou levantar a atencao para isso da forma que seja
possivel. Uma nova decisao que sera tomada pelos advogados sobre
continuacao da prisao esta sendo esperada para o dia 24 de Agosto, entao
qualquer coisa que levante a atencao para isso antes desta data jah
ajuda.

Anna

Eu estou londe dos computadores a maior parte do tempo. Voces podem
entrar em contato comigo por einstellung[at]so36.net para mais informacoes.
Vai ter um release em ingles em breve tambem.

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http://einstellung.so36.net/en/openletter


Open letter to the Generalbundesanwaltschaft against the criminalization of
critical academic research and political engagement

On 31st July 2007 the flats and workplaces of Dr. Andrej Holm and Dr.
Matthias
B., as well as of two other persons, were searched by the police. Dr. Andrej
Holm was arrested, flown by helicopter to the German Federal Court in
Karlsruhe
and brought before the custodial judge. Since then he has been held in
pretrial
confinement in a Berlin jail. All four people have been charged with
“membership in a terrorist association according to § 129a StGB” (German
Penal
Code, section 7 on ‘Crimes against Public Order’). They are alleged to be
members of a so-called ‘militante gruppe’ (mg). The text of the search
warrant
revealed that preliminary proceedings against these four people have been
going
on since September 2006 and that the four had since been under constant
surveillance.

A few hours before the house searches, Florian L., Oliver R. und Axel H. were
arrested in the Brandenburg region and accused of attempted arson on four
vehicles of the German Federal Army. Andrej Holm is alleged to have met
one of
these three persons on two occasions in the first half of 2007 in supposedly
“conspiratorial circumstances”.

The Federal Prosecutor (Bundesanwaltschaft) therefore assumes that the four
above mentioned persons as well as the three individuals arrested in
Brandenburg are members of a “militant group,” and is thus investigating all
seven on account of suspected “membership in a terrorist association”
according
to §129a StGB.
According to the arrest warrant against Andrej Holm, the charge made
against the
above mentioned four individuals is presently justified on the following
grounds, in the order that the federal prosecutor has listed them:

- Dr. Matthias B. is alleged to have used, in his academic publications,
“phrases and key words” which are also used by the ‘militante gruppe’;
- As political scientist holding a PhD, Matthias B. is seen to be
intellectually
capable to “author the sophisticated texts of the ‘militante gruppe’ (mg)”.
Additionally, “as employee in a research institute he has access to libraries
which he can use inconspicuously in order to do the research necessary to the
drafting of texts of the ‘militante gruppe’”;
- Another accused individual is said to have met with suspects in a
conspiratorial manner: “meetings were regularly arranged without, however,
mentioning place, time and content of the meetings”; furthermore, he is
said to
have been active in the “extreme left-wing scene”;
- In the case of a third accused individual, an address book was found which
included the names and addresses of the other three accused;
- Dr. Andrej H., who works as urban sociologist, is claimed to have close
contacts with all three individuals who have been charged but still remain
free;
- Dr. Andrej H. is alleged to have been active in the “resistance mounted
by the
extreme left-wing scene against the World Economic Summit of 2007 in
Heiligendamm”;
- The fact that he – allegedly intentionally -- did not take his mobile phone
with him to a meeting is considered as “conspiratorial behavior”.

Andrej H., as well as Florian L., Oliver R. und Axel H., are detained
since 1st
August 2007 in Berlin-Moabit under very strict conditions: they are locked in
solitary confinement 23 hours a day and are allowed only one hour of
courtyard
walk. Visits are limited to a total of half an hour every two weeks.
Contacts,
including contacts with lawyers, are allowed only through separation panes,
including contact with their lawyers. The mail of the defense is checked.

The charges described in the arrest warrants reveal a construct based on very
dubious reasoning by analogy. The reasoning involves four basic hypotheses,
none of which the Federal High Court could substantiate with any concrete
evidence, but through their combination they are to leave the impression of a
“terrorist association”. The social scientists, because of their academic
research activity, their intellectual capacities and their access to
libraries,
are said to be the brains of the alleged “terrorist organization”.

For, according to the Federal prosecutor, an association called “militante
gruppe” is said to use the same concepts as the accused social scientists. As
evidence for this reasoning, the concept of “gentrification” is named -
one of
the key research themes of Andrej Holm und Matthias B. in past years, about
which they have published internationally. They have not limited their
research
findings to an ivory tower, but have made their expertise available to
citizens’
initiatives and tenants’ organizations. This is how critical social
scientists
are constructed as intellectual gang leaders.

Since Andrej Holm has friends, relatives and colleagues, they now also are
suspect to be “terrorists”, because they know Andrej. Another accused
individual was blamed for having the names of Andrej Holm and of two others
charged (but not jailed) in his address book. Since the latter are also
deemed
to be “terrorists” – this is how “guilt by association” is established.

Paragraph § 129a, introduced in Germany in 1976, makes it possible for our
colleagues to be criminalized as “terrorists”. This is how, through §
129a, the
existence of a “terrorist group” is claimed.

Through these constructs, every academic research activity and political
work is
presented as potentially criminal – in particular when politically engaged
colleagues who intervene in social struggles are concerned. This is how
critical research, in particular research linked with political
engagement, is
turned into ideological ring leadership and “terrorism”.

We demand that the Federal Prosecutor (Bundesanwaltschaft) immediately
suspend
the § 129a-proceedings against all parties concerned and to release Andrej
Holm
and the other imprisoned from jail at once. We strongly reject the outrageous
accusation that the academic research activities and the political engagement
of Andrej Holm are to be viewed as complicity in an alleged “terrorist
association”. No arrest warrant can be deduced from the academic research and
political work of Andrej Holm. The Federal Prosecutor, through applying
Article
§ 129, is threatening the freedom of research and teaching as well as
social-political engagement.

Initial signatures by:

Dr. Manuel Aalbers (Columbia University, New York), Prof. Dr. Rowland
Atkinson
(University of Tasmania, Australien), Prof. Dr. Lawrence D. Berg (Canada
Research Chair in Human Rights, Diversity & Identity, University of British
Columbia), Prof. Dr. Neil Brenner (New York University, Sociology), Prof. Dr.
Craig Calhoun (President, Social Science Research Council, and University
Professor, Sociology, NYU), Prof. Dr. Mike Davis (Prof. of Urban History,
Irvine/USA), Dr. Michael Dear (Professor of Geography at the University of
Southern California/Los Angeles), Prof. Dr. Michael Edwards (The Bartlett
Centre for Architecture and Planning, UCL, London), Prof. Dr. Geoff Ely
(University of Michigan, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor),
Prof.
Dr. John Friedmann (University of California, Los Angeles), Prof. Dr. Herbert
Gans (Columbia University, New York), Prof. Dr. Alan Harding (University of
Salford, UK), Prof. Dr. Michael Harloe (University of Salford,
Vice-President),
Prof. Dr. David Harvey (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate
Center
of the City University of New York, New York), Prof. Dr. Andreas Huyssen
(Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia
University), Prof. Dr. Martin Jay (Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of
History,
University of California Berkeley), Prof. Dr. Bob Jessop (Lancaster
Universtiy), Prof. Dr. Roger Keil (York University, Toronto, Canada),
Prof. Dr.
Rianne Mahon (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), Prof. Dr. Peter Marcuse
(Columbia University, New York), Prof. Dr. Margit Mayer (Freie Universität
Berlin), Prof. Dr. Frances Fox Piven (President of the American Sociological
Association, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, City
University New York), Prof. Dr. Andrew Ross (New York University, New York),
Prof. Dr. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, New York, and London School of
Economics) Prof. Dr. Andrew Sayer (Lancaster University, Sociology), Prof.
Dr.
Richard Sennett (Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics,
Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT, Professor of the Humanities at New
York University), Prof. Dr. William Sewell (The Frank P. Hixon Distinguished
Service Professor of Political Science and History Emeritus, University of
Chicago), Prof. Dr. Neil Smith (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and
Geography, Director of the Center for Place Culture and Politics, Graduate
Center of the City University of New York), Prof. Dr. Michael Storper
(Centennial Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics, and
Professor of Economic Sociology, Science Po, Paris), Prof. Dr. Erik
Swyngedouw
(University of Manchester, UK), , Prof. Dr. Peter J. Taylor (Loughborough
University, UK), Prof. Dr. John Urry (Lancaster University, Sociology), Dr.
Jennifer Wolch (Professor of Geography at the University of Southern
California/Los Angeles).

Sihn here:
http://www.policing-crowds.org/petition.html

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http://www.freeandrej.net.ms/

To Monika Harms
Federal Prosecutor of the Federal Court of Justice

Brauerstraße 30

76135 Karlsruhe

On August 1, 2007, the socially committed Berlin sociologist, Dr. Andrej
H., was
detained upon the order of the office of the federal prosecutor. The order
followed a police search of his residence and the residences of three other
academics. All three are suspected of being members of an organization called
"militante gruppe" ("militant group"/mg), which is being investigated by the
federal prosecutor's office in accordance with §129a StGB on suspicion of the
formation of a terrorist association. The arrest warrant issued for Dr.
Andrej
H. is justified by two "conspiratorial” meetings he is said to have had
several
months ago with an individual taken custody during an arson attempt on
federal
armed forces vehicles in "Brandenburg an der Havel" in late July.

We strictly oppose the use of violence as endorsed and practiced by the
"militant group." At the same time, however, we strongly object to the notion
of intellectual complicity adopted by the federal prosecutor's office in its
investigation. According to Dr. Andrej H.'s legal representative, accusations
concerning his membership in a terrorist organization have been made on the
following grounds:

- the office of the federal prosecutor possesses no information concerning
the
nature of Dr. Andrej H.'s meeting with the suspected arsonists; their
suspected
participation in the "militant group" is based on the fact of the meetings
alone;

- according to the federal prosecutor's office, Dr. Andrej H.'s
involvement in
the terrorist group can be deduced from his intellectual engagement in
subjects
broached in the writings of the "mg"; a 1998 publication of Dr. Andrej H.
contained various "key words and phrases" also found in the texts of the
"militant group" (including, for example, the term "gentrification" widely
used
in urban sociology),

- the suspect, with a doctoral degree in political science and, “as an
employee
of a research institute, had access to libraries where he could
inconspicuously
do the research required for the founding of a militant group".

Such arguments allow any piece of academic writing to be potentially
incriminating. The rationale followed by the federal prosecutor's office is a
direct threat to all those who pursue and publicly defend critical studies in
the sciences, humanities, arts, and media. Critical research, even in
combination with social and political activism, cannot be labeled terrorist
activity.

We hereby petition the office of the federal prosecutor to drop the charge
that
Dr. Andrej H.'s academic writings constituted intellectual participation in a
terrorist organization. Nothing in Dr. Andrej H.'s scholarly work
justifies an
arrest warrant. This line of reasoning represents a fundamental threat to
intellectual and academic freedom.

Likewise, we hereby petition for an immediate cease in the investigation
of Dr.
Andrej H. in accordance with § 129a StGB, which calls for an especially harsh
detention and restrictions in legal defense.

August 9, 2007


Sign here:
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