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Read the call from the inhabitants of the Rote Str. Houses 0-5 (German)
If you havent escaped to South America by now, this is where you should be. 
A complete, well informed and objectively written recap of the nights events can be found, in German, on Monsters of Göttingen. Another, significantly worse article, can be found at Göttinger Tageblatt.
Police blocking the entrance to the Rote Strasse (Photo courtesy of MoG)
A brief summary for the, numerous, non-German visitors here (very freely translated and edited from MoG):
On the evening of the 27th of January police raided one of the „collective“ houses in the Rote Strasse, under the pretense of looking for evidence related to the „bomb“ which exploded several days ago in one of the government offices responsible for deportations. This incident occurred only two days after Göttingen authorities arrested and deported a man to Kosovo (see: „Protests Against Deportation“). The „lead“ which led to this massive police operation is apparently nothing more than a police dog which, five days later and despite rain and snow, apparently led police from the site of the „explosion“ to the entrance of the house on the Rote Strasse.
This was justification enough to cordon off the entire Red Street with well over one hundred police officers for over three hours and proceed to a thorough raid of the house. In the course of the raid police confiscated three computers as well as other information storage devices. Not precisely bomb making material. The police also took advantage of the opportunity to carry out a further search warrant against an inhabitant of the house, in this case because of alleged property damage in the form of graffitti. The persons computer as well as several stencils were also confiscated.
During the time of the police operation several hundred supporters gathered at the cordoned off corner of Rote Street and Jüden Street. Eventually this led to a „spontaneous“ demonstration through the city, during the course of which several store windows were smashed, at least one police car had its windows broken, and several small barricades were built. Five people were arrested during or immediately following the demonstration. Furthermore, approximately 50 people held a spontaneous demonstration in solidarity with the inhabitants of the Rote Str. in Hannover.
Demonstration in Hannover
Most importantly, the inhabitants of the Rote Strasse as well as several autonome and antifascist groups are calling for a demonstration against repression and against the attempts to criminalize anti-racist solidarity. This demonstration is on Saturday, January 30th at 17:00 at the „Marktplatz.“ Put in few words: Be there!
Finally, just in, the press release of the inhabitants of the Rote Strasse houses:
+++ Pressemitteilung anlässlich der Hausdurchsuchung in der Roten Straße 1 Göttingen am 27. Januar 2010+++
Polizei durchsucht Haus in der Roten Straße. Konstruierte Vorwände sollen Repression gegen linke Strukturen legitimieren.
Gestern, am 27. Januar 2010, hat die Polizei eine Hausdurchsuchung in der Roten Straße 1 in Göttingen durchgeführt. Bereits gegen 19.00 Uhr hatte ein Großaufgebot an Einsatzkräften die Rote Straße abgesperrt. Anschließend wurden mehrere Zimmer von Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern, sowie das Wohnzimmer und der Dachboden durchsucht. Darüber hinaus verschafften sich die Polizeikräfte Zutritt zu weiteren Zimmern.
Als Vorwand galt der Polizei eine vermeintliche Spur, die ein Spürhund trotz Schneefalls und Tauwetters auch nach fünf Tagen noch aufgenommen haben soll. Diese habe angeblich von dem Brandherd im Kreishaus, der nach Spekulationen der Polizei auf einen Anschlag zurückgeht, direkt zum Haus in der Roten Straße geführt. „Es ist offenkundig, dass hier Stimmung gemacht wird gegen die linke Szene im Besonderen und antirassistische Politik in Göttingen im Allgemeinen.“, erklärte Sonja Meier,
eine Sprecherin der Roten Straße. Während der Durchsuchung verstießen die Polizistinnen und Polizisten gleich mehrfach gegen geltendes Recht. So verschafften sich die Beamten, ohne die Bewohner und Bewohnerinnen des Hauses darüber in Kenntnis zu setzen, Zutritt zur Wohngemeinschaft. Als die Betroffenen die Vorlage eines Durchsuchungsbeschlusses forderten, verweigerten die Polizeikräfte diese. Zudem wurde Sven Adam, der von den Betroffenen hinzu gerufene Anwalt, zunächst von
Polizeibeamten daran gehindert zum Haus zu gelangen. Die Sprecherin erklärte hierzu: „Es ist ein Skandal, dass ein Richter einen Durchsuchungsbeschluss auf einer solch vagen Beweisgrundlage überhaupt unterschreibt. Die Durchsuchung reiht sich ein in eine Vielzahl von Repressionsmaßnahmen gegen linke Strukturen.“ So wurde im vergangenen Jahr eine linke Wohngemeinschaft in der Geismar Landstraße durchsucht; ein Gericht hat diese Maßnahme mittlerweile für rechtswidrig erklärt.
„Wir werden diese willkürlichen Maßnahmen nicht widerstandslos hinnehmen und verurteilen sowohl die Hetze gegen antirassistische Politik als auch die mit ihr verbundene Repression.“, so Sonja Meier abschließend.
Für Samstag, den 30. Januar 2010, rufen die Bewohner und Bewohnerinnen der Roten Straße zu einer Demonstration gegen das Vorgehen der Polizei auf. Treffpunkt soll laut Angaben der Sprecherin um 17.00 Uhr am Kornmarkt sein.
Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Roten Straße Göttingen
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PS: Sleep is for the weak.
PPS: Goodbye Deutschland!
Edit 22:00 Last update for tonight. Demonstration in the city, small barricades, some damage to window fronts in the inner city, and at least one smashed up police car. At least two arrests.
Edit 21:11: Cops leaving Rote Str., demonstration in the city.
Edit 20:57: Demonstration in the city, 150-200 people. Cops still blocking the Rote Str.
Edit 20:07: Over 100 people gathered at corner of Rote Str./Jüdenstr. in solidarity. Hingehen!
Edit 19:37: +++Die Polizei durchsucht offenbar in diesem Moment ein Hausprojekt in der Roten Straße im Zusammenhang mit den Ermittlungen wegen des Brandes in der Teeküche im Kreishaus. +++
From: Monsters of Göttingen
Right now. Cops blocking both ends of the Rote Str., you can only enter showing ID. At least one house is currently being „durchsucht.“ Cops refuse to give more infos, only „polizeiliche massnahmen.“
Fun with cops…
*TV Cops Get Car Smashed While Giving Speech at University
It would be difficult to provide better entertainment: „Toto und Harry,“ two cops with their own television show who run around helping old ladies and getting cats out of trees, held a speech at a university in the city of Bochum. When they returned, they found all the windows of their car smashed and paint thrown inside. Funny enough, but Germanys finest newspaper, BILD, makes it even better with their article about the incident, in which they include a link to another article in which a speaker of the Police Union claims that „todays „chaoten“ are like the RAF“ („chaoten“ is a derogatory term usually used to refer to autonomes).
Hysteria and exaggeration at their best. Every time I read it, the main question Im faced with is: If the radical left in Germany is so strong, so dangerous, so out of control, and so menacing…are we talking about the same Germany?
*Of course, the chorus of hysteria wouldnt be complete without the cops themselves opfering around (:-)). Again…Kabul, Gaza, Athens, Berlin…apparently its all the same lawlessness.
*Speaking of lawlessness…here are some cops who clearly have trouble understanding the rules of some games. Slowly for the stupid kids here….dont bring your gun to the snowball fight. It just ruins it for the others.
EDIT 25.01 17:45: The video is back!. You cant stop the ararischen jugend!
Very frustrating.
How are we expected to ever get any work done here when we are presented with such entertainment??!!
We havent laughed so much in a long time.
The moves, the flair, the voice. Such a shame that such talent is lost in the world of the far right.
via: Diffidati and Feine Sahne Fischfilet
Bigger budget, less explicit, but similarly bad and sadly a touch more popular, Nena with „national pop.“
And yes, here is where this kind of stuff belongs, just one of many reasons why I dont.
Politischesplakat is again doing their yearly voting on best political poster, this time for 2009. You are all invited to go and place your votes (wow…theres something I never thought Id write!).
My personal favorites:
Simply the best. Whoever did this hopefully has a really nice and well paying job as a graphic designer somewhere.
Dont like the music, and probably not a big fan of the politics of whoever made it, but the font is well done and the color scheme is good.
Well laid out, classic yet modern, and with a high nostalgia value
Powerful yet chic, and a very nice color scheme
And finally, the choices out of Göttingen were terribly limited, so well take what there is. Politically on target in that it takes the protagonist role, a pleasant change from the discourse so often heard after militant confrontations recently of „but they started it.“ Also, makes a good t-shirt.
PS I think I may be blind but, regardless of how much I search I just cant find the „Stalin Broke My Heart“ poster which everybody keeps talking about.
Good news, bad news, very interesting news, and mildly interesting news.
*The very good news is that the design work on the Spring collection 2010 is finished, and we are confident that it will mark another increase in the depth and variety of the t-shirt designs Fire and Flames has been presenting. The message remains one and the same, but we are trying to channel it through not only the typical aesthetic forms (although no worries, those are well represented as well) but also ones which are somewhat new to us. This opens us up to reaching new people, and also ensures that we dont die of boredom trying to figure out new ways to write „Antifascist.“
And because we are excited and dying to share, as soon as the details are worked out, we will begin releasing one design per day on the blog page.
We will begin taking orders approximately mid-march, and the shirts will be available early April.
*The significantly less good news concerns our „Winter“ collection. As you may have noticed, we made lots of designs, and even put them online to show you. Fortunately, we didnt get as far as taking orders from you (except in the case of the „Red Heat Navy“ jacket which was already existing).
To make a long and incredibly frustrating story short…In October we sent our jacket producer a large sum of money in advance representing 50% of the payment for our new jackets. Delivery time was promised to us to be three to four weeks. After three months we still had nothing, and after Fire and Flames almost ceased to exist because of the enormous economic losses that these people created for us we took the very drastic step of threatening with legal action (after months of getting no response to emails or phone calls). As a result of this, we have been returned half of the money we paid, and are still waiting for the other half. As you can imagine, for a distro to be without money *and* without clothes during fall and Christmas time is really really bad.
Making the issue even worse, the people we sent the money to we chose because they are an independent, left-wing project, with production in (western) Europe and good conditions. Sadly, there are thieves and scam artists everywhere.
We are now in the process of sending samples of our jackets to a new factory, and hope to be able to release them together with the new collection and catalog in April or May. Time will tell if this is possible, as sadly our economic situation has become very suddenly very bad due to the jacket fiasco (we still havent even got back all the money we paid!).
-Finally, mildly exciting yet symptomatic of the organizational hell that is Fire and Flames…
*No Justice: For almost a year we wondered why the tshirt was so popular, but nobody ordered the hoodie. Until yesterday (January 2010) we realized that the hoodie was *not online.* Clearly, this made ordering difficult. Anyways…now you can!
*Skinhead Antifascist: Yet another act of brilliance from the collection 2009. As opposed to „No Justice,“ which we had but didnt put online, this hoodie we didnt have…yet put online.
Now, weve connected the dots…not only can you order….but we also have it. Customer service at its best!
Source: HNA
„Göttingen. Angehörige der linksautonomen Szene haben gegen 14.20 Uhr das Gelände der Göttinger Gerichte am Maschmühlenweg besetzt. Sie demonstrierten damit nach ersten Informationen gegen die geplante Abschiebung eines Kosovo-Albaners, der angeblich seit zehn Jahren in Deutschland leben soll.
Die Demonstranten forderten „Bleiberecht für Alle“ und skandierten „Abschiebung ist Mord“. Nachdem sie die Aufforderung ignoriert hatten, das Grundstück zu räumen, wurden die Aktivisten von der Polizei abgedrängt. Mehrere Demonstranten stürzten daraufhin im Maschmühlenweg Altpapiercontainer um. Es kam zu Rangeleien. “
Multiply and spread…
Heute fand in Berlin und Sachsen eine Durchsuchungswelle gegen linke und antifaschistische Einrichtungen statt, die die Proteste gegen den Naziaufmarsch am 13.02.2010 in Dresden unterstützen. Unter anderem wurde der Antifa-Laden “Red Stuff” in Berlin-Kreuzberg, das Infobüro in der Landesgeschäftsstelle der LINKEN in Dresden, sowie das Autonome Zentrum Conni in Dresden durchsucht. In Berlin wurden sämtliche Mobilisierungsmaterialien beschlagnahmt die zu den Protesten gegen den größten europäischen Naziaufmarsch aufrufen. Begründet wird dies im Durchsuchungsbeschluss damit, dass das Aufrufen zu zivilem Ungehorsam und Blockaden ein öffentlicher Aufruf zu Straftaten sei.
Das bundesweite Bündnis “Dresden Nazifrei!”, das zu den Blockaden aufruft, besteht aus über 230 Organisationen und Gruppen sowie über 800 Einzelpersonen.
Demo heute in Berlin: 20 Uhr, Heinrichplatz, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Source: Dresden Nazifrei
Briefly summed up for the non-German speaking: Police raided the antifa shop „Red Stuff“ in Berlin today, as well as the autonomous center „Conni“ in Dresden and the Dresden offices of the party „Die Linke“ (The Left). The official reason for this was to confiscate posters calling for blockades against the planned Nazi demonstration in Dresden on the 13th of February. This demonstration is the largest Nazi event in Europe, last year drawing apparently 7.000 Nazis. This year, a very broad coalition of antifa groups, unions, and some parties are organizing blockades of the march which will in all likelyhood draw about as many people as the Nazi demonstration.
Those of you from Göttingen or surrounding areas might remember the name from the planned, but stopped, concert at the „Moonlight“ strip club in the city a couple of years ago. All the whining and complaining about not being racists, not having anything to do with fascists, and being poor victims of the big bad antifa PC police, well…turns out „Kill Baby Kill“ were not only racists, but cowards as well.
Dieter Samoy, aged 28, was convicted on January 12th of a racist aggression against a man of Togolese origin and his friend in the proximity of the infamous „Kastelein“ bar in Bruges. The man spent over a month in a coma, and finally died almost a year later due to a pulmonary infection.
Not one hour after learning of his conviction to two years in prison (yes, only two!) good old Dieter committed suicide. He will be missed by nobody except a bunch of cowardly racist drunks in a shitty bar in Belgium (and some people in Göttingen). And speaking of the cowards from the shitty bar in Belgium…its really impolite to keep people waiting for you for so long after you open your mouth so wide about „killing the reds.“ But dont worry…we can come back whenever you want!
Source: „Suicide dun Skinhead“
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