On Tuesday 24th March, the state repressive hand hit this house. The infoladen was raided by the cops, faces covered of course, smashing doors and windows, breaking cabinets and toilets, grabbing material and throwing zines, posters, and flyers on the floor.
We, as the Anti-Militarist Assembly Wedding, have been meeting in the infoladen for some time now. With these words we want to express solidarity to all individuals and projects that were hit by the raids, here in Berlin and in other cities. But we also want to clearly state that this latest violent attack is also an attack against a neighborhood that has decided to resist.
The Assembly is open, horizontal, and anti-authoritarian. One kilometer from here Rheinmetall will soon start producing components for tank ammunitions, artillery systems and armored vehicles. Parts, small but deadly, of a bigger machine: the ongoing colonial and genocidal project that uses war to turn in profits.
For those who join the struggle against wars, occupation and militarization, and against the chilling normalization of three years of live-streamed genocide against the Palestinians….repression is not a matter of if but when. But while the technologies of repression become more sophisticated, its tactics are old: intimidation, surveillance, abuse and incarceration. Painting comrades as “extremists” and a danger to society. The same society that is now being asked and later will be forced to send its children to war. The old story of the ‘bad militant’ versus the ‘good citizen’ is crumbling.
Who is guilty of killing thousands all over the world through war, dispossession, and man-made disasters?
We refuse the concept of guilt in the face of global war and devastation. We are not guilty but we are all accomplices in the struggle against oppression!
We want to finish with some words from our comrade Sara, who together with Sandro, was killed by an explosion last week in Rome:
“There is an enormous difference between the violence of the oppressed and that of the oppressors: the former follows an ethic, the latter doesn’t”.
We want to remember Sara and Sandro today because they died in action, they died fighting. We think of them and of our comrade Monica Caballero, during the week of solidarity calling for her release after years of imprisonment and harassment for attacking the Chilean state.
We oppose the daily violence of states and masters, borders and prisons, raids and intimidation, we salute the violence of the oppressed! With their example we will keep the flame burning through the night!