The federal police ransacked the headquarters of the Federação Anarquista Gaucha (FAG), in Porto Alegre. That is where the government “left” of Brasilia, after ten years of neoliberal policies.
The afternoon of Thursday, June 20, 2013, between 12 and 15 agents, unidentified but wearing vests and jackets and police posing as agents of the federal police entered and searched the athenaeum da Batalha várzea, political and social space Gaucha Anarchist Federation (AGF), located travessa Venezianso back. They also seized some equipment.
The officers did not show any search warrant to neighbors who were concerned about what was happening. Moreover, in the morning, agents, also hidden, tried to arrest a friend at his home.
The FAG is a 18-year old political organization. During these years, we did not hidden and we have always maintained the character of our public spaces in which we conduct numerous political and cultural activities, as well as our political action.
The Athenaeum is a place where the past three years we have kept these activities, maintaining a public library and conducting periodic activities.
We also wish to recall that in October 2009, our former headquarters (located Lopo Gonçalves) was also was invaded by the civilian police on the orders of the governor of the time, Yeda Crusius, following a poster that we wanted to head the death of militant Landless Movement (MST) Elthon Brum in San Gabriel. On this occasion, all the material of our seat was seized, including garbage.
This time, after the many “urban rumors” published by RBS [ 1 ] accusing us of being sociopaths, we are accused of planning, with the help of foreign militants, an urban guerrilla we see here a clear reason for panic and call the repression against our action.
Provocations and lies developed by the reactionary press or suppression devices used by officers of the bourgeois state is not new for us. Since our inception as current policy, we have been the target of relentless repression of employers acting hand in hand with the state.
For over a century, we have resisted these cowardly attacks, never down or our heads or our fists and not this new episode will weaken our fighting spirit.
Finally, we denounce the municipal, provincial and federal, all responsible for this cowardly attack against our organization. It does not intimiderons and we will continue using all our efforts to build a grassroots movement fighting organized the oppressed of this country and their legitimate demands.
No Pasarán!
Down with repression against those who fight!
Federação Anarquista Gaucha, June 20, 2013