Athens, Greece - A group of anarchists reported to be anywhere from 30 to 80 people in number marched through central Athens yesterday afternoon where they attacked shops, a bank, ministers’ offices, and a police station where they torched twelve police vehicles. The group chanted slogans expressing their solidarity with the revolting prisoners. Anarchists and police went head to head near Kaningos Square but no arrests were made and the group dispersed into the Exarcheia district, a traditional anarchist neighborhood.

More arson bomb attacks were made against a bank and government targets overnight and early this morning among them were two cars belonging to Uruguay's ambassador to Greece. A group of anarchists firebombed a guard post outside a riot police camp in Zographou, in eastern Athens.

Behind Prison Walls

• Greece - The last of riots that shut down at least 11 prisons around the country was put down today four days after unrest broke out. The disturbances were sparked by the brutal beating of anarchist prisoner Giannis Dimitrakis at the hands of guards. Dimitrakis is being held on bank robbery charges and is awaiting trial.

  Anarchists who ideologically are opposed to prisons organized numerous solidarity demonstrations in Athens, Thessaloniki and outside some of the prisons to show their support of the inmates.
  

• New Castle, Indiana - Hundreds of Arizona convicts angry about having been recently transferred nearly 2,000 miles from their home state to the privately owned and operated New Castle Correctional Facility refused orders, attacked guards and set fires during a riot Tuesday. Two employees of the facility were injured and required treatment. The disturbance was put down after about four hours but officials have decided to "permanently put on hold" additional transfers from Arizona.

Naples, Florida, U.S. - Vandals painted anti-war slogans all over the Collier County Republican Party headquarters. They also took all the red, white and blue decorations that decorated the building and burned them in the building's rear parking lot. Volunteer Republican staffers said that the building had been the targeted by vandals at least three times in the past week and a half.

Slogans were painted on three sides of the building and on the sidewalk. Some of the slogans read "Democracy failed," "All war is deception," "Who would Jesus bomb?," "I won't kill for capitalists," "Fascists," "Stop Bush," "Repaint with Iraqi blood" and "If legality equaled morality, Bush would be in jail." Circle "A" anarchist symbols and peace signs were also painted outside the offices.

Kampala, Uganda - Environmental demonstrations turned into deadly riots as protesters destroyed property, looted shops and attacked ethnic Asians. The violence was sparked by plans of the Ugandan government and the Indian Mehta Group to clear large swaths of the Mabira Rain Forest Reserve in order to expand sugar plantations.

Two ethnic Asians unconnected to the Indian company were stoned to death by rioters and an alleged looter and a passerby were shot and killed by security officers. Rioters attacked property and burned a sugar transport truck. One protester held a sign that read: "ONE TREE CUT, 5 INDIANS DEAD!"

The plans to expand the sugar plantations would destroy 17,000 acres or 7,000 hectares of rain forest. That is nearly a third of the Mabira Rain Forest Reserve. The reserve is home to 50 species of monkeys, along with bird and plant species only found in Mabira. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni spoke of "the future of Africa" when he reiterated his support for the development following the violence.

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Protesters set fire to the offices of Neuquén State governor Jorge Sobisch after state police violently attacked a demonstration of striking teachers leaving one dead. Carlos Fuentealba was was injured by an exploding teargas canister and later died. He was wounded at a several hundred person protest against police brutality, which had marred the previous day's union demonstration.

Union leaders have called on teachers to take part in a nation-wide strike on Monday. Protests like today's in Buenos Aires, have already spread far beyond the borders of Neuquén Province. In Salta teachers tried to barricade state lawmakers inside the local legislature after an unsatisfactory vote on improving teacher's salaries. Police there attacked unionists with rubber bullets.

A teacher's strike last year in the Mexican state of Oaxaca sparked an nearly six month insurrection that police eventually put down. The Mexican police were only able to crush the revolt through brutal force and overwhelming numbers. In the end more than a dozens demonstrators had been killed including the American anarchist Brad Will, who had gone to Oaxaca as a journalist.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. - A new military recruitment station on Ellsworth Avenue in the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh fell victim to vandals early Wednesday morning. Business at the center had been disrupted the day before by a picket organized by the anti-war Pittsburgh Organizing Group. During that protest police attacked demonstrators and threatened them with arrest.

Recruiters had to halt work completely for much of Wednesday in order to rehang flags and posters and nail plywood over broken windows. Vandals also spilled paint all over the center. Neighbors said that this was not the first incidence of vandalism at the office since it opened in mid-February.

Santiago, Chile - Students again faced off against police in violent clashes over the city's new transit system, which leaves some working class neighborhoods in the capital with little or no access to public transportation. Police in armoured cars attempted to disperse rock throwing protesters with tear gas and a water cannon. They also made a number of arrests.

Last weeks riots, which marked "The Day of the Young Combatant," were inspired in part by dissatisfaction with the transit reforms, but they were not the first major protests against the changes.

Josh Wolf

San Francisco, California, U.S. - Freelance journalist Josh Wolf is scheduled to be freed today after spending nearly 7 1/2 months in prison for refusing to obey a grand jury subpoena to turn over unpublished footage of an anarchist organized San Francisco protest where a police officer was seriously injured and a squad car was damaged.

Wolf has long maintained that he did not see or capture either of those instances and that the police would like to turn journalists into surveillance cameras in the service of law enforcement. Wolf released the video today via his blog accompanied by this statement:

During the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any evidentiary value. Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the judge and I am confident you will see, as I do, that there is nothing of value in this unpublished footage.

The video in fact does not appear to show anything more serious than marchers parading without a permit and some instances of disorderly conduct.

During the course of his incarceration Wolf set the record as the journalist to serve the longest time in prison, for refusing to comply with a subpoena, in U.S. history.

Woodland, California, U.S. - Nine large trucks and SUV's on Casa Linda Drive and Elm Street were defaced around 1:30 a.m. Sunday by suspected eco-vandals. A witness reported seeing two males and one female who appeared to be in their late teens, spray painting cars in the area with the letters "ELF." The witness told police he was following the suspects but that they fled in a vehicle near Bartlett Avenue.

The Woodland Police Department believes that the letters ELF may stand for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). ELF is comprised of anonymous radical environmentalists that use sabotage and vandalism to target corporations that harm the environment and to draw attention to issues like global warming. They have consistently damaged SUV's (usually ones owned by dealerships) in order to call attention to the large amount of pollutants they create and their poor fuel efficiency.