Athens, Greece – Smashing the windows of a new shop in Exarchia
Exarchia is under threat of being completely levelled by the businesses of capital and the bosses who are trying to erase every competitive and social expression of the area. Exarcheia as a neighbourhood and as a place of resistance is targeted by the state and investors with the aim of sterilization and turning them into an entertainment centre for the rich and the tourists.
The “new” shops are the showcase for all this, bringing hordes of our political and class enemies into the neighbourhood. The bosses are getting rich and the residents are being kicked out. How much longer will we tolerate this situation, this fiasco, people are angry. On Friday, March 1st we chose to break the windows of a shop that hasn’t even opened yet on Friday, at the corner of Arachovis and Zoodochou Pigis, st. next to the stationed MAT killers. (riots forces cops)
What will happen to this shop with the already installed internal and external cameras? Bar, entertainment centre, grocery store, gourmet restaurant, concept store… It doesn’t matter, it’s unwanted in the neighbourhood! Let’s intervene in diverse ways in the junk shops before they even open, before it’s too late, before the pedestrian streets become suffocating, before the grocery stores are a thing of the past.
LET’S NOT EVEN LET A NEW STORE OPEN.
LET’S END THE SHOPS OF THE RICH