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Breaking the fear in Vironas, Pagrati, Kaisariani area’s of Athens (Greece)
Video: https://truetube.media/w/jUVGvJFfuSeBNUitrTNewD
via: athens.indymedia
The “Breaking the Fear” assembly was created in response to a rape incident in Byron, following a call to collectives. An open assembly was formed that includes collectives and individuals who want to collectively respond to these logics and actions but also to support the complainants, to highlight the incidents in the local community and beyond, and to isolate the rapists and their apologists socially and morally.
To achieve these goals, the assembly organized moto demos, spray painting, poster making and interventions in the neighbourhoods and places of work and residence of rapists and apologists, with the aim of stigmatizing and socially excluding them (video). We also put out informative text, posters (see https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1616566/) and stickers that are stuck up and distributed on a regular basis, highlighting the issue in the neighbourhood.
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Athens, Greece: A brief review of the events of recent days in Exarcheia area
We are bringing out this update as we have noticed that in the mainstream and the wider media, the events of the last few days, as well as the solidarity march for the Biology squat, completely ignore the fact that Exarcheia was, is and will be a neighbourhood that fights against gentrification and repression. We want to make it clear that these events are mass actions spontaneously flanked by people and prove that no matter how much Mitsotakis (prime minister of greece) and his whole family want, Exarcheia will not submit to their vices.
Wednesday 12/01/22
From this morning, bulldozers and contractor crews have arrived in pedestrian street Messolongiou and proceeded to dig up the pavement in order to put electricity in a new building where a luxury apartment block is being erected. The work is then temporarily halted due to complaints from residents, as police forces arrive at the site. In the evening of the same day, a banner is displayed against the gentrification of Exarchia and people cover the holes that the bulldozers have made in the pedestrian street, filling them with earth.
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New blog about hunt sabotage (Greece)
New blog about hunt sabotage in greece
At this link: https://sabfornonhumans.blackblogs.org/el/ you will find a new blog which was created in order to pubish direct actions regarding hunting and fishing sabotage -and actions with anti-hunting/fishing context in general- in greece. Its english version is here: https://sabfornonhumans.blackblogs.org/en/. However, it is more restricted than the greek one as not all texts have been translated yet.
Moreover, those texts gathered and republished concern only the last years (2017 till today) for now. However, there are more. Whoever wants to enhance the spreading of anti-hunting/fishing actions in greece can send an email with relevant actions at: sabfornonhumans@espiv.net so as to be published. The same goes for whoever is interested in helping with the translations. Emails which are not coming from movement servers will not be accepted, for security reasons.
Athens,Greece: New Year’s Eve Gathering demonstration outside of Koridallos prison
Gathering 31.12.2021, 23:30 Korydallos Town Hall
In times of pandemic, thousands of dead and so many others seeking access to basic goods, in times when the world is increasingly resembling a modern supervised prison, we do not forget the “invisible” of this world.
We express our solidarity with the incarcerated population and join our voices with our imprisoned comrades who are being held because of their choice to fight in the struggle.
UNTIL THE LAST PRISON IS DEMOLISHED
THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ANY PRISON
PRISONERS’ LIVES MATTER
Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted fighters
GREECE: IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOULOS
On December 6, the anniversary of the murder of 15-year-old anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by a cop with two bullets in the back in 2008, there were numerous initiatives of struggle.
In the morning, a group of students opened the day; as night fell, a demonstration of thousands of people marched through the center of Athens.
The demonstration left at 18:00 from Propylaiea chanting slogans and heading towards the parliament and from there most of the demonstrators, the most prominent ones, went to Exarcheia, where at 21:00 there was a gathering at the memorial where Alexis was assassinated.
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Thessaloniki, Greece: The time has come for my roar to be heard – Denunciation of sectarianism by the Biologica haunt
“Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! […] You have a fixed idea!” – Max Stirner
It’s been some time that I wanted my anger to be heard. An anger that awaited for its moment, so that it can be ready to be released from within me. If this denunciation won’t bother everyone, it will bother most, if not then it will bother a few. And for many reasons that I won’t analyse!
I have been active in the anarchist / anti-authoritarian milieu in Thessaloniki since September ‘21 and I was not pleased by many things and generally they do not express me. Because, as Renzo Novatore wrote, “I am an individualist because I am an anarchist and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist.”
Nevertheless, I did not fall into the trap of dogmatism, I did not stop my activity just because most collectives and squats do not represent post-left anarchy, pure negation, direct action and informalism. Whenever and wherever I could, I showed my solidarity in practice, from participating in postering, to taking part in protests, and only out of personal desire because I was tired from complete isolation in Athens.
“34 YEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH! Occupied space at Biology school of Thessaloniki – SQUAT FOREVER” (Greece)
poster pdf
“34 YEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
Occupied space at Biology school of Thessaloniki – SQUAT FOREVER”
On Thursday, November 18, 2021, we noticed some “changes” inside the building of the School of Biology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Specifically, in the foyer area, there was plasterboard placed blocking half the space, leaving a corridor between the two entrances of the building. In fact, there were even some visible red marks (X) on certain walls, including one wall of the squatted space marking them for demolition.
After an online search at the Ministry of Digital Governance and Transparency program webpage, we found out that on September 16th, 2021, there was a post for an ongoing project, titled: “RECONSTRUCTION NEEDS FOR THE SCHOOL OF SCIENCES, neighbouring building”, commissioned for 1,320,600.00 euro. One of the stipulates was to complete the project within 16 months from the signed agreement and start the demolition of the marked walls within 4 months (until January 2022). From the layout plans it is clear that they intend to repurpose the squatted space as a “waiting area” – something “extremely viable” for the functionality of the school. The immediate threat for eviction, comes directly by rectors and contractors who have already started remodelling the “unused” spaces…
Thessloniki, Greece: STATE CAPITAL MEDIA AND SPECIALISTS, THEY HAVE FUCKED UP OUR LIVES
STATE CAPITAL MEDIA AND SPECIALISTS
THEY HAVE FUCKED UP OUR LIVES
STOPPING: house arrest, written petition to get a pre-trial hearing, curfew and assembly, certificates of sanitary legality.
“FREEDOM BUSINESS”: third dose, forced vaccination, and for non-compliant, fines, mandatory rapid tests, work suspensions, firings.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER: imposing a new social division between vaccinated and unvaccinated, between compliant citizens and unruly plebes.
ECONOMIC DIVIDE: telecommuting, working around the clock, wage cuts, unemployment, poverty, price increases in everything that concerns our living (rent, food, electricity, etc.).
WE WILL TAKE IT BACK TO THE BARRICADES
We will take them back to the streets.
– Rabid for life
Source: Athens Indymedia
via: darknights
Hands off the Biologic squat! [solidarity week 10-17 of January 2022] (Greece)
We call for a week of solidarity with the squatted, liberated ground of Biologica Squat from the 10th to the 17th of January 2022. We call for this week to be another reason for revolutionaries, individuals and collectives in Greece, Europe and throughout the whole world to show their solidarity by all means possible, with evert way that they consider as suitable for the 34 years of the liberated grounds of Biologica Squat which is now under the threat of eviction. Every eviction has its price. Prepare, beware, solidarity is our weapon.
Hands off the Biologic squat!
On Thursday 18th of November 2021, we noticed some “changes” inside the Biological building and more specific inside the foyer area, from the installation of plasterboard that blocked half of the space by leaving behind a corridor between the two entrances of the building. They even had the audacity to leave some distinct marks on walls, including the wall of the squat by foreshadowing their demolition.
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