Prosfygika is the living, collective space where everyday life is rearranged in terms of solidarity and self-organization. People of different ages, and political and social backgrounds from all over the world, have transformed the spaces into communal kitchens, self-managed social and mental care structures, a hostel for relatives of cancer patients, a health structure, an animal structure, children’s hangouts and workshops.
Where the market wants housing and social needs as a commodity, the community creates relationships that covered and continue to cover practical needs: housing, care, building maintenance, free spaces, mutual aid. Where capitalism produces impoverishment and loss, self-organization from below provides the answer. This very practice functions as proof that collective organization from below is feasible and functional as an everyday, manageable reality that give protection and life. Where there would be dozens of homeless people, refugees, immigrants, drug addicts, and the poor in general, the community provides the answer. Continue reading excerpt from the responsibility claim for setting fire to the vehicles of the Attica region in solidarity with prosfigika community by anarchists (Athens,Greece)
(In the photograph, a moment from the March 14th gathering in Marina di Carrara).
