In Solidarity with the Uprising in Greece

Thursday, December 25 2008
"The Occupation of the Polytechnic ended at midnight of the 24th of December – The struggle continues…

As a stable, for 18 days, point of the revolt that expanded, the occupied Polytechnic was a continuous call of insubordination to the people resisting all over the world, and a permanent sign of solidarity to the hostages taken by the state from within this struggle. It became the territory we used in order to diffuse the message of solidarity between the oppressed, of self-organisation and of a social and class counter-attack against the world of Authority, its mechanisms and its symbols. These elements and values of the struggle created the ground for the oppressed to meet in rebellion, armed our consciences and, for the first time maybe, became so widely impropriated by so many people of different age and different nationalities; people with whom anarchists and anti-authoritarians shared the same slogans against the police, the same words, the same practices of struggle, the same rage against those who are looting our lives, and, many times, the same vision for a world of freedom, equality and solidarity."

From: Occupiedlondon.org, a blog posted in the UK that has updates daily from the streets of Greece. [READ MORE]

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Wednesday, December 24 2008

"This is not about a government falling, about some “justice” being paid, about a mere meeting of some demands, a vindication of some sort. The people on the streets demand nothing; they occupy, they organise among themselves, they know that there is no way back to normality, that fighting this very normality is, quite literally, a matter of life and death."

From: Occupiedlondon.org. [READ MORE]

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From: CrimethInc., Dec 20:

"The events of the past two weeks may help reframe the global context for struggle, as the Zapatista revolt did in 1994. The rioting in Greece is not the only major unrest in the world right now, but it is perhaps the most promising, because it is explicitly directed against hierarchical power."
[Read full article: Greece and the Insurrections to Come]

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Tuesday, December 23 2008

"...It is also expected that the anarchist occupations of the three universities (Economics, Polytechnic and Law school) will all end later this week, as fatigue is seriously kicking in at these unprecedented 17-days long occupations. Actions will, of course, continue - the biggest bet right now is to expand the revolt and unrest in time and people are focusing their plans on this. We should have a better idea of where things will go after this week’s assemblies."
From: Occupiedlondon.org [READ MORE]

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Monday, December 22 2008

"Last night was calm at the Polytechnic. As mainstream media report, the academic asylum at the campus has already been suspended - which means it is now entirely up to the police to decide if they will raid. Until recently, it used to be that the law, preventing the police and army from entering university grounds, could only be suspended after an explicit decision of the university senate. However, according to a voted amendment, an attorney general can also order its suspension should there be fellonies commited in the university grounds and within 48 hours since this happens. Given that the most recent clashes with the police took place on Saturday night (molotovs thrown against them: a fellony) they have until tonight to attempt to raid the university, if they so decide..."
From: Occupiedlondon.org. [READ MORE]

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For Updates from Saturday's International Day of Action visit: The Center for Strategic Anarchy

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Sunday, December 21 2008

The revenge of normality shall not pass, neither at the Polytechnic nor anywhere else!

(Statement by the Occupied Athens Polytechnic)

From Saturday 20th of December onward, following the clashes around the Athens Polytechnic (one of the tens of mass clashes between protestors and police that followed the assassination of 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos) there has been strong speculation surrounding the occupation of the Athens Polytechnic.

Continuous information that has been coming in regarding a possible police raid in the occupied Polytechnic, combined with the strategic maneuvering of the riot police during the clashes, foretold the obvious: The police are preparing to raid the occupation. Bypassing the senate, surrendering the Polytechnic to the police and the ministry of interior, the attorney general sent us an indirect yet clear message, with threats and blackmailing, that we have “a few hours” left.

We reply to them to them that the time we’ve got left is as much as the revolted part of the society decides and that this accepts no ultimatums. That they’d better respect and fear all who participated, participate and will continue to participate in practices of revolt. It is precisely those, the thousands of revolted, of students, workers, unemployed, migrants and comrades that we call to a high alert at the space of the Polytechnic, ahead of the coming raid.

- We call everyone to a mass presence at the Athens Polytechnic campus

- We call for an open assembly today, Sunday 21/12 at 9pm

- We call for self-guarded concert of solidarity and financial support for the prisoners of the revolt. 6pm at the Athens Polytechnic

We shall have the last word

These days and nights belong to Alexis

Athens Polytechnic Occupation

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Saturday, December 20 2008:

DAY of INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST STATE MURDER.

Solidarity in Toronto

"There will be a PEACEFUL solidarity rally at 365 Bloor (outside the Greek consulate) on Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. There aren’t many planning to come so far, so invite all you can!"
[Link]

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December 18, 2008:

A Note on Solidarity

From: Occupiedlondon.org a blog posted in the UK that has updates daily from the streets of Greece.

“Have you heard? There was a solidarity action in Moscow”. And Paris. And Berlin, Mexico City, London, Oaxaca, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York (when was a university there last occupied?) and Montreal. And -literally- hundreds of other cities. In the first few days of the revolt we were thinking of trying to put together all the solidarity actions somewhere - this was proven to be, quite simply, impossible: There are hundreds of actions around the globe, thousands of people that have taken to the streets. This is incredible and you can’t believe how important it is for us. Our struggle is common. On December 20th, on the international day of solidarity, let’s show them what we have started to feel here in Greece: That what we’ve seen so far is only the begining."

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December 17, 2008:
About the interruption by protesting civillians of the newscast at the Greek National Broadcast station, Dec 16, 2008, 3:10pm

Our action is a response to the accumulated pressures that ravage our lives, and not simply an emotional outburst in the wake of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the Greek police.

We are yet another spontaneous collective that forms part of the social uprising in progress.

In a symbolic move to prevent the media from subduing us, citizens & civilians, we interrupt the newscast of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (NET). We believe that the media systematically cultivates a climate of fear, promoting misinformation as information, and portraying a multi-faceted uprising as an outburst of reckless violence.

The explosion of civil unrest is explained in criminal rather than political terms. Crucial events are selectively brushed under the carpet. The uprising is served up as entertainment, something to watch until the next soap opera comes on. The media are being used as a means of suppressing free and original thought on a daily basis.

Let us organise ourselves. No authority can provide solutions to our problems. We must rally together and turn our public spaces – streets, squares, parks, and schools – into areas of unhindered expression and communication. Let us come together, face to face, side by side, to formulate our cause and our course of action as one.

Let us overcome the fear, switch off our television sets, come out of our houses, continue to assert our rights, and take our lives into our own hands.

We condemn police violence and call for the immediate release of all protesters held in custody.

We stand for emancipation, human dignity, and freedom.

-From: Athens Indymedia

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December 15, 2008:

"Up against the wall motherfuckers! We've come for whats ours..."

In these days of rage, spectacle as a power-relation, as a relation that imprints memory onto objects and bodies, is faced with a diffuse counter-power which deterritorialises impressions allowing them to wonder away from the tyranny of the image and into the field of the senses. Senses are always felt antagonistically (they are always acted against something) – but under the current conditions they are driven towards an increasingly acute and radical polarisation.

[Read the full statement here: -LINK- ]