By A. G. Schwarz, Tasos Sagris, Void Network
On December 6, 2008, the town of Athens exploded as humans took to the streets to illustrate their rage over the homicide of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, bringing enterprise as traditional to a screeching, burning halt for 3 breathtaking weeks. this can be the 1st publication to delve into the Greek December and its aftermath, within the phrases of these who witnessed and took part in it. Interviews and private reflections run along the communiqués and texts that circulated in the course of the networks of rebel, laying off much-needed light—and dispelling harmful myths—on the true cloth of the Greek Left that made December possible.
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Now the prosecutor has tried to charge another person with the same crime as me, just because we are part of the Th e Perma n e nt Cri s i s in Edu cati on - So m e N otes o n Recent Struggl es : A DETAI LED LOOK AT THE STRIKES AN D OCCUPATIONS BY TEACHERS, STU DENTS AND PARENTS I N 2006-7 I N RESPONSE TO N EOLIBERAL POLICIES BEING 1M· POSED ON THE GREEK EDUCATIO NAL SYSTE M. same anarchist scene. It's the classic scenario concocted between the police and j ournalists. They invented a story about an armed group of ten to fifteen people, all anonymous so they could accuse a lot more people, and then they accuse this mysterious group of six more bank robberies supposedly committed to fund anarchist groups.
For three hours that's the only narrative we have, and so the feminine labor everybody says the same thing. In Greece we don't have a is not valued. I think that's why we don't have many squats pragmatic culture and for me that reflects the gender relations. in Greece, because it requires organization. But we're getting You have the same structure, the abstract specialists, after a more and more squats. while it's like a revolutionary bureaucracy. And yet everything The heroic aspect is consumed in the solidarity as well.
Person beside you who is getting beaten. Only then. We are not revolutionary ideologizing violence, and neither are we ideologizing paci struggle, spirituality is important for changing how you view fism. That's very important. Because you cannot stay peaceful the world. If you change that it's very difficult for you to be when someone next to you is being attacked. You fight but the repressed. If you are a spiritual person and connect with your important thing is that you are not feeling hatred.