To: Retort Via: IB There will be a report filed tomorrow from Anna Papaeti concerning the unfolding events in Greece. Meanwhile, a bulletin from Athens (Sunday), and a statement (today, Monday) from the occupied Polytechnic: Sunday, December 6, 2009 One hundred and sixty two people tried the sweet taste of democracy today, having being arrested, detained, dragged to police stations, humiliated, charged. The message is becoming crystal clear: democracy takes no chances, it only takes prisoners. Democracy smashes the spaces that cause it the slightest disturbance. Trust democracy to invert history: the assassins become the victims, the victims become the villains. But tomorrow is our day. Demonstrations have been called for in cities across the country - Mytilene, Heraklion, Larisa, Sparta, Agrinio, Thessaloniki, Kilkis, Corfu, Xanthi, Samos, Athens, Rhodes, Lamia, Serres, Volos, Giannena, Patras, Arta, Corinth, Kardisa. In Athens, the main demonstration has been called for at 13.30 pm at Propylea. -------------------- Statement from the Occupied Athens Polytechnic Monday, December 7, 2009 Since the ministries say nothing, we will. Since the media connect nothing, we will. The military-type raid of the anarchist space “Resalto” in Keratsini - a space of intervention and counter-information which, as with such spaces of struggle, never hid its animosity to the forces of repression nor its solidarity with the repressed, openly and publicly. Something for the minister to worry about. The arrest, on the same night, of all who gathered in support of the comrades in a nearby square and later in the town hall of Nikaia, as well as those who gathered at the point of assassination of Alexis Grigoropoulos a year later. Something for the minister to worry about. Athens under police occupation, requiring 13,000 cops, the penning of bodies, the blockade of the Polytechnic, in their anxiety to repress the memory of the December 6th demonstration. Something for the minister to worry about. But we have more for the minister to worry about. The plan of terrorization that he has put into practice is bound to fail. The colleagues of the murderer cops who swarmed Athens today caused no fear, they caused rage. The arrests of the comrades and the heavy charges against them cause no hesitation, they forge solidarity. The attacks on spaces, occupations and places of struggle will bring not isolation, but even more determination and crouch. NO HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE MURDERERS FREEDOM TO THE 22 COMRADES OF RESALTO CHARGED WITH FELONIES, AND TO THE 43 COMRADES IN SOLIDARITY WHO ARE ON TRIAL RIGHT NOW AT THE COURTHOUSE OF PIREAUS FREEDOM TO THE 12 ARRESTEES OF EXARCHEIA, IN THE SPECTACULAR SHOW OF POLICE FORCE RESIST THEIR PLAN FOR TOTALITARIAN REPRESSION MASS RESPONSE TO THE ASSASSINATIONS, THE BEATINGS, THE ARRESTS, THE MEDIA LIES THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR WAGER OF SOCIAL CONSENSUS EVERYONE TO THE STREETS Comrades from the Occupied Athens Polytechnic |