[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Thurs @ Greek Embassy Fwd: [Euromayday] Fwd: Greece

[Mark Barrett]

Forwarded Message

Hi Mark

Greekrevolution spreading in London.
There is a call outside the Greek Embassy in London this Thursday 16
June at 6.30pm. Discussions will consider the current situation and
explore ways of action…
http://eagainst.com/articles/call-for-assembly-at-the-greek-embassy-in-london/

Mark
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> News from the streets in Greece
>> Hello friends,
>> I am writing to you as we are experiencing huge demonstrations all over
>> Greece on daily basis for the past week. After our entrance to the IMF,
>> a year or so later people have had enough.
>>
>> There are daily demonstrations happening in over 60 cities around
>> Greece. Everywhere. In Athens yesterday some 200,000 people surrounded
>> the parliament chanting "Thieves, thieves, thieves" and calling
>> politicians names. They brought rope and hang a dummy representing a
>> politician. Women, children, young, old, from all walks of life have
>> come out with metal pans.
>>
>> The movement is called "The outraged" and there is a web site and a face
>> book blog created where people are joining and are exchanging ideas and
>> organizing.
>>
>> The movement is calling for direct democracy, for the IMF loan not to be
>> payed off, for the corrupt politicians to go to jail, for change in the
>> constitution and for the government to step down. They also are saying
>> they want out of the euro and to go back to our own currency, the
>> drachma. People are starting to take their money out of the bank,
>> effectively creating a "bank run" saying that if the government doesn't
>> default on the IMF loan they will collapse the banking system. There is
>> a call for people to start taking 100-200 euros each day out of their
>> bank account until the government decides to default on the IMF loan, or
>> go bankrupt. Which ever comes first.
>>
>> There are assemblies happening each night on squares around the cities
>> where people are getting together and talking about a new system using
>> direct democracy. They don't want any political parties and when they
>> see anyone with a flag or a sign from a political party trying to
>> approach the demonstration or to come to the assemblies they turn them
>> away, asking them to come back without any political signage or
>> affiliation.
>>
>> So far the demonstrations have been very peaceful. The movement has
>> created a security group to police the demonstrations, so no
>> provocateurs can infiltrate and cause problems. There are people
>> camping outside of the parliament 24/7, there are teams created to feed
>> people and teams created for legal support, medical support etc.
>>
>> So far the people are learning how to self organize and the movement is
>> growing at the speed of light. Just yesterday on the Athens face book
>> there where 90000 people, today there are more than 110000.
>>
>> People are massively calling TV stations and making their web sites to
>> go down because they are not covering the uprising and/or are
>> misinforming people.
>>
>> Last night the politicians had to escape from the back entrance of the
>> parliament, at night, through the park where security took them with
>> flash lights because the people had blocked the front entrance. The
>> outpouring of the people was so large, estimated at 200,000 that even
>> the cops were not able to hold them back.
>>
>> There is no stopping us now. Everyone is talking about change. People
>> who never even talked about politics, are now coming out in an outcry
>> for direct democracy. The government is scared and they don't know what
>> to do. The prime minister has not appeared in days anywhere and has not
>> made any comments.
>>
>> It is becoming known now that the IMF deal is a big scandal. The
>> agreement has been liked and is online and many constitutional lawyers
>> are going to the streets to inform people of what has really happened.
>> They have forced on us terms that are illegal even under International
>> or European law. They are not allowing us to go to elections. The IMF
>> agreement states that the Greek state cannot go to a Greek court to
>> challenge the agreement and it cannot sale its debt in order to pay it
>> back. We have to go to European courts (from 10-15 different European
>> nations who are the creditors of the loan) and challenge the legality of
>> the loan in each court individually. They, on the other hand, can sale
>> the loan to another country.
>>
>> They have asked that all political parties in Greece accept the IMF and
>> EU loan as legal and that all political parties sign it, or else we will
>> not get the next payment. That is why they refuse to allow us to go to
>> elections. How can they stop us from having elections in our own
>> country? Well it is a term written in the loan agreement. Yet it is
>> illegal and there is no court in Europe or International that can uphold
>> such term. But our stupid sold out government has no guts.
>>
>> Our system is parliamentarian, so we have a President of Democracy, who
>> is basically a person voted by all political parties in parliament, and
>> serves as a check and balance in our political system. If he resigns
>> the government gets dissolved as per our constitution. In the past week
>> he has refused to sign anything that has been voted from the Greek
>> parliament and the Government. We hope that he will do what is right
>> and resign. If he doesn't sign an agreement or a law that gets passed
>> in parliament, it doesn't come to effect.
>>
>> Well, there are tons of things happening. It is crazy how people,
>> especially the youth, has mobilized. Even the church is starting to
>> come out for the protesters, although probably a political move to gain
>> sympathy and approval from the people.
>>
>> I will write again soon with updates, there are a lot of things
>> happening and I cannot even begin to start elaborating on them. This
>> same movement is also going on in Portugal for the past 3 weeks, in
>> Spain for the past 2 weeks, and in Greece for a week now. It is
>> spreading now in France, Italy, England and other countries. Last
>> Sunday it happened all across Europe in dozens of European cities.
>> Millions of people came out on the streets and is now been organized for
>> the entire Europe.
>>
>> This coming Sunday there will be a huge protest outside of the Greek
>> parliament where protesters will come from all over Greece. Look for
>> the government to possibly come out or escape via helicopters, like in
>> Argentina.
>>
>> OUT OF THE IMF, EURO AND THE EU NOW.
>> DIRECT DEMOCRACY NOW!!!
>> lots of love and peace
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