Decisions of the Popular Assembly in Syntagma, May 29
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<p><strong>Upcoming mobilisations and call-outs</strong></p>
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<li>Monday, May 30th at noon, Stadiou and Sofokleous str: Support of the workers at the Post Bank against its privatisation</li></ul>
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<li>Monday May 30th, Mars Field (Alexandras and Patision Ave):Demonstration through neighbourhoods to end up at Syntagma square</li></ul>
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<li>Tuesday May 31st, Karaiskaki square, Piraeus: Support of the dockworkers fighting against the sell-out of the port</li></ul>
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<li>Call for popular assemblies in neighbourhoods aiming at the spread of the people’s rising up and coordination of assemblies. Monday June 1st, cooking pan demonstration toward Syntagma square.</li></ul>
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<li>Thursday June 2nd, Klauthmonos square, 11 am: Support of the Telecommunications workers who have a strike and national protest.</li></ul>
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<li>June 2nd, Propylea: At the same time, education demonstration</li></ul>
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<li>Saturday June 4th, 11 am, Klauthmonos square: Worker demonstration and support of ATHENS PRIDE</li></ul>
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<li>Call-out to the assemblies of students in schools and universities on Tuesday and Wednesday for their demonstration to end at Syntagma square</li></ul>
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<li>Sunday June 5th, call for the repetition of the European-wide day of rising up, or if possible, a global one.Call for the creation of a banner of the popular assembly and its placement in front of parliament.</li></ul>
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<li>Call for participation in all workers’ mobilisations in the coming days.</li></ul>
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<li>Call to everyone and all groups for the organising and coordination of anti-fascist action in the following days.</li></ul>
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<li>Call for actions at the Syntagma metro station.</li></ul>
<p>DIRECT DEMOCRACY NOW</p>
<p>EQUALITY JUSTICE DIGNITY</p>
<p>The only defeated struggle is the one never fought</p><br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2011 13:02, Julien Chaulieu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julien@eagainst.com">julien@eagainst.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Unfortunately the situation in Greece regarding fascism is out of control. <br><br>I have published this article (it is mainly translation from other sources in Greek) taking about a massive coordinated attack against migrants in Athens.<br>
<a href="http://eagainst.com/articles/greece-fascists-attempted-to-racist-pogroms-over-a-migrant-killing/" target="_blank">http://eagainst.com/articles/greece-fascists-attempted-to-racist-pogroms-over-a-migrant-killing/</a><br>
and this one explains the situation very well <a href="http://eagainst.com/articles/the-battle-of-attica-square/" target="_blank">http://eagainst.com/articles/the-battle-of-attica-square/</a><br><br>I agree that Spaniards should ask people from other countries to set aside things that divide us, such like national flags, but I am not sure if Greek nationalists could understand this. They seemed to be fine with "no party flags" but they can't see the political concept of the national flag. I had a discussion with many of them. I explained that this movement has nothing to do with nations and flags and they just replied "yes, but our blue-white flag is above all, this is what expresses me cause I am Greek". They most of the time say "we are not leftists we are not rightists we are only Greeks" but they can't see that there is a strong right wing message in this slogan. They don't see nationalism as a political ideology. Instead they think that nationality is above all. This argument is nothing more but metaphysical approach, similar to what you can find in theocratic countries. <br>
<br>Of course as you can understand there is a massive lack of rational education. In fact most of the school schedules too much stick on religion. Many of the so called patriots believe media-tabloid conspiracy theories that "there is a plan of secret societies, the Jews and the New World Order who want to send immigrants in our country in order to destroy our heritage". They see a kind of historical connection between the past and now without understanding that there is a kind of social determinism behind this concept. <br>
<br>I heard that yesterday, a couple who carried a Greek flag attacked a protestor who said that "we should not carry flags". All other protestors, including leftists, anarchists, syndicalists did not carry a single flag or symbol. But for the fascists it was normal to impose their opinion. As you can understand, there is a massive problem within our society and I fear that this movement will spread more nationalism and ethnocentrism in Greece, things that we don't need right now, just two weeks after massive racist attacks and the murder of a Pakistani immigrant by neonazis. <br>
<br>Regards
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<div>Thanks for the heads up Julien. </div>
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<div>I imagine such an event would be bound to attract nationalists and facists among with lots of others. As I am sure yo know, one principle the DRY movement in Spain has kept to, along with no alcohol, non violence and the development of popular assemblies is the banning of flags. These principles are important to keep to so let's hope they can be consensually followed as part of a solidarity with the Spanish uprising wherever M15 inspired camps and assemblies form. Maybe Spaniards should ask other countries to not even carry Spanish ones (as many did in Athens yesterday, to say thanks) . I do think we all need to put out the message of no flags to nip the nationalist/fascist tendency in the bud. Just a few thoughts anyway and will mention to comrades in Barca. </div>
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<div>There is another Athens report here, which I just saw you also commented on: <a href="http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/05/26/598-what-time-is-it-time-for-all-of-them-to-go-tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-greek-streets-against-the-crisis/" target="_blank">http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/05/26/598-what-time-is-it-time-for-all-of-them-to-go-tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-greek-streets-against-the-crisis/</a></div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Mark<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 May 2011 16:49, Julien Chaulieu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julien@eagainst.com" target="_blank">julien@eagainst.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">I might need to inform you that things are not so bright as you describe regarding Greece. There were many fascists-far right nationalists in the event of Athens yesterday waving flags and chanting the national anthem among with xenophobic slogans, like "Greece belongs to Greeks" and "Our anti-Greek politicians should go away". I am Greek I know very well what I am saying. I would recommend you to remain standoffish about what you saw in Athens yesterday and not make false assumptions as you may spread false news around the world.<br>
<br>Regards
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<div><br><br>Mark Barrett wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Athens yesterday:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNGW0x5shuM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNGW0x5shuM</a><br><br>
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<blockquote>Yesterday was a beautiful beautiful day and a very very important one. 10 days after the "Spanish Revolution" kicked off peacefully all over Spain, it has been replicated massively in the homeland of Democracy, Greece. Yesterdat, M25, 20,000 people took to the streets and squares all over Greece... 7,000 alone and absolutely peaceful in Constitution square in athens. They have been inspired by Spain and the simple core idea of the movement; That we have had enough, that we are "indignant", we will not take it any more, its time to stand up, take to the streets, occupy squares, create a "true democracy"... and hope that the Spark of peaceful Revoution spreads all over this little planet...<br>
<br>Follow the #GREEKREVOLUTION as it unfolds and spreads...<br><br>Real democracy Greece - <a title="http://real-democracy.gr/" href="http://real-democracy.gr/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://real-democracy.gr/</a><br>
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M25 - #greekrevolution</p>
<p><br></p><strong>Instaling Democracy 2.0 █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10% </strong><br><br><strong>“Peoples of Europe, Rise Up” </strong><br>In many ways this is almost an echo, a year ago the Greeks hung a massive banner from the Acropolis with a simple message: “Peoples of Europe, Rise Up”. Over the last year we have seen some responses, In October we saw massive strikes in France, we saw the students of London rebel against the harsh cuts being imposed at Christmas and in Spain we saw a general strike on S29, September 29. But none of this seemed to take off quiet as powerfully as that which has unfolded here in Spain over the last 10 days. In recent months we have seen the "Arab Spring", which was a massive inspiration to the "indignant" in Spain; the idea that it IS POSSIBLE to mobilise the masses (especially more so now with social networking tools; facebook, twitter etc...) and to absolutely change things PEACEFULLY. The movement here in Spain continues to grow and grow, and outside too it has sparked in a very quick profound way (650 global events around planet 3 days ago) but this response from Greece is something very very special, because of the size, because this is all about re-questioning, re-examining, re-creating the whole idea that came from Greece so many centuries ago; DEMOCRACY. <br>
<br>We have to remember that Greece has seen massive and very violent protests for a long time, so there was a fear that yesterdays first day of action could lead to the normal stand off between riot police and petrol bomb wielding anarchists, thankfully this did not surface, in fact 1 protestors message in 1 of the papers is that the government can deal with the violence, it doesnt threathen them, but this, this massive peaceful action does, they do not know how exactly to deal with it. So hopefully we will see these numbers growing, taking to the streets and starting to occupy squares to set up little free zones to talk, but also to demonstrate what true democracy looks like; a more direct and participative form as opposed to the once every four years version we see at present, which has failed us and left us in this sorry state of affairs. <br>
<br><strong>S2S - communication is our weapon </strong><br>Also last night, the second beautiful moment; When we in the occupied square of Placa Catalunya in Barcelona, #acampadaBCN (campsite Barcelona) connected live with the thousands in the square outside the parliament in Athens via live stream (again how great these new tek tools enable us to connect, even on this massive scale; S2S : square to square). After the massive cheers of greetings from each square of defiance and revolution to the other, we had about 5 or 10 minutes of exchange, giving updates on the situations and hoped for plans for where we go from here....<br>
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