Takethesquare. My day started in the streets of “Exarkia”, the famous anarchist neighbourhood of Athens where I was directly at the top of the manifestation. At 10H30, “Patission” Street was full of people and my friends from “Alpha Kappa”, a strong collective situated between anarchists and radical left, told me that they never seen so much people at this hour in the classics demonstrations. When normally the groups are preparing the banners, this morning all the processions was ready to go, all the worker unions, the student delegations, the collectives and associations, the political parties, the anarchists groups, and the communists who start generally at 10H to be separated of the common people… Video In Syntagma who was totally filled as all the streets around, I easily met my comrades from the Media Centre at the place where they make the General Assembly.
The strike continue during the night and like most of the time in Exarkia. Takethesquare. Hello everyone, We would like to share with you all our experience at an international level in preparing and coordinating the actions of the 15th of October. Specifically, we would like to share the things we discovered along the way, the prejudices we left behind and how amazing it is to meet people from all over the world who are thinking about the same things that we are thinking about here.
We will be taking to the street in more than 951 cities in 82 countries, more or less, and, in most cases, we will not only demonstrate but organize ourselves through assemblies, as the idea is taking root all over the world that change must go beyond demonstrating in the street. In Brazil, there were only small groups in a few cities, but now 10 cities will be taking to the street. The main ideas we have seen received with the greatest enthusiasm are horizontal organization, non-violence, inclusiveness and collective intelligence.
IX Squares Meeting 21/10 Welcome to the new members / Next steps of the global network. Enter your nickname with your city (i.e: Mark_Lisbon) 19H/ Welcome to the new participants: During the first thirty minutes, the time we will wait to everybody connect will be a good occasion to introduce ourselves and share informations about last saturday in a free discussion without moderation. 19H30/ Next steps of the global network: Since Saturday we seen a lot of propositions in order to maintain the collective action during this next weeks. Here you can see the both principals but you can add yours in this pad. The 5th. of November will be signed with a V as Vendetta, Anonymous plan to crash Facebook, the outraged in London prepare a big action as other city who plan a new anti-bank day (in Paris the assembly decided to occupy la Defense, the major business district) and a lot of people will participate in a huge attack on the financial elites: Proposal to your assembly: What is the plan: • Cancel all automatic withdrawals & deposits (Before the 5th. of November for more security) 1. 2.
19-20 October – Follow the 48H of Strike in live from Syntagma Square #19ogr, #20ogr, #greekrevolution. Follow the 48H of strike in live from the new Channel of Syntagma Square To catch the sound join Entasi FM We participate to the 48 hour strike. We protest in Syntagma Square at 11:00.Along with the workers and all of society we participate to the 48 hour strike against the bill that abolishes all labour rights.Along with the workers being affected and the society being impoverished we react, we resist and we will not obey memorandums, troika, banks and that rotten political system.The time has come for them to go! We take our lives in our hands.Direct Democracy NOW! Greek unions said they would extend a planned general strike on 19 October to 48 hours as protests against sweeping austerity measures continued on Thursday, shutting down public transport in Athens and barring tourists from the Acropolis.
“I have no intention of voting against the bill, but no one can stop me criticising it” said PASOK deputy Leonidas Grigorakos. 20 of October: A taste of civil war in Athens – “Mother of all strikes” Part.2 #20ogr. One more time the centre was full of people, parties, worker unions and collectives, the Greek was united and the ambient was more relax because today the strong communist party was making the security.
Their “plan” was to surround the parliament and the only presence of his thousand hundreds followers made the action. When I talk about a security service I’m not in the metaphor, they protect the clan and are very serious, with their big sticks and their casks they really looks like cops. Yesterday I wanted to cross their procession to go reach Syntagma square and their human cord blocked me and ask me to take another way. I missed my card of the club. All the square was also surrounded but by the big megaphones of the Party screaming the single “Voice”, everybody had to know that the communists was on strike, that the communist WAS the strike maybe and we were assisting at their traditional big propaganda worthy of the first communist party in Europe.