hi to everyone police brutality on the 29th of june in athens cannot really be described. its a miracle people did not get killed, with hundreds injured and arrested - for no reason at all. you can find some links to photos and videos here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7Q79kE_aUghpkz7khIC-CUWH-4wPKVgwU0qUt9idYQ/mobilebasic?pli=1&hl=en_US
appart from international news coverage and the athens indymedia, both problematic for different reasons, most things are in greek a regularly updated source in english is the occupied london blog any support would be very important at this point - if you have no other contact you could try here http://real-democracy.gr/en/announcement/new-workgroup-international-support-communication http://real-democracy.gr/fr/content/informations-de-contact-des-groupes http://real-democracy.gr/en/international_news eleni > Subject: Re: [spectre] Becoming cockroaches @Syntagma square > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:26 +0200 > To: [email protected] > > thank you. > good luck and hail to the cockroaches! > > greetings from germany > fk > > Am 30.06.2011 um 11:45 schrieb pavlos hatzopoulos: > > > from http://bit.ly/ldvIK6 > > > > Since yesterday, June 28, we live like cockroaches in Syntagma square. > > We are sprayed continuously with chemicals by the Greek police > > regardless of what we do or what we say, but we persist. We leave > > Syntagma square for a while to catch our breath and keep on coming > > back. We rest a bit and return to the square. Even before the > > chemicals began exploding yesterday morning, we were just sitting on > > the pavement and the riot police stormed and arrested a person seating > > nearby. When we protested against the arrest, the riot police > > responded by arresting another passerby who was just exiting a coffee > > shop with a coffee in his hand. To be just standing close to Syntagma > > square seems dangerous and certainly suspicious. The arrests are being > > enacted to disperse the crowds, but we keep on moving closer to the > > square instead of leaving. > > > > As we are becoming cockroaches we begin, without really realizing it, > > to adopt tactics of stasis, of perseverance and of endurance, that > > were previously unknown to us. Chemicals keep on flying, sound bombs > > keep on exploding all around us making terrible noise and the crowds > > respond by not leaving, by remaining at Syntagma square. Becoming > > cockroaches and growing more and more resistant to the chemicals, our > > bodies begin to mutate. In gas masks, painting maalox on our faces, > > wearing sun glasses, we persist. The figures in gas masks recognize > > each other even when they meet further away from Syntagma square. > > > > Even now that the austerity law was approved in the Greek parliament, > > the crowds are not leaving, they are reinforced. “Let’s have an > > assembly now,” said someone in the midst of a cloud of chemicals. Like > > we did when we “staged the music concert yesterday”, he explains. > > Yesterday, we were cleaning and washing the square with water for > > hours to disperse the smell of the chemicals and then from a defunct > > PA system the Tiger Lillies played live on Syntagma square. Chemicals > > and sound bombs started to explode again all around Syntagma, but > > everybody remained on the square and kept on dancing. > > > > The classic urban tactics of confrontation -like throwing marbles, > > stones, and molotov cocktails against the police- seem and are > > secondary in face of our tactics. Cockroaches do not attack, they do > > not make much noise, nor do not destroy something. But, we cockroaches > > are far more persistent and productive than other animals that are > > slowly disappearing. > > > > > > -Police gas the infirmary @Syntagma metro station http://vimeo.com/25777463 > > > > > > > > -- > > Mobile: 6937413112 > > http://www.re-public.gr > > > > ______________________________________________ > > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > > Info, archive and help: > > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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