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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Live from the streets of Europe: an Occupied London call-out

(Please translate and repost!) Live from the streets of Europe: an Occupied London call-out The world around us is changing beyond recognition. In the past few years, months, weeks and days, things we were once used to – from the quality of life we could expect, our interaction with others, our politics, just about everything [...]

Documenting the crisis

by Ross Domoney of Aletheia Photos

#tutorpool! Network of Volunteerism and Solidarity for Education

Today we have the joy to present the good people of #tutorpool and their project, in their very own words. As the crisis deepens, and as the mainstream way of the neoliberal orthodoxy becomes a no-go for so many, alternative pathways are not just wishful thinking — they become a crucial necessity. As crisis deepens [...]

“You were, and you shall remain scum, informants and journalists. We were, and we shall remain in the streets and at the barricades”

A set of posters published by the anarchist collective Vogliamo Tutto in Athens:      

Demonstrations in Athens and other major cities 19/02/2012

The main unions (GSEE-ADEDY) have called for a demonstration against austerity and the emergency government, today at 17:00 GMT+2 in Syntagma Sq. in front of the Parliament in Athens and in other major cities. More news as they come.

Hands off Indymedia Athens! (website down after university authorities shut down electricity supply to server)

From Contrainfo   DOWN YOUR LIMBS FROM INDYMEDIA ATHENS! —please spread now Since the generalized attack on an entire society in terms of labour, social and political rights has been answered massively last Sunday, 12/2, with the concentration of hundreds of thousands of protesters across Greece, the Power plays its last card, that of intensification [...]

Announcement of the Occupied Prefectural Administration of Chania

This is the 8th day of the occupation of the building of prefectural administration in Chania, Creta, Greece. We just translated our main text in english and we send it to you, to inform and spread the message of the occupations worlwide. There is also a frech translation available (http://kaxania.tumblr.com/post/17636913606/communique-de-loccupation-du-batiment-de-la-region). We also have a blog [...]

Demonstrators arrested on Sunday 12/02/12 in Athens were just imprisoned without a trial

Demonstrators arrested in Athens were just imprisoned, until their trial that it may take months until it starts. Obviously it is only riot police officers who claim that they saw the arrestees breaking the law, so in a very unusual movement for their standards -and actually breaking the law, given that no trial convicted them [...]