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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Untold: a joint exhibition of Aletheia Photos with Firefly Photofilms

Aletheia Photos is an independent collective of documentary photographers and film makers. The collective, which has provided important coverage of under reported human interest stories from countries such as Nepal, Burma and Congo has also played an important role in documenting the current social change which is taking place in Greece. At a time when [...]

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: migrant concentration camp opens in Athens; racist Greek assassinates Albanian worker near the camp in cold blood; FRONTEX border force causes the death of yet another three migrants

“When I hear of order, it smells of human flesh” (Odysseas Elytis) Today, the Ministry of so-called Citizen Protection announced the inaugural transfer of 56 undocumented migrants to the first so-called ”closed hospitality centre”, in the settlement of Amygdaleza, NW Athens. How many euphemisms can fit in a single sentence? The centre is the first concentration camp in the Greek [...]

Nazis rooted out of villages in Crete; anti-fascist gathering in Heraklion today

The nazis of Golden Dawn attempted to enter a number of villages in Crete, including Amira Viannou. The village saw the execution of 114 of its male members in September 1943, by the nazi occupation force. The local holocaust survivors’ association, along with anarchists and anti-fascists from Heraklion, set up a block preventing the nazis [...]

Riot police storm the Panteio student hall occupation in Athens

As of 08:10 GMT+2, riot police had surrounded and entered the occupied student hall of Panteion university, in Athens. The eviction operation is most likely an attempt similar to that of Vox a few days ago. Vox, a recently abandoned cafe/cinema by Exarcheia square recently turned into an occupied social centre, was evicted by police [...]

Three imprisoned anarchists end their hunger strike, seven continue, as motions are rejected; solidarity demonstration, April 27, outside the Korydallos prison in Athens

Previous updates: Contrainfo, Act for Freedom. (Greek original) Update on the three comrades, Sakas, Mitrousias and Karagiannidis Yesterday, April 26, comrade Costas Sakkas returned from the Attica hospital where he was hospitalised and today, April 27, comrade Giorgos Karagiannidis also returned to the Korydallos prison. After yesterday’s fascist rejection of their just demands from the [...]

Catastroika (English subtitles)

http://www.catastroika.com CATASTROIKA WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES by infowar The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization in developed countries and search for clues on the day after Greece’s massive privatization [...]

Apolitik: Greek shorts from the crisis years, tonight @Colorama, London

Occupied London server transfer complete

In the past few days, we faced some serious technical problems — including spam and malware infections. We have now just completed a server transfer from a commercial server to tachanka, a server that is part of the global antagonist/emancipatory movement. The new OL blog address is blog.occupiedlondon.org, though occupiedlondon.org/blog will redirect swiftly. Minor glitches [...]