From Act for freedom now

Exarcheia has been transformed into a sterile, dead tourist entertainment zone where the culture of consumerism dominates and alienated, superficial relationships prevail. Hipster shops, swanky hotels, flashy airbnbs now flood the neighbourhood, turning it into a flashy showcase for the apathetic apolitical who museumise its rebellious characteristics.

Against this condition that they are trying to impose on us, we keep our political projects alive and unchanged and confirm the prospects of substantial comradeship. Recently, Exarcheia was characterized by a regime of apathy that broke on December 6th, when widespread clashes took place and slogans were shouted for our fallen comrade Kyriakos X.

In this spirit, on Saturday 14/12 we carried out a symbolic strike by breaking the facades of the Alter Athens hotel and the Deklar clothing store on Zoodochos Pigi street.

We prioritize multifaceted action until our messages of resistance evolve into a real threat, until outbreaks of rebellion and expropriation of space and time spring up everywhere.

Undivided solidarity with the severely injured comrade Marianna M. and the other imprisoned comrades for the Ampelokipi case.

FORCED DNA COLLECTION IS TORTURE

KYRIAKOS X. FOREVER PRESENT IN OUR HEARTS AND STRUGGLES

POWER TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADE K.K., ACCUSED OF A VIOLENT ATTACK ON AN INTERROGATION VAN IN MESSOLONGI.

NEITHER CRIMINALS NOR POLITICIANS, DESTRUCTION AND FIRE TO EVERY PRISON

via: athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Comments

anon (not verified) Wed, 12/25/2024 - 22:39

Its good to see someone doing something along these lines. The poor neighborhood is being terminally hipsterized into something like Malasaña in Madrid - ugh!

GEF (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 09:07

Funny but also disappointing how I attempted to warn some prominent anarchists of Exarkhia about this exact issue, back in 2016, prophetizing about the impeding gentrification of the neighborhood back when it was still about a mere bunch of international students and artist scumbags, that could have been easily kicked out of their events. Or their chic cafés occasionally trashed (... not excluding Nosotros). Look, I can be wrong on some things sometimes, but I was 100% spot-on with this prediction... that wasn't sourced in Mayan prophecy but just fucking basic sociology.

Ancoms were careless about the issue, and the "rah-rah-rah" insurrecto anarchos seemed often too full of themselves and enjoying lavish squat lyfe to care too much either. You had one or two legit projects but back then -as you'll remember- the mass refugee situation was taking a lot of energies and focus away from thinking about what's to come.

Covid policies -some of the most despotic in Europe- also helped crushing whatever was left of anarchy in the hood. as likely the anarcho-liberal crowd bought into it headfirst instead of resisting them, like elsewhere in the western world... but that part is just assumption as I lack insider knowledge about how it unfolded.

Exarkhia was always a huge mixed bag, you know? Even back in 2008 the hood was infamous even amongst Greek anarchos outside of Athens as a not-very-welcoming milieu. Most of the chill squats were outside of the hood, and there appeared to have some insane vouching process to get included in the Exarkhia ones.

Then I wonder, like... how's this exclusivity paid off so well, in the end?

Or actually was that just some shady privatization gimmick? Or worse... real-estate schemes?

Perhaps the real capitalists were the "friends" we made along the way!

anon (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 10:14

In reply to by anon (not verified)

If you dared to wear all-black, @, or not, police would stare and apprehend you. You'd turn a corner and they're'd be three random riot cops chilling there all night like coke dealers. And the street art and graf—chef's kiss. Ah, memories...Elvis Souvlaki.

GEF (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 08:16

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Nah, a lot of the anarcho-tourists were still welcomed at these squats. Including the Erasmus students. And those telling what anarchists should do.

Also I sense great seething of ressentiment in you. Brah.

You SHOULD look at the git repositories for a "life"...

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 03:23

In reply to by GEF (not verified)

idk what a "git repository" is but you do seem like a git. as bad as things are i'm glad "Exarkhia" as you so bizarrely spell it is at least free of you.

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