
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!
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Its good to see someone doing
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!
Late but (maybe maybe, tho not-so-likely) not least.
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!
you missed something obvious.
lumpy (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 09:15
In reply to Late but (maybe maybe, tho not-so-likely) not least. by GEF (not verified)
you missed something obvious. that milieu would have been under siege by various hostile forces at that time, which tends to create the opposite of a "welcoming" vibe
Whomever went was incredibly
anon (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 10:11
In reply to you missed something obvious. by lumpy (not verified)
Whomever went was incredibly lucky to have visited before 2020. Everything changed that January.
If you dared to wear all
anon (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 10:14
In reply to Whomever went was incredibly 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.
Brah! Anarcho-tourism is so
anon (not verified) Thu, 12/26/2024 - 12:39
In reply to If you dared to wear all by anon (not verified)
Brah! Anarcho-tourism is so based
I was a refuge at the time
anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 06:41
In reply to Brah! Anarcho-tourism is so by anon (not verified)
I was a refuge at the time
"a not-very-welcoming milieu"
anon (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 07:18
In reply to Late but (maybe maybe, tho not-so-likely) not least. by GEF (not verified)
you mean the comrades didn't like anarcho-tourists coming there to tell them what they should be doing and focusing on? and criticizing their projects despite not understanding or speaking greek?
wow very unwelcoming!!
Nah, a lot of the anarcho
GEF (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 08:16
In reply to "a not-very-welcoming milieu" 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"...
The antidote of ressentiment
anon (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 08:19
In reply to Nah, a lot of the anarcho by GEF (not verified)
The antidote of ressentiment is anger focused into action. Catharsis will move you past your fears and slave morals.
idk what a "git repository"
anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 03:23
In reply to Nah, a lot of the anarcho 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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