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What is the society you are dreaming of? “A society where you are able to survive.” “To be able to survive, not only me, but everyone.” Survival, as a dream. Talk about being reduced to “bare life,” where even Doctors without Borders comes in and declares there is a humanitarian crisis in Athens itself, and […]
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Landscapes of Emergency is the title of a new short documentary film by Ross Domoney, produced by a Sussex Anthropology project on Public Order in Athens that has just been released. It provides a look at securitization, the imposition of a state of emergency on Greece in the wake of various efforts to control dissent and impose […]
Read More…This year seems to have ended on a very different set of notes than how it began, and the theme might be that “two terrors are better than one.” The first terror, the one we have known since this new imperial rampage poorly/ironically named the “global war of terror” began in 2001, accompanied by neoliberal […]
Read More…Decorating the Athens Christmas Tree, with heaps of rubbish, on Saturday 20 Dec. 2008 and …also, a report from the BBC showing how the tree looked once protesters assaulted it with bags of refuse… http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iHyxFTrpLQQ …and for more American tastes, this “special season” sees the revival of a band that makes it feel like 25 […]
Read More…Stay in touch with ongoing protests in Greece, and with international solidarity actions, either by clicking the links below or checking the updated blog feeds just beneath “recent comments” in the sidebar on the right. Note: this post is no longer being updated, but please do check the links below, in order of their appearance, […]
Read More…A seemingly random assortment of the moment’s news items in front of me, that if taken together appear to form a plot for a story about the new remaking of an allegedly “old” Europe. If these items could be imagined as audio, rather than read as words and images, they would give us a soundtrack […]
Read More…Go to http://bouri.pblogs.gr/2008/12/live-camera-apo-to-syntagma.html to see live camera coverage of Greek protests happening right at this moment. Thanks to Teacher Dude for his up to date coverage. Sphere Related Content
Read More…Thanks to a notice from a visitor, there is news tonight that the New School has been occupied by protesting students, following very heated conflict between faculty and the president, Bob Kerrey (see links to stories and alerts below). According to the website for the occupation (New School in Exile): As of 19:00 (7 pm) […]
Read More…As reported by On the Greek Riots, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, and circulated on twitter and Youtube (see video below), the Greek protests continue and are becoming even more spectacular, in the original sense of the word as a “specially prepared or arranged display.” In a moment when more solidarity actions […]
Read More…Second Life Left Unity organized two impressive protests and information centre in Second Life in solidarity with the Greek protests. The SL protests occurred on December 14 and 15, and were documented with some striking high quality photos. SLLU created an interactive media centre, shown above, which also doubled as a protest site, combining information […]
Read More…While the international mainstream news media appears determined to cast the Greek riots as “subsiding,” “waning,” and “easing,” reports from the protesters themselves paint a very different picture. Today, for example, Greek protesters seized state run television and interrupted a broadcast of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis’ speech to parliament — watch: The youths who are […]
Read More…Call for an International Day of Action Against State Murder, worldwide demonstrations for Saturday, December 20, 2008: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62832383528 and On The Greek Riots see also: “We don’t forget, we don’t’forgive” – day of international action against state murders, 20 – 12 – 2008 Today (Friday, Dec. 12), the assembly of the occupied Athens Polytechnic decided […]
Read More…“Until now, our society was full of dirty but calm water; nothing was moving, nothing improving, all the problems of our society remained unsolved for years. People pretended that everything was going well. But now this false picture has been broken and we are facing reality.” — Vicky Stamatiadou, a kindergarten teacher in the rich […]
Read More…The Greek “Intifada”: News, Views, Overviews, Day 7
Read More…Premesh Chandran, a Malaysian citizen who is the CEO of Malaysiakini and was attending the Global Forum on Media Development, in Athens, Greece, ventured into the streets and interviewed some non-anarchist protesters. We might call this one “video notes from the streets of cosmopolitanism.” Before I forget, I owe some thanks: Thank you, Greece, for […]
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