[spectre] Becoming cockroaches @Syntagma square

[eleni m]

hi to everyone

police brutality on the 29th of june in athens cannot really be described. its a miracle people did not get killed, with hundreds injured and arrested - for no reason at all. 
you can find some links to photos and videos here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7Q79kE_aUghpkz7khIC-CUWH-4wPKVgwU0qUt9idYQ/mobilebasic?pli=1&hl=en_US

appart from international news coverage and the athens indymedia, both problematic for different reasons, most things are in greek
a regularly updated source in english is the occupied london blog

any support would be very important at this point - if you have no other contact you could try here
http://real-democracy.gr/en/announcement/new-workgroup-international-support-communication
http://real-democracy.gr/fr/content/informations-de-contact-des-groupes
http://real-democracy.gr/en/international_news

eleni



> Subject: Re: [spectre] Becoming cockroaches @Syntagma square
> From: hello at floriankuhlmann.com
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:26 +0200
> To: spectre at mikrolisten.de
> 
> thank you.
> good luck and hail to the cockroaches!
> 
> greetings from germany
> fk
> 
> Am 30.06.2011 um 11:45 schrieb pavlos hatzopoulos:
> 
> > from  http://bit.ly/ldvIK6
> > 
> > Since yesterday, June 28, we live like cockroaches in Syntagma square.
> > We are sprayed continuously with chemicals by the Greek police
> > regardless of what we do or what we say, but we persist. We leave
> > Syntagma square for a while to catch our breath and keep on coming
> > back. We rest a bit and return to the square. Even before the
> > chemicals began exploding yesterday morning, we were just sitting on
> > the pavement and the riot police stormed and arrested a person seating
> > nearby. When we protested against the arrest, the riot police
> > responded by arresting another passerby who was just exiting a coffee
> > shop with a coffee in his hand. To be just standing close to Syntagma
> > square seems dangerous and certainly suspicious. The arrests are being
> > enacted to disperse the crowds, but we keep on moving closer to the
> > square instead of leaving.
> > 
> > As we are becoming cockroaches we begin, without really realizing it,
> > to adopt tactics of stasis, of perseverance and of endurance, that
> > were previously unknown to us. Chemicals keep on flying, sound bombs
> > keep on exploding all around us making terrible noise and the crowds
> > respond by not leaving, by remaining at Syntagma square. Becoming
> > cockroaches and growing more and more resistant to the chemicals, our
> > bodies begin to mutate. In gas masks, painting maalox on our faces,
> > wearing sun glasses, we persist. The figures in gas masks recognize
> > each other even when they meet further away from Syntagma square.
> > 
> > Even now that the austerity law was approved in the Greek parliament,
> > the crowds are not leaving, they are reinforced. “Let’s have an
> > assembly now,” said someone in the midst of a cloud of chemicals. Like
> > we did when we “staged the music concert yesterday”, he explains.
> > Yesterday, we were cleaning and washing the square with water for
> > hours to disperse the smell of the chemicals and then from a defunct
> > PA system the Tiger Lillies played live on Syntagma square. Chemicals
> > and sound bombs started to explode again all around Syntagma, but
> > everybody remained on the square and kept on dancing.
> > 
> > The classic urban tactics of confrontation -like throwing marbles,
> > stones, and molotov cocktails against the police- seem and are
> > secondary in face of our tactics. Cockroaches do not attack, they do
> > not make much noise, nor do not destroy something. But, we cockroaches
> > are far more persistent and productive than other animals that are
> > slowly disappearing.
> > 
> > 
> > -Police gas the infirmary @Syntagma metro station http://vimeo.com/25777463
> > 
> > 
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