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hi to everyone<br><br>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. <br>you can find some links to photos and videos here:<br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7Q79kE_aUghpkz7khIC-CUWH-4wPKVgwU0qUt9idYQ/mobilebasic?pli=1&hl=en_US">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7Q79kE_aUghpkz7khIC-CUWH-4wPKVgwU0qUt9idYQ/mobilebasic?pli=1&hl=en_US</a><br><br>appart from international news coverage and the athens indymedia, both problematic for different reasons, most things are in greek<br>a regularly updated source in english is the <a href="http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/">occupied london blog</a><br><br>any support would be very important at this point - if you have no other contact you could try here<br><a href="http://real-democracy.gr/en/announcement/new-workgroup-international-support-communication">http://real-democracy.gr/en/announcement/new-workgroup-international-support-communication</a><br><a href="http://real-democracy.gr/fr/content/informations-de-contact-des-groupes">http://real-democracy.gr/fr/content/informations-de-contact-des-groupes</a><br><a href="http://real-democracy.gr/en/international_news">http://real-democracy.gr/en/international_news</a><br><br>eleni<br><br><br><br><div>> Subject: Re: [spectre] Becoming cockroaches @Syntagma square<br>> From: hello@floriankuhlmann.com<br>> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:26 +0200<br>> To: spectre@mikrolisten.de<br>> <br>> thank you.<br>> good luck and hail to the cockroaches!<br>> <br>> greetings from germany<br>> fk<br>> <br>> Am 30.06.2011 um 11:45 schrieb pavlos hatzopoulos:<br>> <br>> > from http://bit.ly/ldvIK6<br>> > <br>> > Since yesterday, June 28, we live like cockroaches in Syntagma square.<br>> > We are sprayed continuously with chemicals by the Greek police<br>> > regardless of what we do or what we say, but we persist. We leave<br>> > Syntagma square for a while to catch our breath and keep on coming<br>> > back. We rest a bit and return to the square. Even before the<br>> > chemicals began exploding yesterday morning, we were just sitting on<br>> > the pavement and the riot police stormed and arrested a person seating<br>> > nearby. When we protested against the arrest, the riot police<br>> > responded by arresting another passerby who was just exiting a coffee<br>> > shop with a coffee in his hand. To be just standing close to Syntagma<br>> > square seems dangerous and certainly suspicious. The arrests are being<br>> > enacted to disperse the crowds, but we keep on moving closer to the<br>> > square instead of leaving.<br>> > <br>> > As we are becoming cockroaches we begin, without really realizing it,<br>> > to adopt tactics of stasis, of perseverance and of endurance, that<br>> > were previously unknown to us. Chemicals keep on flying, sound bombs<br>> > keep on exploding all around us making terrible noise and the crowds<br>> > respond by not leaving, by remaining at Syntagma square. Becoming<br>> > cockroaches and growing more and more resistant to the chemicals, our<br>> > bodies begin to mutate. In gas masks, painting maalox on our faces,<br>> > wearing sun glasses, we persist. The figures in gas masks recognize<br>> > each other even when they meet further away from Syntagma square.<br>> > <br>> > Even now that the austerity law was approved in the Greek parliament,<br>> > the crowds are not leaving, they are reinforced. “Let’s have an<br>> > assembly now,” said someone in the midst of a cloud of chemicals. Like<br>> > we did when we “staged the music concert yesterday”, he explains.<br>> > Yesterday, we were cleaning and washing the square with water for<br>> > hours to disperse the smell of the chemicals and then from a defunct<br>> > PA system the Tiger Lillies played live on Syntagma square. Chemicals<br>> > and sound bombs started to explode again all around Syntagma, but<br>> > everybody remained on the square and kept on dancing.<br>> > <br>> > The classic urban tactics of confrontation -like throwing marbles,<br>> > stones, and molotov cocktails against the police- seem and are<br>> > secondary in face of our tactics. Cockroaches do not attack, they do<br>> > not make much noise, nor do not destroy something. But, we cockroaches<br>> > are far more persistent and productive than other animals that are<br>> > slowly disappearing.<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > -Police gas the infirmary @Syntagma metro station http://vimeo.com/25777463<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > -- <br>> > Mobile: 6937413112<br>> > http://www.re-public.gr<br>> > <br>> > ______________________________________________<br>> > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe<br>> > Info, archive and help:<br>> > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre<br>> <br>> ______________________________________________<br>> SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe<br>> Info, archive and help:<br>> http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre<br></div> </div></body>
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