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Sonntag, 28. Februar 2010

Greek Crisis: News from these days (10)


Snow White in Guerilla oder Schneewittchen schießt scharf


“Capitalism is a system of relationships, which goes from inside to out, from outside to in, from above to below, and from below to above. Everything is relative, everything is in chains. Capitalism is a condition both of the world and of the soul.”

Franz Kafka


by KEIN NAME Indymedia Germany ::


__Thursday 25th February 2010__

* After the support from a member of Nea Dimokratia (right wing party) to the stabber fascist Dimitris Papageorgiou (3 trials for attacks against leftists) one more event proves that Nea Dimokratia is on the side of Golden Dawn. Specificly, Christina Sideri member of Nea Dimokratia, was arrested among the fascists of Golden Dawn on 24th in the district of Agios Panteleimonas.

* The three arrested persons during the General Strike demonstration in Athens had to step in front of a prosecutor today. They got a delay of the trial, but also the prosecutor did not take care that one of them was beaten up by pigs, event that is also proved by eye-witnesses and videos filmed by protestors.

* Fascistic attack against a teacher in the town of Chania on Creta island. Some shitheads engraved with a razor blade the swastika symbol on the hand of the teacher, because she used to teach the greek language to refugees' children.

* Blockade in Domino's Pizza company at Pagkrati district of Athens by 60 workers asking from the bosses to hire back one worker who was dismised because of participating in the General Strike on 10th February.


__Friday 26th February 2010__


* Journalists of "Aiolika Nea" on Lesvos island found the doors of the offices locked after participating in the General Strike on 24th February. The independent base's syndicates of the island start organizing actions in solidarity.

* Two adductions of members of parliamentary left party in police station because of rising up mobilization posters in Vyronas district of Athens. The persons were kept for two hours in the detention part of the pig station. The pigs took away their shoes and their mobile phones, to forbid them any communication with people outside of the pig station. In the certain district, the pigs have killed an innocent person before some days with 9 bullets.

* Masses of police for one more night in Exarcheia area. Special police forces surrounded many places where people used to spend their time, playing music and drink terrorist beers. The people responded with shouting against them and throwing some bottles and stones, so the masses of cops had to leave the area after some time.


__Saturday 27th February 2010__


* The struggles in solidarity with the three dismissed syndicalists of METKA factory still go on (watch older updates). The event that citizens who are not workers of the factory and express their solidarity with them proves that something changes in the public mind. Also a bank account to support the workers has opened after 15 days without job for them. National Bank of Greece - Number Account: 202/706707-94 IBAN: GR94 - 0110 2020 0000 2027 0670 894 Bank SWIFT: BIC ETHNGRAA Beneficiaries: Vassilis Kalatzis, Alexis Pavlidis, Kostas Vogiatzis

* Demonstration in Vyronas district of Athens. The demonstration took place after some days of the murder of Nikolas Todi, father of a 6-month old child, during a bank robbery. The innocent victim did not have any participation in the robbery and the pig who killed him with 9 bullets is still free and member of the greek police. In the demonstration participated around 600 people heavily surrounded by any kind of pig forces who used as an excuse the smashing of local offices of PASOK ("socialistic" party which is on government now) and attacked the protestors brutally with tear gas and beating them up. One person heavily injured on his head in a pool of blood, who was taken in the pig station with other 7 persons. Residents of the area also on their balconies shouting against the pigs. An assembly of political organizations is planed for today evening, so more actions can take place after this event.

* Fascistic attack against an immigrant from Pakistan in Psyris district last night. The victim was driven with an ambulance to hospital.

* Against Education in Solidarity with Alfredo Bonanno - Communique from New York City:

We attacked Marathon bank, a subsidiary of the same Piraeus bank that Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are accused of expropriating.

“Capitalism is a system of relationships, which goes from inside to out, from outside to in, from above to below, and from below to above. Everything is relative, everything is in chains. Capitalism is a condition both of the world and of the soul.”

-Franz Kafka

There is nothing left; nothing that hasn’t been molded, molested, or completely crushed; nothing that has managed to escape the network of power as it scours every inch of the earth, lodging itself into every crevice. Crowding each moment, the omnipresent asphyxiation provides ample evidence to this all-encompassing totalization. Heads bowed, backs bent, we bear the weight of the day in our beleaguered entrails. Now taking on increasingly monstrous qualities, a vampire-likeness of achieved full nocturnality, even the sleeper finds his dreams inhabited. Robbing us of expectations, snatching away our latent potential, Capital has acquired the speculative capability to recuperate futures and integrate things before their invention. After colonizing the entire world, the enemy now works to conquer the collective realm of our imaginations where we once plotted and, consequently, envisioned its very demise.

The cooption of creativity signaled the predetermined defeat, which led the Marxists to surrender to the British Museum before they realized an 1848. The only pseudo-victory to their credit consists in pushing Negri out of the spotlight by ushering "communization" and "insurrection" into the academy’s discursive field. Both trends can be written off as failed experiments because each has neglected to activate the only concept capable of giving jargon any significance. The Struggle.

“To fight, to be defeated, to fight again, to be defeated again, to fight anew until the final victory.”

- An old Italian adage

In practice, the clashes and occupations have divorced the leftist baggage and chosen everyday life as the terrain for conflict, yet unfortunately expression still continues to abide by the activist calendar. A day of action is paled by a year of misery. Like long fits of depression, extended bouts of downtime undermine each subversive act, resulting in the production of militant event planners: blinded to the past and merely anticipating the next unsuccessful Bastille storming. They strike at the same tempo ordinary citizens attend birthday parties, riot at the same rate of wedding crashers and surely, at this pace, they will never RSVP the bourgeoisie funeral.

Detached theory and relegated practice present themselves as nothing other than the comorbid symptoms of statified ideology. Now we can confidently diagnose that the much prophesized “coming” can only amount to a passing fad.

We notice the relentless internalized repression masquerading as patience and so we refuse to wait for March 4th, the ides of March or, for that matter, any date to come. We expressed our distaste for the veiled technological prison of surveillance and electronic monitoring by sabotaging several of the soon to be installed ID-card scanners at the Hunter College campus. Against education as such, we then struck Brooklyn College’s administrative building.

Lastly, we attacked Marathon bank, a subsidiary of the same Piraeus bank that Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are accused of expropriating. We extend our solidarity to the two imprisoned comrades and, as Bonanno’s health deteriorates in a prison cell, we adhere to the following principle.

"For an eye, two eyes. For a tooth, the whole face."

Samstag, 27. Februar 2010

Polizisten sind Mörder


The poster reads the names of many of those who fell dead from the bullets of Greek police in the country’s “democratic” years. Members of the leftist coalition SYRIZA in the Athens neighbourhood of Vironas were detained for hours by police, for putting up the poster around their neighbourhood.

Aleksandre, Konstantina, Michali, Tony, Stamatina, Christofore, Maria, Katerina, Iakove, Marko, Irakli, Mohammad Kamran Atif (he died after electroshocks) – and so, so many others …

We won’t forget, we won’t forgive.

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Das Plakat ist aus den Namen von Opfern gebildet, die in Griechenlands "demokratischen" Jahren durch Polizeikugeln oder Folter zu Tode kamen. Aktivisten des griechischen Linksbündnisses SYRIZA, die das Poster im Athener Stadteil Vironas plakatiert hatten, waren stundenlang von der Polizei in Gewahrsam genommen worden.

Alexandros, Konstantina, Michalis, Tony, Stamatina, Christophorus, Maria, Katharina, Jacob, Marko, Irakli, Mohammed Kamran Atif (er starb nach schweren Folterungen auf einer Polizeistation) – und viele, viele andere ...

Wir vergessen nicht, wir vergeben nicht.





Samstag, 17. Oktober 2009

Demonstration in Athen nach Foltertod eines pakistanischen Flüchtlings

Athen am 17. Oktober 2009 - Transparent: „Mohammed Kamran Atif, tot nach Folter auf der Polizeiwache von Nikaia – Mörder“

Nachdem vor einer Woche ein 25-jähriger pakistanischer Flüchtling, Mohammed Kamran Atif, infolge schwerer Mißhandlungen und Folter durch griechische Polizisten gestorben war, fand heute in Athen eine Demonstration von anarchistischen Gruppen statt. Anschließend wurde das Rathaus der Athener Gemeinde Nikaia besetzt. Wir dokumentieren den Bericht von libcom:

Athens anti-torture demo leads to clashes and occupation of city hall

Anti-torture demo, over death of electroshocked immigrant, leads to clashes with riot police, arrests and occupation of city hall, in Nikea, an industrial suburb of Athens.

The city hall of Nikea, an industrial and prominently communist suburb of Athens, is under occupation since Saturday 17/10 afternoon by anarchists demanding the release of people arrested during clashes with riot police outside the police department where a Pakistani immigrant, Mohamed Karman Atif, was tortured by beating and electric shocks leading to his death last week.

The demo, organised by several anarchist collectives, marched to the police station, where it was confronted by strong riot police forces. The protesters tried to break through the blockade by throwing stones to the police. In the clashes that ensued several people were detained, out of which some are being reported as arrested and charged.

The protesters then regathered and occupied the city hall in a surprise move. The mayor of the suburb, a Communist Party (KKE) cadre, has visited the occupied city hall and has declared that the police should by no means attempt to evacuate the 300 protesters who remain in it, nor arrest anyone leaving the premises.

What follows is the first communique of the occupied city hall:

"Communique of the Occupied City Hall of Nikea

400 protesters gathered today October 17 in the streets of Nikea in a march of rage against the recent assassination of the 25 year old pakistani immigrant Mohamed Karman Atif by torture in the police station of Nikea, a march called by anarchist collectives and a local assembly of the area. We crossed the main streets of the area, from the house of the murdered man and moved towards the police station. Strong riot police forces (MAT) and motorised police forces (Z-team) that "accompanied the demo have proved the official stance of the now Socialist Ministry of Public Order (Ministry of Citizens Protection): whitewashing and protecting torturers murderers, the police occupation of the area. All that was happening will continue as normal: beatings, torture, humiliations in all the police stations of the country.

During the protest march there was strong rain. But what rained near the police station of Nikea was not just water drops. The riot police brigade blocking the way to the police station received a rain of stones. The organised continuation of the march and the retreat from the hot-spot was hampered by a combined force of riot policemen at the back and on the sides of the march. Our defenses held, while locals from the sidewalks swore and verbally attacked the police army of occupation. Yet, in a cloud of tear gas and glob attacks some got cut off from the march and as a result they were detained. The march was completed in the location perivolaki, as planned and given the detentions a great number of the protesters moved to occupy the city hall demanding the immediate release of the hostage comrades. Some people who decided to leave were stopped by motorised police forces and were also detained. The exact number of detentions is yet not known, but is certainly double-digit. The process of arrest has already started for some.

This is the apex of the new state dogma of "democracy and strength" as announced by the new minster of Public Order Michalis Chrisochoidis against the world of the insurgency and anyone potentially resisting. It is like two days ago during the demo of the Perama shipyard workers and unemployed at the Ministry of Labour. It is like the now police-occupied Exarcheia. It is like the recent persecutions of high-school occupations. It will be the same with the dockworkers of Peiraeus who are against the sell-out to COSCO, or the 1,400 workers of the Skaramangas shipyards threatened to be sacked.Police barbarity is only the repressive side of state-capitalist barbarity: oppression, exploitation, subjugation, death. The new political management's main role is to manage the social dimension of the crisis of our times: the all-expanding disobedience to and clash with the demands of political and economic power. There is no place for illusions. No change will come from no new government. This has always been the case.State terrorism continues and with it continues the struggle for social and individual liberation, for a free world without power.

Immediate release of detained protesters!

Removal of all accusations against them!

Immediate retreat of all police forces from the neighborhoods of Nikea and from around the city hall!

The assembly of the occupied city hall of Nikea."


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Leben und Sterben in Athen

Ein 25-jähriger pakistanischer Flüchtling starb in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag (9/10. Oktober 2009) in Athen an den Folgen von brutaler Verhaftung, Schlägen und Elektroschocks auf einer Polizeiwache. Der junge Mann ohne Papiere, Mohammed Kamran Atif, war zwei Wochen zuvor irrtümlich verhaftet und dann von der Athener Polizei schwer mißhandelt worden, wie clandestinenglish in Thessaloniki unter Berufung auf die website TV Χωρίς Σύνορα (TV ohne Grenzen) berichtete.

Dem Bericht zufolge war am 26. September um 1 Uhr 30 nachts eine 15-köpfige Polizeimeute in das Haus des Immigranten in der Iliopoulos-Straße 82, in der Athener Vorstadt Nikaia, gestürmt und hatte dort den Gesuchten und seine Familie unter Gebrüll mit Schlägen mißhandelt. Nach Zeugenaussagen von Nachbarn war Kamran bereits halb ohnmächtig, als die Polizisten ihn und seine Familie offenbar auf allen Vieren aus dem Haus trieben , wobei sein Kopf mehrfach gegen die Treppe geschlagen haben soll. Grund des Überfall war der Vorwurf der Mißhandlung von Minderjährigen: Er soll ein Kind geschlagen haben.

Er wurde dann auf die Polizeiwache Nikaia gebracht, die sich in eine Folterkammer verwandelte. Kamran blieb hier zwei Tage in Gewahrsam. Der Vorwurf erwies sich jedoch als haltlos, und der Kläger zog seine Beschuldigung zurück. Kamran wurde dann freigelassen, und er berichtete seinen Familienangehörigen von dem Martyrium auf der Polizeiwache. Seine Peiniger hatten ihn nach Familienangaben zuerst an Händen und Füssen gefesselt und dann mit Knüppeln geschlagen und mit Kabeln an Knien und Händen per Elektroschock gefoltert.

Nicht nur die Familie, sondern auch die Nachbarn wußten von den Mißhandlungen auf der Wache. Kamran hatte jedoch Furcht, sich in ein Krankenhaus zu begeben, da ein neues Gesetz die Behandlung von Personen ohne Aufenthaltsgenehmigung verbietet. Gleichzeitig versuchte die Polizei, den ganzen Vorgang zu vertuschen. Sie brachten Kamrans Bruder unter Druck dazu, schriftlich zu bestätigen, daß Kamran bei der Freilassung keine Spuren von Mißhandlungen aufgewiesen habe. Am frühen Samstagmorgen (1. Oktober) starb Mohammed Kamran Atif dann an den Folgen seiner Verletzungen.

Bereits am Sonntag, den 11. Oktober, veranstaltete die Pakistanische Community in Griechenland, die Organisation “United Against Racism and the Fascist Threat” und das linksradikale Bündnis ANTYARSA eine Protestveranstaltung vor dem Haus der Familie von Mohammed Kamran Atif.

Quellen:

clandestinenglish

tvxs (Bericht vom 10. Oktober)

tvxs (Protestkundgebung am 11. Oktober)