Today's Topics:
1. Dublin Pride 2017 - Working Class Queeroes "Fucking Dregs"
Bloc -- The Dublin LGBTQ Pride Parade is on June 24th.
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, freedom news: Greece: anarchist refugee squats
prepare for State onslaught (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
A radical bloc, the Working Class Queeroes ("Fucking Dregs"), has been organised to push
for a genuine queer liberation which involves neither being the flamboyant PR managers of
corporations and parties, nor succumbing to right-wing and conservative ideas or a cis-
and homo-focused agenda. ---- Join us at 1:15pm outside HedgeServ, south of St. Stephen's
Green. ---- Organised by those outside and inside the WSM. ---- We will be joined by
grassroots campaign groups, such as the Anti-Racism Network, Sex Workers' Alliance
Ireland, and Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, as well as welcoming any radical
queers who are sick of a commercial and politically sanitised event, and want to bring
real queer politics back in force. ---- (Needless to say, we are trans inclusive, no TERFs
please). ---- See the Facebook Event Page here. ---- Review of last year's Dublin Pride
and coverage of radical blocs.
Short clip of last year's bloc:
"Remember that Pride began because of the five-day Stonewall Riots in 1969, involving
volleys of bricks, bottles, and cobblestones launched at police. Pride is a gasp for
freedom by the gutter people, a fist raised in defiance of a social order which has forced
pink triangles on our bodies and inside our own minds."
Event date and time:
Sat, 2017-06-24 13:15
Subject: Pride
Geography: Dublin
https://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-pride-2017-working-class-queeroes-bloc
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Message: 2
A new spate of recent evictions and interventions by the Greek State against refugee
solidarity occupations run by the anarchist movement in Athens has prompted callouts for a
major emergency gathering this Friday. ---- The callout and associated international day
of action comes in the wake of a series of crackdowns and repression[1][2]against the
solidarity movement, which has helped thousands of refugees self-organise to house
themselves and defend against far-right violence since the Syrian crisis began. ---- It
has been supported by six major occupied centres and groups, Oniro, City Plaza, 5th
School, Notary 26, Underground Railroad, Spirou Trikoupi, Jasmine School and Acharnon
School, which have put out a joint statement on the deteriorating situation in the city:
During the last month we witnessed the State escalating its anti-immigration policy of
restrictions against refugees and the solidarity movement. In Addition to the EU
management of migration issues which include forcing people to live in horrible conditions
,deporting them and denying them their basic human rights, the Greek government is
revealing its totalitarian face by demonstrating its repression power through evicting
political and housing squats for refugees.
In the last days new information was leaked through newspapers, about court decisions
focusing on the eviction of three more squats. Papoutsadiko, Zoodoxou Pigis 119 and City
Plaza, one of the largest refugee squats that hosts around 400 people. It is clear that
the State is focusing in shutting down every self organised free space, including all
housing squats for refugees. An attack towards City Plaza or any squat is an attack to all
of us.
They know how to use the power of riot police forces, but we know how to use the power of
solidarity! As long as they try to evict the squats, as long as they build camps and
detention centers, as long as there are borders - we will also be there to fight back and
fight for a better world!
We won't bend down, we won't let them in, we stand united!
We will show them again what we already proved, we live together, we struggle and we
resist together - to defend the dignity of each individual, to defend our principles of
solidarity and to keep our free spaces open.
Therefore we call for a protest and a gathering on June 23rd, in front of the Ministry of
Migration (Stadiou 27) at 7 pm.
On the same day we call for an International Action of solidarity towards all squats and
against evictions!
- Keep the squats open!
- Close the camps and detention centers!
- Cancel the shameful EU-Turkey deal!
- Open the borders!
- You can't evict a movement!
~ Coordination of Refugee Squats
Activists have warned that the eviction order against City Plaza marks a major potential
escalation of force by the police and local State authorities, which have not been even
vaguely reined in by the supposedly progressive Syriza government as they try to break
what is seen as a disruptive and shaming movement which has publicly shown up the State's
own failings.
The anarchist squats have increasingly been a thorn in the side of the European
anti-migrant project, which has made cynical deals with Turkey's widely-abhorred Erdogan
government to shut the borders and subject the shattered Syrian peoples to brutal camp
conditions, out of sight and out of mind.
City Plaza, along with other refugee-occupied spaces, has represented the first popular
"breach" against constant elite repetition of racist and repressive discourse against
refugees, say activists, as it has demonstrated both that refugees and local people can
live together in dignity, and the vision of a Europe based on solidarity, struggle and
humanity - a true nuisance for those in power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5bJfpMR9Fs
https://freedomnews.org.uk/greece-anarchist-refugee-squats-prepare-for-state-onslaught/
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