#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, Land & Freedom, #APO: [#Thessaloniki] Gathering of solidarity with those arrested during the Polytechnic (11/17/2020) [machine translation]

 Call of the collective for social anarchism "Black & Red" in a rally of

solidarity for those arrested during the course of the Polytechnic in 2020, among
whom are 3 members of the collective. ---- A few words about the political
situation of November 2020. In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic and while the
government had not taken a single measure to strengthen public health and support
the social base, the country is for the second time in lockdown aimed at reducing
the pandemic. The government, which with its policies but also the complete lack
of initiatives to support and strengthen the NSS and the lower strata most
affected by the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, imposes a ban on
gatherings of more than 4 people for the days that preceded as well as for the
17th of November itself, in order to prevent the holding of events and
demonstrations on that day. In other words, to prevent the contestants and
students from framing the universities and to oppose the barbaric and
totalitarian measures that under the pretext of public health have already begun
to pass since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. Bills to curb and suppress
demonstrations, anti-environmental and anti-education bills, which have always
found a foothold in social and class reactions, were passed in the first months
of the pandemic while banning any voice of resistance under the guise of public
health itself. who did not move - and has not done so so far of course - nor her
finger). The savage repressive intention of the government and the uniformed
guards serving it had already been seen in the previous days, after evacuating
the occupied Polytechnic, at the NTUA in Athens, making dozens of arrests. On the
17th of November all over Greece, from Thessaloniki and Ioannina to Athens and
Chania, a large number of fighters take to the streets, against the state
demands. A crowd that with its attitude all the previous time forced even the
parliamentary representatives of the KKE, to try to leave for at least one day
the role of the guarantor of social normalcy that they had been playing for
several years and to try, while of course they had shielded their place in the
urban foreground, to find themselves on the street. The anarchist movement fought
hard, in adverse conditions to defend its positions and demonstrated state
policy. In Thessaloniki, student groups, Anarchist groups and other protesters
gathered outside the occupied premises in the morning to approach the Polytechnic
and were cordoned off by armed police on a morning when the city center was under
police surveillance. The state created barriers from everywhere and banned access
to the AUTh Polytechnic. Despite the suffocating condition and in parallel with
the gathering in the hearths, a reflex gathering of anarchist collectives and
organizations of the extra-parliamentary left took place at the junction of
Tsimiski and Agia Sofia streets. So the state was defeated. Not even half a
picture of overcrowding could be projected from this gathering. More than 300
gathered, keeping (as can be seen from all the documents of the day) distances
they managed to break the state checks. Police, before even 5 minutes had passed,
completely surrounded the body and a little later attacked the gathered people,
bringing, arresting and imposing fines on many of them.

The "account" of the day was 6 arrested protesters, 3 of whom are members of our
collective, who are accused of disobedience to arrest, resistance at the
beginning and spreading a dangerous virus in the community (covid-19), while
another arrested was accused of organizing and he was fined 3,000 euros (all the
others received 300 euros). The fragile indictment itself shows the
ridiculousness of the state apparatus as a whole. The very state that did not
hire a single hospital worker during the pandemic, that opened and closed the
borders to tourists without any measures, that threw - and still does - the
populations of exclusion (refugees, immigrants, prisoners) at its mercy virus,
accuses the militants of spreading covid and social irresponsibility. The people
who, realizing the health danger, as can be seen from all the photographic
material, carefully kept their distance. We do not laugh, however, the state does
not blame the comrades because they dispersed the covid but because they did not
obey his orders and went out to protest for the dead of the Polytechnic uprising
and the change of government, to demand better conditions of care, food and
housing, for crime pandemic management. To demonstrate for life and freedom.
After all, even though many months have passed since then, the government
continues its criminal policies to this day, something that the last man must
have seen with the management of the fires and the incalculable natural disaster
and the destruction of so many villages and human lives. As can be seen from all
the photographic material, they carefully kept their distance. We do not laugh,
however, the state does not blame the comrades because they dispersed the covid
but because they did not obey his orders and went out to protest for the dead of
the Polytechnic uprising and the change of government, to demand better
conditions of care, food and housing, for crime pandemic management. To
demonstrate for life and freedom. After all, even though many months have passed
since then, the government continues its criminal policies to this day, something
that the last man must have seen with the management of the fires and the
incalculable natural disaster and the destruction of so many villages and human
lives. as can be seen from all the photographic material, they carefully kept
their distance. We do not laugh, however, the state does not blame the comrades
because they dispersed the covid but because they did not obey his orders and
went out to protest for the dead of the Polytechnic uprising and the change of
government, to demand better conditions of care, food and housing, for crime
pandemic management. To demonstrate for life and freedom. After all, even though
many months have passed since then, the government continues its criminal
policies to this day, something that the last man must have seen with the
management of the fires and the incalculable natural disaster and the destruction
of so many villages and human lives. The state does not blame the comrades
because they dispersed the covid but because they did not obey his orders and
went out to protest for the dead of the Polytechnic uprising and the change of
government, to demand better conditions of care, food and housing, for the
criminal management of the pandemic. To demonstrate for life and freedom. After
all, even though many months have passed since then, the government continues its
criminal policies to this day, something that the last man must have seen with
the management of the fires and the incalculable natural disaster and the
destruction of so many villages and human lives. The state does not blame the
comrades because they dispersed the covid but because they did not obey his
orders and went out to protest for the dead of the Polytechnic uprising and the
change of government, to demand better conditions of care, food and housing, for
the criminal management of the pandemic. To demonstrate for life and freedom.
After all, even though many months have passed since then, the government
continues its criminal policies to this day, something that the last man must
have seen with the management of the fires and the incalculable natural disaster
and the destruction of so many villages and human lives. to claim better
conditions of care, food and housing, for the criminal management of the
pandemic. To demonstrate for life and freedom. After all, even though many months
have passed since then, the government continues its criminal policies to this
day, something that the last man must have seen with the management of the fires
and the incalculable natural disaster and the destruction of so many villages and
human lives. to claim better conditions of care, food and housing, for the
criminal management of the pandemic. To demonstrate for life and freedom. After
all, even though many months have passed since then, the government continues its
criminal policies to this day, something that the last man must have seen with
the management of the fires and the incalculable natural disaster and the
destruction of so many villages and human lives.

We as anarchists then and today continue to oppose barbaric, state choices and
modern totalitarianism in every aspect of their expression in social life. As
individual and collective liberation. Until Anarchy.

SOLIDARITY RALLY, TUESDAY 14/09, 09:00 COURTS

SOLIDARITY TO THE ARRESTED OF THE POLYTECHNIC COURSE

PANDEMIC, FIRE AND SUPPRESSION
STATE DESTROYS AND KILLS

ALL FOR ALL AND FOR EVERYONE - HEALTH, FOOD, HOUSING, EDUCATION

Collectiveism for social anarchism "Black & Red",
member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/497-17-11-2020
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