WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Let's take the tritsis park into our hands - Initiativef Anarchist Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Tritsi Park is the largest park in the Balkans with an area of 2,500 acres. Of

these, most are trampled for profit. The fragmentation of the park has led to
most of it being in the hands of private owners (e.g. Serpieris), commercial
centers (see escape) as well as being subject to looting and exploitation by
municipal authorities. The local community as well as visitors to the park from
all over Attica either do not have access to these points which are closed, or
the only one they are allowed is that of the consumer. ---- The part of the park
that remains public and free to access (around 1000 acres) is shrinking year by
year, fenced off and threatened by constant commercialization. It is battered by
the policies of the local and regional authorities and given over to business
appetites that exacerbate its abandonment and turn it into an investment fillet
of private interests.

Tritsi Park, however, is not only a large park under looting and constant
shrinking. It is an invaluable natural resource within the urban fabric. Its
defense is the business of all the residents of the area and the people who visit
it. The image of the park as we know it with the destruction of wetlands, the
threat of wild and rare fauna, commercialization and fencing has nothing to do
with what it could and should be. After all, we haven't even seen the large part
of the park that remains closed on behalf of the modern capitalist homesteads.

It is not difficult to imagine how many plans for economic exploitation of the
park will be launched and implemented in the next period, completing its
destruction. All these years of the economic crisis, the memorandums, the
pandemic, we lost a lot. And as time goes on we will lose even more if we don't
resist. The places where we grew up and are growing up change their appearance
and become worse than when we received them. Their development is not development
for us who live in them. Together with the transformation of cities into even
more boring concrete places, our living conditions are also changing: poverty,
despair, social exclusion, crushing the future horizon of youth.

Our own proposal for Tritsi Park is identical to our overall political positions
and proposals for another organization of society so that we can take our
destinies into our own hands. No savior and no "progressive government" is going
to free us from suffering, and we don't know if there are people anymore who
believe otherwise without being connected to special interests and not belonging
to the small class of exploiters. We believe that the people, the working class
and the youth can do without the state and bosses, we can do without powers and
bosses. Our proposal for the tritsi park is also built in this context: to pass
it under public management.

What we are proposing is for the park to be socialized by local residents and out
of the hands of the municipal and regional authorities, the management body and
business predators. To take over the management and care of each and every one of
us. Our proposal is based on 5 axes and will be further specified in the next
period, with the aim of opening it up and discussing it with the local community
and making it everyone's business.

We propose: the overall socialization - of land, buildings, infrastructure - to
serve popular needs and not for profit. To appropriate the park, to co-shape and
co-manage it. Tritsi Park belongs to all the people and not to the state, local
authorities and businessmen and the people can really take it into their hands
here and now.

We propose: the utilization of natural resources by the local community of Aghii
Anargyri, Ilio and Kamateros. To take into our own hands the management and care
of the vineyards, the wineries, the olives, the peanut trees, all the natural
wealth and to equalize its harvest. To open the fenced sections of the park and
cultivate the land collectively to meet our needs.

We propose: the occupation and socialization of the buildings and their use for
social purposes (community clinics, libraries-reading rooms, gyms, entertainment
areas, etc.) which will belong to everyone, each and every one will help based on
his/her abilities for their operation and will be freely accessible to all. A
service from society for society without commercial-monetary intermediation.

https://anarchism.espivblogs.net/2023/03/30/na-paroyme-sta-cheria-mas-to-parko-tritsi-protovoylia-anarchikon-agion-anargyron-kamateroy/
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