Activists in Syntagma Square

I have had first hand contact with  young activists in Greece. This was before the big encounters with the police. I am wondering if some of my new friends are involved with the clashes. Apparently they are already involved in a barter economy among some young people.

I also saw a huge  march in the streets of Athens- and they didn’t turn out police in riot gear in Athens for these marches, as they have more recently, they just cleared a lot of streets of traffic.

Protest March in Athens: Let the Working People Become a POWER OF SUBVERSION Popular Committee Acharnes Municipality

Workers Rise Up They are Destroying the Foundation of Social Security Mass Bodies of the Athens 5th and 6th Department

On the Streets for the Fight and the Alliance Against the Power of Monopolies

The young  activists camped out in Syntagma Square want to start a new democracy that comes from the people, not the oligarchs, but they are ambivalent the Communism, they don’t want to be part of any political group, they are fighting for a new future of direct democracy with freedom and dignity. They resist all isms, all political ideology. Hopefully they will work together with other political activists. Here are some links to the activists and here

Working Groups: Technical Support, Provisioning, Events Artwork, Cleaning, Secretarial Support. Legal Support,Catering Group, Translation Group, Security Group, Multimedia Communication, Leaflet Delivery Group,Health Group Doctors, Nurses, Time Bank

The Syntagma youth also could explain to me in English what they stood for. Greece, after all, invented democracy long ago, why shouldn’t they re-invent it. They declared a people’s democracy coming from the voices of people in the square collectively, rather than from the top down.

They are demonstrating non stop against the government, ten to twenty thousand people come to the square at night. They are clearly inspired by events in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, but of course the situation in each country is entirely different. There were some paintings of George Papandreou, the Prime Minister of Greece and other IMF leaders being kicked out or ridiculed.

Out with the IMF Thieves, Independence, Nationalization of Banks, Monopolies,

Permanent Strike Now No to the Puppets of Global Dictatorship

Here is an article from an English newspaper, and another that talks about actions this week. It is a battle of people’s rights against the oppressive and greedy economic forces of the wealthy. The same battle that is being fought all over the place. In Egypt it was fuelled by workers strikes, and it still is. In Greece also there have been many strikes, as well as Italy. In Venice Italy they were getting ready for an election and the people are opposing the privatization of water and nuclear power.