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Anti Police Repression / Greek Solidarity Demo London

alexandros | 13.12.2008 15:22

On Saturday 6th December Greek police killed a 15 year-old boy on the streets of Athens.....




DeMO Against Police Repression in Solidarity with Greek revolt

On Saturday 6th December Greek police killed a 15 year-old boy on the streets of Athens. Since then thousands have taken to the streets, hundreds of police stations, banks and government buildings have been burnt across the country. School and university students have often been leading demonstrations and clashes while widening the social debate through occupying campuses.

Solidarity actions have spread across Europe, Australia and the United States. Embassies have been occupied or burnt and protesters have clashed with police in several cities. Many protesters have been arrested and imprisoned and subjected to police brutality in a systematic and coordinated attack against solidarity movements.

This revolt was a response to the murdering of young Alexandros, releasing the social need to revolt against the police state, and the increasing social and financial repression and exclusion.

Everywhere police repression, harassment, evictions, beatings and killings are the everyday terror of state control. The movement against repression and control is gaining momentum. We call to take this movement to the streets.

We are calling the Demo in Hackney as this is an area where police repression is a problem faced by many of the community - unlike the leafy streets surrounding the Greek embassy in Holland Park.

On the 14th of December we call for a demonstration at 14:30 at Dalston Kingsland Station, Hackney, London.
Ways to get there: From Liverpool Street Station bus 149
By train to Dalston Kingsland Station.
From Central London Buses: 38, 73, 30, 67, 243

alexandros

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Dalston then what?

13.12.2008 21:36

So meet up then what? Will it be a march? if so where to?

Berkman


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why here?

14.12.2008 00:12

this is not a greek area. there are no instutions of power headquarters here. why here? this is a working-class, poor area. no-one with power is here. are you going to smash the windows of the pound shop or what?

dalstonite


why here?

14.12.2008 00:13

this is not a greek area. there are no instutions of power headquarters here. why here? this is a working-class, poor area. no-one with power is here. there isn't even a police station in dalston! you going to smash the windows of the pound shop or what?

dalstonite


errr

14.12.2008 01:03

@ dalstonite: the pound shop is the primary target, if not succeed, we go for big issue salesmen.

grrrk


few cops dressed up as 'anarchists

14.12.2008 10:32

There choosing Dalston cause there's more of a chance of being able to insight a riot, this, as usual will probably be ignited by a few cops dressed up as 'anarchists'. Dalston doesn't want you here, don't bother coming, go cause some trouble in your own yard, stay at home.

dalstoneezer


grow some balls

14.12.2008 11:43

Apparently you dont even get the point of this whole movement!
No more we ll be governt by fascists and corrupted goverments! No more!
injustice, economy crysis,wars.education.!
Its the time to fight and stand up for your future!
All in Dalston today!

w.e


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@ dalstoneezer

14.12.2008 12:25

You are an idiot, go back to your job, being a lackey of the state.

anarcho


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to the author of this article

14.12.2008 14:10

fuck off - you don't know shit

ratamahatta


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@ ratamattappattter

14.12.2008 16:56

Please continue, you make yourself look very reactionary, so suck my fucking balls, lackey.

anarcho


go to greece

14.12.2008 20:10

I don't see the point of riots Dalston Kingston station. People won't make the connection with greece. You might as well be rioting in somewhere like Whitby for all the clarity it will make -> why not go to greece instead?

jones


no

14.12.2008 20:13

i'm sure these ruffians actually want the police to be brutal - otherwise they'd have nothing to bitch about

tanger


grow some tits

15.12.2008 12:43

no i don't think i will grow some balls thanks, i do not wish to make sperm so i'm happy with what i've got. or maybe you didn't mean testicles, maybe you meant "be more brave" or "have some guts" or something like that. i believe in my ten years of active involvement to the movement i have proved my bravery and gutsiness a million times over to all who matter.

but hey thanks for reminding me of some of the reasons why i "retired from activism" or effectively left the movement. i cannot support a movement in which people who ask genuine questions (why dalston?) are attacked like this.

questions are what anarchy is all about, one of the reasons for my curiousity about anarchism originally, and my rejection of communism/socialism was that anarchists seemed to be asking questions about how things could be done rather than telling me how things should be done.

i won't even begin with the sexism inherent in the "grow some balls" statement, that's too obvious to bother with i hope! and if it isn't then frankly we never have been in the same movement.

the question about dalston seems entirely valid to me and i don't see why its wrong to ask. partly simply because the answer is not obvious, i have spoken to many of the people who attended on saturday and nobody seems to know!

but also because of the history of areas like hackney being used as a venue for outsiders to vent rage in, on issues that are no more relevant to hackney than anywhere else. when the protests/riots are over its the locals who end up having to cope with the increased repression in the area. people in hackney feel used as a dumping ground already and have our own struggles going on (for which astoundingly little support has come from your movement).

i wish that every decision we made was well-thought out with a political and conscious reason in our heads for why we make the decisions, then we would have the confidence to react calmly when someone asks what those reasons are, instead of reacting defensively.

sad and pissed off


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