Anti Police Repression / Greek Solidarity Demo London
alexandros | 13.12.2008 15:22
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
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
Berkman
why here?
14.12.2008 00:13
dalstonite
errr
14.12.2008 01:03
grrrk
few cops dressed up as 'anarchists
14.12.2008 10:32
dalstoneezer
grow some balls
14.12.2008 11:43
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
go to greece
14.12.2008 20:10
jones
no
14.12.2008 20:13
tanger
grow some tits
15.12.2008 12:43
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