We Are an Image from the Future

The Greek Revolt of December 2008
Herausgeber: Schwarz, A G; Void Network; Sagris, Tasos

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Produktbeschreibung

Greece burned after the police murdered a teenage boy. Here's the story from those who torched it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781849350198
• ISBN-10: 1849350191
• Artikelnr.: 29942012

Autorenporträt

A.G. Schwarz: A.G. Schwarz is an assumed name. In real life A.G. is a North American living in exile abroad. Tasos Sagris: Tasos Sagris is a member of the Void Network-an arts and action collective based in Athens, Greece. His book of poetry, About Human Love in the Western Metropolitan Cities, was published in 2008. Void Network: The Void Network was established in 1990 in Athens as an arts collective. They fight social apathy by holding multi-media arts shows, festivals, and gatherings in public spaces, underground clubs, art galleries, and autonomous social spaces.

Inhaltsangabe

The street has its own history-Tasos Sagris
Solidarity is a Flame-A.G. Schwarz
1. Prologos
Map of Greece
Chronology: 19th-20th Century
Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back
many years Part I
Panagiotis Kalamaras: There were many people who felt we had an unfinished
revolution
23.10: I began to get involved when I was 16
2. And Now One Slogan that Unites Us All: Cops, Pigs, Murderers!
Chronology: September 2000-November 2008
Argiris: Exarchia Square and the neighborhood assemblies
Iulia: Do you join the Party to fuck or do you fuck to join the Party?
J: The raves and free spaces is where the collective consciousness is
coming together
Lefteria ston Yianni Dimitraki
The Permanent Crisis in Education-TPTG
Nikos: The supermarket expropriations were very successful
The Prisoners' Hungerstrike
N & Mi: The prisoners gained a new ability to coordinate their actions
You talk about material damages, we speak about human life-Panagiotis
Papadimitropoulos
3. These Days are for Alexis
Map of Athens
Chronology: 6-25 December 2008
The world left behind
Lito: Suddenly I heard a bang
23.10: I ran to the Polytechnic
Homo Sacer Quartet-Flesh Machine
Mrs. S: I was in the heart of the catastrophe
Little John: Okay, now we're going to fuck everything up
Andreas: We started with three hundred people, and came back with five
hundred
Anna: That's how big this thing was
Yiannis: In Patras one thousand people were coming out to the
demonstrations
Vortex: That was the craziest moment of all December for me
Pavlos and Irina: This is the spirit of the revolt
Their Democracy Murders-the Polytechnic University Occupation
Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, Kostas: All the kids felt so much power
yelling at the cops
A Black Immigrant's Cry of Despair
These days are ours too-the Haunt of Albanian Immigrants
Invitation to the Open Popular Assembly of the Liberated City Hall of
Aghios Dimitrios
Katerina: I thought the revolution was coming
Maria: I want to eliminate everything that represents the alienation of our
lives
Sofia, Vasilis, Bill, and Irini: Before the revolt, all the Greeks were
enslaved
Transgressio Legis: One day we jacked a fire engine, got on the CB radio,
and said, "tonight, you motherfuckers, we will burn you all"
We Are Here, We Are Everywhere, We Are an Image from the Future-Ego Te
Provoco
Ego Te Provoco: The media worked as part of the counterinsurgency
Vortex: The occupation of the national TV
Call for a New International
Em: In London the response was immediate
Pere: In Barcelona, we quickly organized a solidarity protest
Adams: Many foreigners have been killed
Open Letter from the Soldiers
Eliza: The Treaty of Varkiza is Broken
The Logic of Not Demanding-A.G. Schwarz
Not this history but this rage is ours-Ankara Anarchy Initiative
To those who rise up in Greece-ABC Wellington
A Bedouin anytime! A citizen never-Ego Te Provoco
Kostas Tsironis: I don't care if I don't take even one more picture,
I just want to be okay with myself
Journal entry of one of the insurrectionists
To all those who did not speak with words
4. Obedience Stopped, Life is Magical
Map of Thessaloniki
Chronology: 28 December-4 March
Alexis Grigoropoulos Street
Koukouloforos
The Spirit of December on a Global Scale-A.G. Schwarz
Maya: Konstantina was the first to join the union
Ego Te Provoco: We need to make it obvious that it is
easy to attack
Andreas: We finally understood that many people supported us
Panagiotis Kalamaras: The myth of Sisyphus
Transgressio Legis: When there is strong social conflict, you raise the
tension of the attacks
Assembly of Media Workers: We want to occupy the media, and use it for the
movement
December's riots as mediated by the image of mass media-Leandros
Kyriakopoulos
Mi: The new neighborhood assemblies
Kill the Sexist In Your Head-the menses flow
The Limitations of Anti-Sexism-Sissy Doutsiou
Adriani and Flora: Now there are more social centers in Thessaloniki
Jana: Many people were saying that they want Bulgarian society to be "like
in Greece"
Little John: The next step is to create the places where all the people can
meet
The Rebellion, the Workplaces, and the Rank'N'File Unions-TPTG
Elina: More old people and leftists are coming nearer to the anarchist
ideas
Lito: Now I really know what terrorism means
5. Breaking New Ground
Chronology: March-October 2009
Alexis Grigoropoulos Park
Daredevil: We intervene in the daily flow of things to interrupt it
The House of Maria Kalas
The assassination of prisoner Katerina Gouliani
Conversation on a park bench in Thessaloniki
Sakis and Dina: Now there's no going back
Kostas: We decided to occupy the university rectorate
Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back
many years, Part II
Kazana Poli: You could see the hatred in their eyes
Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis
We Are Winning-A.G. Schwarz
Iulia: I feel very lucky to be living in these times
The political parties after December
Claim of responsibility for an arson attack
N. & Mi: The prisoners of December
Letter from anarchist A. Kiriakopoulos
What the Cops Told Us
Specialized Guerrilla, Diffuse Guerrilla
A Hot Summer...
Conversation with the Owner of a Small Hotel on the Train from Athens to
Patras
Yiannis: Maybe it's gotten worse
The Media Try to Kill Memory-A.G. Schwarz
Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, Kostas: All the people went back to their
private lives
The Passage to Revolution-Transgressio Legis
The Unanimity of the Fearful-Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire
December Revisited-Void Network
What Greece Means (to me) for Anarchism-A.G. Schwarz
Nothing Changed, Everything is Different-Tasos Sagris
Glossary