International - Event Notice
Saturday January 19 2013
02:00 PM

Demo at the Greek embassy

international | rights and freedoms | event notice

Wednesday January 02, 2013 12:57

by Anti-fascist

Take action against Golden Dawn and Fascism.

Many groups, organisations and networks are coming together in Athens and call for an International day of action against Golden Dawn and the fascists in Greece.

"We call for international solidarity with participation in Athens demonstration on 19th of January and antifascist action around the world outside Greek embassies."

In Dublin, anti-fascists are meeting at the entrance of Stephan's Green park (top of Grafton St) at 2pm. From there we will be marching to the Greek embassy; 1 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2

In Dublin, anti-fascists are meeting at the entrance of Stephan's Green park (top of Grafton St) at 2pm. From there we will be marching to the Greek embassy; 1 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2

Part of the translated call out is below:

"We cannot tolerate the rich and the government that sows poverty and deprivation, leads to suicides, sends homeless to queue at soup kitchens putting the blame for the crisis on immigrants, turning them to scapegoats, just like Hitler blamed the Jews for everything.

We can not close our eyes to the thousands of dead immigrants and refugees, women and children, being hunted by the guards of FRONTEX. We demand to stop the disgrace of the nazi-type concentration camps and the sweeping operations by the Greek police. The immigrants need legalization and the refugees need asylum, victims as they are of the imperialist wars, the dictatorships and the annihilating measures of austerity by the IMF.

This is why the last months an unprecedented antifascist uprising has unfolded. On the 24th of August thousands of immigrants sent their message to Dendias that they are not afraid of the police sweeping operations called “Xenios Zeus”. In the neighborhoods the racist pogroms were challenged everywhere. On the 28th of October, the teachers, the students and the antifascists showed who controls the streets sending the neo-Nazi of Golden dawn back to the sewers. “Neither in the parliament not anywhere, Nazis out of our neighborhoods” shouted thousands around Greece."

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Pictures produced by Italian and Dutch anti-fascists

by Dublin Anti-fascist

Wed Jan 02, 2013 18:30

Join the International day of anti-fascist action and extend solidarity to Greek anti-fascists

Golden Dawn (Italy)

Police (Italy)

Join the International day of anti-fascist action (Netherlands)

Link to international section of dedicated website

by Antifascist

Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:12

http://athensantifa19jan.wordpress.com/international/

Link to poster for the demo in Derry

Fri Jan 04, 2013 16:58

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=468911809835807...eater

DEMO IN DERRY

Contact

by Anti-fascist march organisers

Fri Jan 04, 2013 21:30

You can contact the Dublin organisers at antifa19thjan (at) gmail (dot) com

Link to facebook group

by Anti-fascists

Tue Jan 08, 2013 18:56

https://www.facebook.com/groups/296246127144520/

The tourists held by Greek police as illegal migrants

by Elric

Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:31

The Greek police even beat up tourists if they have the wrong coloured skin. Full text at link.

Greek police have stepped up efforts to catch illegal immigrants in recent months, launching a new operation to check the papers of people who look foreign. But tourists have also been picked up in the sweeps - and at least two have been badly beaten.

When Korean backpacker Hyun Young Jung was stopped by a tall scruffy looking man speaking Greek on the street in central Athens he thought it might be some kind of scam, so he dismissed the man politely and continued on his way. A few moments later he was stopped again, this time by a man in uniform who asked for his documents. But as a hardened traveller he was cautious. Greece was the 16th stop in his two-year-long round-the-world trip and he'd often been warned about people dressing in fake uniforms to extract money from backpackers, so while he handed over his passport he also asked the man to show him his police ID. Instead, Jung says, he received a punch in the face.

Within seconds, the uniformed man and his plainclothes partner - the man who had first approached Jung - had him down on the ground and were kicking him, according to the Korean. In shock, Jung was by now convinced he was being mugged by criminals and began shouting for help from passers-by. "I was very scared," he says. It was only when he was handcuffed and dragged 500m (500 yards) up the road to the nearest police station that he realised he was actually under arrest.

Jung says that outside the station the uniformed officer, without any kind of warning, turned on him again, hitting him in the face. "There were members of the public who saw what happened, like the man who works in the shop opposite the police station, but they were too afraid to help me," he says. Inside the police station, Jung says he was attacked a third time in the stairwell where there were no people or cameras. ...

In July last year, 38-year-old Christian Ukwuorji, a US citizen born in Nigeria, visited Greece with his wife and three children. They visited Rhodes and Santorini, and stopped in Athens on the way back. It was while he was walking in central Athens with a friend that Ukwuorji was stopped and asked for his ID by the Greek police. Despite showing them his US passport, he was detained with a group of immigrants and taken to the police station. While there Ukwuorji says he tried to take a photograph of his handcuffs on his mobile phone but when officers saw what he was doing they jumped on him, beating him until he passed out. He woke up in hospital with concussion.

The police returned his passport and his damaged mobile phone. He was not charged with any offence. The US Embassy has requested an investigation, but six months on there has been no word from the police. Ukwuorji believes he was the victim of racism and says he will never visit Greece again. ...

Some pictures

Thu Jan 10, 2013 13:18

Some pictures of the banners being made for the demo

Smash Fascism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_Baburova & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Markelov

Unfinished antifa banner

seomra spraoi

Thu Jan 10, 2013 13:21

There is going to be food and film and short documentary screening in seomra spraoi - 10 Belvedere Court, just off Gardiner Street - after the demo

Antifa!

EDL leader gets time for immigration fraud - hee hee!

by lefty

Fri Jan 11, 2013 15:10

slightly off topic but funny, ironic and of interest to anti-fascists!

http://www.blottr.com/breaking-news/edl-leader-ridicule...fraud

A list of the demos and actions organised internationally for 19Jan:

Wed Jan 16, 2013 02:26

London
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Leeds
Bristol
Dublin
Derry
Barcelona
Ossona
Manresa
La Garriga
Bilbao
Lyon
Copenhagen
Vienna
Tampere
Warsaw
Moscow
Chicago
New York
Sydney

Interesting mix.

by AisA

Wed Jan 16, 2013 02:33

Might inspire a banner or two...

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/antifascism

Cork event now planned too

by Solidarity Books

Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:12

Solidarity Books are calling on all groups, organisations and individuals to join us in Cork this Saturday to show we stand with all those challenging the rising tide of racism and fascism in Greece and elsewhere with a demo and stall at Daunt Sq., Patrick St. at 3pm.
Everyone is welcome back to Solidarity Books afterwards for food, a chat and short film screenings - more details on this to follow...

Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/331189913653040/?ref=22

Amazing

by From Ireland to Greece

Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:14

Amazing! Well done to all, three demos on our little island.

Links to films/docs

Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:53

For those of you who can't make it to seomra spraoi after, here are some of the videos being shown, and other videos of interest;

GOLDEN DAWN - Short video produced by the Guardian showing and describing the brutal reality of Golden Dawn http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/oct/26/golde...video

GREECE'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE - A short video looking at popular social and alternative movements response the economic crisis and Golden Dawn http://vimeo.com/52660764

HOW MUCH FURTHER? - Documentary describing the real victims of the economic crisis, focusing on the stories of the most vulnerable in Greece, the immigrants http://vimeo.com/46319686

CHASSEURS DE SKINS (2008) - A French documentary on how groups of youth in Paris generated a backlash against the NeoNazi skinhead subculture, and by doing so earned themselves the nickname Chasseurs de Skins or 'Skinhead Hunters' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dn2NRvrR-U

Pics

by B

Wed Jan 16, 2013 17:12

Lots of promotion for this event, hope it goes well.

Can you please do a write up of it afterwards and take some pics for those of us who cant make it.

Thanks / solidarity

Write up

Wed Jan 16, 2013 17:32

Yep, there will be pictures and a small write up for indymedia

Bring bells, banners, home-made flags/placards, whistles etc. Support the call from Athens!

Thu Jan 17, 2013 01:59

ASSEMBLE AT STEPHEN'S GREEN (SHOPPING CENTRE ENTRANCE) AT 2PM SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY AND MARCH ON THE GREEK EMBASSY, JOINING THE ARN DEMO - http://www.facebook.com/events/269098543219998

Dublin banner

Links to events in Cork and Derry

Thu Jan 17, 2013 04:50

Event notice for demo in Daunt Square, Patrick Street, Cork. Assembling at 3.00pm - https://www.facebook.com/events/331189913653040/?ref=22

Poster for demo in Guildhall Square, Derry. Assembling at 2.00pm - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=468911809835807...eater

'THIS IS ATHENS' 12 01 2013

by Join one of the three demos this Saturday!

Thu Jan 17, 2013 17:32

Anarchists/anti-fascists/squatters loudly and energetically march through Athens one week before international solidarity event. Activists and protesters should be as loud and passionate as this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F50J48nlRws

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