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International - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Demo at the Greek embassy
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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. 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 |
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Golden Dawn (Italy)
Police (Italy)
Join the International day of anti-fascist action (Netherlands)
http://athensantifa19jan.wordpress.com/international/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=468911809835807...eater
DEMO IN DERRY
You can contact the Dublin organisers at antifa19thjan (at) gmail (dot) com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/296246127144520/
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 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
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!
slightly off topic but funny, ironic and of interest to anti-fascists!
http://www.blottr.com/breaking-news/edl-leader-ridicule...fraud
London
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Leeds
Bristol
Dublin
Derry
Barcelona
Ossona
Manresa
La Garriga
Bilbao
Lyon
Copenhagen
Vienna
Tampere
Warsaw
Moscow
Chicago
New York
Sydney
Might inspire a banner or two...
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/antifascism
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! Well done to all, three demos on our little island.
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
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
Yep, there will be pictures and a small write up for indymedia
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
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
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
R E S I S T
Hey there, any chance that anyone took some photos at this? How many showed up? Thanks !!
dublin image: https://twitter.com/UnitatvsRacisme/status/292674706727...99138
related blog post: We are all Greeks: #19Jan Day of Solidarity against Fascism and Racism in Greece
https://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/we-a...eeks/
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103189