Early in the morning of Sunday, April 29th, police squads and plainclothes cops were deployed on to the streets near the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (located on Syngrou Avenue). The democracy’s battalions surrounded the housing project on the corner of Kallirrois Avenue and Lagoumitzi Street, invaded the […]
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The Occupied Social Centre VOX, one of the two buildings that were evicted by police in Exarchia on April 20th, was re-occupied the next day by anarchists, neighbours and other people in solidarity, who tore down the steel plates sealing off its entrances. On April 26th a few of the […]
As we reported, on April 20th cops raided the squatted building οn 60, Valtetsiou Street in Exarchia (property of the state-run ‘Social Insurance Institute’–IKA). Three persons were arrested during this eviction. They were kept at a police station, brought before prosecutor (accused of illegal entry), and two of them were […]
In the first days of 2012, people involved in the anarchist/anti-authoritarian milieu occupied the VOX building (property of the state-run ‘Social Insurance Institute’–IKA) in Exarchia square, in an effort to turn it into an open social centre. ‘ΒΟΞ’ was the name of a former open-air cinema in the same building, […]
“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.“ Mikhail Bakunin December 2011: After the third eviction of the residents’ collective of the Ocupação Sem-teto Guerreiro Urbano (Homeless Urban Fighter Occupation ), in the Santa Teresa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, anarchist fighters started to […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eannlPTI6EI Elba squat was raided on March 16th, 2012, by henchmen of a private security company who received assistance from the Polish police. The project was established in 2004. The Finnish company Stora Enso (the owner of the premises) has been well aware of Elba’s existence and activity and, after […]
On Saturday, March 3rd, by 20.00 (MEZ) the occupied building squatted on Deutz-Mülheim Street was surrounded by a giant police force with martial equipment. Nearly 20 squatters were under siege by approximately 100 armed cops, aided from earlier in the evening by police helicopter, 25 police buses, a fire brigade […]
NO TAV —Highway under evacuation (second round) 1-3/2012 00.42 GMT+1 The assembly ended. The next meeting was scheduled for 18.00pm in Bussoleno. 00.40 News came in the assembly about a NO TAV activist admitted to hospital with a broken leg. 00.27 According to eye-witnesses’ reports in the assembly, cars of […]
February 28th has been an extraordinary day of tenacity and determination of the NO TAV movement, and inevitably some were bothered. At around 23.15 (GMT+1) or shortly after, people at the gathering started running towards the houses opposite the road junction in Chianocco, because someone said that a car parked […]
February 28th, 2012 _ 21.00 GMT+1 Luca’s health condition update from live radio: logically reserved prognosis; a comrade managed to stay with him for an hour; today they have woken him up a bit; he responded to limb mobility test; moderate optimism; more 2–3 days of alert _ 28-2/2012 Antonio […]
In the morning of February 27th the eviction and demolition works at the Clarea mountain hut (meeting place of NO TAV resisters in Susa Valley) began along with transport of construction material and authorities’ land expropriation. At around 8.30am Luca Abbà, a NO TAV activist, climbed an electricity pylon trying […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tESNNolMudk In the morning of Monday, February 6th, a warning regarding police presence close to the main gate of the university campus mobilized the students’ movement and other supporters. It was the deadline for the repossession of the students’ autonomous space, known as Moradia Retomada (‘Retaken House’), located on the […]