Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. —Albert Einstein (1921) Antifascists gathered in front of the Greek Embassy in Nicosia on the 21st of January 2013 to protest over the murder of a 26-year-old immigrant from Pakistan, Shehzad Luqman. In the early morning hours of Thursday, […]
Petralona
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Click on photo to read the message of some people from the autonomous space cologne (az köln), in germany, who also call for solidarity with the families threatened with eviction in the milton santos land occupation…
Let’s get together this Sunday, January 6th, from 12pm at the Children’s Space in PIKPA squat, which is located on Timodimou and Antoniadou streets (in the vicinity of ‘Asyrmatos’) in the neighbourhood of Ano Petralona. We want to have fun playing games and making children’s constructions. Later, we would like […]
A few words on the projects of residents in the district: The popular assembly of Petralona–Thissio–Koukaki stands as a collective activity since November 2002. After several interruptions throughout a journey of 10 years, in which we have dealt with various different matters, the assembly’s participants continue to meet, discuss, decide and […]
Sunday, December 4th, at 13.00: People’s assembly and collective kitchen in Merkouri Square (Ano Petralona). We bring our food and we eat together with our neighbours. Topics of the assembly: -Coordination of popular assemblies -Planning of projects concerning food, health care and counter-information actions Popular assembly of residents in Petralona, […]
On Monday, November 28th, a pawnshop (loan shark) in the neighbourhood of Kato Petralona, on Keiriadon Street, had its storefront trashed. Leaflets with the following slogans were thrown out: ‘Black marketeers* out of our neighbourhoods; not an inch of land to the loan sharks’ / ‘All those who see our […]
Since Tuesday, October 11th, the social space for health operates in PIKPA squat, located in Timodimou and Antoniadou streets (‘Petrina’), in the neighbourhood of Ano Petralona —not far from Petralona metro stop. The exclusion of more and more people from an already dismantled health care system led the local popular […]
Friday, October 14th, at 20.00: People’s assembly in Merkouri Square Saturday, October 15th, at 15.00: Collective kitchen in PIKPA squat (Timodimou and Antoniadou streets, ‘Petrina’, Ano Petralona) Tuesday, October 18th, at 19.00: Demonstration in the neighbourhood (we meet outside Petralona metro station, from the side of the pedestrian street of […]
On Tuesday, July 5th, a demonstration of more than 150 people in solidarity with those arrested during the general strike demonstrations of June 28th–29th took place in Petralona, near the centre of Athens. The demonstration was called by the popular assembly of the neighbourhoods Petralona–Koukaki–Thissio. Residents marched through many streets […]