Παρασκευή 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
Τετάρτη 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
"We don't forget, we don't forgive" - day of international action against state murders, 20.12.2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Today (Friday), the assembly of the occupied Athens Polytechnic decided to make a callout for European and global-wide actions of resistance in the memory of all assassinated youth, migrants and all those who were struggling against the lackeys of the state. Carlo Juliani; the French suburb youths; Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the countless others, all around the world. Our lives do not belong to the states and their assassins! The memory of the assassinated brothers and sisters, friends and comrades stays alive through our struggles!
We do not forget our brothers and sisters, we do not forgive their murderers. Please translate and spread around this message for a common day of coordinated actions of resistance in as many places around the world as possible.
http://balkans.puscii.nl/?q=content/we-dont-forget-we-dont-forgive-day-international-action-against-state-murders-20122008
Τετάρτη 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
Κυριακή 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
15 years old anarchist killed by Cops in the Center of Athens reports the video from the murder and a video from the Athens Riots
Yesterday night at 21.30 in the center of Athens a young boy murdered by the cops in the center of Athens. The murder was the answer of the police after arguing with the small group of anarchists with a crew of patrol police car. The anarchist didnt have with them any petrol bombs nor carrying stones or other weapons nether.
The boy killed due to some eyewitness , the place is very crowded with a lot of busy bars around , especially the Saturday night. One of the policemen get off the car , shot in the heart and killed in cold blood the 15 years old young boy.
The pig (policeman) left the boy dead on the ground. On various greek radical websites a lot of different people who saw what happened try to share this information. The greek authorities didnt give any announce statement still.
the names of the policemen who killed the boy are Epaminodas Korkoneas 37 years old and vasilis Saraliotis 31 years old
After a night of rage , the day of insurrection is coming.
All around Greece riots and demonstrations are taking place at the moment. Demonstrators attacked against police departures and burned patrol cars , banks.
Demonstrations , riots and solidarity actions are taking place (or took place) at the moment in Athens , Thessaloniki , Chania , Sparta , Mitilini , Alexandroupolis , Ksanthi , Volos and many more
riots as an answer to the state repression and a political mobilization in Greece
REPORTS AND UPDATES FROM THE DEMONSTRATIONS AND ACTIONS
* a brief report from Athens
More than 1000 anarchists/autonomous and others started riots the same night around the politechnical university in the center of Athens. That university is a symbol of the greek radical resistance for many years. The police answered by arresting 7 persons . In One of them the police bastards found a carbine.
- At the demontration : more than 12.000 people from different political groups or just simple citizens joined.
**a report from the demo in Athens by a participant
Hello, just got back from the center of athens. There's a lot going on, I'm not sure if I can describe it correctly. Today a march was decided for yesterdays murder of 15 year old Alex. Many people came, ecologists, leftists, anarchists, it was the largest march of this kind I've attended to. About 7-10 thousand occupied literaly the center of athens. From the beggining the atmosphere was electrified, we knew that this was not to be a peacfull marching but none was to leave because of this. Along the way the scenary was full of anger, fires, chasing and gas bombs, we were beaten and splitted up in pieces but some of us managed to get to the central police station of athens, the ending of this march. People were trying to reform groups, some of them decided to go to the parliament instead and finally after 3 hours we started gathering back to the occupied polytechnical school. As far as I know there are a few arrests and only a few injuries.
Since yesterday many bank atm and banks are burnt to the ground, attackes to police stations around Greece have happened and still happening, there are occupied universities and still people is out fighting the state forces.
I'm sorry I can't say more right now, I tried to give you an idea of the feeling that is all around us.
it's payback time you bastards
- High school Student with an sms chain call tommorow for a demonstration in Athens.
- Riots started from members and funs of AEK / Athens football club around OAKA field
- New demonstration on Monday 8/12 at 18.00 in the central offices building of the university of Athens (propilea)
photos from the riots in Athens
* a brief report from Chania
Anarchists burned state cars in the morning , more information soon (we will start updating this page as many times as possible)
* a brief report from Sparta (southern Greece)
Members of the anarchists/autonomous assembly of the city started to write slogans on the walls of state buildings. The police wasnt there just an undercover bastards car who when they saw the people writing on the wall left away
* a brief report from thessaloniki
All the anarchist groups as well as extra parliamentary ultra left groups call for a demonstration.
- Around 200 people attacked with petrol bombs and riots in the center of the city near the white tower. Afterwards the anarchists moved into the university and the special forces of the police sou rounded the space
- Anarchists occupied the school of theater in the city , the cops answered with tear gass. At the moment the people are trapped inside because the university is surrounded by the police
* a brief report from Alexandroupolis
people gathered in front of the police station
* a brief report from Patra
more than 300 people gathered for a demonstration in memory of Alexandros Andreas Grigoropoulos. The demo It hasn't ended yet, because protests are not extinguished by tear gases as they've just done here at the center of the city. People are still around in the streets.
It's gonna be a long night tonight.
- since now 5 people arrested by the police in Patra
* Volos (central greece)
A demonstration will take place today at 18.00 (more info soon)
* Giannena
street fighting is taking place now in the city . more than 500 people on the streets
* Corfu
more than 100 anarchists joined a demonstration in Corfu. The block of the anarchists burned an atm bank machine. An other block of members of extra parliamentary groups joined the demo as well
* Karditsa (north Greece)
Organizations and groups call for a demonstration on Monday 8/12
solidarity actions already took place in other countries
* In Zagreb anarchists organized a solidarity action in the greek embassy
* In Berlin a solidarity action organized by autonomous groups
all of the info are translated into English from greek
I invite all the greek radicals to send news , corrections , udpdates to the editiorial team of the balkans.puscii.nl at balkans-infoshop@lists.riseup.net ,
the solidarity is our weapons
insurrection against the State violence
no Justice , no peace , fuck the police
ps: sorry for grammar errors and mistakes but I try to translate as fast as possible
video from the murder
video from the Demonstration in Athens
http://balkans.puscii.nl/?q=content/15-years-old-anarchist-killed-cops-center-athens-reports-video-murder-anda-video-theathens-r
The boy killed due to some eyewitness , the place is very crowded with a lot of busy bars around , especially the Saturday night. One of the policemen get off the car , shot in the heart and killed in cold blood the 15 years old young boy.
The pig (policeman) left the boy dead on the ground. On various greek radical websites a lot of different people who saw what happened try to share this information. The greek authorities didnt give any announce statement still.
the names of the policemen who killed the boy are Epaminodas Korkoneas 37 years old and vasilis Saraliotis 31 years old
After a night of rage , the day of insurrection is coming.
All around Greece riots and demonstrations are taking place at the moment. Demonstrators attacked against police departures and burned patrol cars , banks.
Demonstrations , riots and solidarity actions are taking place (or took place) at the moment in Athens , Thessaloniki , Chania , Sparta , Mitilini , Alexandroupolis , Ksanthi , Volos and many more
riots as an answer to the state repression and a political mobilization in Greece
REPORTS AND UPDATES FROM THE DEMONSTRATIONS AND ACTIONS
* a brief report from Athens
More than 1000 anarchists/autonomous and others started riots the same night around the politechnical university in the center of Athens. That university is a symbol of the greek radical resistance for many years. The police answered by arresting 7 persons . In One of them the police bastards found a carbine.
- At the demontration : more than 12.000 people from different political groups or just simple citizens joined.
**a report from the demo in Athens by a participant
Hello, just got back from the center of athens. There's a lot going on, I'm not sure if I can describe it correctly. Today a march was decided for yesterdays murder of 15 year old Alex. Many people came, ecologists, leftists, anarchists, it was the largest march of this kind I've attended to. About 7-10 thousand occupied literaly the center of athens. From the beggining the atmosphere was electrified, we knew that this was not to be a peacfull marching but none was to leave because of this. Along the way the scenary was full of anger, fires, chasing and gas bombs, we were beaten and splitted up in pieces but some of us managed to get to the central police station of athens, the ending of this march. People were trying to reform groups, some of them decided to go to the parliament instead and finally after 3 hours we started gathering back to the occupied polytechnical school. As far as I know there are a few arrests and only a few injuries.
Since yesterday many bank atm and banks are burnt to the ground, attackes to police stations around Greece have happened and still happening, there are occupied universities and still people is out fighting the state forces.
I'm sorry I can't say more right now, I tried to give you an idea of the feeling that is all around us.
it's payback time you bastards
- High school Student with an sms chain call tommorow for a demonstration in Athens.
- Riots started from members and funs of AEK / Athens football club around OAKA field
- New demonstration on Monday 8/12 at 18.00 in the central offices building of the university of Athens (propilea)
photos from the riots in Athens
* a brief report from Chania
Anarchists burned state cars in the morning , more information soon (we will start updating this page as many times as possible)
* a brief report from Sparta (southern Greece)
Members of the anarchists/autonomous assembly of the city started to write slogans on the walls of state buildings. The police wasnt there just an undercover bastards car who when they saw the people writing on the wall left away
* a brief report from thessaloniki
All the anarchist groups as well as extra parliamentary ultra left groups call for a demonstration.
- Around 200 people attacked with petrol bombs and riots in the center of the city near the white tower. Afterwards the anarchists moved into the university and the special forces of the police sou rounded the space
- Anarchists occupied the school of theater in the city , the cops answered with tear gass. At the moment the people are trapped inside because the university is surrounded by the police
* a brief report from Alexandroupolis
people gathered in front of the police station
* a brief report from Patra
more than 300 people gathered for a demonstration in memory of Alexandros Andreas Grigoropoulos. The demo It hasn't ended yet, because protests are not extinguished by tear gases as they've just done here at the center of the city. People are still around in the streets.
It's gonna be a long night tonight.
- since now 5 people arrested by the police in Patra
* Volos (central greece)
A demonstration will take place today at 18.00 (more info soon)
* Giannena
street fighting is taking place now in the city . more than 500 people on the streets
* Corfu
more than 100 anarchists joined a demonstration in Corfu. The block of the anarchists burned an atm bank machine. An other block of members of extra parliamentary groups joined the demo as well
* Karditsa (north Greece)
Organizations and groups call for a demonstration on Monday 8/12
solidarity actions already took place in other countries
* In Zagreb anarchists organized a solidarity action in the greek embassy
* In Berlin a solidarity action organized by autonomous groups
all of the info are translated into English from greek
I invite all the greek radicals to send news , corrections , udpdates to the editiorial team of the balkans.puscii.nl at balkans-infoshop@lists.riseup.net ,
the solidarity is our weapons
insurrection against the State violence
no Justice , no peace , fuck the police
ps: sorry for grammar errors and mistakes but I try to translate as fast as possible
video from the murder
video from the Demonstration in Athens
http://balkans.puscii.nl/?q=content/15-years-old-anarchist-killed-cops-center-athens-reports-video-murder-anda-video-theathens-r
Παρασκευή 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
Πέμπτη 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
solidarity with the Migrants struggle in Crete Island Greece
Since 11 November 15 migrants in Chania, Crete, Greece, active members of the Crete Forum of Migrants, have been on hunger strike, demanding the legal status they are eligible for, fighting for dignity and equal rights, for them and their families, for all migrants within Fortress Europe.
http://balkans.puscii.nl/?q=content/solidarity-migrants-struggle-crete-island-greece
Τρίτη 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2008
Squatters Posing A Problem
As the government moves ahead with its ambitious housing program to construct 3,000 new homes and service lots during its five year term in office, they are somewhat stumped as a number of squatters in certain areas simply refuse to move, according to Housing Minister Kenneth Russell.
Mr. Russell said as it now stands, the government has so far secured some 64 acres off Carmichael Road to build homes and should also acquire an additional 10 acres off Cowpen Road, four acres off Bacardi Road as well as acreage in Fox Hill.
He noted, however, that there are squatters residing on these parcels of land.
“All of these areas of course have people squatting on them. We have had a meeting already with these squatters and I got an agreement from them that we would be able to do our survey [of the land] in peace and once that survey is completed, we will seek to meet with them to work out a regularization process for them,” Mr. Russell said while touring homes under construction in the newly-developed Ardastra Gardens and Pride III estates on Monday.
“As I told them when we met, we are not going to run a bulldozer through their house. We will not destroy their belongings, but we will sit down, we will talk and come up with something that all of us can live with and once this is done, we will be well on our way in New Providence, Grand, Bahama, Exuma and San Salvador to produce the 3,000 service lots and houses in our first term in office.”
The Housing Minister also revealed that in some extreme cases, the government offered to assist with regularizing some squatters in the Pride Estates area.
“When that subdivision started there were quite a number of squatters living here and those squatters are being regularized one way or another,” Mr. Russell said, adding that there is an elderly lady who lives in the Pride Estates area with three invalids who are now getting assistance
“For some of them we are building a couple of smaller frame houses…And we are hoping that in regularizing them they would upgrade their homes to match what we have here in terms of probably stuccoing it, putting in proper bathrooms and getting authority to hook up the electricity and potable water.”
But the squatting issues faced by the Ministry of Housing are nothing new.
Former Minister Housing in the Progressive Liberal Party administration, Shane Gibson told the Journal Tuesday that squatting was also a serious problem when the former government began its housing program back in 2002.
Each case of squatting, he said, was examined to determine whether or not these persons would qualify for some type of assistance such as a land grant.
“We negotiated with these persons but we had some illegal immigrants, some migrants with work permits and some Bahamians, so each case we dealt with on its own merit and depending on the outcome we sat down and outlined our goals to them, but in all cases we were able to get them to move,” Mr. Gibson said.
The former housing minister also noted that if someone was squatting on a piece of land for a very long time and qualified for a government low-cost house, the former government worked out an agreement to build and finance a house for these individuals on the land, having the squatter pay for the infrastructure and the cost of construction.
He highlighted, however, that compromises were only offered to those squatters who were Bahamian citizens.
A total of 40 homes are currently being constructed by nine different contractors in Ardastra Gardens Estates on the 65 lot subdivision and five homes are almost completed.
A total of 66 homes are being constructed in Pride Estates, which houses a total of 117 lots.
And as shoddy workmanship has been an on-going complaint with many new homeowners, Mr. Russell said his ministry is ensuring that all homes are inspected at least once everyday.
“The inspector here at this [Ardastra Gardens’ location has already encountered some problems that was corrected to ensure that we don’t have the problems that we had before. The overall work and the overall camaraderie between the inspectors, the staff from the ministry and the contractors here on site is positive and I believe that we would end up with a very good product here at Ardastra Estates,” Mr. Russell said.
Mr. Russell said as it now stands, the government has so far secured some 64 acres off Carmichael Road to build homes and should also acquire an additional 10 acres off Cowpen Road, four acres off Bacardi Road as well as acreage in Fox Hill.
He noted, however, that there are squatters residing on these parcels of land.
“All of these areas of course have people squatting on them. We have had a meeting already with these squatters and I got an agreement from them that we would be able to do our survey [of the land] in peace and once that survey is completed, we will seek to meet with them to work out a regularization process for them,” Mr. Russell said while touring homes under construction in the newly-developed Ardastra Gardens and Pride III estates on Monday.
“As I told them when we met, we are not going to run a bulldozer through their house. We will not destroy their belongings, but we will sit down, we will talk and come up with something that all of us can live with and once this is done, we will be well on our way in New Providence, Grand, Bahama, Exuma and San Salvador to produce the 3,000 service lots and houses in our first term in office.”
The Housing Minister also revealed that in some extreme cases, the government offered to assist with regularizing some squatters in the Pride Estates area.
“When that subdivision started there were quite a number of squatters living here and those squatters are being regularized one way or another,” Mr. Russell said, adding that there is an elderly lady who lives in the Pride Estates area with three invalids who are now getting assistance
“For some of them we are building a couple of smaller frame houses…And we are hoping that in regularizing them they would upgrade their homes to match what we have here in terms of probably stuccoing it, putting in proper bathrooms and getting authority to hook up the electricity and potable water.”
But the squatting issues faced by the Ministry of Housing are nothing new.
Former Minister Housing in the Progressive Liberal Party administration, Shane Gibson told the Journal Tuesday that squatting was also a serious problem when the former government began its housing program back in 2002.
Each case of squatting, he said, was examined to determine whether or not these persons would qualify for some type of assistance such as a land grant.
“We negotiated with these persons but we had some illegal immigrants, some migrants with work permits and some Bahamians, so each case we dealt with on its own merit and depending on the outcome we sat down and outlined our goals to them, but in all cases we were able to get them to move,” Mr. Gibson said.
The former housing minister also noted that if someone was squatting on a piece of land for a very long time and qualified for a government low-cost house, the former government worked out an agreement to build and finance a house for these individuals on the land, having the squatter pay for the infrastructure and the cost of construction.
He highlighted, however, that compromises were only offered to those squatters who were Bahamian citizens.
A total of 40 homes are currently being constructed by nine different contractors in Ardastra Gardens Estates on the 65 lot subdivision and five homes are almost completed.
A total of 66 homes are being constructed in Pride Estates, which houses a total of 117 lots.
And as shoddy workmanship has been an on-going complaint with many new homeowners, Mr. Russell said his ministry is ensuring that all homes are inspected at least once everyday.
“The inspector here at this [Ardastra Gardens’ location has already encountered some problems that was corrected to ensure that we don’t have the problems that we had before. The overall work and the overall camaraderie between the inspectors, the staff from the ministry and the contractors here on site is positive and I believe that we would end up with a very good product here at Ardastra Estates,” Mr. Russell said.
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