(Athen) Gini-Besetzung: Update

Am Samstag, den 27. April gab es von der Besetzung aus eine kleine, an die Nachbarschaft in Exarchia gerichtete Demo. Es wurden Flyer auf Griechisch und Englisch verteilt und Slogans in verschiedenen Sprachen gerufen.

Am selben Abend des 27. April drangen Rioteinheiten der Polizei von zwei Seiten auf das Gelände des Polytechnio ein. Sie kamen gleichzeitig durch die Tore auf der Tositsa und Stournari Straße bis auf die Stufen zur Eingangstüre des Gini, wo sie Tränengas schmissen und nach einigen Sekunden wieder abzogen. Dieses Ereignis wurde durch die Gini-Besetzung auf https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1597467/ gesondert gemeldet, weil es ungewöhnlich ist, dass die Rioteinheiten das Universitätsgelände betreten. Es wird mitgeteilt, dass die Schutzschicht der Gini-Besetzung allzeit bereit ist, das Gebäude und die darin befindlichen Leute vor jedweder Art staatlichen Angriffs zu verteidigen.

Für Dienstag, den 30. April um 19 Uhr wird wieder zur offenen Solidaritäts-Versammlung für besetzte Häuser eingeladen. Für den 1. Mai hat die Besetzung des Gini angekündigt, auf der Straße zu sein. Unter dem Motto „MIGRANTS & PROLETARIANS SQUAT THE RICH - THE COMMON STRUGGLE OF THE OPPRESSED IS A THREAT TO AUTHORITY“ wird sie sich an der Demonstration beteiligen, die um 11 Uhr auf der Patission anfängt – also direkt vorm Polytechnio.

Bild Links: die vielsprachige Nachbarschaftsrunde; Bild Rechts: das Plakat für den 1. Mai; Unten: der Text des Flyers von der Nachbarschaftsdemo (für den griechischen Text: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1597465/)

„We are strugglers and immigrants who fight for freedom. Our situation is that we are confronting accusations. The state, through its propaganda, depicts migrants as criminals and once again accuses them of being a vehicle for islamic fundamentalism. But, in reality, the state is criminalizing migrants by keeping them in an illegal status, and the state is the real terrorist; it is the state that assasinates people at the borders, it is the state that imprisons people massively, it is the state that tortures.

We are looking for a life that has freedom, equality and justice, but we are not expecting the state to give it to us, but we are struggling on our own, and we are self-organizing together to achieve it on our own. No matter which race, nationality or group we come from, we came to the place that is called greece, and all of us, in the same community, as a collective body, are struggling for what we want. On this territory, we are facing a lot of problems, which are based in the existence of the state. The greek state doesn't try to help us and solve our basic needs of our life, but it destroys, by dirty ways, the life that every human deserves, throwing us in the street, out of the camps and the squats, where we are living. It makes us homeless.

Occupying the property by those who want to create a community of struggle and space for the needs of living is a basic right, but the state destroyed our attempts by the evictions of serveral squats. But the squatting movement will continue, and can't be stopped by operations like the recent wave of evictions in Exarchia, because the squat is a small community, an analogy of how we want to make the world.

We, as immigrants, fought in a peaceful way in order to achieve our rights, but we understand that the state will not change in a peaceful way. That's why we are here as a self-organized community to struggle in a real way. The human rights are not more than a slogan and a lie of the bourgeois and the state which is used to control the poor classes. We dont need these human rights but we need our self-organized community in the squats to have real freedom through equality. We disagree with the basis of the state and the authority, and what we will do is not to ask for our rights from them, but to struggle and take our rights. There is no peace between the state and us, and we will nor forget neither forgive what it has done to us.

It's our right to return the violence to the system, because it is using violence against us. By always talking about peace, they are trying to keep the monopoly of violence in their hands, so our goal is to destroy the monopoly of violence. But its not only the problem of one specific state. All states are the same, and what they have in common is the goal to achieve the monopoly of economy, public discourse and violence. We have to destroy this structure. What the states are doing is separating the social classes more and more on a daily base, give more power to authoritarians and enforce the destruction of the poor classes, like the immigrants and the proletariat.

The life that we are looking for is the self-organization of communities without authority, in equality and in freedom-united around the world.

 Self-organized Community of Squatters, Migrants

and Internationalist Comrades from the Ground of Squatted Gini“