Tag Archives: Okupations

Refusing to forget a revolution: The Arab Spring

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why … Continue reading

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Brazil: Militant mutual aid – the “Kasa Invisível” of Belo Horizonte

It may be deemed an exaggeration to say that mutual aid, as theorised and practised by anarchists, is both the distillation of perennial human practices of care underlying/surviving/resisting forms of centralised appropriation and domination, and the most important basis for … Continue reading

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Thessaloniki: The struggle for a squat

It has been said before, but it is worth repeating, that an okupied social centre is not defined by the physical space occupied (appropriated from the circuits of capital accumulation) but by those who animate it and those to which … Continue reading

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Athens,Greece: One year of resistance against state terrorism 10, 100, thousands of squats

August 27, 2020 by actforfreedom 10, 100, thousands of squats One year of resistance against state terrorism Today 26.8.20 marks one year since the armed hooded men of Chrysochoidis invaded the refugee squat of Spyrou Trikoupi 17 and the neighboring Transito … Continue reading

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Greece: Everything Is Coming to a Boil

Posted with the CrimethInc. Collective (15/07/2020) … Looming Recession, the Ban on Freedom of Assembly, and the Death of Vassilis Maggos Since coming to power last summer, Greece’s far-right New Democracy party has waged an all-out war against immigrants, anarchists, and rebels, attempting … Continue reading

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The Cop-Free Zone

From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/07/2020)… The Cop-Free Zone: Reflections from Experiments in Autonomy around the US The cop-free zone is not the particular block or traffic circle or park. It is the shared commitment to defending a space and eliminating … Continue reading

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News from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a.k.a. Capitol Hill Occupied/Organized Protest (CHOP)

From Roarmag (16/06/2020) … Life and times at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Shane Burley Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city. Over the … Continue reading

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From protest to occupation: The CHAZ of Seattle

As of June 9th, six blocks in Seattle—including an empty police precinct – have fallen under the control of protesters and declared an “autonomous zone”. From the IWW’s Industrial Worker … The Birth of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone J … Continue reading

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Greece: The war against squats continues

Athens: Massive intervention in the streets of Kolonaki (19/12/2019) There is a completely false belief that Exarchia is an area on the map bordered by Patision, Alexandra, Charilaou Trikoupi streets and the hills of Steki. In fact, there is today … Continue reading

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Exarchia: Repression and resistance

From the Crimethinc. Collective (23/11/2019), reading events in greece … New Democracy: The New Face of State Violence in Greece A View from Exarchia as the Showdown Looms The neighborhood of Exarchia in Athens, Greece is known worldwide as an … Continue reading

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