How fast does time run? A bit of a silly question, one might think. Surely time always runs at a steady pace – the ticking of a wall clock testifies to this, at every single second. The passage of days, weeks and months; pages flying one after the other off a...
Our action is a response to the accumulated pressures that ravage our lives, and not simply an emotional outburst in the wake of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the Greek police. We are yet another spontaneous collective that forms part of the social...
Initiative from the occupation of the Athens School of Economics & Business If I do not burn/If you do not burn/ If we do not burn/ How will darkness come to light? (Nazim Hikmet, “Like Kerem”) … Tomorrow dawns a day when nothing is certain. What could be more...
The three bullets fired by police special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas that killed 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos in cold blood in Athens on December 6th started a revolt that shattered two of the country’s strongest linear political understandings. First, the...
Following from Hara’s post yesterday, we thought it might be a good idea to refresh our minds of some of the thinking behind and beyond the Dec 2008 Greek protests. We are republishing the statement of the occupied Athens School of Economics and Business and the...
The days of December 2008 seemed like a long, extremely long moment of rupture that shattered deeply and entirely our normality. We saw in front of us the possibility of things happening: thousands of people taking to the streets every day, writing hundreds of...
