Τι κάνουμετην περίοδο ανάμεσα στις Ταραχές;
Με ποιο τρόπο συνεχίζουμε
και επεκτείνουμε την κοινωνική εξέγερση;
ΑΝΟΙΧΤΗ ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ
ΓΙΑ
ΤΗΝ ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗΣ
ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ
22 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2014
ΩΡΑ:
20.30
ΚΑΤΕΙΛΗΜΜΕΝΟ
ΘΕΑΤΡΟ
ΕΜΠΡΟΣ
Ρ.ΠΑΛΑΜΗΔΗ
2 ΨΥΡΡΗ
Τα
τελευταία χρόνια, σε πολλές περιοχές του κόσμου ξέσπασαν εκρήξεις διαμαρτυρίας
στις οποίες μεγάλα πλήθη ξεχύθηκαν οργισμένα στους δρόμους.
Οι ξεσηκωμοί πήραν διάφορες μορφές
αλλά ακόμα και στις πλέον εξεγερτικές τους στιγμές δεν μπόρεσαν να οδηγήσουν σε
κάποια ριζική αλλαγή ούτε να λύσουν τα προβλήματα που τις παράγουν. Ποια
είναι τα όρια που συνάντησαν, και τι θα μπορούσε να μας πάει πέρα από αυτά τα
όρια; Εάν τώρα ξέρουμε πως μία εξέγερση δεν θα καταστρέψει τον καπιταλισμό, οφείλουμε να αναρωτηθούμε τι μπορούμε
να κάνουμε για να προωθήσουμε ένα τέτοιο στόχο :
τι ελπίζουμε να επιτύχουμε με αυτές τις εξεγέρσεις, ποιος είναι ο ρόλος τους
στο μακροπρόθεσμο όραμά μας, και ποια είναι η στρατηγική μας για το χρονικό
διάστημα που τις ακολουθεί; Σε αυτή την
παρουσίαση συμμετέχοντες σε κοινωνικούς αγώνες από την Ανατολική Ευρώπη και τη Βόρεια Αμερική, θα μιλήσουν για τις εμπειρίες τους και θα θέσουν ερωτήσεις. Παρακαλούμε ελάτε έτοιμοι
να συζητήσουμε! Αυτή η συζήτηση είναι
μέρος περιοδείας αμερικανών συντρόφων & μιας εν εξελίξει έρευνας
σχετικά με
το θέμα :
"Μετά
το Αποκορύφωμα / Ο Κύκλος Ζωής των Κοινωνικών Κινημάτων"
Οργανώνεται σε
συνεργασία με το Κενό Δίκτυο από την αναρχική συλλογικότητα CrimethInc. που με την σκέψη και την δράση της από τα μέσα της δεκαετίας του ’90 προσφέρει στρατηγικές αναλύσεις από τις πρώτες γραμμές του μετώπου
του κοινωνικού πολέμου
σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Από τα μέσα τηςδεκαετίας του 1990,
η συλλογικότητα CrimethInc. υπήρξε ένααπότα πιο παραγωγικάκαιεκτεταμένα σχέδιαΑναρχικώνστηΒόρειαΑμερική.
Οι συμμετέχοντεςέχουνδιασχίσει πολλές φορές τον κόσμογιααμέτρητεςπεριοδείεςκαι δράσεις, παρήγαγαν μια σειρά από βιβλία (DaysofLove/NightsofWar, RecipesforDisaster, ExpectingResistance, Work: Capitalism.Economics.Resistance, Contradictionary), περιοδικά (RollingThunder), καιάλλα έντυπα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων της πολυσέλιδης
μπροσούρας «FightingForOurLives / Πολεμώντας για τις Ζωές μας» σε 650.000αντίτυπα. Από τις μέρες των διαδηλώσεων
του Σηάτλ ως σήμερα, τιςσυγκρούσεις ενάντια στις συνόδους
κορυφής της διεθνούς οικονομικής και πολιτικής ελίτ και τις εξεγέρσεις σε πολλά
σημεία του κόσμου, με τις εκστρατείες τους ενάντια
στην κρατική καταστολή, την συμμετοχή τους στα σημεία ανάφλεξηςτου κοινωνικού αγώνα, τα εκδοτικά εγχειρήματα και τις αναλύσεις τους, προσέφεραν
πάντα ένα ανοιχτό κάλεσμα εμπλουτισμού και εμβάθυνσης της σύγχρονης αναρχικής
σκέψης και δράσης. Ανοίγοντας πάντα επίμαχες συζητήσεις,
η συλλογικότητα CrimethInc. μέσα
στα χρόνια συνεχίζει να προκαλεί με ριζοσπαστικές θέσεις τις
κυβερνήσεις, τους ρεφορμιστές αλλά και τοευρύ κοινό.
Over
the past few years, many places have witnessed sudden eruptions of
protest in which everyone pours into the streets. This has taken many
forms: anti-austerity protests in Europe, Occupy in the US and
elsewhere, transportation protests in Brazil, the Gezi resistance in
Turkey, the uprising in Bosnia, and most recently—and
problematically—the nationalist revolution in Ukraine.
But
all of these have passed without solving the problems that gave rise to
them. What limits have they reached, and what would it take to go
beyond these limits? If a single upheaval won’t bring down capitalism,
we have to ask what’s important about such high points of struggle: what
we hope to get out of them, how they figure in our long-term vision,
and how to make the most of the period that follows them.
In
this presentation, participants in popular struggles in Slovenia and
North America will speak about our experiences and pose questions.
Please come ready to discuss!
This
tour is part of an ongoing investigation on the theme “After the
Crest,” organized through the anarchist collective CrimethInc.
Since
the mid-1990s, CrimethInc. has been one of the most prolific and
ambitious anarchist projects in North America. Participants have
crisscrossed the world for countless tours and actions; produced books,
magazines, and other literature, including 650,000 copies of the primer Fighting for Our Lives;
and reported from the front lines of summit protests, riots,
anti-repression campaigns, and other flashpoints of struggle. Always
controversial, CrimethInc. has earned the ire of leftists and government
agencies while challenging the general public.
The message went out to a thousand phones on Monday morning, the 3rd of October: the first of the arrests from the Parliament blockade had taken place. Four undercovers snatched him up as he left his house. A protest was called for the same day, at 7 o’clock in the evening, Plaça Catalunya. Two more arrests soon followed. The news quickly spread via telephone, internet, and word of mouth. Several meetings are called to share information and organize the response. By the time people started gathering in the hundreds for the protest, a fourth arrest had occurred.
Back in June, the popular rage that has been growing in Barcelona, in tandem with other parts of the world, coalesced once again as 200,000 people blockaded the Catalan Parliament in an attempt to prevent the passage of the latest austerity laws. These laws cannot accurately be called cutbacks, for in addition to slashing healthcare and education, they augment the ranks and arsenal of the police and continue the urbanization projects that tailor the city to the needs of tourism and social control.
This was not the first round of reforms to hit Catalunya, and in fact the Socialist Party was already voted out of power for inaugurating the crisis measures, so now it’s the conservatives’ turn to continue the same policies. Half of the people never voted for any of them, and an increasing number of these have been taking to the streets to win back control over their lives in an escalating series of strikes, protests, occupations, and popular assemblies that have spread across the Spanish state. The media and the academics have referred to this phenomenon as the movement of “indignados,” the “Real Democracy Now” movement, or the 15M movement, but in reality the feeling on the street is increasingly closer to rage than to simple indignation; its politics are much more heterogeneous and in large part more anticapitalist than a narrow, naïve call for a “real” democracy, whatever that means; and the activity ascribed to it predates the 15M—or 15th of May—plaza occupations. Threads of the ongoing defiance run continuously back through the joyful Mayday riots in the wealthy neighborhood of Sarrià, the January 27 general strike that was called only by anarcho-syndicalist and far-left minority unions, in an unprecedented move demonstrating a new boldness, the September 29 general strike that reached massive proportions on a countrywide level and in Barcelona erupted in a daylong insurrection, which itself evoked references to and drew on experiences from an entire history of struggle against dictatorship and against the democracy that replaced it, a struggle that not everyone has forgotten.
On June 15, for the first time in much too long, politicians remembered the taste of fear as people blocked their path and harangued them, assailed them with insults, spat on them, threw trash, and in at least one case, attacked them with spraypaint. Many lawmakers had to be flown in by helicopter, and only in the face of undeniable public opposition and with the help of an army of riot police were they able to pass the reforms. For at least one day, the lies of democracy were put in their place, and the curtain masking the reality of social war was parted.
People who participated in the blockade, who got to reap just a brief moment of revenge against the wealthy, hypocritical politicians who are intent on taking everything, went home that day with a general feeling of jubilation. All that changed as soon as they tuned back in to the official reality, and checked out the news the next day.
In the stateless, communal majority of human history, shame played an important function in upholding community norms, based generally on ideas of mutual aid. The person who did not share, the bully and would-be authoritarian were shamed and prevented from spreading social relations based in competition or domination. In a postmodern, media-driven world, shame is instrumentalized by the mass media and used to uphold the relations and values that benefit the owners of society.
Pacifism, as it has arisen in the Real Democracy Now movement, is little more than an uncritical reliance on the media of the ruling class and a reproduction of the shame and values they inculcate. People who had been participating in social struggles here for years were surprised, in May and June, to suddenly find that other protestors would throw themselves in front of banks to protect them from vandalism, or in front of riot cops to protect them from insults and the throwing of trash. Evidently, breaking the windows of a bank or fighting with the police is more shameful than the homelessness, the hunger, the debt slavery, the murders, and the torture the banks and police are responsible for.
By July, after newcomers had had to face off with police to defend occupations or block the eviction of neighbors who couldn’t pay their mortgages, more and more people were dismissing nonviolence as a hopelessly inept tool for accomplishing goals that were not compatible with those of the ruling class, and what’s more, they began to see it like the rest of us, as an indignity and an insult to the history of revolutionaries here who have fought bravely and on their feet against fascism, against capitalism, against power in all its forms.
But in June, many people were still hypersensitive to what the media were saying about us. The same people who went home with a smile on their faces awoke with a frown to encounter the media’s predictable hysterics. The forceful protest of the day before was presented as a travesty, a source of profound shame for some fictive national community that included, altogether in one happy, democratic family, those who consumed the news and were losing access to healthcare, and those who broadcast the news and had private healthcare. People began to backpedal, to deny what was being signalled as shameful, in a word, to betray themselves.
The police took advantage of the boom in video footage at protests and the dissolution of the line between journalists and protestors, with the proliferation of alternative media. They gathered and seized all the footage they needed, and began identifying suspects. The media cried out about impending arrests. But curiously, the arrests never came.
On inspection, the police strategy is tried and true: make the people police themselves. As long as the two primary ingredients—pacifism and sensitivity to the media—exist in abundance, the mobilization of shame and fear by the press will divide a movement and redirect it towards dialogue, leading it straight back into the hands of the politicians whom it rejected at the very moment of its birth. Where heavy-handed arrests might have strengthened the movement’s resolve and united them behind the bravest sector—those who had gone face to face with riot cops and politicians—the soft hand of the media sowed doubts and handed legitimacy to the most cowardly and opportunistic.
Needless to say, it came as a shock when the police began their wave of arrests in early October, nearly four months later. But the underlying motives soon came to light. The order to make the arrests did not come from the Catalan police, but from higher up—all the way from Madrid, in fact. In response to the supposed inaction of the Catalan authorities, Manos Limpias—a fascist organization—brought a suit to the Audiencia Nacional, a supreme court in Madrid that often metes out political repression. The Audiencia Nacional then ordered the Catalan police to arrest all twenty-two people they had identified in footage, charging them with various offenses under the statute covering “assaults on democracy.” Possible sentences range from six months to eight years in prison. Curiously, this seems to be the first use of the law protecting democracy, which was passed after an attempted military coup in 1981. Yet another example of progressive laws used for political repression, like hate crime laws used in the US against those protesting the police or homophobic churches.
By the second day, ten people had been arrested. In each case, they were taken to a facility on the outskirts of town, near the immigrant prison, booked, and given a citation to appear at court in Madrid. Lawyers in Madrid soon got the list of all twenty-two suspects, and those whom police had not yet been able to locate went to the Barcelona courts to see if they could get their citation without being arrested. They were stonewalled, and after hours of waiting, went downstairs to a café. Suddenly, riot police surrounded the café and arrested the other people on the list. Like all the others, they were subjected to biometric photos, to be added to police databases for automatic and remote facial recognition.
As the arrests became known, a pattern quickly emerged. Whereas the media had previously trumpeted the certainty that protest “leaders” and those involved in convening the Parliament blockade would be charged in addition to the worst of the troublemakers, all of those arrested were people from the grassroots, acting outside of any organizational framework, and nearly all of them were anarchists. But because the arrests had been imposed by higher authorities and had not been immediately accompanied by any PR action on the ground, the media did not have any strong directions from police regarding how to report on the occurrences, and they fumbled and did their best to explain the arrests, in their typically cloudy, sophomoric, and professional way. As such, the detainees were labelled as members of the movement of indignados, rather than being singled out as “bad protestors” and “antisistema.” (Given that anarchism has not been erased from Spanish history, the media cannot use “anarchist” as a depoliticized, pejorative, and scary term; thus they invented the label “antisistema” or “anti-system” to refer to people who reject dialogue with the political system, though the connotation is overwhelmingly one of rebels without a cause).
Not only were the police and media caught flat-footed in carrying out and justifying the arrests, what’s more, the situation was stacked against them. Radicals are harder to isolate in today’s political climate, at least in Barcelona. Within the neighborhood assemblies, workplace struggles, and occupations of the hospitals facing cutbacks or closure, the old political divisions have lost much of their meaning. Anarchists and other radicals who were once easy to isolate now form an integral part of new networks of neighbors and coworkers acting together in solidarity.
The October repression has deepened the practice of solidarity among a wider group of people. The thousands who have taken to the streets to protest austerity measures are returning to the streets out of a shared loyalty and a growing awareness of the mechanisms of social control. At Monday’s spontaneous protest, called the same day as the arrests began, nearly one thousand people gathered in Plaça Catalunya and then marched down Las Ramblas, Barcelona’s principal commercial street and tourist attraction. That night, the spectacle of consumption was interrupted by the forceful chants of the protestors, and every single bank and chain store along the route was decorated with graffiti against capitalism and against the police. Those who automatically whipped out their cameras to film the crowd, unwittingly drawing a line between participant and spectator, were yelled at: “haven’t you learned anything? Twenty-two people are facing prison because of your photographs!”
Three days later, another protest was held. This time, perhaps 3000 people showed up, some of them having marched all the way from their neighborhoods, blocking all the streets along the way. Again, energy was high, and the chants that rang through the air showed a greater political maturity than was common back in May. “It’s not a crisis, it’s capitalism!” “Slashing healthcare is murder!” “No one represents us!” “Politicians go to hell!” “Not one step back! Against repression, direct action!” “The cops kill and torture!” “The media aim, the police shoot!” “We were all at Parliament!” And my personal favorite, “Let’s burn down Parliament!” Mustapha, a Saharan immigrant who was killed by cops in a nearby town just a short time earlier, was also remembered in many of the chants. People were drawing connections between the political system, the economic system, and the repression, and calling for unmediated action.
Only twice did I hear someone sing out the old, leftist favorite that used to predominate at protests: “They call this democracy but it’s not,” but every time the radical refrain of “Yes it is!” arose in response, louder than the original chorus. Finally, the march arrived at the Interior Ministry, where cops were booed and insulted, and kept on their toes with a loud firecracker. At one point, an alternative journalist filming inside the crowd was physically ejected. He claimed that by filming what the police might do he was protecting us, but this old line fell on deaf ears. There’s already one person in Barcelona in prison for defending himself against a cop, arrested and convicted with the help of a journalist’s footage, and now there are twenty-two more people facing prison. Meanwhile, for all the busted heads, all the cases of torture, all the killings, and all the independent journalists on the scene with cameras rolling, there isn’t a single cop doing time.
People are starting to wake up. What has always been obvious is starting to become visible. Twenty-two people have to travel to Madrid to go to court this Tuesday for doing what most of us dream about. The politicians who got spit on, and the bankers standing behind them, are hoping to make an example out of those twenty-two. But for us, the assault on power they stand accused of is an example of bravery, an example of truth, an example of hope.
Those in power who want to lock them in a cage for years just for challenging their authority are losing their hold on us. Those who favor dialogue with the powerful have lost their credibility. Those who fear to attack them have lost their relevance.
When thousands of people here and in other cities around the world took up the call once more for “revolution” and for “freedom,” governments, spectators, and opportunists expected this would exhaust itself in the same old reforms. But there’s a growing number of us who mean what we say.
When all the old rules are rejected, everything becomes possible.
Peter Gelderloos is a very good friend of Void Network and the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State (South End Press) and Anarchy Works (Ardent press). He currently resides in Barcelona.
The article appeared at CounterPunch in October 10 2011
Political Event : Analysis and perspectives of the Spanish Movement of
Indignados
ΚΑΤΙ ΑΛΛΑΖΕΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑ. ΟΙ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ ΣΥΓΚΕΝΤΡΩΘΗΚΑΝ ΣΤΙΣ ΠΛΑΤΕΙΕΣ. ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΑΝ ΤΟΝ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟ ΧΩΡΟ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΙΛΗΣΟΥΝ, ΝΑ ΜΟΙΡΑΣΤΟΥΝ ΤΙΣ ΙΔΕΕΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΧΤΙΣΟΥΝ ΤΟΝ ΔΡΟΜΟ ΠΡΟΣ ΜΙΑ ΑΛΛΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, ΤΗΝ ΔΙΚH ΜΑΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ!
ΚΑΘΩΣ ΑΓΩΝΙΖΟΜΑΣΤΕ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΙΔΙΟΥΣ ΕΧΘΡΟΥΣ ΔΙΝΟΥΜΕ ΜΑΖΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΤΟΝ ΙΔΙΟ ΑΓΩΝΑ!
Something Changes in Spain. The people gathered at the squares,...they liberated the public space to meet, talk, share ideas and build the way for an other Society,...OUR OWN SOCIETY!
As we struggle against common enemies OUR STRUGGLES ARE COMMON!
ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 16 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2011
FRIDAY 16/09/011
ΩΡΑ 20.30
ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΑΝΑΡΧΙΚΟ ΣΥΝΤΡΟΦΟ «VICTOR» ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑ
ΘΑ ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΚΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑ, ΤΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΜΕΤΩΠΙΖΕΙ,
ΤΙΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΑΖΗΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΟΠΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΟΥ ΕΝΕΡΓΟΠΟΙΕΙ
With the Anarchist comrade "Victor" from Spain we will talk about the Spanish movement, the problems they are struggling with, how they try to solve them and wich initiatives they are putting in practice
+ ΠΡΟΒΟΛΕΣ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΥ ΥΛΙΚΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΠΛΑΤΕΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΤΙΚΕΣ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΜΕΞΙΚΟ
+visual show from spanish movement of the squares and revolutionary music from Spain & mexico
ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΣ ΧΩΡΟΣ «NOSOTROS»
ΤΑΡΑΤΣΑ // ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ 66 ΕΞΑΡΧΕΙΑ
free social space NOSOTROS
at the terrace / themistokleous 66 Exarchia Athens Greece
Void Network invites all friends and activists around the world to express their Global Solidarity and organize the Global Movement of Direct Democracy.
We invite all people to organize Direct Democracy Public Camps and People's Assemblies all around the world, to all cities, neighborhoods and villages of this planet.
We invite all people to take back the power on their hands, to prepare for long and hard Global Struggle Against Totalitarianism, Exploitation, Alienation and Stupidity
We invite all people to express their Rage and Creativity in horizontal, non hierarchical, open, all inclusive, antiauthoritarian, direct and emancipatory Public Assemblies, creative groups, working groups, thematic groups and initiatives that WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE FIGHT, WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK, WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE ORGANIZE OUR STRUGGLES, OUR DREAMS, OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE!
WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE!
We invite especialy all our friends and commrades in New York to participate in the Occupation of Wall Street in 17 September 2011 [ http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html ] and we spread our invitation for the creation of Direct Democracy Camps and Public Assemblies all over United States of America the same date. The open, public invitation to people from all kinds of economic and cultural backgrounds, people from all nations, all colours, all genders to participate in Assemblies all over U.S.A. will offer a great empowerment for all people to express themselves in public, to demonstrate their fears, their dissapointments, their needs, their dreams and organize their resistance against the destruction of our lives, against the destruction of the Nature, against the destruction of our communities, against the destruction of our FUTURE
You can hear also a 2 hours interview of participators of the Direct Democracy Camp and Public Assembly of Syntagma sq. / Athens Greece taken by the cultural activists from 16 Beaver Group New York about HOW TO ORGANIZE AN OPEN PUBLIC CAMP AND PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY People that participate in different open groups (like the Group of fascilitators and secrateries of the Assembly, Technical Support Group, Art Group, Internet Group e.t.c.) speaking about practical ways and methods offering ideas, sharing experiences, problematics and dangers to avoid for organizing Direct Democracy Public Camps and Assemblies all around the world. This conversation is an attempt to open up the process of the General Assemblies taking place in Athens on Syntagma Square, like an engine, in order to understand how it developed, and how it works. It touches on the problems they have faced, the barriers of having fixed ideological agendas, the question of restricting media access, of formulating respect, creating the form for a new political speech, drawing lots, voting, making resolutions, taking collective actions, establishing different thematic groups, working groups, allowing conflict and arguments, constructing a non-representative political agency, avoiding demands, ….
videos from the attack of Greek Police to the Greek "Indignados" and
the Direct Democracy Public Assembly
Demonstration infront of Athens Municipality against Athens Mayor
The same night of the attack of Police the Direct Democracy Public Assembly
took place in 21.00 o clock as every night and decided demontration against the mayor of Athens mr. Kaminis that invited the Police to destroy the camp of the people infront of the Greek parliament
Without Us They Are Nothing / Without Them We Are Everything!
At approximately 4.15 a.m. on Saturday, 30.7, heavy riot police forces entered Syntagma square (Parliament sq. / Athens Greece that had been occupied from 23 May, destroying and removing the tents that where set up there. At least eight people were arrested. This follows the order by attorney general Eleni Raikou for the tents at Syntagma and the “promise” of mayor Kaminis that the tents at Syntagma would be removed within days, as they tarnish Athens’ image during the tourist period.
The people re-occupied the Square and the Square replied immidiately:
They Came, Like Thieves in the Night
- Gathering at Syntagma square at 6pm
The Square is Us and We Are Everywhere General assembly at Syntagma Square 6:00 o'clock. Like thieves, who fear the people's outcry and public shame, The police forces entered the square at 4 am. The district attorney and work crews of the Municipality of Athens invaded the square, and began a wholesale destruction and removal of tents and the infrastructure of the various work groups of the square. They then took 13 people into custody from which 8 are now considered arrests. We condemn the ban on communication of lawyers with those held at the police station in Omonoia. (For this reason, there is no clear picture of the number of arrestees or who they are). Activists who were present, in resistance to the annihilation of the square, saved what material they could and took videos of what was happening, scenes which make plain that we are living under a cowardly democracy and a justice system that functions on the basis of the law of the jungle. Let them realise the obvious truth; The square is all of us, thousands of ordinary people who stand up to a cynical, antipopular, antidemocratic, corrupt economic and political status quo. A status quo, that in desperation, facing its own failure, is trying to save itself in any way possible. We will not become its victims. We do not fear, we do not submit. We inform them that they are fooling themselves if they think that "cleaning" and making a fortress of Syntagma square, they will protect themselves. There are tens of squares now all over Athens, with their own general assemblies, hundreds of squares all over Greece. We are in every neighborhood, along with every citizen of this country. We are the millions of society set against a handful of corrupt and subservient minority who try to pretend they have strength by using the police, mercenaries of the power elite. We are everywhere. Whatever they do they cannot makes us leave. The streets and the squares, like jobs, productive structures, the wealth of this country and our rights belong to us. They are not for sale. We will continue to demand their return to the people. we have said it before and we say it again: we will not leave until they do. Everyone at Syntagma Square today Saturday 30th of July at 6 p.m. The terrorism of this dictatorial goverment, the imf and memorandum, shall not pass. You do not scare us. You infuriate us. We continue the fight peacefully, with determination and creativity.
more info about Direct Democracy movement in Greece here
Void Network invites all friends and activists around the world to express their Global Solidarity and organize the Global Movement of Direct Democracy.
We invite all people to organize Direct Democracy Public Camps and People's Assemblies all around the world, to all cities, neighborhoods and villages of this planet.
We invite all people to take back the power on their hands, to prepare for long and hard Global Struggle Against Totalitarianism, Exploitation, Alienation and Stupidity
We invite all people to express their Rage and Creativity in horizontal, non hierarchical, open, all inclusive, antiauthoritarian, direct and emancipatory Public Assemblies, creative groups, working groups, thematic groups and initiatives that WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE FIGHT, WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK, WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE ORGANIZE OUR STRUGGLES, OUR DREAMS, OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE!
WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE!
We invite especialy all our friends and commrades in New York to participate in the Occupation of Wall Street in 17 September 2011 [ http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html ] and we spread our invitation for the creation of Direct Democracy Camps and Public Assemblies all over United States of America the same date. The open, public invitation to people from all kinds of economic and cultural backgrounds, people from all nations, all colours, all genders to participate in Assemblies all over U.S.A. will offer a great empowerment for all people to express themselves in public, to demonstrate their fears, their dissapointments, their needs, their dreams and organize their resistance against the destruction of our lives, against the destruction of the Nature, against the destruction of our communities, against the destruction of our FUTURE
You can hear also a 2 hours interview of participators of the Direct Democracy Camp and Public Assembly of Syntagma sq. / Athens Greece taken by the cultural activists from 16 Beaver Group New York about HOW TO ORGANIZE AN OPEN PUBLIC CAMP AND PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY People that participate in different open groups (like the Group of fascilitators and secrateries of the Assembly, Technical Support Group, Art Group, Internet Group e.t.c.) speaking about practical ways and methods offering ideas, sharing experiences, problematics and dangers to avoid for organizing Direct Democracy Public Camps and Assemblies all around the world. This conversation is an attempt to open up the process of the General Assemblies taking place in Athens on Syntagma Square, like an engine, in order to understand how it developed, and how it works. It touches on the problems they have faced, the barriers of having fixed ideological agendas, the question of restricting media access, of formulating respect, creating the form for a new political speech, drawing lots, voting, making resolutions, taking collective actions, establishing different thematic groups, working groups, allowing conflict and arguments, constructing a non-representative political agency, avoiding demands, ….
[click on the photo] VOID MIRROR international digital magazine edited by Void Network >>>>> #BREXIT: What the UK Anarchists think about it? 10 POINT GUIDE FOR POST BREXIT RESISTANCE AS RACIST RIGHT WINS EU REFERENDUM // TEXT BY WORKERS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT UK >>>> The Brexit vote for the UK to leave the European Union demonstrates that even weak parliamentary democracy is incompatible with escalating neoliberal inequality. In the UK as elsewhere a tiny segment of the population have taken a larger and larger share of total wealth in the last decades. Particularly under austerity almost everyone else has seen their share of the wealth they produce decline massively. We need to take our world back from the patriarchal white supremacist capitalist elite that dominates the planet and dominated both sides of the EU referendum. The transformation we need if we are not to face escalating poverty, war and climate destruction is a total one that eliminates the state and capitalism to create libertarian communism. >>>> click image [http://voidmirror.blogspot.com]
[κλικ στην φωτο] ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ σήμερα στο ψηφιακό περιοδικό ΚΕΝΟΣ ΦΑΚΕΛΟΣ: "Ο νόμος δυτικά της Ιπποκράτους" (σχετικά με την εκτέλεση του λεγόμενου Χαμπίμπι) / oμάδα alerta communista >>>>Aπάντηση στην πρόσφατη ανάληψη ευθύνης της δολοφονίας του επονομαζόμενου «Χαμπίμπι» από τις "Ένοπλες Ομάδες Πολιτοφυλάκων" στα Εξάρχεια (...) Αφενός, η ομάδα των ΕΟΠ δεν σχηματίστηκε από κάποια (αυτο)οργάνωση του ανταγωνιστικού κινήματος, της οποίας να αποτελεί τμήμα και στην οποία να βρίσκεται υπόλογη: αντιθέτως, λειτουργεί έξω και κρυφά από το κίνημα.(...) Από τη στιγμή που δεν βρισκόμαστε εν μέσω μιας μαζικής εξέγερσης, πως μπορεί να χαρακτηριστεί ως επαναστατικό το δίκαιο που επιβάλλουν οι ΕΟΠ; Ποιο είναι το συλλογικό υποκείμενο που συνέταξε αυτό το δίκαιο και σε ποιους αγώνες βασίζεται; Πως είναι δυνατόν να αυτοαποκαλείται «δίκαιο» αν στοχεύει στην κατάργηση του κράτους, οπότε και των ρυθμίσεων και των μεσολαβήσεών του; Ποιο το περιεχόμενό του; Οι ΕΟΠ στην προκήρυξή τους δεν απαντούν σε κανένα απ' αυτά τα ερωτήματα. (...) Επίσης, ποιοι είμαστε «εμείς» που κάποτε τα Εξάρχεια ήταν «δικά μας»; Οι αντιεξουσιαστές; Οι αριστεροί; Οι χίπστερς; Οι χίππηδες; Οι πάνκηδες; Οι χιπ-χοπάδες; Οι εργάτες; Οι ιδιοκτήτες; Οι επιχειρηματίες; Οι μαφιόζοι; Οι χρήστες; Οι αλκοολικοί; Οι χουλιγκάνοι; Οι φοιτητές; Οι καλλιτέχνες; Όλοι οι παραπάνω διαμένουν και κινούνται στην περιοχή των Εξαρχείων, οπότε πως μπορούν τα Εξάρχεια να «ανήκουν» σε μια μόνο από αυτές τις κατηγορίες ή φιγούρες, ή έστω σε ένα περιορισμένο συνδυασμό αυτών; Πότε τα «χάσαμε» και από ποιους ώστε τώρα να τα «ξανακερδίσουμε»; >>>>[κλικ στην φωτο]: [http://kenosfakelos.blogspot.com]
HOW TO ORGANIZE AN OPEN PUBLIC CAMP AND PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY
[click on the image ] Conversation with 'Some of the Participators of the General Assembly of Athens Greece'. This conversation is an attempt to open up the process of the General Assemblies taking place in Athens on Syntagma Square, like an engine, in order to understand how it developed, and how it works. It touches on the problems they have faced, the barriers of having fixed ideological agendas, the question of restricting media access, of formulating respect, creating the form for a new political speech, drawing lots, voting, making resolutions, taking collective actions, establishing different thematic groups, working groups, allowing conflict and arguments, constructing a non-representative political agency, avoiding demands, …. Please listen / share / republish / distribute this interview
Void Network is a cultural, political and philosophical collective that first appeared in 1990 in Athens / Greece with aim the radicalization of every day life, the social question, the arising of critical mind, the ecstatic collective symbiosis, the visibility of diversity, the participation to the emancipatory social struggles of our timesand the creation of Utopian Public Environments by non-employed cultural activists. Other aims are the participation and creation of social centers, self-organized autonomus spaces, the construction of situations in Public Space and the Ephemeral Art.
Discussions, multi media lectures and poetry shows, open free festivals, multi screen Void Optical Arts Atmospheres (live cross-platform collaborations between visual artists, photographers, poets, lecturers, d.j.s), performances, documentary representations, culture jamming, organization of demonstrations, street parades and public actions, celebrations, concerts, open collaborative workshops of artists, activists, academic scientists and spiritual friends that through dialogue, interaction and synchronized activity can manifest multi formic conditions of open access to creativity, education, free information, open liberated autonomous public zones, meeting places, places of communication, empathy, expression and creation for thousands upon thousands of people.
After 1998 and through the creation of political global festivals and the participation of Void Network to the emancipatory / anarchist / autonomus "Movement Against the Globalization of Capitalism" the Void Network established contacts and creative cells in U.S.A, U.K., Mexico,Brasil, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain
ΝΑ ΜΗΝ ΖΗΣΟΥΜΕ ΣΑΝ ΔΟΥΛΟΙ! 3 ΜΗΝΕΣ ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΑΠΕΡΓΙΑ!ΟΛΟΙ!
We Won't Live Like Slave! 3 Months General Strike! All Of Us!
ΚΕΝΟΣ ΦΑΚΕΛΟΣ>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Αντι-πληροφόρηση, Θεωρία, Τέχνες, Ανάλυση και Δράσεις από το παγκόσμιο και ελληνικό κίνημα για την κοινωνική χειραφέτιση >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VOID FILE digital magazine (in Greek language) includes Counter-information, Theory, Arts, Analysis and Actions of the movement for global social emancipation [click on the image /κλικ στην φωτο]
ΠΡΟΣΒΟΛΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑΣ ΑΙΔΟΥΣ / ΣΙΣΣΥ ΔΟΥΤΣΙΟΥ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΕΙ ΣΤΑ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΠΩΛΕΙΑ
ΠΡΟΣΒΟΛΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑΣ ΑΙΔΟΥΣ | Σίσσυ Δουτσίου | εισαγωγή : Νάνος Βαλαωρίτης ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΚΕΝΟΤΗΤΑ [ουτοπία, θεωρία, ποίηση] Ποιητική συλλογή | Σειρά : Ο ήχος του Κενού 100 σελ. / κυκλοφορεί τον Σεπτέμβρη στα βιβλιοπωλεία επαφή/παραγγελίες voidinternational@gmail.com ISBN 978-960-98335-2-3 the VOIDNESS publications proudly presents INSULT OF PUBLIC MODESTY the first poetry book by SISSY DOUTSIOU (in Greek language) introduced by Nanos Valaoritis
ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΚΕΝΟΤΗΤΑ: ΝΕΑ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΕΙ ΣΤΑ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΠΩΛΕΙΑ
"ΔΟΚΙΜΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΤΕΣ ΜΙΑΣ ΜΙΝΙΜΟΥΜ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ" Γιάννης Ραουζαίος (ποιητική συλλογή): Εκδόσεις Κενότητα // "ESSAYS FOR CONSTRUCTORS OF A MINIMUM REALITY" Poetry book by YIANNIS RAOUZEOS / Voidness publications [info click on image //για πληροφορίες κάνε κλικ στην εικόνα]
ABOUT HUMAN LOVE IN THE WESTERN METROPOLITAN CITIES
" ABOUT HUMAN LOVE IN THE WESTERN METROPOLITAN CITIES" by TASOS SAGRIS is a 235 pages poetry book in Greek language published by Voidness publications collective OUT NOW in GREEK bookshops >>>>>> H Ποιητική συλλογή "ΓIA THN ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗ ΑΓΑΠΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΔΥΤΙΚΕΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΣ" του Τάσου Σαγρή (235 σελ. + φωτογραφίες) κυκλοφορεί από την εκδοτική κολεκτίβα ΚΕΝΟΤΗΤΑ στα βιβλιοπωλεία και τις εκδηλώσεις της συλλογικότητας Κενό Δίκτυο . Για παραγγελίες επικοινωνήστε στο email: voidinternational@gmail.com Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες και δωρεάν ψηφιακά αντίτυπα του βιβλίου κλικ στην φωτο
To Get To The Other Side // e-Book
To Get To The Other Side e-book is a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements
WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE
WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE The Greek Revolt of December 2008 //////// new book edited by A.G.Schwarz, Tasos Sagris & Void Network Published by A.K.PRESS released early March 2010 [to read long fragments of the book click on the image]
"We Are an Image From The Future" in Germany // Wir sind ein Bild der Zukunft
This is a link from the German edition of the book "We Are an Image From The Future (The Greek Revolt of December 2008) from Laika publications >>>> "Die Straße hat ihre eigene Geschichte. Sie braucht keine Historiker, keine Intellektuellen oder Soziologen, die in ihrem Namen sprechen. Niemand kann die Geschichte des Dezember 2008 schreiben und wir versichern dir, dass ein derartiges Projekt jenseits unserer Möglichkeiten und Absichten liegt."
"ΨΥΧΩΣΗ!" [4.48 PSYCHOSIS] Kείμενο: Σαρα Κέην /Σκηνοθεσία: Τάσος Σαγρής "Ένα ουρλιαχτό μέσα στο σκοτάδι του κόσμου " >>>> 2015 ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ: Θεσσαλονίκη / Θέατρο Black Box από Παρ. 9/10 έως Κυρ. 25/10 ΑΘΗΝΑ / Θέατρο Παραμυθίας από Δευτ. 23/11 έως Τρ.15/12 .>>>> από το +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] με την υποστήριξη της συλλογικότητας ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ >4.48 PSYCHOSIS by SARAH KANE from +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] supported by Void Network [for more info click on the image]
READ TEXT ONLINE: WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE [THE GREEK REVOLT OF DECEMBER 2008 ]
[ click on the image] Even though an online reading can never capture the experience of reading a book, even though in this link there are not exisiting the wonderfull photos of the book....we propose you to spend some time reading the text of the book and share the link of the whole text of the book in digital form with your friends and comrades. [ click on the image]
"ΠΕΘΑΙΝΩ ΣΑΝ ΧΩΡΑ" ΤΟΥ Δ.ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΑΔΗ ΘΕΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΗ "DYING AS A COUNTRY" DRAMA PLAY
[click on the image] "ΠΕΘΑΙΝΩ ΣΑN ΧΩΡΑ" του Δ. Δημητριάδη από το Ινστιτούτο Πειραματικών Τεχνών και το Κενό Δίκτυο // "Το Παρελθόν, το Παρόν και το Μέλλον μιας Κοινωνίας που καταρρέει..." // παρουσιάστηκε κατά την διάρκεια του 2012 >>>>>>>>>> "DYING AS COUNTRY" by D. Dimitriadis / The Past, the Present anf the Future of a Society that collapses...// a drama play by + Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network / presented during 2012 [ click for info and photos]
"OΙ ΔΟΥΛΕΣ" του Ζαν Ζενε "THE MAIDS" by Jean Genet
+the Institute for Experimental Arts and Void Network presented during 2011 the drama play "The Maids" by Jean Genet >>>>>>>> + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]: Το Ινστιτούτο Πειραματικών Τεχνών και το Κενό Δίκτυο παρουσιάσε κατά την διάρκεια του 2011 τη θεατρική παράσταση "Οι Δούλες" του Ζαν Ζενέ "Δυο Ερωτευμένα Κορίτσια που Συνομωτούν να Σκοτώσουν τα Αφεντικά τους"// >>>>>>>>>[info: click on the image]
ΘΕΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΗ THEATRE PLAY
Η θεατρική ομάδα «Συντεταγμένοι» σε συνεργασία με το ΚENO ΔΙΚΤΥΟ παρουσίαζει από την περίοδο 2012 το έργο του Ρομπέρτο Ατάυντε «Η ΜΕΘΟΔΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΣ ΜΑΡΓΑΡΙΤΑΣ» κάντε κλικ στην φώτο για να δείτε φωτογραφίες της παράστασης και πληροφορίες >>>> ΕΠΟΜΕΝΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ: Κάθε Πέμπτη και Παρασκευή από 5/12/2013 έως 27/12/2013 στο ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟ ΑΥΤΟΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΖΟΜΕΝΟ ΘΕΑΤΡΟ «ΕΜΠΡΟΣ» >>>> "The Coordinates" Theatre Group and VOID NETWORK presents Roberto Attaynde's satirical play "Ms. Margarita's Way" (in Greek language) presented from 2012 >>> NEXT SHOWS December 2013 Occupied Theatre EMBROS
Η ΤΕΧΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΘΟΠΟΙΟΥ / ΑΝΟΙΧΤΑ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΑ ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ
To Kενό Δίκτυο καλεί τους φίλους του που θέλουν να ασχοληθούν με το Θέατρο ή επιθυμούν να εμβαθύνουν στην κατανόηση των εκφραστικών μέσων και των συναισθηματικών μηχανισμών να συμμετάσχουν στα Ανοιχτά Σεμινάρια που διοργανώνει το +Ινστιτούτο Πειραματικών Τεχνών. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες κλικ στην φώτο
LIFE IN METROPOLIS by VOID NETWORK // Η ΖΩΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΗ : ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ
"Life in Metropolis" >>>>> an essay by Void Network [ Laboratory for Kosmo-Politikal Consciousness] is an analysis of the modern society, the role of the State in the construction of our every day life and an invitation for a revolt that will open new directions for social life on planet Earth . (in Greek language)>>>>> Η ΖΩΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΗ : Το να αμφισβητήσει κανείς την αξία ύπαρξης της κοινωνίας στην οποία έχει γεννηθεί και ανατραφεί είναι σίγουρα μια αρκετά σύνθετη διαδικασία. Έχει να κάνει με πολλούς αλληλοσυμπληρώμενους υποκειμενικούς παράγοντες όπως η περιέργεια, η φαντασία, η παρατηρητικότητα, η οξυδέρκεια, η κριτική σκέψη, η έκθεση σε συγκεκριμένα ερεθίσματα και βιώματα καθώς και με τις ίδιες τις συνθήκες του ευρύτερου κοινωνικού περιβάλλοντος. Αυτά που θα ακολουθήσουν αποτελούν μια παράθεση ιδεών και απόψεων που καθόλου δεν διατείνονται ότι είναι πρωτότυπες ή χαίρουν του αλάνθαστου αλλά εμφανίζονται στα πλαίσια της διερεύνησης του κοινωνικού γίγνεσθαι και της πιθανότητας ενός ποιοτικού κοινωνικού άλματος ικανού να φέρει τον άνθρωπο πιο κοντά στην εκπλήρωση των δυνατοτήτων του μεταμορφώνοντας τις συνθήκες της ανθρώπινης ύπαρξης στον πλανήτη.>>> κείμενο: Κενό Δίκτυο [click on the image]
THESES ON DRUGS [GREEK LANGUAGE]
Πώς να αντιμετωπίσεις το φαινόμενο των ναρκωτικών (Μια διαφορετική άποψη) : Η συνέντευξη αυτή δόθηκε από πολιτισμικούς ακτιβιστές από το ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ με αφορμή το 7ο Αντιαπαγορευτικό Φεστιβαλ συμπεριλαμβάνοντας θέσεις από τα κείμενα της «Συμμαχίας για τη Μείωση της Βλάβης από τις εξαρτήσεις» που περιλαμβάνει την ομάδα ΗΛΙΟΣΠΟΡΟΙ και όλες τις υπόλοιπες συλλογικότητες και άτομα που οργανώνουν και στηρίζουν το Αντιαπαγορευτικό Φεστιβάλ [κλικ στην εικόνα]
U.SA. TOUR 2010
[click on the image] Dates, Cities, Talks and Events information about the programme of We Are an Image From The Future U.S.A. Tour 2010
TRANSLATE THIS PAGE
Το Κενό Δίκτυοείναι μια πολιτισμική, θεωρητική και πολιτική κολεκτίβα Mη-αμoιβομένων Πολιτισμικών ακτιβιστών που εμφανίστηκε στην Αθήνα το 1990 με την επονομασία..."Η Ομάδα Στον Τρόμο Του Κενού"και με σκοπό την ριζοσπαστικοποίηση της καθημερινής ζωής, την κοινωνική αμφισβήτηση, την ανάδειξη της κριτικής σκέψης, την εκστατική συλλογική συμβίωση και την δημιουργική έκφραση της διαφορετικότητας μέσα από την πολύμορφη συμμετοχή στους ευρύτερους χειραφετητικούςκοινωνικούς αγώνες, την δημιουργία Προσωρινής Αυτόνομης Ζώνης (Τ.Α.Ζ.), τη συμμετοχή σε κοινωνικά κέντρα, καταλήψεις και αυτοδιαχειριζόμενους χώρους, την κατασκευή καταστάσεων στον δημόσιο χώρο και την εφήμερη τέχνη.
Μετά το 1998 και σαν επακόλουθο των επαφών και των καταστάσεων που ενεργοποιήθηκαν στο εξωτερικό, τα πολιτικά φεστιβάλ, τις παγκόσμιες περιοδείες που διοργανώθηκαν και την συμμετοχή στο ευρύτερο ελευθεριακό / αναρχικό / αυτόνομο κίνημα ενάντια στην παγκοσμιοποίηση το Κενό Δίκτυο ενεργοποίησε επαφές και δημιουργικούς πυρήνες σε διάφορες χώρες με ισχυρότερους από αυτούς στις Η.Π.Α., το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, το Μεξικό, την Βραζιλία, την Βουλγαρία, την Γερμανία και την Ισπανία.
NOSOTROS-FREE SOCIAL SPACE
From 2005 Void Network participates to the wonderfull experiment of the creation, sustaining and expanding of the social center NOSOTROS, a free social space in the center of Athens city / Greece at Themistokleous 66 st. in the world known Exarchia area. Including more than 15 different free lessons per year with more than 300 students, a radio station, fair trade bio-market, daily collective kitchen, cafe, bar, daily events programme, concerts, lectures, d.j. sets, workshops, art exhibitions, free cinema, photography lab, free internet accesss, theatre shows and all kinds of political, social and art activities Nosotros Free Social Space is a 2 floor vibrating building with a huge terrace overlooking square Exarchia. The Open Public General Assembly of Nosotros takes place every week in Monday at 21.00 >>>>> [click on the image for the site of Nosotros]
the eros effect by george katsiafikas
Void Network invites all friends to read the essay "Eros Effesct" by George Katsiafikas [click on the image]
the joy of the revolution by ken knabb
Voidness publications and Void Network proudly announces the beggining of the translation of the book "The Joy of Revolution" by Ken Knabb and the planning of publishing the book in Greek language. You can read the book in English language here [click on the image]
OCCUPIED SELF-ORGANIZED LIBERATED PARK IN EXARCHIA AREA ATHENS GREECE
[click on the image] Void Network participates and works together with many other activists, collectives and people from the first days of March 2009 until now for the creation, protection and sustaining of a Liberated Open Public Space, an Occupied Urban Space, a collective vision that comes true, the SELF ORGANIZED OCCUPIED PARK OF EXARCHIA in Athens Greece>>> The Occupied Park Of Exarchia is in the centre of Athens city / near metro station Panepistimio on Harilaou Trikoupi rd. / THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PARK TAKES PLACE EVERY WEDNESDAY IN about 19.30 >>>YOU ARE ALL WELCOME to participate in the creation of the park with your ideas, your dreams, your efforts
VOID NETWORK MANIFESTO
[click on the photo] This is the Void Network Manifesto in English language. It tries to offer some clear views about the cultural activism and the philosophy of political and social actions of the international affinity group Void Network
"YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES'
[click on the image] "YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES' (Perceptions of Violence Among Greek Anarchist Groups) is a lecture by Anthropology Lab of Void Network prepared as a participation for the ''Youth Violence and Identities Conference'' in 14-15 May 2009 in University of Kent . [to read the lecture in English language / click on the image]
VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY
click on the image to navigate in Void Network channel at YouTube including events documentation and VOID ART >> Created in the early days of '90s VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY is a creative meeting point, an open laboratory of visual artists, art thinkers and cultural activists. Through constant sharing of resources, machines, archives, images, ideas and visions the Void Network artists create cross-platform collaborations and multi screens shows, especialy created for the events of the collective, using improvisational shows on many different screens and synchronized projections producing moments where the visual arts melts into the sound, the light shows and the ectstatic energy of the enthousiastic crowd. This is not an Art-Show...This is our Life!
GLOBAL EYE [LONDON section of VOID NETWORK]
[click on the image] This is the "myspace" page of GLOBAL EYE, theEnglish section of Void Network>>> GLOBAL EYE is a group of multi media cultural activists and space travellers as also a huge database of images, video art, ideas, visions and practices offered to anyone on this planet through meetings, free shows, exhibitions, open sharing, collective life and tribal ecstatic experience>>>http://www.myspace.com/globaleye [ for more info click on the image]
BRASIL section of VOID NETWORK / RIO DE JANEIRO
[click on the photo] This is the blog of Brasilian section of Void Network written in Portugese language. As main goals of Brasil Void Network cell are to bring in contact the Brasilian society with the ideas and actions of Void Network in all the world, establish contacts, collaborations and links with activists and artists from Latin America, work as an observatory for Amazon Rain Forest and express in all ways solidarity for the poor populations of South America>>> http://voidbrasil.blogspot.com [click on the image]
CULTURES OF RESISTANCE
[click on the image ] Worldwide, people from all walks of life are finding creative ways to oppose war and promote peace, justice, and sustainability. Culture—including film, music, and food—is fertile terrain for this struggle. Education that nourishes a critical mind and fortifies the soul is just as essential. Cultures of Resistance (http://www.culturesofresistance.org/) is the name of both a feature documentary and an activist network. [click on the image]
MAGAZIN NETWORK
The Magazine Network is a is part of a very informal, loose and more or less working association of individuals, condemning capitalism in all its forms and expressions, but currently too nihilistic, lazy, damaged or uninspired to proceed to a formal coalition while mistrusting all existing political structures (including its own). Still under construction!". To see the video actions of Magazin click on the photo
glass bead collective // laboratory for multi media cultural activism
Glassbead Collective (GBC), based in New York City, brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today. GBC was founded in 2002. They have since produced various live art events and films experimenting with a multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary issues (mixing visual and literary narratives in real time) as well as created live visuals performances for events and autonomus public zones
VAT_OM OPTICAL LAB Void Art Laboratory
[click on the image] VAT_OM Void Art Laboratory (a.k.a. Glarax) is a v.j., cultural activist, multi media artist and official member of VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY. He is one of the most influential visual artists of the Void Network galaxy, focus mainly in space art, ecological and political themes as also in spiritual and meditative psychedelic art
ECSTATIC POETRY Void Network blog by SISSY DOUTSIOU
[click on the image] >>>>This is ECSTATIC POETRY, a Void Network POETRY blog written by poet, d.j. and multi media artist SISSY DOUTSIOU [d.j. Sissy Stardust] (in Greek language)
freeart zone
FREEART ZONE This blog is a zone of collective share for artists, friends and rebels. It is a free space for sharing new infos, confused thoughts, estethic images of life,conceived critisism and art for free and free.Or just to be able to reach everybody beyond at times of desert.
VOID ART / INNER SPACE ART by TASOS SAGRIS
[click on the image] Void Art / Inner Space Art is a lecture-manifesto by Tasos Sagris written as a theoritical and philosophical analysis of VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY>>>the essay is in Greek language>>> Μικρο-στιγμές της Όρασης παρακολουθούν μικρο-παλμούς της καρδιάς / φευγαλέες εντυπώσεις και αποσπασματικές νοηματοδοτήσεις του ακατανόητου / τρυφερά παράδοξα / χαμόγελα των ερωτευμένων και αγκαλιάσματα των εραστών και των φίλων / η δύναμη της έκρηξης ενός πυροτεχνήματος / οι μακρινές ιαχές από τα ουρλιαχτά των διαδηλωτών και των φυλακισμένων/ ένα λουλούδι που ανθίζει στους δρόμους μιας πόλης / το γυαλί που θρυμματίζεται σε χίλια κομμάτια και ανασυντίθεται ξανά / η σκοτεινή ύλη που μέσα της κυλάνε όλες οι ιστορίες, οι μορφές και οι σκέψεις.
WHY WE ORGANIZE THE RAVE PARTIES and THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ECSTATIC ZONES
[click on the image] This is an essay wtitten (in Greek language) by Void Network People about the reasons that we organize from 1990 until today Rave Parties, Outopian Atmospheres and Temporary Autonomous Ecstatic Zones in Liberated Open Public Spces>>>>This manifesto in written also as a critic for all those people that they carry the "normal" life mask-faces and typical modern life social roles into all those situtations causing troubles to the arising of libertarian atmosphere and as an invitation for participation into collective desires and arising of critical mind >>>Γιατί κάνουμε τις Εφήμερες Αυτόνομες Εκστατικές Ζώνες, τις Ουτοπικές Ατμόσφαιρες και τα Rave Party ??? Το Κενό Δίκτυο [Ομάδα στον Τρόμο του Κενού] από τις απαρχές της δραστηριοποίησης του για την επανάκτηση του δημόσιου χώρου και την δημιουργία εφήμερης δημόσιας αυτόνομης ζώνης είχε ως μια από τις βασικές του ενασχολήσεις τη διοργάνωση μουσικών εκδηλώσεων, χορευτικής ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής (free party) . Τα πρώτα τέτοια party έγιναν στο Άλσος Βείκου το Φεβρουάριο του 1992 και στην Πολυτεχνειούπολη το Μάιο του 1993 ενώ ακολούθησαν καραβάνια με γιορτές σε παραλίες, βουνά, κεντρικές πλατείες, πάρκα και λεωφόρους. Από τότε που όλα αυτά ξεκίνησαν ως σήμερα πολλά έχουν αλλάξει τόσο στον χώρο των parties όσο και στην κοινωνία γενικότερα. Αυτό που μας ενδιαφέρει σε αυτό το κείμενο είναι να παρουσιάσουμε τα βασικά κίνητρά μας για τη διοργάνωση party καθώς και την οπτική μας για τη δυναμική, που κατά την άποψή μας, αυτά πιθανόν να διαθέτουν μέσα σε ένα ευρύτερο πλαίσιο ριζοσπαστικής σκέψης και δράσης. [click on the image]
VOID NETWORK RADIO INTERVIEW
[click on the image] This is a 45 minutes digital radio inteview given by two members of Void Network (in ENGLISH language) during the Total Freedom tour in Mexico in November 2008, to RADIO DIGNA, an autonomous digital radio station of Mexican Resistance Movement from Baja California, Mexico. In this interview Void Network talks about Autonomia in Europe, about the anarchist movement and the the Antifascist struggle in Greece, about our experience of travelling in Zapatista Autonomous areas in Chiapas and the idas, the visions and the dreams are hidden inside the cultural work of our collective [click on the image]
VOID MIRROR
[click on the image] >>>>Navigate in VOID MIRROR, the international news and global radical theory Void Network blog...ALL MAILS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMMUNIQUES, MUSIC, VIDEO ART and THEORY ESSAYS ARE MOST WELCOME...USE THE EMAIL OF VOID NETWORK: voidinternational@gmail.com COME IN CONTACT with http://voidmirror.blogspot.com
if we don't want to participate in the spectacle of the end of the world we will have to work towards the end of the world of the spectacle...The spectacle is where all the relations, the needs, the dreams, the wishes are turned into profitable commodity, into an obligation, into a blackmail....There life turns into a spectacle of real life and the world turns into an endless desert
D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO
[click on the image]>>>>>>> D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO from Void Network started organize underground rave parties in 1993 and he is one of the pioneer d.j.s in space ambient and psychedelic trance global scene. This is his myspace page
D.J. NIKITAS
[click on the image] >>>>>>>>>>>D.J. NIKITAS started his d.j.s performances in the Void Network psychedelic trance rave festivals in the end of 90s in the age of 17 years old. From that days he evolved in one of the best d.j.s in Greece blending explosive psychedelic progressive sounds with the spirituality of a sound alchemist. This is his myspace page
D.J. SISSY STARDUST
[click on the image] When D.J. SISSY STARDUST came in Athens in 2005 after 7 years in England studying Astrophysics (and psychedelics) the psychedelic ambient scene was small and non-popular. Some years after with the great help of this important, creative and enthousiastic artist the psy-ambient scene is becoming stronger and stronger, and SISSY STARDUST becomes one of the most important d.j.s of atmospheric thoughtfull electronica and intelligent space music in the underground scene of Athens
D.J. HIGHPNO
D.J. HIGHPNO is one of the finest new psychedelic trance and psy full-on d.j.s in the Void Network galaxy
D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER
[click on the image] D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER is one of the most creative organizers and d.j.s in european psychedelic trance scene. With the NATURAL HIGH collective as also with his participation in the events of Void Network he helps the Greek psy-trance scene to be one of the strongest underground scenes in the world
NATURAL HIGH family
[click on the image] The open collaboration and mutual help between Void Network and NATURAL HIGH familiy after 2000 manifested some amazing massive raves (like Electric Universe & Man With No Name free concerts with more than 7000 people and many more) as also helped to appear some wonderfull spiritual friendship among the cultural activists of the two collectives
FUNXION DRUM 'N BASS CREW
[click on the image] From 2001 until today FUNXION Drum 'n Bass crew share some wonderfull spiritual friendship with Void Network cultural activists. We created many great events together until now, featuring travelling in Europe for festivals and concerts. The link is the myspace page of the collective.