We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008
On December 6, 2008, the city of Athens exploded as people took to the streets to demonstrate their rage over the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, bringing business as usual to a screeching, burning halt for three breathtaking weeks. This is the first book to delve into the Greek December and its aftermath, in the words of those who witnessed and participated in it. Interviews and personal reflections run alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the...
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Greece burned after the police murdered a teenage boy. Here's the story from those who torched it.
The Street Has Its Own History Tasos Sagris 1Solidarity is a Flame A.G. Schwarz 21 ProloguesMap of Greece 5Chronology: 19th-20th Century 5Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back many years, Part I 8Panagiotis Kalamaras: There were many people who felt we had an unfinished revolution 1423.10: I began to get involved when I was 16 172 And Now One Slogan that Unites Us All: Cops, Pigs, Murderers!Chronology: September 2000-November 2008 27Argiris: Exarchia Square and the neighborhood assemblies 29Inlia: Do you join the Party to fuck or do you fuck to join the Party? 31J.: The raves and free spaces is where the collective consciousness is coming together 34Lefteria ston Yiannis Dimitraki 38The Permanent Crisis in Education-TPTG 41Nikos: The supermarket expropriations were very successful 52The Prisoners Hunger Strike 53N. & Mi: The prisoners gained a new ability to coordinate their actions 55You Talk About Material Damages, We Speak About Human Life-Panagiotis Papadimitropoulos 563 These Days are for AlexisMap of Athens 77Chronology: December 6-25, 2008 77The World Left Behind 94Lito: Suddenly I heard a bang 9423.10: I ran to the Polytechnic 98Homo Sacer Quartet-Flesh Machine 101Mrs. S.: I was in the heart of the catastrophe 102Little John: Okay, now we're going to fuck everything up 105Andreas: We started with 300 people, and came back with 500 108Anna: That's how big this thing was 110Yiannis: In Patras, 1.000 people came out to the demonstrations 111Vortex: That was the craziest moment of all December for me 112Pavlos and Irina: This is the spirit of the revolt 116Their Democracy Murders-the Polytechnic University Occupation 131Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, & Kostas: All the kids felt so much power yelling at the cops 144A Black Immigrant's Cry of Despair 150These Days Are Ours, Too-the Haunt of Albanian Immigrants 151Invitation to the Open Popular Assembly of the Liberated City Hall of Aghios Dimitrios 153Katerina: I thought the revolution was coming 154Maria: I want to eliminate everything that represents the alienation of our lives 154Sofia, Vasilis, Bill, and Irini: Before the revolt, all the Greeks were enslaved 156Transgressio Legis: One day we jacked a fire engine, got on the CB radio, and said, "tonight, you motherfuckers, we will burn you all" 161We Are Here, We Are Everywhere, We Are an Image from the Future-Ego Te Provoco 165Ego Te Provoco: The media worked as part of the counterinsurgency 169Vortex: The occupation of the national TV 173Call for a New International 176Em: In London, the response was immediate 184Pere: In Barcelona, we quickly organized a solidarity protest 186Adams: Many foreigners have been killed 187Open Letter from the Soldiers 189Eliza: The Treaty of Varkiza is broken 191The Logic of Not Demanding A.G.Schwarz 192Not this History But this Rage is Ours-Ankara Anarchy Initiative 194To those who rise up in Greece-ABC Wellington 196A Bedouin Anytime! A Citizen Never-Ego Te Provoco 197Kostas Tsironis: I don't care if I don't take even one more picture, I just want to be okay with myself 199Journal entry of one of the insurrectionists 205To all those who did not speak with words 2064 Obedience Stopped, Life is MagicalChronology: December 28-March 4 213Alexis Grigoropoulos Street 215Koukouloforos 216The Spirit of December on a Global Scale A.G. Schwarz 219Maya: Konstantina was the first to join the union 225Ego Te Provoco: We need to make it obvious that it is easy to attack 229Andreas: We finally understood that many people supported us 232Panagiotis Kalamaras: The myth of Sisyphus 234Transgressio Legis: When there is strong social conflict, you raise the tension of the attacks 235Assembly of Media Workers: We want to occupy the media, and use it for the movement 237December's Riots as Mediated by the Image of Mass Media-Leandros Kyriakopoulos 241Mi: The new neighborhood assemblies 244Kill the Sexist In Your Head-the menses flow 247The Limitations of Anti-Sexism-Sissy Doutsiou 248Adriani and Flora: Now there are more social centers in Thessaloniki 261Jana: Many people were saying that they want Bulgarian society to be "like in Greece" 262Little John: The next step is to create the places where all the people can meet 265The Rebellion, the Workplaces, and the Rank 'N' File Unions-TPTG 266Elina: More old people and leftists are coming nearer to the anarchist ideas 269Lito: Now I really know what terrorism means 2715 Breaking New GroundChronology: March-October 2009 277Alexis Grigoropoulos Park 282Daredevil: We intervene in the daily flow of things to interrupt it 283The House of Maria Kallas 286The Assassination of Prisoner Katerina Goulioni 288Conversation on a park bench in Thessaloniki 289Sakis and Dina: Now there's no going back 291Kostas: We decided to occupy the university rectorate 292Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back many years, Part II 294Kazana Poli: You could see the hatred in their eyes 299Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis 300We Are Winning A.G. Schwarz 302Julia: I feel very lucky to be living in these times 303The Political Parties After December 305Claim of responsibility for an arson attack 306N. & Mi: The prisoners of December 308Letter from Anarchist A. Kiriakopoulos 310What the Cops Told Us 311Specialized Guerrilla, Diffuse Guerrilla 313A Hot Summer 317Conversation with the Owner of a Small Hotel on the Train from Athens to Patras 319Yiannis: Maybe it's gotten worse 321The Media Try to Kill Memory A.G. Schwarz 322Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, & Kostas: All the people went back to their private lives 326The Passage to Revolution-Transgressio Legis 327The Unanimity of the Fearful-Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire 330December Revisited-Void Network 333What Greece Means (to me) for Anarchism A.G. Schwarz 351Nothing Changed, Everything is Different Tasos Sagris 358Glossary 368Photo Credits 371
