“This is social war!” Boots on the Ground in Greece

Two comrades of the Yinsurrectionary Times arrived in Greece over the weekend. We’ll be posting updates as they become available. Check back.

Mon 12/15/08 7:01 PM

Greece is fucking dope.  School children fight better than the most seasoned militants.  Rocks line the air and dumpsters burn, shit is mad fucking real.  I hope all is well with you there.  I miss you!

Mon 12/15/08 4:56 AM

So what really hyped people here in Athens was the Milwaukee banner drop

Also there were some under cover cops on motor bikes circling the university… yeah it’s amazing how quickly people organize, suit up, and get ready for attack. the cops left.

Over 700 schools, dozens of industries and hundreds of buildings are now occupied. This is social war! There are thousands of school children (who have occupied their schools) that are going to march today. Tomorrow will bring back the some of the flavor that we saw last week 😉

love yinz,
staying wild…
*****

Sun 12/14/08 9:37 AM

***** it is amazing… there are no more banks, atms, or police stations.

Sun 12/14/08 6:34 AM

I have arrived with **** in Athens. We had no problem with customs/immigration. I am staying in the School of Economics (right up the street from the Polytechnic) which is occupied by students/anarchists. It is undescribeable how amazing everything is. There is Anarchist graffiti everywhere, music playing, stockpiled molotov cocktails, free food, huge banners, amazingly friendly and welcoming people, and people working on a voluntary co-operative basis. I am taking some pictures and will be putting them online shortly. People are resting now from a hard week, but the sentiment here is that it is far from over!

From within liberated space,

*****

Catching Up: (Part 2.) September 9-16

• September 9: Greek comrades go on the offensive, and several are arrested.
• September 10: City Police Chief Nate Harper pretends to do something about the 34 cops who are still carrying sidearms, despite having court ordered protection from abuse orders issued against them. Some pigs are more equal than others.
• September 11: Another non-eventful “Take Your Airplane to Work Day*”. The Phoenix Insurgent points out that these are some of the only workplace fatalities that the media cares about. In their exuberance to commemorate “their 9/11” Chileans smoked one of their pigs.
• September 12: In another mystery of sports versus life, New England Patriots coaches are accused of using video surveillance to spy on opposing coaches. What about the rest of us? I just assumed NFL coaches did this sort of thing. I played catholic grade school football, in the 80’s and there was all kinds of coaching espionage happening, that’s why I assumed that all the coaches did what Bill Belichick does. Oops. A cop was also killed at a gun show, playing with a Gatling gun, mounted on a military version of a popular penis enlarger.
• September 13: The City announced a new social program for the wealthy, this time the focus is housing.
  

• September 14: The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh declared it OK to view the controversial ‘Bodies’ exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center. I’m not sure what the problem is. Isn’t any good museum full of dead and stolen stuff? Not to mention the Vatican?
• September 15: The City is cracking down on public housing residents. I assume this is not to include the rich folks who get tax breaks for owning empty downtown lofts for their out of town clients to use? There was also another meaningless ANSWER march in DC.
• September 16: The almost 17 year old US war on Iraq continued, despite the ANSWER march in DC.

*In the words of a great mind.