ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΕΝΟΣ ΚΑΤΩΤΕΡΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ - Το Κίνημα Δεν Πληρώνω με τους πρόσφυγες στην πλατεία Βικτωρίας

ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΕΝΟΣ ΚΑΤΩΤΕΡΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ

Επισκεφτήκαμε τους ταλαιπωρημένους πρόσφυγες στην πλατεία Βικτωρίας. 

Οι ιμπεριαλιστικές επεμβάσεις και η παγκόσμια οικονομική κρίση έφερε τα παιδιά ενός κατώτερου θεού από την άλλη άκρη της γης, στο κέντρο της, σπαραγμένης από την κρίση, Αθήνας. 

Η βροχή είχε σταματήσει και ο ήλιος έκανε δειλά δειλά την εμφάνισή του.  

Άπλωναν τις βρεγμένες κουβέρτες να στεγνώσουν όπου έβρισκαν.

Τα ρούχα μπόγοι, πεταμένα, η βροχή τα είχε παρασύρει,  παπούτσια εδώ και κει… 
Κάποιοι απ’ αυτούς με γάντια στα χέρια μάζευαν τα σκουπίδια σε σακούλες… 
Μιλάμε με κάποιον απ’ αυτούς, ζητάμε κάποιον να μιλάει αγγλικά, my friend μας λέει, ψάχνει, φέρνει ένα πιτσιρίκι γύρω στα 14. 

Η Αργυρώ τον ρωτάει από πού είναι. Αφγανοί μας λέει, πολλοί είναι από την Μαντζουρία. 

Τον ρωτάμε ποιος είναι υπεύθυνος να πάρει αυτά που φέραμε, δεν υπάρχει υπεύθυνος, μόνοι τους τα μοιράζουν. 
Του τα δίνουμε και τον κοιτάμε να χάνεται μέσα στην πλατεία… 

Financial Times: A fox inside the Greek henhouse

FINANCIAL TIMES

A fox inside the Greek henhouse, by Tony Barber

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s re-elected prime minister, is finding the first few days back in government anything but plain sailing. On Thursday this blog reported how Mr Tsipras had demanded the resignation of a deputy transport minister barely 24 hours after having appointed him. The minister, Dimitris Kammenos, was from the rightwing nationalist Independent Greeks party, the junior coalition partner to Mr Tsipras’s leftwing Syriza party. Embarrassingly, his social media accounts contained anti-Semitic content.

Now some curious details are emerging about another deputy minister, this time from inside Syriza itself.

They concern Alexis Haritsis, who, as a deputy finance minister, has been given the responsibility of ensuring that Greece makes the most efficient use possible of the billions of euros that the nation receives each year in EU structural aid funds (money that is separate from bailout funds).

Greek social media are bubbling with stories that Haritsis once belonged to, or supported, an anti-austerity, civil disobedience movement that sprang up in late 2010. Activists in the movement, called Den Plirono (“I won’t pay”), refused to pay higher public transport fares and motorway tolls imposed in the early phase of Greece’s first, €110bn EU-International Monetary Fund bailout, agreed in May 2010.

These days, Den Plirono helps Greeks who find it hard to pay their electricity bills, distributes food to the poor and runs a medical clinic.

It is an intriguing thought – a minister said to have advocated public resistance to revenue-raising measures is now in charge of disbursing EU aid.

Perhaps the really interesting point is that Mr Tsipras has actually promoted Mr Haritsis. In the first Syriza government, which was in power from January to August, Mr Haritsis was secretary-general in the finance ministry – also with responsibility for handling EU aid funds.

Mr Haritsis has not denied involvement with Den Plirono.

The movement’s founder, Vassilis Papadopoulos, says the new minister was not a registered member but might have taken part in its activities. He adds that he would, in any case, not want Mr Haritsis as a member these days, ...

I DON'T PAY MOVEMENT CONFERENCE, 4 OCTOBER 2015

This year's 2nd "I Don't Pay Movement" Conference will take place on October 4, 2015 at our headquarters in Kaftatzoglou 8 street, in Athens.

  
We organise intensively our struggle because:

• Elections never solved any social problems. In fact, these elections only aim to vote for a new manager for the implementation of the Memorandum 3
•  Our dreams are bigger than the ballot boxes
• The Europe we are aiming at is a platform of unity and solidarity to each other 
• The struggle for survival comes through the struggle for the overthrow of this rotten capitalistic ruling system

               

• membership form -  click here

• e-mail epitropes2010@gmail.com  

• Contact people on :

Alex: +30 6957025139, Theodosis: +30 6945954700,  
Apostolis: +30 6977244740  

Athens: Riot police invades a home without a warrant to chase protesters

Greece: in the video below, riot police invades a home without a warrant or authorization by the owners to apprehend protesters during an antifascist demo for Pavlos Fyssas in Keratsini where he was murdered by neonazis of Golden Dawn exactly two years ago.

ΕΡΤ OPEN : Το Κίνημα ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΩ εφ' όλης της ύλης για τις εκλογές

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Το Κίνημα Δεν Πληρώνω ΔΕΝ κατεβαίνει στις εκλογές με τη Λαϊκή Ενότητα του Π. Λαφαζάνη

Διαψεύδουμε τα δημοσιεύματα και τις ανακοινώσεις στα ηλεκτρονικά μεσα σύμφωνα με τα οποία το Κίνημά μας πρόκειται δήθεν να συνεργαστεί εκλογικά με τη Λαική Ενότητα του Π. Λαφαζάνη.

Η στάση μας στις εκλογές θα ανακοινωθεί στο άμεσο μέλλον.

 ΚΙΝΗΜΑ ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΩ

 

Καυτατζόγλου 8, Αθήνα, ΤΚ 111 44

www.kinimadenplirono.eu

www.oxidiodia.gr

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The 1918 Anti-Greek Riots in Toronto (VIDEO)

The 1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot was a series of violent events in Toronto, Ontario, Canada targeting Greek immigrants during ...

Sports VS People

CAPITALISM IS NOT SPORTS 

The bloody example of World Cup in Brazil.

What was the real cost? 

I Don't Pay Movement in solidarity to Brazilian People, for all violent repression in the name of World Cup 2014.

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A Native American Activist Died in Police Custody and Nobody Is Talking About It

By Zak Cheney-Rice 

It's been almost two weeks since Rexdale Henry died in a Mississippi jail. Today, the civil rights activist and Choctaw tribe member's family is still looking for answers.

On July 14 at 10 a.m., authorities at the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Mississippi, allegedly found Henry dead in his cell. 

They claimed to have seen him alive for the last time just half an hour earlier, at 9:30. 

The 53-year-old's family told Fusion that ...

Human rights for cats and dogs: Spanish town council votes overwhelmingly in favour of defining pets as 'non-human residents'

If the Magna Carta marked the birth of human rights, today we may have reached its apotheosis. In Spain, or at least in one Spanish town, politicians have just voted overwhelmingly in favour of creating what are effectively human rights for dogs and cats.

The town council in Trigueros del Valle, a municipality of about 330 people in the Castile and León region, ....

There are some victims that their death is overlooked!

Every summer thousands of acres of forest land is burnt.

Too many animals are burned alive in the fires, mostly small mammals, mammal’s babies, the old and frail animals, chicks of birds and....

Thousands of protesters today outside Greek Parliament - Government

As the SYRIZA government debates inside the Parliament on the austerity package demanded by EU, at the same time they have ordered that riot police responds violently against demonstrators.  

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The Greek people protest against the Parliament’s vote on eurozone agreement - Violent police repression

Members of the Greek Parliament, led by the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, convened in Athens, July 15, to debate and vote on the agreement proposed by the Eurozone leaders’ Monday morning following over 16 hours long lasting negotiations in Brussels. The agreement, if backed by the Greek Parliament, will give a way to a fresh pack of austerity measures and economic reforms in exchange for a third bailout and Greece’s place in the Eurozone.

Protesters gathered on the streets of Athens to state their disagreement on the new era of austerity measures. I Don't Pay Movement dynamically protested a big NO to slavery, which is approaching through new austerity measures .  
A large part of central Athens was closed to traffic and pedestrians as police mounted a huge security operation to allow politicians access to parliament by car. At a rally of more than 20,000 in Syntagma Square, police responded with teargas to push the protesters away from barricades erected to protect the parliament building. 

Around 5,000 officers, including hundreds of riot and motorcycle police, used parked buses and crowd barriers to prevent protesters from encircling the building.
Police guarded the parliamentary vote on austerity cuts needed for IMF and EU bailout.

We will not be slaves !

I Don't Pay Movement in preparation for today's demonstration in central Athens.

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Why I'm An Animal Rights Activist When There Is So Much Human Suffering In The World

Photo by Deb Durant

Before I was an animal rights activist, I was a budding human rights activist. While in law school, I helped victims of domestic violence obtain personal protection orders. 

I studied human rights and refugee law, participated in an asylum clinic, spent all my summer legal internships working with refugee organizations and focused primarily on helping women who were victims of gender-based persecution and violence such as honor crimes, forced genital mutilation, sex-trafficking, and rape.


My first client let me touch the shrapnel that was embedded under the skin in her knee after the Taliban had bombed her village in Afghanistan and killed most of her family. I also represented men when they were in need, like the gentle Congolese man who had been tortured, and had the marks on his body to prove it, because of dubious ties to the wrong political party.
Refugees and victims of gender based violence are an incredibly vulnerable and deserving group of humans. Many of them have no family, no country. Many live their lives in fear. Without the help of international aid groups and non-governmental organizations, they are at constant risk of exploitation, abuse, persecution, homelessness, and death. And yet, I have chosen to dedicate myself and my life to the animals. 




I'm sure every animal activist has been challenged on this point: 

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Pro NO march to this Sunday's referendum

The government SYRIZA - ANEL, squashed by the globalised capitalist crisis, is now trying to 'throw the ball' to the Greek people, by calling a referendum.

The " I Don't Pay Movement " was born by a critical mass of everyday working people. On this basis we are now inviting all citizens of this country, to say a big NO to the international exploiters.

But the real question is what social class withholds the country's wealth and the means of production.  If we are still governed by a handful of bankers, constructors, media owners, shipowners, industrialists and corrupted politicians, the people will still lead to poverty, misery and ultimatelly, to suicide.

We do not rely on any referendums that they will get Greece out of the crisis but, first and foremost, we count on our collective struggles at all levels!

The people should say NO, whilst fighting simultaneously for:

• clearing the public and private debt
• free access of all citizens to all public social goods, such as electricity, water, health, education, roads, beaches, etc.
• the nationalisation of the banks under the control of workers
• the exemplary punishment of those who led the country to this situation and speculated on the bones of the people.

We call on the people to continue the struggle in coordinated and more intense ways for radical social changes. This is the only way to conquer all those we are entitled to.

Photos below are from Thursday's march with tens of thousands people in Central Athens,
shouting to a big NO, not only regarding the referendum, but to all kind of people's exploiters.

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In solidarity to police violence victim

Greek Police almost killed an American protester 5 years ago. On November 15, 2010, an American victim of brutal attack by DELTA group of policemen during a rally against the IMF.

The protester - 48kg and 27 years old then - according to witnesses, was hit in the back with acid object by police, leading to bleeding from the head.

Although he had lost consciousness, suffered again beaten by several police simultaneously, which then dragged to the sidewalk and continued the beating.

Then, the police abandoned her while she was bleeding and senseless.

I Don't Pay Movement today was present at...

Το Κίνημα ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΩ, από τις αίθουσες του δικαστηρίου της Πάτρας, στο Ειρηνοδικείο της Πάτρας ενάντια στις κατασχέσεις (ΦΩΤΟ + ΒΙΝΤΕΟ)

 

Χθές 3/6/2015 μέτα από αναβολή της δίκης του Κινήματος ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΩ στα δικαστήρια της Πάτρας, συναγωνιστές συγκεντρώθηκαν στο μπλοκάρισμα πλειστηριασμών στο Ειρηνοδικείο μετά από κάλεσμα συναγωνιστών της περιοχής. 

Είμαστε αλληλέγγυοι σε κάθε αγώνα υπέρ του λαού και δεν θα σταματήσουμε μέχρι την ανατροπή τους.

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FREE THE ROADS FROM TOLLS - 5 April 2015 - I Don't Pay Movement protesting against the tolls - PHOTOS

I Don't Pay Movement is fighting for the social injustice for over 5 years now, alongside with people from all over the world (solidarity marches, supporting workers' strikes, reconnecting electricity to poor families, animal rights, etc). We aim to overthrow the unfair capitalistic system and in turn to replace a system according which the society will produce qualitative goods and services to all people and thus these, will not be a privillege but a right independently of their social or economical status. 

Our movement is born from the current social needs and constitutes a political movement of disobedience and resistance. Fundamental political place and axis of action constitutes the access to all social goods that are essential for human's decent existence. We strongly claim free of charge education, health, streets, public spaces, Means of Public Transport, Water, Electricity, all natural goods (eg beaches, forests, air), and each good of social character for each person, whether Greek or immigrant. 

WE COLLECTIVELY ORGANISE THE REFUSAL OF PAYMENTS TO ALL NEIGHBORHOODS 

Solidarity is our weapon. 

This Sunday, for more that two hours, members and friends of the 'I Don't Pay' Movement let all drivers pass by the tolls without paying the usual fair. 

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Choose life for all species

Factory farms constitute the most intense cruelty that the human race is capable of. They are, in fact, concentration camps...

Call For International Solidarity Against Kısırkaya Animal Concentration Camp in Istanbul

THE FINAL STEP FOR A HIDDEN AGENDA OF ERADICATING STRAY ANIMALS FROM THE STREETS
  

 
The Mega Animal Concentration Camp Built by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Was Protested: “Freedom to Animals, Forest and to the Planet!”

The “Kısırkaya Temporary Unclaimed Animal Nursery Center and Living Space with Garden” that the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has been building in Kısırkaya, Sarıyer was protested by hundreds of defenders of the right to life consisting of animal rights defenders, environmental activists and different activist groups. Groups in the provinces of İzmir and Ankara protested simultanously to support the Istanbul residents.

Activists that began to gather in the Kısırkaya village, which became a favorite spot for rent seekers due to its proximity to the 3rd bridge and the connection roads, with the call of the Independent Animal Freedom Activists, Istanbul Urban Defense, Northern Forests Defense, Sarıyer Urban Solidarity and Freedom to Earth Association marched to the Kısırkaya animal shelter carrying a banner saying, “Close Down the Kısırkaya Concentration Camp, Don’t Touch the Right to Life”....

The unity of a chicken and the cockroach

As an haitian proverb says ''unity with a chicken and a roach happens in the belly of a chicken''. 

Capital is the fundamental enemy of the working class.

Compromising with capital will never lead to workers' emancipation.

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I DON'T PAY MOVEMENT CONFERENCE, 11 JANUARY 2015

The I Don't Pay Movement Conference took place today January 11, 2015 at our headquarters in Kaftatzoglou 8  street, in Athens.

It was remarkable that many of our comrades who attended the conference, traveled hundreds of miles before we meet up.

A variety of fruitfull and optimistic ideas were contibuted by our members.

  The contribution of all the comrades was valuable regarding the assessment of the political situation and forthcoming elections.Unanimously we agreed that elections do not bring fundamental change and that the most essential factor for social change is people's presence to the streets in the struggle for radical social changes.

 

Our personal difficulties and everyday experiences were also discussed, as much as the movement's organisational issues and political persecutions we are facing for 5 years political disobedience. 

Amongst the organisational decisions we also decided that within the coming months we will be holding our regular Conference with all our members.

 

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