"there are days and nigths ...cities and persons.... ...and underlying it all, an incessant war..." ""the first light of dawn comes out of the deepest darkness"" "Till Saturday night on the 6th of December 2008 we could say "jusqu' ici tout va bien"" "watching every last one of us falling onto the desert of the capitalist system." "Then the crash came and a destructive madness took over large part of this country's youth." "Initially, actions spoke, just as in many other times in history." "In the beginning, a cop's gun spoke, crying in the most brutal way every kind of authority's detestation towards life." "Right after the blood of a teenager had been spilled, another cry was instantly transmitted from Exarchia to the economic center of the metropolis and other big cities..." "A cry articulated by broken windows and flames transforming banks and shopping malls into a cloud of rage calling for REVENGE" "Cops-Pigs-Murderers we've got the rage" "Cops-Pigs-Murderers" "Behind barricades we aren't alone any more, we love, we hate, we share." "Boys next to girls and girls next to boys." "The cursed boys, the damned girls, the dreamers, the lost children." "Till yesterday we had still been invisible, secluded to an inner exile, hurt, withdrawn, silently desperate, lost in loneliness and misery of everyday life." "Imprisoned in the cage of routine." "We are here..." "ACTION REPLACES TEARS!" "RezPublica declaration by the open committee of the enraged in Athens." "City on fire  flower that blossoms" "As days pass  hatred grows" ""A kid's tragic death is used by some to serve their own destructive aspirations." "Statement of the minister of the interior Prokopis Pavlopoulos" "Why do we burn?" "Why do we destroy?" "Because we are commodities..." "And we don't like it at all." "From an e-mail sent to the occupied ASOEE." "The ghost of freedom always comes with the knife between his teeth." "Declaration of the Surrealist group of Athen." "Shooting in the flesh is the high point of social oppresion." "All the stones removed from pavements and thrown to cops' shields or shop-windows of the commodity's temples;" "all the flaming bottles drawing orbits under the nigth sky;" "all the barricades erected on the city's streets, separating our areas from theirs;" "all the bins full of rubbish of a consumerist society that the riot's flames transformed from nothing to something;" "all the fists raised over the moon;" "these are the weapons giving flesh and real power, not only to resistance, but freedom too." "It is this feeling of freedom that only deserves to bet on, these moments:" "the feeling of forgotten mornings of our childhood, when everything can happen because it is us, as creative human beeings, that have awaken up, not the future productive human-machines of the subordinate, the trainee, the alienated worker, the private owner, the family man." "It is the feeling of confronting the enemies of freedom - not fearing them anymore." "So, everyone who wants to continue minding their own business, as if nothing is happening, as if nothing has ever happened, has serious reasons to be disquieted." "The ghost of freedom always comes with knife between its teeth, with the violent mood to break every chain that reduces life into a miserable repetition useful for the dominant social relations to reproduce themselves." "Since saturday the 6th of december no city in this country functions normally:" "no shopping therapy, no free roads to reach our workplaces, no news about government's next recovery initiatives, no carefree zapping among lifestyle TV shows, no night drives around Syntagma square and so on." "These nights and days do not belong to shop owners, TV commentators, ministers and cops." "These nights and days belong to Alexis!" "No, I haven't studied." "Nor do I have the energy to write." "The same things have been turning over my mind again and again for more than 24 hours now." "Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15 years old." "Exarchia were blockaded." "The girls were still there." "And I wasn't with them." "Why wasn't I with them?" "My safety now rests only on my friends and those I consider as family." "Why do they want us dead?" "Lesson Plan" "WE WANT A BETTER WORLD." "HELP US" "We are not terrorists, "hooded rioters", "the known unknown"." "WE ARE YOUR CHILDREN." "Those known unknown..." "We are making dreams - don't kill our dreams." "We are making a dash - dont't stop us." "Letter to media by Alexis' friend." "Number of words and sentences ... unlimited ... No, there won't be any grading." "Don't teargas us any more..." "WE cry on our own." "From the same letter." "TURN OFF YOUR TV." "If you can't smash it." "Kids from the street, Alexis' - and any Alexis' - friends..." "These days belong to Alexis." "Cops, Pigs, Murderers." "And untill I turned eighteen, they thought I was on their side." "Excellent behaviour, excellent marks, certificates in foreign languages..." "You know, all these make them call you "a good girl"." "Meaning that you will attend a good college, you will have a good job, you will make a nice family, be a peace-loving individual," "On Saturdays you will be going to the supermarket and on Sundays for a drive to the countryside." "They have dug their own grave." "A great slap was neccesary for me to wake up." "And here it is." "I'm sorry, all you dearest." "But you'll find me against you once again." "I am just 1.70 of height and 55 kg." "But you don't have the slihgtest clue on what I am capable of." "a good student girl." "Now is the time for streets to talk." "The deafening scream heard is for 18 years of violence, repression, exploitation and humiliation." "These days are ours, too." "These days are for the price we have to pay simply in order to exist, to breathe." "They are for all those times when we grit our teeth, for the insults we took, the defeates we were charged with." "They are for all the times that we didn't react even when having all the reasons in the world to do so." "They are for all the times that we didn't react and we were alone because our deaths and our rage did not fit pre-existing shapes, didn't bring votes in, didn't sell in the prime-time news." "These days belong to all the marginalised, the excluded, the people with the difficult names and the unknown stories." "They belong to all those that die every day in the Aegean sea and Evros river,to all those murdered on the borders or at a central Athens street;" "they belong to the Roma in Zefiry, to the drug addicts in Eksarhia." "These days belong to the kids of Mesollogiou street, to the unintegrated, the uncontrollable students." "Thanks to Alexis these days belong to us all." "18 years of silent rage are too many." "To the streets, for solidarity and dignity." "Haunt of Albanian migrants." "For me, a black man, my freedom ends on my apartment's doorstep." "And I call the Greek youth that cares about equality of all people and human rights." "For this reason I join you in your noble struggle because we know you are aware that police drives us into the corners of every street, in front of bus stops, in the subway, even in front or ouf homes." "Black brothers, occupied ASOEE" "Consumption nightmare" "Recycle NOW!" "Demonstrators could be looting department stores for 100 years and still they wouldn't have taken back even half of what has been stolen from them at work, at school, in a meaningless life." "Leaflet entitled "Sometimes" written in insurrected Athens." "Wake up!" "I'm dying." "Setting a department store on fire and destroying its commodities show human superiority over caccccommodities." "It's a moment of truth in the false world of hierarchical consumption." "It's the human moment of revenge against the world that reduces humans to commodities." ""Situation of revolt", account of the december insurrection by 'saw-mill the golden hand'." "Individuals discover and fulfill their desires in play, in the feast of insurrection." "Insurgents loot, offer and enjoy the fruits of others' generosity, setting up a community of generalized offering mutualism." "At the moment of attack, insurgents seek their comrades' warm breath in order to target better." "At the moment of withdrawal, they seek a friendly hand or a hug in odrer to feel stronger." "'7 days after nothing stops us'- At the moment of withdrawal, they seek a friendly hand or a hug in odrer to feel stronger." ""Fifteen days...- During an assembly, they seek a transient smile encouraging them to express their thoughts without inhibitions." "... are too few'- They find and realize themselves into a community of insurrection, which is based on the principals of solidarity, mutual help and conscious cooperation." "There they find out that personal happiness exists only when shared." "CLOSED FOR DAMAGES TO BE RESTORED WE WAIT FOR YOU AT 28 AKADIMIAS AND 19 SKOUFA STREETS TO SERVE YOU -"we're coming"" "Ultimately, everything begins now." "Because we are not just the producers of social wealth but social wealth itself." "We are those who sustain society's coherence and ensure its viability." "And we are more dangerous then ever, as we become more and more aware of our strenght." "Colleagues, precarious workers from occupied ASOEE" "'They destroy our lives; we will destroy everything, in order to take our lives back in our hands.'" "Let the germ of freedom infect the city." "Marginal groups" "A spectre of haunting in the burnt city: the wildcat unlimited general strike." "Leaflet entitled "Up against the wall motherfuckers!" "We come for what's ours!" by malaria" "Slacking, absenteeism, sabotage" "Karamanlis or chaos?" "Chaos!" "We, manual workers, employees, jobless, temporary workers, local or migrants time and again we had to leave work and our daily obligations to take to the streets together with students, university students and other proletarians in struggle we decided to occupy the building of GSEE..." "Scamps, scoundrels, unionists!" "...to turn it into in space of free expression and a meeting point of workers..." "Dont't trust GSEE and parties." "Self-organization in unions." "Unlimited strike now." "...to disperse the media-touted myth that workers were and are absent from clashes to fly and uncover the role of the trade union burraucracy in undermining the insurrection - and not only there to propagate the idea of self-organization and solidarity in working places" "From work "accidents" to murdering in cold blood the state and the capital murder." "General Assembly of insurgent workers" "No prosecutions." "Immediate release of the arrestees." "General Assembly of insurgent workers" "General strike." "Workers self-organization will become bosses' grave." "General Assembly of insurgent workers" "This morning, Panagopoulos announced, that we aren't workers, since that workers are at work." "This shows, among many things, what Panagopoulos' "job" is." "Panagopoulos "job" is keeping workers at work and doing anything in order for workers to be at work and only there." "Two enraged proletarians from liberated GSEE." "'Fuck May 68!" "Fight now!" "'" "'Burn a bank." "You can do it too.'" "We denounce whoever attempts to terrorize and convince us that defending some properties stands above human life and dignity;" "besides, these properties have been created by precarious workers' unpaid and black labour and surplus labour;" "these properties have not been damaged during symbolic attacks against banks and public buildings." "If anyone relly cares about shop-assistants, they should increase the miserable wages they give them, they shoult learn what revenue stamps are and create human working hours and conditions." "Autonomous initiative of shop-assistants of Larisa" "Health, horniness and revolution" "Let's take revenge not only for Alexis' death but also for thousands of hours stolen from us at work;" "for thousands of moments we've felt humiliated in boss' office;" "for thousands of moments we've swallowed our anger against a cool fucking customer!" "For our dreams that have become advertisements;" "for our ideas that have become governmental lines and votes;" "for our constantly worsening life;" "whom we witness slowly becoming shadows in a repeating everyday life..." "We proceed altogether , for all reasons!" "Because we deny our becoming shadows!" "Because we are angry!" "Because we want to change everything!" "We're disgusted with you." "All your corrupted politicians, clericals, media, journalists, judges, big lawyers, cops, pimps and drug dealers, you have created a vast refuse dump." "Shame on you cows!" "Everybody in the open assembly at the occupied town hall 15 year old dead - silence is complicity" "Resistance - self-organisation - solidarity" "OCCUPATION" "VIOLENCE means working for 40 years, getting miserable wages and wondering if you ever get retired..." "VIOLENCE means state bounds, robbed pension funds and stock-market fraud..." "VIOLENCE means being forced to get housing loans which finally you pay back as if they were gold..." "VIOLENCE means the management's rigth to fire you any time they want..." "VIOLENCE means unemployment, temporary employment, 700 euros wage with or without social security..." "VIOLENCE means beeing harassed at work and told "smile!" "what's so damn hard...?"" "Leaflet by the liberated town hall of Agios Dimitros" "Occupation of information desk" " Old town hall Open assembly at 19:00" "Occupations..." "Ten days after and against a background of dozens of arrests all over the country, protests in suburbs and neighborhoods take place mainly in Athens, but in other cities as well." "People seek to meet, talk and act; they seek to link their everyday experience of exploitation and alienation with what took place during last days (and still goes on) in the city centres." "Leaflet calling for an open popular assembly by an initiative of inhabitans of Ano Poli (Old Town), Thessaloniki" "Arrests nationwide (from 6.12.2008 to 14.1.2009) :" "273 arrests - 67 detentions awaiting trial" "Athens: 111 arrests, 50 immigrants arrested during the first tree days of the riots are condemned to 18 months imprisonment during trials without translators' presentce and are going to be deported" "VOLOL: 6 arrests" "ZAKINTHOS: 6 arrests" "HERAKLION: 22 arrests" "THESSALONIKI: 23 arrests" "IOANNINA: 3 arrests" "KAVALA: 2 arrests" "KASTORIA: 1 arrests" "KOZANI: 34 arrests" "LARISA: 25 arrests 19 persons are prosecuted by antiterrorist law, 6 are prosecuted for stealing" "PATRA: 9 arrests" "PTOLEMAIDA: 11 arrests" "RETHYMNO: 1 arrests" "RHODES: 18 arrests" "TRILAKA: 7 arrests" "CHANIA: 6 arrests" "We're not afraid." "We're enraged." "Solidarity to K. Kouneva days of December, and people wept at last, because desires weep, when space they gain, eyes weep when heads arise -lyrics sent by message to occupied ASOEE" "What we desire to be begins with a 'no'" "This bears the only reason for one to wake up in the morning." "This also bears the choice to arm against and attack the order that stifles us all:" "The potential beginning of an excessive practice of freedom." "Death is negated by living." "Even if we withdraw under the pressure of (para)governmental scamps and due to barricade's inadequacy we all know that nothing in our lives will ever be the same." "Leaflet entitled "We destroy the present because we come from the future" by proletarians from the occupied ASOEE" "We are an image from the future." "During these days we were all alive talking to the living..." "Somebody among flames and gases said it:" ""If only it could last forever."" "When clashes will be taking place at dark streets" "When clashes will be taking place at dark streets due to an electricity workers strike, when clashes will be taking place amidst tones of unpicked up rubbish, when buses will be blockading roads preventing cops from passing, when the striking teacher will be lighting the rioting students' molotov," "then we could say:" "scamps!" "the days of your society are coming to an end, we weighed its pleasures and its rights and found them short." "And today this is not a mere fantasy, but a concrete potentiality for every one uf us:" "the potentiality to concretely act upon the concrete." "The potentiality of storming heaven."