Following the eviction and arrests in Villa Amalias squat during the morning of January 9th, a police raid in the Patission 61 & Skaramaga squat is underway. At about 15.00pm, anti-riot squadrons smashed the door and stormed in the building. Short announcement by the collective of Skaramaga squat about the raid: 15.56pm: A police raid […]
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Athens (Greece): Police raid in Skaramanga squat
Athens (Greece): Statement by the Villa Amalias squatters held in the police HQ in Athens
The Villa Amalias squat has been an open political, cultural and social space, as well as a housing collective, for the past 23 years. In all these years there have been plenty of active groups in the squat including groups on theatre, concerts, musical studio, stained glass, kids’ space, dancing, foreign languages, computing, printing press, screenings, […]
Athens (Greece): Villa Amalias, “We are, and we shall remain here”
Statement released on Friday, December 21, 2012 Today, on December 20th, 2012, the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous. Nevertheless, according to Dendias [translators’ note: the minister of public order] these prove that […]
Athens (Greece): Anarchist squat Villa Amalias raided by riot police today
via eagainst.com (texts in En | It | Tr | De | Fr): Once again, the State is trying to terrorise by means of sudden raids against occupied self-organized spaces. Villa Amalias squat is housed in the building of Heyden and Acharnon street for 22 years. Within the squat hundreds of political and cultural events […]
Athens (Greece): Solidarity with squats and self-organized spaces
KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM THE SQUATS SOLIDARITY TO SQUATS AND SELF-ORGANIZED SOCIAL CENTRES In a legality that is plundering our lives, we remain clusters of illegality. WE CREATE Squats and self-organized social centres are parts of the liberated timespace. They are utopian cracks in the midst of a process of social desolation that the […]
Athens (Greece): Eviction of the housing squat on Spyridonos Trikoupi street in Exarchia
On October 30th, at around 10am, anti-riot squadrons stormed the streets surrounding Exarchia square and violently evicted the housing squat on Spyridonos Trikoupi street. According to the initial information, approximately ten people were taken to the Exarchia police station, while the ‘legal’ owners of the building have not (yet) filed a lawsuit against the detained […]
Athens (Greece): K-VOX Social centre reoccupied by hundreds tonight
More than 1,000 people at Exarcheia square solidarity concert. VOX, the social centre that was evicted and sealed off by police yesterday, has been reoccupied by hundreds of people in solidarity tonight. People tore down the steel plates sealing off the social centre and as of midnight (GMT+2) there were approx. 1,000 people attending the […]
Athens (Greece): Major police operation in Exarcheia, K-VOX social centre sealed off
Major police operation in Exarcheia, Athens sees two anarchist social centres evicted; the entire neighbourhood is currently under curfew and cut off by heavy police forces At approximately 06.50 GMT+2 on Friday morning, heavy police forces conducted simultaneous raids at two newly occupied anarchist spaces in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia: the building at 60, Valtetsiou […]
Athens: Arson attack on Kouvelou squat
Kouvelou squat in Maroussi (northern suburb of Athens) was hit by arson in the middle of the night, at around 3 am on September 14th, 2011. The roof has collapsed and four rooms have been burnt. Anarchists/anti-authoritarians have squatted Kouvelou mansion since April 7th, 2010. More info as it comes.
Athens (Greece): Skaramanga anarchist squat evicted and reoccupied
This morning (29.07) the Skaramanga squat in Athens was evicted by heavy police forces, following the legal action by the building’s owners. One person who entered the building to be present at the eviction proceedings has been arrested. Another seventy people who tried to approach the building were pushed back by heavy police forces. 22.56 […]
Athens (Greece): Joint fascist/police attack against the Skaramanga squat
Joint fascist/police attack against the Skaramanga squat in Athens is fought back by people defending the building At approximately 00.15 GMT+2 (around 45 minutes ago) fascists aided by police tried to attack the Skaramanga squat, in Athens. The squatters resisted the tear gas and the fascist attack, turning Patision avenue in a battlefield – soon […]
Athens: In critical and suffocating times (TPTG)
The Ta Paida Tis Galarias (The Children of The Gallery) group report on the recent demonstrations in Athens against austerity measures, including the events leading to the tragic deaths of three bank workers and its implications for the movement of opposition. What follows is a report on the demo of the 5th of May and […]