The Guardian, “This refugee squat represents the best and worst of humanity”
On 26 April 2016, the same month the EU-Turkey deal trapped 60,000 refugees in Greece, migrant solidarity activists broke the locks on City Plaza, a shuttered hotel in Athens’ anarchist Exarchia neighborhood, and gave 400 stranded people a home. Over the next year, City Plaza grew into the best known of over a dozen squats […]
The Washington Post, “Trump’s travel ban is built on a law meant to ‘protect’ the U.S. from Jews and communists”
The new language would grant the president the discretionary authority “to suspend any and all immigration whenever he finds such action to be desirable in the best interest of the country,” beyond the normal excludable classes of aliens such as criminals, paupers, anarchists and the mentally and physically infirm. Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “From NATO to Antifa: One Afghan’s journey to Greece”
The Antifa activists – comprising anarchists, communists and other anti-racists – shout slogans against Golden Dawn in Greek. “Not in parliament, not anywhere,” chants a group of demonstrators carrying red flags. “Smash fascism everywhere.” Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Anarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance”
“People trust us because we don’t use the people as customers or voters,” Mr. Sagris said. “Every failure of the system proves the idea of the anarchists to be true.” Continue Reading
Catholic News Service, “Trump vows to keep fighting for travel ban blocked again by courts”
Along with anarchists dressed in black, Planned Parenthood supporters in bright pink hats and thousands of other Trump protesters, people of faith were on hand protesting Trump’s policies. Continue Reading
Vice, “Greece Is Cracking Down on the Anarchist Squats Giving Shelter to Refugees”
Demonstrators gathered outside the station, along with lawyers who the police forbade from entering. A green anarchist flag fluttered from the window of a detention cell on the top floor, held by a North African man who had been locked inside for nine months. Protesters marched in two separate rallies. Police shot tear gas. Fires […]
Al Jazeera, “Six other times the US has banned immigrants”
3. Anarchists banned President Theodore Roosevelt. Signed on March 3, 1903. In 1903, the Anarchist Exclusion Act banned anarchists and others deemed to be political extremists from entering the US. Continue Reading
Nikolaos Gryspolakis: When hospitality is not displayed in the media…
When hospitality is not displayed in the media… Nikolaos Gryspolakis, September 21, 2015 Translation by Pavlos Stravopoulos Reprinted with permission “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” and … war crimes and crimes against humanity are generous humanitarian aid. Several thousand refugees arrived in Germany (a country of 81 million inhabitants with a […]