Category Archives: Αλληλεγγύη/Solidarity

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE DEFENSE OF THE SQUATTED COMMUNITY OF PROSFYGIKA ON ALEXANDRAS AVENUE IN ATHENS

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Hello comrades,

We address this call to collectives and individuals from all around the world to join the combative defense of PROSFYGIKA against the imminent repression. The attempted evacuation of our neighborhood must be turned into a central event of resistance and a victory against political power and the gentrification of our neighborhoods in the metropolis.

Call in turkish.pdf
Call in espanol.pdf
Call in italiano.pdf
Call auf deutsch.pdf
Call in francaise.pdf
Call in catalan
Call in russian

WHAT WE INVITE YOU TO DEFEND:

The building complex of Prosfygika was built in 1933 for the refugees coming from Asia minor. Continue reading →

A MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY WITH LGBTI+

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Homophobic and transphobic attacks of the male-dominates system continue all over the world. In June, there was a police attack on the pride parade in Turkey, on July 5, fascists and racists attacked the LGBTI+ office in Tbilisi, Georgia, and on the same day, an LGBTI+ healthcare worker was murdered in Spain. Additionally, the Hungarian government presented a new homophobic law against LGBTI+ on July 7.

We express our solidarity with all LGBTI+ affected by these brutal attacks and with all LGBTI+ around the world. We want to underline our solidarity with refugee-LGBTI+, as they face especially hard discrimination.

Let’s destroy the homophobic and transphobic system together!
Freedom to all sexual and gender identities!
Leave no one ever alone!

Women structure of Sy.ka.Pro

Οι ομοβοβικές και τρανσοφοβικές επιθέσεις της πατριαρχίας, συνεχίζονται σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο. Τον Ιούνιο, η αστυνομία επιτέθηκε στην παρέλαση υπερηφάνειας στην Τουρκία, στις 5 Ιουλίου, φασίστες και ρατσιστές επιτέθηκαν στα γραφεία της LGBTI+ κοινότητας στην Τιφλίδα της Γεωργίας και την ίδια ημέρα, έν@ LGBTI+ εργαζόμεν@ υγείας, δολοφονήθηκε στην Ισπανία. Επίσης, η Ουγγρική κυβέρνηση παρουσίασε έναν νέο ομοφοβικό νόμο ενάντια στην LGBTI+ κοινότητα,  στις 7 Ιουλίου.
Εκφράζουμε την αλληλεγγύη μας στην LGBTI+ κοινότητα που βάλλεται από όλες τις βίαιες επιθέσεις και στεκόμαστε μαζί με την  LGBTI+ κοινότητα σε όλον τον κόσμο. Θα θέλαμε να υπογραμμίσουμε την αλληλεγγύη μας, ειδικά στην LGBTI+ προσφυγική κοινότητα, που αντιμετωπίζει  ιδιαιτέρως σκληρές διακρίσεις.
Ας καταστρέψουμε το ομοφοβικό και τρανσφοβικό  σύστημα μαζί!
Λευτεριά σε όλες τις ταυτότητες φύλου και σεξουαλικότητας! Ποτέ κανέν@ μόν@!

Γυναικεία δομή ΣΥ.ΚΑ.ΠΡΟ.

Erkek egemen sistemin homofobik ve transfobik saldırıları tüm dünyada devam ediyor. Haziran’da Türkiye’de onur yürüyüşüne polis saldırısı oldu, 5 Temmuz’da Gürcistan’ın Tiflis kentindeki LGBTİ+ ofisine faşistler ve ırkçılar saldırdı ve aynı gün İspanya’da bir LGBTİ+ sağlık çalışanı öldürüldü. Ek olarak, Macar hükümeti 7 Temmuz’da LGBTİ+’lara karşı yeni bir homofobik yasa sundu.

Bu vahşi saldırılardan etkilenen tüm LGBTİ+’larla ve dünyadaki tüm LGBTİ+’larla dayanışmamızı ifade ediyoruz. Özellikle ağır ayrımcılığa maruz kaldıkları için mülteci-LGBTİ+ ile dayanışmamızın altını çizmek istiyoruz.

Homofobik ve transfobik sistemi birlikte yok edelim!
Tüm cinsel ve cinsiyet kimliklerine özgürlük!
Hiç kimseyi yalnız bırakma!

Sy.ka.Pro. kadınların yapısı

تستمر الهجمات المعادية للمثليين والمتحولين جنسياً من النظام الذي يسيطر عليه الذكور في جميع أنحاء العالم.  في يونيو ، كان هناك هجوم للشرطة على موكب الفخر في تركيا ، في 5 يوليو ، هاجم الفاشيون والعنصريون مكتب LGBTI + في تبليسي ، جورجيا ، وفي نفس اليوم ، قُتل عامل رعاية صحية من LGBTI + في إسبانيا.  بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، قدمت الحكومة المجرية قانونًا جديدًا ضد المثليين في 7 يوليو.

نعرب عن تضامننا مع جميع LGBTI + المتضررين من هذه الهجمات الوحشية ومع جميع LGBTI + في جميع أنحاء العالم.  نريد أن نؤكد تضامننا مع اللاجئين LGBTI + ، لأنهم يواجهون تمييزًا شديدًا بشكل خاص.

دعونا ندمر نظام رهاب المثليين والمتحولين جنسياً!  الحرية لجميع الهويات الجنسية والجندرية!  لا تترك ابدا أحدا بمفرده!

Women structure of Sy.ka.Pro

DECLARACIÓN

Los ataques homofóbicos y transfóbicos del sistema dominado por hombres continúan en todo el mundo.  En junio, hubo un ataque policial en la marcha del orgullo gay en Turquía, el 5 de julio, fascistas y racistas atacaron la oficina LGBTI + en Tbilisi, Georgia, y el mismo día, un trabajador de la salud LGBTI + fue asesinado en España.  Además, el gobierno húngaro presentó una nueva ley homofóbica contra LGBTI + el 7 de julio.

Expresamos nuestra solidaridad con todos los LGBTI + afectados por estos brutales ataques y con todos los LGBTI + del mundo.

Queremos subrayar nuestra solidaridad con los refugiados LGBTI +, ya que se enfrentan a una discriminación especialmente dura.

¡Destruyamos juntos el sistema homofóbico y transfóbico!

¡Libertad a todas las identidades sexuales y de género!

¡Nunca dejes a nadie solo!

Estructura de mujeres de SY.KA.PRO
Atenas, Grecia.
9/7/2021

Intervention & Words of Solidarity to our fighting comrades in Turkey

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Today the Turkish government is deciding about the acceptance or rejection of the Convention of Istanbul. This convention could be a step towards a more fair and maybe a less violent “system of justice” in the nation state of Turkey. Through resigning the convention the justice system in Turkey would not be forced anymore to keep at least the minimum rights of women. Which are the basic human rights like the right to personal and physical integrity. In Turkey, every third day a women gets killed because she is a women. The rate of violence against women is rising through the continues development towards a totalitarian fascist regime. Fascism and violence against women and LGBTQI* had been mostly connected in history. If Turkey is not signing the Convention, the regime is once again showing us its inhume and fascistic face.
We are standing side by side with our comrades against repressive and misogynist laws and the nation states which implements them. We appreciate the fight of our comrades in Turkey for all this passed years and it gives us strength and force to see all this powerful and successful movement for our fight we have to enforce all over the world.
We send you our deepest solidarity and power for the continuity of the fight for our rights.
Faşizme karşi omuz omuza!

Istanbul sözleşmesinden vazgeçmiyoruz!
Kadinlari değil katilleri engelliyin!
Fight violence against women everywhere!
Kadın katliamlarına, nefret cinayetlerine, tacize, tecavüze karşı İstanbul sözleşmesini uygula!
Erkek egemen faşizme karşı yaşasın kadın dayanışması!
Lgbti+ fobiye, nefrete karşı İstanbul sözleşmesini uygula!
Kadın düşmanları gidecek sözleşme kalacak!
Haklarımızdan, hayatlarımızdan, İstanbul sözleşmesinden vazgeçmiyoruz!
WE ARE WITH OUR SISTERS IN TURKEY AND EVERYWHERE!

Women structure of Sy.ka.Pro

Rigaer94 is alive – An address to our friends and comrades

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Thanks to every support that was developed during the last weeks and especially the last two days of preparation and collective fight against our common enemies, we managed to develop the most intensive fighting days that we could have imagined. Days which turned every plan from the state and capital into a catastrophy. A great reminder to ourselves, our collective and its supporters, how important the movement’s networks, infrastructures of solidarity and self-organisation are.
Starting with the defence of the neighbourhood against the establishment of the red zone, we drew the right concequence out of the aggressions of the state and the real estate market, against the people living in the city. The announcement of dangerzones and red zones, where people get easy targets for the police in order to create an atmosphere of isolation and fear, has become normality in this city of the rich. We saw in the last years many occassions where we as those who are targeted by the states attacks had to stand in almost silent protest at the fences, guarded by a militarized police force. Let’s name the eviction of the Ohlauer School in Kreuzberg, the eviction of the Kiezladen Friedel54 and all the other projects as Syndikat, Meuterei and our neighboors Liebig34. This fact can not be tolerated anymore – the people have to rise up!
Therefore, as a result,for more than 48 hours, we managed all together, locally and decentrally to take the offensive into the streets and defend our structures and ideas through militant means and put pressure before the enemies had even started their repressive-operations. We decided not to wait for the lackeys of the state to create another zone where they can easily target autonomous structures and rebellious neighborhoods. That’s why an autonomous zone was build up around the Rigaer94 at an hour the cops did not expect. Streets got closed together with many people and a long-lasting defence of barricades happened, with the means of the autonomous movement . Until the deployment of heavy technical equipment as an eviction tank and two watercanons the police was not able to enter our street. Let’s understand these events as a proposal to the people in the metropolitan field and outside of it, to answer the upcoming attacks. Not only against Rigaer94, also against Köpi and all the other threatened projects and our ideas, as well as any attack of the state and its merely presence.
But the state and capital war is not over yet. They will not only attempt to attack Rigaer94 again but also attack and target every single structure and individual who fights against this suphocated society on a daily basis. We should continue getting organised and expand our networks of solidarity broader. We call for more intensive fighting not only around Nordkiez to reinforce the continuity of this rebellious neighborhood, but also decentrally, in every corner of the city.
Let’s continue fighting all together against the city of the rich. Until every initial plan from the state and capital are ashes!

Friends and comrades of Rigaer94
For more informations:https://rigaer94.squat.net/

Barricade on Alexandras Avenue – solidarity to Rigaer94

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Since yesterday 16.6.21, morning, our comrades of Rigaer94 in Berlin are under attack and they are resisting against german police in order to protect their house and their struggle.
As Prosfygika being under a constant threat of state repression and exploitation we consider as our minimum political duty to stand in solidarity with our comrades who are fighting against the modern Freikorps.

– Solidarity to Rigaer94
– 10 100 1000s of Squats

The Women Café

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Prosfigika neighborhood hosts people from the entire spectrum of the oppressed and our biggest bet is to succeed in terms of self-organization into everyday needs and issues of survival, education, medical care and legal support, working at the same time a social and political charter that won’t promote a model of offer – take. It is at stake to move forward together and to conquer a collective consignment in the struggle for land and freedom. A struggle in which the entire interdisciplinarity of the movement’s fights opens. We are poor, refugees/immigrants, workers, unemployed, aged, mentally ill, we are women, and we are alone with children.

Women café is a new structure in the Prosfigika neighborhood, which was created through the needs of the community. In the beginning, we needed to create a reference point for every woman in Prosfigika to know, that she can find us at any time, if she wants to talk. At first, we were fewer, in our last assembly though we reached 22 active members. Triggered by the second incident of abuse that we had to deal within a short period of time from our creation, all the women in the café, regardless of our different starting points or language, expressed their authentic and original experiences and for one more time the political words took flesh and bones through the community. For that we are a café and not a team or a collectivity. Because we did not want to submit a feminist theory in the gathering of the community’s women. Something like that would have come from above, we would not be able to understand in the same way our multicultural Babel and in simple terms, it would be a useless tool. On the contrary, we started from nothing, from a café. From our collective gatherings around an aspect of oppression, and that seems to work. From simple to complex, from down to up, from the collectivization of experience inside a fighting field. One step at the time, but it includes us all.

Specifically, it is a structure that was built upon the need, voice to be given to all subjects as to express themselves, to feel comfortable and free. It is true, that inside the limits of the freed land of Prosfigika, women immigrants/refugees have silent needs of socialization, politicization, education that fade out in the stream of events. However, whatever we do brings us closer. In a gathering for the registration in the public health system, three girls came to the café for the first time. And they will come again. Action brings unity and through our deeds, we will find the theory that express us. Women café as a gathering and as a ritual, beyond the fact that it helped open up subjects that were in the shadow, it also works as a bridge between women and the central process of SY.KA.PRO. It is a channel of communication and a representation that makes the neighborhood even stronger. In order for it to function correctly, all its members need to be in correspondence. Naturally, we face some alienation problems inside our house, but we need to learn to care for one another. One of our basic elements of a fighting community is to overcome these problems because even if there was no state, people would still have to find solutions concerning food, shelter, health, education, organizing their defense. We can’t create the society of tomorrow if we do not built the communities of today.

Women of Prosfygika live under very difficult circumstances. We organize collectively, and we show solidarity to one another without the help of the state. Against the constitutional bodies to the state’s and capital’s enforcement we chose self- organization and resistance. We share experiences; we find solutions to every-day problems. Most of us are immigrants/refugees and have suffered economical exploitation, sexual and psychological oppression, inside a constant and unsure reality. We fight for the asylum, we fight to reunite with our families and we fight so that our children get to live. We are in danger of getting arrested, beaten, die because of a lack of access to the health care system. We are in danger not to be able to be the mothers of our children. Our under-aged children don’t have access to free health care and can’t go to school because vaccines are obligatory but also not given without AMKA. And still, you have to wait, afterwards to worry that you can’t achieve all of the above.

Women of Prosfygika come across a hostile environment of the Greek territory and don´t go to the gynecologist, don´t learn how to read… don’t, don’t
This text is a call for solidarity, economical or any other kind of help. A call that will help us do surgeries that we need, vaccine our children, be strong and give power to this beautiful society.

They asked 3000 euros from K. in order to operate on her in a private clinic for multiple fibromyomas. The public hospital won’t assume.
F. and M. will give birth really soon
A. and R. don’t have papers and need to go to a lawyer. One of them has 4 kids and the other a baby that has only had its first vaccines.
S. has been kicked out of her country for not wearing a hijab.
B. and D. are raising up their children on their own.

And the list goes on and on. We gather every Friday at 19:00 at our “house” and try to bring coffee…