„Dear Comrades,
City Plaza needs your support:
After one and a half years we are still here, since the very first day we are an example of how Europe could host refugees in another way. And we want to keep being this example.
We want to stay the home we are for people and we want to stay a center of struggle, involved in many different struggles for rights and dignity.
From the beginning on it was clear that we would be a thorn in the side of the government, but that never stopped us. To keep on doing what we are doing, we need now your support and solidarity – in a period where the government is increasing the pressure on City Plaza and all other squats in Athens.
Therefore we ask you to:
share our video against the threat of eviction and spread it to everyone you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7bXO0605B4
publish any kind of solidarity expression (statements, pictures, banners, videos…) and send it to us
sign our small announcement, which we are going to publish in the next few days.
City Plaza Movie: The eviction notice
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https://best-hotel-in-europe.eu Keep City Plaza Open! City Plaza is a house for 400 refugees in the centre of Athens, in contrast to the isolated camps, the …
Thank you so much and big solidarity greets to everyone, keep on struggling!
Refugee Accomodation and Solidarity Space City Plaza, Athens, Acharnon 78
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Solidarity Statement – Keep City Plaza Open!
City Plaza is a house for 400 refugees in the centre of Athens, in contrast to the isolated camps and the detention centres. Here, everyone is equal, and that works better for everyone. No manager or masters are ruling this place, it’s just solidarity, self organisation and collective approach to the daily issues. Here people are trying to live again a life (for a longer or shorter period) and stop feeling fear, discrimination, unwelcome or second class human.
Someone could say that hosting 400 people is a drop in the ocean, but that’s not how we see it.
Because it’s an example and a demand in the same moment to welcome refugees. We live the right on dignity that is denied for so many. And with that we never stand alone, we are another piece of the mosaic of solidarity and resistance.
The militarization of borders, the encampment and the deportations are driving people to exclusion, to poverty and death. These policies are part of a whole regime of exploitation and austerity.
But we know and prove it is possible to live in collective solidarity, no matter which rules and norms the governments are formulating. If they want us to see in each other just a concurrence, a stranger, if they want to keep us separated, if they want to keep us blind.
We can refuse, we can resist.
And this is something no one can take from us. Not the police, not the government. No one.
They are thinking to evict the squats, but they ignore that you cannot evict a movement, you cannot evict dignity.
We stand together against war and imperialism, against fascism, racism and neoliberalism.
We are stronger living and struggling together, we can win and we will!
Hands off City Plaza, hands off the squats.
