It is about an occupation of the State Theatre in Thessaloniki, Greece, as part of the
mobilisations about the one year commemoration of Alexis Grigoropoulos’ killing by a cop
which led to the riots in Decemnber ‘08. D. —- The only way to learn if we can swim is
to jump in the water… —- If we could keep something from last December this is the end
of silence. —- The social explosion was not alone on the streets of Greece, but it came
out together with the need for dialogue. The fact, which we are told for years now that
“democracy” has no dead ends, was proven brutally to be a cheap lie of the authority. The
dead ends are a lot. They materialize in the tenths of our day-to-day problems, in our
society’s sickness. —- So what can we do as a society? Shall we continue to put trust on
the them and their lies?

There is a way out of this system which destroys our life, a system whose
only function is to reproduce and to manage the corruption that is
originally created by it. The way out can be found to each one separately
and to everyone together. As long as we can still listen to the message
coming out from the insurrection of December 2008.
Which message?

The only way that we can initiate the liberation from the dark reality is to
begin deciding by ourselves the matters that concern ourselves. We must
realise that the logic “vote every four years and I will do the best for
you”, is the logic which reproduces this rotten regime.
We all have a portion of responsibility for our lives and for the
societies we live in.

As long as we recognise these responsibilities and take the steps leading to
the final cut of the umbilical cord that ties us with the authority, we can
begin changing the scenery around us with steady moves… with our goal being,
at the right moment, to get rid of the destructive institutions like the
parliamentary-representative democracy and to create new ones which will be
based on the equal participation of everyone.

These paths were opened since the last December. And these are the paths
which we are obligated to continue walking on without fear. In each space,
in each neighbourhood, in the schools and in the universities, in the working
spaces, in our stance for the immigrants, in our view about environment… in
everything that concern our life.

We prefer to decide for our lives ourselves, even if we make mistakes.
Then these mistakes will be ours too. We will learn, we will move forward,
we will really stand on our feet as a society…
FAR AWAY FROM POLITICAL PARTIES AND HIERARCHIES
FACE TO FACE
WITH DIRECT DEMOCRACY
WITH DIRECT ACTIONS
MARCH on Sunday 6th of DECEMBER 2009 12.30 at Kamara (Thessaloniki)

Occupied Theatre School (Thessaloniki)
http://katalipsisxolistheatrou.blogspot.com