Discussions at the 22th Athens Antiracist Festival

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DISCUSSIONS

Friday, 28th of June

DISCUSSIONS

Friday, 28th of June

  • Western Civilization?

Criminalization of solidarity, militarization of borders and (anti)social migration policies.

Coordination: Antonis Faras (ΟΝΡΑ-Anasynthesi)

Speeches: Pia Klemp (IUVENTA-Solidarity at Sea), Thanasis Voulgarakis (solidarian, Lesbos), Gavriil Sakellaridis (Amnesty International – Greece)

Interventions: City Plaza, Sunday School of Migrants, Coordination for Refugees and Migrants, Network of Are solders – Spartakos

  • The Development of Disaster

Hydrocarbon extractions and the struggle for life

Coordination: Giorgos Velegrakis (ΚόΚΟΙ- Red Movement Ecology)

Speeches: Giannis Papadimitriou (Initiative against Hydrocarbons Minding in Epirus), Giannis Deligiovas (Save Skouries – Committee of Megali Panagia)

Interventions: Initiative of Athens against Hydrocarbons Minding, Radical Municipal Stream of Arta, Athens Residents Initiative of Athenian Residents for the Protection of Agrafa   

Saturday 29 of June

  • Dark Europe

The rise of the Far-Right, the neoliberal orthodoxy, and the antagonistic Left

Coordination: Giannis Almpanis (Network for Political and Social Rights)

Speeches: Fulvia Conte (ESC/Mediterranea Saving Humans, Rome), Seraphim  Seferiadis (Academic), Eleftheria Koumantou (Journalist- 9.84 radio station)

Interventions: Antifacist Coordination of Athens and Piraeus, Kokino Nima, Xekinima, Anti-war Internationalist Movement

  • Patriarchy Kills

Gender based violence, femicides, social cannibalism

Coordination: Aliki Kosyfologou (Kiouriat / Κιουρι@)

Speeches: Irini Gaitanou (responsible for the campaign “Without consent it is a Rape” Amnesty international – Greece), Anny Paparousou (the lawyer of Zak Kostopoulos, Justice For Jack/Jackie)

Interventions: The Mov, Assembly for 8th March, Lgbtqia + Refugees Welcome

Sunday, 30th of June

  • Cities without Citizens

Airbnb, urban repression and ghetto-ing

Coordination: Tonia Katerini (CO Member of Architectures Association)

Speeches: Grigoris Tsardanidis (FairbnbNB), Kostis Chatzimichalis (Academic), Despina Spanoudi (ΚόΚΟΙ – Red Movement Ecology)

Interventions: Insubordinate (Anipotachti) Athens, Action against Regeneration and Gentrification (AARG)   

  • The Empire Strikes Back

The social landscape and movement’s answers to the far – right restoration

Coordination: Nikos Giannopoulos (Meeting for the Anticapitalist and Internationalist Left)

Speeches: Ilias Ioakimoglou (Theseis Review), Petros Stavrou (Economist)

Interventions: DEA, Rosinante, ARAN, ARAS, NAR, Anametrisi, Kokkino Nima

SELF-ORGANIZED DISCUSSIONS

Friday, 28th of June

  • Self-organization as an answer to modern football: The experiment of Academia of Adespotos Athinon (Adespotos Athinon)
  • Spaces of monitored drug use and social control (Group of Collective Action and of Social Solidarity of “18 Ano”)

Saturday, 29th of June

  • Meeting of Local and Municipal Organizations
  • Door opens, door closes, but the key is a double one: A discussion on inmates’ rights, state repression and the status of leaves (Initiative for the Rights of Prisoners, Network for Political and Social Rights)

Sunday, 30th of June

  • Meeting of Antifascist Collectivities: Golden Dawn’s trial, organization of upcoming antifascist actions and the “Antifascist September”. The discussion will be opened by Magda Fyssa, Eleftheria Tompatzoglou and Antifascist Co-ordination of Athens and Piraeus.
  • For the co-ordination of the fight of migrant women against gender based violence (Τhe MOV, United African Women, Assembly for the 8th of March, migrant women organizations)
  • Migrant land workers in Southern Europe: The example of Greece and Italy

 

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