The slogan of the 26th Antiracist Festival (July 4-6, Alsos Goudi) is a verse by Mahmoud Darwish, the great poet of Palestine.
We made this verse our slogan because:
- Often poetry can speak better about politics than politics itself,
- The genocide in Palestine continues, casting its heavy shadow over our era,
- “Justice” has become the word that summarizes not only the demands of the historic mobilizations for Tempi, but the anguish of an entire generation to find oxygen,
- “Justice” is demanded by the dead of Pylos and Evros, the refugees who suffer the murderous push-backs in the Aegean and Mediterranean, the migrants who are presented as a threat to deprive them of basic rights, the young men and women of the “second generation” who cannot get papers in the country where they were born and raised, the Roma who are killed by “accidental discharges of police weapons,” LGBTQI+ people who find themselves under the threat of the neoconservative attack,
- “Justice” is the word where we meet, starting from different points of departure; the first word of a new language of unity and emancipation.
The Antiracist Festival constitutes a mass political mobilization against racism, sexism, fascism, the Far Right; a mobilization for the solidarity of the oppressed.
It is also the great celebration of “together.” We live together, work together, fight together, anguish together, dream together, celebrate together.
The Festival is the celebration of people who want a world without barbed wire and second-class citizens, a world open to each and every person. It is our answer to individualization, competition, cynicism, hatred. In a celebration based on offering and solidarity, we get to know each other, form new relationships, build bridges where others erect walls.
