Lenina Rosenweg
11th October 2012, 22:16
The fascist Golden Dawn organisation recently set up a center in the New York suburb of Astoria, Queens, traditionally the center of the Greek-American community.In Greece GD has been taking advantage of the crisis to beat up, harass, and kill immigrants, minorities, leftists, and lgbt people. The organisation I'm in has been very active in the campaign against these barbarians.
Whatever one thinks of Louis Proyect, this article is quite interesting.
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=2821
On Tuesday evening I went out to Astoria, Queens for a protest rally against Golden Dawn that was trying to establish a foothold in this mostly Greek neighborhood. Held in the Church of the Redeemer, it drew upwards of 150 people, an amazing turnout. I had a feeling that about one third of the audience was local Greeks.
With all proportions being guarded, you felt transported back to 1938 or so for a meeting in solidarity with the Republicans fighting against Franco in Spain. As Alan Akrivos, one of the panelists and a member of Socialist Alternative, put it: It is going to be like Spain in the 1930s.
Whatever one thinks of Louis Proyect, this article is quite interesting.
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=2821
On Tuesday evening I went out to Astoria, Queens for a protest rally against Golden Dawn that was trying to establish a foothold in this mostly Greek neighborhood. Held in the Church of the Redeemer, it drew upwards of 150 people, an amazing turnout. I had a feeling that about one third of the audience was local Greeks.
With all proportions being guarded, you felt transported back to 1938 or so for a meeting in solidarity with the Republicans fighting against Franco in Spain. As Alan Akrivos, one of the panelists and a member of Socialist Alternative, put it: It is going to be like Spain in the 1930s.