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ckaihatsu

10th January 2013, 17:06

1/19 Chicago anti-fascist/Golden Dawn protest at Greek consulate

Larry Duncan <[email protected]>

From: [email protected]
Date: January 10, 2013

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International Day of Solidarity Against Fascim & Racism

Saturday | January 19 | 1 PM | Greek Consulate, 650 N. St. Clair, Chicago

- Email us to endorse or for more info: [email protected] or [email protected]

- Like our Facebook page! facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago

- Check out our FB events page for this action and RSVP! http://on.fb.me/Xck0Nf

NO fascist Golden Dawn party presence in Chicago. 11:57pm Jan 9

Demos scheduled outside Greek embassies and consulates include London (UK), Dublin and Derry (Ireland), Barcelona and Ossona (Catalunya), Lyon (France), Tampere (Finland), Chicago and New York (USA) and news for initiatives in other countries are streaming in.

A call for international solidarity athensantifa19jan.wordpress.com

We appeal to the antifascists who have been alerted by the rise of the neonazi Golden Dawn and to th...

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Sasha

10th January 2013, 19:00

please note that the ruling government parties (that are responsible for employing the GD thugs either officially as cops or as para-state forces) also try to muscle themselves into this international day of protest.
any rejection of the GD rabid dogs should come with an rejection of those who yank their chain, we should give not a single inch of room for, let alone get suckered in a "united front" with PASOK, ND and DIMAR.

Philosophos

10th January 2013, 19:09

Le Socialiste

16th January 2013, 18:30

Here's a little info (http://nycal.mayfirst.org/node/14017) for the NYC demonstration:

International Day of Anti-Fascist Action — in Solidarity with ATHENSANTIFA19JAN & Against Racism, Homophobia and Violence

Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Greek Consulate, 69 East 79th Street, Manhattan, NYC

In solidarity with the people of Greece and all the people of the world who fight for justice, liberty, equality and freedom from racial, sexual or other forms of discrimination we call for a rally at the Greek Consulate General in New York on Saturday January 19, 2013.

From New York City – one of the centers where the global financial crisis is orchestrated – we watch in dismay the unraveling of the social and political disaster in Greece and in Europe, in general. We daily become witnesses to the cruel economic policies and the systematic attacks against the weakest and most destitute groups of our societies. Immigrants, refugees who flee the US wars in Asia and minority groups, have been turned into scapegoats subject to racist public policies, police violence and assaults by the Neo-Nazi squads of Golden Dawn.

We condemn the Greek government and the EU for dotting the country with concentration camps. In language lifted straight from the Nazi lexicon – these so-called ‘closed-hospitality’ centers – house today an unknown number of people with little or no access to basic rights stipulated by international law. FRONTEX has turned the whole country into a concentration camp because the EU lacks the will to implement a responsible and humane immigration policy.

We condemn the police violence unleashed in every protest in the streets of Greece. The heavy use of chemicals, the arrests of civilians who resist the police brutality, the torturing of antifascist demonstrators, make it clear that any adherence to the basic principles and values of democracy has long been abandoned.

We condemn the Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn and the mainstream media that systematically conceal the crimes that Golden Dawn commit day after day against Muslims, migrants, people of color, gays, leftists, journalists and anyone who speaks up against them. We will resist their attempts to make racism, religious fundamentalism, and homophobia into a rule of life. We will resist their plan to rewrite the historical record, as they do when they deny the Holocaust. We will resist when they obstruct freedom of expression, as they did by closing down Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi for offending their sick moral order.

We fight against racism, religious fundamentalism, homophobia. We fight for open and free societies and against any form of discrimination. Join us for the rally at the Greek Consulate General in New York on January 19, 2013.

Endorsed by:
Aristeri Kinisi (Greek-American Left Movement) NY
Syriza NY
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Antarsya NY
Queens Socialist Alternative
Queens College Socialist Club
The Freedom Socialist Party
Radical Women
(list in formation)

Contact information: [email protected]
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/292675974168972/

Sasha

16th January 2013, 22:16

Sounds good, nice to see they put it in a broad perspective and also attack the ruling parties and their racism.

ckaihatsu

20th January 2013, 02:37

Chicago protest against Greek fascist party Golden Dawn

By Staff

Chicago, IL – More than 60 people gathered at the Greek Consulate here, Jan. 19, in protest of the Greek anti-immigrant group, Golden Dawn. Golden Dawn has carried out violent attacks on immigrants and spouts fascist rhetoric. There were protests in Athens and in other cities around the world as part of a day of solidarity with recent victims of racist attacks in Greece. In Chicago, protesters included immigrant rights activists, Greek Americans and gay activists.

Joe Iosbaker, a Chicago anti-war activist and member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, gave the following speech at the rally:

“I'm one of 23 anti-war activists subpoenaed to a grand jury under suspicion of providing material support for terrorism - and facing 15 years in prison if ever charged and convicted.

For the U.S., the world is changing. The people of the poor nations hate the empire and are getting out from under it. After 911, the rulers here thought they could put U.S. corporations back on top through war, invasion and the slaughter of Arab and Muslim people. But that didn’t work – they are losing one war after another.

Here, then, the rulers promote Islamophobia, with the Tea Party as the anti-immigrant, anti-Arab and Muslim party.

In Greece, the workers have decided to kick over the rich class. What does the Greek ruling class do? They promote racist attacks on immigrants by the Golden Dawn.

More and more in the U.S., we’re seeing that repression comes with reaction. This is what happened during the Cold War, when the socialist camp threatened U.S. imperialism. Here at home they went for the communists. Now, as the nations of the oil rich Middle East challenge them, they are coming after Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. In the course of their War on Muslims and Arabs, they dragged in the 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists, and Carlos Montes in Los Angeles.

People tell me, ‘It’s your ideas that got you into trouble.’ And we agree with them. We were targeted because we didn’t just oppose imperialist wars; we supported the oppressed people resisting war.

Like the Greek workers and immigrants, we have to beat back the attacks and we have to continue our resistance. Tomorrow, we’ll be protesting outside the Hyatt on Wacker Drive because Pat Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney that sent the FBI to raid our homes, is being honored by John Marshall Law School. Please join us. And on Thursday, we’ll be protesting at UIC on 828 South Wolcott, where Fitzgerald is being honored as well, with an appointment to the Board of Trustees. We’ll be there at 3:30.”

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