Autonomous Spaces Gathering May 4-7
Dear friends,
We inform you that during the first week of May 2006 the European Social Forum will take place in Athens. At the same time the open assembly for the creation of the
Autonomous Spaces / Open Public Ephemeral Zone
Athens 4-7 May 2006
will use a university space in the centre of Athens (Athens Polytechnic School )and will produce an ephemeral autonomous zone that will try to bring together all the grassroots anticapitalist, autonomous and antiauthoritarian collectives, groups and movements. We will try all of us to co-create an open public space that will give the opportunity to all the libertarian radical utopians, the anarchists, the antiauthoritarians, the libertarian communists, the green anarchists, the antisystemic marxists the anarchoprimitivists and all anti-hierarchical collectives from any lineage of the modern libertarian thinking -action to present their work, express their ideas , and coming to public dialogue with the other collectives and the global society. This is an open invitation for all the creative political and cultural affinity groups and personal initiatives to participate in the construction of the zone and the formation of the social and political agenda. You can send your propositions to take part in the general program of the festival until 15th of March.
We would like to let you know that this congregation will give us the opportunity to create an antiauthoritarian autonomous zone and express our ideas in a friendly environment. It is also provided the ability to each collective to organize and decorate its own space, prepare and present its own lectures or documentary shows and participate to the general assemblies and forums.
We announce below the thematic issues of the assemblies and the forums and we wait from you the expansion and the enrichment of this catalogue with your own propositions:
1 Work
2 Immigration
2 City movements and Ecology
3 Suppression and Solidarity
4 International Movements
5 New technologies in the hands of the Movement ( video activism, documentation, networking, info-mapping, free-media )
6 Social Centers , Squatting
7 Direct Action
8 Sexism and Homophobia
9 Libertarian, Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Ontology.
Contemporary Every Day Life and Future Social and Cultural Movements
10 General Assembly :
Autonomous- Anticapitalitic Space and Antiglobalization Movement
The whole procedure according to the preparations until now will take place on five phases (more ideas can be organized and much more actions can take place through the expression of initiative) :
a) Autonomous Spaces / An Open Public Ephemeral Zone / Athens 4-7 May 2006
Four days of open public dialogue, networking of information, lectures,
info-centres, books or pamphlets exhibition, live internet shows, film shows
and documentary video projections and open celebrative public
situations
b) Action of Solidarity and Social awareness
outside of Immigrant’s Concentration Camp
c) Actions of Social awareness at the City Market and other Working spaces
d) Meetings, talking circles and workshops at the social centers of Athens
e) Total Freedom Street Parade / Athens 6 May 2006 /organized by Void Network
Starts 4 o’clock in the afternoon in front of Athens National Museum (Patission street)
An open invitation from Void Network to all the anarcho-ravers, the
teknival sound-systems, the psychedelic trancers, the space travelers to
built a global celebration of social awareness in the streets of Athens that
will send in all over world the message of the fight for Total Freedom
We believe that it would be very helpful any collective which would like to take part in this festival to prepare for traveling, to prepare their lectures, and to help with the publicity networking.
According to the economical difficulties of some collectives we can understand that some of them they can not organize the traveling in Athens, so we offer to them the opportunity to participate and express their ideas through books or pamphlets exhibition that they can send to the Creative Crew of the situation, or to appear in the situation through live internet shows, film shows and documentary video projections
We look forward for any reply from you as soon as possible. It would be very helpful
if you can inform us about how many people approximately will arrive from your collective in Athens in terms of the hospitality.
Thank you,
People from the
open assembly for the creation of Autonomous Spaces ephemeral Zone
TRAVELLING INFORMATION
HOW TO GET TO THE AUTONOMOUS SPACES ?
>>>by plane to the Athens airport E. Venizelos
>>>when you arrive to the airport you take the metro from Douk. Plakedias (blue line) and you arrive to Omonia (red line) (see on the metro map)
>>>then you just walk Patision street 200m from Omonia Station to the Polytechnic University school
>>>if you arrive before 4th May you have to go to the Social Centre Autonomous Steki in Zoodoxou Pigis 95-97 street (you will see in the street map) where there will be the accommodation and the kitchen place. It is better if you could call when you will arrive to the airport.
Contact number : (0030)6979487198 ,(0030)6947765520 and (0030)6976323599
>>>if you arrive by boat to Patras Port then you take the train to Athens and you arrive to Stathmos Larisis(red line) where form there you take the metro and you arrive to Omonia(red line) then you just walk Patision street 200m from Omonia Station to the Polytechnic school
>>>if you arrive before 4th May you will go to the Social Centre Autonomous Steki in Zoodoxou Pigis 95-97 street (you will see in the street map) where there will be the accommodation and the kitchen place. It is better if you could call when you will arrive to the airport.
Contact number: (0030)6979487198 ,(0030)6947765520 and (0030)6976323599
The accommodation places will be more than one , the social centre Autonomous Steki , the Polytechnic School and the Ex-hippodrome place where the Protestival for legalize the marihuana will take place after the Street Parade.
For any information, enquiries you can call (0030)6979487198 and (0030)6947765520
For the accommodation you can call (0030)2103800907 and (0030)6976323599
CONTACT: autonomouspacesathens2006@gmail.com
http://www.voidnetworksociety.org
http://www.freewebs.com/autonomousaction
