DAY OF INTERNTIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE THESSALONIKI PRISONERS

In Athens, 600 anarchists and antiauthoritarians demonstrated at the offices of the European Union with the banner ‘FREE THE 8 PRISONERS - SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THE EVENTS AGAINST EU SUMMIT IN THESSALONIKI’ and ‘ANOTHER WAR IS POSSIBLE, SOCIAL-CLASS WAR’, many red and black flags, shouting slogans THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ALL PRISONS, with great dynamic and passion. The demo, with a strong police presence in the area, passed in front of parliament and reached the EU offices that were heavily guarded by police forces. The walls all the way were covered with graffiti. The demo finished in Propylea, in the centre of Athens where the day before (July 9) there had been a solidarity concert for the Thessaloniki prisoners, which 1000 people attended. Both actions in Athens were called by Open Assembly of Anarchists-Antiauthoritarians against the EU summit and for Solidarity with the Prisoners.
There are 8 prisoners, because one American demonstrator, who was first released together with other 22 still facing charges but free until trial, was recaptured, this time by the ‘Foreigners Police’ when he went back to the police station of Thessaloniki to take his things. He has been in custody since then (June 24) awaiting deportation.
On Sunday, 6 July, 100 anarchists, antiauthoritarians and autonoms gathered outside Avlona prison for minors (50kms from Athens), where 2 of the Thessaloniki demonstrators are being held. The people took the guards and police by surprise and made a demo around the prison shouting slogans that the prisoners could hear, waving red and black flags above the walls and writing FREEDOM on the gate and walls.