A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #346 - International, Greece: We are not afraid of ruins (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Sunday January 14, the UCL Savoies Group welcomed Yannis Youlountas for 
the militant preview presentation of his new film, We are not afraid of 
ruins. The opportunity to return to the struggles of residents of the 
Exarcheia district in Athens, against the hard right of Mitsotakis who, 
coming to power in Greece in 2019, promised to put an end to the 
"anti-authoritarian" district. Yannis Youlountas films the struggle, its 
actresses and actors, always rebellious and united.
Sunday January 14, with the Attac de Savoie collective, we welcomed 
Yannis and Maud Youlountas for a day dedicated to struggle and 
solidarity. The UCL Savoies group, accompanied by libertarian comrades, 
revolutionary trade unionists and anarcho-syndicalists, set up at 10 
a.m. at the Jean Renoir room in Chambéry to cook collectively and to 
music a soup kitchen with vegetables collected the day before at the market.

For the occasion we redecorated the space in red and black, installed a 
press table and put on sale books from our stock and from one of our 
partners, the Chambery cooperative bookseller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 
Yannis and Maud came on their side with a number of books on Greece, 
t-shirts in support of different struggles and olive oil to sell in 
support of the fight against the construction of the airport from 
Kastelli in Crete. Finally, we had set up a space to collect donations 
for the solidarity convoys to Greece; concrete actions of direct 
solidarity are an integral part of our struggles.

"Reclaim the beach", that is to say "Reclaim the beach", can we read on 
this banner (intended for tourists) during an action against the 
privatization of beaches.
"We are not afraid of ruins, we carry a new world in our hearts.»

At 2 p.m. we sat down for the screening of this fourth film by Yannis 
which continues to document from the inside the struggles taking place 
in Greece, and here mainly in the rebellious district of Exarcheia, 
condemned to vilification by the government right wing of Mitsotakis. 
And as in his previous opuses, Let's no longer live like slaves (2013), 
I fight therefore I am (2015) and Love and the Revolution (2018), Yannis 
shows all of life, the creativity which is at the heart struggles for a 
united, self-managed world, freed from the domination of the State and 
capital.

The same emancipatory breath runs through these struggles where 
anti-fascism, the fight against the gentrification of a neighborhood, 
the reception of migrants, the opposition to the construction of an 
airport in Crete and, on the island of Paros in the Cyclades, a 
population committed against the privatization of beaches, so that they 
become a common good again, for the happiness of all. And always the joy 
and the will to never give in to renunciation.

David (UCL Savoies)

Participate in solidarity
If you want to support our self-managed solidarity initiatives in 
Greece, three options are available to you:

By transfer: IBAN of ANEPOS: FR46 2004 1010 1610 8545 7L03 730 BIC: 
PSSTFRPPTOU Please mention in the subject of the transfer: Action 
Solidarité Greece
By check payable to ANEPOS, to be sent to: ANEPOS Action Solidarité 
Greece 6 Allée Hernando 13500 Martigues

Solidarity convoy to Greece, 2024.
As in previous years, a solidarity convoy will leave for self-managed 
places in Greece, in support of the struggles and the collectives which 
help precarious Greeks and exiles. On the occasion of the tour of the 
film We are not afraid of ruins, one or more vans from the convoy will 
be present at each screening-debate. The list of needs is above, if you 
would like to pass anything on.
If you have any suggestions or proposals, do not hesitate to contact: 
solidarite@anepos.net. If you would like to come with us to Greece, with 
your van, as part of the solidarity convoy, please introduce yourself in 
a few words in a letter or email (same address).

Film premieres
(in cinema version, with Greek buffet and rebetiko concert)

01/02 La Réole (33) 02/02 Bordeaux (33) 03/02 Baiona (64) then Dax (40) 
04/02 St-Gaudens (31) 05/02 Toulouse (31) 06/02 Carcassonne (11) 07/02 
Carmaux (81) 08/02 Montpellier (34) 10/02 Saillans (26) 01/03 Alès (30) 
02/03 Salernes (83) 02/03 Valletta (83) 03/03 Perpignan (66) 04/03 Revel 
(31) 05/03 Toulouse (31) 06/03 Ste-Livrade (47) 07/03 Marennes (17) then 
St-Pierre d'Oléron (17) 08/03 Nantes (44) 09/03 Brest (29) then 09/03 
Plougonver (22) 10/03 Rennes (35) then St-Broladre (35) 11/03 Angers 
(49) 12/03 Caen (14) 13/03 Paris (75) 14/03 Montreuil (93) 15/03 St-Ouen 
l'Aumone (95)

All other dates can be found on the Paspeurdesruines.net website.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Grece-Nous-n-avons-pas-peur-des-ruines
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