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On the morning of Wed. (17 December 2008), the offices of the G.S.E.E. (at
the intersection of Patision St. and Alexandras St.) were occupied by insurgent
workers and the building was declared a liberated workers' zone. Their
declaration speaks of their wish "[t]o disperse the media-touted myth that the
workers were and are absent from the clashes, and that the rage of these days
was an affair of some 500 "mask-bearers," "hooligans" or some other such fairy
tale, while on the T.V. screens the workers were presented as victims of the
clash, while the capitalist crisis in Greece and worldwide continues to lead to
countless layoffs that the media and their managers portray as a "natural
phenomenon"."
Communique #1 (17 December 2008):
We will either determine our history ourselves or let it be determined
without us.
We, manual workers, employees, jobless, temporary workers, local or
migrants, are not passive T.V. viewers. Since the murder of Alexandros
Grigoropoulos on Saturday night, we participate in the demonstrations, the
clashes with the police, the occupations of the centre or the neighborhoods.
Time and time again we had to leave our jobs and our daily obligations to take
the streets with the students, the university students and the other
proletarians in the struggle.
WE DECIDED TO OCCUPY THE BUILDING OF G.S.E.E.
-- To turn it into a space of free expression and a meeting point of
workers.
-- To disperse the media-touted myth that the workers were and are absent
from the clashes, and that the rage of these days was an affair of some 500
"mask-bearers," "hooligans" or some other fairy tale, while on the T.V. screens
the workers were presented as victims of the clash, while the capitalist crisis
in Greece and worldwide continues to lead to countless layoffs that the media
and their managers deal as a "natural phenomenon".
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