Antiauthoritarian Festival in Athens 24-27/6 against OlympicGames

international | eu | event notice Tuesday May 25, 2004 22:51 by Antiauthoritarian Movement (Greece) - Antiauthoritarian Movement (Greece) info at resisatnce2003 dot gr

OlympicGames: NOT in our name!

Olympic Games are not an ordinary event. It is a method of re-forming a status quo of what the greek society has taken as granted. Economy, repression, labour, ecology, there is no aspect of social life that is left uninfluenced by "Athens 2004".

Anti-olympic

Activists of the global village,

As you may know in the forthcoming summer, the Olympic games will be held in Athens, the city where we “breathe”, live and act. As you also may know from your own experience that the games reproduce and support the sports of dope and anabolic, the civilization of fake and conformist culture, of overconsumption, of commercials and marketing, of the multinational corporations. They compose a crucial point of reference to the globalization of the new order of brutality, as this is expressed by the downgrading of our life, the intensiveness of production, the working “accidents”, the reduction of social political and individual rights, the huge increase of repression and the rise of control and oppression against the social protest and disagreement.

Olympic games are not a detached event that concerns only Athens in the year running. They are enrolled in the frames of globalization of the market, of order and security. Therefore they have to be seen under this point of view by the eyes of the movement against the globalization of capitalism.

Antiauthoritarian Movement is a collective with a catalytic involvement in the antiglobal demonstrations in Salonica on June 2003(it also organized a successful and massive antiglobal festival those days) and grows in anti-institutional forms of action and resistance. A.M.ʼs priority is the opposition to the social political and cultural logic of the system with several actions, reoccupation of places etc. Under this point of view on June 2004, we organize a festival against the Olympic games of corporations, stakes and subculture and their globalized dimensions.

We invite you to participate and contribute with your actions, quests and capabilities, so that we intense our effort to bring, through our contact during the games, the antiglobal movement in the front part of the stage.

With solidarity,
Antiauthoritarian Movement

P.S. You can also visit our site www.resistance2003.gr and contact with us.
Our e-mail: [email protected]