FOURTEEN YEARS OF RESISTING PARANOIA
In this new
situation, both on a national and an international level, the Committee of
Struggle in Meghali Panaghia will organize the 7th 10-day meeting in
the forest of Skouries. It is not only an urgent necessity for its members, but
also for anyone following the attack of mining companies and the general
assault against humans and the environment.
We are facing
a political and economic system that has failed both financially and morally.
Indivualism and total lack of community, total inexistence of society on the
one hand, obsessively persistent economic depression on the other. Despite the
several recapitalizations, the myth of growth at any cost had already revealed
its limitations since the end the 2019. All mainstream analysts were just
disagreeing about the exact moment of the official declaration of full-on
bankruptcy.
On Greek
territory, things couldn’t possibly be better under the government of
‘excellencies’ as they call themselves. From the monoculture of wind-farms and
photovoltaic solar panels, a symbol of their new insane vision of development,
to the combustion of garbage and waste dumps, from the unapologetic support and
actual salvation of Eldorado Gold that was allegedly going to realize the
grandest, and most destructive, investment in Greece, of course claiming no
money from the Canadian mega-company, as the prime minster and his minsters
themselves admitted, to the hysteria of oil self-sufficiecy and the craze of
oil drills, there can be no better confirmation of the generalized impasse, of
the filth of consumerism and the plastic culture of dioxins.
As for the
political and financial scandal of Novartis, let us just say that it is proof
of the greed and pettiness of those who are holding on to their parliament
seats, as well as of the rapacity of big pharma.
To this
adorable normality, if we believe the terminology of the government’s talking
heads, the health crisis was added. Real or imagined, it does not really matter
since a new global situation was created in its name. Scared, excluded people,
bombarded by scientifically sounding data, infused with guilt by patronizing
specialists and under the surveillance of the cops, the heroes of the moment
playing a major social role. This was the best chance to sell all economic
justifications to pass the “environmental bill”, to let unemployment skyrocket
overnight from 17 to 22% and go unpunished.
This is how
we see the situation unfolding before our eyes, and not only in Greece. We do
not want to “return to normality”. We believe we should urgently organize and
resist. Without waiting for the declared “acceleration of digital reform” that
promises to give us back our jobs and wellbeing, but not quite yet, we are
organizing our 7th 10-day meeting of struggle at the forest of
Skouries from the 24th of July to the 2nd of August 2020.
For the
substance and the success of our meeting the contribution of all those
collectivities and individuals who do not accept the politics of delegation to
professional politicians of their own affairs, who do not consent, who
understand the danger, for both humans and the environment, of the assault by
States and capitalism and continue to resist.
MEGHALI
PANAGHIA COMMITTEE OF STRUGGLE
