Ten Days of Struggle in Skouries 19-28 of July 2019

Skouries 2019 “An open wound” 

In North Halkidiki the state oppression and El Dorado’s

arbitrariness continue to be present and penetrate the

everyday life.

On the one hand the blind and deaf Greek justice

consents to kangaroo courts and farcical trials

delivering unjustified convictions and on the other

hand Eldorado’s infrastructural growth in Skouries

remains concealed and progresses illegally and

uncontrollably.

Despite of the problems that occur from the

established mining-friendly positions of the

international partners and the Greek parliament

towards the medals and the hydrocarbons, the

corporate aggressiveness, and the widespread feeling

of failure amongst grass roots movements, we remain a

strong voice which insists that our society should not

accept and normalize the daily destruction of the land

and the environment by any company. The society

should not get used to the idea of assignment nor be

‘on hold’ indefinitely and certainly not lose hope that

something can be done about it.

Going against the grain, we continue to believe that

societies are those that will fatally define what comes next.

 Our answer to the imposed political “dead-

ends”, the pre-election commitments and promises and

their post-election breach is protesting and counter-

proposing. This is how we can find our ways out of it

and the only way through which to articulate true

conscience and responsibility of what is happening

around us.

Mines were always an open wound and remain to be as

such, a battlefield and a struggle over rights, land and

freedom.

Struggle Committee of M.Panagia