>
http://www.hedgehogs.net/pg/newsfeeds/hhwebadmin/item/8552267/vaios-papanagnou-greece-why-we-are-angry-and-desperate
> "Update: This is the 8th consecutive day that the
> Syntagma Square has been occupied by people, some
> of them staying overnight in tents.There is a
> daily general assembly where everyone who wants
> to speak has to take a number and wait for the
> outcome of a random ballot. There are no official
> representatives of the movement, it remains
> apolitical and collective. In Athens there is a
> general sense that this is the beginning of a new
> type of citizens' action based on the principles of direct democracy."
>
>
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_peoples_assembly
> "In Athens, people swarmed into the city center
> for the 12th consecutive day. Some were packed
> into Syntagma Square, in front of the Greek
> Parliament, listening attentively to speakers
> chosen at random from the crowd. This modern-day
> agora has taken place every night. The rest, more
> than 100,000 according to estimates, overflowed into the surrounding
> streets."
>
>
http://www.metamute.org/en/news_and_analysis/updates_from_the_greek_squares_and_people_s_assemblies_1
> Protokolle des Parlaments von Syntagma
>
>
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>
>
http://www.socialistworld.net/print/5144
> "Role and power of Assemblies
>
> In Athens, activists have tried to set up local
> assemblies in a number of neighbourhoods.
> Sometimes they are initially small and more a
> gathering of left activists. In some areas, 100
> to 150 people meet locally on a public square and
> start to take action: trying to organise for the
> big demonstrations, and to offer local resistance
> against attacks on hospitals, putting forward
> demands how to protect the unemployed, etc. These
> local assemblies are still at an initial stage
> and their future development is not yet clear. It
> will depend on the general development of the movement and the class
> struggle.
>
> The assembly on Syntagma Square is at the centre
> of this movement. Decisions taken there are
> landmarks for the movement and especially the local assemblies.
>
> The speakers are chosen by lottery. Everyone who
> wants to speak is given a number and the numbers
> are drawn by random. After the discussion, votes are taken on the
> proposals.
>
> Some issues have been agreed over the last three
> weeks. For example, it is now more or less agreed
> that the sovereign debt should not be paid. After
> a lot of understandable scepticism in relation to
> the trade union leaders, a clear majority now
> welcomes and aims to forge strong links between
> their movement of the Enraged and workers in
> struggle. The question of the nationalisation of
> the banks is an ongoing debate and a majority is
> in favour of it, but without complete agreement about what to do next.
>
> Other issues are under debate. Last Wednesday,
> the question whether to leave the EU and
> euro-zone was put to a vote and a majority
> supported it, but without a clear alternative.
> While the supporters of the KKE (Communist Party
> - who do not attend the assembly, describing it
> as “petty bourgeois”) argued on the demonstration
> that Greece can solve its problems better if it
> is just left alone, others argued taking into
> account the Greek economy in the context of the global economy.
>
> As long as the question is just posed as a
> ‘choice’ between the euro, dominated by the
> strong imperialist powers in Europe, and a return
> to the drachma on a capitalist basis - still
> dominated by the big capitalist economies – it is
> a hard choice between two evils.
>
> Xekinima (the CWI in Greece), argues for a
> European-wide, workers and youth resistance
> against the capitalist EU and all its
> institutions, opening the way for socialist
> co-operation, on all levels, as part of a
> voluntary socialist confederation of workers’ states of Europe.
>
> Other issues debated concern the role of
> political parties, how to get rid of the Pasok
> government, and with what to replace it - where
> only a very few answers are provided.
>
> If these assemblies spread locally and especially
> to the workplaces and the Syntagma assemblies
> bring together delegates from all these
> assemblies the embryo of a future alternative can
> be created: the basis for a government working in
> the interests of workers, unemployed, the poor and young people.
>
> For the moment, the assemblies offer a chance to
> organise the resistance against the attacks, to
> be a check on the trade union leaders and to
> actively involve more people to stop the agenda
> of the Greek and international capitalists."
>
voluptuosissimus - 1. Jul, 17:14