AKS2003 writes:

Concerning the European
Union Summit Taking Place in Thessaloniki (Greece) in June 2003

Against the EU Bosses

After a series of summits all around Europe, the EU bosses come to visit their partners in Greece and make decisions for us -- without us. We announce that they will find us on their every step in our cities. We gonna be present wherever they go, and we gonna be by the side of the workers and the common people who resist in any possible way to the brutal capitalist globalisation.

Because of that, some of the anti-authoritarians and anarchists (both groups and individuals) in Greece decided to create the "Anti-authoritarian Movement Salonika 2003" in order to organise our resistance against the plans of the local and global bosses.We are sending you this document in order to keep you informed about
the issues that have been decided by the panhellenic assembly of the Anti-authoritarian
Movement Salonika 2003, in relation to the actions that we are going to
organise during the period of the EU summit in Thessaloniki (or Salonika)
in June 2003.

Accommodation

We are going to use a big space in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
which is located in the city centre, in order to cover the accommodation
needs of the comrades who will correspond to our call. This space is appropriate
both for the accommodation of a large number of people, and for the fulfilment
of the events.

About the "support" of the
demonstrations

Legal support

Groups of lawyers have already been assembled, and they have volunteered
to be on our side during these days, so as to provide direct legal assistance
and defence to the people who might be arrested during the demonstrations.

A web site (translated in various languages) will be created mid May,
where you will find information about these legal groups and about the
legal regime inside Greece. When this page is ready we will send you its
electronic address.

Furthermore, people from these legal groups have committed themselves
to be present at the Greek borders in order to meet the comrades from abroad
and to proceed with the necessary legal procedures in case their entrance
into the country is forbidden.

Medical support

A medical group -- both doctors and medical students, has been created
so as to be present inside the demonstrations with the appropriate equipment
and in order to provide the first aid in case of any injuries. Among the
plans of this group is to carry out a series of first aid seminars for
the training of comrades who might be interested, and also to publish leaflets
with useful medical instructions.

Discussions and events

Accommodation will be available from 14/06/03, a week before the actual
days of the summit (20-21/06/03). During this period a four-day festival
will be organised in order to meet each other, exchange views and opinions,
and coordinate better our actions.

This festival will include a series of concerts, screenings, exhibitions
etc, and four major discussions (one each day), which will be accompanied
by other smaller ones.

The topics of the four major discussions are:

• 
  Globalisation -- New world order -- War






• 
  "Fortress" Europe -- Suppression -- Immigrants






• 
  Labour in modern capitalism






• 
  Antiglobalisation movements and Antiauthoritarians/Anarchists

Some other topics have already been proposed for the smaller discussions,
and are relevant to education, art and the role of mass media.

The demonstrations

We decided that on the first day of the EU summit (20/06/03) we are
going to have a march near the place where the summit will take place.
This place is far away from the city centre, so we will probably go there
by buses. During the second day (21/06/03) we will organise a demonstration
in the centre of Thessaloniki.

A discussion on the practical issues of the demonstrations will be held
in the forth day of the festival (19/06/03), a day before the first march.

What we ask from you

If you are interested in coming to Thessaloniki, then please let us know:

• 
  through which countries, and exactly when are you arriving,
  so that we can arrange for comrades and lawyers to wait for you on the
  borders.






• if your group/organisation wishes to have a stand where it
  could exhibit its material, in order to prepare the space in the best possible
  way.






• 
  if your group/organisation wishes to make a statement in some
  of the four major discussions, so as to arrange a better timetable for
  the discussions and events, and to have the appropriate translators at
  every discussion.






• 
  if your group/organisation wishes to have its name appear
  on the poster of the festival as participants.






• 
  if you would like to suggest any other topics that could be
  presented by your group/organisation in other parallel discussions/events,
  in order to arrange better the program of the festival and its practical
  issues (ie translators).

We welcome your answers in relation to the above issues, as well as
any other questions or comments regarding the events against the EU summit.

Information about the publications and the actions of the Antiauthoritarian
Movement Salonika 2003, can be found at the electronic address http://www.resistance2003.gr

Comrades, salute,

Antiauthoritarian Movement Salonika 2003

www.resistance2003.gr

info@resistance2003.gr