This is NOT an anarchist banner. This is a fascist banner, being hung by organizers from the Golden Dawn neo-fascist party. They are violent, antisocial racists.(1) It is being hung at the Stathakion Cultural Center.
In Greece, while Golden Dawn does better and better in the polls, their offices are being repeatedly smashed(2). Now they’re looking to expand into the US(3). Time has shown that bastards like these can be pushed back against successfully using a three-pronged approach. First, their ideological agenda must be countered ideologically. Wherever they speak, an opposition voice must speak also, speaking firmly and honestly. Second, their physical agenda must be met physically. You are left to your own devices to infer what this means. Third, their affiliations and ties to support must be severed, so they are left to recover from said aggressions on their own, and without the aid of others.
This post is being made because we know of Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, NY as one of their first US alliances. We don’t know whether the leadership of the Cultural Center supports them ideologically, is ignorant, or most likely, a mixture of both. We do know that Golden Dawn held a food and clothing drive to ‘be distributed to Hellenes, and only to Hellenes’ at Stathakion. You can read about it here: http://xanyc.org/?p=1
This post is being made for two reasons: first, to inform you comrades in the NE that you have some nasty neighbors moving in, and you should be aware of that and take whatever measures are necessary to stay safe with these violent xenophobes on the loose. The second relates to the third prong of the plan to dismantled fascist organizations. Call Stathakion Cultural Center and tell them what violent ultra-right fanatics they’ve been hosting. Tell them how important it is to you that they don’t host them again. Ask them what they’re doing to prevent this group from unleashing the same kind of violent terror they’ve been responsible for in Athens. Their number is (718) 204-6500. Please call them and then reblog this.
(1) http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-video-greek-neo-nazis-attack-immigrant-vendors-outside-athens-onlookers-simply-watch/
(2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/greece-golden-dawn-firebombed_n_1773505.html
(3) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333341Note: This post is informational only and in no way advocates violence or property destruction against fascist organizers. Such acts would be illegal and thus, inherently wrong, regardless of how little harm it caused and how much good it caused. One must never be tempted to stand up against racist terror using anything other than kind words.
The “new” Ecce Homo is a powerful act of creative destruction, a break from the logic of endless reproduction of dead symbolism, a rejection of the rule of dead labour over the living, and, as such, represents a radical rejection of the logic and semiotics of capitalism in its postmodern stage. Any attempt at “restoration” is fascist insofar as it represents a violent rejection of (post)modernity in favour of an idealised romanticised past.
nice.
FOUR MORE YEARS, AND FOUR MORE AFTER THAT, I PLEDGE MY UNDYING FEALTY TO OUR FEUDAL LORDS and etc.
addendum: Yes, I know loyalty day has been around for some time now. that wasn’t my point. Though, why complain? Obama just doin as Heads of State do, right? (i.e. THE PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN HIM)
NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before May Day Protests
America’s got this funny style of Fascism going on where so many of the actors (NYPD, FBI) are positively pathetic (in what they choose to focus on, in how they’re unable to see how obviously ridiculous and fucked up they are being), while the underlying ideas and principles (and the slow but certainly steady volume increase on these ideas) are really fucking frightening.
Happy (former) Palestinian Land Day! »
Juan Cole reveals that the Israeli government is proceeding with several programs to take more land from people already living on it, and giving it to Israeli settlers.
It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the land in the Occupied West bank for Israeli settlements. In addition, the Israeli government is moving forward with an outrageous plan that will mean the expulsion of tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens in the Negev desert. The context is the warning issued by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a 2010 government meeting that a Negev “without a Jewish majority” would pose “a palpable threat”.
You won’t be told about this by television news, your elected representatives, or the US State Department (in fact, when asked about the Negev displacement plan they dismissed it as an “internal Israeli matter”). But this is the inconvenient truth that prompted the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to recently issue what according to one expert was the most cutting “condemnation of a legal system of segregation since apartheid South Africa”. That is why Land Day, beginning with the struggle for the land, is now marked all over the world as the movement for decolonisation and equality in Palestine/Israel gains momentum.
I get the sense that this is a deliberate antagonization of people in the West Bank in an attempt to get a response they can use as justification for escalating their military presence. My heart goes out to the displaced and disenfranchised of the West Bank.
me: At what point does this [the ethnic cleansing via “settlements”] end?
Helrond: when it’s all settled
me: so when the Solution is Finalized you mean?
onefootinthegrave replied to your quote: No right is absolute
does he at least make the subways run on time?
I wish we could say “yes” so it persists as a myth just as it did with the fuck head said myth is originally attributed to, but no one would accept that line even as a subversive joke.
I think it becomes obvious when the attempts at justification are put forward for the State’s violence/brutality and suppression, when Jean Quan or Bloomberg try to excuse the mountains of bullshit, you see how thin all the smoke and mirrors have gotten.
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism, p. 17 (via waitingforbrodot)
Zeno stretched out his fingers, and showed the palm of his hand, - “Perception,” - he said, - “is a thing like this.”- Then, when he had closed his fingers a little, - “Assent is like this.” - Afterwards, when he had completely closed his hand, and showed his fist, that, he said, was Comprehension. From which simile he also gave that state a new name, calling it katalepsis. But when he brought his left hand against his right, and with it took a firm and tight hold of his fist: - “Knowledge” - he said, was of that character
Apples and oranges, I know, but still found this interesting/amusing.
