Comments on: “These days are ours, too”

By: kimmandrah-hope

kimmandrah-hope — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:40:04 +0000

women should just be treated no matter what situation even men!!!!!

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By: rojinegro

rojinegro — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:00:23 +0000

i have a disabled sister myself so that issue is very present in my mind. Its important you wrote that because its true that on this kinds of protests and insurrection you dont usually see any mention to the disabled ppl and what is theyr importance or if theyr even present… i personally think that everyone is important, and even if its fisically impossible or at least dangerous for you to participate in a riot or in a more serious demonstration or occupation you can still do things as important as those, for example, i remember that on Genoa 2001, in the G8 there were at least 2 disabled comrades working on the IMC (independent media center) receiving and transmiting the information comming from various protests all over the city, and so coordinating groups and informing people abroad about what was going on

By: solidaritydisabled

solidaritydisabled — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:06:58 +0000

Epistemic Murk, Saffo, and Rojinegro: Thanks for your messages. I am a disabled but it did not occur to me until Episemic’s message that something could be written! Unfortunately, I am not from Greece. I am waiting to see what Saffo is going to write. In the mean time, I and a friend have thought about what we would write about the insurrection from a disability perspective, informed by your messages. What you can find after clicking on the nick above is we hope close to that (it also refers on more than one occasion to the last two texts on this web site). A true Event has such an interpellative force that we almost felt as if we were in Greece when writing this: Wish we could be!
(As we could not find any text written about the insurrection from a similar perspective, this draft we regard as a beginning. Needless to say, anyone can use, add on, change or do whatever with this text, or, finding it all problematic as it very well may be, get simply the idea and write another one to draw more attention in “the disabled community” towards the insurrection )

By: rojinegro

rojinegro — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:51:43 +0000

what you forget is that this is not your average G8 summit were groups are organized around what someone defends… its a general protest and it is specially a street fight, literally and on a political sense, the goal is to change things in a deep way so this is no time to try and divide each other or put stamps on people… this is not a queers fight as it is not an anarchist fight, a communist fight, etc… its a popular struggle, its a united movement of citizens, students and hopefully workers who demand something different! and not in a small way… they want something different in a general way, they want to change theyr country and they want to change theyr minds
if this movement is succesfull then yes, the LGBTQ movement as others will have all the time they want to campaign and will do so in total freedom and always considering that what might be born from this struggle is a new kind of society were everyone will have its place as equals

By: saffo

saffo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:37:51 +0000

epistemic-
it’s telling that your post about women’s and queer liberation went unanswered. i am giving a speech today at a solidarity rally in boston, and i’ll be sure to post my speech up here soon.

we queers are part of the struggle too, however we are all-too-often ignored by straight-dominated radical movements. our contributions are not recognized, our struggle is ignored, even when we fight for our lives. we face systemic violence on a day-to-day basis, we face far worse police persecution… and yet how many people at these rallys maybe disowned their queer children? or have yelled “faggot” at someone. or have maybe even attacked one of my people on the streets.

these days are ours, too.
queers bash back.

much love,
~saffo

By: Takku

Takku — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:44:14 +0000

"Nämä päivät on myös meidän"…

Finnish translation

Alexis Grigoropouloksen murhan jälkeen olemme eläneet ennennäkemätöntä kuohunnan aikaa, raivon purkausta, joka ei näytä päättyvän. Vaikuttaa siltä että tämän kapinan kärjessä on opiskelijat – jotka väsymättöm…