No EU-Funds for the Eviction of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
No EU-Funds to kill the Hunger Strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne
For almost 120 days, Aristotelis Chantzis has carried out a hunger strike until death in defense of the Squatted Community of Prosfygika in Athens. Since May 1st, Suzon Doppagne has joined him on this path for the defense of life. A struggle for a society built on solidarity, dignity, resistance, and the conviction that we will win.
Their decision is grounded in collective determination: the refusal to accept the eviction of a living community, the destruction of collective care, and the displacement of more than 400 residents. For more than 16 years, Prosfygika has built relationships, culture, and a model of self-organization, self-sufficiency, and direct democracy that continues to sustain hundreds of people from the oppressed class and from over 27 nationalities unified in the center of Athens.
And still, the Mitsotakis government has made clear that it is prepared to let the hunger strikers die in order to attack and destroy one of the largest self-organized communities in Europe — through a violent eviction carried out in the name of the planned “Regeneration Project,” financed through several millions from the european ESPA funds.
At a time when every aspect of life is being privatized, commodified, and placed under attack, more and more people are being pushed into poverty, exclusion, and social death. We see it in the collapse of public healthcare, the privatization of education, the eviction of people from their homes, the destruction of labor rights, and the unbearable rise in the cost of rent, food, and energy. We see it in the criminalization of resistance, the repression of communities, the destruction of public and natural spaces, and in governments investing in war, genocide, and militarization while society itselfisforced into precarity.
In this reality, Prosfygika affirms that another way of life is possible: a life rooted not in isolation and the logic of “everyone for themselves,” but in solidarity, collective care, and shared resistance. The attack against the Squatted Community of Prosfygika is therefore far more than an attack on a neighborhood. It is an attack against the possibility of self-organization beyond state control, exploitation, and abandonment; an attack against the right to live with dignity; and an attack against a life built on shared responsibility, humanity, and collective struggle.
After months full of local and internationalist mobilization, interventions at the municipality of Athens and the Attica Region and Invitations with local politicians for a dialogue, we will not wait any longer for any positive response from representative of the Greek state.
We call on every person with conscience, every organized force of the movement, every social organization, to come from the 2nd – 4th of June to Brussels to spread our message all together.
WE ARE HERE, WE WILL NOT TAKE A STEP BACK – UNTIL WE WIN OR WE WIN.
PROGRAM
2nd of June – Gathering in Liège, the home town of community member and hunger striker Suzon Doppagne
3rd of June – Internationalist mass mobilisation in front of the European Parliament
4th of June – Press Conference and Participation in the HOUS COMMITTE …
CONTACT & APPLICATION
Please inform us, whether from your organization people will participate for the whole time or also only for the big demonstration (3rd of June)
Organise in your local contexts mobilizations for 3rd of June
Write us, if you have any specific needs for beds
mail: save-prosfygika-internationalist@systemli.org
website: https://saveprosfygika.gr