The open assembly of Brahami is organizing an open discussion on Wednesday 26/6/2012, at 7:30 pm, on Aris Veluchiotis square. The discussion will be about
social structures of solidarity and mutual help. In particular we will discuss the startup of a social pharmacy and a supply cooperative. After the discussion we will have a give-away bazaar and collective eating.
The leaflet about the event follows:
The leaflet about the event follows:
NOBODY
SHOULD
BE LEFT ALONE AGAINST CRISIS
LET’S
GET ORGANISED COLLECTIVELY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLIES
Who
we are
The
open assembly of Brahami (Agios Dimitrios) residents is an effort in
which people from Agios Dimitrios neighborhood
meet
to share and shape ideas, take initiatives and make activities. We
operate more than 3 years (December 2008). We pursue to be with
other neighbors in regular basis and decide about every theme that is
of our concern.
Our
mission is to implement
procedures of direct
democracy
in our neighborhood
Our
activities are based on face to face contact, respect of our
differences or choices, change opinions without fragments and take
action at themes in which we all agree. The equal participation of
what we say and what we do is one of our beliefs.
We
don’t want any kind of leaders and we don’t accept that we need
any kind of experts to decide for our life. We
undertake
to
materialize
these
decisions.
In
our assembly we want everyone who feels that is suppressed from the
power’s upper decisions to participate (boss, mayor of
neighborhood, ministers and parties)
We
don’t recognize any differences between genders, races or personal
decisions
FACE
TOGETHER OUR EVERYDAY NEEDS
STRUCTURES
OF SOLIDARITY AND MUTUAL HELP
During
the
last 3-4 years we experience a merciless attack which as result has
our relatives, friends and ourselves to lose our jobs or to be unable
to control our lives. The direct and indirect taxes are being
increased. We have to pay hundreds of Euros for medicines and medical
examinations at public hospitals.
Our salaries and
pensions are deducted continuously. The number of homeless people
gets increased. Schools cannot afford heating and cleaning up costs,
public kindergartens and music conservatories (odeums) deduct their
benefits.
These
are only some examples of what is
happening to our lives.
Against all this we
choose two different reactions: Resist and fight for all these that
we deserve to have (with our work, our taxes and charges, was allowed
to build all these).
On
the
other hand we investigate practical ways to face our needs
altogether, through structures of solidarity and mutual help.
For the coming
period we plan to operate 3 of these infrastructures
Give-Away Bazaar
Change clothes,
toys, books, CD, household utensils and everything else. Give things
that we don’t need.
This
way we help to cover our fellows’ and our needs. At the same time
we extend and make longer the time things are used.
Social Pharmacy
From
most of us it is demanded to pay for our medicine needs on our own.
For those who are uninsured or with low-salaries, this practically
means that they can not afford to have the necessary medicine.
We seek our medicine
to social pharmacies with the collaboration of other neighborhoods.
Through them we desire to ensure the access of this medicine to
everyone.
At the same time we
will generally concentrate to the health issue, accessibility to
hospitals and other welfare structures.
Supply
Cooperatives
We
choose to be supplied with
foods straight from the producers avoiding merchants and traders.
We
try to build relations of trust
and solidarity between consumers and producers away from short term
valuations of the market laws.
We
concentrate to what we
produce totally us employees, what is necessary and what is not. We
focus on the working conditions and on how our activities affect the
environment and what is the relation between countryside and city.
Also,
we search the possibility of changing and start producing some
products by ourselves.
About
all these issues we invite you
to our assemblies, to discuss and co-shape our ideas and needs.
We
will for
sure continue all the other issues that we have selected or will
select (e.g. Electricity Taxes, Pawnbrokers, Support employees of
ENEKA PAIDEIAS, Asyrmatos Park etc)
WEDNESDAY
27/6, 7:30 P.M, ARIS VELUCHIOTI SQUARE
DISCUSSION-
VENUE ABOUT SOCIAL STRUCTURES
(social
pharmacy, supply cooperative)
GIVE-AWAY
BAZAAR AND COLLECTIVE EATING
WILL
FOLLOW
BRING
CLOTHES AND FOOD PROVISIONS
OPEN
ASSEMBLY EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 P.M at ARIS VELUCHIOTI SQUARE
Open
assembly of
Brahami
Residents
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