People change, circumstances change people, our circumstances are changing dramatically, how will we change? We will change, how rapidly will we change, what direction will we look? Will we seek that Utopia? If not, why not?
Again, from The Greek Streets:
ROARMAG.org presents: ‘Utopia on the Horizon’, a documentary for those who chose to struggle.
In May 2011, hundreds of thousands of Greeks swarmed into Syntagma
Square in Athens to protest against the firesale of their country, their
labor rights and their livelihoods to corrupt domestic elites and
foreign financial interests.
In a matter of days, a protest camp was set up — organized on the
principles of direct democracy, leaderless self-management and mutual
aid — providing a glimpse of utopia in the midst of a devastating
financial, political and social crisis. On June 28-29, during a
Parliamentary vote on further austerity measures, the state finally
responded with brutal force, eventually evicting the protesters from the
square and crushing the radical potential of their social experiment.
A year later, Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jérôme Roos — PhD researchers
at the European University Institute and co-authors of the activist blog
ROARMAG.org — returned to Athens to speak to activists involved in the
movement and the occupation of Syntagma Square, as well as WWII
resistance hero Manolis Glezos. What follows is this dramatic portrait
of a country veering on the brink of collapse; and the people who chose
to struggle in order to build a new world on the ruins of the old.
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