Thursday, 4 January
Open Assembly Against Capitalist Climate Destruction
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We see the so called climate crisis as the logical consequence of accelerated capitalist exploitation and its deeply destructive nature. We see the fight against the capitalist climate destruction as an intersectional struggle, and want to focus on the interrelationships of different forms of oppression and exploitation. We are at a point where the inherent exploitative and destructive nature of capitalism becomes more evident than ever. We all saw nature's anger and the deadly complicity of the state in the floods in Thessaly and the north of Greece and in the massive wildfires killing thousands of animals and leaving whole regions burnt to the ground. Since the earth is a very vulnerable and sensitive ecosystem, its destruction is irreversable and total. We have to act now, target capital and the state, connect with others and self-organize.
Since the multilayered effects of capitalist destruction and expolitation are embedded in the neoliberal state and cooperate practice, we do not believe in advocating governments and authorities for the mitigation of effects of climate change, therefore, we strongly oppose the lie of green capitalism and see our goal in propagation and direct action targetting the ones responsible. We mostly lost our connection and bond with nature while living in an 'industrialized, globalized and modernist' society, we want to try reestablish connection to the world we live in. For that, we need to learn from self-organized groups occupying and interacting with their environment . Here, we want to contribute raising collective conciousness, but strongly oppose the neoliberal concept of individual responsability for the destruction of the climate.
Since the states and its capital from the Global North were, and still are responsible for this exploitation, climate destruction has a colonial past, and a neo-colonial present, as people living in the Golbal South are less responsible but much more affected by the deadly consequences. We see this fight as interconnected to all emancipatory struggles around the world. The struggle for climate justice has be to anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, trans-feminist, anti-specicist and against colonial continuencies.
We call all interested groups and individuals for our first open assembly in Zizania squatted social center (Filis/Feron) on 1st of January at 19:00.
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