The corner of Mesologgiou and Tsavella, where the batsi shot down Alexis, has been transformed. It was always our turf, always the place where we hung out and where the mere presence of the police was an insult. But now it would be considered an act of war. The corner was turned into a living memorial - not a sacred temple purified by ritual and prohibition, but a beloved spot defended by our profane presence. Graffiti was everywhere. People started making stencils with the face of Alexis, to remember. Then we took down the old street signs and put up new ones: Odos Alexis Grigorpoulous, The street of Alexis Grigoropoulos. People brought candles, and a memorial was started in a little glass box right on the corner. Those candles burned for months.We did not let them go out. Then a plaque was put up on the wall, a huge, well done, beautiful one with his photo and an explanation of what happened there on that spot. We won't forget. We’ll carve our rage and the history of our struggle into the very walls and streets. These streets, our streets.
- The street has its own history
- Solidarity is a flame
- 1. Prologues
- 2. And now one slogan that unites us all: cops, pigs, murders!
- 3. These days are for Alexis
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4. Obedience stopped, life is magical
- Alexis Grigoropoulos street
- Koukouloforos
- The spirit of December spread round the world
- Konstantina was the first to join the union
- We need to make it obvious that it is easy to attack
- We finally understood that many people supported us
- The myth of Sisyphus
- When there is strong social conflict, you raise the tension of the attacks
- We want to occupy the media and use it for the movement
- December’s riots as mediated by the image of mass media
- The new neighbourhood assemblies
- Kill the sexist in your head
- The limitations of anti-sexism
- Now there are more social centres in Thessaloniki
- Many people were saying that they want Bulgarian society to be “like in Greece”
- The next step is to create the places where all the people can meet
- The rebellion, the workplaces, and the rank'n'file unions
- More old people and leftists are coming closer to anarchist ideas
- Now I really know what terrorism means
- 5. Breaking new ground
- Glossary