▸An interesting event-discussion entitled “Public space at risk” is being held this Friday in Metro Argyroupoli square by the anti-capitalist movement Hellinikon-Argyroupoli “Except Plan”.
The city will not become a favela of investment in Elliniko
The last chance for a green lung in Attica is in danger of being lost. The former airport was handed over to Latsis interests and already the construction of huge buildings overrides any provision for greenery.
The beaches have also been handed over to business interests. At the same time, successive laws make our Hymettos more vulnerable to plans that expand construction. Within our neighborhoods residential development is rampant.
High-rise apartment buildings are popping up everywhere, every plot of land and a new building, cranes and cement everywhere.
No new green space, no new public open space in general was delivered during the terms of Constantatos. No free space really got greener since more emphasis was placed on plastic and fountains.
For almost a decade he allowed and encouraged the table seats that even blocked the special corridors of the blind. Now he says he’s tidying up, but they’re still all over the lawn in our squares. Constantatos’ class scares us. We see bars, fences and padlocks flying everywhere. Free space is relativized to “control” social behavior and become more accessible to entrepreneurship.
We know that all this is happening in other neighborhoods, we know that residents’ resistance is springing up everywhere. So we invite you to a discussion to see overall what is happening around us and above all to resist in each neighborhood. So that they don’t become modern prisons.
In this context, we invite you all to an event-discussion entitled “The public space at risk”
The city belongs to us. We are not giving it away!
The investment in Elliniko will not become a favela
Speakers
Vourekas Kostas, President of the Attica Association of Architects Section (SADAS – PEA)
Desi Louka Christini, Architect-Engineer, Secretary of the Union of Salaried Technicians (SMT)
Karadakis Giorgos, Member OUT OF SCHEDULE
TO BE FOLLOWED BY A BAR OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE MOVEMENT
FRIDAY 12/7, at 20:00
ARGYROUPOLI METRO SQUARE
2024-07-11 09:41:23