Micropolis- Social Space for Freedom

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2010-02-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

Apparently, this page is not being maintained at the moment.

However you can check out the Micropolis page in Greek - sorry :-)

November at Micropolis

2009-11-30T05:23:00.000-08:00

Gathering of material about December 2008

2009-11-29T11:58:00.000-08:00

Whoever has in his disposal any material related to December 2008 (photographs, videos etc) he/she can send it to Micropolis’ email or bring it at the cafe during November, as a photograph exhibition about last year’s December is to be realised at Micropolis.

Sunday at Microtopos

2009-11-26T08:25:00.000-08:00

On Sunday 29/11/09 13.00-17.00 there will be held activities in the frames of the Microtopos at Micropolis, which will include : theatrical play, creative activities, free play, eating, and a public discussion concerning the operation of the Microtopos and the organization of its activities.

25/11/09 Public meeting-Briefing about the Swine Flu

2009-11-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

25/11/09 Public meeting-Briefing about the Swine Flu

2009-11-25T09:56:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday 25/11/09 at 6.30pm there will be held at Micropolis a public meeting themed "The Swine Flu in a society that invests in Fear and consumes it".

Speakers:
Kleanthis Grivas (psychiatrist)

Stratis Plomaritis (dir. of the pathological clinic St. Paul)

Aleksandra Efthimiadou-Griva (special pathologist)

Organization: Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki

23/11/09 Public assembly about December

2009-11-23T07:34:00.000-08:00

The Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki calls for a public assembly concerning our presence and action in the upcoming December, on Monday 23/11/09 at 8.00pm at Micropolis (Venizelou & Vas. Irakliou 18)

21/11/09 Minor Mine at Micropolis

2009-11-21T05:07:00.000-08:00

20/11/09 Kentin Jivek at Micropolis

2009-11-21T01:23:00.000-08:00

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19/11/09 Dimitris Durtmes and Band at Micropolis

2009-11-20T08:56:00.000-08:00

15/11/09 Greek Playback Theater at Micropolis

2009-11-16T07:36:00.000-08:00

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14/11/09 Experimental Sοuvenir at Micropolis

2009-11-15T05:04:00.000-08:00

13/11/09 Book Presentation: Διακυρήξεις Ανεξαρτησίας

2009-11-14T07:34:00.000-08:00

9/11/09 The green development, the grand dams, and the river Aheloos

2009-11-10T07:52:00.000-08:00

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7/11/09 Grover at Micropolis

2009-11-08T04:55:00.000-08:00

1/11/09 Activities for Children at Micropolis

2009-11-01T08:11:00.000-08:00

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Presentation text for the Computers Room at Micropolis

2009-11-01T02:18:00.000-08:00

This text represents a first attempt to present the frame and the rationale based on which the computers room at the Social Space for the Freedom Micropolis was created, as well as an effort to describe the aims and operations of the room, as these have been determined by now. At the same time, it constitutes a first presentation of ideas and reflections which aims at the provoking of a collective open and dynamic discussion that will be in position to listen for the needs of the people who operate at Micropolis that are related to technology, and to modulate, according to them, the character and the objective of the computers room, but also to explore methods of the use of technology on the axis of the fulfillment of these needs.

Main administrative body of the computers room of Micropolis is the computers group, which is in charge of its operation, as well as of the preservation of its collectively determined characteristics. The computers group does not represent a closed group, but potentially includes all those that share an interest in the inquiry and the codetermination of methods of creative use of technology in the frames of Direct Democracy, Solidarity and Freedom. This directly implies that the computers room does not represent the computers group’s operation space, but belongs in all those that recognize technology as a useful tool that can be used for creative aims. Thus, we would like all those who operate at the computers room to be comprehended not as visitors or users of the space, but as participants and coresponsible for the preservation of its characteristics, but also for the good use of the computers of the room, in order to avoid their deterioration, and on the axis of the recognition and the respect to the idea of the common ownership of the resources.

More concretely, in this frames, we want the operation conditions of the computers room to be such that they:

encourage a healthy relation with the technology, that will aim at:
- the briefing/counter-information
- the knowledge/self-education
- the communication
- the collaboration and
- the more general use of technology for action aims
deter:
- the technology’s mastery on the human will
- the hemming in the virtual world and the substitution of the real one by this
- the individual appropriation of communal computer resources, demonstrating a lack of respect toward their common ownership
- any relative with the use of technology behaviours that bear fascistic or sexist characteristics

Moreover, the computers room does not constitute an alternative internet café, but represents one of the activities/operations that are realized in the Social Space for Freedom Micropolis, and consequently, it carries a frame of operation which is consistent with the general characteristics of the Social Space, determined in such a way that the notions of freedom and autonomy are promoted and on the axes of self-management, direct democracy and anti-hierarchy. Thus, the behaviors that are expressed in its entire operation, can only bear an anti-hierarchic character, that presupposes the decision-making through horizontal structures, without any leaders, entrusting or representations, presupposing the free and equivalent attendance of all those that operate in it. Moreover, the operations that take place in the computers room are anti-commercial, in the sense that, in any case, they do not aim in the acquisition of profit in any way. However, in the frames of self-management and autonomy that characterize the computers room, as well as the whole of Micropolis, one can also perceive its economic autonomy, in the sense that that the fulfillment of various economic requirements that have to do with the maintenance/manufacture of computers material constitute a collective responsibility of the individuals that participate in it.

Main objective of the computers room’s operation is the fulfillment of the needs of those that operate at Micropolis, as for the use of computers and networks, providing free access to computers that run free software and to the internet, but also accommodating the realization of sessions of self-education (interactive seminars) with regard to various technological subjects that will be determined on the base of each time’s needs. Thus, the computers room can be comprehended as a space of application, in the frames of Micropolis, of an abundance of ideas that are related with the creative and action use of technology, as are the confrontation of techno-phobia in practice, the acquaintance and the familiarization with the free software and the direct-democratic philosophy that conditions it, the exploration and the inquiry of new methods that could support self-management, autonomy and anti-hierarchy, the familiarization, but also the critical confrontation of an abundance of tools that can make our life easier or realize models and visions that seamed unfeasible in the past.

The computers room will be open daily, from the 12pm till 11pm, while in regular time intervals there will be organized sessions aiming at the benefit of support, with regard to the use of the free software that runs on the computers.

Finally, beyond the computers room , another responsibility of the computers group will be a room of repair, which will bring a double objective: on the one side it will accommodate activities of computers repairing, which will cover the utilitarian needs of the people that operate at Micropolis, supporting, in this way, autonomy characteristics as for the fulfillment of needs in material, and on the other side, through its operation, it will promote the choice of the re-use of computer appliances, in a spirit of anti-consumerism and ecology.

Computers Group of Micropolis

31/10/09 Horeftes tou Vithou at Micropolis

2009-10-31T15:21:00.000-07:00

31/10/09 Assembly about the computers room at Micropolis

2009-10-31T14:45:00.000-07:00

On Saturday 31/10/09 at 3μμ there will be held a public assembly about the computers room at Micropolis.

If one has any computers or peripherals at his disposal, which are not needed any more, and wishes for them to be reused and not thrown away, he/she can bring them every day at Micropolis.

30/10/09 Assembly about Microtopos (space for children)

2009-10-30T15:37:00.000-07:00

On Friday 30/10/09 at 19.00 there will be held a public assembly concerning the organization of the activities in the frames of Microtopos.

28/10/09 Frix Sinatra at Micropolis

2009-10-29T07:53:00.000-07:00

27/10/09 Assembly about the library at Micropolis

2009-10-27T03:33:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 27/10/09 at 19.00 there will be held a public assempbly concerning the organization of the library at Micropolis.

If one wishes to contribute any books or materials, he/she can bring them every day during Micropolis' working hours.

The main subjects that will be covered are nationalism - gender - labour, without this being restrictive.

25/10/09 Sunday at Microtopos

2009-10-22T17:42:00.000-07:00

The activities that will be held in the frames of Microtopos on Sunday 25/10/09 at Micropolis, will include : creative activities, free play, eating, and a public discussion concerning the operation of the Microtopos and the organization of its activities.

20/10/09 Video Lab at Micropolis

2009-10-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

20/10/09 Opening of the Video-Cinema Lab

2009-10-19T16:01:00.000-07:00

The lessons in the frame of the Video-Cinema Lab-Κινηματογράφου will bagin on Tuesday 20 October and will be held every Tuesday at 16.00 - 18.00 on the 2nd floor of Micropolis.

You can finf more information (in greek) about the lab here.

19/10/09 Music studio at Micropolis

2009-10-19T15:42:00.000-07:00

On Monday 19/10/09 at 9pm there will be held a public discussion concerning the establishment and the operation of the music studio at Micropolis.

18/10/09 Activities for Children at Micropolis

2009-10-19T01:33:00.000-07:00

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18/10/09 Assembly about the computers room at Micropolis

2009-10-18T17:43:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 18/10/09 at 5μμ there will be held a public assembly about the computers room at Micropolis, mainly concerning the determination of its operation and its goals.

18/10/09 Sunday at Microtopos

2009-10-18T17:12:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 18/10/09 12.00-17.00 there will be held activities in the frames of the Microtopos at Micropolis, which will include : theatrical play, creative activities, free play, eating, and a public discussion concerning the operation of the Microtopos and the organization of its activities.

17/10/09 Assembly about the library at Micropolis

2009-10-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

On Saturday 17/10/09 at 18.00 there will be held a public assempbly concerning the organization of the library at Micropolis.

16/10/09 Pseudoprofites at Micropolis

2009-10-17T02:35:00.000-07:00

Opening of the computer room at Micropolis

2009-10-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

The computer room at Micropolis has been set up and it will be open every day from 12am untill 11pm.

14/10/09 Doga at Micropolis

2009-10-15T05:35:00.000-07:00

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13/9/09 Assembly about the library

2009-10-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 13/10/09 at 15.00 there will be held a public assempbly concerning the organization of the library at Micropolis.

12/10/09 Assembly about the space for children

2009-10-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

On Monday 12/10/09 at 19.00 there will be held a public assembly concerning the organization of the activities in the frames of the space for children at Micropolis.

11/10/09 Activities for Children at Micropolis

2009-10-11T18:36:00.000-07:00

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11/10/09 Library at Micropolis

2009-10-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

The Library at Micropolis is being set up!

If one wishes to contribute any books or materials, he/she can bring them on Saturday 10/10/09 and on Sunday 11/10/09 from 1pm to 8pm.

The main subjects that will be covered are nationalism - gender - labour, without this being restrictive.

9/10/09 Spiros Grammenos at Micropolis

2009-10-10T02:43:00.000-07:00

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Presentation text about the Café at Micropolis

2009-10-10T00:56:00.000-07:00

entertainment (diaskedasi): from the ancient skedasis (=dispersal,scatter)

This space, a part of the Social Space for Freedom Micropolis, in the entirety of its operation does not constitute a coffee-bar· it allows the meeting of people and not their consuming dispersal.

At the same time, this café contributes in the financial support of Micropolis – together with the contributions of individuals and collectives that participate in its administrative assembly.

Those who each time undertake the café’s operation are not professional and they are neither paid for this. We chose that there is no service (therefore, each one needs to self-service) and also not to “keep accounts” (therefore we request that the drinks are paid when they are received). We also consider that all those that coexist, be it temporarily, in this space, are equally responsible for keeping it clean and neat.

Often we prefer the music to play in low volume, in order to be able to discuss between us and to share our joy and (sometimes) our sorrows. Other times, feast claims its share… However, due to the fact that the next day always exists, we hope you comprehend our decision the space to close in 1:30 after midnight.

Thank you

9/10/09 Public assembly about the space for children

2009-10-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

On Friday 9/10/09 at 7pm, there will be held a public assembly about the space for Children at Micropolis, in order to organize the Sunday 11/10/09 activities

6/10/09 Public meeting about the Library at Micropolis

2009-10-06T09:22:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 6/10/09 at 8pm, there will take place a public meeting about the library at Micropolis, mainly concerning the composition of a list of bibliography that will deal with the three subjects on which the library will focus:

gender
nationalism
labour

5/10/2009 Puppet show: Flox, the box, and the clouds

2009-10-06T02:25:00.000-07:00

By Firdin-Migdin

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5 and 11/10/09 Activities for the little ones and for the grown ups, in the frame of the Space for Children at Micropolis

2009-10-05T18:06:00.000-07:00

Monday 5/10/09 at 8pm at Micropolis' event room
Puppet Show with music , for the little ones and for the grown ups:
Flox, the Box, and the Clouds
by the team Firdin Migdin
Sunday 11/10/09 at 12pm at the Space for Children at Micropolis
The second Sunday meeting of the little ones and the grown ups will include : theatrical play, creative activities, eating, free play, and open discussion.

2/10/09 Assembly about the space for children and the theatrical play

2009-10-01T22:02:00.000-07:00

On Friday 2/10/09 at 19.00 there will take place an open assembly about the space for children, concerning the organization of the upcoming activities, while a discussion about the theatrical play for children will follow on.

1η συνάντηση για το Αρχείο στο Μικρόπολις

2009-10-01T19:29:00.000-07:00

Ένα αρχείο πλούσιο σε βιβλία, περιοδικά, προκηρύξεις, αφίσες των τελευταίων 30 χρόνων χρειάζεται τη βοήθειά μας για να αρχειοθετηθεί ώστε με τη σειρά του να μας βοηθήσει να κάνουμε τη μνήμη συνείδηση. Όσοι έχουν υπομονή, όρεξη και αντιλαμβάνονται την ανάγκη της διάσωσης και διάδοσης του υλικού των αγώνων ενάντια στην εξουσία, μπορούν να συμμετέχουν στη συνέλευση και στις εργασίες αρχειοθέτησης που θα πραγματοποιούνται κάθε Κυριακή στις 4μμ στο Μικρόπολις, ξεκινώντας από την Κυριακή 7 Νοεμβρίου.

Πατώντας στην εικόνα μπορείτε να δείτε το σχετικό βιντεάκι, το οποίο μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε σε μορφή mp4 εδώ.

Activities

2009-10-01T16:04:00.000-07:00

Microtopos
Open every day after 12pm
Activities for children every Sunday 12pm-5pm
Public administrative assembly every Monday at 7pm
Contact: microtopos@gmail.com

Computers Room
Every day 12pm-11pm

Library
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-8pm

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Theater Lab
Every Wednesday 4pm-7pm and 7pm-10pm and Sunday 4pm-8pm and 8pm-12pm
Groups open untill 25/10

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Video Lab
2 groups:
every Monday 4pm-6pm and every Tuesday 4pm-6pm

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Photography and Paintings' Exhibitions
Exhibition of Paintings by Dora Koroneou : "It is so silent"
at Micropolis' café

Café
Every day 12pm-1.30am

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October at Micropolis

2009-10-01T09:21:00.000-07:00

September at Micropolis

2009-09-30T02:46:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 2 September Public Meeting-Discussion: ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΕΣ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΝΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΥΓΚΡΟΥΣΕΩΝ

Thursday 3 September Public Meeting-Discussion: ΚΑΤΑΣΤΟΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ - Η ΘΩΡΑΚΙΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΡΑΤΩΝ

Friday 4 September Public Meeting-Discussion: ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑ

Sunday 6 September Screening on the terrace: M (Ο Δράκος του Ντύσελντορφ)

Monday 7 September LIVE: Birds of a Feather

Wednesday 9 September LIVE: Balkan Swing

Friday 11 September LIVE: Λοΐζος and the Skarpinians

Sunday 13 September Screening on the terrace: Casablanca

Monday 14 September LIVE: Tourette Syndrome και Go Over 1000

Wednesday 16 September Screening on the terrace: Οι ακροβάτες του κήπου

Thursday 17 September Εκδήλωση-Συζήτηση-Προβολή: Αγώνες ενάντια στην εξόρυξη χρυσού στη βόρεια Χαλκιδική

Friday 18 September LIVE: Bubasvabe

Saturday 19 September LIVE: Hellthrown και Septisemia

Sunday 20 September Screening on the terrace: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Ασανσέρ για δολοφόνους)

Wednesday 23 September LIVE: Balkan Swing

Saturday 26 September Screening on the terrace: Touch of evil

Sunday 27 September LIVE: Blue Sign

Wednesday 30 September Screening on the terrace: Waltz with Bashir

29/9/09 Discussion about the theatrical play for children

2009-09-28T22:01:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 29/9/09 at 19.00 there will take place an open discussion concerning the theatrical play in the frame of the space for children at Micropolis, in order to share ideas, designings and materials for the realization of the theater lab for children.

27/9/09 Activities for Children at Micropolis

2009-09-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

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Presentation text for the Space for Children at Micropolis

2009-09-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

This text is an attempt for the beginning of a dialogue; it does not replace direct communication; on the contrary, it aims at it. We want to create conditions that would encourage the expression and communication between two worlds: the children’s and the adults’. The way in which the children of today are being brought up reflects the society of the future, thus “we have no right to tell our children how to build their future, since we were proved inadequate to make our own present”1.

The idea for the creation of an independent space only for children resulted from the daily necessity of the parents and their children themselves. Later on, other people were interested to contribute in the creation of an environment, suitably made for children, which they will be able to use according to their own wishes. Of course, apart from the creative activities, another aim concerns the opening of an essential discussion around questions that deal with the education but also the life of the children in the familial environment.

With regard to the operation of the space, it begins with organized activities that will take place every Sunday (12.00 to 17.00), with a view to it is extended in the whole of the week, depending on particular availabilities. However, even daily, the space will be open for parents and children. Aim of this undertaking therefore, apart from the keep and the amusement of children, is also the creation of an atmosphere that would encourage the children’s independency, and that would also provide both children and parents with stimuli for initiatives and the creation of relations that respect everyone’s individuality.

The space for children constitutes an activity among others in the frames of the Social Space for Freedom-Micropolis; it does not cease however to be an autonomous space, where decisions are made by the people who participate in it, and the expenses are covered from the participants themselves.

Finally, let us wonder that if we don’t get interested with sincerity in the development and the autonomy of children, it will be like we have accepted a society without future, because “your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you…”2

Administrative assembly of the space for children

1Wilhelm Reich: Children of the Future, 1984

2Khalil Gibran: On Children

27/9/09 Opening of the Space for Children at Micropolis

2009-09-26T21:45:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 27/9/09 at 1pm the space for children at Micropolis (on the 1st floor) starts functioning. This first meeting will include : creative activities, clown happenings, eating, free play, and an open discussion.

27/9/09 Theater Lab Lessons

2009-09-26T21:11:00.000-07:00

The lessons in the frame of the Theater Lab at Micropolis begin on Sunday 27/9/09 and they will take place twice a week on the 3rd floor of Micropolis, in two groups:
Wednesday 4pm-7pm and 7pm-10pm and
Sunday 4pm-80m and 80m-12am

The groups will stay open to new participants untill 25/10/09

25/9/09 Discussion about the Space for Children at Micropolis

2009-09-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

On Friday 25 September at 18.00 there will take place an open discussion concerning the function of the Space for Children at Micropolis which will be co-managed by children, parents and pedagogues.

25/9/09 Open assembly against the elections

2009-09-25T21:03:00.000-07:00

The Antiautoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki calls for an open assembly themed "campaign against the elections", which will take place at Micropolis on Friday 25/9/09 at 20.00.

23/9/09 Balkan Swing at Micropolis

2009-09-24T20:59:00.000-07:00

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23/9/09 Opening of the Theater Lab at Micropolis

2009-09-23T20:49:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday 23/9/09 at 20.00 there will take place the first lesson in the frame of the new Theater Lab at Micropolis. Whoever is interested in participating, can find us on the 3rd floor of Micropolis (Vanizelou & Vas. Irakleiou 18).
The Theater Lab groups will stay open to new participants untill 25/10.

21/9/09 Open assembly about the elections

2009-09-22T20:44:00.000-07:00

The Antiautoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki calls for an open assembly themed "campaign against the elections", which will take place at Micropolis on Monday 21/9/09 at 20.00.

20/9/09 Discussion about the Space for Children at Micropolis

2009-09-21T20:34:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 20 Septemberat 19.00 there will take place the first open discussion concerning the function of the Space for Children at Micropolis which will be co-managed by children, parents and pedagogues.

18/9/09 Bubasvabe at Micropolis

2009-09-19T20:31:00.000-07:00

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17/9/09 FIGHTS AGAINST THE EXCAVATION OF GOLD IN NORTHERN CHALKIDIKI

2009-09-18T20:26:00.000-07:00

Public meeting - discussion - screening
Organization : Initiative against noxiousnesses

14/9/09 Tourette Syndrome and Go Over 1000 at Micropolis

2009-09-16T20:25:00.000-07:00

11/9/09 Skarpinians at Micropolis

2009-09-12T20:22:00.000-07:00

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9/9/09 Balkan Swing at Micropolis

2009-09-10T20:17:00.000-07:00

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Announcement about the events of 5/9 (after the TIF demontrations)

2009-09-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

Thessaloniki. Saturday 5/9/2009

The city lives in the rythm of demonstrations… And reign of police…

Extraordinarily large groups of police motorcyclists stick around in the centre of the city. They terrorise and adduce 30 individuals. One of these gangs is paraded in the contribution of the streets Venizelou and Vas. Irakliou, where is found the Social Space for Freedom "Mikropolis". There they provoke and afterwards attack the people that come in and out of the building.

Machines of large cubism that dash on individuals, cast of chemicals (STUN GRENADE), policemen rush with the truncheons in their hands, and efforts of people grabbing without any reason or cause, can only be characterized as a gangster attack.

The people who were at "Mikropolis" answered dynamically and drove them back, cancelling their plans. At the same moment, on the 2nd floor of the building there was taking place a discussion at which were present syndicalists of the association of cleaners (PEKOP) and among them Elena Detseva, of K. Kouneva’s mother, who - like lots of others - faced respiratory problems caused by the chemicals.

By the way, it should be noted that a series of activities take place every day at "Mikropolis" on all of its 3 floors, and specifically on the 1st floor a space for children is found!

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4/9/09 SOCIAL RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT

2009-09-05T19:21:00.000-07:00

Public meeting-Discussion in the frame of the Political Three-day of Criticism and Analysis
Organization: Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki

3/9/09 REPRESSION AND SOCIETY - THE STATES' ARMOR

2009-09-04T19:20:00.000-07:00

Public meeting-Discussion in the frame of the Political Three-day of Criticism and Analysis
Organization: Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki

2/9/09 IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ΣΤΗ ΔΙΝΗ OF SOCIAL CONFLICTS

2009-09-03T19:10:00.000-07:00

Public meeting-Discussion in the frame of the Political Three-day of Criticism and Analysis
Organization: Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki

August at Micropolis

2009-08-31T06:24:00.000-07:00

Saturday 1 August LIVE: Trio Amnesia

Wednesday 5 August Screening on the terrace: Lock stock and two smoking barrels

Thursday 6 August LIVE: Kokkini gi and Chupakavlas

Sunday 9 August Screening on the terrace: Down by Law

Wednesday 12 August Screening on the terrace: Easy rider

Wednesday 19 August Screening on the terrace: La Citadelle Assiegee

Thursday 20 August LIVE: Lupakis Family

Sunday 23 August Screening on the terrace: They live

Wednesday 26 August Screening on the terrace: Gadjo Dilo

Friday 28 August LIVE: Spinaloga

Sunday 30 August Screening on the terrace: Ας περιμένουν οι γυναίκες

20/8/09 Loupakis Family at Micropolis

2009-08-21T18:58:00.000-07:00

July at Micropolis

2009-07-31T18:50:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 1 July Θέατρο C. for Circus: Στον τόπο του Περσέα όλες οι ιστορίες είναι αληθινές

Thursday 2 July LIVE: Meanwile In Mexico

Friday 3 July LIVE: 4 syllabes, Nipenthi

Monday 6 July Θέατρο C. for Circus: Two man show

Wednesday 8 July Screening on the terrace: A face in the crowd

Thursday 9 July LIVE: TRIO AMNESIA

Wednesday 15 July Screening on the terrace: Murder by death

Thursday 16 July LIVE: ZERO-ZERO

Sunday 19 July Screening on the terrace: Ο δράκος

Wednesday 22 July LIVE: Motel Selenik

Sunday 26 July Screening on the terrace: Les Triplettes De Belleville

Wednesday 29 July Screening on the terrace: Οι τεμπέληδες της εύφορης κοιλάδας

22/7/09 Motel Selenik at Micropolis

2009-07-23T03:07:00.001-07:00

9/7/09 TRIO AMNESIA at Micropolis

2009-07-10T17:04:00.000-07:00

6/7/09 Two man show at Micropolis

2009-07-07T17:05:00.000-07:00

2/7/09 Meanwile In Mexico at Micropolis

2009-07-03T17:07:00.000-07:00

26/6/09 Grover at Micropolis

2009-06-27T18:48:00.000-07:00

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18/6/09 blueprint at Micropolis

2009-06-19T18:43:00.000-07:00

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2, 4, 6/6/09 THREE-DAY OF PUBLIC MEETINGS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM

2009-06-07T18:40:00.000-07:00

Organization : Terminal 119

25/4/09 PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THE FEMININE PRISONS

2009-04-26T18:34:00.000-07:00

Organization: Women Group of Thessaloniki - Terminal 119 - Companions

Micropolis presentation text

2009-04-07T04:31:00.000-07:00

Micropolis
Social Space for Freedom

A building has opened at the corner of Venizelou and Vas. Irakliou 18. It has opened to the city. A building, a miniature of the city that we want, a social space for the freedom that we want. Here gathered people who had met earlier and others who joined afterwards. To cooperate a space that satisfies our needs and the needs of those that have no face or voice. To speak in first person, singular and plural at the same time.

To create moments of the future

Not the future vaguely nor the future they prepare for us. Moments of the future, where people will not function by means of profit and competitiveness, but in terms of social solidarity and offer. Moments and situations where people satisfy their needs by expressing their creativity, and undertake responsibilities, self-pledged to their social surroundings- situations that want to efface the coercions of hunger, violence or exclusion, once and for all. This is what we consider that is served by the structures of self-management, which are autonomous and anti-hierarchical: the factual opposition to intolerance, parliamentarianism, nationalism, racism, sexism, war, religion, dominion, human exploitation.

To give space to freedom

The social space Micropolis includes (or will include) the operation of a self-organized café/bar/concert hall, a place for children to be co-managed by children, parents and pedagogues, a computer room to provide free access to the internet and support the conduction of lessons, an assembly room, a library/reading-room, a film screening group, a food cooperative.
All these activities exist due to the interest of people who already participate in them and they are anti-commercial, in the sense that every cash transaction aims exclusively at the maintenance and development of the space and its activities, and anti-hierarchical, since all people participate and co-decide equally, without leaders, allocations and representations. The general assembly of this space functions in the same way∙ it is open (both to individuals and to new ideas and activity initiatives) and administrative (deciding about the inner function and the demonstrations of the space). This assembly isn’t and doesn’t want to be a political group.

To realize direct democracy

The social space Micropolis is related directly with the December uprising. The prime for the creation of this space was given inside the squatted Faculty of Theatre of Thessaloniki. December wasn’t what the TV showed. It was first of all everything we saw with our own eyes and everything we experienced: from the rage and violent clashes to the popular assemblies, the co-management and coexistence in public places and in places of the movement. It was altogether the condensation and the transcendence of decades of struggles and it forms the heritage to always remind us that dignity and life have no need of any avantguardists in order to fight back against present death. Inside the squatted Faculty of Theatre we recognised that we should learn to discuss with respect to disagreements and we realised that, with all our differences, we can cooperate and determine our own lives without having the need of any leader. Thus, it became clear to all of us that our future can’t include elections, scandals and this bankrupt democracy, but direct democracy, solidarity and freedom. The realization of these values and their diffusion outside their ordinary circles, traces the route of this social space.

To socialize antiauthority

All of us that have taken the initiative and the responsibility to create this space imagine a world that would be different from the present one. We know, however, that we weren't born in it. And we also have the bitter knowledge that we live in hard times: dominion tries to fight back after December, to intensify imputation, control and repression, to cultivate racism and depreciation of people that have arrived here hunted, to cut down anything humane. And all these situated under the circumstances of a generalized capitalist crisis, which they want to convert into an opportunity for better profit, and stronger segregation, a chance for expanding the desert of meanings.
We understand that we should change the world by changing ourselves. And we don’t have the magic recipe - just the will. And as we are observing the bankruptcy of the isolated/private person around us, sunk in competition, her profits and her loneliness, we choose to live and create collectively, as persons for whom the collective or society is an extension of themselves.

And here we are expecting (in Shelley’s words) everyone that has already hit the road

To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Contact

2009-04-01T16:08:00.000-07:00

Micropolis - Social Space for Freedom

Venizelou & V. Irakliou 18,

54624 Thessaloniki

Telephone: 2310261290

micropolis.email@gmail.com

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