{"id":821,"date":"2011-05-15T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=821"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:46:09","slug":"greece-coma-comma-question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Greece: Coma, comma, question mark."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupiedlondon.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/483-coma-comma-question-mark\/\">Occupied London<\/a>, May 13th:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second morning after is covered by the shroud of normality.  Curious commuters on the streets, friends at the other end of the line,  random people in shops tune their conversations to unveil it. <em>\u201c-How is Yiannis doing?\u201d \u201c-Still the same.\u201d \u201c-Will he make it?\u201d \u201c-We shall see.\u201d<\/em> People take turns in making and answering the questions, sharing the  little they already know. A peculiar mantra, a chit-chat over life and  death. A collective, irrational belief that makes so much sense right  now: If we ask the question enough times, things might be ok.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Someone remarks: <em>it\u2019s like that movie, La Haine<\/em>. Vinz and  Sa\u00efd spend their hours waiting for news from their friend Abdel, who has  fallen into a coma, hospitalized after a riot. Vinz and Sa\u00efd roar  through the streets practising the idea of revenge, waiting. We, the  anarchists, are not in that different a situation. <em>\u201cIf only Yiannis doesn\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/em> Yesterday\u2019s demonstration was a collective \u201cif only\u201d flying through the  city. Fists in the air, and for a moment, even a waiting moment, we  seemed to grapple control.<\/p>\n<p>But Athens in May has little cinematic about it. In the past two days  the killer gangs have come out. They aren\u2019t waiting. The 21-year old  from Bangladesh is not waiting, he\u2019s already dead. Last night, at the  barricade defending Villa Amalias we encountered some of his friends.  They had walked down from the Northern suburbs, chains and crowbars in  hand, looking for his murderers. They aren\u2019t waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Will Yiannis make it? I can only hope so, with my whole heart. I have  no god on which to lay any hope and no faith in any state justice  either. Will he make it, will he not? Will we take revenge for him, for  our 21-year old brother whose name they still conceal from us? Will we  at least, and at last see that the other pole is grouping together \u2014 the  packs of national unity, of racial purity, of peace-seeking lackeys?  Will our time come? There is little of a comma to stop us and no  punctuation mark to set down any affirmation of what will now happen.  This is the time of the question marks. Will our own time come?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Occupied London, May 13th: The second morning after is covered by the shroud of normality. Curious commuters on the streets, friends at the other end of the line, random people in shops tune their conversations to unveil it. \u201c-How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[883],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communiques","tag-greece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}