BLockupy Berlin: European Day of Action 13 and 14 March 2013

BLockupy Berlin: European Day of Action 13 and 14 March 2013 by Hugo Chavez DAY OF DECENTRAL ACTION IN EUROPE AUSTERITY – RETURN TO SENDER! FOR A EUROPEAN SPRING! From the Berlin Blockupy-Plattform together with the Refugee-Strike, Kotti&Co, Energietisch Berlin, Zwangsräumung verhindern. http://bit.ly/154SSSD http://bit.ly/XNqQLV http://on.fb.me/154SQdn From April 14-15 the European heads of state are meeting at the EU spring summit in Brussels. This is the meeting where those infamous austerity packages, authoritarian memoranda and policies of impoverishment continue to be decided, which - for years now! - have destroyed lives of millions of persons in the EU and beyond. This time around, the summit takes place in a context in which the continent has been infected by resistance. Just four months ago in November 2012 the first European General Strike took place – and precarious workers, migrants, students with no future and unemployed flooded the streets. Now, massive protests in Bulgaria and Slovenia have ousted their austerity-friendly governments. General strikes in Greece continue to protest the destructive saving measures. Organized communities across Spain are defending themselves with the principle “Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay!” Refugees in Germany have risen up to demand rights in Germany; public sector workers in Berlin/Brandenburg have gone to strike. Across the continent neighbors are coming together to protect each other against forced evictions, against the consequences of austerity, financialization and capitalist profit-seeking. Yet despite this harsh social crisis - despite the resistance all these countries and the networking of struggles against the capitalist crisis - the governments continue to push non-democratic, top-down decisionmaking austerity politics in the EU. This means a continued neoliberal redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer – even if the German government erases this reality from its economic reports! On March 13, the day before the EU summit, we will come together – like people in Italy, Spain, Slovenia and all of Europe – to say - NO! Austerity back to sender! We will announce a European spring! March 13 is our warm up for a spring of protest, of resistance, of creating another coexistence. It is our kick-off in Berlin towards the massive blockade of the European Central Bank on May 31 and the international demonstration on June 1 - Blockupy Frankfurt! On March 13 on Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg we will gather alongside and together with Kotti&Co, the initiative against racism in and displacement from the central districts of Berlin. We will gather to ask each other: What is going on these European policies? How do they affect us in Berlin? What do our struggles here have to do with the protests in Bulgaria, in Slovenia, in Spain? And more importantly: Rather than austerity, bank bailouts and displacement: What kind of Europe do we want? And how do we make that happen? Come all! Join us at 3 pm at Kottbusser Tor, on the corner of Admiralstraße! There will be music, discussion, creative actions, information and talks by the Berlin Blockupy Platform and Blockupy Frankfurt, Kotti&Co, the coalition against forced evictions, the Refugee Strike! and the campaign to communalize energy in Berlin of the Berliner Energietisch. At 5pm there will be a teach-in about the EU, the spring summit and the austerity measures. BLOCKUPY !