I just posted a bunch of material about the marvelous life, persecution and death of Aaron Swartz on the eponymous thread, here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35947&start=45
It's must reading! Please go there, all.
From the Democracy Now! coverage, I learned the above -- memorial service Saturday at 4 pm at Cooper Union. (If you know New York you know it, small place, easy to find, surely in the main hall.)
Are YOU in New York this weekend? I want to see you there! Call me if you've got my number, PM me if you can make it and want my number.
Okay, it's not an emergency RI meetup, but I do consider it urgent generally and I wanted youse guys to pay attention.
And if you're interested, earlier in the day I will be with the Greeks and anti-fascists outside the Greek Consulate, in solidarity with the big anti-fascist, anti-Golden Dawn protests in Greece that day. That will be at 1 pm EST.
https://www.facebook.com/events/292675974168972/
January 19, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANTIFASCIST ACTION
Public · By Despina Lalaki, Iannis Delatolas and Frango Akrivos
Saturday, January 19, 2013
1:00pm until 3:00pm in EST
Greek Consulate, 69 East 79th Street, New York City
January 19, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANTIFASCIST ACTION
In Solidarity with ATHENSANTIFA19JAN, Against Racism, Homophobia and Violence
NEW YORK CITY
Saturday, January 19, 1pm, Greek Consulate, 69 East 79th Street, New York City
In solidarity with the people of Greece and all the people of the world who fight for justice, liberty, equality and freedom from racial, sexual or other forms of discrimination we call for a rally at the Greek Consulate General in New York on Saturday January 19, 2013.
From New York City – one of the centers where the global financial crisis is orchestrated – we watch in dismay the unraveling of the social and political disaster in Greece and in Europe, in general. We daily become witnesses to the cruel economic policies and the systematic attacks against the weakest and most destitute groups of our societies. Immigrants, refugees who flee the US wars in Asia and minority groups, have been turned into scapegoats subject to racist public policies, police violence and assaults by the Neo-Nazi squads of Golden Dawn.
We condemn the Greek government and the EU for dotting the country with concentration camps. In language lifted straight from the Nazi lexicon – these so-called ‘closed-hospitality’ centers – house today an unknown number of people with little or no access to basic rights stipulated by international law. FRONTEX has turned the whole country into a concentration camp because the EU lacks the will to implement a responsible and humane immigration policy.
We condemn the police violence unleashed in every protest in the streets of Greece. The heavy use of chemicals, the arrests of civilians who resist the police brutality, the torturing of antifascist demonstrators, make it clear that any adherence to the basic principles and values of democracy has long been abandoned.
We condemn the Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn and the mainstream media that systematically conceal the crimes that Golden Dawn commit day after day against Muslims, migrants, people of color, gays, leftists, journalists and anyone who speaks up against them. We will resist their attempts to make racism, religious fundamentalism, and homophobia into a rule of life. We will resist their plan to rewrite the historical record, as they do when they deny the Holocaust. We will resist when they obstruct freedom of expression, as they did by closing down Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi for offending their sick moral order.
We fight against racism, religious fundamentalism, homophobia. We fight for open and free societies and against any form of discrimination. Join us for the rally at the Greek Consulate General in New York on January 19, 2013.
Endorsed by:
Aristeri Kinisi (Greek-American Left Movement) NY
Syriza NY
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Antarsya NY
Queens Socialist Alternative
Queens College Socialist Club
The Freedom Socialist Party
Radical Women
DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving
International Socialist Organization (ISO)
(list in formation)
Contact information: aristerikinisiNY@gmail.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/292675974168972/
