A CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY-MUTUAL AID NETWORK SUPPORT SOCIAL STRUGGLE IN GREECE
The below statement is from the Social Solidarity Clinic in Iraklio who are collaborating with other clinics, social centers and movements to create a network from below to receive concrete forms of solidarity.
Please sign and contact at network@espiv.net
Translation: Español
A CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY-MUTUAL AID NETWORK
SUPPORT SOCIAL STRUGGLE IN GREECE
#ThisIsACoup. 12/7/2015 Euro Summit. A surprise for some. Not a surprise for others. In either case, there is a lasting question. How is a response from below possible to counteract and negate the totalizing financialization of our lives?
There is not one political answer to this. However, a political point needs to be stressed. Support is not needed for an inter-class, ethnocentric peoples—the Greeks.
Support is needed for the struggle from below taking place in Greece. It is the State, first, that homogenizes the differentiated impact of austerity—due to class, age, gender, location, and way of life—under a national identity. To accept austerity, for each MoU, a respective national responsibility. And for five years—nationalization or austerity—the two remedies to choose from.
We choose differently. What is urgent, for us, is to collectivize (not homogenize) individual risk—due to personal debt, job precarity, lessened or no access to health services and good nutrition and the internalization of guilt and shame.
This is the 2nd call for the International Solidarity-Mutual Aid Network. To meet acute and longterm needs in Greece. From/to self-organized initiatives. The aim is to make visible, to demonstrate the efficacy of and put into practice an alternative form of Social Solidarity vis a vis the form of Institutional Solidarity—the EU-ECB-IMF institutions and the new austerity program by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) of the Eurozone.
To clarify. The call is not a contingent choice. It follows our broader effort to develop a different approach to healthcare. On a social, rather than individual, level. Solidarity, reciprocity, equity, without any distinction as to race, color, origin, sexual orientation or religion. Essential elements. For multifactorial healthcare. Not medicalized assessment. For treating human as a bio-psycho-social whole. Not reduction of human to any individual symptom. For deinstitutionalisation. Not charity, medicine for profit, or neoliberal de-hospitalization via closures, privatization and criminalization. For social emancipation.
The plan is to start from, and have at the core of this network, autonomous solidarity health clinics—the sites experimenting on the basis of non-capitalist forms of labor, non-medicalized healthcare, non-institutional dependency. Each clinic will act as a hub, and will coordinate with other self-organized groups in its city/broader area. Each such coalition will determine and share with the network—the initiatives responding to the call—a list of needs (money, in kind, human), ways to be reached (online, mail, in person), long term communication framework/programming. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Needs may range from medicine and electronics to doctors. Within the coming weeks each clinic/coalition will send out their first round of communication.
Social Solidarity Health Clinic & Pharmacy – Iraklio, Crete
Signatures as of July 21, 2015
Groups, Collectives, Workplaces and Networks:
1.Claudia Acuña, for Cooperativa de Trabajo Lavaca (Lavaca.org y MU), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Atenea Jiménez Lemon- Red Nacional de Comuneras
y Comuneras de Venezuela (500 comunas articuladas en Red)
- Roar Magazine (roarmag.org reflections on a revolution)
- Oscar Olivera, Fundacion Abril, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- RiMaflow, Fabbrica Recuperata!, Milano, Italia
- Vilma Almendra and Emmanuel Rozental, Pueblos en Camino, Abya Yala (www.pueblosencamino.org)
- Strike Debt! New York, USA
- Andrés Ruggeri. Programa Facultad Abierta, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Third Level Workplace Watch, Dublin, Ireland
- Rafael Sandoval del Centro Social Ruptura Guadalajara, México
- SODEPAZ Madrid Ongvde Desarrollo y Solidaridad, Spain
- Tidal Magazine, Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, USA
- Associazione Ya Basta! Marche Italia
- Direct Action Front for Palestine, USA & Palestine
- Workerscontrol.net
- – Comitê Pró-Haiti – Brasil – Lúcia Skromov l
- Givanildo Manoel, Tribunal Popular – Brasil –
- Organização Indígena Revolucionária – Brasil
- Vilma Lopes, Ecla – Espaço Cultural Latino Americano – Brasil
- Campaign for Peace and Democracy, USA
- Juan Hernández Zubizarreta Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina
- Constanza Cuetia – Tejido de Comunicación del Pueblo Nasa – Cauca – Colombia
- Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont, USA
- Gustavo Esteva, Centro Intercultural de Encuentros y Diálogos Red Intercultural de Acción Autónoma, Mexico
- Samantha Shakur Bowden, Occupy Tampa and Black Lives Matter Tampa, USA
- SOLIDARIA – Bari, Italy
- Patrick Bresnihan and The Provisional University, Dublin, Ireland
- Common Notions Press (commonnotions.org), USA
- Luis Nieto Pereira por La asociación Paz con Dignidad del Estado español
- Rene Olvera Salinas, Editorial En cortito que´s pa´largo, Querétaro, México
- Dr. S. Akhtar Ehtisham, Blog syedehtisham.blogspot.com
- Hugo Blanco – Revista Lucha Indigena
- Jose Manuel Martín Medem, Izquierda Unida, España
- Dmitri Prieto Samsvonov, activist.Taller Libertario Alfredo Lopez; Observatorio Critico Cubano; Catedra Haydee Santamaria, Habana, Cuba
- Krystian Woznicki (www.berlinergazette.de), Germany
- Chris Carlsson, Shaping San Francisco, USA
- Revolutionary Caucus, Students for a Democratic Society at University of South Florida, St. Pete. Campus, USA
- Commonomics USA
- Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Florida, USA
- South Florida Refuge, Refuge Worker Center, USA
- Florida Revolutionary Road Radio Show, USA
- Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca, Mexico
- Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, Lima, Perú
- Comité Bolivariano de São Paulo, Brasil
- Jai Sen, CACIM (Critical Action – Centre in Movement), India
- Pinellas Greens, Florida, USA
- Gulfcoast Greens, Florida, USA
- Officine Zero, Recuperated Workplace, Rome, Italy
- DinamoPress, Rome, Italy
- Point Break, Rome, Italy
- ESC Atelier Autogestito, Rome, Italy
- Resistenze Meticce, Rome, Italy
- Point Break, Rome, Italy
- The Free Association, UK
- Plan C, UK
- Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- schlicht&ergreifend, A Housing Project Group, Leipzig, Germany
- MTST – Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto, Brasil
- Círculo Bolivariano de São Paulo, Brasil
- Las Comite Pro-Haiti
- Juventud Socialista – Cusco, Peru
- Sarah Khan, People’s Health Movement UK http://www.phmovement.org/
- Medact http://www.medact.org/, London, UK
- Worcester Roots Project, Worcester, MA, USA
- CATAPA, Technisch Academisch Comité voor Bijstand bij Milieuproblemen (Comité Académico Técnico de Asesoramiento a Problemas Ambientales), Netherlands
- Worcester Solidarity and Green Economy (SAGE) Alliance, Worcester, MA, USA
- Gonzalo Miranda, Cooperativa de Trabajo Muchas Nueces – Editorial muchas nueces. Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Woodbine Ecology Center, www.woodbinecenter.org, contact pavlos@woodbinecenter.org
- Diego Benegas Loyo, for Barrios x Memoria y Justicia Almagro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Ecoredia – Gruppo d’acquisto solidale de Ivrea, Italia
- Workers Solidarity Movement, Ireland
Individuals:
Silvia Federici, USA/Italy
- George Caffentzis, USA
- Marina Sitrin, USA
- Marcela Olivera, Bolivia
- Andres Ruggeri, Argentina
- Sabu Kosho, USA/Japan
- Michael Hardt, USA
- Susan Buck-Morss, USA
- Raul Zibechi, Uruguay
- Gustavo Esteva, Mexico
- Claudia Acuña, Argentina
- Laura Gottesdiener, USA
- Julio Bronco, Mexico
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., USA
- Martin Krymkiewicz, Argentina
- Astra Taylor, USA
- Dario Azzellini, Germany/Italy
- Gaia Capogna, Italy
- Oscar Olivera, Bolivia
- Aniceto Hinojosa, Bolivia