You can`t evict a movement: a story of squatting and migration in Athens
(WorldNews Greece)

An inside look at one of the most remarkable stories to come out of Greece`s ongoing economic and refugee crisis - the intersection of the anarchist and migrant solidarity movements in Athens. Photo credit: Zaid Thanoon. Some rights reserved. As the Troika´s third memorandum for a Greek bailout was being calculated to render the `historic´ OXI vote of just weeks before (July 5 2015) effectively meaningless, hundreds of Afghan refugees were arriving in Pedion Areos Park in the centre of Athens. What was to be done to support these people with no access to shelter, food, water, healthcare? Tsipras had come to power on a pro-migration, anti-austerity wave. His government did not respond. They...