We Are an Image from the Future
Subtitle: The Greek Revolt of December 2008
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781849350198
Copyright date: 2010
Other titles: Wir sind ein Bild der Zukunft – auf der Straße schreiben wir Geschichte
Description: What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhoods outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital paralyzing an entire nation for a month?

This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens on December 6thr 2008, and of the revolution in the streets that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching, burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond.

We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiques and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.

This book is just what Dr. Fucking Anarchy ordered. How to turn insurrection into revolution. The Greek revolt will inspire a generation as Paris '68 did 40 years earlier." — Ian Bone, class warrior and author of Bash the Rich

"If protest is when I say I disagree, and resistance is when I do something about it, then insurrection is when everyone else is on-board too. So it was in December of 2008, when Greece burned… We Are an Image from the Future is a quintessential portrait of revolution in action. The coming global insurrection has already begun." — Ramor Ryan, author of Clandestines

"What the Zapatista uprising of 1994 was to the antiglobalization movement, the Greek uprising of 2008 could be to the demise of capitalism itself." — CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

"This dazzling collection is not a book about the great insurrection of2008—it is a living piece of it that can become a part of us, and through us, it opens the prospect of a universe we might never otherwise have imagined possible. Future historians may well conclude that the Revolution finally began in 2008. If they do, this book will have played a crucial role in that realization." — David Graeber
Table of contents: title: The Street Has Its Own History—Tasos Sagris
pagenum: 1; title: Solidarity is a Flame—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 2; label: 1.
title: Prologos
pagenum: 5; title: Map of Greece
pagenum: 5; title: Chronology: 19th-20th Century
pagenum: 5; title: Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back many years. Part I
pagenum: 8; title: Panagiotis Kalamaras: There were many people who felt we had an unfinished revolution
pagenum: 14; title: 23.10: I began to get involved when I was 16
pagenum: 17; label: 2.
title: And Now One Slogan that Unites Us All: Cops, Pigs, Murderers!
pagenum: 27; title: Chronology: September 2000-November 2008
pagenum: 27; title: Argiris: Exarchia Square and the neighborhood assemblies
pagenum: 29; title: Iulia: Do you join the Party to fuck or do you fuck to join the Party?
pagenum: 31; title: J.: The raves and free spaces is where the collective consciousness is coming together
pagenum: 34; title: Lefteria ston Yiannis Dimitraki
pagenum: 38; title: The Permanent Crisis in Education—TPTG
pagenum: 41; title: Nikos: The supermarket expropriations were very successful
pagenum: 52; title: The Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
pagenum: 53; title: N. & Mi: The prisoners gained a new ability to coordinate their actions
pagenum: 55; title: You Talk About Material Damages, We Speak About Human Life—Panagiotis Papadimitropoulos
pagenum: 56; label: 3.
title: These Days are for Alexis
pagenum: 77; title: Map of Athens
pagenum: 77; title: Chronology: December 6–25, 2008
pagenum: 77; title: The World Left Behind
pagenum: 94; title: Lito: Suddenly I heard a bang
pagenum: 94; title: 23.10: I ran to the Polytechnic
pagenum: 98; title: Homo Sacer Quartet—Flesh Machine
pagenum: 101; title: Mrs. S.: I was in the heart of the catastrophe
pagenum: 102; title: Little John: Okay, now we’re going to fuck everything up
pagenum: 105; title: Andreas: We started with three hundred people, and came back with five hundred
pagenum: 108; title: Anna: That’s how big this thing was
pagenum: 110; title: Yiannis: In Patras one thousand people were coming out to the demonstrations
pagenum: 111; title: Vortex: That was the craziest moment of all December for me
pagenum: 112; title: Pavlos and Irina: This is the spirit of the revolt
pagenum: 116; title: Their Democracy Murders—the Polytechnic University Occupation
pagenum: 131; title: Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, & Kostas: All the kids felt so much power yelling at the cops
pagenum: 144; title: A Black Immigrant’s Cry of Despair
pagenum: 150; title: These Days Are Ours, Too—the Haunt of Albanian Immigrants
pagenum: 151; title: Invitation to the Open Popular Assembly of the Liberated City Hall of Aghios Dimitrios
pagenum: 153; title: Katerina: I thought the revolution was coming
pagenum: 154; title: Maria: I want to eliminate everything that represents the alienation of our lives
pagenum: 154; title: Sofia, Vasilis, Bill, and Irini: Before the revolt, all the Greeks were enslaved
pagenum: 156; title: Transgressio Legis: One day we jacked a fire engine, got on the CB radio, and said, “tonight, you motherfuckers, we will burn you all”
pagenum: 161; title: We Are Here, We Are Everywhere, We Are an Image from the Future—Ego Te Provoco
pagenum: 165; title: Ego Te Provoco: The media worked as part of the counterinsurgency
pagenum: 169; title: Vortex: The occupation of the national TV
pagenum: 173; title: Call for a New International
pagenum: 176; title: Em: In London the response was immediate
pagenum: 184; title: Pere: In Barcelona, we quickly organized a solidarity protest
pagenum: 186; title: Adams: Many foreigners have been killed
pagenum: 187; title: Open Letter from the Soldiers
pagenum: 189; title: Eliza:The Treaty of Varkiza is broken
pagenum: 191; title: The Logic of Not Demanding—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 192; title: Not this History But this Rage is Ours—Ankara Anarchy Initiative
pagenum: 194; title: To those who rise up in Greece—ABC Wellington
pagenum: 196; title: A Bedouin Anytime! A Citizen Never—Ego Te Provoco
pagenum: 197; title: Kostas Tsironis: I don’t care if I don’t take even one more picture, I just want to be okay with myself
pagenum: 199; title: Journal entry of one of the insurrectionists
pagenum: 205; title: To all those who did not speak with words
pagenum: 206; label: 4.
title: Obedience Stopped, Life is Magical
pagenum: 213; title: Chronology: December 28–March 4
pagenum: 213; title: Alexis Grigoropoulos Street
pagenum: 215; title: Koukouloforos
pagenum: 216; title: The Spirit of December on a Global Scale—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 219; title: Maya: Konstantina was the first to join the union
pagenum: 225; title: Ego Te Provoco: We need to make it obvious that it is easy to attack
pagenum: 229; title: Andreas: We finally understood that many people supported us
pagenum: 232; title: Panagiotis Kalamaras:The myth of Sisyphus
pagenum: 234; title: Transgressio Legis: When there is strong social conflict, you raise the tension of the attacks
pagenum: 235; title: Assembly of Media Workers: We want to occupy the media, and use it for the movement
pagenum: 237; title: December’s Riots as Mediated by the Image of Mass Media—Leandros Kyriakopoulos
pagenum: 241; title: Mi: The new neighborhood assemblies
pagenum: 244; title: Kill the Sexist In Your Head—the menses flow
pagenum: 247; title: The Limitations of Anti-Sexism—Sissy Doutsiou
pagenum: 248; title: Adriani and Flora: Now there are more social centers in Thessaloniki
pagenum: 261; title: Jana: Many people were saying that they want Bulgarian society to be “like in Greece”
pagenum: 262; title: Little John: The next step is to create the places where all the people can meet
pagenum: 265; title: The Rebellion, the Workplaces, and the Rank’N’File Unions—TPTG
pagenum: 266; title: Elina: More old people and leftists are coming nearer to the anarchist ideas
pagenum: 269; title: Lito: Now I really know what terrorism means
pagenum: 271; label: 5.
title: Breaking New Ground
pagenum: 277; title: Chronology: March–October 2009
pagenum: 277; title: Alexis Grigoropoulos Park
pagenum: 282; title: Daredevil: We intervene in the daily flow of things to interrupt it
pagenum: 283; title: The House of Maria Kallas
pagenum: 286; title: The Assassination of Prisoner Katerina Goulioni
pagenum: 288; title: Conversation on a park bench in Thessaloniki
pagenum: 289; title: Sakis and Dina: Now there’s no going back
pagenum: 291; title: Kostas: We decided to occupy the university rectorate
pagenum: 292; title: Alkis: December is a result of social and political processes going back many years, Part II
pagenum: 294; title: Kazana Poli: You could see the hatred in their eyes
pagenum: 299; title: Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis
pagenum: 300; title: We Are Winning—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 302; title: Iulia: I feel very lucky to be living in these times
pagenum: 303; title: The Political Parties After December
pagenum: 305; title: Claim of responsibility for an arson attack
pagenum: 306; title: N. & Mi: The prisoners of December
pagenum: 308; title: Letter from Anarchist A. Kiriakopoulos
pagenum: 310; title: What the Cops Told Us
pagenum: 311; title: Specialized Guerrilla, Diffuse Guerrilla
pagenum: 313; title: A Hot Summer
pagenum: 317; title: Conversation with the Owner of a Small Hotel on the Train from Athens to Patras
pagenum: 319; title: Yiannis: Maybe it’s gotten worse
pagenum: 321; title: The Media Try to Kill Memory—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 322; title: Alexander, Thodoris, Vlasis, & Kostas: All the people went back to their private lives
pagenum: 326; title: The Passage to Revolution—Transgressio Legis
pagenum: 327; title: The Unanimity of the Fearful—Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire
pagenum: 330; title: December Revisited—Void Network
pagenum: 333; title: What Greece Means (to me) for Anarchism—A.G. Schwarz
pagenum: 351; title: Nothing Changed, Everything is Different—Tasos Sagris
pagenum: 358; title: Glossary
pagenum: 368; title: Photo Credits
pagenum: 371