The spanish “virus” hits Athens: four days of gatherings outside the Spanish Embassy

The wave of demonstrations and occupations of squares that has shocked Spain over the past days has started expanding outside the country’s borders. In dozens of cities in Europe and America, similar actions occurred or are being planned to take place soon. A map of the corresponding actions is available here.

http://www.ikimap.com/map/2CYF

In Athens, a facebook group has been set up, mainly from Spanish people living here, but which Greeks are also joining more and more, so that actions can be organized here as well. Daily gatherings have been arranged outside the Spanish Embassy (Dionysiou Areopagitou 21, near the Acropolis Museum) until Sunday 22 May. There is a gathering today, Friday at 7.00 pm, and similar gatherings are arranged for Saturday and Sunday at 5.00 pm. For the weekend, various creative activities are being prepared, and there is a suggestion that people stay and sleep there also overnight, in the spirit of square occupations in Spain.

Until now this initiative is dominated by solidarity with the movement in Spain and has not taken any “Athenian” features (eg, the poster is only available in English and Spanish). However, if many of us, the “locals”, participate, perhaps we will not consider Syntagma Square to be that far (in fact, it isn’t – see the map!)

The Spanish Embassy is located at the red X , a two-minute walk from metro station “Acropolis”.

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/