Monday March 30, 2026, Benefit voku for Prosfygika, bluegrass folk live with Sherman Potatoe en Thijs Vrolijk. Vegan food from 19:00, no reservation. Music on the stage from 20:30. Free entrance, donations more than welcome.
We’ll off course update you about the current situation at Prosfygika and in Athens. We’ll also have live music on the stage with two solo acts touring soup kitchens around the Netherlands. Get ready for Sherman potatoe (Blue Grass hillbilly folk, Hannover https://shermanpotatoe.bandcamp.com ) and Thijs Vrolijk (Americana Blue Grass, Groningen).
The neighborhood of Prosfygika was built in 1933 to accommodate refugees from Asia Minor. A lively neighborhood with community characteristics was established, consisting mostly of working class people. In 1944, the anti-fascist partisans used Prosfygika as a shelter against the Greek and British state army. After years of abandonment, Prosfygika has been increasingly reclaiming its original purpose as many refugees, migrants, poor, Greek and foreigner working class people have sought to resolve their need for housing by squatting the empty flats. Today, it is one of the largest building complexes in the center of Athens, which has not yet accepted the gentrification and exploitation that comes from big capital and the state apparatus. During the last decade, there were fourth attempts to evict and plunder the squatted neighborhood. In 2026, Prosfygika is more than ever under the threat of repression and eviction, the State not hiding any more its intention to take over Prosfygika, evicting a few hundreds of people.
Hands off Prosfygika! The Community of Squatted Prosfygika will not let Mitsotakis and his gang of thieves destroy such a monumental neighborhood. The whole movement is already mobilized and has announced fierce resistance.
https://en.squat.net/tag/prosfygika/
https://sykaprosquat.noblogs.org/
https://joesgarage.nl/archives/tag/prosfygika […Lees verder]
