04/12/11 Please note, due to the high traffic through the page we have changed the default settings so that when arriving to the page visitors land on the tab which shows posts made by us. For posts by all, you can click “everyone” above. Posts which are especially relevant will be reposted by us to appear in this feed. We hope this will allow new visitors the opportunity to find the information they are looking for more easily.
04/12/11 Next General Assembly, tomorrow (Monday) 7pm, buffer zone. Among the topics discussed will be:
moving forward with the occupied space; creating a cultural and educational initiative within the living space
outside activities to the occupation
progress of working teams
problematic experiences and how to deal with them
03/12/11 There are many Cypriots from the North staying at the camp tonight to boycott what they feel will be a fixed census tomorrow. This is legal as you are “out of the country.” This is an invitation to join them. Bring your tents!
03/12/11
Solidarity in action in London.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vfO48kZRlfHThfGDlthZLFsFLVsjSC5OeljCQxu2Gv8/edit
Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian just tweeted this. Many thanks goes to our friend Eralp Kortach.
If you are in UK and you can attend this, you shouldn’t miss it! – Occupy the Invisible Green Line- UK: First Gathering – With solidarity and love.
The next General Assembly has been rescheduled for Monday 5/12 7pm. Tomorrow we are participating in the student-led demonstration in the memory of Alexis who was assassinated in Athens by the police in 2008. Eleftheria Sq @ 7:30 pm, demonstration – movie screening – discussion. Organizers: Skapoula
Weekly occupation of Lidra St. buffer zone shared a link.
Do you use twitter? Follow us for frequent updates straight from the buffer zone.
http://www.twitter.com/OccupyBufferZ
schedule!
7pm tomorrow (wed), general meeting, buffer zone. be there!
A few minutes ago..:)
Tuesday – Screening “Little Big Man”
Wednesday – Music Session
Thursday – Screening (to be announced)
Friday – Music Session
All start at 21:00.
For the ones that are in UK – get together and join – Occupy the Invisible Green Line-UK – Spread the word!
08/11/11 What questions would you like to propose on some short and witty pamphlets to get people thinking about the Cyprus Question in a different way and asking themselves why we are occupying? Post your questions!
05/11/11 A translation of a news article: For the third time today, the symbolic occupation of the Ledra’s buffer zone ‘No border Street’ For the third continuous Saturday it is expected today that there will be a continuation of the initiative of a team of Greek Cypriots as well as Turkish Cypriots that proceeds in a symbolic, a few hours long “occupation” of the space of the buffer zone between the road blocks that split Ledra’s Street, in the centre of Nicosia, as an indication of protest against the economic and political establishment that maintain the current situation in the country.
The participants, inspired by the movement of the 15th October of the worldwide occupations against the monetary system and the erosion of democracy by economic interests, organise through a website on Facebook entitled ‘Weekly Occupation of Ledra Street Buffer Zone” . The initative started on the 15th October, when approximately twenty persons that were conducting a seat-in at Eleftherias Square decided to proceed to the symbolic occupation of the space between the roadblocks, something which they repeated on the evening of the 22nd October, holding banners and shouting slogans against borders and nationalism. Until yesterday, the relevant Facebook page, on which are posted photographs from the protests and there is also a continuing discussion about the identity of the movement, had gathered more than 300 members. As is announced on the page that has been set up for today’s event, there will be a discussion about the aims of the embryonic movement, which, as can be discerned from the internet discussions, has as its aim to marry the critique against the global system with its manifestations in Cyprus, as these are crystallised through the occupation and the continuing division of the country. Furthermore, it has been decided that the masked street parade which will happen on the same day end at the roadblock.
05/11/11 Rules of debate:
Attack or defend ideas, not people. And when your idea is being attacked, don’t take it personally. It’s the idea – not you. This gives us the freedom we need to protagonise change, speak passionately and move forward.
Leave your ego at the door, an idea is an entity in itself, whether it is proposed by a farmer or a judge, a 10 yr old or a 90 yr old… the idea is what is to be discussed, not who those making the arguments think they are or who they think the other is. Discuss your personal experience, that’s perfect, but no one wants your CV.
It is a crime here to shy away from controversy! Say what you believe and explain why, even if you think no one will agree with you – you might be surprised.
Be passionate, it’s OK, we are talking about our world, nothing more and nothing less than that.
Think about the words you are using, there is much terminology used in the Cyprus question that is outdated and serves to maintain subconscious notions, for example, speaking about “Peace”: we are evidently a people at peace, despite the problems that could arise between people as in anywhere in the world. We are at peace, not at war. We need to speak about reunification, not peace. If you don’t agree with the terms “Greek Cypriot” and “Turkish Cypriot” don’t use them, if you do, do! But let’s think about the words we are using.
Be comfortable with changing your opinions, ideas are not football teams. Ideas should change, shift and develop constantly and realising you’re wrong and sharing what you feel you learnt from that is one of the most liberating and fulfilling experiences you can have. Society, and the human, is emergent.
And LOVE, remember, we are fighting from love, even when we are infuriated, whether we realise it or not, we are not infuriated at the individual, but the mechanisms in society that have made them think or behave in one way or another, and we are all trying to share our freedom, whether we are right or wrong.
05/11/11 This week the press will be covering the occupation! make sure you are there 6pm, bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your enemies, bring your mothers…https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=270778116300560¬if_t=event_invite
03/11/11 Occupy discussion https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209539779119382
31/10/11 Occupy the Buffer Zone – Ledra street – Week 4 Saturday, November 5 at 6:00pm at Ledra Street, Lefkosia
28/10/11 Tomorrow, 6pm, Lidra St. Crossing https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139552056145510
26/10/11 Educate yourself and others about the systems that govern us, it’s the first, and most imperative, step to change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg
23/10/11 Plan of action
Hello everybody!
Whilst I am happy to organise the occupation and maintain the Facebook group, I don’t have time for much else… I am working from 10-12 hours a day with the Language Transfer project, including weekends.
So, we need teams to take charge of the many great ideas which are arising.
Firstly, diffusion:
We need teams to take charge of diffusion, to get the numbers up every week, to diffuse the printed and online material we are creating, to go to public places and get people to the protests. We could also have a team for each city so that, for example, those from Limassol could organise a weekly trip down to Nicosia. In the case of Nicosia, we should have a team for the North and the South. So, we need volunteers for these teams. Volunteers, write to me so I can organise.
It would also be great to have different speakers every week which we can record and include in our videos, this way helping to dispel many misconceptions between north and south amongst other things, for those that will then see this disseminated material as an introduction to us. For example, next week (the 29th) I hope, to have speakers from the north talking about their efforts to protest against the Turkish occupation and their experiences in this. It would be great for the following week to get some of the older generation, who lived in mix villages, to speak to us about their experience of another Cyprus… all ideas are welcomed, and we need a team to arrange these things and also other events (such as the music, theatre etc.) to come after the talks and the chants!
Of course, this doesn’t mean that only these teams will participate, anybody can make offers, suggestions and contributions. It means that these teams will take the responsibility of making things happen!
For now let’s focus on this, when more great ideas come forth, we will see about having more volunteers to carry them out.
I won’t sign “peace”, because we have it.
REUNIFICATION.
22/10/11 The 15th October Movement continues! We had a great exchange of ideas and a strong atmosphere today! The video of tonight and the programme for next week will be posted soon along with a draft text about our objectives and mission which will be posted for comments before being translated and printed. Please email any good photos to michaileleftheriou@gmail.com So that I can post them here and maybe include them in the video too!
22/10/11 Bring your friends, bring your parents, bring your children.
6pm Lidra St. buffer zone. TODAY!
21/10/11 So you clicked like, but revolutions don’t happen clicking away on Facebook, that’s step 1. Step 2 is to show your face tomorrow. 6pm Lidra Street Crossing south side, where we will gather before occupying the buffer zone (if you arrive late, you’ll find us there!). Bring your signs, bring your music, bring your noise and most importantly, bring your brain. Come, debate, learn, teach and participate; freedom is between the ears.
21/10/11 200 members now and messages of support from Cypriots all over the world who can’t wait to get back here and join us. There are a thousand versions of history and only one version of the future. Saturday, 6pm, Lidra St.Buffer Zone, we continue to write it.
18/10/11 Occupying the buffer zone until we tear it down, every Saturday 6pm. A place to engage, debate and educate, to meet Cypriots from “the other side” and dispel the myths used to separate us and use this island as, as the British so eloquently put it, “an unsinkable aircraft carrier anchored off the shores of the Levant”. It’s time to wake up to the truth, we are one island at peace, cheated of its independence by all sides affirming it, forcefully divided, that nothing short of a revolution will change.
17/10/11 100 likes since yesterday! So this is the push, this is it. Lets occupy and be present every week, share and inform, debate and educate, until we are enough to tear down the fence and farse that continues to separate and divide us. To tear it down for good and one day speak of how this began on October 15th. Like and share the page but most importantly, come! Make noise. Be heard. Reclaim what is yours. Let’s be enough this week to break the gate and enter the buffer zone, to step on our streets, to chant simply “we want to be together”. To play our documentaries on the wall of an old building betrayed by war and time, to make the change we have dreamed of. One Cyprus, one world.
16/10/11 Free language by Language Transfer: For those that might want to learn Greek for FREE in record time and in the comfort of your own home, check out Language Transfer. Greek for Turkish speakers and Turkish for English and Greek speakers coming soon!https://www.facebook.com/pages/Language-Transfer/155104297883412
16/10/11 “As we agreed the most important thing in this struggle is to educate ourselves and each other about the systems that dictate the mechanics of our daily lives, we thought it would be great to show some documentaries about the monetary system and economic imperialism next week in that place so representative of it’s many consequences: the buffer zone. Share this page! www.occupybufferzone.info”
15/10/11 First night of occupation, on the way to the buffer zone [Video]
An article posted in german indymedia about OccupyBufferZone:
http://de.indymedia.org/2012/01/323574.shtml