As the anarchist collective Mavro/Prasino (Black/Green) we fight for total liberation (Earth, Animals, Humans), putting forward the destruction of every form of authority that is mercilessly imposing on every being and oppose to every form of exploitation and oppression. Driven by self-organisation and solidarity, we choose to activate and be a part of Terra Incognita Squat.

Squats constitute islets of freedom inside the capitals generalized misery. They are places of resistance and struggle, built upon partnership. Composed by people who act without hierarchy, with self-organisation and fight continuously for social liberation and anarchy.

So we, as part of the anarchist movement, we choose to exist in a place like this, to built strong relationships and act collectively in order to bring a crucial, for us, issue to the surface. We consider the liberation of the Earth and Animals as an equivalent part of the struggle for both Total Liberation and the Anarchist Struggle. It’s a worldwide movement that exists for decades and counts many direct actions and a lot of prisoners, and it is still inspiring movements and burning flames.

Driven by the need to affiliate the total liberation affair in the overall movement, not like something that is cut off, but like something necessary, we started organizing some open actions. Seeing the consequences that the restructure of the capitalism brought in a very large part of the society, we wanted to organize a vegan collective kitchen two times each month. Collective kitchen is neither common meals nor charities. Collective kitchen is another opportunity to gather together, to interact with each other and build relationships. It’s a self-organised project and it must not be considered as a temporary redemption inside the everyday hell that capitalism has impose to us. It’s a way to satisfy some of our everyday needs and based on a set of values, such as anti-corporate, anti-hierarchy, self-organization, and to bring forward the solidarity among the strugglers.

We believe that human domination upon nature and non-human animals has become a part of man’s eating habits not as a mean of survival but as a mean of perpetuating a culture of violence and blood and so we choose to completely abstain from animal products. Our aim is the end of animal exploitation. Finally, by advocating veganism (not consuming animals and animal products) as a purely political act and not just as a dietary choice, we do not tolerate any form of authoritarian domination of the human species on other species for the satisfaction of anthropocentric and exploitative visions, and we fight openly against any culture and tradition that places man as the leader of the universe.

Uncompromising Struggle for Total Liberation and Anarchy

Anarchist Collective
Black/Green

Thessaloniki, April 2014