Manolis is Alive

Manolis is Alive

1. We claim one of the few squares that our city has. To create our own hangout place away from their profits, to build relationships between us. Relationships that are based on the person and not on the money.

2. We claim our entertainment. Our free entertainment, away from bars and clubs where somebody should spend up to 50 Euros each night for their entry and the drinks. Away from these social establishments, where the socialization is inconsequential and false. Where almost everything is predetermined and one should be “decent”, “well dressed”, “noble” etc.

3. We claim this public space in order to express our spontaneity that has been oppressed in the social establishments. We want to dance, to sing, to run, to drink, to paint, to climb. To allow life to lead us wherever it wants, away from social taboos and biases.

4. We claim the walls to express ourselves. To say all that is not said and to paint all that is not painted. Because poetry is found in the streets.

5. We claim respect to the space. To clean up by ourselves the mess we leave behind and not wait for others to do it for us. Respect to the space means respect to our own selves.

6. We reclaim the time that has been stolen from us by our routine. Every day our energy is sucked while we remain passive spectators resorting to false enjoyments and drugs like television, internet, gambling, alcohol and other substances legal or not.

7. We claim now and today. Neither tomorrow nor yesterday.


THE STREETS ARE ALIVE
WE’RE RECLAIMING OUR DREAMS

People from Manolis