Syntagma, ground-zero of the global resistance movement

Excerpt from the article by Jérôme E. Roos in Reflections On A Revolution ROAR

Hundreds of volunteers are engaged in the most wide-ranging daily chores, from making food to translating extensive transcripts — and they carry all of it out with a degree of love and conviction I’ve never encountered anywhere else before. Indeed, on Syntagma, the only lazy Greeks seem to be the stray dogs that have made the square their home over the past couple of weeks.

Something extremely exciting is happening here tonight. My new friends at the square have set up a live video link with the indignants in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. Tonight, some of Europe’s main squares will join each other in a pan-European debate on the future of our crisis-ridden continent. It’s yet another confirmation of the fact that our revolution knows no borders.

What we’re witnessing here tonight is a grand social experiment in creating a new democracy — from the grassroots up to the global level. It’s absolutely exhilarating to be a part of this and to see that even in the harshest of circumstances (or perhaps only in the harshest of circumstances) humanity manages to unfold its purest and most beautiful essence before the world.

~ more... ~

Excellent slide show of Syntagma on Flickr.