{"id":853,"date":"2011-05-16T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=853"},"modified":"2011-05-16T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:51:11","slug":"off-your-asses-america-%e2%80%93-time-to-get-your-greek-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Off your asses, America \u2013 time to get your Greek on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/diskobolos\/diskobolos.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Diskobolos: the Next Generation!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/diskobolos\/diskobolos550w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><strong>Y&#8217;know, I really am jealous of the Greeks<\/strong> \u2013 not because of the shape their economy&#8217;s in, nor because of the corruption of their government and its servility to capital, nor because of the state-imposed &#8220;austerity&#8221; programs they struggle against. I&#8217;m jealous of the Greeks and other Europeans because they haven&#8217;t forgotten how to fight in the streets \u2013 unlike US activists, for whom &#8220;direct action&#8221; these days means standing around, waving signs or holding candles in front of the White House in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>In Greece right now, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/europe\/2011\/05\/20115118307306108.html\" target=\"_blank\">unionists, students and anarchists are taking on the police,<\/a> kicking ass and taking names in the streets. They aren&#8217;t taking &#8220;austerity&#8221; lying down. They&#8217;ve made the country virtually ungovernable. Meanwhile, in the bad old USA, &#8220;progressives&#8221; are &#8220;fighting&#8221; the imminent loss of hard-won social safety nets by waving signs, having vegan potluck dinners and teach-ins, and voting Democratic \u2013 in spite of the mountain of evidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/lindorff05132011.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about them<\/a> today (as if they ever did).<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to do this cartoon after seeing a recent article on Al Jazeera, as well as a large piece in the Washington <em>Post,<\/em> detailing the extent of the Greek uprising currently going on, as well as the extensive involvement of militant anarchist youth.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, Americans \u2013 off your asses and into the streets. It&#8217;s time to get your Greek on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Washington Post,<\/strong> 05.14.11, <em>&#8220;Into The Arms Of Anarchy&#8221;,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/diskobolos\/washpostMay1411pageA1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">page A1<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The Washington Post,<\/strong> 05.14.11, <em>&#8220;Into The Arms Of Anarchy&#8221;,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/diskobolos\/washpostMay1411pageA5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">continues page A5.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Diskobolos&#8221;,<\/em> 11&#215;17 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/diskobolos\/diskobolos.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res color .jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 960kb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, I really am jealous of the Greeks \u2013 not because of the shape their economy&#8217;s in, nor because of the corruption of their government and its servility to capital, nor because of the state-imposed &#8220;austerity&#8221; programs they struggle against. I&#8217;m jealous of the Greeks and other Europeans because they haven&#8217;t forgotten how to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,5],"tags":[48,47,335,336,334,312],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-globalization","category-liberty","tag-anarchism","tag-anarchists","tag-austerity","tag-diskobolos","tag-greece","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}