SILENCING DOES NOT LEAD TO INACTIVITY
Let’s not deal with the issue in a technical way. There is no use of introducing more patents, other broadcasting points, or compromises. We do not perceive the academic asylum and its main core –the free movement of ideas– in a utilitarian way, because in this way we would pave the road for domination. What is at stake is neither the function of certain counter-information media, nor some student liberties. What we are witnessing is the bullying comeback of a cast of authoritarianism ideologists who incarnate Power and the forces of repression. So, this is not solely about anarchists or leftists, or progressives.

We speak about the main principle of the freedom of ideas, a movement of ideas that has been shackled by business elite that holds almost all Media. This regime is supported by a tight legal framework that prohibits any contrary attempt of information with riot police and imprisonments, if it is not integrated in one way or another into the –ostensible– rules of their game. Calling their rules ostensible is not by chance, as today the vast majority of corporate radio and television stations are not even licensed. The continuation of their transmission is based on a network of corresponding servicing profits and power relationships.

For 10 years, Radiozones of Subversive Expression have been yet another target of domination; from the prosecutions by the state organization EETT and the broadcasting of a parastate radio station (“FREE FM”) on the same frequency, to the velvet silencing by the university authorities. The deanery reveals its real position by adopting an obstructive policy of supposed neutrality. It presents itself as a victim who is being persecuted because of its support to the freedom of expression, while at the same time it cuts off the internet supply to counter-information media that lodge in the NTUA. There is no use in ignoring the fact that the vast majority of counter-information structures now function through the university shelter. We believe that it is not an exaggeration to say that counter-information structures are beyond the scope of the student community, and diffuse antagonist discourse while they meaningfully socialize a shelter that over the past few years has deliberately lost its true meaning.

All of us, who administrate, publish or use the aforementioned media, and also all people who feel solidarity to the right of unmediated expression, do not accept to seek alternatives in radio or internet broadcasting at some other more hospitable place. The week ahead will not find an institution dwelling in normality, nor both media broadcasting from another place on the planet. If the State wants to muzzle the counter-information media, it should leave aside its academic puppets and take the political cost of a police intervention inside the National Technical University of Athens.

We call everyone who is against the modern dictatorship for a week of solidarity actions, from 15 to 21 April 2013.

WHEN THEY IMPOSE SILENCING, SILENCE IS COMPLICITY
Radiozones of Subversive Expression