friday the 13th part II (1981)
On this day, 22 December 2011, in Athens, the workers at Elefterotypia, Greece’s second-biggest daily paper, walked out on an indefinite strike in protest against not having been paid since August. After several weeks, the 870 men and women working at the firm, including cleaners, journalists, print workers and more, decided collectively to launch their own, self-managed newspaper, The Workers of Elefterotypia. With the new paper, the strikers hoped to raise funds to finance their strike, and also give a voice to all workers fighting against austerity. When the owners of Elefterotypia got wind of the plan they cut off heat at their office, shut down their electronic publishing system and locked out the strikers to prevent them from using any of their facilities. But in spite of this the workers still managed to get out their first issue and outsell every other paper in Greece. To coordinate their struggle, the workers organised regular mass assemblies with 150-550 people in attendance, where they not only decided what to do, but also discussed politics and their hopes for the future. When asked what she had learned from participating in the self-managed newspaper, one worker told an interviewer: “We are capable of making all of our decisions ourselves. We proved that we can run the newspaper without our bosses, in a democratic way. This entire experience is a new process in Greece. Before, we would vote for a trade union leadership every two years and leave all the decisions up to them. Now we know we can take our lives into our own hands.” https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2167975626720909/?type=3
Rhea
Rhea (also spelt Rheia) is a Titan and a mother goddess in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven) and the mother of the great deities of Mount Olympus. Rhea was closely associated with the Phrygian (Anatolian) mother goddess, Cybele. Her Roman counterpart was Ops, a fertility deity and the goddess of the harvest.
Rhea is most well-known as the mother of the Olympian deities, especially Zeus, who she saved from being swallowed by his father, Cronus. As an earth and fertility goddess, she was worshipped widely throughout the ancient Greek world.
Atalanta is a huntress and heroine in Greek mythology who, after being exposed as an infant because her parents wanted a son and not a daughter, was nursed by a she-bear before being found by hunters. Her name comes from the Greek ‘atalantê’ meaning ‘equal in weight,’ perhaps a nod to her ability to hold her own against male warriors of Greek myth.
Atalanta, unsurprisingly as one of the only female hunters and fighters, is featured in this role in a few myths, with probably the most well-known being the hunt for the Calydonian boar. The Calydonian boar hunt is found in book nine of the epic poem The Iliad by the eighth century BCE poet Homer, and tells of how this huge and hairy wild boar with great white tusks was terrorising the city of Calydon, hence the name of the ‘Calydonian Boar.’
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