City Plaza Hotel: Occupied and Run by Refugees in Athens

The next two meetings of the Social Movements Lab will focus on the City Plaza Hotel, a hotel in Athens occupied and run by migrants.

1) The meeting on Wednesday Nov. 8th at 3pm-4pm will be a "mapping" session for us to learn about the City Plaza. In preparation, please read and watch some of the following materials:

"This Refugee Squat Represents the Best and Worst of Humanity"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/23/refugee-squat-city-plaza-greece-best-worst-humanity

"We Struggle Together, We Live Together"
http://www.meltingpot.org/We-struggle-together-we-live-together-22325.html

"The Best Hotel in Europe"
https://best-hotel-in-europe.eu/

2) The meeting on Monday Nov. 13th at 12pm-1:15pm will be a dialogue via Skype with two participants from the City Plaza Hotel in Athens, Olga and Loukia.

Here is a Facebook event for these meetings: https://www.facebook.com/events/535549583460929/
Please feel free to invite your friends, comrades, and colleagues.

Location:
Social Movements Lab, Franklin Humanities Center, Smith Warehouse, Bay 5, Duke University, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham, NC

For Parking and Accessibility info, see: https://fhi.duke.edu/contact-us