ON WEDNESDAY THE 24th OF JULY AT THE ERT BUILDING:
The Three-day event for DEMOCRACY IS CONCLUDING: IT HAS BEEN CO-ORGANISED BY the Association of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance Fighters 1967-1974 & the Employees of ERT: 39 years later, the fight against the “Black” on ERT is a fight for Democracy.
21th of April 1967. The Colonels’ Junta put a “black” on Democracy
11th of June 2013.The government of Samaras decided and ordered* to put a “black” on ERT.
*(reference to the usual wording of the Junta’s decrees “we decided and order”)
The answer to those who trample on the Constitution, the democratic social rights and conquests, to those who transgress the law, for the Greek people, has always been one: Resistance and common Fights.
20.30: DISCUSSION AT THE ERT COURTYARD “Which Democracy are we talking about”
Nikos Triantafyllou(President of Association of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance Fighters, then student at the Small Polytechnic, member of the KNE (Communist Youth), imprisoned in the Perissos Security Police Premises and in Korydallos)
Lazaros Kyritsis(member of SFEA (Association of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance Fighters), vice-president of Panhellenic Union of those Exiled to Makronissos, exiled to Makronissos)
Nikos Kiaos(journalist, then member of the “Rigas Feraios” (left-wing youth organisation), imprisoned in Averof, Korydallos, Boyati and Yiaros)
Thanassis Kalafatis(University staff)
Giorgos Kottanides(actor, resistance militant and imprisoned)
Makis Balaouras(journalist-resistance militant)
Dimitris Christopoulos(associate professor at the Panteion University and member of the Union for Human Rights)
COORDINATOR: Anna Konstantakaki(ERT journalist)
22.00: Resistance Songs
1. Christos Leontis– 6 songs from the “Smoked Cauldron”
Six-membered orchestra of Christos Leontis
ERT Choir – Athens Municipality Choir – Kifissia Municipality Choir
2. Mikis Theodorakis– 3 songs from the Spiritual March
Solo song, Forti Ioanna, Mavrogenis Kostas
ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra, ERT Choir, Athens Municipality Choir
3. Elias Andriopoulos– 4 songs and instrumental parts
Solo song Deloti Marietta, Tzitzika Antonia
ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra, ERT Choir, Athens Municipality Choir
4. Mikis Theodorakis – 5 songs from Axion Esti
Song Gerassimos Andreatos
ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra, ERT Choir, Athens Municipality Choir