Deposit of soul and enhance from outdated and new reporters of AUGIS
For DAWN prior to darkish
By means of Nikos Philis*
The historical past of AUGIS is inextricably intertwined with the Left. After the Postcolonization, with the renewing Left. Its newsletter and movement used to be a political and no longer a business act. It survived in tough prerequisites of political festival, with a small celebration as the primary shareholder, in the beginning the KKE Esoterikou after which Synaspsis and SYRIZA. And all the time with the decisive contribution of the readers, who made up a neighborhood that known in AVGI no longer best its data and political expression but additionally a type of political inclusion. And, after all, with the unselfish be offering of the employees, who, of their professional-democratic formation, gave again to the newspaper what used to be owed and assumed the duty of taking part in its newsletter. The newspaper has been greater than only a newspaper. It used to be an establishment of tradition, as mirrored within the nice gala’s of AUGIS and Thurios, which of their time had been necessary expressions of ideological, political and inventive avant-garde.
The survival of the newspaper, due to this fact, at the trail of Put up-colonization used to be a political resolution of 3 elements: the celebration, the readers and the employees. Lately, those phrases have modified of their entirety. Before everything, the celebration has fallen into this type of disaster, basically a qualitative one, as thru its sluggish de-leftization it mutates into one thing recently undefined.
Saving AUGIS, as a ancient newspaper of the Left, is a particularly tough activity. However, the fight will have to be fought beneath the vital situation that the newspaper will pursue its journalistic independence and its biggest conceivable political autonomy, all the time throughout the house of values of the renewing radical Left. DAWN may also be salvaged no longer as a cachectic remnant of a declining celebration historical past, however as a web site of reference for the Left’s vital reconstitution. A spot of renewal and tradition, as AVGI has all the time been, open to the motion of concepts and tradition, as regards to the struggles of staff and early life, a delicate receiver of society’s anxieties and hopes. The similar applies to r/s 105.5 In Crimson with the vital synergies. At this second, after all, the concern is team spirit with the employees and the protection in their hard work rights.
Can AVGI and Kokkino regain their status, which the protracted SYRIZA disaster has eroded? Can they enchantment to younger folks, to actions, to the considering left-wing citizen? This is a guess that calls for upheavals and consciousness of the nice difficulties. Within the nice effort that were made within the Nineteen Nineties, led on the time by way of Filippos Ilios and Angelos Elefantis, the name of the challenge used to be: “Simply prior to the horizon darkens for DAWN”. And it did not get darkish! Now;
* Nikos Filis used to be director of AVGI from 2008 to 2015
It is DAWN!
By means of Yannis Floros*
Why should not the newspaper I AVGI be closed? However for one reason why, fundamental and primary: It’s DAWN. With an enormous ancient burden and what this indicates for these days and the next day to come of the Left. Because of this, to which all others publish, and there are lots of, the paper will have to no longer be closed. Why is DAWN!
The verdict of those that are actually accountable for its direction will have to be one, transparent and with out asterisks: DAWN does no longer shut.
Manolis Anagnostakis says in his poem “The Resolution”:
“Are you for or towards?
So solution with a sure or a no…”.
But even so, as considered one of his traces in the similar poem states: “The entirety in lifestyles is tormenting…”.
* Yiannis Floros is a journalist. He additionally labored at AUGI
The less “Dawns” the extra “Wolves”
By means of Eleni Cerezole*
Can there be a media panorama with out DAWN and SUNDAY DAWN? The solution is within the affirmative if we pass judgement on from the closing months of the suspension of newsletter of the day-to-day paper and the closing weeks, when the Sunday paper isn’t placing at the newsstands.
Is that this a favorable building? No doubt sure for many who are allergic and escape in blisters listening to tense voices that do not align with the digestible, the simple, fearmongering, listening to voices that criticize, that ask uncomfortable (to the robust) questions, resent methods of presidency, and so on. For individuals who deify the brand new social media as “selection” assets of “personalised” data/data.
However by no means for us, who imagine AUGI and Sunday AUGI to be integral portions of the inside track panorama (and once in a while of ourselves). Sine qua non prerequisites for democracy, freedom of expression, of idea. For us, the absence of the 2 variations of AVGI is a large hole. Lack of expertise. Loss of democracy. Or even within the explicit, present state of affairs of the Alt-right, which is appearing its tooth outside and inside of Greece, and rights that we took without any consideration, comparable to data from a left-wing newspaper, are threatened to be swept away.
So exhausting occasions for left-wing newspapers? Certainly sure. The guess is that the tough occasions don’t turn out to be a pretext for the cessation of the lifestyles of left opinion newspapers, comparable to AVGI. As a result of exactly in our tough, revisionist occasions, those voices are the partitions towards faux information which, due to Synthetic Intelligence, are turning into extra insidious and threatening. The less “Dawns” the extra “wolves”…
In order that AUGI can go back to the newsstands once more.
With the colleagues, who stay unpaid for such a lot of months and struggle to say no longer best the self-evident, however the the most important. That which considerations a State which is in peril of turning into dangerously darkish with out break of day. With out DAWN…
* Eleni Tserezole used to be accountable for the world reporting in AVGI from 1994 to 2012. From 2012 to the current, she writes for the Sunday DAWN
It isn’t only a newspaper
By means of Nikolas Voulelis*
AVGI isn’t just a newspaper. In its lengthy direction, it marked the historical past of the Left in trendy Greece. Her contribution to the emergence of recent currents of idea, her company adherence to the information of freedom, democracy and independence – in in particular tough instances – is priceless. AVGI used to be additionally inextricably connected to the interests of the Eu Left.
After the Put up-colonization, within the larger a part of its trail, it expressed the information and considerations for the renewal of the communist and leftist motion.
AVGI hosted hundreds of folks of letters and humanities, whilst it used to be a really perfect faculty of journalism from which all of the media continuously drew energy.
AVGI controlled in nearly all stages of its historical past to stability between the celebration interventions and the will for the loose expression of its editors. The newspaper used to be no longer all the time pleased with the celebration’s alternatives for its administrators, however those didn’t cancel its total contribution to the political lifetime of the rustic.
I all the time take into accout the implausible inflow of folks on the AUGIS-Thuri Fairs, after the Put up-colonization, and their enchantment, a lot wider than the readership of the newspaper.
AUGHI used to be issued when the post-conflict state used to be nonetheless sending folks to the firing squad and filling prisons and exiles with Left activists. And but, the newspaper withstood persecution, arrests and repression. It did not shut.
It’s unthinkable after this longer term that it will have to prevent circulating at a time when the Left goes thru a deep disaster. The celebration and the individuals who organize the destiny of AVGI have the ancient duty to make sure the continuation of its newsletter and the rights of its staff. Those that admire and honor the historical past of the Left, those that nonetheless swear by way of the need of a contemporary Left can not collude within the sluggish dying of DAWN.
* Nikolas Voulelis labored at AVGI from 1976 to 1987
A voice that will have to no longer be silenced
By means of Dimitris Papanikolaou*
Wintry weather 1980, Agios Konstantinou 12, 3rd flooring. I open the iron door and Grigoris, a tall Cretan, guard-cerberus of the ground, greets me in a small place of work at the left. He is taking me to Vassilakis Konstantinidis and from that second my lengthy and thrilling adventure in journalism starts. A adventure with many storms but additionally with simply as many bounties.
DAWN used to be a faculty of journalism in itself, with the holy monsters, sages our younger eyes noticed, sparsely guiding the Ferelpid editors. The entire outdated reporters saved the stability throughout the KKE Esoterikos and I had by no means felt any court cases from the readers about inner events. A few years have handed since then and AVGI has modified many celebration ownerships, no longer all the time effectively. On the other hand, it used to be and is the voice and expression of the folk that the established mass media don’t take note of and forget about.
How perform a little folks need to silence this voice? Already at the start of the summer season we had the violent closure of the day-to-day paper. On a Tuesday afternoon after we had been all running at the Wednesday paper, the lockout used to be introduced. From that day on, reporting in print journalism, dare I say it, become one-dimensional, with the ball being performed best within the court docket of the federal government and fed-up media. It used to be an try to de-Syrizize our political lifestyles to the detriment no longer best of those that apply SYRIZA, but additionally of each democratic citizen.
Whether or not they would like it or no longer, AUGI used to be towards the Mitsotakis gadget and the entanglement. Can we need to silence this voice? Particularly these days when the Middle Left and the Left are going thru a disaster of values in addition to politics? The trail opened by way of Kasselakis for the approach of SYRIZA isn’t worthy of the Left.
* Dimitris Papanikolaou prior to now spent and nonetheless spends his journalistic years at AVGI
To re-light the spark of DAWN
By means of Eliza Papadaki*
It’s not the primary time that the loss of sources threatens the survival of AUGIS. Within the Nineteen Eighties we had been many times threatened with closure. One day, a related resolution used to be even made within the Govt Administrative center of the Okay.E. of the KKE Inside to droop the newsletter of the day-to-day paper a minimum of. We succeeded then, with the ones people who may just stand to surrender our salaries for a number of months and by way of intensifying the hassle to provide a newspaper this is as just right as conceivable, that proves its usefulness each day with options – data, research, critiques – that weren’t present in the remainder of the Press. We additionally issued “stocks” on the time, accumulating cash from numerous folks with nice mobilization, which quickly “flooded” us. And I need to be aware right here, as a result of I do not believe it’s been mentioned, that within the face of the ones “shareholders”, who weren’t all celebration contributors, some weren’t even leftists, they simply believed in our usefulness, we weren’t constant, we didn’t give the account that we we owed it to how we disposed in their beneficiant choices…
On the other hand, the disaster that is affecting AVGI these days is deeper than any earlier one. With the commercial disaster, editorial capability is waning – it has all the time been this manner, however now it has reached exceptional proportions. Such losses are mirrored within the high quality of the leaf. Because of this, but additionally with the continuing disaster of the political frame and primary shareholder, AVGI has misplaced a big a part of the status it as soon as possessed. And all this in prerequisites the place the published phrase is backing out in prefer of recent approach of conversation, a retreat that doesn’t make up for a web page, regardless of how treasured it’s. A key part of energy of any newspaper, a left-wing newspaper after all, stays reporting. Sadly, that is declining. Issues are due to this fact very tough. I want, alternatively, that during the disaster, with inspiration and collective effort, the brand new idea might be discovered that may re-light the spark of DAWN.
* Eliza Papadaki used to be a monetary editor, columnist at AVGI within the length 1982-2011
You do not acknowledge me as a result of I have been long gone for a very long time**
By means of Andreas Petropoulos*
We went one afternoon in February 1994 to AVGI at the side of Giorgos Anandranistakis fished, but additionally in awe. We figured it out going up the steps. The entirety we had deliberate to mention to Dimitris Alexopoulos had long gone awry. Vassilis Skouris, editorial director on the time, accompanies us to his place of work.
With somewhat audacity I provide the proposal: Interviews for the Sunday paper by way of folks of the Left, uncharitably after all. At the moment SYN used to be out of Parliament and the speculation had the similar name as these days: “Left, the next day to come”.
Dimitris hears us, consents and we commence. First is Aggelos Elefantis. They had been adopted by way of Filippos Iliou, Kostas Gavroglou, Kostas Filinis and lots of others – 14 in general.
The be offering to turn out to be the editor of the Ministry of Hard work got here when Christos Megas left for Eleftherotypia. I realized reporting in Kasidi’s head. Thankfully, I all the time had George by way of my facet.
I grew to become 30 in August 2024, unpaid as soon as once more. From 2000 onwards all of us left 10 to 13 salaries in order that AUGI would no longer be closed. And I had an extra duty as a business union consultant in ESIEA all over that tough length.
However at the moment there used to be a celebration, there have been control and management in AVGI. We overcame it and reached 2008, with AVGI additionally having an important site visitors build up. The exhausting occasions began in 2015, when Nikos Filis left the control.
Lately, a major strive used to be made to rationalize the newspaper with Lefteris Arvanitis, till the scandalous Kasselakis got here and closed the day-to-day AUGI as a result of Thanasis Karteros criticized him.
I say, in last, that DAWN won’t shut. We owe it to the historical past of AUGIS, to the arena of the Left, of all sun shades, which our newspaper has all the time embraced, to our readers. We owe it to the loose press, which we have now and which we’d like. And, in spite of everything, to the buddies, colleagues and partners who left us.
** To Costas Karis, my brother George Anandranistakis and Vassilis Konstantinidis, Nikos Zalaora, Thomas Michalakos, Maria Koukoumbeti, Stella Golemi.
* Andreas Petropoulos is a journalist for AUGIS
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