[Xmca-l] Information about a petition in support for Greek people and Greek reactions to it

Mon Jul 6 05:50:24 PDT 2015

Dear colleagues,

some of you might be interested to hear about a petition in support for 
Greece (see below) which was initiated at a conference in Athens last 
week. Activity theorists have been among the initiators. The petition 
was sent to Greek media on Saturday. While this particular action is now 
finished,  several Greek colleagues emphasized that our solidarity means 
a lot to them and will be crucial also in the days to come.  May be this 
will inspire some of us to take part in some future actions of 
solidarity. Here two statements from Greek colleagues:

"/Thanks very much for this; great to meet some of you in this historic 
week for Greece and Europe. After a proud NO from the Greek people,  we 
need to continue supporting the Greek government in the negotiations 
that have already started, showing solidarity and mobilizing resources 
for a solution that respects democracy and ends austerity not only in 
Greece but across Europe/."

"/To complement the terror sparked by the capital controls, the explicit 
interventions of EU and other European politicians directly demanding 
from Greek voters to vote against the government and in favor the 
austerity measures, the companies-to-employees threats, and the 
pressures from the local political and financial elites, the Greek and 
many international media (print and electronic) have been orchestrating 
a propaganda by constantly airing unsubstantiated claims by “experts” 
and other “representatives”, all of whom accidentally are in favor of 
the even more harsh austerity measures, and are quite interestingly 
associated ideologically with the conservative, neoliberal, right wing 
nomenclature around Europe and Greece. Their only argument is that if 
Greeks vote against these measures EU will kick Greece out of the euro 
and this equals a catastrophe even bigger than this that would take 
place if we simply accept another wave of austerity measures. Simply 
turn on any Greek TV channel and ask from a Greek colleague to tell you 
the opinions of members in any TV panel.///

/For your records, at the moment:/

//

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    /unemployment in Greece is officially at 26% of the working
    population (1.4 mil. people –unofficially they are more than 3
    million If you take into consideration those that they have stopped
    reporting their employment state, and mostly those employed only a
    few hours per week gaining less than 200€ per month), /

  * /

    another 3 million people live near the poverty limit (that is, they
    cannot afford buying all meals of the week, or pay their utilities,
    let alone their mortgages, or taxes),

  *

    and another 3 million people can hardly cover all of their mortgages
    and taxes,

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    leaving less than a couple of millions that can run a life of the
    average middle class in a western country

  * /

    /needless to refer to the few thousands that have built monumental
    fortunes by evading taxation and suppressing labor costs./

//

/I expect that Greeks will vote “NO” to the austerity measures by 
majority. But even if this is not the case, I hope that my description 
will help you see why.//Thank you and all the colleagues for 
contributing to this fight of Greek people.///"

Best regards,
Zlatko Bodrozic

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Several of us are here in Athens at a conference of the European Group 
on Organization Studies — one of the leading associations of management 
scholars. Angered by the brutal austerity policies being forced onto 
Greece by the Troika/Institutions, yesterday we launched a petition in 
protest — see it below. We are still gathering signatures from people 
here as well as in our broader network, but we have already garnered the 
support of many leading scholars.

Statement:

Forcing austerity upon Greece has had devastating effects on its economy 
and on the most vulnerable members of the Greek society. While ministers 
of Finance of 18 Eurozone countries are trying to force further 
austerity upon Greece, the undersigned management scholars from these 
same countries and other countries stand in solidarity with the Greek 
government and people in rejecting such an economically 
counterproductive and inhuman approach.

Last name

First name

Institutional affiliation

Adler

Paul

University of Southern California

Al-Amoudi

Ismael

University of Cardiff

Allen

David

Leeds University

Amburgey

Terry

University of Toronto

Antonacopoulou

Elena

GNOSIS, University of Liverpool

Aquino Alves

Mario

FGV-EAESP

Armstrong

Peter

Leicester University

Asami

Watanabe

Faculty of Business Administration, Aomori University

Bamber

Greg

Monash University, Australia/Newcastle University, England

banerjee

bobby

cass business school

Baralou

Evangelia

ALBA Graduate Business School

Barros

Marcos

Grenoble Ã‰cole de Management

Berlinguer

Marco

IGOP/UAB

Beverungen

Armin

Leuphana University

Beynon

Huw

Cardiff University

Bodrozic

Zlatko

University of Belgrade

Burawoy

Michael

University of California, Berkeley

Caliandro

Alessandro

State University of Milano

Callinicos

Alex

King's College London

Cheney

George

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Chris

Tilly

UCLA

Clarke

Thomas

UTS Sydney

Cooren

FranÃ§ois

UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al

Cornelissen

Joep

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Couto

Beatriz

Universidade federal de minas geraiscoutpc

Daskalaki

Maria

Kingston University

Davenne

Patrick

Delmestri

Giuseppe

WU Vienna

Dentoni

Domenico

Wageningen University

Diniz

Eduardo

Fundacao Getulio Vargas

Dionysiou

Dionysios

ALBA Graduate Business School at the American College of Greece

Doellgast

Virginia

Cornell University

Donnelly

Eddy

london school of Economics

Eidlin

Barry

McGill University

Elger

Tony

Sociology, University of Warwick

Evans

Martin  G. Evans

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Fotaki

Marianna

Warwick Business School

Gelis-Filho

Antonio

FGV-EAESP

Georgios

Vardaxoglou

The University of Leeds

Godard

John

University of Manitoba

Golsorkhi

Damon

Grenoble Ecole de Management

Hanlon

Gerard

Queen mary University of London

Helms Mills

Jean

Saint Mary's University

Hyman

Richard

LSE

Ingvaldsen

Jonas A.

Norwegian university of science and technology

Jacobs

David

Morgan State University

Jamison

Elizabeth

Virginia Tech

Jingqi

Zhu

Newcastle University Business School

KÃ¤rreman

Dan

CBS

Kazana

Ioulia

University of Surrey, UK

Kenney

Martin

University of California, Davis

Kiyomiya

Toru

Seinan Gakuin University

Komporozos-Athanasiou

Aris

King's College London

Kwon

Hyunji

SNU

LECA

BERNARD

University Paris Dauphine

Levin

Morten

Norwewgian Universeity of Science and Technology

Levy

David

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Loacker

Bernadette

Lancaster University Management School

Lounsbury

Michael

University of Alberta

Luyckx

Joost

KU Leuven

Marquez

Sara

Cass Business School

Martineau

RÃ©gis

ESC Troyes

Masquelier

Charles

University of Surrey

McMurray

Robert

University of Durham

Miettinen

Reijo

Professor

Mills

Albert

Saint Mary's University

Muniesa

Fabian

Ecole des Mines de Paris

Munir

Kamal

University of Cambridge

Muselli

Laure

Telecom Paristech

Mutch

Alistair

Nottingham Trent University

Naccache

Philippe

Newbery

Robert

Plymouth University

Nyland

Chris

Monash University

O'Reilly

Dermot

Lancaster University

Ozdemir Kaya

Didem Derya

Warwick Business School

Palmer

Donald

University of California, Davis

Peck

Jamie

University of British Columbia

Pullen

Alison

Macquarie University

Rowlinson

Michael

Queen Mary University of London

Rozas

David

University of Surrey

Sannino

Annalisa

University of Helsinki

Schwartz

Gregory

University of Bristol

Stookey

Sarah

Central Connecticut State University

stuart

Mark

University of Leeds

Subramanian

Balaji

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India

Swann

Thomas

University of Leicester

Taylor

Steven

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Vidal

Matt

King's College London

Yu

Kyoung-Hee

UNSW Business School

Zanoni

Patrizia

Hasselt University

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