This talk/ screening, will examine the value of anarchist practices such as direct action, reciprocity (or solidarity), autonomous forms of organization and assembly, and tactical illegalism in support of migrant struggles in Thessaloniki, a city located on the Balkan route, in eastern Greece. Since 2009, our involvement, primarily with the anarchist migrant support group Clandestina, has led to radical cultural production across a considerable array of platforms.

In July 2016 we (Ernie Larsen and Sherry Millner) conducted outdoor screenings of short-form radical experimental films at the (unsanctioned) No Border encampment on the campus of Aristotle University where about 2000 anti-authoritarian migrants and activists engaged in 12 days of protest, education, and cultural exchange. Within this context, we will screen How Animals and Plants Live, a 26-minute video essay that concentrates on the physical, social and affective consequences of the government's violent eviction of migrants and their supporters from the self-organized squat Orfanotrofeio in late July 2016, just two days after the NO Border events.