Comments on: And so it begins http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2008/12/09/and-so-it-begins/ Irregular updates and articles on the situation in Greece, in English Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: “This is war”: More news on the Greek uprising « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2008/12/09/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-17 “This is war”: More news on the Greek uprising « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:46:12 +0000 http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/?p=15#comment-17 [...] “Every single, and I mean every single shop in the centre of Athens is damaged or destroyed”. &....” And so it begins. The biggest string of riots the country has seen in its post-dictatorship (1974) era. Talking heads on TV screens are completely freaking out. “What would the rest of the world say?” Endlessly shifting between the reaction of international media and the damage inflicted by the riots to the christmas shopping trade. The hanging threat of a declaration of a state of emergency. Government officials, for now, deny this is a possibility. But who can tell? No-one can; no-one has any way to predict what can happen from here on. Even for Greece, a country with high levels of violence in political demonstrations, this is terra incognita. No-one has been here before. No-one has come straight from three days of unprecedented rioting onto a fourth one (Tuesday, the day of Alexandros’ funeral) and a fifth one that is sure to follow on Wednesday, the day of the general strike. And no-one can possibly imagine just how things will calm down after that. The masses on the streets keep breaking through an ever-increasingly violent police: Students are injured inside the university of Thessaloniki, shot at with rubber bullets. In Athens, riot police beat senseless another 15-year old boy in front of shocked passers-by begging them to stop. And yet, the police have already lost control….On the other end of the line is a friend from Eksarhia. “I could not believe what I saw. Every single… Every single shop, every single traffic light, across the whole of the centre - all smashed up, burnt. I just can’t believe it”. [...] [...] “Every single, and I mean every single shop in the centre of Athens is damaged or destroyed”. &….” And so it begins. The biggest string of riots the country has seen in its post-dictatorship (1974) era. Talking heads on TV screens are completely freaking out. “What would the rest of the world say?” Endlessly shifting between the reaction of international media and the damage inflicted by the riots to the christmas shopping trade. The hanging threat of a declaration of a state of emergency. Government officials, for now, deny this is a possibility. But who can tell? No-one can; no-one has any way to predict what can happen from here on. Even for Greece, a country with high levels of violence in political demonstrations, this is terra incognita. No-one has been here before. No-one has come straight from three days of unprecedented rioting onto a fourth one (Tuesday, the day of Alexandros’ funeral) and a fifth one that is sure to follow on Wednesday, the day of the general strike. And no-one can possibly imagine just how things will calm down after that. The masses on the streets keep breaking through an ever-increasingly violent police: Students are injured inside the university of Thessaloniki, shot at with rubber bullets. In Athens, riot police beat senseless another 15-year old boy in front of shocked passers-by begging them to stop. And yet, the police have already lost control….On the other end of the line is a friend from Eksarhia. “I could not believe what I saw. Every single… Every single shop, every single traffic light, across the whole of the centre – all smashed up, burnt. I just can’t believe it”. [...]

]]> By: shokora http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2008/12/09/and-so-it-begins/comment-page-1/#comment-15 shokora Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:28:04 +0000 http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/?p=15#comment-15 I don't know what to think of the riots. I'm all for a peacefull solution to overthrow the represhing forces of the government. But maybe this is the only way. Lets just hope if it gets to anything good, it will not get corrupted again like all the previous revolutions (if it even is a real revolution). I don’t know what to think of the riots. I’m all for a peacefull solution to overthrow the represhing forces of the government. But maybe this is the only way.

Lets just hope if it gets to anything good, it will not get corrupted again like all the previous revolutions (if it even is a real revolution).

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