Daily Archives: December 10th, 2008

#8, 16:46: Updates from Athens and Patras

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ATHENS: High School students joined the trade union march. They pelted riot police with stones and paint. In the suburb of Kaisariani the school students attacked the local police station. Meanwhile, a group of anarchists attacked the central courts while inside Alexandros’ murderer was appearing before the prosecutor.  The court’s control room and a media [...]

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#7, 13.28: General strike

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

UPDATE 13:43 A friend on the phone: “I just walked down Mesogeion ave” (far from the centre) “and a small group of students, 12-13 year old, are attacking a riot police van. They are just armed with stones but they are totally going for it!” UPDATE 13:35 TV footage already shows 12-year old students pelting [...]

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Patras: This is what a junta looks like!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

eyewitness report Tuesday’s demonstration was called by local anarchist groups. Participation was phenomenal by the city’s standards – around 3,000 people (some reports put this number up to 5,000) took the streets of Patras behind the anarchist banners and against state violence. The march cruised through the city; banks were smashed. Meanwhile, the city’s police [...]

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“We are an image from the future”…

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

(graffiti at the occupied University of Economics in Athens) …faced with a dark, dark image from the past. Fascists working with cops run amok in Patras; they stab two in Athens; police shoot 15 times in the air in Palaio Faliro and a flaming car is driven against the police station of Zefyri, Athens. These [...]

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