Monthly Archives: December 2008

#34, 13:32: Polytechnic raid scenario weakens; police resort to dictatorship-style surveillance; shots against riot police van; student demo set to start

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

UPDATE, 19:41 Mainstream media now report that the riot police van in Goudi received 7 shots, not 2. A group calling itself “Popular Action” (Λαϊκή Δράση) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The student demonstration in central Athens ended an hour ago. There was a very good turnover and the demo was relatively peaceful; one [...]

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#33, 09:19: Last night calm at the Polytechnic, solidarity gig tonight

Monday, December 22, 2008

UPDATE, 23.59 All is quiet at the polytechnic – as quiet as they can be here. No cops in sight. Speakers are blasting ‘guns of brixton’. UPDATE, 17:36 Amidst wild speculation about the possible moves of the police (most rumours, if not all, clearly spread to create fear), people in solidarity have started gathering at [...]

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The revenge of normality shall not pass, neither at the Polytechnic nor anywhere else!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

(Statement by the Occupied Athens Polytechnic, issued a few moments ago) From Saturday 20th of December onward, following the clashes around the Athens Polytechnic (one of the tens of mass clashes between protestors and police that followed the assassination of 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos) there has been strong speculation surrounding the occupation of the Athens [...]

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#32, 16:06: Athens Polytechnic occupation under imminent threat

Sunday, December 21, 2008

A few moments ago one of the pro-vice-chancellors of the Athens Polytechnic announced to the people inside the occupied building that the control of the building is no longer with the university senate and that it has been passed on to an attorney general instead. Anarchist radio 98 FM reports that the senate has ordered [...]

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#31, 19:12: Neighbourhood demonstrations across Athens; more anarcho-transportation actions and radio station occupations; demo at point of assassination set to start

Saturday, December 20, 2008

UPDATE, 15:51: Last night, the offices of “Teiresias” were also torched. “Teiresias” is the corporation collecting and handling information on the financial status of corporations and individuals, run credit checks… A bad record with them means people cannot apply for loans etc. UPDATE, 03:38: Siege of the Athens Polytechnic grounds by the riot police is [...]

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#30, 04:31: 800 schools and 200 university departments occupied; national theatre premiere stopped; international solidarity day is here

Saturday, December 20, 2008

The premiere of the national theatre in Athens was interrupted by around one hundred people tonight – they took the stage and held out a banner reading “everyone to the streets”. The text distributed to the audience and actors read, among others: “now that you’ve deactivated your mobile phones, it’s about time you activated your [...]

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#29, 16:19: Yet another TV station occupied; fresh demos in Athens and Thessaloniki; final build-up for international day of action against state murders

Friday, December 19, 2008

“Kydon TV” in Chania was occupied today, in order to expose the lies of the media covering the revolt. There have been tens of TV and radio station occupations in the past few days. A large concert against state repression is set to start soon at the Propylea in Athens. More demos planned in Egaleo [...]

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(Self) destruction is creation

Friday, December 19, 2008

(collective translation of a leaflet circulated in the occupied Athens School of Economics and elsewhere, written by the “girls in revolt”) We won’t forget the night of December 6th that easily. Not because the assassination of Alexis was incomprehensible. State violence, as much as it might try to construct itself into more productive formations of [...]

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