Monthly Archives: January 2009

Publicity for two upcoming greek solidarity events

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Bristol -  more info here Leeds – more info here

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“Fuck Greece, fight here!” (Greek Revolt info events in the UK)

Saturday, January 17, 2009

A number of info events/ greek prisoner solidarity benefits are organised across the UK. Some will also have people from this blog presenting – if you are organising an event on the Greek events please let us know so that we can add it to the list. Confirmed dates so far Sunday 18.1 prisoner solidarity benefit [...]

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Wrap-up of the situation in Greece; UK solidarity events and Occupied London#4 coming up

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

This blog started off three days after Alexis’ assassination, as a minimum attempt to publicise information straight out of Greece on the riots (which quickly turned in a full-scale revolt!). Around seventy posts and more than one thousand comments later, we are closing a (first) round. One of the main contributors to this blog is [...]

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#40, 14:39 US arm shipment from Greece to Israel: canceled!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

International mainstream media report this morning that the planned US shipment of ammunition from Greece to Israel has been canceled. The reason for this is still a bit unclear: While the international media claim the decision was made by the Pentagon in light of the proximity of the Israeli port of Ashdod (the shipment’s destination) [...]

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“The workers will have the last word – not the media bosses”

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

First statement coming out of the newly-occupied building of the (reformist) Union of Journalists in Athens (ESIEA). In a similar manner to the earlier occupation of the general confederation of workers’ bulding, people have now occupied the Journalists’ union to denounce mainstream media lies. The occupation’s blog is here – the first statement follows. The [...]

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#39,The revolted of Greece organise to aid our brothers and sisters in Gaza

Monday, January 12, 2009

Mainstream media reports have revealed that the U.S. Navy is attempting to ship 325 20-foot containers of ammunition (over 3000 tons) from the private greek port of Astakos to Israel, in an emergency shipment of arms to aid the occupation in its ongoing war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Information as for when [...]

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08.12, fascists co-operating with the cops; 09.01, cops cut off and beat up small group of protestors

Sunday, January 11, 2009

UPDATE Another videos of police arbitrariness that we received. This one is from the student demo of Friday (09.01), when large numbers of police isolated a small number of protestors on Asklipiou Street in Athens. Around 20” in the video, the police start beating up the small crowd, unprovoked (another video from the same attack, [...]

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#38, 15:38 Massive Athens demo ends; people retreat in the university; air gun found by demonstrators; Patras and Thessaloniki demos set to start

Friday, January 9, 2009

UPDATE, 5.01 The reports coming in from Patras talk of two big demonstrations that numbered around 2,000 in total – one from, and one toward the school where 18 years ago teacher Nikos Temponeras was assassinated by right-wing thugs. In Thessaloniki demonstrators attacked the police station of Ano Poli; the cops responded by throwing tear [...]

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