Monthly Archives: July 2009

After the Greek Riots

Thursday, July 9, 2009

A few bullets fired by a cop and a kid lying dead on the street. Cities burn for weeks. For the spectacle-hungry media machine, the story begins and ends here. All else, before and after, is void. Follow the corporate media and the Greek revolt died a long, long time ago. What’s happening in Greece [...]

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#59, 14:20: Thodoros Iliopoulos (last December prisoner in pretrial detention) has bail application rejected, goes on hunger strike

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Thodoros Iliopoulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner of December’s revolt still in pre-trial detention. He has been in prison since December and as of yesterday is the only prisoner of the revolt to be denied bail – still.  On July 9 the court of appeals made explicit, in rejecting Iliopoulos’ application, that it [...]

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Democracy? The fascists deliver! Fascists throw molotovs against anti-fascist demonstrators in Athens (7.7)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Athens, July 7. The anarchist migrant solidarity demo was very succesful. Indymedia reports put the number of demonstrators at around 2-3,000 in Athens and another 1,000 in Thessaloniki. On July 7, for the first time ever, fascists (who, ONCE AGAIN, were attacking the demonstrators from within police lines) tried to throw molotov cocktails against the demonstrators. [...]

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“From its migrant concentration camps, totalitarian democracy salutes us”

Thursday, July 2, 2009

(poster reads: “Totalitarian Democracy salutes us: With its Migrant Concentration Camps”. Thursday, 2.7 – screening, soundsystem, discussion in the Libertaria Squat, Thessaloniki. Tuesday 7.7, demonstration. This summer, the issue of migration is set to become the main field of struggle in the country – what with government plans to set up UK-style “welcoming stations” (read, [...]

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