Monthly Archives: September 2009

#81 | Athens: Exarcheia self-organised park under police attack, again; 5 arrested and detained.

In the early hours of Friday 4.9 the self-organised park in Exarcheia once again came under attack by the police. Earlier, police jeeps tried to cross through Messologiou Street: the very same street where Alexis Grigoropoulos was assassinated in December. People present tried to resist the shameless police provocation; only moments later a full-scale police [...]

#80 | Democracy works! (An election and a car bomb)

Wednesday morning. Talking heads on the TV sets are going wild: A car bomb had just detonated outside the Athens Stock Exchange. Sure, there were no injuries, other than a woman slightly injured partly thanks to the incapability of the cops to vacate the area on time. And yet what a blasphemy, to attack the [...]