After the Greek Riots

A few hours ago corporate media reported that cops Korkoneas and Saraliotis, the murderers of Alexis Grigoropoulos, are to stand trial on December 15th, in the town of Amfissa. With a population of just under 7,000, Amfissa lies approximately 120 km NE of Patras and 210 km NW of Athens. It has been chosen for its small size and poor transport access, in an obvious attempt to to make it harder for people to get there. As if! On December 15th, we’ll be in Amfissa then…

Before the cops’ trial however, there is the annual commemoration of the anti-dictatorial student uprising of November 17th, 1973. The ministry of public order (in its new doublespeak, ministry of “citizen protection”) is trying to keep the calm ahead of this date – and of course December 6th, the date of Alexis’ assassination, is not too far in the horizon.

Ahead of all these dates, we have been working round the clock to move Occupied London …to Athens, as we will be migrating to the servers of the new-ish tech collective espiv.net. This might mean downtime errors and poor updates for the next few days, but it should be worth the effort. OL will be broadcasting live from Athens, with a – very much – expanded group of comrades contributing news and updates from the capital and the other Greek cities ahead of the next intense month.