Daily Archives: June 29th, 2010

#322 | General strike day in Athens: demonstrators attack police with their bare hands; fascists rooted off the demo; super-market looted; riot police beat demonstrators in the metro; money transfer vans chasen out of Exarcheia

A brief summary of a very eventful day… At least 13 detentions in the Athens demonstration alone, six of which have turned into arrests (that is, these people face charges). There are already e-mails circulating, denouncing the unprovoked arrest of Dimitris Aggelis Dimakis, a student of European History at the University of Athens. Any updates [...]

#321 | Police occupies the main harbour of the country in order to prevent the strikers from blockading it

The court decided that the strike of the workers in the port of Piraeus, the main port of the country, is illegal. This decision is outrageous, as tomorrow is not only a strike in this sector, but a general strike, called even by the sold-out umbrella unions of GSEE (private sector) and ADEDY (public sector). [...]