1714 GMT New police operation to clear Syntagma. Thousands stay at the square. Police throw tear gas and stun grenades straight into the crowd. Many more injured.
1655 GMT 2. 200 delta cops have closed panepistimiou ave. New operation at syntagma starts now.
1606 GMT 2. The new bailout was voted in parliament by 155 MPs. This means war.
1547 GMT 2 Corporate media lie that the police have evacuated syntagma. The atmosphere is suffocating, we have at least five injured from tear gas, but there is no chance we leave. We are staying!
15.17 GMT+2 The vote in parliament will start in a few minutes. We are waiting for them in Syntagma and we hold the square.
14:43 GMT +2 Slightly quieter now, but police keep charging the square and then being pushed back. People are refusing to leave. All marble by the Great Britain hotel has been broken up for use.
14:16 GMT +2 Police attacking the square with unprecedented amount of teargas. Everyone is refusing to leave the square. Main slogan is “Bread, Education, and Freedom, the junta did not end in 1973″
12.33 GMT+2 At least eight demonstrators injured so far.
12.15 GMT+2 Approximately 15,000 people at Syntagma and the crowd size is increasing by the minute. Chants in the air: “Lae Polema, Sou Pinoune to Aima” – “People Rise Up, They’re Sucking Your Blood”
11.40 GMT+2 The blockade at Kalimarmaro (the Panathenaic stadium) is also under attack. At least one person detained.
11.35 GMT+2 The police attack the people’s blockade outside Hilton hotel. There is a huge need for people to join the blockade. Those who want to get there should go from Mihalakopoulou or Megaro Mousikis. The aim is to close off the intersection. At least two people injured.
11.30 GMT+2 The new agreement is expected to be voted in parliament at approximately 1400 hours local time
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12:15 GMT+2 Thessaloniki, Protesters have occupied the Central Finance Office of Church. “Occupation. Social expropriation and social management of the property of Church”
photos here https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1313088
Finnish state media’s version of what is happening at Syntagma:
http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00415/29_6_kreikka_parlam_415907b.jpg
Any link for live stream?
Livestream >>> http://roarmag.org/2011/06/livestream-of-the-48-hour-strike-and-protests-in-greece/
14:22 GMT+2 Continuous VIOLENT ATTACKS from the riot police with enormous usage of tear gas, flash-bang grenades and sticks in front of the parliament in the last 30 minutes. MANY injured, many protesters are throwing stones trying to defend the streets. Many people at the bottom of the square and ermou str.
live streaming here http://newschios2.blogspot.com/
IT’S A WAR
spread the news
Twitted from @rebeldog_ath
“Report from the Red cross tent at #Syntagma 100 people with respirational trouble, 40 injured (burns, bruises etc)”
corporate media: yesterday 350 injured
it’s real war. Clashes continue despite the unprecedented amount of chemical gases thrown by the human-like beasts. hundreds injured and many fainted. people being burned inside the metro station of syntagma by chemical gases. tens of riot cops beat arrested people. policemen throw stones to the demonstrators. mant people can’t find a way to move, surrounded by thousands of cops.
Thousands of people remain in Syntagma square, they don’t retreat.
The 5year austerity plan is being voted right now in the parliament.
Latest NEWS: 58 years old died in the hospital because of breathproblems, (killed by the police cause of teargas or CS) 17 bad injured ppl, 500 injured ppl by lungproblems in metro.
please say it’s not true:(
Rise up Ireland and join our Greek friends.
What’s happening in the rest of Greece? Occupations, strikes, street trouble, demos? Everything seems focused on Athens in the mainstream news? Also, what is the reaction in the main square of the crowds in the Assembly to the fighting that rages around it? Are more people taking part in resisting the cops?
How can the struggle generalise beyond back and forths on the streets with the cops outside Parliament into something that blocks, occupies and expropriates?
Amazing stuff though everyone out there the streets. Solidarity to all
@ Bob: You shouldn’t forget the geographical population distribution in Greece. There are roughly 10million people, alone 4million of them live in Athens! Another 2million in Thessaloniki. The next greater city got just 200.000 people…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ULHLxEDEo
Translations from occupiedolondon and other sources
According to twitter-
‘PASOK headquarters in Chania destroyed’
Member of Syntagma Square Medical Team – Syntagma Metro station full of people, tear gas and flashbangs being thrown in, people cannot breathe. Member is afraid that someone will die
According to Twitter, the Ministry of Finance was set on fire. on the livestream it looks like the fire brigades are already there.
Those bastards will pay with blood!
Rise up Greeks like the true SPARTANS you are!!!!!!!!!! Rise up! Rise up!
The violence, the war on the streets will not solve the problems, exactly the opposite. Irresponsible act and illogical thinking! What about the people who’s shops were destroyed, how about the injured and with critical health condition? Who thinks about those innocent people! Put yourselves together! Rioting and destroying is not a solution! It’s a sad and miserable act of weakness!
Many reports on twitter of cops stopping ambulances, and attacking one and injuring a nurse.
Also-
Attempt to access Fin Min with a ladder, to burn it.
Metro workers praised for keeping station open, so people, and casualties can shelter.
Skai says the headquarters of the ruling PASOK party have been destroyed in Chania, Crete.
Cops battering everybody, autonoms, peacefuls, cafe and restaurant customers, and journos…
Just wait til nightfall…Cops will taste revenge…
Now the time has come…
One of the motivating greek specialities is that in the “small” cities lots of actions are going on too:
here are a few mentioned, more you will find on indymediaathens, use google-translater
http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/06/29/wednesday-june-29th-constant-updates/
One of the biggest German Newspaper “Sueddeutsche” titels: AND NOW PLEASE REVOLUTION !
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/griechisches-parlament-stimmt-sparpaket-zu-und-jetzt-bitte-eine-revolution-1.1114074
I’ve heard that in central-europe all theses banksters and their paid goebbelslists hang out at places called “beach-clubs” (allthough they don’t have waves aso). Can you all pl collect my dogshit and put it there and say cheers from LOUKANIKOS!
thanks!
Twitter-
MP member Athanasiadis just caught by protesters in Valaoritou. They haven’t hit him yet but its ugly
19: 46
A bank branch was set on fire on Panepistimiou Street, opposite the Athens University. Three employees could be rescued. The fire was extinguished by the fire brigades.
According to reports, Hoodies rolled up the barricades of the Agricultural bank, entered, destroyed personal computers and desks.
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2011/06/29/chaos-in-athens-live-streaming-blogging-june-29-partii/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepTalkingGreece+%28Keep+Talking+Greece%29&utm_content=Google+UK
Same things happening in Tahrir again for last two days-
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/15318/Egypt/Politics-/Bloody-clashes-in-Tahrir-Square-followed-by-fragil.aspx
All out warfare should be waged against these bastard cops and politicians. The time for rock throwing is over.
Now the riot has to be turned into proletarian mass insurrection.
What about peoples lives that are going to be destroyed by the austerity? Only big business has been targeted!
The only weakness tonight is not be on the streets fighting the war against the state and the cops!
this is it!
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