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#214 | 16 people detained in Athens today, nine of them face charges; videos of some of the arrests
Thursday, March 11, 2010
16 people were detained in total in today’s demonstration; of these, nine will face charges (i.e. the detentions were turned into arrests) and will be held, most likely, until tomorrow, to appear before an attorney. Two videos of three of the detentions just outside the Athens University building of Propylea, from Athens IMC:
#212 | Live updates from Athens on the General Strike day
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Map of today’s events from Last Hours
15.37 GMT+2 Street-fighting has moved to Exarcheia; the riot cops have just stormed the area’s square; people are gathering in the Polytechnic.
14.30 GMT+2 In Athens, clashes with the police in Omonoia square (central square of Athens), many groups of demonstrators moving in different places. Extent use of tear-gas in [...]
#211 | Anarchist murdered by the police in Athens
Thursday, March 11, 2010
35 year-old comrade Lambros Foundas was murdered by cops on Wednesday morning in the suburb of Dafni (south Athens).
The police claims that he was a “terrorist” and that he was shot while trying to steal a car, and that was carrying firearms. Fountas was one of the over 500 anarchists arrested at the Polytechnic riots [...]
#210 | “How would it feel if a foreign policeman was beating you up in Athens? (the Greek uprising is truly going European!)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
(article written by an Occupied London author for our friends at Last Hours, on the eve of tomorrow’s general strike. Continuous updates and photos, on both websites, tomorrow!)
It is early in the morning of Tuesday, March 9th. Bemused audiences tuned in to an Athens news station to listen to an evidently uncomfortable police spokesperson. How [...]
#209 | Updates for March 7 and 8 (in English und auf Deutsch)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
As published on Athens IMC
Greek Revolt (7th & 8th March 2010)
“… I have tried many times in the past to talk with an authoritan, express the social problems and remind him that a state is constructed in order to serve the citizens and not the bankers and plutocracy. The only responce I ever took [...]
#208 | Two banks occupied in the northern city of Komotini; occupations of the General Accounting Office and the National Printing House continue
Monday, March 8, 2010
The National Printing House prints the government gazette; for any voted law to come into action, it would have to get printed in the gazette first. For this reason, the printing house’s employees occupied the building (pic) to block the law from coming into action. Even with the government announcing that the law would come [...]
#207 | Will there be social unrest in Greece soon? 86.9% say “yes”
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sure, there is lies, damn lies and statistics. But some times opinion poll findings can be interesting. A mainstream Athens Sunday paper published a poll today: 86.9% of participants predict social unrest in the near future (very likely: 48,7%, quite likely: 38,2%). 85.2% estimate that the gap between rich and poor will widen. The Greek [...]
#206 | How to take out a riot police unit (a play in 10 acts)
Saturday, March 6, 2010
The photos below are from corporate media agencies, reposted on Athens IMC. This is the same demo where Manolis Glezos was tear-gassed by the police.
