Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wednesday, 20th of January is the date of the commencing of the trial of the two cops who murdered Alexandros. Although it seems likely that the trial will be postponed, since the killers’ lawyer is “too busy” to attend, many are expected to arrive to the small mainland Greek town of Amfissa to demonstrate. Following [...]
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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 [...]
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
The premiere of the national theatre in Athens was interrupted by around one hundred people tonight – they took the stage and held out a banner reading “everyone to the streets”. The text distributed to the audience and actors read, among others: “now that you’ve deactivated your mobile phones, it’s about time you activated your [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
21:31 Around 300 anarchists attack the offices of the Ministry of Planning and Public Works in solidarity with the struggle of the people of the village of Leukimi in Corfu (a local woman was assassinated by the police there in the summer). Two banks are also smashed and burnt. High street shops are smashed. The [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Last night, I met a friend of Alexandros’ who was sitting close to him when he was assassinated. Standing there silently, listening to him describe the moments of the assassination (for the n-th time I imagine) I couldn’t help but think: How many years did this kid grow over these seven days? Listening to him [...]
On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens. Since that night, Athens and tens of other greek cities have been burning.
On the same night, up to 10,000 people took the streets of Athens on a spontaneous demonstration, burning and smashing banks, [...]
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