We just came back from the demo in Athens. The cops were, once again, extremely provocative: Tens of tear gas cannisters and stun grenades were shot directly into the crowd. It seems like the newly ordered tear gas supply for the police is here.
People in Athens have been demonstrating and/or rioting for 13 consecutive days and nights.
More photos from today here, here and here
Meanwhile, occupation of media outlets is spreading across the country: Today, the municipal radio of Tripoli, “Nea Tileorasi” TV in Chania, Politeia FM in Sparta and “Star FM” and “Imagine 897 FM” in Thessaloniki were occupied.
The “Labour Centre” (trade union building) of Patras was also occupied today, in protest against the sold-out leadership of the trade unions, demanding an indefinite general strike now.
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#28, 18:23: fin de la manifestation étudiante; des stations médiatiques occupées à travers le pays; l’immeuble de la Chambre du Commerce également occupé à Patras.
Vendredi 18 novembre 2008
Nous revenons de la manifestation à Athènes. Les flics ont été une fois de plus très provocateurs : gaz lacrymogènes et grenades assourdissantes étaient jetés directement dans la foule. Il semble que le gaz lacrymogène récemment commandé soit déjà là. Cela fait 13 jours que les Athéniens manifestent et/ou fomentent des émeutes.
Pendant ce temps, l’occupation de bureaux des médias se répand à travers le pays : aujourd’hui, la radio municipale de Tripoli, la chaîne de télé “Nea Tileorasi” à Chania et les radios “Star FM” et “Imagine 897 FM” de Thessalonique (2ème ville du pays) ont été occupées.
Le “Centre du Travail” (l’immeuble de la Chambre du Commerce) de Patras a également été occupé aujourd’hui, en protestation contre la direction vendue des Chambres de Commerce; les occupants demandent une grève générale à durée indéterminée dès aujourd’hui.
I have a question, are those occupying trade union buildings members of those unions?
I have one too: are the radio stations occupied “permanently” or just for a short period of time?
@Frej:
Some occupations last about 10 mins. or more so that the protestors broadcast their messages, then management has been killing the signal (the state-run TV occupation that cut-off a speech by the PM). In other cases, the stations are fully controlled by the occupiers.
I hope you guys can win this thing. The rest of the world is being flushed down the toilet due to mismanagement, though not to the extent that Greece was. Maybe this will help people wake up.
Ha ha! Another cop on fire! Oh Greece, what a delightful war your waging!
I second Dylan’s question. Are the occupiers of the GSEE building members of the union or what? I know it’s not super important, but it would be interesting if they were.
From the libcom.org thread (http://libcom.org/forums/news/police-shoot-dead-16-year-old-demonstrator-athens-06122008)
“Sotev wrote:
about GSEE, because there is some misunderstanding.
GSEE and ADEDY (ADEDY is for civil servants) are nationwide confederations. There are no other nationwide confederations (KKE’s PAME structure is not a formal federation), so every union, be it trade union, factory/workplace union or whatelse is pretty much a de facto member of GSEE or ADEDY. In Greece there are no different unions like for example in France with GGT, CFDT, FO or others. There’s just GSEE.
It is a tertiary organization, comprised out of its local workers’ centers in every city, each of these centers is made out of the various local branches of the trade unions and the local unions -say a union in a factory- and so on.
Each party, from the right to the far left (trotskyists, maoists etc etc) takes part in the same trade union structures. they do elections, assemblies, voting etc all together.
MIlitant workers (non-aligned) can of course participate too.
Those who occupied the building are “members” of GSEE either they want it or not. I would support the action even if some 12 year olds occupied the building to shit on the floors. Unfortunately this is not the case, and the occupiers are workers.
In the words of the GSEE president (a statement from today)
“GSEE is the collective organizer and leader of the struggles of ALL workers”.
(emphasis in the original ! )
Hope this clarified things a bit.
many other stuff happened but no time.
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i love you, comrades.
keep fighting!
the whole world is watching you.
turn this into revolution!
long live international solidarity
greetings from germany
MPATSOI GOUROUNIA DOLOFONOI
Thermopylae 480 B.C.
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