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Monthly Archives: December 2008

A note on solidarity

Friday, December 19, 2008

“Have you heard? There was a solidarity action in Moscow”. And Paris. And Berlin, Mexico City, London, Oaxaca, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York (when was a university there last occupied?) and Montreal. And -literally- hundreds of other cities. In the first few days of the revolt we were thinking of trying to put together all the [...]

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#28, 18:23: Student demo ends; stations occupied across the country; trade union building in Patras also occupied

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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 [...]

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#27, 16:55: Student demo heavily tear gased in Athens

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The big student demo in Athens is being heavily tear gased.  The cops are using a new type of stronger gas. Most of us have retreated in the law school. A money transfer van is on fire.  People have entered a nearby church, ringing its bells at every tear gas shot, adding a slightly surreal [...]

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#26, 11:50: Student shot in Peristeri, Athens; student demo set to start

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Last night, a 16-year old student was shot and injured in the area of Peristeri, Athens, close to his school. The 16-year old was sitting with about ten more students, discussing future mobilisations. The shot came from a person unknown, though it is near-certain that this would be either an undercover cop or a fascist. [...]

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A comic on Alexandros

Thursday, December 18, 2008

(A comic on Alexandros, drawn by Edd Last Hours, a good friend)

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#25, 17:50: bureaucrats attack the occupation of the workers confederation but are driven away; another riot police van burnt; rioting erupts in Patras

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

19:19 The people who occupied state-run TV station NET respond to the government’s slanderous comments here. Yet another riot police van was attacked and burnt in Athens. Open general assemblies right now at the occupied university of Economics and the occupied building of the general confederation of workers in greece. Things are building up for [...]

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Statement of Solidarity with the Comrades in Greece, by the Disabled Far, Far Away

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

There is no Space that Separates Bodies in the Flow of the Passion for the Real: They do not individualize. What a horrible violence, the bourgeois media says, to burn this or that, to put your precious streets, buses and cars and buildings on fire, what a chaos on your sidewalks. What a smoke, every-one [...]

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#24, 15:18: General confederation of workers building occupied; Acropolis “solidarity” banner hanged; government calls TV occupation “attempt to overthrow democracy”

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

At 8 am today the building of GSEE (General Confederation of Workers in Greece) was occupied by insurgent workers, according to their own statement. An open workers assembly has been called for 6pm. Huge banners were hanged in front of the Acropolis, calling for tomorrow’s mass demonstration… A government spokesman called yesterday’s state-run TV station [...]

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