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Daily Archives: December 7th, 2009

#149 | Student demonstration ends; clashes around the Polytechnic right now.

17.55 GMT+2 The administration building of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki has just been occupied by students in protest against the violation of the academic asylum for a third consecutive day. From Saturday until Monday, at least 823 people have been detained across the country; of these, 159 have officially been arrested and charged. These [...]

#148 | Police brutality (photos) / update from thessaloniki

An update from Athens and other cities will come later, because now everyone is out to the streets. Demonstrations took place for second day in most cities. Many detentions or arrests and violence by the police. The oppression has no precedent. In Thessaloniki today a demonstration even bigger than yesterday took place. I believe about [...]

#147 | Photos / videos from tonight in Athens

See minutes 3’07” and 5’32”, where the “delta force” motorcycle cops run two demonstrators over on purpose. The photo below is from Thessaloniki, all the rest are from Athens.

#146 | Statement by the Occupied Athens Polytechnic, 00.25 Dec 7

Since the ministries say nothing, we will. Since the media connect nothing, we will. The military-type raid of the Anarchist Space “Resalto” in Keratsini. A space of intervention and counter-information which, as all spaces of struggle, never covered its animosity to those repressing and its solidarity to the repressed, openly and publicly. …something annoying for [...]

#145 | Thousands take to the Greek cities’ streets: Down with this state of terror…

For reports from Athens, see this post. in Thessaloniki 88 persons were detained and 4 of them will be charged with fabricated clues. the rest will be freed. more than 250 were initially under threat of detention, surrounded by cops, but another part of the demonstration went there and forced the cops to retreat and [...]