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Monthly Archives: December 2009

#147 | Photos / videos from tonight in Athens

Monday, December 7, 2009

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.

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

Monday, December 7, 2009

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 [...]

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

Monday, December 7, 2009

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 [...]

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#144 | Live from Occupied Athens: A timeline of tonight’s events

Sunday, December 6, 2009

[Continuous Updates] 23.36 GMT+2 To the people asking about the “injured” rector of the Athens University: This is only coming from mainstream media and we can only be very suspicious about this piece of news, as this injury could be used as pretext for storming the Athens University, which seems to be something the cops [...]

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#143 | The only way to learn if we can swim is to jump in the water… (announcement by the occupied Theatre school in Thessaloniki)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

The only way to learn if we can swim is to jump in the water… If we could keep something from last December this is the end of silence. The social explosion was not alone on the streets of Greece, but it came out together with the need for dialogue. The fact, which we are [...]

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#142 | Report from Thessaloniki (5th of December)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

In the morning, comrades occupied the building of “Olympion” cinema, in the northern city of Thessaloniki. It’s one of the most central spots of the city (Aristotle square) and it was taken in order to convert it to a spot of resistance and meeting of the people. A communique was published and handed to people. [...]

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#141 | Tonight, Democracy took 162 prisoners. Tomorrow is our day: Demonstrations in twenty cities across the country

Sunday, December 6, 2009

One-hundred and sixty-two people tried the sweet taste of democracy today, having being arrested, detained, dragged to police stations, humiliated, charged. The message is becoming crystal-clear: democracy takes no chances, it only takes prisoners. Democracy smashes into the spaces that annoy it to the slightest; it only democracy to invert history: the assassins become the [...]

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#140 | Latest announcement of the Occupied Polytechnic University in Athens

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Approximately 150-160 people have been detained as a means of terrorisation whilst also preventing and deterring others from participating in demonstrations marking the anniversary of the murder of a 15 year old youth in Athens. As a result the Polytechnic University of Athens has been Occupied and actions called. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE [...]

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