Last night, during the evening news, 70 anarchists occupied the TV station ‘Creta TV’ in Heraclion, Crete. Above is the video of the action, and has english subtitles.
Actions of solidarity spread across the country. Yesterday anarchists occupied a local newspaper in Volos, Central Greece. The photo above reads ‘The police talks to you through the TV. Scums, Snitches, Journalists. Your hands off our comrades’.
At the time of writing the post, comrades have occupied the offices of the ruling party (PASOK) in Heraclion. The photo above reads ‘State-Capital-Media are the terrorists, not the fighters and the revolutinaries’.
Also, in Thessaloniki a banner has been placed, reading ‘The state is the only terrorist. Freedom to the 6′
Meanwhile, today, 15th of april, is the day of solidarity to Marios Zervas, who was arrested during the strike march of last month, and is imprisoned awaiting trial, with fabricated changes. Protests have been planned in more than 10 cities throughout the country in the afternoon.
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i’m wondering what the practical dynamics of these occupations are like; are they just large mob actions, or what? how many people involved and under what kind of circumstances do they enter the building? curious…
-from n. america
in Athens, usually around 200-300 people participate, and some more are stand-by. In smaller cities, a strong 80-100 are enough…
Social balances are nothing like usa nor europe though, people are a lot friendlier to the occupants, sometime even sympathize, and thus the cops usually try not to make a great deal out of it, beating everyone up and setting the people working there against them..
ps. shhh, you ll ake up the Thessaloniki comrades ;p
In Thessaloniki comrades have occupied the school of Jurnalism in order to transform it into a place of meeting and to organize actions in solidarity to 3 comrades that earlier were arrested by the police, for spreying political slogans on the walls. Tomorrow is their court, for this.
ps. ‘noname’ are we in the right direction?
The demonstration for Marios Z had about 1000 people.
@@ i’m not understanding what the deal is, is it important how many occupy a tv-station? how much room is there for “mass”-action? do that shit with ten but in a police-junta ya are lucky with 70! deport the queens peace minister and georgie into obamas bed, tell the indians they have no visa of any tribe and blow’em up to mars!
It is not completely accurate what was said by comrade ‘noname’ though. Sometimes the police attacks the people, while leaving the station. They cannot charge them with something leter, as the owners of the stations usually do not sew them, as it is generally recognized that these actions are political, and are not to be punished by the penal code. But the danger of being beaten exists sometimes.
Kalimera,
anyways it’s good actions, each of them!
the video is just brilliant.
yesterday it was the 3rd time this month we were showing films about the december and giving input about the current situation.
step by step it’s getting more people attracted and via mobilization other cities seem to get interested… looks like the “greek revolt” goes on tour!
ELEFTHERIA!
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