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Monthly Archives: May 2010

#298 | This is what popular rage tastes like: politicians heckled, abused, attacked at restaurants, cafes and on the Greek streets

Monday, May 24, 2010

A series of articles has appeared in corporate press in Greece, showing the difficulties many politicians are faced with here when attempting an appearance in public. When spotted eating at a restaurant, ex-PM Karamanlis was approached by a woman shouting “shame on you, all you know how to do is eat”. A few weeks ago [...]

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# 297 | Greek PM “applauds” May 20th general strike demonstrations: when the peoples’ ridiculing by authority reaches a new level

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Corporate media report that Greek PM Papandreou expressed his content for the general strike demonstrations of May 20th: “the voice of those who were out on the streets”, he stated, “was heard louder, because it wasn’t covered by any uproar or riots”. So here we have it: the hunter applauding their prey; the executioner congratulating [...]

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#296 | Reports from the general strike day, May 20th

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Video below is from Athens IMC: “first footage from Parliament before the bulk of the demonstrators arrived. The amount of people there at the moment is unbelievable”. In Exarcheia, police have blocked off two social spaces (the Nosotros Social Centre and the office of the Anarchist Archive) in order to stop people from joining the [...]

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#295 | Exarcheia lock-down ahead of Thursday’s general strike

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Reports on Athens IMC tonight (Wednesday) claim that riot police have appeared en mass in Exarcheia, Athens – with some units positioned around Mesollogiou Street, one of the area’s main pedestrian walk-throughs. They have been ID checking people in bars at random. “A few” detentions have been reported. For those of you in Athens who [...]

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#294 | Thessaloniki squat “Terra Incognita” on the deaths of May 5th

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Thessaloniki Squat “Terra Incognita” on the events of May 5th (for a full list of all translated statements on the May 5th events on Occupied London please see “the anarchists speak out”. Here is the news as it broke out; for our updates on the events of the day, follow the May 5th tag  ) [Greek [...]

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#293 | Veil of corporate media silence covers largest Communist Party demonstration in years

Monday, May 17, 2010

First things first: contributors to this blog are not sympathetic to the Communist Party in Greece (KKE) – a far cry from that. However, even we as are anarchists took note of what happened in Athens on May 15th. On the one hand, the news is in the CP organising what might have been one [...]

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#292 | Explosion at the court of Thessaloniki

Friday, May 14, 2010

At noon today a bomb exploded in the court of Thessaloniki. 2 phone calls had warned about the placement of the bomb. No casualties, one is reported to be lightly injured.

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#291 | “Strong bomb explosion” outside the prison of Korydallos in Athens; one injured

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mainstream media report that a “strong bomb” exploded approximately 200 meters away from the exterior wall of the prison of Korydallos in Athens tonight. Athens daily “Eleftherotypia” and “Alter” TV station received warning calls at approximately 21.50 GMT+2. A 22-year old woman was lightly injured from the explosion, which was across the city centre, Piraeus [...]

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