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Daily Archives: December 16th, 2010

#453 | Residents of Keratea, Attica continue their struggle with Riot police against the construction of a landfill for a sixth consecutive day

As reported in a previous post, the residents of Keratea in Attica (around 10 miles south of Athens International Airport) have been involved in a struggle and fierce clashes with riot police forces who have arrived in the area to enforce the construction of a waste burial site that is unwelcome by the locals. The [...]

#452 | More photos and videos from the General Strike, Athens 16.12.2010

More than 100,000 people marched in central Athens today against the freshly-voted labour relations law and the austerity measures imposed by the government and the EU/IMF/ECB troika. One of the most mass demonstrations the city has seen in recent times was met by brute police violence; the police, nevertheless, proven unable to quell peoples’ anger. [...]