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Monthly Archives: March 2011

#550 | Occupation by Afghan Refugees in Athens enters its fourth month

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The hunger strike of 300 migrant workers which ended after 44 days earlier this month caught the attention of the (alt) media and the local populace and eventually worked to persuade the government to grant them some rights. But less attention seems to have been paid to the ongoing protest of Afghan refugees outside the [...]

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The eternal sunshine of London’s March 26th, 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

  Far from a report on the day’s demonstration – of which plenty circulate around the web – this is a semi-fictional account perhaps to be read as a piece building on Hackney Algeria, Occupied London #3. More to come, hopefully. The eternal sunshine of London’s March 26th, 2011 (Or: places move – the people [...]

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#549 | The longest day in the 110-day long struggle of the people of Keratea against the construction of a landfill site in their area – live updates as police attack the barricades

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The struggle of the people of Keratea, ongoing for 110 days now, has reached its most crucial point so far. As of this morning, police have been trying to break through the people’s barricades in order to allow construction machinery to reach the site of the planned landfill. Latest info: In the town of Keratea, [...]

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#548 | Is this the start of the “occupy everything” season? Athens town hall, another five town halls and hundreds of schools occupied across Greece

Sunday, March 27, 2011

In Athens, temporary workers at the municipality of Athens have been occupying the town hall of the Greek capital for six days (since Monday, 21.3) demanding that their temporary contracts are extended. Similar mobilisations happened at the town halls of Heraklion (in Crete), Lesvos, Kozani and Amintaio in Florina. At the same time, the number [...]

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#547 | National marches turn to protests across the country

Saturday, March 26, 2011

25th of March is a national holiday in Greece as it is the supposed day of the uprising against Ottoman Empire (1821). Every year this day, maches of students take place across the country in front of the local authorities, with most important the Military March that takes place in Athens and some cities near [...]

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Occupied London and AK Press present: Revolt and Crisis in Greece

Thursday, March 24, 2011

AK Press Publishing and Occupied London are proud to announce the forthcoming publication: Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come April 2011 | $18 · €10 · £10 | 378 pages | ISBN: 9780983059714 For more information, or to pre-order: http://revoltcrisis.org | http://www.akpress.org How does [...]

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#546 | Little stories from IMF-run Greece: dead bodies of six migrants found in garbage bins and garbage sites in Athens during the past few months

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The chilling story has very slowly started to surface in mainstream Greek media: in the past few months, the dead bodies of men and women (six in total so far, all of them migrants) have been found either in garbage collection sites or garbage bins across the Greek capital. Is there a mafia behind this, [...]

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#545 | Funny times for politicians to be in public view: clashes as PM Papandreou visits the island of Syros

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

On March 21 PM George Papandreou visited the island of Syros. Along with him traveled riot police from Athens, who threw tear gas to protesters – according to locals, this was the first time ever that the picturesque island saw tear gas thrown in its streets. At 1’05” in the video below, a riot policeman [...]

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