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Monthly Archives: April 2011

#561 | Police raid houses in Exarcheia and Kypseli in Athens, detain three “in relation to the Marfin bank deaths”

Friday, April 29, 2011

UPDATE, 22.27 GMT+2. According to posts on Athens IMC, those detained in relation to the Marfin bank deaths have now been released. They have been called to testify again on May 5th. According to mainstream media reports, police have raided houses in the neighbourhoods of Exarcheia and Kypseli and have detained at least three people, [...]

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#560 | Little stories from IMF-run Greece: 45-year old female worker injured by her boss for requesting her legal Easter bonus pay

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A 45-year old female cleaner at the Hotel Kornilios, near Thessaloniki, requested her legal easter pay from her boss, who responded by attacking and injuring her. The 45-year old was taken to the nearby Health Centre of Koufalia. The woman then sued her boss, who was arrested and will appear before a prosecutor. The website [...]

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#559 | “High school students with memory” call for the May 1st demonstration in Athens

Monday, April 25, 2011

Greek original   Long live the revolution Everything gets worse. The future definitely looks dark. Everyday, we hear that salaries decrease, product prices increase and life cost in general increases a lot. Money rules our society. Products are bought and sold with money, and even people are bought and sold with a banknote. The generation [...]

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#558 | Mainstream opinion poll finds 40% of those questioned approve of recent violent attacks against politicians

Sunday, April 24, 2011

It would have been yet another uninteresting opinion poll, of the ones often ordered by mainstream political parties to boost their image and to give a fake feeling that all is good in the Greek IMF territory. But the corporate opinion poll company (named ALCO) found that 40% of those questioned in fact approved of [...]

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#557 | Fresh general strike called in Greece for May 11th, as the question of debt restructuring still lingers

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The bureaucratic mainstream trade unions have been pushed into calling for a fresh General Strike in Greece, for May 11th, amidst the speculation that the agreement for extension of the country’s loan repayments may only be a prelude to a restructuring of the national debt altogether.  For the time being, the Papandreou government ostensibly rejects [...]

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#556 | Anarchists trash all vending and validating machines in two stations of the Athens metro network; corporate media report “up to 1m euros” in damage

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

On the evening of April 19th, small groups of anarchists entered the metro stations of Sygrou-Fix and Halandri, in Athens. As corporate media report, they destroyed all vending and validation machines in both stations – the damages are estimated in “the hundreds of thousands, possibly up to 1m euros”, as the media report.

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#555 | After 129 days of struggle, riot police are forced to withdraw from Keratea

Monday, April 18, 2011

As announced a few hours ago, the ministry of citizen protection announced its plan to withdraw all police forces from Ovriokastro and Keratea. It has also been decided that the construction machinery will be withdrawn from the area and that the ministry of environment will enter into negotiations with the municipality. At 17.08 GMT+2, the [...]

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#554 | Two-meter deep ditch dug across the highway leading to Keratea

Thursday, April 14, 2011

In the early hours of April 14, people dug a two-meter deep ditch across the Lavriou Highway, leading to Keratea – permanently blocking out traffic in this way. Hours later, new scuffles broke out with police who rushed to the spot.

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