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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Our coverage of the 48 hour General Strike of June 28-29

Thursday, June 30, 2011

After June 29 Syntagma re-occupied | “In Times Like These” | “The People are Fighting Back” June 29 Videos from June 29 | Photos from June 29 | Day Updates | Night updates | Syntagma Assembly Press Release June 28 Day Updates | Night Updates | More Night Updates | Corporate Photos | Syntagma Statement | [...]

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#646 | In times like these

Thursday, June 30, 2011

There are times when words lose their meaning. Strange times, when decrying junta cannot encapsulate quite what is happening: after all, for all their totalitarianism, the military regimes of the seventies could never have reached the sophistication nor the size of yesterday’s urban control operation in Athens. What happened was not the police attacking a [...]

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#645 | Trade union demonstration this evening, while the Syntagma Assembly calls for square gathering at 6pm; PASOK headquarters in Chania, Crete trashed – the people are fighting back

Thursday, June 30, 2011

After yesterday’s unprecedented police operation across the entire city centre of Athens, we are regrouping and fighting back. ADEDY, one of the two largest trade unions in the country, has called for a demonstration at Syntagma at 19.30 tonight; the Assembly of Syntagma has called for a fresh gathering at the square for 18.00. Last [...]

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#644 | Suicides up by 40% in Greece after the outbreak of the financial crisis

Thursday, June 30, 2011

According to official data released by the Greek Ministry of Health today, suicides have increased by 40% in Greece since the outbreak of the crisis. Before the crisis, Greece was listed in the WHO ranks as a country with one of the lowest suicide percentages on a global scale.

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#643 | Videos from 29 June

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Police attack the metro station at Syntagma, tear gassing and suffocating the thousands inside. Riot police club unarmed demonstration in the head. The demonstration is shouting “get out of the square” and “don’t hit me”. Police chemicals in Syntagma. A DIY medical centre was formed in the Syntagma metro-station; several hundred of people had fled [...]

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Technical issues with the blog – overloading traffic

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

There are some technical issues with the blog, you might get a 404 error message, in which case just reload the page. Please let us know if you have trouble accessing the page or adding comments.

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#642 | Updates from the second night of the General Strike in Athens

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

24:40 GMT+2 The Monastiraki assembly decided to march in the centre. An about 500 people march takes place in Thisio and Gazi areas of the centre. Some people from this crowd ended up in Syntagma where they joined the small number of people who had remained there. 23.00-24.00 GMT+2 Updates from the rest of the [...]

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#641 | Press Release from Syntagma Square Assembly

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Syntagma Square issued the following press release: Welcome to the Junta of the Midterm Agreement! The non existent government despite the united rejection of the Midterm Agreement by the Greek people is continuing its project of terrorizing the society. Putting into practice an organized plan of evacuation of Syntagma square, the police using unparalleled brutality [...]

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