According to corporate media and blogs, about 50,000 people participated in the rally in Syntagma Square. Thousands of people still there at the moment. Earlier the rally surrounded the parliament and a lot of demonstrators blockaded the gates. According to corporate media, police hesitated to attack to the people who blockaded the entries out of fear for riots from such a large crowd of people. So several MPs who had been trapped in the parliament had to leave the building from the back door through the national garden, while others had to leave the parliament after midnight, when the gates were not blockaded any more. People who noticed the ‘escaping’ MPs start chanting ‘thieves!’ ‘thieves!’. Earlier, professors of the University of Athens gave public speeches on the Propylea of the university in front of thousands people, supporting the rally of Syntagma. The speakers and the crowd marched from Propylea to Syntagma and merged with the ongoing rally there, while the people’s assembly of Syntagma Sq. carried on for seventh night.
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haha, dude, your country is going to be dissolved soon enough. carved up for banks and the troika. but you guys keep banging on those pots, soon that’s all you’ll be left owning.
No John, I think the rest of us are laughing at you and what an idiotic waste of oxygen you are.
lol!
Solidarity from London
You can follow the live direct democratic process online (at the moment the debate and voting is in Greek).
Tonight’s schedule for Thessaloniki:
19:00-22:00 Suggestions & debate
22:00 onwards – vote on suggestions
Live stream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aganaktismenoi-thessalonikis
The livestream from Athens:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xizz04_live-streaming-sintagma-square-aganaktismenoi_news
The assembly is doing a great job, this is true. However, you forgot to mention that many were carrying flags and chanting the national anthem along with some anti-immigrant slogans… For some reason that I pretend I don’t understand, just after the gathering, almost everynight some migrants are end up beaten up in hospital… but after all, everything is fine!!!
Just to pass on these links to important work at getting to the truth of the matter:
http://coveringdelta.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/accusations-of-treason-in-the-greek-parliament/
http://www.stopspeculators.gr/
Also James Rickards explains the role of Credit Default Swaps in all this to Helen Skopis and why any bailout will not work indeed will make it worse for Greek people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxR8NXTds9U
Great Greece, I’m proud of you ! Hope Spain will join and than the rest of Europe. Viva la resistance
Great job (clap)
Slides-Video with some subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9z1R1WtQWg
“Earlier, professors of the University of Athens gave public speeches on the Propylea of the university in front of thousands people, supporting the rally of Syntagma.”
???
Dean Pelegrinis was among these professors; let us not forget that he was responsible – among other scums – for the siege of Athens Law School at the beginning of the recent 300 immigrants-workers’ hunger strike.
Apart from this, the hyper-nationalist composer M.Theodorakis was present at Propylaea giving a fascist speech in the context of his extreme-right, patriotic-style new party.
The video showing the patriots supporting him is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aA3AjzYOUo
I’m surprised that people are shocked by the emergence of nationalist bastards in a MASS movement…After all, it is being projected by the media as a national crisis, not an endemic capitalist crisis. ‘Ordinary’ people clinging to their social preconceptions and prejudices is the norm, and therefore needs to be strategically challenged rather than bitched about or dismissed…Naturally opportunist scum like LAOS will want to take advantage… The same is not happening in Spain as far as I know…
Capitalism loves immigrants because it never fails to divide the working class and provide cheap labor. This is a well documented fact.
New live stream from Syntagma Square:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Syntagma
Today the kripto-fascist party in the parliament LA.O.S. (The People’s Orthodox Rally) announced it will walk out. The question is to do what? And why? This smells like a prelude to something. The direct democracy movement is not nationalist, nor is it populist. Its slogan is Direct Democracy, Equality, Dignity, Freedom. If LA.O.S. side with the anti-immigrant pogrom of the far-right murderers, they face a rising tide.
As the guy above said, the assemblies in Syntagma square and anywhere else, has NOTHING to do with the nationalist oafs. The assemblies are great!!!
Any news on the ‘safeguarding group’ in Syntagma, who wear white armbands with the ‘peace symbol’(!) on them? Is their function to protect the assembly from the cops or to control anti-authoritarians and ‘unruly’ elements?
Sorry to tell you incubus, but in Spain all the parties, from far right to far left have been trying their best to co-opt the movement from the very beginning with varying levels of success depending on the place.
This is a risk that will always be present in this sort of mass gatherings. I must say that the proposals, actions and statements I have read from Greece are much more radical than most of what is coming up in Iberia.
Still everything remains to be seen.
Let’s hope an increasing number of people radicalise their views and that the revolting irrational emphasis in “non-violence” gets out of the way and leaves room for a combination of different tactics, including the violent ones.
The nationalist/fascists elements are NOT so many in the demonstrations. Of course this “movement” contains almost all points of view and of course in Greece there are many people with a patriotic view, but you cannot say that it’s the most important faction. It’s OK that we talk about it, so we can do everything to keep the demo without fascists.
LAOS and these kind of scumbags do not try to come to these demos. LAOS is not an autonomous right-wing party, which would try to gain popularity in this way. LAOS is trying so hard all these years to help the system enforce the most neo-liberal policies. It doesn’t matter that they talk about nationalist and Greece, their job is other.
9 JUNE: STRIKE ON THE PUBLIC SERVICES (not public sector, we are talking about the “corporations of common good”, as electricity company, water ect, that the government want to privitize)
15 JUNE: GENERAL STRIKE
21 JUNE: WE JOIN THE EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION (does this mean general strike agian?)
They are going to say more the next days, about the mobilizations, this was a first announcement.
The People’s Assemply of Syntagma Square voted yesterday to “call all people to General Political Unlimited Strike, and welcomes all the strikes of the next period”
I heard that the Syntagma Assembly was calling for a day of europe-wide protest on Sunday 5th June…
Judging by the lack of reporting by the mainstream media in Western europe and the US,(though not the financial blogs!) I think it’s fair to say that the bureaucrats and billionaires that rule us are shaking in their shoes…So much so that this is on the news wires today-
CIA Now Thinks Greece Military Coup Possible
http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-now-thinks-greece-military-coup-possible-2011-6
The spectre of Fascism is raised once again, the idea being to intimidate for now, but none of us really think that it cannot happen- At this point it is worth considering being cautious over the use of violence- Without a doubt, it is in the interests of Capital to precipitate conflict BEFORE the masses can organise even more widely and coherantly (neighbourhoods and under-cutting the Unions control). Another Marfin Bank now, or in the near future, would be a disaster…They know that, but do certain sections of the AA movement in Greece grasp this fact?
( Joke going around- ‘Two greek Anarchists are making molotovs, one says to the other, ” Right comrade, where shall we throw these?”, his comrade replies-” What are you? A fucking intellectual or something?’ )
@Icubus:
The original sources of these “news” are both turkish(Huerryiet) and german(Bild) right wing propaganda and both love the idea most: “greece must sell islands”
Propaganda is propaganda- What ‘news’ source is legitimate anyway? The shit is out there for us to consume one way or another..and even if it wasn’t the threat still exists- Greece may have the Eurogendfor collecting taxes on behalf of the Troica yet…Though I’d like to see them try…
Haha, Greece, it’s over. Do you know who I am? Nah, you have no idea. I work at one of those BIG banks on Wall Street where we make a shit ton of money fucking over entire countries. What can I say, the power gives me a hard-on.
Now sell us those fucking islands like good little boys. I can’t wait to get my hands around a nice Greek whore and sit on an island while you shine my shoes. I knew you were all just big talk. You guys aren’t going to do shit, now cough up what’s ours.
@NYC BANKER-
If you’re real- go fuck yourself, we’ll all be wiping our asses with your worthless fiat dollars soon enough, and we’ll all happily watch the US empire in it’s death spasms, seen Uncle Sam’s credit ratings recently? Your cities are bankrupt, and you’re up to your necks in Chinese debt …The ghetto’s will burn, and then we’ll come for your Manhatten apartment, trash your car and hang you from a lamp-post with your silk tie as a noose. We want everything, and we’ll take the rest.
I find it appalling how this blog has bought into the weak politics of these gatherings in Spain, Greece and other parts of Europe. Their essential view is that democracy is still fine, even though it is the ally of the capitalist system that created the crisis that they are protesting about. Also their status on non is beyond words in country such as Greece. Immigrants are being attacked left right and centre, while they hope that a festival atmosphere is going to stop the brutality of the state and capitalism. The attack on Yiannis three weeks ago is proof enough that all the system that they are trying to change understands is violence. I know this is some kind of copycat process from Egypt and Tunisia, but look what has changed in those countries, hardly anything, the brutal state structure still exists in both countries, with the army and scret police in both countries hunting down anyone who dares to seak of taking the so called revolutions further. The West and capitalism still has control of these countries, so at best all the people in these squares are calling for is a change in personel, who will just fuck people over like the ones before.
A military coup would be brilliant. It’s the only way to stop the madness. The troops are just discussing their allies: peoples assemblies, commies or anarchists and then kick out all colonels and the pimps who suck Erdogan Merkel’s cock.
@JIMMI-
I don’t think anyone (apart from the odd asshole) would disagree with you there Jimmi, but social movements start with a reformist agenda and can then be radicalised, I think many people here are just amazed at how the popular assembly as a social-political form has suddenly become manifest and that, that in itself, is a major step forward… I don’t think holding pblic Yoga sessions in either Madrid or Athens will overthrow capitalism, nor asking for ‘ethical and responsibility’ from blatantly corrupt politicians…But then I also don’t see tens of thousands having some Damascene conversion to anarchism, or some version of it, overnight either…France 68 went from protests over University reform to full scale revolt, Hungary 56 likewise had minimal if not reformist demands…We can’t dismiss this out of hand- it’s unwise and unreasonable to do so, if not downright stupid…
paris 68 was highly influenced by the unrest in greece in 67!
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