20.41 (GMT+2) An estimated 20-30,000 people are at Syntagma at the moment and more are arriving by the minute. Tonight’s assembly is starting very soon, and it will most likely concern itself with the impeding announcements by Greek PM Papandreou, possibly about a “national unity” government.
17:43 (GMT+2) The situation in Syntagma is slightly calmer. Thousands are on the streets around the square and in front of the parliament, with more coming. Earlier, the luxurious Hotel Prince George and the Ministry of Economics were both attacked by protesters.
17:21 (GMT+2) The doctors of the clinic-tent of Syntagma Sq. are making a plea for supplies. A lot of people are injured by the brutal attacks of the police. People can approach Syntagma from Amalias Ave, from Propylea and possibly from the Metro station.
People are chanting anti-police slogans and clap ironically to the cops, battles still go on around the square, DIAS forces were hit in Fillelinon Str, while a few minutes earlier they had attacked people in front of the national garden and in Stadiou st. DIAS speed up and down on Amalias Street, hitting the rally.
17:07 (GMT+2) DIAS motorcycle police attacked people on Amalias St. People chant ‘Bread-Education-Freedom-The junta did not end in 1973′ and ‘Cops, Pigs Murderers’, gas bombs and sound grenades are thrown again by the police. Music is blasting once again from the speakers of the square. Ten minutes ago, the Syntagma Square Media Centre circulated the following announcement:
” NO PASSARAN! Now WE talk!
The Greek Parliament is under Siege. Thousands of protesters have flooded the greek Bastille and the surroundings. Since 7 in the morning, the greek “indignados”, shouting “no more!”, and with only means of struggle their own body, have blocked the streets and have encircled the Parliament.
What if the police has risen irongated barriers in front of the Parliament (V.Sofias) bombarding with unprecended teargases the gathered people…What if all the “sides and faces” of police forces (DIAS, MAT.e.t.c.)have tried to disperse the two blocks at V.Konstantinou &Rizari and V.Konstantinou & Rigillis, we are still here and we are continuing!
The greek government with the always pront to help, greek police, has for some hours now tried to murder and destroy ethically the great movement of the greek “indignados”, of the honest people who have taken to the squares and streets of the country.
To whoever tries to stop the peacefull siege of the “worthless and dangerous”, the greatest protest of the post Junta era, we will say only this! We are here to stay! All the people’s assemblies, we will stay and no ethical or politicall provocator will stop us. There is no space for such a species in our future history! ”
16:53 (GMT+2) a big group of demonstrators chased a group of DIAS/DELTA motorcycle police on Panepistimiou st. The speakers on Syntagma Sq. call for people to go back to the square. It is difficult to stay there due to the tear-gas, yet people remain.
16:49 (GMT+2) People were gradually trying to return to Syntagma, music sounded again from the speakers. But just now cops attack again en masse, trapping groups of people on the lower part of the square and trying to evacuate it entirely, with tear gas and some profound violence.
15:56 (GMT+2) Major clashes on Filellinon st, at least one arrest in Sytagma. Stun grenade and tear gas cannisters sound everywhere. At least in two instances police assaulted ambulances that had come to pick up injured demonstrators, while a tear gas bomb was thrown into the clinic-tent of the square.
15:45 (GMT+2) Clashes all around Syntagma and on the Square. Demonstrators respond with stones to the police attack, the square is covered with the white powder that gas bombs leave behind, but people still there, while others re-group on the streets surrounding the square and are trying to move back toward it.
15:15 (2+GMT) Tension at Syntagma Sq continues. At Akadimias st. police threw a lot of tear gas a few minutes ago. Clashes between riot cops and demonstrators in front of the Ministry of Economic, a lot of petrol bombs and tear gas were thrown. People are back outside parliament and they are preparing for a stand-off. In front of the parliament anarchists and fascists are next to each other chanting slogans, the situation was really tense, after some clashes fascists were kicked out of the area.
14:28 (+2 GMT) Thousands of people remain around the parliament. The plexiglass wall is not there any more, but the cops have moved lower near the Syntagma Sq, they forming cordon with 4 lines. But many new demonstrators people are coming into the parliament’s area to participate into the blockade. Fascists, undercover police officers and uniformed cops are around, but people seem not to be afraid and they still concentrate. In Thessaloniki, although the rain thousands of people have surrounded the venue of the sub-ministry of North Greece
14:00 (+2 GMT) More prefecture premises have been occupied so far the HQ of the Prefeture of Central Greece (Lamia), Crete, Corfu (Eptanisa) and Syros (Kyklades). Earlier anarchists in Athens located amongst them a hooded cop with molotov cocktails, while other demonstrators (incl.) fascists start blaming anarchists as undercover cops and attacked to some of them. A molotov cocktail was thrown in the police lines in front of the parliament.
13:50 (+2 GMT) Athens: Clashes between the police and demonstrators in Rigilis st. and in Amalias st. Hundreds of demonstrators clash with each other in front of parliament, at least one demonstrator seriously injured in front of the hotel Great Britannia.
13:18 (+2 GMT) Syntagma Sq: Some of the demonstrators threw stones to the police forces in front of the parliament and some extreme-right-wing people who were there tried to prevent the stone throwing and so clashes between demonstrators erupted. Police at the moment throws gas bombs to the demonstrators in front of the parliament
12:44 (+2GMT) Lamia, central Greece: Workers’ unions have occupied the premises of the Prefecture, the same thing happened in the Prefecture of Crete.
12:36 (+2GMT) Serres, northern Greece: After the end of the demo the Open Popular Assembly of Eleftheria square has unanimously decide to occupied the Town Hall. The Town Hall will remain occupied untill 17.00 when a new assembly will take place.
12:46 (+2 GMT) Athens: The march of the general strike started from Museum and no is marching toards the parliament through Stadiou St.
12:16 (+2GMT) Athens: Tension in front of the plexiglass wall in Vas. Sofias Av. Demonstrators (mainly workers in the municipalities) start pushing the wall and the police used tear gas.
11:56 (+2 GMT) Trikala: The demonstration of almost 150 leftists, “indignants” and anarchists have just ended. The demo started from the Workers’ Center of the city and ended at the building of the Prefecture blockading it for an hour.
11:30 (+2 GMT) Thessaloniki: The base unions have started their demo from Kamara moving towards the Workers’ Center of Thessaloniki. More than 1000 people participate in the demo.
11:25 (+2 GMT) Aigio, Achaea: More than 400 demonstrators at the central square of the town of Aigio, in Achaea (western Greece) are about to start a march in the streets of the city.
11:12 (+2 GMT) In Athens a group of demonstrators coming from Zografou neighbourhood has been blocked by large forces of DELTA/DIAS police forces near Evangelismos. The 10 demonstrators detained earlier have been released.
10:20 (+2 GMT) Reports about 10 people detained and 2 injured on the blockade of Vasileos Konstantinou Avenue and Rizari street. The demonstrators attempted to block some MPs going to the parliament for their meeting and police attacked to them. There is a need for reinforcement of the gathering/blockade at the Panathenaicon stadium.
10:08 (+2 GMT) A small part of the crowd in front of the Parliament is shouting fascist slogans. At the same time police is arresting people on Vasileos Konstantinou Avenue.
10:03 (+2 GMT) Around 300 demonstrators at the pre-gathering of the general strike at the [National Archaeological] Museum [Athens]
09:35 (+2 GMT) Tension in front of the parliament, where is the largest rally, people start chanting ‘cops, pigs, murderers’ and the front line of police passed behind the metal railings.
08: 50 (+2 GMT) People at Syntagma are swelling in numbers, we hear that there are a few gathering in Evangelismos, although the metro station there is closed.
07:53 (+2 GMT) People gathering outside parliament at Syntagma Sq. and by parliament’s side entrance on Vasilisis Sofias. A huge police plexiglass wall blocks the street.
People in front of the parliament this morning
Petrol bombs thrown to riot police, in front of the parliament
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There’s a [very choppy] live stream from somebody walking around Syntagma Square here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Syntagma
http://www.star.gr/ellada_kosmos/93174
The first stream is down; this one is much better, though.
Seems like Greeks are turning in on themselves. The protest has been hijacked by the “peaceful” protestors who are unwilling to struggle for their freedom. They are “hoping” that the politicians don’t fuck them over by standing outside like dopes.
with eggs, bottles and oranges.
His convoy got attacked:
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2011/06/15/athens-protests-june-15-live-streaming-live-blogging/
booooring
there’s no power like the power of the people to stand around and fail. oh yeah, and your neighbor’s a cop, and social engineering has made you into a soft sponge.
so much for Greece igniting the world. this is disappointing.
Any truth in THIS?:-
christianhp7 RT @ventrix: Molotov thrower caught by the people. He had his police id on him. #greekrevolution #m25gr #25Mgr #Syntagma
probably not. the Real Democracy Now movement is run covertly by the state, as an attempt to eject anti-authoritarian currents (the only real threatening force) in the greek revolution. This whole thing just reeks of social engineering. Now anyone showing the slightest urge for militant struggle will become an “undercover provocateur”. meanwhile the rest will sit where the “people’s assembly” tell them to, and wait patiently while their skulls are beat in by batons and their money is sucked away till the all work for free. but with a nonviolent smile on their faces!
GREECE, YOU HELLA DUMB
Oh man, all I see are Greeks punching each other. The police and politicians must fucking love all this infighting.
now greece is pacified as well. bad enough that people started to sit in squares and hope the worlds gonna be better tomorrow in spain, but greece? this is a sad day for anticapitalist struggle worldwide.
Not surprised by the use of agents provocateurs- But it makes no difference once the police attack the main body of the crowd. That, and the fact that people will be angered by their use anyway…Let battle commence.
there’s some good riot porn happening right now.
I see plenty of anarchists struggling in the crowd against what is going on. It’s not that the Greeks are pacified, it’s just that you have a lot more people who are against the anarchists (right-wing peeps) who are fighting the anarchists, and dividing the people. There are anarchists and left-wing people fighting the cops, but the cops now have a little militia of buddies to help them in the populace.
@JB
Yes, everything is driven by the state, maybe your favourite squat as well. And the state is driven by the aliens from Alpha Centauri who uses humanity as actors in one big Reality Show.
I’m really fed up with these conspiracy idiots. That doesn’t mean every idea labeled as conspiracy is stupid. But THIS IS STUPID.
People are searching for a way out of all this. And at first, they try a non-violent way. It is logical and it is right. Unfortunately, it is not probably possible to get rid of elites without violence. If so, people will understand it and they will adopt appropriate tactics. But they will use the violence only as a mean than, not as a goal.
I watch the situation far away from Athens, but it seems to me that the reason why today action is failing now, it is that there are not enough people.
BUT THE DAY HAS NOT ENDED YET! THE DEMONSTARTIONS CAN SWELL IN NUMBERS TILL THE EVENING. EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNanrFWQ8s&feature=player_embedded
video from the parliament’s yard during the morning preparations of police and undercover cops…
@LEFTWAY
whatever, Build-A-Burgers are putting tainted patties in the food supply, and you’re just a disinfo agent working for Ted Turners’ alien financiers.
I’m sure this will get interesting. I was only saying things matter-of-factly because it’s FUUUUUNNN.
Holy shit, I wish I was there. I’m an American, and we Americans have absolutely no balls/no heart/no sense of struggle. So I’ll admit that I live vicariously through the Greeks and their beautiful will to struggle.
For all the peeps hating above, all I see are Greeks chucking rocks and molotovs at those punk police. Not sure what live streams you’re watching.
WOAH, SHIT’S GETTING REAL RIGHT NOW
holy cow, so much about greece being pacified.
Lols, riot in the streets! Don’t attack the cops. Move past the cops and kill those fucking politicians. I mean, literally, kill them. String them up. They are murdering the people and the people must retaliate or die.
wow, the pigs beat the shit out of that guy with the red shirt.
“the Real Democracy Now movement is run covertly by the state, as an attempt to eject anti-authoritarian currents”
Did you ever think that these “anti-authoritarians” can be cops? Well, there were many witnesses in the Greek TV that some hooded youth had police ID cards. Did you ever think these provocateurs while trying to fight the cops could harm even an ordinary worker… working under the minimum wage??? Nope I suppose…
I’ve never seen so much tear gas at any demo before. Honestly, the police need to think about who they’re protecting here, certainly not their own people.
Volos (central greece): 3000 people demo occupies the city hall and demonstrators assembly takes place inside. The mayor of Volos is blocked inside.
baby monk seal stabbed to death:
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2011/06/14/amorgos-monk-seal-stabbed-to-death/
@dead ageans
BAHAHAHAHA
that’s terrible. everything is terrible.net
does anyone have pictures? or an indymedia link from greece would be nice. i cant find anything there.
OMG! What I read here (seen no footage yet) sounds like a civil war to me! But what is the solution, where are the ideas to make your country a better place? Only fighting and screaming now it is too late etc. isn’t really productive right? Although I fully agree that your junta are liars and corrupt. Not only to their own people but to all of Europe especially the greedy rich banks!! The European Union has miserably failed not to check with what junta they did deal. But I guess they did know..how couldn’t they not have known about it?
(This is a post from the Netherlands)
@ AJ
well there are libertarian structures everywhere in the world. but most of them are kinda small. i dont know about greece. but i am pretty sure the comrades over there are doing more than just rioting against cops all days.
about pictures: the livestream thats been posted in the comments here a little earlier is still online (no rioting right now though, everything seems pretty calm). i dont think any pictures or videos will be uploaded while the protest still goes on.
It’s a fact that all oppositional movements and revolutionary groups are infiltrated on some level by the security services – In every country around the world. Get over it. Deal with it.
In the present crisis the state will use agents provcateurs, like today, which may give the state a limited tactical advantage during large protests but it is all ultimately futile when faced with a mass movement. They hope to use these plainclothes cops to justify repression, cause confusion and possibly to ideologically alienate the mass from the minority prepared to attack. (Likewise the fascists today who have been given a good hiding) Faced with a determined movement, passive or not, they will always resort to brutality. Given the present crisis, and with no end in sight, all the state will do, is to proove the uselessness of passive protest, and turn more ‘good citizens’ towards community self-defence, direct action, sabotage and resistance based on attack…
@INCUBUS
hopefully.
What do the demonstrators want? How should the financial crisis be solved?
There can be no government solution to the crisis. Zero Euros, zero Drachmas in the bank. Whats the difference. We are already bankrupt. Our pockets are empty. Our careers have vanished. With direct democracy assemblies, strike action and occupations, we will reclaim the GDP ourselves. We will reorganise it and reditstribute it. After all, its ours anyway.
@DEMOCAT-
But there is a hierarchical solution, and you should know there is, it will be the imposition of military power over the civilian population, to force everyone to shut up and swallow all the poverty, loss of rights, jobs, social welfare and health care that the boss-class wants you to swallow.
The question is, whether the people are prepared to resist it or not, through a continuation of popular assemblies, strike action and occupations and ultimately armed resistance.
Papandreaou’s attempt at national unity has failed, the subsequent election will probably return the other bunch of bastards to power, and they have no real answers…Back to square one, with the people ever more ungovernable. How else will power maintain itself, except through the blunt force of a Junta to suppress dissent and ‘save the nation’ (i.e. the rich)…? This is only the beginning. In Solidarity.
From Greece…Police tried to provoce the massive demonstration.Early in the morning some policemen were undercovered as civilians and they were loading material(wooden sticks with the red black flag)…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNanrFWQ8s&feature=share... which later was used by those provocateurs policemen as a cause of conflict.Police started the violence,(demonstrators arrested a guy from the fake ”black blockers” who was throwning molotov,he later showed to them a police ID) Later,some of the demonstrators,mainly black blockers deffended themselves and the rest people,trying to get the cops out of the square, by using anti-violence… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGrc6kg64M&feature=player_embedded…The Greek people continue the struggle against the goverment,IMF, greek and international bankers. NO PASARAN!
this video shows clearly people getting the cops out of the Syntagma square…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6wfOrMy_o&feature=player_embedded#at=155…The Real Democracy movement is not runing covertly by the state.In his majority they are people that now understand words such as solidarity breaking their delusions for a strong capitalistic state,by being attacked by the states squat forces in the street.Lefters and anarchists are a member of this massive angry mass and they have to give to the crowd their experience,organization to the strungle.Yesterday was just a battle,this is not a short but a long distance running.United we stand!
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