16.03 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens. Back at Syntagma. A good number of people have managed to stay on the square. The block that was cut off earlier returns to huge applause.
15.25 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens.Demonstrators pushed out of the square and split in half. At least two arrests. A large group has been pushed back to the university.
15.02 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens.The police are throwing broken marble at us.
14.58 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens. Police teargassing Syntagma Square. They might be trying to evacuate the square.
14.55 GMT +2, Syntagma, Athens. The main demonstration block has been in the square for approximately an hour. There police (32 riot police units in total protecting parliament) are throwing tear-gas extensively and are trying to break up the blocks. On Othonos street, 5-6 fascists were trapped in an arcade and the police who came to their rescue clashed with the people gathered there. For the past 40′ there are constant clashes on the lower part of Syntagma square, by Karageorgi Servias Str.
There are also clashes on Stadiou Street. According to people at the square, police are firing tear gas every few seconds.
03.12 GMT+2 The first victory? Going againt the sold out leadership of their union, workers at the Athens metro have announced the metro will work as normal, to facilitate the transportation of strikers to the General Strike demonstration in the city.
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01.40 GMT+2 Syntagma: About 15 neo-Nazis chanted fascist slogans near the Citizens Service Centre at the corner of Othonos and Amalias streets. Anarchists have rushed to repel them.
01.03 GMT+2 Athens: The block of the sold-out General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) is reaching Syntagma Square, with approximately 5,000 demonstrators.
12.34 GMT+2 In Xanthi, northern Greece, there were three different bodies of demonstrators. In the morning members of PAME occupied the Tax Office building. In general, the participation both from the Resistance Initiative of and the Labour Centre was lower in comparison to previous strikes. As result of their attempt to seclude the trade unionists, the Resistance Initiative’s block marched without politically independent workers, only with several members of the anarchist block on its side.
12.17 GMT+2 Thessaloniki: Demonstrators of rank’n’files unions joined the strikers’ pre-gathering at the junction of Egnatia and Aghia Sophias streets. The march of approximately 10,000 protesters is heading from the Labour Centre of Thessaloniki to Aghios Demetrius Street.
12.14 GMT+2 Mytilini, Lesbos Island: The rally of nearly 600 demonstrators is completed. An open popular assembly will follow.
12.05 GMT+2 According to the announcement of the General Federation of Personnel of Electricity Sector (GENOP/DEI: PPC), today between 11.00 and 15.30 blackouts of almost one and a half hour will be rotating at various areas in Attica.
11.00 GMT+2 At the port of Pireus, since early in the morning, dockworkers as well as members of PAME (of the so-called ‘Communist’ Party of Greece) seized the ships’ launchers, blocking the sailing from the central port of the country. In Athens approximately 25,000 people have gathered in front of the parliament, mainly demonstrators of PAME.
01.01 GMT+2 Prisons across Greece: Excerpt of a prisoners’ text about the mid-term memorandum — ‘[...] Prisons are a mechanism which is based on poverty and reproduces inequalities and injustice. Prisons are an unjust and inhumane mechanism which demoralizes and enrages people. It is a class and antisocial mechanism which should be abolished. We know that there is no potential for basic living problems’ substantial solution inside prisons because, as we said before, life behind prison walls becomes even more difficult due to the crisis. Hence, the main slogan of inmates in Greek prisons today is “Immediate release of all prisoners.” Today our own struggle cannot but be common. Common among all prisoners, common among all the oppressed of all nationalities who are in the streets and squares of Greek cities. Let’s start here and now a real confrontational struggle that will prevent the mid-term memorandum’s voting. And the only way to do so is to factually threaten the political and economic system’s function. [...]’ This text is co-signed by a total of 468 women and men inmates of the prisons: Koridallos (also F male wing), Ioannina, Avlona, Nafplion and Corfu. At least 789 women and men prisoners decided to remain outside the prison cells during the midday closing in: Koridallos (also A, D, F male wings), Diavata, Amfissa, D1 male wing of Grevena. A total of 1,508 inmates will protest via abstention from mess in: Grevena, B male wing of Larissa, Ioannina, Avlona, Malandrino, Diavata and Cassandra in Thessaloniki. On the day of the mid-term memorandum’s voting, the prisoners protest against the financial and political impasse in which the Greek society is situated, against the country’s occupation by the big Capital, against the parliamentary junta. This mobilization is also held in solidarity with those who fight in cities’ streets and squares across Greece.
About 00.00 GMT+2 Arta, western Greece: Dozens of workers and solidaritarians blocked the entry of the poultry cooperative’s factory of the city. They had decided to blockade the factory throughout the entire 48hour general strike, but the blockade ended at about 4.30 am. Reports mention that lately the employers practice factual terrorism against the workers, intimating them not to participate in strikes. The unpaid workers of the cooperative invite all people to participate in the strike.
from different sources:
https://at.indymedia.org/node/20838
Livestream: http://roarmag.org/2011/06/livestream-of-the-48-hour-strike-and-protests-in-greece/
Looks like some larger street barricades are burning, a lot of black smoke.
Cops have upper Square- cleared after 2nd (maybe 3rd) TV satellite van is torched- with what looks like ‘propaganda’ graffitoed on it’s side.
Brit media stressing it is ‘only a minority of anarchists’ fighting the cops, ‘identifiable by their black clothes’- their words fail to match their images -lying media scum.
the second TV-sattelite-van which was found in flames on Otto’s Street was destroyed because of a cop’s sound-shine grenade. New attack with tear-gas now on the squarre.
Livestream Syntagma http://www.ustream.tv/channel/syntagma2
The people on Syntagma keep calling the cops to leave from the area. Many initiatives around try to chase away the pigs. The pigs for one more time response not only with tear-gas, asphyxia-gas and sound-shine grenades but also with stones which they throw against the protesters. A huge team of DIAS motorcycle pigs, who are used for murderous attacks against protesters, has took position on Akademias Avenue.
The people push back riot-cops on the upper side of the squarre in front of the Parliament. The cops hold back guarding the building.
One eye-witness from the “red counter journalists” reported about a riot-cop who threw away his equipment (helmet, shield, batton) and he was grasped from other riot-cops who started beating him up.
Spanish Updates
Translations from occupiedolondon and other sources
Come on Ireland. Get out on the streets.
http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/5047
Updates
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