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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: People in the northern Greek city of Veria re-connect disconnected electricity… and they explain why

Friday, September 30, 2011

On the 29th of September, a small group of people in the northern Greek city of Veria decided to take action and to reconnect the electricity supply in a number of houses that had been disconnected from the network. The electricity bills, it should be noted, are the government’s chosen medium of payment for the [...]

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Government’s ministries occupied by their employees

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Today the reps of Troika are coming again to Greece in order to meet with the minister of economics. The employees in various government’s ministries and government’s offices have occupied the buildings or they are blockading the premises. Occupied are the ministries of Economics, of Administrative Reforms & Electronic Governance, the Home office, Ministry of [...]

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More than 400 high schools under occupation in Greece; at least 136 university departments still occupied

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

While university students are fighting in departmental General Assemblies to continue with their occupations against the new education Law (faced with the prospect of cancellation of their annual examinations if they do so), high school students are now forcefully entering the emerging wave of action against austerity in Greece. More than 400 high schools are [...]

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Greek parliament votes in latest austerity bill (property tax); demonstrators confront demonstrating police; Syntagma evacuated in operation that sees at least three seriously injured

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

22.20 GMT+2 After hours of confrontations, strong police forces evacuated thousands of demonstrators from Syntagma square in Athens. For yet another time in the past few months, people have effectively been blocked from gathering together, in a condition familiar from the days of the 1967-74 Junta. Earlier on, demonstrators had confronted …demonstrating police: members of [...]

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Call for Action – The days of their affluence are just a few!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The days of their affluence are just a few! Encirclement of the House of Parliament Tuesday, September 27, 7pm After the visits by the international usurers eventually the task force of European Commission came to to oversee if the agreements to sell out our lives to the Troika and the EC are being implemented. Now [...]

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Clashes at Syntagma & Occupation of the studio of state TV channel by students

Sunday, September 25, 2011

01:45 GMT+2 The march just ended at the square of Ayia Paraskevi. 01:30 GMT+2 The occupiers walked out of the building, they met with the 800-people solidarity gathering and they are marching away on Mesogeion av. Riot police units follow them. The channel just started broadcasting the news show. 00:40 GMT+2 Earlier the director of [...]

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Riot police officers with fascist symbols on their helmets

Sunday, September 25, 2011

The group ‘red counter-reporters’ published today a series of photos showing officers of the riot police units who have fascist symbols, such as SS, along slogans and symbols of neo-nazi groups painted on their helmets. In these photos one can see a riot cop with the word ‘AVE…’ written on his helmet, this refers to [...]

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Action against house auctions

Saturday, September 24, 2011

The committees ‘I do not Pay’ stopped house auctions at the courthouse on Sep 21 in Athens. They invaded the courthouse where houses confiscated by banks were to be auctioned, with a banner writing ‘No house to end up at the hands of bankers’ and chanting slogans entered the room where auctions were to take [...]

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