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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Athens braces for December 1st General Strike

Tomorrow, December 1st is the date of the General Strike called by the two mainstream trade unions in Greece, GSEE and ADEDY. In Athens, buses will run from 9 am to 9pm; trolleys will run from 8 am to 8pm; the metro will run as normal. There will be no national trains (OSE) and no [...]

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: pawnshop (loan shark) trashed in Athens

Greek original On Monday 28.11 a pawnshop in the Athens neighbourhood of Petralona, on Keiriadon Street, had its storefront trashed and leaflets with the following slogans were thrown out: “Black marketeers out of our neighbourhoods, not an inch of land to the loan sharks”. “All those who see our poverty and impoverishment as an opportunity [...]

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: Mayor of Athens destroys benches used for shelter by the homeless

In the middle of the greatest crisis in many decades, and ahead of an impeding winter, the municipality of Athens has executed a plan of removing the benches at Klauthmonos square. These benches were used as basic shelter by homeless people. The number of the homeless has this winter sky-rocketed to over 20,000 – an [...]

Supemarket was looted in Athens

A branch of a Super Market chain was looted on Saturday 26/11/11 in Exarcheia. A group of people filled trolleys with foodstuff and other goods and walked away distributing the goods to the people who were shopping in the near-by open air market and other passing by people. Flyers thrown during the action. They write [...]

The redundancies of the first 16,000 civil servants to be announced tomorrow

On Monday, 28/11/2011 the names of the first 16,000 civil servants to be made redundant from 1/1/2012 will be announced. Some of them are people who work for more than 35 years as civil servants so they are eligible for retirement and so forced into retirement so the state do not have to pay their [...]

Linda Katehi and the neoliberal reform of Greek Higher Education

By Panagiotis Sotiris | From Greek Left Review Linda Katehi has come under the spotlight because of her role as Chancellor of UC Davis, her support of an openly corporate Higher Education and her stance regarding brutal police tactics against peaceful demonstrators at UC Davis. However, there is also another aspect of Linda Katehi’s politics [...]

“Remembering 1973″, by Ross Domoney

Ross Domoney is an incredible independent film-maker, and a member of the Aletheia Photo Collective. He is currently based in Athens for the next few months working on a new project. He will be shooting primarily video, documenting the heart of the financial crisis. Remembering 1973 from Ross Domoney on Vimeo. On 17th November 1973, [...]

Police raid the electricity disconnection order office; 15 people arrested

Early this morning, riot police forces raided the building administering the electricity disconnection orders for the Public Power Corporation in Cholargos, Athens. The building had been occupied by trade unionists the PPC (GENOP-DEI) in an attempt to block the sending off of disconnection orders. There are 15 confirmed arrests — 14 trade unionists of DEI [...]