New blog on the Greek riots - updates in English
occupiedlondoner | 08.12.2008 21:21 | Social Struggles | World
In memory of Alexandros Georgopoulos.
The struggle of humanity against authority, as always, continues.
The struggle of humanity against authority, as always, continues.
On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens. Since that night, Athens and tens of other greek cities have been burning.
On the same night, up to 10,000 people took the streets of Athens on a spontaneous demonstration, burning and smashing banks, ministries and multinational shops. Ever since, tension has been increasingly escalating: universities are occupied, as are most of the high schools in the country. Barricades are being put up around Athens; clashes with the police are constant.
On Tuesday, 9.12, the funeral of Alexandros is taking place and a general strike is called for Wednesday the 10th - a day both sides are building up for.
The purpose of this blog is to provide up-to-date information on the Greek riots, directly from the streets. Authors are contributing from the Greek cities of Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras.
The updates will be irregular and as frequent as permitted, given the circumstances. The updates will be mostly text-based. Confirmed reports will be presented as such - and so will rumours. We are not journalists and we are not objective; we chose sides in the social war a while ago.
On the same night, up to 10,000 people took the streets of Athens on a spontaneous demonstration, burning and smashing banks, ministries and multinational shops. Ever since, tension has been increasingly escalating: universities are occupied, as are most of the high schools in the country. Barricades are being put up around Athens; clashes with the police are constant.
On Tuesday, 9.12, the funeral of Alexandros is taking place and a general strike is called for Wednesday the 10th - a day both sides are building up for.
The purpose of this blog is to provide up-to-date information on the Greek riots, directly from the streets. Authors are contributing from the Greek cities of Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras.
The updates will be irregular and as frequent as permitted, given the circumstances. The updates will be mostly text-based. Confirmed reports will be presented as such - and so will rumours. We are not journalists and we are not objective; we chose sides in the social war a while ago.
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Government declares NO state of emergency
08.12.2008 22:26
seems there all kind of rumors going round, someone on German IMC has even called for International Brigades and flying down there.
It´s more important to organise things at home. There have been some demos across germany but they were small biggest 250. But protests will take place whole week.
sd
it says it, it's rumours
08.12.2008 22:31
rumours
Greek - English Translation requiered
08.12.2008 23:04
Fualks
a risky option for the Greek gov.
08.12.2008 23:07
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Homepage:
http://garizo.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-old-tricks-t.html
what happened to the Greek indymedia?
08.12.2008 23:43
anon
info
09.12.2008 00:31
The young comrade's name is Alexandros-Andreas Grigoropoulos or simply Alexis.
Athens.indymedia.org is down because thousands of people (from rioters communicating with each other to mass-media reporters) try to connect and download stuff in the same time, so the collective asked for people just to check what they absolutely need and exit.
I think the best thing to do for the fighters in Greece is to make some news coming to them from where we are. The Greek mass-media had an enormous interest on the actions in London and Berlin and Cyprus and Paris and...
It is something that helps make the assessination of Alexis and the uprising in Greece the center of everyones attention.
Though, since in Greece there is n't a strong movement culture connected with food not bombs and legal/medical teams, I would suggest any groups interested in doing something like that in Greece, to communicate with people there, probably via athens imc once its possible, but I wouldn't expect much attention, since there is a f!@#$%g war over there, and everybode gives his/her best to avenge Alexis and eradicate police, merchandise, and any symbol of capitalism away from the streets (they even burnt down churhes in Thessaloniki, the mayor's xmas tree in Athens, etc). There are some 100 arrestes now and
It is very important to keep good news coming to the people fighting in the streets all over Greece (yesterday pupils n students organized marches in more than 50 town, many of them attacking local police stations), even prisoners throughout the country (some thousands as it seems) boycott prison food for a day to honour Alexis.
Sorry for the long text. take care
Geek
@geek; please reply
09.12.2008 11:47
Can you translate the frontpage of sek?
Tell something about the background of the migrant, please.
was he killed?
faulks