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Riot police and protesters clash in Athens
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
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Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens today, sending Christmas shoppers and people in cafes running for cover. Frightened parents scooped up their children from a Christmas carousel in the city's main square and fled....
Tags: police, athens, teenager, anarchist, Athens University Law School, riots police, riots, Greek Parliament, tear gas, central athens
Greek Workers Occupy Union HQ
The six-day-long occupation of the City Hall of Ag. Dimitrios in Athens ended last night with a march of more than 200 people. The last assembly of the liberated city hall called for another popular assembly meeting for next Monday evening in the grounds...
Tags: Athens, Greece, insurrection, General Confederation of Greek Workers
Protesters at Acropolis urge Europe-wide protest
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility We chose this monument to democracy, this global monument, to proclaim our resistance to state violence and demand rights in education and work," one protester, who declined to give his name, told Reuters. "(We did it) to send a message globally and to...
Tags: Athens, Greece, Acropolis, European, Greek, police shooting, wide protesters, giant banners
Greek protesters storm television station
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Dozens of protesters in the Greek capital stormed the headquarters of state television station ERT on Tuesday, interrupting broadcasting and unfurling a black banner that read, "Do not watch television. Everyone out on the streets." Witnesses, including...
Greek demonstrators make TV protest
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility There was no force used and they asked to protest on the air about the 15-year-old's killing." The 20 demonstrators interrupted a news broadcast The channel showed images of the protesters for several moments before quickly cutting to advertisements and...
Tags: police, teenager, riots, prime minister, Greek PM Karamanlis, Greece, Costas Karamanlis, minister costas, Athens, Kostas Karamanlis
"Against Prosecutions and Detentions": from Ag. Dimitrios
Latest statement issued by the popular assembly at the City Hall of Aghios Dimitrios, Athens: AGAINST PROSECUTIONS AND DETENTIONS SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THOSE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE POPULAR INSURRECTION The events that...
Tags: Athens, Insurrection, Aghios Dimitrios
Greek protesters rally outside police headquarters
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Greece – Youths protested outside of Athens' main police headquarters today, pelting riot police with flour and other objects to protest the shooting death of a teenager...Some 2,000 youths at the rally blocked one of the capital's main avenues, chanted...
Tags: police, athens, teenager, Athens Police, Athens News Agency, riots, Greek, riots police, police headquarters
Greek opposition leader calls for change
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Greek opposition leader George Papandreou Sunday reiterated his call for Greece to change course, blaming the government for recent riots. The Athens News Agency reported Sunday that violent street protests in Athens and other parts of the country following...
Tags: athens, police, teenager, riots, opposition leader, Athens News Agency, Greece
Greek Authorities Unleash Wave of Repression against Immigrants
Reports coming out of Greece over the last few days indicate that the recent social upheaval has seen a wave of violence and racism against immigrants by the police and the courts. The unrest, say Greek immigrant rights groups, has been used as an excuse...
Tags: Athens, Riots, Immigration, Police Brutality
From the City Hall, Aghios Dimitrios
Communiqué from the City Hall of Aghios Dimitrios, Saturday December 14th 2008 (The original, in Greek, can be found at http://katadimadim.blogspot.com/) INVITATION TO THE OPEN POPULAR ASSEMBLYOF THE LIBERATED CITY HALL OF AGHIOS DIMITRIOS...
Tags: Greece, Riots, Athens, Aghios Dimitrios, City Hall Occupation
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