Parthenon says: Peoples of Europe, Rise UP!
There are loads of information about what´s going on in Greece, I don´t know where to start...
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Those are teachers and students taking the news to be heard:
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I´m sure english speakers are going to find good information about all this in english... although sites such as indymedia in Athens (<!-- m -->http://athens.indymedia.org/<!-- m -->) are being blacked out intermitently.
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After the Greek Riots
Irregular updates and articles on the situation in Greece, in English
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Greek YT chanel:
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Comments
Tonight’s tragic deaths in Athens leave little space for comments – we are all very shocked and deeply saddened by the events. To those (on the “Occupied London” blog even) who speculate that the deaths might have been caused purposefully by anarchists, we can only reply the following: we do not take to the streets, we do not risk our freedom and our lives confronting the greek police in order to kill other people. Anarchists are not murderers, and no brainwashing attempted by Greek PM Papandreou, the national or the international media should convince anyone otherwise.
That being said, and with developments still running frantically, we want to publish a rough translation of a statement by an employee of Marfin Bank – the bank whose branch was set alight in Athens today, where the three employees found a tragic death.
Read the letter, translate it, spread it around to your networks; grassroots counter-information has a crucial role to play at a moment when the greek state and corporate media are leashing out on the anarchist movement over here in Greece.
I feel an obligation toward my co-workers who have so unjustly died today to speak out and to say some objective truths. I am sending this message to all media outlets. Anyone who still bares some consciousness should publish it. The rest can continue to play the government’s game.
The fire brigade had never issued an operating license to the building in question. The agreement for it to operate was under the table, as it practically happens with all businesses and companies in Greece.
The building in question has no fire safety mechanisms in place, neither planned nor installed ones – that is, it has no ceiling sprinklers, fire exits or fire hoses. There are only some portable fire extinguishers which, of course, cannot help in dealing with extensive fire in a building that is built with long-outdated security standards.
No branch of Marfin bank has had any member of staff trained in dealing with fire, not even in the use of the few fire extinguishers. The management also uses the high costs of such training as a pretext and will not take even the most basic measures to protect its staff.
There has never been a single evacuation exercise in any building by staff members, nor have there been any training sessions by the fire-brigade, to give instructions for situations like this. The only training sessions that have taken place at Marfin Bank concern terrorist action scenarios and specifically planning the escape of the banks’ “big heads” from their offices in such a situation.
The building in question had no special accommodation for the case of fire, even though its construction is very sensitive under such circumstances and even though it was filled with materials from floor to ceiling. Materials which are very inflammable, such as paper, plastics, wires, furniture. The building is objectively unsuitable for use as a bank due to its construction.
No member of security has any knowledge of first aid or fire extinguishing, even though they are every time practically charged with securing the building. The bank employees have to turn into firemen or security staff according to the appetite of Mr Vgenopoulos [owner of Marfin Bank].
The management of the bank strictly bared the employees from leaving today, even though they had persistently asked so themselves from very early this morning – while they also forced the employees to lock up the doors and repeatedly confirmed that the building remained locked up throughout the day, over the phone. They even blocked off their internet access so as to prevent the employees from communicating with the outside world.
For many days now there has been some complete terrorisation of the bank’s employees in regard to the mobilisations of these days, with the verbal “offer”: you either work, or you get fired.
The two undercover police who are dispatched at the branch in question for robbery prevention did not show up today, even though the bank’s management had verbally promised to the employees that they would be there.
At last, gentlemen, make your self-criticism and stop wandering around pretending to be shocked. You are responsible for what happened today and in any rightful state (like the ones you like to use from time to time as leading examples on your TV shows) you would have already been arrested for the above actions. My co-workers lost their lives today by malice: the malice of Marfin Bank and Mr. Vgenopoulos personally who explicitly stated that whoever didin’t come to work today [May 5th, a day of a general strike!] should not bother showing up for work tomorrow [as they would get fired].
- An employee of Marfin Bank url=http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1163959]greek original[/url
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This one works:
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Next places are Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and probably UK and Germany.
But greek people are stronger fighters than we are.
There´s the interest on Greece being the first place to fall.
The U.S. Bankruptcy insurmountable II
The global insurmountable Bankruptcy I
The global insurmountable Bankruptcy II
The global insurmountable Bankruptcy III
The global insurmountable Bankruptcy VI
I can found more reports of all kind that I´ve readen about the thing in UK and Germany...
This is a Laboratory observation on the social response to risk bankruptcy before implementing it on a large scale.
The Lisbon Treaty has now been ratified... our forced membership at NWO began to produce poisoned fruit
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
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The names of the three bank workers who died in the Marfin bank branch that was set alight have been announced. They are Paraskeui Zoulia, 35; Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou, 32 and Epameinondas Tsakalis, 36.
We are all very shocked and saddened by their tragic deaths and it is extremely hard to keep on reporting from here in Athens. However, the events unfolding are so crucial that it is important to do so. In brief:
*First of all, a short disclaimer. No anarchists would ever purposefully endanger other peoples’ lives. Bank branches have been a regular target for protestors in the streets of Athens for years; for this reason, banks are boarded up on demonstration days. To lock up employees in a bank branch lying on the route of the biggest demonstration the country has seen in its post-dictatorial era is murderous negliance.
*In the video below, Mr. Vgenopoulos, the owner of Marfin Bank arrives at the branch only moments after the deaths of his employees have been confirmed. The gathered crowd shouts “murderer” at him repeatedly. Around 43 seconds into the video one of the gathered people shouts: “how many yachts do you own?”, at which point Vgenopoulos signals with his fingers: “three”.
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*Today is the day that the austerity measures are to be voted in parliament. Union umbrella GSEE has called for a demonstration today at 6pm; PAME (GO), the union umbrella close to the Communist Party has called for a night-long blocking off the parliament.
*Yesterday in Exarcheia, the riot police launched more unprecedented attacks: the left-wing “Haunt of Migrants” was raided without any provocations; the riot police stormed in, smashing doors, beating people, chanting “Tonight, we’ll fuck you”. Photos from the raid (more here):
*A few moments later, the anarchist squat on Zaimi Street was raided by the police – eye-witnesses report that the police shot bullets and threw hand-grenades inside the building. All the people inside were arrested. In total, 70 people were detained and 25 face charges. A solidarity gathering is underway outside the courthouse in Athens.
*Moments before this raid, the riot police attacked the cafe on the corner of Stournari street and Tsamadou Str, by Exarcheia square. In the video below, they are shown smashing the facade of the cafe even though there are people inside. In the last few seconds of the video, the following dialogue takes place:
[riot police man] Erase it now, right now. Why are you filming? Who gave you permission?
[camera person] Why?
[riot police man] Because I fucking say so.
its not going to get better in the next 3 months either
Yes and when the Illuminati/NWO are going to let the economy crash people would demand of their governments a solution and then there is the perfect timing they will bring in the New World Order. <!-- s:evil: -->:evil:<!-- s:evil: --> Riots are going to be everywhere and it's too late now to turn back. But their game is nasty and it is going to be nasty, but we are strong and we are gonna make it through.
Women's National Liberation Front manifesting outside the Greek parliament during the Civil War. The banner reads "When people are confronted with the threat of tyranny, choose the chains, or choose the weapons"
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Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2010, at 10:11 pm.
7,000-8,000 protesters gathered at Parliament Square (Syntagma) again tonight, while in the parliament PASOK government’s parliamentary majority together with the extreme right-wing party LAOS were approving their own (and IMF’s) new austerity package.
At about 21.30 GMT+2 and without any obvious reason, riot police attacked the protesters: Some of the protesters are currently (22.00 GMT+2) gathering at the Polytechnic School building in Patision avenue, while smaller gatherings have regrouped around Syntagma Sq. at the same time police violence in the streets of Athens still carries on with protesters being beaten up.
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Different images, calm on the main stream.
Don´t want to let us know whats happening nor give ideas.
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footage from a citicen at home.
Official version says the child provoqued and a shot was tiggered pointing to the sky, then it rebounded.
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From that moment Greece have barely stopped protesting.
They know they´re not easy to control...