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Villa Amalia re-eviction: 10,000 demonstrate!

Update on Villa Amalia: 10,000 demonstrate in Athens in support of 92 arrested anarchists; statement issued from inside prisona DarkerNet:

10,000 people demonstrated in Athens in solidarity with the 92 people arrested on Wednesday after the re-eviction of the Villa Amalias anarchist centre. The demonstration started from Propylaea of Athens University and marched via Patision Avenue to the courthouse of Evelpidon, where those arrested are being held in custody. The first 10 were released on bail. More demonstrations in solidarity with those arrested took place in Thessaloniki, Chania, Mitilini, Patra, Heracleon and other cities. Below is a statement, translated into English, from those arrested still in prison. .. Continue reading “Villa Amalia re-eviction: 10,000 demonstrate!”

Police Attack rallies Anarchists: Villa Amalias, Athens

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Police stormed the iconic Villa Amalias squat center in Athens, but left and released prisoners after a huge solidaritry response

Athens: anarchist squat Villa Amalias raided by riot police

At approximately 07:00 GMT+2 on December 20th, riot police raided the anarchist squat Villa Amalias in Athens.

Eight people were detained inside the building, while the police are now searching in the presence of an ninth person who was also in the building at the time of the raid and who is acting as witness to the search. It is expected that this person will also be detained at the end of the operation.

It is still unclear whether or not the police intend to evict the squat.

People are already gathering in solidarity outside the squat in big numbers…… Continue reading “Police Attack rallies Anarchists: Villa Amalias, Athens”

Video proof. Police and Nazis attack together.

cops and nazis — Greek police and Golden dawn neo Nazis with their blue and white flags rolled), photographed before attacking ‘immigrants’, i.e. anyone with a darker skin.

Darker Net presents an extraordinary video, only just released, showing evidence of Greek police collaborating with Golden Dawn members in attacks on immigrants and on demonstrators supporting immigrants.

The video includes secretly filmed footage of cops bussing in neo-nazis to demonstrations and of Golden Dawn members assaulting immigrants, including a knife attack….. Continue reading “Video proof. Police and Nazis attack together.”

Greek Uprising: Defense Ministry stormed. Airport Occupied..

Workers at the Skaramangas shipyard in Athens storm the ministry of defense; farmers in Heraclion, Crete raid the Heraclion airport, as tension ahead of the voting of new austerity cuts intensifies

On the morning of October 4th, approximately 500 workers at the Skaramangas shipyard (West Attica), gathered outside the greek ministry of defense on Mesogeion Avenue. The workers were protesting for the fact that they have not been paid their last 6 monthly wages.

The workers quickly gathered around the hellenic army general staff HQ. Soon thereafter riot police entered the courtyard and clashed with the workers. At least 120 detentions of workers were reported and the tension continued outside the police HQ on Alexandras Ave (where anti-fascists are still held following arrests earlier in the week).

At approximately the same time, in the city of Heraclion, Crete, farmers gathered in the city centre to protest again the forthcoming cuts in their pensions, as part of the latest round of austerity cuts expected to be announced in the coming days, or weeks.

Later in the afternoon the farmers moved to the city’s international airport, entering its halls and attempting to smash through the gate of the airport in order to occupy its runway. Riot police used tear gas and the farmers responded by tossing stones at the police. Continue reading “Greek Uprising: Defense Ministry stormed. Airport Occupied..”

Inside Story from Greece.. Solidarity needed

What’s really happening in Greece, how nationalist Fascism is being used again in Europe, and how it might be stopped with solidarity.

No tolerance to the attacks of police and neonazi; we are together with the migrants. Hands off the Academic Asylum. Students Union of the Athens School of Economics

Summer 2012, a report from Greece

by George Caffentzis: via UniNomade

1. Arrival in Thessaloniki. It is July 5 and I just have arrived in Thessaloniki full of questions concerning the political situation in Greece. My trusted and knowledgeable friend meets me at the airport. In response to my impatient questions he immediately begins the tale of what happened in Greece and in Thessaloniki in particular over the last year, as he drives us into the city. Continue reading “Inside Story from Greece.. Solidarity needed”