Today in Greece tens of
thousands, possible hundreds of thousands of its people have taken to
the streets, In Athens it is estimated that more than 50,000 people
crowded the streets around Syntagma Square where running battles with
the police continued well after dark. Several buildings were on fire
as darkness engulfed the city. At the time of writing tear gas and
Molotov cocktails are criss-crossing the streets. The Euro-Bank and
the first floor of the State's Accounts Office are ablaze. What I find more
significant about this demonstration is that as there have been
demonstrations across the country and the islands, there has also
been many occupations by demonstrators the list of building is quite
impressive;
Protesters and strikers
have occupied the following buildings and have transformed them into
headquarters for the evening rally:
Athens Law School
Ministry of Health in Athens
Cinema-Theatre Olympion in Thessaloniki
Building of the Regional government of Western
Greece in Patras
Building of the Regional Government of Ionian
islands in Corfu
Building of the Regional Government of Crete in
Rethymnon
Building of the Regional Government of Thessaly in
Larisa
Rethymno City Hall
Holargos City Hall
Regional Union of Imathia in Veroia.
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“In order to save the banks from bankruptcy, they’ve thrown us
into poverty and unemployment. They sold off our country and all
that belongs to us. Switch off your TV, take to the streets, for
victory!”
So while the expensive suits, without consulting
the people, sit in the parliament building trying to do a deal with
the devil, heaping more misery on the heads of the Greek people, the
people have been on the streets telling them that deal or no deal
they will not accept any more deprivation to protect the wealth of
the bankers.
We should all be out demonstrating in solidarity with the Greek people, what is happening to them is no less than the sacrifice of a people on the alter of bankers greed. Greece is being turned into a third world country and there is no guarantee that it will not come over here. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Romania, and Hungary are all teetering on the brink, and when the chips are down the bankers will have no qualms about doing to the rest of Europe, what they are now doing to Greece.
It was also interesting watching the BBC six
o'clock news, and thinking of
a previous post, true to form, the main item and the longest spot went to the death of
an American singer Whitney Houston, with Greece and what is happening there a very
brief second spot.