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Νέο Ηράκλειο 1/11/24. Η αντιφασιστική - αντικρατική συγκέντρωση στην πλατεία νέου Ηρακλείου έχει ξεκινήσει. Ορατή παρουσία μπάτσων σε κοντινή απόσταση από τη συγκέντρωση. Land&Freedom
New Heraklion 1/11/24. The anti-fascist - anti-state gathering in the square of New Heraklion has begun. Visible presence of police in close proximity to the gathering. Land&Freedom
December 6, 2023 - Thousands took to the streets across Greece to commemorate the police murder of 15-year old anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos in 2008. In the second gif you can see riot police attacking the memorial at the site of Alexis' murder in Exarcheia, Athens, with tear gas grenades. [video]/[video]/[video]
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Hospitals in Athens and Attica are on Red Alert due to increase of coronavirus infections and intubated patients wait in normal wards for an ICU bed The Greek government admitted on Wednesday that thε public health care system is “beleaguered by an increase of Covid-patients.” According to Hospital workers’ union there is hardly any ICU bed available in Athens and that 124 intubated patients were treated in normal wards.
One of the biggest hospitals in the Greek capital, Erythros Stavros (Red Cross) has been ordered to evacuate from non-Covid patients and turn into a Covid-only facility, president of Hospital Workers union POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos said on Wednesday. Skai Tv reported that 17 patients have been already transferred to othe rpublic hospitals.
In statements to the press, government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni admitted that experts have logged an increase in Covid-19 infections in recent days. She claimed, however, that the increase was circumstantial.
February 10, 2021 - Thousands demonstrated and clashed with riot police in Athens and Thessaloniki in protest against a new right-wing education bill that would place police on university campuses, among other restrictive plans.
This move is incredibly controversial in a country where the presence of police in universities has been banned since the 1980s. Police were barred from university campuses in Greece in 1982, in response to the Polytechnic uprising years earlier. In 1973, students protesting the country’s right-wing military dictatorship were brutally murdered by police and military forces at the Athens Polytechnic University. [video]
As many most likely expected, there was a bit of a coronavirus exodus out of the Greek capital on Friday, with a great deal of the public apparently desiring to head back to the family village to wait out the new lockdown.
Throngs of people were seen doing their shopping today, before the strict coronavirus measures go into effect at 6 AM on Saturday morning, although all grocery stores an butcher shops will remain open for the three-week lockdown.
Additionally, supermarkets and all other food stores will also be open from 9 AM to 5 PM this Sunday.
Others were seen forming lines at banks in order to pay their bills, according to Greek media reports. All banking during the lockdown must be limited to transactions that cannot be accomplished online.
Athens. Panathenaic Stadium
Photo by Themis Papadimitriou
The Athens residential market has rental rates in the last few months that in many cases exceed the highs seen before the outbreak of the financial crisis, resulting in many would-be tenants being unable to find properties that would cover their needs within their means.
Consequently many households are being forced to turn to ever smaller apartments, or areas that do not offer the best quality of living; alternatively they cut other expenditure in order to pay the high rent demanded. In any case the sudden hike in rental rates is undermining – to the point of offsetting altogether – the government’s efforts to strengthen household incomes and purchasing power.
A quick glance through the classified ads reveals that, for a large share of properties, the monthly rental rate comes to 600-800 euros – which, with the average salary at 1,000 euros, amounts to 60-70 percent of income – often without taking into consideration any price-determining critera such as age, district, floor, state of property, facilities etc. Would-be tenants complain and realty professionals observe that the asking rate often matches the needs or expectations of the landlord based on his or her personal perception.
Anti-abortion posters appeared at several metro stations in Athens on Monday morning and triggered a public outcry.By early afternoon, the posters were removed following an order of the Transportation Minister.
Many metro commuters were shocked on Monday morning to see huge ads about an issue that has been settled in Greece years ago: abortion. One after the other, Athenians started to upload pictures of the huge posters on social media, criticizing the ads against abortion. On social media comments, they spoke of “regression” and of a campaign that “takes the country several decades back.”
Anti-abortion campaign poster “Let me live – Choose Life”
The posters featuring a 10-week-old fetus asks “did you know that the unborn child” feels pain on the 10th pregnancy week, its heart beats on the 18th week and other questions.
The paid Ad was sponsored by an organization called “Panhellenic Union of Friends of Families with many children.”
The campaign runs also on Facebook, internet users reported.
By the early afternoon, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Costas Karamanlis, had order the posters to be removed, thus launching an internal investigation about the issue.
This paid advertising campaign started on Monday morning and it was scheduled to remain in metro stations for 14 days. The posters were placed in 31 frames at 17 subway stations.
They were removed from all stations by Monday afternoon.
In 2004, amid one of France’s many Islam-related controversies, anthropologist Emmanuel Terray published an article discussing the dispute over the headscarf as an instance of political “hysteria,” a concept borrowed from psychoanalysis. Drawing on Hungarian historian István Bibó’s explanation of the blindness and irrationality of interwar Central European politics, Terray discussed how real issues had been sidelined in favor of a “fictional problem” that, once “solved,” would supposedly allow the community to reaffirm its unity and “move on.”
This isn’t the only use of such a “fictional problem.” For to couch this kind of problem in the vocabulary of “crisis” or “danger” legitimizes all manner of excessive “responses.” Dire warnings, harsh “law and order” rhetoric, and the punitive stance adopted by the state’s repressive apparatuses all serve to create a sense of emergency. From this stems the state of exception that allows for the rights of particular individuals or social groups to be ditched.
After years of austerity, Greece is currently experiencing the effects of precisely this kind of political hysteria — one that targets a supposed “enemy within.” Indeed, as soon as a new right-wing government was elected in July 2019, a ferocious ideological rhetoric incessantly zoned in on the supposedly grave danger represented by a particular neighborhood in central Athens, renowned for its far-left and anarchist leanings. The target of this campaign was Exarcheia, a district of the capital associated with political dissent ever since the restoration of the republic in 1974.
Both the new prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the new minister of citizen protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, stated as soon as they assumed office that Exarcheia must return to “normality.” So far, this return to normality has translated into police raids on fifteen squats, as well as to numerous reported cases of excessive police violence in the Exarcheia area.
But the new “normal” goes further. It includes overturning the law banning police from university campuses, as well as an unprecedented concentration of power in the Ministry of Citizen Protection. Indeed, this latter ministry, responsible for keeping oversight over the police, has now taken charge of the formerly independent Ministry of Migration and the penitentiary system, formerly overseen by the Ministry of Justice.
The whole effort was crowned by the minister’s ultimatum that anarchists must vacate their squats by December 5 — a highly symbolic date, set one day before the annual commemoration of the police killing of fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008. Greece’s government is determined to stamp out a hub of dissent — with effects that spread wide beyond this Athens neighborhood itself.
This exclusive video obtained by the weekly newspaper “Documento” shows two policemen at a police station in central Athens abusing a disabled woman in October. It is part of a growing number of reports for excessive police violence in #Greece.
Video by AthensLive
Greek riot police fired tear gas at hospital doctors in downtown Athens on Wednesday. During the clashes between protesters and police, an elderly person fainted.
the clashes started when unionists of the Hellenic Association of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE) tried to enter the hall in Aigli Zappeion where the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS) was hosting an event about the planned partnership between the private and the public health sector.
Ultimately, the protesters managed to enter the hall and interrupt the meeting, thus leading to its suspension..
The union of Public Hospital doctors blame the Medical Association leadership of being “at the forefront of promoting the government plans for the full submission of the public health” to the partnerships between Public and Private Health sectors and “the fall of public health by the big private interests.”
The union has described as “casus beli” the possibility that “private doctors will work at public hospitals, the management of technical-medical equipment will by run by private companies and the status of public hospitals will be transformed into the one of private companies.”
As example, they brought the developments of the British National Health System of the last years.
They spend their whole, modest life together, now they found themselves in a tragic position. Filippos is 83 and his wife Eleni turned 84. Since a month they have been facing a new challenge: they became homeless after they were evicted from the home they rented.
They packed their belongings and left, not knowing where to turn to, where to go.
They ended in the courtyard of Agios Georgios Church in Keramikos district of central Athens, where they spend their homeless days and nights.
They spend the days on the benches, they sleep on the cold stones at night.
There in the church courtyard, they were spotted by a reporter of news website zougla.gr
Eleni said that they were due four monthly payments and that’s why they were evicted.
The couple living on an approximately 600-euro monthly pension, the husband has been receiving. From this money they had to pay rent, utility bills, buy their food and medicines. they did not manage all this burden.
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[Video] The anarchist student block at the demo against the police invasion of Athens Economics University Thursday 14 November 2019: Thousands of students marched today in the centre of Athens, Greece in protest to the recent police invasion of Athens University of Economics to attack students with batons and teargas (that took place on Monday 11 November 2019). The chain of events was set in motion by the police itself when on Saturday 9 November 2019 scores of policemen invaded the same university grounds to evict an anarchist student place, as a publicity stunt that went sour, because they found nothing of criminal importance. Then on Sunday 10/11 the university Board arbitrarily imposed a lock - out, closing down the university for a week following police orders (from Monday 11/11 till 17/11) ahead of the anniversary of the student revolt of 17 November 1973 against the junta regime at the time, when ironically enough, the army and the police invaded the Polytechnic School of Athens turning the massive student protest into a bloodshed. In order for this bloodshed not to happen again, from 1974 till the repeal of the law by the current right wing government few months ago, the law forbade the greek police from entering any academic grounds. The fact that the police advised the university to close down for a week and indeed just few days before the anniversary of the student bloodshed by the police and the army, infuriated students that decided to defy the lock - out and enter the grounds of Athens University of Economics, only to be attacked by the riot cops in army uniforms like in 1973. Ironically enough the governing party at the moment in Greece is called “New Democracy”. Following the riot police attack, a protest was called by the students to take place in the evening of the same day (11/11), where thousands of people took place against the police state of emergency being gradually imposed in Greece, demanding the repeal of the law that abolished the “university asylum”. Then again another protest with thousands of participants took place today (14/11) and another protest called by the anarchists has been called for tomorrow Friday 15 November 2019, at 18:00, at Plateia Amerikis (Amerikis Sq). Tensions are on the rise in Greece at the moment ahead of the 17 of November anniversary and the date of 6th of December (when in 2008 a 15 years old boy was murdered by a policeman at Exarcheia in Athens), as well as, the ongoing police attacks and evictions of squats all over Greece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKuAlvMISnM
Meanwhile during a rainy morning in Athens... People protest the e-auction of foreclosed homes outside the police-guarded HQ of Alpha Bank.
Source: Savvas Karmaniolas - @savvaskarma
Anarchists in Athens “welcome” Barack Obama (Greece, 15 November 2016 Riot)
