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Observer article on Athens after December's uprising.

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Solidarity/Benefit Gig for greek activists - Sunday the 18th @6pm in Forest Cafe, Edinburgh

On the 27th of December we occupied the headquarters of ISAP (Athens Piraeus Electric Railway) as a first response to the murderous attack against Konstantina Kuneva on the 23-12-2008. Sulphuric acid was thrown at her face as she was returning home from work.

Konstantina is in the intensive care ward of Evangelismos hospital suffering serious sight and respiratory system problems.

Since 8AM Greek workers have been occupying the headquarters of the GSEE (their equivalent of the TUC), declaring it a LIberated Workers' Zone.

They released this statement.

 “We don’t forget, we don’t forgive” - day of international action against state murders, 20.12.2008

On Wednesday 10th, over two hundred people attended a march through Edinburgh city centre, in a vibrant protest against the murder of 16 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos.

English Translations of statements by witnesses to the shooting of Alexis Grigoropoulos, the event which catalysed the current uprising in Greece.

"-I saw the patrol car between Zoodoxou Pigis street and Tzavela street, it left but a minute later, the two drivers came back. They were both armed and they shot that kid, without a reason.
-Did you see them aiming?
-Yes, they were aiming.
-They didn’t shoot up to intimidate?
-No, they shot the kids that were standing there.
-Did they see the kid falling dead?
-Yes, someone shouted that the kid was wounded, but they turned and left."

It continues:

"Police is using Neo Fascists and policemen in plane clothes , with rocks and sticks , pretending to be demonstrators , targeting either the demonstrators or vandalizing small shops and houses , trying to divert the climate and scare of the every day citizens.
The pictures are from Patra city, where Policemen in plane clothes and Neo Fascists were clashing with demonstrators AND caught vandalizing small shops in the city."

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