[Greece] Letter correcting Greek media lies

re-posted from anarchist.academics

Wed, December 10, 2008 7:04 am

Dear comrades,

Today is the general strike and the fifth day of riots. There were again attacks from both sides and police used a lot of tear gases in Athens and in Thessaloniki were I live. Right now the situation seems quiet, though there is assembly in a few hours and we will see…

It is true that the situation in universities is rely on government and family connections, as Mitzi pointed, but it is totally false that the protesters set fire to the National Library. In fact on of the libraries of the Law School in Athens get fired and I don’t know if it was an intended action. This was one more lie of Greek medias in order to turn the citizens against the protesters.

I also believe that people from low and middle classes participate to those demonstrations. It is also true that some stole products from the broken shops.

Yesterday night in Zefiri, Athens, a place that they mostly live gypsies, there was an organized attack against the police department. They set fire to a track and then pushed it to the door of the department. After that, they started to shoot with air guns against the policemen. Also, last light immigrants were starting to participate to the riots in Victoria square in Athens. So, it is obvious that people from all the oppressed social groups, who face the racism every day from the state and the police they needed just a causation (the murder of Alexis) to react to this situation.

Also, I saw people from various ages to throw stones and clap when teenagers were breaking and burning banks. Of course they were. These are the banks that sell their houses after an auction. Yesterday the Greek media referring that anger citizens were fighting with the police against the demonstrations. This was also a lie. They were neo-nazis. They always did this, since there is a strong connection between them and the Greek police.

Comrades, if you want to help write a declaration sign it and send it to the Greek embassy of your region and to the media. There is already a declaration from Italian comrades.

stavros