December 2008 was due to happen and at the same time a complete rupture with Greece’s recent past – it is precisely the combination of the two that made these events so unique.
Daily Archives: June 5, 2010
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We haven’t forgiven the death of Carlo Giuliani; an Italian activist born in 1978, he was one of millions of protesters who participated in the Genoa’s demos against the G8 leaders’ violence. Comrades had witnessed his assassination by Italian riot police’s Carabinieri in 20 July 2001. After nine years, still […]
The collective rage triggered by the cold-blooded murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, on the night of 6 December 2008, mainly targeted symbols of global capitalism and State terrorism. Young immigrants were among the people arrested during riots in the streets. Hundreds of those detained have suffered police torture. The university asylum […]
It was the 5th of September 1997 when the President of the International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch proclaimed Athens as the city that would organize the 2004 Olympics. The Olympic Games would return to the country in which they had been born. And if in 776 BC they were […]