Since January 2011, residents of Keratea built a critical meeting point for their anti-landfill struggle, the ‘Aparto Kastro’, made out of sheet metal and wood, where numerous assemblies, discussions and musical evenings were held. For the past 4.5 months, this self-made space housed once more their need to meet regularly […]
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Ovriokastro, Keratea Total time under occupation by police squads (MAT): 128 days & 9 hours (December 11th, 2010, 4am – April 18th, 2011, 12pm) Total of 37 youths detained by the copsNotes on the resistance in Keratea original by kerateaartres1stanceShortly before That cold night of December 11th, 2010, was the […]
Workers in municipalities (POE-OTA) are protesting against the wage cuts and arrangements for the suspension of staff (bound to lead to mass layoff). They have now called for 48hour repeated strikes from Saturday 15/10 until Thursday 20/10 (at least).On October 14th in Athens, attorney general Eleni Raikou issued a decision […]
A brief chronicle (11 December–22 March)Keratea is a town of 16,000 residents in Lavreotiki municipality, situated in southeastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheatre, parts of the ancient fortification, etc. As many parts of Attica, it has […]
Hard times for hungry politicians.. Yesterday night, government vice-president Theodoros Pangalos together with other PASOK party members went to a restaurant in Kalivia (near Keratea, Attica). Immediately, dozens of residents of Keratea that heard about the visit of another glutton member of the government, gathered outside the restaurant shouting and […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBec1_Z3bE&feature=player_embedded On Tuesday, 8 February, by 4pm, the coordinated attack of junta’s henchmen culminated against the people of Keratea (Attica-Greece). During the last two months, since 11 December, residents and people in solidarity resist strongly against the landfill construction project in Lavreotiki area. People oppose by any means to the […]
Early in the morning of Saturday Dec.11th the vehicles of a heavy-machinery company in charge of the construction project of a landfill in the region of Keratea (Attica-Greece), reached the location of Ovriokastro, in order to start the construction of a landfill. A strong police force was there as well […]