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On June 15th 2011, there was a planned general strike and organized protests which would meet on Sintagma square / parliament square along with the "outraged" movement protesters who are protesting for over 20 days straight.
It all started well and peacefully, with over half a million people on the spot. Then, approximately 100 people initiated violence against the cops which gave them the excuse to drop a few hundreds canisters of tear gas.
People understood this immediately to be a planned provocation and resisted the plan which wanted them "dispersed". They moved from spot to spot, evading tear gas canisters flying at them, and got back to the main square when the air was clearing up. The sense on the ground was that the government is at its death-bed. There is no way a "democratically elected" government to have over 5.000 policemen to guard them from the "people" in order to supposedly implement policies in their favor (which the people resist because they know different).
All in all, Greece has been moved to a situation of controlled bankruptcy for the last 13 months - while people were told the lie that they were being supported to exit the crisis or reduce the debt. Debt has climbed enormously, as have other indexes like unemployment, so peoples trust has diminished about the efficiency of the adopted policies.
Papandreou was about to fall on the afternoon of 15th - with rumors of his resignation very strong. At one point, there was an agreement between the PASOK (government) party and ND (opposition) under which Papandreou would relinquish leadership and form a coalition government that would more easily pass the "necessary" measures. However this did not eventuate and instead Papandreou came up with a government reshuffle (!). On the 16th another 2 of his parliament members resigned from their posts. The government reshuffle on the 17th hasnt convinced anyone - its just to steal time in order to vote for the second mechanism of controlled bankruptcy that was agreed with other countries - always behind the scenes.
At the moment, the media propaganda is enormous, either by shifting the focus from peoples anger and protests, or by not showing protests / giving them a negative spin of violence etc.
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It all started well and peacefully, with over half a million people on the spot. Then, approximately 100 people initiated violence against the cops which gave them the excuse to drop a few hundreds canisters of tear gas.
People understood this immediately to be a planned provocation and resisted the plan which wanted them "dispersed". They moved from spot to spot, evading tear gas canisters flying at them, and got back to the main square when the air was clearing up. The sense on the ground was that the government is at its death-bed. There is no way a "democratically elected" government to have over 5.000 policemen to guard them from the "people" in order to supposedly implement policies in their favor (which the people resist because they know different).
All in all, Greece has been moved to a situation of controlled bankruptcy for the last 13 months - while people were told the lie that they were being supported to exit the crisis or reduce the debt. Debt has climbed enormously, as have other indexes like unemployment, so peoples trust has diminished about the efficiency of the adopted policies.
Papandreou was about to fall on the afternoon of 15th - with rumors of his resignation very strong. At one point, there was an agreement between the PASOK (government) party and ND (opposition) under which Papandreou would relinquish leadership and form a coalition government that would more easily pass the "necessary" measures. However this did not eventuate and instead Papandreou came up with a government reshuffle (!). On the 16th another 2 of his parliament members resigned from their posts. The government reshuffle on the 17th hasnt convinced anyone - its just to steal time in order to vote for the second mechanism of controlled bankruptcy that was agreed with other countries - always behind the scenes.
At the moment, the media propaganda is enormous, either by shifting the focus from peoples anger and protests, or by not showing protests / giving them a negative spin of violence etc.