Post by jukka on May 4, 2010 14:15:43 GMT 2
www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
This seems good website, definately empowering to read that common people in Greece oppose the IMF and corrupt government and monetary system.
Here´s one, latest text from the website:
#276 | Teachers Occupied the State TV Station (ERT)
Monday, May 3, 2010
At about 21:45 GMT+2 tonight, while the Nine O’clock News were live on air, dozens of teachers entered the headquarters of the State TV station (ERT) in Athens. After the news the channel had planned an interview with the minister of education. The teachers demanded to be present in the studio during the interview of the minister and to be allowed to talk as well.
While the news were on air suddenly noises and arguments were heard from the background and from that point on the program’s normal flow was stopped for several hours. Police special forces have invaded the building since, beating teachers in the corridors.
Eventually, after negotiations and more violence from the police at 23:00 local time the protesters managed to get a short recorded message on air (see video below). The teachers are members of the national union of teachers; their statement talks against the IMF and calls everyone to participate in the general strike of Wednesday 5th of May. They also talk about the new law of the Ministry of Education which will decrease the quality of public free education and will make several thousands of teachers unemployed.
“We are members of the Teachers’ with Limited Working Rights Coordination and the Pan-Hellenic Union of Unemployed Teachers. We decided to come hear today, in the studios of the government’s TV-station, for two reasons: The first one is that for six months now the Mass Media keep silent about the government’s economical measures. And the second one is that we want to break, in praxis the monologe of Education’s Ministry, the monologe of Mrs. Diamantopoulou who keeps silent about the multi-law agreement that wants to be voted and destroys the public and uncomercial education. We were “welcomed” inside and outside the studio by a team of MAT (Unions of Order Recovery) ready to beat us up. We condemn both the Education Ministry and the NET-channel Authorities for the certain event: You see that there is evidence of violence on us.
The government brings the “Stability Program” in reality by packing more than 30 students in each classroom and keeping out of schools some thousands of unemployed educators. The “New School” like the government wants to name it, in reality it is not new at all. It is really old and brings us back in time. It will be against the needs and the rights of the society in Greece. Against the workers, the parents, the students, the teachers. The government calls us to pay for the cost of Education. Calls you the parents, your children who study, us who teach. After the multi-law of Mrs. Diamantopoulou we get dismissed; she fires around 17.000 teachers who are paid by hour or are temporary employed! We thought that we were the minority, but as it seems we become the majority after they brought the IMF to us, which will result in increase of poverty and unemployment of thousands of workers. Everybody on the streets to block the economical measures, kick out IMF and all those who brought it here. Tomorow we demonstrate to block the economical measures that destroy the Education System. On Wednesday 5th of May everybody is striking, nobody works. We gather infront of the Archeological Museum at 11:00 to block the economical measures.
We take out to the streets, we rise up!”
This seems good website, definately empowering to read that common people in Greece oppose the IMF and corrupt government and monetary system.
Here´s one, latest text from the website:
#276 | Teachers Occupied the State TV Station (ERT)
Monday, May 3, 2010
At about 21:45 GMT+2 tonight, while the Nine O’clock News were live on air, dozens of teachers entered the headquarters of the State TV station (ERT) in Athens. After the news the channel had planned an interview with the minister of education. The teachers demanded to be present in the studio during the interview of the minister and to be allowed to talk as well.
While the news were on air suddenly noises and arguments were heard from the background and from that point on the program’s normal flow was stopped for several hours. Police special forces have invaded the building since, beating teachers in the corridors.
Eventually, after negotiations and more violence from the police at 23:00 local time the protesters managed to get a short recorded message on air (see video below). The teachers are members of the national union of teachers; their statement talks against the IMF and calls everyone to participate in the general strike of Wednesday 5th of May. They also talk about the new law of the Ministry of Education which will decrease the quality of public free education and will make several thousands of teachers unemployed.
“We are members of the Teachers’ with Limited Working Rights Coordination and the Pan-Hellenic Union of Unemployed Teachers. We decided to come hear today, in the studios of the government’s TV-station, for two reasons: The first one is that for six months now the Mass Media keep silent about the government’s economical measures. And the second one is that we want to break, in praxis the monologe of Education’s Ministry, the monologe of Mrs. Diamantopoulou who keeps silent about the multi-law agreement that wants to be voted and destroys the public and uncomercial education. We were “welcomed” inside and outside the studio by a team of MAT (Unions of Order Recovery) ready to beat us up. We condemn both the Education Ministry and the NET-channel Authorities for the certain event: You see that there is evidence of violence on us.
The government brings the “Stability Program” in reality by packing more than 30 students in each classroom and keeping out of schools some thousands of unemployed educators. The “New School” like the government wants to name it, in reality it is not new at all. It is really old and brings us back in time. It will be against the needs and the rights of the society in Greece. Against the workers, the parents, the students, the teachers. The government calls us to pay for the cost of Education. Calls you the parents, your children who study, us who teach. After the multi-law of Mrs. Diamantopoulou we get dismissed; she fires around 17.000 teachers who are paid by hour or are temporary employed! We thought that we were the minority, but as it seems we become the majority after they brought the IMF to us, which will result in increase of poverty and unemployment of thousands of workers. Everybody on the streets to block the economical measures, kick out IMF and all those who brought it here. Tomorow we demonstrate to block the economical measures that destroy the Education System. On Wednesday 5th of May everybody is striking, nobody works. We gather infront of the Archeological Museum at 11:00 to block the economical measures.
We take out to the streets, we rise up!”