Greece 17/12

I said yesterday that things seem to calm down. Actually I made a mistake also for the antiracist rally in Athens that is for tomorrow and not today. But. Everyday there is something going on somewhere, that is not similar to what is going on in Greece usually. Today in three occasions I think there were protests in small Greek cities (no Athens, not Thessaloniki) by anarchists and anti-authoritarians who systematically attacked only banks. I suppose there is not much to say as to why these bad people attack to these good companies, that exist only to make our lives better. I would like to learn though what the local people there believe for these -I think- justified actions, because usually they don't like them, but these days it seems that some old truths have changed.

In Athens there was a demonstration in the centre of Athens organised by the Communist Party of Greece. It started from Omonoia square and ended at Sintagma square. Unfortunately I don't have any more info for it because the media that I read deeply dislike the practices and the real ideologies behind the words of the leaders of this party. And i don't blame them (the media) because they have some very good reasons that I share. The only problem is that now I don't have info for today's demo. The only thing that I can say is that it was quite massive
-In the morning there was a protest mainly by school students outside the courts of Evelpidon. Some sources say that the children were attacked while they were leaving, some others deny it
-The building of the General Confederation of Workers was occupied today
-In Halandri a quite massive demonstration walked through parts of the area that are not used to protesters, then they went to the police station and threw some objects, they left and then returned and threw some more stuff and after that they were attacked by riot police with grenades of sound/light and tear gases.
-In Kaisariani and Vironas a big demonstration was attacked without reason by the police, the demonstrattors occupied after that the townhall of Kaisariani, which they left later as a group altogether.
-Protests by school children at Vrilissia and at the police station of Neos Kosmos
-Protests also at Nea Philadelphia and Agias Paraskevis square
-In Monastiraki square protesters burnt symbolically some TVs
-A police bus was attacked and set alight in the area of Ampelokipoi

In Thessaloniki it was a peaceful day with protests arranged at Ano Poli and Sikees. A group of activists invaded a big super market in the area of Stavroupoli and stole big amounts of food products that they then offered to residents in the near by farmers' market (Actually there are the last months some groups mainly in Athens and Thessaloniki who do exactly this. They take stuff from super markets and they give it to the people near by. Weirdly enough apart from the people who witness these events and are always positive of these actions, the mainstream media are also positive towards these activists, and they name them modern robin hoods. The groups of course hate this characterisation because it means that few heroes help the poor while what they want to do is to show that what is denied from the people the latter have the right to demand and take it, even illegally).

In the rest of Greece

In the city of Patras a group of protesters demonstrated against the lawyer Alexis Kougias (who defends the murderer cop), who was at the city because he bought the half of a football team there. An interesting info published in Indymedia is that Panahaiki (the team) was originally created by 19th century local anarchists, who used the legal sports organisation as a way to meet each other in Patras; back then it was mainly a chess team. And this is why the team nowadays continues to wear red and black colours
In Ioannina protesters occupied for few hours the townhall
In the island of Santorini, residents occupied from today indefinitely the Revenue Department of the island to protest for the shipwrecked Sea Diamond that is abandoned for almost one and a half years in the bottom of the local sea
Protests there were also today in Lamia and in Iraklio (Crete).