Greece 19&20/12

I started already to miss the days, in a while I suppose I will stop posting.
I remind to anybody reading these posts, that what is different in Greece after the first days of extensive riots is that everyday something is happening somewhere. It sounds so normal that I have to clarify it. Everyday is happening something that is totally out of the norm of Greece and especially of pre christmas greek attitudes. Small demonstrations, protests, activisms, building occupations, plenty radio station and tv station occupations, everyday all over Greece. Older people, leftists and anarchists cannot explain why it is happening now, they cannot believe how a generation, being thought lost in apolitical consumerism, is doing things that they dreamt and sometimes tried to do in their time. The majority of people, schoolchildren included, have returned to their everyday routines, life is going on uninterrupted. The media spend less and less time to the events, the people made peace again with their couch in front of their TVs, life continues. But there is something deeply changed, which is reported again and again. Small demos yesterday and today have been met mainly by positive acceptance by the local communities. The youths shout slogans that two weeks ago would be extremist, anarchist, dangerous, awful for the apolitical grown ups; now people seem to accept them as justified even if they do not participate in the protests.
For yesterday I would say that in Athens there were very few regional demos, in the centre there was mainly a 12 hour open air music gig at Propilaia, wih the participation of many known and unknown greek artists. While the audience was quite big, it wasn't as revolutionary as some people would like it. But for some people who are everyday in the streets protesting for the last two weeks, and breathing the most intoxicated and poisonous air that world has seen in periods of peace apart from occasions of nuclear accidents, some fun cannot be perceived as a crime. And I believe that the proof is that today was not a peaceful day. The post below, found in English in Athens Indymedia will inform you more for yesterday's actions.
Today was, I think after a call by greek protesters, the international day against the police violence and authoritarianism. The paradox of such a day is that it means plenty of police violence and state authoritarianism.
In the centre until a while ago (01:00, 21/12) there were clashes between protesters and riot police in the area of Exarhia. At 21:00 there was an arranged protest at the point in that area that the 15 year old was murdered on 6/12. Sources speak for plenty of people attending and a massive presence of riot police all over around. The clashes started after a while and the rioters moved towards the Polytechnic School. Residents ask from anybody that can hear them (not the government or the police or the media) for the police to stop using that many amount of tear gas, people loose their senses, people cannot breathe in their houses, lot of fears are about children and babies. Although the clashes continued around the Polytechnic, sources say that lot of people stayed on the streets of Exarhia.
Earlier today, in Sintagma square there was an activist protest. They asked from people to go to the Christmas tree of the square and put on their garbage. Police attacked the protesters with tear gas and then surrounded the tree offering for a second time one of the most ridiculous images of the last days (the first time you can admire in the photo of my previous post). Later they attacked again the protesters and according to one of my sources they arrested nine persons.
Demos organised today at Propilaia (an antiracist rally), at Vironas, Halandri, Gkizi/Poligono, Nea Smirni, Petralona. A protest was reported in Brahami.
Two Athenian radio stations were occupied for a while.
People invaded a super market at Agios Panteleimonas and took foodstuff.
A group of protesters attacked with petrol bombs the building of "Teiresias" (Teiresias is the national banking credit control system; it is where people's possibility to pay for their mortgages are collected defining their future rights to take money from banks).
Another group invaded in the statistical company/market reviewing/oppinion polling MRB Hellas and the call centre of OTE (Organisation of Greek Telecommunications) and they gave to the employees there a political text for the latter's employment status (flexible, part time, low paid work).

In the rest of Greece

In Thessaloniki a group of protesters occupied one cinema (that is still on occupation) and two radio stations. Aslo some people threw cakes against the mayor of Thessaloniki, in Aristotelous square.
A police car was set alight in Kavala
In Ioannina protesters occupied the municipal radio of the town
A small protest was organised also in Edessa