Day 7 Of Greek Uprising: "We Are In Civil War"

"Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest Friday.

Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before riot police pushed them back.

Protestors also reportedly entered the main branch of the National Bank of Greece in the capital sending employees running in panic." (source)

"Youths on Friday ransacked the office of a lawyer representing two policemen charged with fatally shooting a teenage boy whose death plunged Greece into a week of violence, a police source said.

Alexis Kougias was not present at the time of the attack on his central Athens office.

A former football club chairman and a frequent guest on TV talk shows, Kougias caused uproar earlier this week by saying that the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos "was sadly brought about by an act of God."" (source)

"If anarchy had its own Baghdad-style fortified green zone, it might look like [the Polytechnic campus in Athens]. Inside the campus – off-limits to police under laws dating back to the fall of the junta in 1974 – fresh-faced students, anarchists, workers and unionists huddle in discussion around camp fires fuelled by looted goods from gutted chain stores.

The “masked ones”, as they are known, hold informal assemblies each day, where everyone has a chance to discuss where this “revolution” is headed. They even debate whether it is a revolution. “It is a social riot,” said another gate guard, “and it’s still going on. We don’t know yet where it will lead.”" (source)

"The unrest has also spilled over into other European cities, raising concerns [sic] the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalization, disaffected youth and others outraged by the continent's economic turmoil and soaring unemployment.

Protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy have smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks this week, while in France, cars were set ablaze outside the Greek consulate in Bordeaux." (source)

Meanwhile, in the United States, a window was smashed at a Bank of America during a solidarity march for the Greek uprising in Olympia, WA. (source) More good news: the Greek government is running out of tear gas. (source)

The employees' association of the Athens suburb of Agios Dimitrios has released a statement stating: "We are in Civil War: With the fascists, the bankers, the state, the media wishing to see an obedient society" (source). The Occupied School of Theatre in Thessaloniki has released a statement in a similar vein: "NO MORE HYPOCRICY - THESE ARE NO "ISOLATED INCIDENTS", THIS IS THE REALITY OF STATE VIOLENCE COPS SHOOT TO KILL - WE ARE AT WAR" (source). The best statement so far, however, comes from the Occupation of the Athens School of Economics and Business:

"If something scares us, it is the return to normality. For in the destroyed and pillaged streets of our cities of light we see not only the obvious results of our rage, but the possibility of starting to live. We no longer have anything to do, other than to install ourselves in this possibility and transform it into a living experience: by grounding on the field of everyday life, our creativity, our power to materialize our desires, our power not to contemplate but to construct the real. This is our vital space. All the rest is death." (source)

AntiCiv.Net's Previous Greek Uprising Reports:
December 6
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 10
December 11