[MGSA-L] Greeks Gather in Downtown Athens to Hold Madrid-Style Protest

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Thu May 26 11:51:04 PDT 2011


Amused by this journalist's historical ignorance.

Why attribute this to the Spaniards when we know that Greeks have
ALWAYS preferred to conduct their political business in the streets ?
<vbg>

Modern electronics just furnish a new way of scaling up this ancient
tradition in quantity and speed.

BTW : Just what IS the earliest example of street politics in Greece ?
Assume it is at/before Peisistratus <;-)

June S
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Greeks Gather in Downtown Athens to Hold Madrid-Style Protest
By Eleni Chrepa - May 25, 2011 1:12 PM ET

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-25/greeks-gather-in-downtown-athens-to-hold-madrid-style-protest.html

More than 2,000 Greek protesters gathered outside the country’s
Parliament House in central Athens today, taking their lead from a
Spanish protest against the country’s lawmakers and government
austerity measures.

The crowd reached about 2,500 people, according to an Athens police
spokesman. The protesters call themselves the “The Exasperated of
Syntagma,” said the police press officer, who wouldn’t be named in
line with policy.

The demonstration was organized through social-networking websites
with almost 27,000 people registered as ‘attending’ the event on the
website of Facebook Inc., following the example set by Spanish
demonstrators in Madrid’s Puerta Del Sol Square, where they pitched
tents on May 15.

They are calling for changes to the electoral system to reduce the
dominance of the two main parties. The protests, which have spread to
other Spanish cities and have been supported by people of all ages,
call for voters to be able to choose lawmakers directly rather than
for party lists. The movement said on May 24 it will continue
demonstrating “at least” through May 29.

To contact the reporter on this story: Eleni Chrepa in Athens at
echrepa at bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Angela Cullen at
acullen at bloomberg.net

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