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Economic Crisis and Protests
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Hellenic Parliment passes the cost-cutting Economy Protection Bill.
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Greek goverment request bailout package.
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Greece's debt rating cut to BB+.
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Austerity measures announced.
These cuts were in line with the EU and IMF's demands in order for Greece to recived it's bailout package. The cuts included, public sector pay cuts, pension reductions, new taxes on company profits and an increase on luxury taxes -
Papandreou submitted bill to Parliament.
Total loans value were around 110 billion euros. -
Strikes and Demonstrations.
As a result of the proposed spending cuts and tax increases there were nation wide strikes.
Schools, hospitals, private busineses closed, and public transport refused to run.
100,000-500,000 people protested through Athens toward Syntagma Square. -
Protesters set Marfin Bank on fire.
Protesters attacked Marfin Bank, a symbolic attack reslembing the econmic problems the citizens of greece were facing.
Five people (employees) of the bank died whilst trying to escape including a pregnant woman named Angeliki Papathanasopoulous aged 32.
Anti-capitaslist sologans were chanted. -
Hellenic Parliment passed the proposed austerity measures
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Up to 100,000 people are involved in violent protests and strikes.
These protests occured as a reaction to a renewal of the loan program to greece by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. -
KEY EVENT: Start of demonstations and Indignat Citizens Movement.
Peaceful demonstrations begin in Athens in line wiht other major cities against the new austerity measures.
Demonstrations cordinated by the Indignat Citizens facebook group.
Slogans included: Error 404, Democracy not found.
I vote, you vote, he votes, she votes, we vote, you vote, they steal -
Day 2 demonstrations:
Protest organised without political or trade union affiliations. Thoses who did express political affliations were condemned.
14,000 protesters gathered a mixture of youth and families. Pots were banged and similar movements in other countries were having influence. Ie spain. -
Day 3: Demonstrations.
Demonstrations peaceful- one protester shouted a slogan against the police and was heavily condemmed by other demonstrators.
Proceedings of the first people's assembly on Syntagama Square published. Ie Demonstrations to be taken every evening at 6pm and assembly at 9pm, any corrupt politician should be either sent home or to jail, and thier democracy guarenttees neither justice nor equality. -
Demonstrations:
7000, people gathered infront of the Greek Parliament.
20 people set up tents in the square.
The movement become more organised, with meida reported, doctors, translators and food supplies set up by the protesters. -
Demonstrations: 4,000 people demonstrated infront of parliament.
In Thessaloniki a direct democracy people's assembly toook place infront of the White Tower of Thessaloniki. -
Day 7 of protests. University of Athens hosts an anti-goverment protest.
Once university protest was over they joined 10,000 protesters that were already infront of parliment. Demonstrations meant workers inside the building couldnt leave, -
Demonstrations continue- 15,000 gathered infront of parliament.
These included the Society for the Protection of Citizens by the Abritration of Banks. -
12th day of continuous demonstrations.
200,000 gathered in Syntagama Square. Some say the largest demonstrations in Athens since 1980 with 500,000 people
At the people's assembly a skype connection was made with that held in Marid. -
48 hour strike
This included people in the health, transportation, education and govermental services. Journalists and artisits also stopped working. Demonstrations begin to turn violent and more clashes with the police. -
Austerity measure passed- demonstrations become violent.
270 people injured, 500 people visited the temporary infirmary set up in Syntagama Square metro station and 99 people sent to hostpital. Damage to the center of athens exceeded 500 euros and the hotels on Syntagma square were evacuated. -
Demonstration by workers in the tourism sector, with sit-ins and strikes.
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General strike.
Police and the youtj clash, 10 arrests made. -
New austerity measures annonced.
As a result the public sector. Ie teachers, doctors, taxi drivers, trams, metro, air traffic controllers announced they would go on strike. -
48 hour ferry strike between islands.
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During the protests memebers of the Communist party and the hard line anarchists, who tried to invade parliment clash.
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Papandreau resigns as a result of ongoing protests
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Anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulous's dealth, protesters march to parliament.
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Nationwide general strike.
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More proposed austerity measures and more protests
500,000 protesters gather outside of Parliment in opposition to proposed austerity measures.
The austerity meausres are a precodition for a further 130 billion euros bailout package from the IMF and European Union.
45 buildings set on firem 25 protesters and 40 officers injured -
Strikes: Taxi, Metros, Trams and Buses
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Austerity Measures passed.
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National Holiday- protests nationwide.
In the annual student parade numerous schools turned thier heads away from officals. -
Peaceful pan_European demonstrations
Demonstratons attracted 100,000 plues protesters infront of parliament. The demonstrators included people from all ages and financial backgrounds.
Some of the dmands that Real Democracy Now! formulated during the assemblies that were held at Syntagma Square. These included: Harder taxation on the rich, adoption of a new consistutionm written by the people not memebers of the parliament. Cancellation of the memorandum signed between Greece and the IMF.
