Occupy Greece - Police Clash With Protesters

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Greeks Protest 2nd Austerity Package
Angry protesters have taken to the streets across Greece as a second package of austerity measures won its initial parliamentary approval, Press TV reports.

"295 deputies voted. 154 voted yes, 141, voted No. Thus the bill of the finance ministry passes in principle by a majority," said Grigoris Niotis, the vice president of the parliament on Wednesday.

The bill, proposing new taxes and additional cuts in pensions and wages among other things, has to be put to a second round of vote on Thursday before turning into legislation.

The protests broke out on Wednesday, with more than 100,000 people rallying in the capital Athens, marking the beginning of a 48-hour general strike.

The industrial action paralyzed the country, having been joined by banks, schools, shops, and public services.

"We just can't take it anymore. There is desperation, anger and bitterness," said Nikos Anastasopoulos, one of the protesters, referring to nearly two years of austerity measures imposed upon the people by the government.

The demonstrations quickly turned violent as riot police confronted the protesters with carcinogenic tear gas canisters and stun grenades and the protesters started responding with stones.

Greece's public debt has been calculated at about EUR 356.5 billion (around USD 490.5 billion), which equals some 162 percent of the country gross domestic product (GDP). The country is currently considered the hardest hit among its fellow debt-laden eurozone states.

Since last year, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have provided Greece with two rescue packages worth over USD 380 billion in return for the tough measures.

The country must persuade both the EU and the IMF that it is making sufficient financial reforms. Otherwise, it will not receive the next USD 11 billion of bailout loans and will go bankrupt by mid-November.
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[Iseeyoursoul]

@prophenator

Go work and grow some vegetables in your garden, oh that's illegal. Then sell some water bottles on the sidewalk on a hot summers day, oh yeah you need a government permit.Start a daycare then? Oh you need a permit and a government supervisor if over 7 kids.

An independent community raffle? Police will shut you down. Do some contracting, oh you need a state sanctioned union rep there to be lazy and "supervise".

Make your own wine, you need a license.

Bake muffins, license...

[Dragonstud]

Its well over due for world revolution against these criminal governments!

[vassilis01]

@JoeChapmanUK absolutely..police were pretty restrained i thought. compare to US and canada for WTO protests etc.

[edspacely92]

lol i find it funny that its greece and the music is straight out of 300

[ScifiGuitarguy]

I wish videos could get popular by dislike, this is disgusting.

[mrdelerious2009]

@mbonilla417 trying... no one cares tho. they just worry bout them selves (shakes head)

[mbonilla417]

@mrdelerious2009 get a group of people together because there r people that dont know its happening.

[vegetablesocialist]

@TheBannedPoet , money talks in a court of law, it can be as simple as who their lawyer is, and i am disgusted indeed, that a person cannot write what he wants about a person, simple as that.

there is no justice, there is no freedom, there is .....a revolution.

[EasternMerchant]

MY GAWD I thought the brutality of Greeks and Persians from the movie "300" was pure Hollywood, but I am beginning to realize GREEKS and IRANIANS (Persians) are some of the most BRUTAL PEOPLE! Art does IMITATE LIFE!

[TheBannedPoet]

@vegetablesocialist i know its a joke init. i'm even banned from drawing pictures aswell as rap/poetry lol. unfortunately there is no freedom of speech in britain, only poetic licence. but any british law can over ride that. I'm sure they just make it up as they go along lol

[vegetablesocialist]

@TheBannedPoet .......what next? this is truly shocking, as it all is, just incase we think we are free......think again.