On this day in 2008, the worst Greek riots in decades began after Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old student, was killed by police in central Athens.
The killing of the young student resulted in large protests within an hour of the shooting, which later escalated to widespread rioting, with numerous participants damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails. The demonstrations and rioting soon spread to several other cities and lasted for several weeks, into January of 2009.
The protests went beyond the scope of just police brutality - on December 10th, the General Confederation of Greek Workers (ΓΣΕΕ) and the Civil Servants' Confederation (ΑΔΕΔΥ), together representing 2.5 million people, half of the total Greek workforce, called a one-day general strike in opposition to the government's economic policies.
While the unrest was triggered by the shooting incident, commentators described the reactions as expressing deeper causes as well, especially a widespread feeling of frustration in the younger generation about specific economic problems of the country (partly as a result of the global economic crisis), a rising unemployment rate among the young generation and a perception of general inefficiency and corruption in Greek state institutions.
this event would give rise to the Anti-austerity movement in Greece in 2010
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The other day my pro-Rittenhouse coworker asked me if I had heard about the case, I told him no I hadn’t and asked him if that was the kid who shot up that high school last week
He was like “uh, no it’s a case about self-defense”
I told him I don’t know about any of that cause Kyle Rittenhouse sounds like a serial killer name
He got annoyed and started babbling incoherently about the media or some shit and then started talking about Star Wars
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also today is the day when the École Polytechnique Massacre happened
The École Polytechnique Massacre was an anti-feminist mass shooting that killed 14 women at the École Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal on 1989. Claiming he was "fighting feminism", the shooter entered a mechanical engineering class at the school and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. He instructed the men to leave and shot the remaining women. After this, the shooter walked throughout the school, targeting women for another 20 minutes before committing suicide. Fourteen women were killed, ten women and four men were injured.
The event was the most deadly mass shooting in Canada's history at the time, and led to more stringent gun control laws as well as changes in the tactical response of police to mass shootings.
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changed because the École Polytechnique Massacre was a thing i read about that is not “yay”
I got a daaaaate. Its based off my being a Star Trek/Tolkien nerd and we've hung out a few times like a decade ago, so we know each other enough but there's still a lot of dating mystery. Kinda hyped tbh. They also have a cool dawg
What's the vibe? Spock/kirk? Riker/Diana? Gimil/Legolas? Diana / Crusher?
* looking at my dog sleeping * he has no idea whatsoever of what went on in Stalingrad
Getting very frustrated with local organizing lately.
The group I'm in stopped organizing when COVID hit (vulnerable people with health issues), and now is slipping into a desire to drop out and start a commune somewhere, which feels like giving up to me.
I've been a wobbly for a few years now and it's been a real struggle getting our local branch off the ground (it closed down some years ago and was restarted recently), and I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels there.
PSL never got back to me after I applied.
I have a comrade in CPUSA but I'm hesitant to join because they're not really active locally and I'm wary of it being all feds.
IMT does a lot of tabling, but, AFAIK, is just doing the normal Trot stuff.
Feeling very directionless lately, and I just want a DemCent group that will call me a lib and make me read :soviet-bottom:
:fidel-salute-big: for fighting the hard fight comrade. It's hard in the imperial core, but dismantling this war machine is one of the most important jobs for communism worldwide.
Organization is essential and good but if that isn't an option then you gotta make it one. Print flyers and pamphlets and leave em on busses and store shelves or whatever. Also read stuff, lib.
I just landed an interview for some bullshit pmc job. I feel really dirty just considering this job, but it would be nice to be getting paid more than poverty wages. And I hate my job anyway so what’s the difference
Seriously tho if you can bOrRoW a digital copy of a book from your library I should be able to borrow a game from my good friend fitgirl
Hogs at my work bought humongous trucks and now struggle to pay for gas. When will they learn :very-smart:
Calling frats and sororities "greek life" is one of the cringiest things american universities do
My frat wasn't evil and the more time passes the more I realize how ridiculously fucking lucky I got.
I always wanted to start some parody one that used a real math equation instead of random greek letters.
So a few co workers (Phillipino and an Indian dude, not the white kids) have had a running joke that my Korean co worker is a spy for the DPRK, this has led to my hinting at my sympathies for the DPRK and now the dude is willing to actually talk Korean politics with me and I feel like such a good white person! We have made fun of the leather jacket thing and I got to introduce him to the meme of Juche necromancy.
Turns out on the ground most people are pissed that during their grandparents generation other countries split theirs apart and the politics behind it don't matter as much as the self determination aspect.
