protests

This Friday in Athens dozens of protestors blocked the entrance to Greece's privatization agency in protest to the sale of the country's two biggest ports in Piraeus and Thessaloniki. Port workers have been on a 48-hour rolling strike since late May. The sales...

Among financial hardships austerities have brought on in Greece, there is mounting outrage by Greek people who are employed but do not get paid in both private and public sectors. Last Wednesday, cleaners employed at the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital in Haidari protested outside...

feaΑ second round of clashes between police and protesting farmers took place at Haidari, on the outskirts of Athens, as farmers were trying to enter the capital on their pickup trucks. After Cretan farmers attacked the headquarters of the Ministry...

Greek farmers unanimously decided to move their protests to Athens, according to farmer representatives from 68 roadblocks across Greece. According to the representatives, the farmers will travel to Athens with tractors and buses, where they plan on setting camp...

Nine members of the Greek police revealed signs against the government’s pension reform plan outside the prime minister’s mansion today, surprising both their own colleagues and the PM’s security guard. The signs read “Alexis, why are you killing your own...

Syriza’s disgraceful tergiversation with regard to austerity and Greece’s bailout schemes may be interpreted by some as a matter of political expediency stemming from the alleged fact that there were no other options available. However, Tsipras and his inner circle...

“Hope begins today” was the message that the current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent to the Greek people when his Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party won the national elections held a year ago, on January 25th...

Through an extensive photographic article, entitled “Athens: A Canvas for Austerity-Themed Street Art,” the news agency Bloomberg presented several works of art found in the streets of the Greek capital that were inspired by the economic crisis. The article noted...

The 2015 budget was voted in Greek Parliament (by a vote of 155 in favor, 134 against, 1 present) at midnight amidst anti-austerity protests and scenarios that the government plans to bring the Presidential election forward in early January, to put an...

Protests appear to have become somewhat of a “national sport” in Greece, after it was revealed that four to five protests have been taking place daily over the last four years. The Greek Minister of Public Order, Nikos Dendias, provided...