Whoa… In the afternoon, protesters who tried to march toward the convention center where the gathering was being held encountered roaming squads of police officers carrying plastic shields and batons. The police fired a sound cannon that emitted shrill beeps, causing demonstrators to cover their ears and back up; then the police threw tear gas…
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It turns out you can fight City Hall. In 1857 they did. And won. It turns out that if you’re City Hall, you can’t fight the State House. The winner of this brawl at City Hall between two competing police departments got to be New York’s Finest! The mayor was arrested and New York State…
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It seems, as expected, that things are calming down in Athens. Apparently, nobody has been killed in the rioting. Apparently, the bullet that killed the kid was indeed a ricochet (that’s why US city cops are not allowed to fired “warning shots”). [Dec 12: today the Kathimerini reports the opposite conclusion: Meanwhile the results of…
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The BBC has a good story about the Greek culture of “No.” And also goes into something I should have explained, namely why November 17 is a day of protest and why students are key: : On 17 November 1973, tanks of the then six-year-old [American supported] military dictatorship burst through the iron railings to…
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Greek police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in Athens Saturday night after a confrontation between police and a group of people. There have been some pretty big riots ever since. Here’s the latest from English-language version or Kathimerini. And the New York Timeshas a storyand slide show. The fact that there were copycat riots…
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