In pictures: Greek strike protest (>25K people)

[Hannah Bell]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8562621.stm

2nd one this week.


New Strike Paralyzes Greece

ATHENS — Most international travel was halted, and public services thrown into disarray on Thursday as thousands of Greek workers protesting austerity measures staged a general strike and joined demonstrations in the capital that turned violent.

A poster calling for public sector employees to participate in a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The poster reads, “We strike, Thursday 11 March, We should not pay for the crisis”.
Thursday’s strike was the latest and most disruptive in a series of protests that have roiled Greece in recent weeks as the country grapples with a debt crisis that has fanned fears of spreading financial instability across the 16 countries that use the euro...

All scheduled flights into and out of the country were canceled, international trains were not operating, bus and subway service was suspended, and ferries remained in their ports. Tax offices and courts shut down, and hospitals were operating with emergency staff. The streets were littered with mounds of trash as a strike at the city’s main landfill entered its sixth day.

The strike was called by the country’s two main labor unions, which represent some 2.5 million workers and have led resistance to the new austerity measures raising taxes and slashing civil servants’ vacation pay by 30 percent.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/world/europe/12greece.html?src=me

[Double T]

1. Got to admire these Greek Citizens!

Americans should be in the streets by the millions and millions protesting. In time, after being squeezed even more, they will. I worldwide revolution is underfoot as most governments are extremely corrupt and waste money like they had it to burn.

[movonne]

2. Yes...when are the americans going too wake up...