Greece: Austerity Enforced With Brutality. Coming to America?

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The austerity measures that are currently being pushed through the American congress, as well as many state legislatures, are part of a global thrust by conservatives and shock-doctrine capitalists to consolidate wealth with the very few, at the expense of the middle class: the working class; the expendable class.

While American partisan politics have the citizens divided over the wisdom and necessity of these measures, those countries that have already had them imposed are divided only between the citizens being exploited and the government that is working on behalf of the global corporations and financial institutions that are profiting from the austerity measures.

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In Greece, organized labor has suffered the same assault that is now attempting to decimate American unions. Workers salaries have been cut by as much as 30%. Education, health, and other necessary services have been wiped out, and taxes have been raised, in order to pay the debt that the banks created… to the banks. That’s right, sound familiar? The citizens are facing cuts in services and wages, and higher taxes, to pay back the banks that caused the problem in the first place.

In Greece, Doctors, teachers, and other public sector employees have gone on strike to protest the ravaging of their economy by the global financial cartels. They have lived the reality that is currently being proposed in America, as well as most of the European Union. While Greece and Portugal were the first of the European and North American countries to succumb to these draconian measures designed to drain the citizens of the world of what wealth wasn’t directly stolen in the ‘crash’ of 2007, England, Ireland,Italy, France, et al… including the USA, are on the menu for the international profiteers.

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The austerity scam is coming to America. You can see it in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and many other states with Republican governors and/or houses, and it is at the very heart of the Republican budget proposals. Democrats aren’t doing much better. Democrats offer a kinder, gentler version of the same thing, but it all ends up in the same place for Americans; the loss of organized bargaining power, lower wages, far fewer services, the privatization of basic utilities (which means they will cost more), and an increased national debt to keep the populace enslaved for the foreseeable future.

While many Americans are being tricked into the logic of these policies, as were those around the world before they were hit with the harsh realities of their implementation, those to whom they have become a reality have found it necessary to take to the streets in order to protect their very lives and well-being. Americans have spent the last thirty years like the frogs in the proverbial pan, slowly being brought to a boil. At some point, apathy will give way to hunger. When it does, the following account from Greece may easily be written from New York, Washington, Chicago, or Los Angeles.

 

 

Video vis syspeirosiaristeronmihanikon

Anarkismo.net: Greece, Police brutality in Athens by Dmitri (English translation)
Here are photos and videos from various sites and blogs, especially from Athens Indynedia, from and about the events in the centre of Athens during the demonstration as a part of the general strike of 11 May 2011 against austerity measures, visit of troika (of E.U., IMF and Eur. Bank – which are co-ordinating Greek economy etc). — The police attacked to the contingents of protesters without a reason, without being a clash before or an attack on any bank or so. The police attack was so brutal that dozens of people went to the hospitals to take some aid. — Also there are reports that some police special forces men were brutal especially against women protesters. —- One protester named Yannis K., member of the local Resistance Assembly of Kypseli/Patisia (inner Athens suburbs) is facing death after went into an emergency surgery in Nikaia Hospital after been beat by the police severely.

There are information that government and police leadership are reinforcing the police in Athens by bringing more forces from other cities, in a case that Yannis will die something that will cause similar to December 2008 events after the killing of 16 yo Alexis Grigoropoulos.

Here are some links:
http://ipposd.wordpress.com
http://www.sigmalive.com/news/greece/381563
http://syspeirosiaristeronmihanikon.blogspot.com/2011/0….html
(stay a little bit on this site because the photos are coming the one after the other)
http://www.alfavita.gr/artro.php?id=32247

Intrnational solidarity to our Greek comrades and the greek social movement.
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Americans need to know what is being proposed, and know what those proposals are doing elsewhere. It’s the same scam being proposed here that has been advanced elsewhere. If you want to know your future, as it  is looking right now, simply take a look at Greece. If you don’t like what you see, now is the time to get involved, and put a stop to it, before your ability to resist suffers the same fate as your economy.

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