MOBILIZE FOR THE DECEMBER 15 SILENT PROTEST AGAINST RACISM, NAZISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN ATHENS, GREECE

   In these shocking photos,  by world-renowned  photojournalist Giannis Bechrakis, an Egyptian immigrant shows the marks of torture on his body by his Greek boss. After being robbed from his boss from his money, the baker employee, an illegal immigrant, was beaten for many hours by three men, and he was chained bleeding and unconscious, ultimately left to die. He was found  and  rushed to hospital from local citizens. A photo that reminds to all of us the inhumanity of slavery.

(...) Please go on mobilizing for the march, since every individual who will be there will count and will help send the message that the whole Greek society is mobilized, along with the rest of the European civil society, to fight for democracy and against racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazism. A movement is being born thanks to us, let's make it as strong as possible !

Please spread the word and ask all your contacts, through email or through Facebook, the website, mailing list, Twitter account or Facebook tools of your organization, to register to the "Facebook event" which we have just created : http://www.facebook.com/events/310663732371602/.
You will find there the breaking news about our mobilization, the links to the publication or video related to it, posters and leaflets that you can use to mobilize,...

Your can still read the Call, which you will find in Greek, English and French following this email, published in To Vima, in To Pontiki, in Kathimerini, in Ethnos, in Ta Nea (here and here), ans you can read numerous articles, listen to numerous radio reports and watch numerous video reports in the Greek as well as in the international media about the protest, racism and the fight for democracy in Greece. We are indeed going on with our exceptionnal and accurate media covering.This is exceptionnal, and this must provide our coalition, made of representatives of every sector of the society, strenghth and motivation.
The march will be a unique mobilization, with a beautiful European solidarity at its heart and with the important objective to show the whole society, especially Golden Dawn, that democrats are united all over the continent and determined to defend democracy.

Now is the time for mobilization. Every individual is important, and the mobilization depends on your shoulders. This success will be ours since we will have gotten mobilized together and succeeded together.
We have only one week left before Saturday, the 15th. The timing is short, and your involvement is all the more crucial. Let's move forward !

Benjamin Abtan
President of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement - EGAM

BLOOMBERG: MIDDLE CLASS DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO EUROPEAN AID PACKAGES, GREEK OLIGARCHS ARE POCKETING ALL THE MONEY.

(...) No Money

Even as Greece reduces its deficit and accepts a European aid package that may include a 34.4 billion-euro loan approved last month, conditions for Greece’s middle class are likely to worsen next year as austerity measures take a bigger bite, said George Tzogopoulos, a research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy in Athens.

“I don’t think there is a single Greek citizen who believes that things will be better,” Tzogopoulos said. “There is no money for people to spend.”

Signs of Greece’s decline are everywhere in Thessaloniki, its second-largest city. Stores are closed in the fashionable shopping district downtown. Near an Yves Saint Laurent store, a man searched the trash bins for scrap metal, which he piled in the same shopping cart where his toddler daughter rode (....)

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/depression-deepens-greek-middle-class-despair-with-crime-rising.html

AFTER THREE YEARS OF AUSTERITY MEASURES AND FINANCIAL AID POCKETED BY GREEK OLIGARCHS NEW YORK TIMES FINALLY UNDERSTANDS THAT POLITICAL CORRUPTION RUNS RAMPANT IN THE COLONY

(...) Greece’s economic troubles are often attributed to a public sector packed full of redundant workers, a lavish pension system and uncompetitive industries hampered by overpaid workers with lifetime employment guarantees. Often overlooked, however, is the role played by a handful of wealthy families, politicians and the news media — often owned by the magnates — that make up the Greek power structure.

In a country crushed by years of austerity and 25 percent unemployment, average Greeks are growing increasingly resentful of an oligarchy that, critics say, presides over an opaque, closed economy that is at the root of many of the country’s problems and operates with virtual impunity. Several dozen powerful families control critical sectors, including banking, shipping and construction, and can usually count on the political class to look out for their interests, sometimes by passing legislation tailored to their specific needs (...)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/europe/oligarchs-play-a-role-in-greeces-economic-troubles.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0