Tuesday, June 28th: Constant updates First day of nationwide general strike

Tuesday, June 28th: Constant updates

First day of nationwide general strike

11.00 At the port of Pireus, since early in the morning, dockworkers as well as members of PAME (of the so-called ‘Communist’ Party of Greece) seized the ships’ launchers, blocking the sailing from the central port of the country. In Athens approximately 25,000 people have gathered in front of the parliament, mainly demonstrators of PAME.

01.01 GMT+2 Prisons across Greece: Excerpt of a prisoners’ text about the mid-term memorandum — ‘[...] Prisons are a mechanism which is based on poverty and reproduces inequalities and injustice. Prisons are an unjust and inhumane mechanism which demoralizes and enrages people. It is a class and antisocial mechanism which should be abolished. We know that there is no potential for basic living problems’ substantial solution inside prisons because, as we said before, life behind prison walls becomes even more difficult due to the crisis. Hence, the main slogan of inmates in Greek prisons today is “Immediate release of all prisoners.” Today our own struggle cannot but be common. Common among all prisoners, common among all the oppressed of all nationalities who are in the streets and squares of Greek cities. Let’s start here and now a real confrontational struggle that will prevent the mid-term memorandum’s voting. And the only way to do so is to factually threaten the political and economic system’s function. [...]’ This text is co-signed by a total of 468 women and men inmates of the prisons: Koridallos (also F male wing), Ioannina, Avlona, Nafplion and Corfu. At least 789 women and men prisoners decided to remain outside the prison cells during the midday closing in: Koridallos (also A, D, F male wings), Diavata, Amfissa, D1 male wing of Grevena. A total of 1,508 inmates will protest via abstention from mess in: Grevena, B male wing of Larissa, Ioannina, Avlona, Malandrino, Diavata and Cassandra in Thessaloniki. On the day of the mid-term memorandum’s voting, the prisoners protest against the financial and political impasse in which the Greek society is situated, against the country’s occupation by the big Capital, against the parliamentary junta. This mobilization is also held in solidarity with those who fight in cities’ streets and squares across Greece.

About 00.00 GMT+2 Arta, western Greece: Dozens of workers and solidaritarians blocked the entry of the poultry cooperative’s factory of the city. They had decided to blockade the factory throughout the entire 48hour general strike, but the blockade ended at about 4.30 am. Reports mention that lately the employers practice factual terrorism against the workers, intimating them not to participate in strikes. The unpaid workers of the cooperative invite all people to participate in the strike.

Transportation information for the 48hour general strike

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/06/27/631-transportation-information-for-the-48hour-general-strike-of-june-28-29-subject-to-change