Greece: What students say about their attempt to ‘break the wall of silence’ on September 25th, 2011

Read about the occupation of the studio of state TV channel NET by students
on Occupied London
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/09/25/clashes-at-syntagma-studio-of-state-tv-channel-occupied-by-students

The following video was made by the students themselves. It includes their announcement on education issues, the new higher education reform bill, the general economic situation, layoffs and job precariousness. They also recorded what happened during the occupation of September 25th, as well as the fake promises of the managing director of public misinformation Labis Tagmatarhis that he would broadcast their claims in the night’s news bulletin, at 00.00 (midnight). Instead, the whole intervention was overcome by reading a despicable notice issued by the national broadcasting corporation, ERT SA, later in the night.

As we don’t have the capacity of subtitling the video, we cite the translation here:

| For four week, about 300 academic faculties across Greece have been under students’ occupation.

| After the voting of Diamantopoulou education reform bill in late August, students interrupt their examinations and proceed to general assemblies and occupations, causing an unprecedented nationwide ‘blackout’ within only a few days.

| The student movement declares decisively that it will continue the struggle till the end for the overthrow of the new education bill, and that it will fight next to the workers against the austerity and unemployment policy.

| September 22nd, 2011: Pan-Hellenic pan-educational manifestation

| Nearly 10,000 students and educators from all over Greece fill the streets of Athens, protesting against the new education bill and the governmental policy.

| At the same time, another… so-called student movement debuts in TV news bulletins and in lounges of lifestyle TV shows.

| [Scenes from the private TV channel SKAI that propagate the urgency for the re-opening of universities —starring scumbag journalist Aris Portosalte.]

| The so-called new – party-free – spontaneous – indignant – student – movement [called ‘Indignant Students against Occupations’] in a period of turmoil, economic crisis and dismantling of public university dares to put forward one claim…

| End the occupations, so as to return immediately to normality…

| [Mass media scenes where a student claims the restoration of legality and comments negatively about student occupiers, while famous writer Apostolos Doxiadis apparently indicates the best possible university studies as the most genuine revolutionary act.]

| 6 words… 6 lies More»
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