Suicide rate in Greece jumps 40% as austerity measures take hold | CNN
Capitalism kills.
I just want to point out how this article is an example of the way that the mainstream, corporate press — such as CNN — actually try to actively shape public opinion while feigning ‘objective news reporting.’ The author writes that cuts to Greek workers’ salaries and pensions have been “required” by the debt crisis. This is bullshit. One could easily write, alternatively, that the debt crisis “requires” raising taxes on the rich, defaulting on the foreign bankers who own Greek debt, etc., rather than attacking workers’ living standards …
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The suicide rate in Greece rose 40% in the first five months of 2011 compared with the previous year, according to health ministry data. A nongovernmental organization that runs a suicide helpline in Greece told CNN that it has seen a tenfold increase in calls, with three out of four callers citing economic problems. One in five Greeks was unemployed last year, and many more have suffered under the country’s debt crisis, which has required cuts in salaries and pensions.
(via oldenough2burmom)
Live: Athens Greece Police State. Riot cops keeping the people from having a voice at the Parade.
Women protest.
For context please go to the original source.
Solidarity with all those in struggle.
Athens Burns Following Mass Protests
Pictures from today’s rioting in Athens.
Manoolis Glezos the old man being beaten today in Greece (top picture) has a long history of bravery in the face of oppresion:
“On May 30, 1941, he and Apostolos Santas climbed on the Acropolis and tore down the swastika, which had been there since April 27, 1941, when the Nazi forces had entered Athens. That was the first resistance act that took place in Greece. It inspired not only the Greeks, but all subjected people, to resist against the occupation, and established them both as two international anti-Nazi heroes. The Nazi regime responded by sentencing Glezos and Santas to death in absentia. Glezos was arrested by the German occupation forces on March 24, 1942, and he was subjected to imprisonment and torture. As a result of this treatment, he was gravely affected by tuberculosis. He was arrested on April 21, 1943 by the Italian occupation forces and spent three months in jail. On February 7, 1944 he was arrested again, this time by Greek Nazi collaborators. He spent another seven and a half months in jail, until he finally escaped on September 21 of the same year.” —Wikipedia
Greece austerity protests
Thousands clashed with riot police in Athens on Sunday as the Greek parliament approved deeply unpopular budget cuts to secure a new eurozone bailout
Greek Economy Doomed? Default will happen, Worldwide recession.
