
PanHellenic - Athens, Greece
Protest against the government's draft law introducing private universities in Greece, which students consider will lead to the degradation of public education.
8th of March
THE CONSTITUTION WAS BROKEN AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HAVE ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE IS NOW QUESTIONABLE
In mass media articles it is said that 18 000 people attended the protest. But for what I have seen there were more than 25 000 people, from all over Greece.
As always, exactly like every greek protest - everything happened as if it was a written scenario.
Molotovs, tear gases, flying stones and blood.
Those few minutes of action - wiped the scale of the protest and the message of it as fast as possible.”We want accessible education” - that is the constitutional right for every person.
For us foreigners and non-Greek is normal that all we see in media is about the riots around Syntagma square.
The “Boggie-man” in greek society - Leftist and Anarchists.
What I have seen was the following - Greeks from all over the country represented by so many different pollitical organisations, as well as non-political. Students from every University in Greece were standing up for their rights and for accessible education...