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14th January 2009, 21:57
Excerpts from http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20090114075720982
On Saturday 10/1/09 in Athens radical reporters and journalists have occupied the HQ of the Union of Athens Daily Press Editors (ESIEA) which functions as a control institution regarding journalism across the country.
When, as on January 9th, oppression by the State turns even against the workers, journalists, photographers and lawyers who stand in the streets against the side of the murderers, it becomes even clearer that the rebellion during the past month has put forward an issue of dignity for everyone whose survival depends on wage labor. As a result, some of us, media workers and students, stand beside the rebels. We do it actively: we participate in their fight as workers, and we join their fight with our own everyday battle in our places of work. Our main goal is to prevent the bosses from imposing their views about the events, an example of which is that a photographer, Kostas Tsironis, was fired by the daily newspaper “Eleftheros Typos” (“Free press”) because he took a picture of a cop raising his handgun a day after the 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered.
Our place is with the rebels. One more reason for this is because we experience everyday exploitation in our workplaces too. In the media industry, like everywhere else, we have to deal with the consequences of precarious, unsecured or unpaid labour, by-piece working, overtime labor, and all the other forms of bosses’ whims. Lately, under the threat of a coming economic crisis, we also experience intensification of layoffs, and of the fear of them.
- Direct action, self-organized and democratic, by all media workers against the attacks waged against each and every one of us.
* Solidarity with militant worker Konstantina Kuneva
At the same time, in Thessaloniki, students have occupied the State Audiorium of the city, turning it into a counterinformation center regarding the December insurgency and K. Kouneva, the cleaner syndicalist who is still struggling for her life after being attacked with sulphuric acid on the face by bosses' thugs. Whereas in Volos, central greece, the central Trade Union Center of the city, has been occupied in solidarity to K. Kouneva and the arrested insurgents of December. The move is considered highly symbolic as it was the first Trade Union Center in the history of the greek labour movement.
On Saturday 10/1/09 in Athens radical reporters and journalists have occupied the HQ of the Union of Athens Daily Press Editors (ESIEA) which functions as a control institution regarding journalism across the country.
When, as on January 9th, oppression by the State turns even against the workers, journalists, photographers and lawyers who stand in the streets against the side of the murderers, it becomes even clearer that the rebellion during the past month has put forward an issue of dignity for everyone whose survival depends on wage labor. As a result, some of us, media workers and students, stand beside the rebels. We do it actively: we participate in their fight as workers, and we join their fight with our own everyday battle in our places of work. Our main goal is to prevent the bosses from imposing their views about the events, an example of which is that a photographer, Kostas Tsironis, was fired by the daily newspaper “Eleftheros Typos” (“Free press”) because he took a picture of a cop raising his handgun a day after the 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered.
Our place is with the rebels. One more reason for this is because we experience everyday exploitation in our workplaces too. In the media industry, like everywhere else, we have to deal with the consequences of precarious, unsecured or unpaid labour, by-piece working, overtime labor, and all the other forms of bosses’ whims. Lately, under the threat of a coming economic crisis, we also experience intensification of layoffs, and of the fear of them.
- Direct action, self-organized and democratic, by all media workers against the attacks waged against each and every one of us.
* Solidarity with militant worker Konstantina Kuneva
At the same time, in Thessaloniki, students have occupied the State Audiorium of the city, turning it into a counterinformation center regarding the December insurgency and K. Kouneva, the cleaner syndicalist who is still struggling for her life after being attacked with sulphuric acid on the face by bosses' thugs. Whereas in Volos, central greece, the central Trade Union Center of the city, has been occupied in solidarity to K. Kouneva and the arrested insurgents of December. The move is considered highly symbolic as it was the first Trade Union Center in the history of the greek labour movement.