{"id":1668,"date":"2014-11-16T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2014-11-16T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:52:49","slug":"riot-police-attack-student-protesters-in-athens-roar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Riot police attack student protesters in Athens | ROAR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roarmag.org\/2014\/11\/student-protests-clashes-athens\/\">Riot police attack student protesters in Athens | ROAR Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">It\u2019s been some time since we last heard from the Greek movement. But, thanks to the Greek government and its riot police, today became a day of large student demonstrations, clashes with the cops, injuries and rising tension. First, let\u2019s see what happened. Early in the morning, the Athens Law School students arrived at their university in order to carry out their assembly decision, which included a symbolic occupation of their university until the 17th of November \u2014 commemoration day of the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athens_Polytechnic_uprising\">1973 student revolt<\/a>\u00a0against the military dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">The problem was that the school was already occupied by the riot police. The Athenian Universities\u2019 rectors had decided to apply a peculiar \u201clock out\u201d of the students and employees, supposedly for \u201csecurity reasons\u201d. The government gave a helping hand by sending in hundreds of cops, in riot gear, to carry out the decision. The cops assaulted the students, seriously injuring a couple of them and dispersing the rest. The news circulated, public outrage was expressed about the police blockades and violence, hundreds of students demonstrated in the center of Athens during lunchtime, and another protest \u2014 involving thousands \u2014 took place in the evening around the universities, confronting a total police blockade of the city center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police attack student protesters in Athens | ROAR Magazine. It\u2019s been some time since we last heard from the Greek movement. But, thanks to the Greek government and its riot police, today became a day of large student demonstrations, clashes with the cops, injuries and rising tension. First, let\u2019s see what happened. Early in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1167,1168,755],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-greece","tag-riot-police","tag-student-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}