On this day in 2008, the worst Greek riots in decades began after Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old student, was killed by police in central Athens.
The killing of the young student resulted in large protests within an hour of the shooting, which later escalated to widespread rioting, with numerous participants damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails. The demonstrations and rioting soon spread to several other cities and lasted for several weeks, into January of 2009.
The protests went beyond the scope of just police brutality - on December 10th, the General Confederation of Greek Workers (ΓΣΕΕ) and the Civil Servants’ Confederation (ΑΔΕΔΥ), together representing 2.5 million people, half of the total Greek workforce, called a one-day general strike in opposition to the government’s economic policies.
While the unrest was triggered by the shooting incident, commentators described the reactions as expressing deeper causes as well, especially a widespread feeling of frustration in the younger generation about specific economic problems of the country (partly as a result of the global economic crisis), a rising unemployment rate among the young generation and a perception of general inefficiency and corruption in Greek state institutions.
this event would give rise to the Anti-austerity movement in Greece in 2010
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The other day my pro-Rittenhouse coworker asked me if I had heard about the case, I told him no I hadn’t and asked him if that was the kid who shot up that high school last week
He was like “uh, no it’s a case about self-defense”
I told him I don’t know about any of that cause Kyle Rittenhouse sounds like a serial killer name
He got annoyed and started babbling incoherently about the media or some shit and then started talking about Star Wars
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also today is the day when the École Polytechnique Massacre happened
The École Polytechnique Massacre was an anti-feminist mass shooting that killed 14 women at the École Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal on 1989. Claiming he was “fighting feminism”, the shooter entered a mechanical engineering class at the school and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. He instructed the men to leave and shot the remaining women. After this, the shooter walked throughout the school, targeting women for another 20 minutes before committing suicide. Fourteen women were killed, ten women and four men were injured.
The event was the most deadly mass shooting in Canada’s history at the time, and led to more stringent gun control laws as well as changes in the tactical response of police to mass shootings.
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I got a daaaaate. Its based off my being a Star Trek/Tolkien nerd and we’ve hung out a few times like a decade ago, so we know each other enough but there’s still a lot of dating mystery. Kinda hyped tbh. They also have a cool dawg
What’s the vibe? Spock/kirk? Riker/Diana? Gimil/Legolas? Diana / Crusher?