Saturday, December 13, 2008

The "€700 Generation"

What up in Greece? Per The Guardian, among other things, the Greek "Cops! Pigs! [&] Murderers!" are just about out of tear-gas.
The teenagers and twenty-somethings who have come close to toppling the Greek government are not the marginalised: this is no replay of the riots that convulsed Paris in 2005. Many are sons and daughters of the middle classes, shocked at the killing of one of their own, disgusted with the government's incompetence and corruption, enraged by the broken promises of the education system, scared at the prospect of having to work still harder than their exhausted parents.
"Wooork?" We'd be rioting too. There's much more information on what an essentially Nazi shithole the country's been since the end of WWII. And what little hope there is, & that there's no reason to think the situation will improve any time soon.

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