The revolution will be televised.
There have been riots across Greece after a 15 year old was shot and killed by police. You can follow the story, live, online, via Flickr and Twitter, and I'm sure a lot more. Here are some more Flickr photos from Tom Tziros, the guy who shot the image above. Lots more photos from Greeks around the country, including this one from ThirdEye3, showing riot police outside the Greek parliament, I'm pretty sure:
There's a Facebook page in favor of the riots:
And a Facebook page opposing the riots:
There's a Twitter feed as well.
A Greek friend writes:
It's out of control... First a kid was shot dead last Saturday by a policeman. You *could* say it's an isolated event. But then, little by little riots started and acoumulated problems came up. Economic crisis, foreigners that live in gettoes, etc.More from AP:
Last night most of the Athens city center was on fire. Other cities too. The police does nothing. The government does nothing, they are totally useless. And as things get out of control, we are afraid they will have to take really drastic measures. (Something like what happened in the US since 9/11.)
Let's hope things will calm down, maybe starting from tomorrow. Today it will probably be a long night too.
Masked youths and looters marauded through Greek cities for a fourth night Tuesday, in an explosion of rage triggered by the police shooting of a teenager that has unleashed the most violent riots in a quarter century.It's absolutely fascinating the myriad of ways that the Internet can now be used by ordinary citizens to cover their own news, to make their own news.
The nightly scenes of burning street barricades, looted stores and overturned cars have threatened to topple the country's increasingly unpopular conservative government, which faces mounting calls for Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to resign.
Police fired tear gas at protesters Tuesday following the funeral of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was laid to rest in an Athens burial attended by about 6,000 people.
The rioting — which has engulfed cities from Thessaloniki in the north to the holiday island of Corfu and Crete in the south — threatens the 52-year-old Karamanlis, who already faced growing dissatisfaction over financial and social reforms at a time of deep anxiety over growing economic gloom.
Opposition Socialist leader George Papandreou called for early elections, charging the conservatives were incapable of defending the public from rioters.
