DemocracyNow.org - Greece was rocked Wednesday by massive street protests and a strike of millions of workers against the government's austerity plans. In response, embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced he will reshuffle his cabinet to try to achieve consensus on how to address the country's crippling debt crisis. The new austerity package for Greece includes $9.4 billion in tax hikes, doubling past measures agreed to with bailout lenders that have pushed unemployment to a record 16.2 percent and extended a deep recession into its third year. Democracy Now! interviews Hara Kouki, a doctoral student based in Athens who has been writing about the protests, and by Costas Panayotakis, associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology at CUNY.
For the transcript, podcast, and for more Democracy Now! reports about austerity cuts and protests in Greece and throughout Europe, visithttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/16/political_crisis_in_greece_amidst_revolt
For the transcript, podcast, and for more Democracy Now! reports about austerity cuts and protests in Greece and throughout Europe, visithttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/16/political_crisis_in_greece_amidst_revolt
Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in central Athens on Wednesday as a major anti-austerity rally degenerated into violence outside the Greek parliament. The clashes continued as Greek state media reported that the beleaguered Socialist government has launched power-sharing talks with the main opposition conservatives.
Another view of events at Syntagma Square:
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