The Battle for Syntagma Square
Submitted on July 3, 2011
By Jelle Bruinsma - July 03, 2011
[Neither] the tear gas, nor the other violence, could clear the square. People were determined to stay. These are our times. Some people left, taking a rest, and other people took their place. At one point in the day one could be challenging the authority of the state police, at another point one would be going around with spray cans of “maalox” to help the people that are forced back by the tear gas...[A]t yet another point one would be taking a rest or cleaning the streets. All with the same thing in mind: these streets are ours.
