1. We are witnessing historical moments!

The student movement once again proved, with its massive and militant
presence in the streets of Athens, that it's alive and continues to build
a huge barricade against the restructuring of education and labor.

Today, Thursday March the 3rd 2007, while the Parliament was voting the
new law for the functioning of the universities, the movement proved that
it won't fall back and will continue to demand the immediate withdrawal of
the law!

The state gave an immediate answer: savage violence and a massive
crackdown with wide use of tear gas and chemicals. The result was arrested
and injured students by the tens. Our struggle won't stop here. Continuing
in the direction of intensifying our struggle and against the crackdown we
all witnessed today, all of us (university and highschool students,
working people, unemployed and others) chose to occupy the Administration
Building of the University in downtown Athens and convert it to a struggle
and counter-information center.

We call upon the whole of society, the students, the working people, those
working with time-limited contracts, the unemployed and all the struggling
people to stand by our side and support our demands and to condemn the
state's brutality that takes aim at everyone that reacts... each and
every one of us!

We demand:
*The immediate release from custody of our fellow protestors and the drop
of all charges against them! The immediate release of the German student
Timo Behrendt who was arrested on February the 20th at Thessaloniki and is
held at Komotini prison!
*The immediate withdrawal of the law for the universities!
*A general strike immediately!

We call:
*To a protest gathering at the Evelpidon courthouse on Friday March 9th
9:00 a.m.!
*To a protest gathering at the Administraion Building on Friday March 9th
18:00 p.m. followed by a march!

The government's terrorism won't stop us!

2.
Thousands of students and teachers, protesting against the new law for the
universities which is being voting at the moment, were brutally repressed
by the police.
The new law for the functioning of the Universities is being voted at the
moment, after the decision of the government to start the process in the
Parliament despite the public outrage; since students, pupils, teachers
and academics have been in an ongoing struggle since May 2006, including
occupations of schools and faculties, strikes and demonstrations.

As the state media reported, only the governmental party voted for the new
law, while the rest of them decided to leave the room after the
preliminary poll. Meanwhile, more than 35.000 of students, including
teachers and academics, were demonstrating in the streets of Athens, in
order to surround the Parliament.

It was in front of the Parliament that some demonstrators clashed with the
police while the air got full of asphyxiating and tear gas. The march was
forced to split into pieces and about 100 hundred demonstrators that had
randomly been at that place, were segregated and severely walloped by a
heavy police force. Several attacks followed, in order to split the rest
of the march into smaller pieces, when the school teachers were beaten as
well. Individuals had to ran away and hide into nearby buildings.

Dozens of randomly chosen demonstrators have been arrested or brought to
the police headquarters, most of them plain students or even old-aged
teachers. Others had to go to the hospital with wounding on the heads.

The situation is still evolving as this article is being written. As the
Polytechnic faculty has been blocked by the police, 2.000 people have
occupied the Administration Building, while some others are holding an
assembly in the Law school. All demonstrators are currently in a very bad
mood, either beaten or sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray.

At the same time, a spontaneous solidarity demonstration is taking place
in Thessaloniki city, up on the North of Greece.