Tear Gas in Athens

This video captures the police reaction to the group gathered to voice a collective WFT to events in Greece. I learned today that it's been over 35 years since the labor unions went on strike. And the protest you see in the video is the 1st time the unions joined the regular group of protesters who have been gathering in Athens for over a month now.

Read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/world/europe/29greece.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/19/draft-the-imf-greece-and-the-argentina-option?ref=europe

And since I had no idea what an austerity vote means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity

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