riots

The Riots in Greece

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_greek_riots.html

I am pretty blown away by all this insanity. I’m also pretty (continuously) amazed at how poorly news travels over our seas. When i was in Peru after 9-11, we were hearing all kinds of crazy stories like the golden gate bridge had been destroyed. We take it for granted how information seems so easy to come by in our country…

Anyway this isn’t nearly as bad as the great firewall of censorship that the Chinese government has erected to prevent the flow of free information in and out of that place… but the american media isn’t really telling is the whole truth about these riots in Greece either. They’re focusing on the death of this 15 year old boy as the reason for all the violence but the truth (if you dig just a little to find it) is that this is a pent-up reaction to globalization… and it’s failure.

There is genuine reason to worry that this mayhem will spread across europe… These global corporate “entities” are impacting lives everywhere… and the story is awfully familiar to what we experience here in the states. I wonder how long it will be before we, here at home, will finally have had enough.

It is amazing to me that the police officer is actually being tried for this murder… They are clearly less militarized in Greece than they are here.

On a side note… i am constantly impressed with the photography on that website. This one (below) make me emotional… history may be doomed to repeat itself, but it’s good to know the agents of good will be repeating their actions as well.