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Strike Shuts Down Greece Before Austerity Vote – Tens of Thousands Take to the Streets


Tens of thousands of people have gathered over the past few hours in Athens’ squares as well as the central squares of other large Greek cities such as Thessaloniki, Patras and Heraklion  in order to demonstrate against the latest austerity measures proposed by the government and which will be voted on in Parliament tomorrow.
The 48-hour general strike paralyzed government departments, businesses, public services and even providers of everyday staples like shops and bakeries and will culminate in mass demonstrations outside parliament, which was the scene of violent clashes in June.
The industrial action comes as European Union leaders scramble to set the outlines of a new rescue package in time for a summit on Sunday that hopes to agree measures to protect the region’s financial system from a potential Greek debt default.
Only in Athens, according to police estimates, already over 120,000 people have taken to the city’s central streets in four separate marches organised by the various unions ,but all with the final destination of the very centrally-located Syntagma square, on one side of which stands Parliament – where debate is already underway on the draft law to be voted on tomorrow. In the square, where about 55,000 demonstrators have already gathered, there is a large-scale police presence with armored vehicles carrying dozens of police in anti-riot gear.

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