Thousands of people flocked to the Polytechnic campus in downtown Athens on Sunday to pay their tribute to the Students’ Uprising against the colonel’s junta on 17. November 1973. the 51th anniversary s being celebrated with events and the traditional long march to the US embassy. The gates of the …
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High security measures, traffic regulations in Athens on Nov 17
High security measures and traffic regulations are scheduled in Athens, on Sunday, November 17, 2024, due to the events and rallies to commemorate the 51th anniversary of the Polytechnic Students’s Uprising. As every year, this year too there will be a strong police presence around the Polytechnic and from other …
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Students’ Uprising marches end with firebombs and teargas (videos)
Thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens and other cities on Thursday to mark the 49th anniversary of a violently quashed students’ uprising in 1973 that helped topple the military junta which then ruled the country. Thousands demonstrate during the Polytechnic Uprising anniversary in Athens, while 5000+ police officers are …
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Five metro stations in Athens close by police order on Nov 17
Five metro stations in downtown Athens will close to the public on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, due to the traditional protest rally to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising in 1973. According to a statement issued by Greek Police on Tuesday evening, the following metro stations will …
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6,000 Police officers, draconian security measures for Student’s Uprising anniversary Nov 17
Some 6,000 police officers on the ground, helicopters and drones in the air, will be deployed in Athens at the anniversary of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising on November 17. The operational police plan includes, among other, the guarding of universities, government buildings and embassies. At the same time, there …
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Communist KKE holds 17. November rally outside US Embassy
Members of the Greek Communist Party KKE gathered outside the US Embassy on Tuesday morning to mark the Anniversary of the Polytechnic Student’s Uprising against the military dictatorship on 17. November 1973. The protesters were wearing masks and kept social distancing measures. The protest took place despite the ban by …
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Dozens detained ahead of Polytechnic Students’ Uprising anniversary on Nov 17
Greek Police took a total of 92 people for questioning at the Police Directorate in Athens on Friday ahead of the celebrations for the anniversary of the students Uprising that are banned this year due to the coronavirus. 68 mostly probably students were taken from the Polytechnic School in downtown …
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Greeks march peacefully to honor the Students’ Uprising of 1973
Thousand of Greeks marched to the US Embassy on Sunday to commemorate the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising of 1973 that reached its peak on November 17, when a tank of the Armed Forced brought down the gate of the University and armed forces and police drowned in blood the revolt. …
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17. Nov 1973: Greeks still fiercely argue on casualties in Students’ Uprising
Fourth six years after the Polytechnic Students’ Uprising in November 1973 and the number of casualties is still a taboo for a part of the Greek society. The question is simple: Were the Casualties, Yes or No? Every year, on the anniversary, Greeks get involved in an endless argument race: …
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Strict security measures, traffic regulations in downtown Athens Nov 15-17
5,000 police officers, among them officers in plain clothes, drones and helicopters will be deployed in downtown Athens to enforce security during the 3-day festivities for the commemoration of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising against the military junta on November 17, 1973. The strict security measures implemented by the Greek …
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Alone in the rain, resistance fighter Manolis Glezos honors the dead of 1973 Students’ Uprising
A fighter to the bone. 95 years old. Manolis Glezos is holding two red flowers and with the help of a walking stick goes to the Polytechnic University in downtown Athens to honor the dead of the Students’ Uprising in 1973. When he arrives in front of the Monument, his …
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Polytechnio: Celebrating Students’ Uprising 1973-2012
There is quite some dispute nowadays in Greece whether about the celebrations to commemorate the 39th Anniversary of Students’ Uprising against the military dictatorship at Polytechnic University in 1973. In a society suffering from harsh austerity measures, it is obvious that there is criticism about the so-called “Polytechnio Generation”: students …
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17 November 1973 – Athens Polytechnic Students’ Uprising (rare footage; videos)
Here is some footage with rare visual and sound material from the Athens Polytechnic Students’ Uprising on 17. November 1973. The videos have been compiled in by EOA in cooperation of the Library of the Greek Parliament. They also contain material from the BBC and some quotations in English, for …
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17 November 1973 – Students’ Uprising Against the Junta (videos)
I do remember very well this Saturday morning I went alone to Athens downtown, on November 17, 1973. The night before an army tank had violently crashed down the main steel gate of the Polytechnic University campus bringing down the people clinging on it. I was a teenager then and had no …
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