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At around 4 p.m. Saturday, about 150 youth attacked the Christmas tree at Syntagma Square in central Athens, hanging trash bags from its branches before clashing with riot police. The square was cleared within two hours. At least three news photographers were injured by police batons. The tree survived the attack. The original Christmas tree was burned to the ground Dec. 8, during the worst night of rioting.
In Thessaloniki, a group of self-styled anarchists occupied a movie theater in the city's main square and threw cakes and candy at Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and one of his deputies. The mayor was attending an open-air Christmas event near the theater, distributing the sweets to children with sickle-cell anemia when the rioters disrupted the event. Later, a group emerged from the theater and attacked a Nativity scene, throwing away the Christ figure. [Source]
Athena hurts.
She doesn't celebrate Christmas, but she understands why people do. And this is not the way things should be going. The helplessness she feels is overwhelming: these are her people, this is her land, and yet there is only so much action she can take.
When the goddess enters the bar, her face is wan, and she heads straight for the couches by the fire. She's a little cheered by the hot chocolate she is soon brought, but she still seems to be on the verge of collapse, literally and figuratively.
Her imitation of holiday cheer is not extremely convincing.
tiny tag: athena
In Thessaloniki, a group of self-styled anarchists occupied a movie theater in the city's main square and threw cakes and candy at Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and one of his deputies. The mayor was attending an open-air Christmas event near the theater, distributing the sweets to children with sickle-cell anemia when the rioters disrupted the event. Later, a group emerged from the theater and attacked a Nativity scene, throwing away the Christ figure. [Source]
Athena hurts.
She doesn't celebrate Christmas, but she understands why people do. And this is not the way things should be going. The helplessness she feels is overwhelming: these are her people, this is her land, and yet there is only so much action she can take.
When the goddess enters the bar, her face is wan, and she heads straight for the couches by the fire. She's a little cheered by the hot chocolate she is soon brought, but she still seems to be on the verge of collapse, literally and figuratively.
Her imitation of holiday cheer is not extremely convincing.
tiny tag: athena