GREECE: US TERROR ATTACKS: MORE THAN 2,000 ANTI-GLOBALISATION PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST ANY US MILITARY RETALIATION

Record ID: 352078

  • Title: GREECE: US TERROR ATTACKS: MORE THAN 2,000 ANTI-GLOBALISATION PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST ANY US MILITARY RETALIATION
  • Date: 27th September 2001
  • Summary: (W8)ATHENS, GREECE (SEPTEMBER 27, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED BANNERS READING 'STOP THIS WAR', 'NO TO WAR' AND 'NO TO BUSH'S WAR', 'WE WANT JOBS - NOT BOMBS' (5 SHOTS) 0.23 2. MV PROTESTER WITH T-SHIRT WITH PEACE SIGN IN TARGET 0.27 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) ANTI-GLOBAL PROTESTER, STELLA ALFIERI, SAYING: "
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: ATHENS, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Reuters ID: LVA1ESD3V349IE83PXT2WUFPPPYF
  • Story Text: More than 2,000 anti-globalisation and leftist
    protesters opposed to military retaliation by the United
    States for the attacks in New York and Washington demonstrated
    in Athens on Thursday.



    Signs reading, "No to Bush's war", "Peace now" and "We
    want jobs - not bombs" were carried by thousands of young and
    old demonstrators marching towards the U.S. embassy.

    Groups included anti-globalisation activists who
    participated in demonstrations during the G8 summit in Genoa,
    left wing and communist groups.

    Protesters said the Afghani people, immersed in poverty,
    would further suffer from a possible military retaliation in
    the country.

    Anti-globalisation protesters, part of a group called
    Genoa Initiative 2001, said the demonstrators were in
    solidarity with students at American universities staging
    anti-war protests in the United States.

    "We are not against the American people," said anti-global
    protester Stella Alfieri, adding "we are against authorities
    who are preparing this war that will kill millions of innocent
    women and children."
    The Greek government has expressed its horror at the
    September 11 suicide plane crashes in the United States, but
    has urged caution in any retaliation.

    Polls show the Greek public is largely opposed to Greece's
    involvement in a possible Western attack against any nation
    involved in the U.S. attacks.

    Greeks staged demonstrations against the NATO bombing of
    Yugoslavia in 1999, with demonstrators saying innocent
    civilians would be targets. The bombing caused a wave of
    anti-American sentiment among many Greeks.

    (lh/cr)

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