{"id":1623378,"date":"2024-04-22T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1677836"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:14:55","slug":"greece-just-saw-massive-protests-over-nato-and-the-eus-warmongering-and-israels-genocide-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/22\/greece-just-saw-massive-protests-over-nato-and-the-eus-warmongering-and-israels-genocide-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece just saw massive protests over NATO and the EU\u2019s warmongering and Israel\u2019s genocide in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday 21 April massive anti-imperialist events took place all over Greece<\/a>. They were protesting against Greece’s involvement in US-NATO-EU militarism and the ongoing bloodshed of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

Greece: people standing up to NATO and the EU’s imperialism<\/h2>\n

In Athens a 42km peace march took place along the route of the original Marathon:<\/p>\n

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The march ended in front of the Ministry of Defense in Athens:<\/p>\n

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Thanasis Paphilis, secretary general of the World Peace Council, spoke at the event and noted:<\/p>\n

We are here today, outside the Ministry of National Defence, at the end of the 41st Marathon March to condemn Greece’s involvement in the murderous US-NATO plans.<\/p>\n

To demand the closure and removal of the US-NATO-EU bases and barracks that have turned our country into a military base and our people into a target for retaliation. To return here and now the frigate ‘HYDRA’ and the Armed Forces personnel from the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

For the withdrawal of Greece from the EU’s “SHIELD” mission and the return of the “PATRIOT” artillery from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

To express our solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine, who for the past six months have been dying from genocide, from the murderous attacks of the terrorist state of Israel, with the blessing of the USA – NATO – EU, but also with the support of the Greek government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

‘What side of history are you standing on?’<\/h2>\n

Vaios Tsaproounis is an army lieutenant in active service and president of the Officers’ Union of the Region of Xanthi. They said:<\/p>\n

It is a great joy and emotion, and even greater is the honour I feel to be among you today, with people who, steadfast, with patience and perseverance, are fighting for the supreme good of peoples, peace, while exposing all those who usurp it.<\/p>\n

My decision to join with you, to lead my steps alongside yours, to join my voice and my agony with yours, was for me a conscious one-way street. A choice, identified with my love for our people, but also with my status as a serving military man committed to serving the interests of the people from whom I come.<\/p>\n

Feeling the debt to my conscience, to my roots, which are inextricably linked to our people, I declare and at the same time I commit myself to stand by you, to be inspired by the messages of your struggle, to fight with you for a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that I, my colleagues, our people, the peoples of the world deserve.<\/p>\n

This is my choice of which side of history to stand on.<\/p>\n

Yes, I choose to be on the side of the people and their interests, because they are the only ones who can stop war plans wherever they are hatched.<\/p>\n

Yes, I choose with you to demand the return now of the Hydra frigate from the Red Sea, the Patriot artillery from Saudi Arabia, the anti-tank platoon from Bulgaria, and every Greek colleague of mine from missions outside the borders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remembering Yugoslavia<\/h2>\n

Protesters also descended on two military bases in Greece that are either run by NATO or the EU:<\/p>\n

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NATO's Forward Military Base in Aktio, Greece under protest from the local unions during Antiimperialist Day of Action pic.twitter.com\/RPmlcHvOuC<\/a><\/p>\n

— PAME Greece International (@PAME_Greece) April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n