Vasso Sarafidou wasn’t carrying a gas mask when she walked from her home near the Acropolis to the anti-austerity demonstration outside parliament in Athens on Wednesday.
Greece Passes Austerity Bill — Now Comes the Hard Part
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Smoke and Mirrors: Greece’s Day of Reckoning
Scraping together $40 billion in spending cuts in a country already shaved to the bone is a tall order.
As Austerity Anger Swells, Greece’s Government Teeters Toward Collapse
Even after the scuffles between police and anarchists erupted into clouds of tear gas on June 15, Giorgos Liolios did not leave Syntagma Square. For more than a year, Liolis, a 37-year old Athenian struggling to keep his small bakery afloat, was part of the silent majority that gave Prime Minister George Papandreou the benefit of the doubt