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  • 08.12.2017
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Remember, Remember the 6th of December – Video archive of the December Revolt 2008 and all the fierce riots that took place on that day since then.

6 December 2008, few minutes after 9 pm – Time Zero of the December Revolt. Two policemen shoot against a group of youngsters hanging out on a Saturday night, at the heart of the Exarcheia district of central Athens, an area with a long history of insurrection against authority and riots for socio economic and political grounds, inhabited mainly by anarchists, anti-authoritarians and liberals. The police bullet finds in the heart and kills 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

As soon as the news of Alexis’ murder spreads mainly through the internet, hundreds of people from the rest of Athens gather at Exarchia, which is circled by hundreds of riot policemen and that in turns infuriated people and the neighborhood quickly goes “on fire” with flaming barricades and stone attacks against the police, that lasted all throughout the night.

Almost from the same night, the Exarcheia riot spreads all over Greece, with attacks against police stations, even in greek villages. Protests and demonstrations, which escalate to widespread rioting rock Greece every day and night for the weeks to come, while public buildings are being taken over and occupied by protesters in dozens of cities and towns around the country.

Outside Greece, solidarity demonstrations, riots and clashes with local police also take place in more than 70 cities around the world, including London, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Dublin, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, the Hague, Copenhagen, Bordeaux, Cologne, Seville, Sao Paulo, as well as Nicosia in Cyprus, and Paphos proving for the first time before the “Arab Spring” that people could spread the news and react through protests for the same matter around the globe, from San Francisco to Wellington and Buenos Aires to Siberia.

While the unrest was triggered by the Alexis Grigoropoulos murder by police, the reactions lasted for so long simply because they were rooted in deeper causes, like the coming economic crisis a year later, which was already being felt by poorer classes and younger generations through rising unemployment rate and a feeling of general inefficiency and corruption of the authorities, institutions and right wing politicians of the Greek state (mainly New Democracy and PASOK political parties).

[2016]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjF_jGsNT8

[2015]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGMvFrGK0o

[2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNkK-NCJLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ut7mWIH_P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLMCIdg0AQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y89dIL8P78Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTEWJvBKxc

[2013]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4DUGpt3oWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5XED8Apao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rFC9FxBM8E

[2012]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWL7OkRuUc

[2010]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAFZJ8h6Ww

[2009]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zDzr4FNbE

Born on the 6th of December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-nGAv5Dkw

The video of the murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2romxm3dJtE

Video from the first 60 minutes after the murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLMPussHhWg

1st night, 6 December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8KJ-2rhDY

2nd day, 7 December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpwXL41nkgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCbQ2HEey_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8oYlAPa2FU

3d day 8 December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcFhcHJ-CUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmeGer7iIEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeFfKNv1OQ

5th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46W0oARnd0

7th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_m8CtDrvJA

11th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iph5bw8VUKQ

13th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMV0L9PRmoA
19th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOzzTR6vHWc

26th day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9wldLwnN_0

The revolted ballerinas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdir5p_DBA

The first TV breaking news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1IFbKwiXSE

The Mega TV channel distorts the actual footage of the murder to support the police version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDI1W7lq_64

Two songs written about the revolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZd0WC9FmNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBqdWeov8jM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktIdbEj3Bg

A good student
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPJNu578_Dc

Documentary in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYCizNmZow
Marcos of Zapatistas sends a message to the greek people in revolt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTmg4ZiffTA

Loukanikos the Riot Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UmpajCTA_0
Remember, Remember the 6th of December - Video archive of the December Revolt 2008 and all the fierce riots that took place on that day since

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