Democracy vs Mythology: The Battle in Syntagma Square

Click here to access article by Alex Andreou, a successful Greek lawyer turned actor living in London. (Syntagma Square is the main central square in Athens and near the Parliament where the protests have been occurring.)

 I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly.

...this is a battle between our right to self-determine, to demand a new political process, to be sovereign, and private corporate interests which appear determined to treat us like a herd, which only exists for their benefit. It is the battle against a system which ensures that those who fuck up, are never those that are punished – it is always the poorest, the most decent, the most hard-working that bear the brunt.  The Greeks have said “Enough is enough”. What do you say?