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Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Feb. 13, 2012-Athens, Greece: After the strict austerity measures and crisis, a new social class arises in Athenian streets: the new homeless. They have an average age at 47 years, 11% of Greek homeless has a university degree, 23.5% a high school diploma, while only 9.3% are illiterate. They ar... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri December 27, 2011- Athens, Greece: Spyros Karabetian, 72 years old, lives in the streets for the last 5 years. His hands and legs suffer from gangrene. After the austerity measures and the crisis, a new social class arises in Athenian streets, the new homeless. They have an average age at 47 year... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri October 20, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Except the police violence, homeless people and people on hunger strike are some of the results of the austerity measures and the high increase of the unemployment. Homeless beggar in crippled outfit. © Maro Kouri / Polaris Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleane... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece won a crucial vote of confidence early Wednesday when 155 lawmakers of the Socialist Party (PA.SO.K) supported it. The parliament was beleaguered by thousands of protesters who were shouting insulting words against the 300 members of the Parliament///Pro... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece won a crucial vote of confidence early Wednesday when 155 lawmakers of the Socialist Party (PA.SO.K) supported it. The parliament was beleaguered by thousands of protesters who were shouting insulting words against the 300 members of the Parliament ///Pr... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri 48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens /// Woman from the music Group of the Indignant Citizens dances in order to calm the crowd © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri 48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri The famous "unknown" men and few women, with masks or having simple covered faces, they throw marblestones that they find after breaking the streets of the city-center, in order to throw them against the riot policemen (MAT) together with molotov bombs and other metal objects that they grab from... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police in front of the Greek parliament © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Feb. 10, 2012- Athens, Greece : Riot-policemen run in front of a graffity that says " Cops, your children will eat you". Thousands took to the streets as labour unions launched a 48h strike against austerity measures that demanded by the 17-nation eurozone. © Maro Kouri / Anatomica Press Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police while they throw teargas © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police while they throw teargas © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Second day of the general strike all over Greece and demonstrations against the memorandum vote that brings hardest austerity measures to all private and public workers. Extremely riots happened between - members of the communist P.A.M.E and the known as 'rioters men with covered faces'. The vot... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Feb. 12, 2012-Athens, Greece: 100,000 citizens gathered in central Athens to protest against the voting of the new bailout law from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Clashed begun when hooded youths threw bottles, rocks, pieces of marble and firebombs at police who respond... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri 48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens. A kosk owner if Sydagma (Parliament) square wears oxygen mask to avoid the toxic gas that policemen shoots against demontsators. © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri The famous "unknown" men and few women, with masks or having simple covered faces, they throw marblestones that they find after breaking the streets of the city-center, in order to throw them against the riot policemen (MAT) together with molotov bombs and other metal objects that they grab from... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri More than 500,000 people demonstrate and strike in Greece against the next memorandum vote that bring hardest austerity measures to all public and private workers © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Youngs throw stones to the riot policemen who had firef teargas over the thousands of striking state sector workers who had marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy /// Youngs throw stones and woods to the riot policemen in front of the greek Constitu... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Youngs throw stones to the riot policemen who had firef teargas over the thousands of striking state sector workers who had marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy /// Youngs throw stones and woods to the riot policemen in front of the greek Constitu... Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri 150,000 protesters to the march of general strike for austernity measures. Man with greek flag and angry eyes © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri 150,000 protesters to the march of general strike for austernity measures. Man with greek flag and angry eyes © Maro Kouri Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos - Maro Kouri Feb. 12, 2012-Athens, Greece: Greek flag with red colour hung from the Unknown Soldier' s Monument of Parliament Building. 100,000 citizens gathered in central Athens to protest against the voting of the new bailout law from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Clashes begun ...