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After December 6^th 2008, due to the hideous death of the young  student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a social agitation begins that affects all social levels, as well as on a world wide level (there were protest marches in Argentina).

It's not that things were much better before, it's just that we hadn't taken to the streets yet.  Mainly it's education that gets affected first. We are seeing on a daily basis student marches, worker marches, future unemployed marches, currently unemployed marches, episodes where people get hurt, absurd arrests, repression in all its greatness with hoods or without, just with helmets.   

The enormous banners on the Acropolis are being plastered on screens world wide. Resistance! Not an unknown word to us by any means.  Schools are being seized by students!

I bring forth now the demands of The Iraklion Art School:

1) Justice for the unfair loss of the student

2) Education that would educate (15 percent of the state budget to go for education)

3) Elimination of parallel education

4) A proper building to house the entire Iraklion Art School

5) Professors for the art classes to be hired on a permanent basis 

I listen as Eleftheria, the president of the school council, explains to certain parents as they stand, dissatisfied, outside the school's locked doors, that the Art School should have a strong presence in this national unrest, because the school has particular problems. 

Its students will go on marches until their demands are satisfied (problems that unfortunately we have learned to gaze at only from our television screens.)

Like the poet urges: Resist the one who builds a little house and says "I'm ok here."