{"id":5351,"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2010-05-12T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:23:03","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-people-of-greece-are-fighting-for-the-whole-of-europe%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/05\/%e2%80%9cthe-people-of-greece-are-fighting-for-the-whole-of-europe%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greece\u2019s Economic Crisis and Popular Uprising<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece\u2019s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece\u2019s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact their toll. Greece\u2019s two main unions have continued to hold protests against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, \u201cThe crisis should be paid by\u2026all those who looted public finances.\u201d Last week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article25421.htm\" >CLICK TO VIEW DEMOCRACY\u00a0 NOW! VIDEO CLIP \u2013 INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece\u2019s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece\u2019s financial troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact their toll. Greece\u2019s two main unions have continued to hold protests against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, \u201cThe crisis should be paid by\u2026all those who looted public finances.\u201d Last week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}