{"id":4452,"date":"2008-11-17T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2008-11-17T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:58:29","slug":"subversive-historian-111708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/17\/subversive-historian-111708\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 11\/17\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_17_08\/2008_11_17_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong> The Athens Polytechnic Uprising by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly thirty-five years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, the ruling military junta of Greece put a violent end to an uprising challenging its dictatorship. On November 17th, 1973, the self-proclaimed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regime of the Colonels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sent a tank crashing through the gates of Athens Polytechnic to quell a three-day student rebellion. Tired of the impositions of the dictatorship on the universities, nearly 1,500 students went out on strike and barricaded themselves inside the Polytechnic. From within the campus, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free besieged,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as they called themselves, broadcast pro-democracy messages on a makeshift radio station urging Greek society to rise up. Outside the barricaded Polytechnic, at least twenty-four were killed and hundreds injured during the brutal repression.<\/p>\n<p>The Athens Polytechnic Uprising didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t directly topple the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regime of the Colonels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but it did lead to dissension within the ranks of its leaders and a counter-coup which, in turn, led to the eventual downfall of the dictatorial rule the following year.<\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The Athens Polytechnic Uprising by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Exactly thirty-five years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, the ruling military junta of Greece put a violent end to an uprising challenging its dictatorship. On November 17th, 1973, the self-proclaimed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regime of the Colonels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sent a tank crashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}