A man fainted as about 1,000 pensioners marched through central Athens on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 to protest austerity measures that include pension and salary cuts. [Credit : Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Zuma Press]
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A man fainted as about 1,000 pensioners marched through central Athens on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 to protest austerity measures that include pension and salary cuts.

[Credit : Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Zuma Press]

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Meet Loukanikos, Athens’ Protest Dog

(via TIME)

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#1 : In June 2011, in front of a line of riot police.(Giorgos Moutafis/Anzenberger)

#2 : A can of tear gas lands near Loukanikos and protesters, February 2011.(Giorgos Moutafis/Anzenberger)

#3 : Loukanikos, photographed for TIME by Peter Hapak, November 15, 2011. (Peter Hapak/Time)

#4 : The protest dog joins demonstrators in gas masks in June, 2011.(Giorgos Moutafis/Anzenberger)

# 5 : Loukanikos — the word means sausage in Greek — has showed up for numerous demonstrations in Athens over the last few years. Here, he barks at riot police in December 2010. (Giorgos Moutafis/Anzenberger)

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Athens, Greece. Protesters at a demonstration during a 24-hour strike. [Credit : Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty]
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Athens, Greece.

Protesters at a demonstration during a 24-hour strike.

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Thousands of Greeks protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Athens Thursday. Masked youths clashed with police at the embassy and the Greek Parliament in an annual commemoration of a bloody student uprising in the 1970s.  [Credit : Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press]
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Thousands of Greeks protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Athens Thursday. Masked youths clashed with police at the embassy and the Greek Parliament in an annual commemoration of a bloody student uprising in the 1970s. 

[Credit : Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press]

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Protesters walk through clouds of tear gas in Athens. Demonstrators clashed with riot police outside the Greek parliament and the U.S. Embassy during a march commemorating a bloody student uprising in the 1970s, Nov 17. [Credit : Petros Giannakouris/AP]
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Protesters walk through clouds of tear gas in Athens. Demonstrators clashed with riot police outside the Greek parliament and the U.S. Embassy during a march commemorating a bloody student uprising in the 1970s, Nov 17.

[Credit : Petros Giannakouris/AP]

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Greek riot police block a road during a rally in Athens marking the anniversary of a 1973 students uprising against the dictatorship then ruling Greece November 17, 2011. Demonstrators marched through Athens onThursday during the rally which also protested against the U.S. for supporting the 1967-1974 military junta. [Credit : Yannis Behrakis/Reuters]
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Greek riot police block a road during a rally in Athens marking the anniversary of a 1973 students uprising against the dictatorship then ruling Greece November 17, 2011. Demonstrators marched through Athens onThursday during the rally which also protested against the U.S. for supporting the 1967-1974 military junta.

[Credit : Yannis Behrakis/Reuters]

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A wall depicting rain clouds over a city, Athens, Greece, November 15, 2011.[Credit : Orestis Panagiotou/EPA]
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A wall depicting rain clouds over a city, Athens, Greece, November 15, 2011.

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Garfield the Cat as activist, Athens, November 15, 2011.[Credit : Orestis Panagiotou/EPA]
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Garfield the Cat as activist, Athens, November 15, 2011.

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A rainbow is seen over the Acropolis in Athens. [Credit : John Kolesidis/Reuters]
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A rainbow is seen over the Acropolis in Athens.

[Credit : John Kolesidis/Reuters]

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A schoolboy sits in between pillars at Attalos arcade in Athens November 9, 2011. The arcade was erected by Attalos II King of Pergamon 159-138 BC and the building was reconstructed by the American school of classical studies in Athens under the authority of the Greek Ministry of Education in the reign of King Paul in 1953-1956. [Credit : Yannis Behrakis/Reuters]
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A schoolboy sits in between pillars at Attalos arcade in Athens November 9, 2011. The arcade was erected by Attalos II King of Pergamon 159-138 BC and the building was reconstructed by the American school of classical studies in Athens under the authority of the Greek Ministry of Education in the reign of King Paul in 1953-1956.

[Credit : Yannis Behrakis/Reuters]

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October 5, 2011. A protester hurls rocks at riot police during a demonstration in Athens’ Syntagma (Constitution) square. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy.[Credit : Yannis Behrakis / Reuters]
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October 5, 2011. A protester hurls rocks at riot police during a demonstration in Athens’ Syntagma (Constitution) square. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy.

[Credit : Yannis Behrakis / Reuters]

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Athens, Greece. “I have covered dozens of rallies and protests this past year, and what scares me the most is that I see more and more elderly people taking to the streets, ready to risk everything in order not to lose their right to a decent living.”[Credit : Giorgos Moutafis]
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Athens, Greece.

“I have covered dozens of rallies and protests this past year, and what scares me the most is that I see more and more elderly people taking to the streets, ready to risk everything in order not to lose their right to a decent living.”

[Credit : Giorgos Moutafis]

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