WEBVTT - Part Two: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.800 Hello, and welcome to Cool Dogs. Who did Dog Stuff? 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:05.320 You like what I did? 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.840 I love that the change the title who Loved the Dogs? 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.600 Okay, sorry, yep, now yeah those are your one point 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.600 five times you're allowed. So I'm your host. Margaret Kildre 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.479 with me today as both my guest and producer, but 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.319 not my guest producer because that's a different term for 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.400 a different media medium. Is Sophie. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.599 Hi, Sophie, I see what you did there? 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:27.320 Yeah? 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:28.440 Thanks, that was nice. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.960 Yeah. Sophie is best known as a producer of podcasts, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.920 but also probably almost equally known as someone who likes dogs. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:40.080 Yeah. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:45.120 Yeah, equally hard for how beautiful my dog? Anderson shout 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.520 out Anderson for being a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful girl. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:54.760 Anderson's amazing. Ian is our audio engineer and our theme 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.240 music was written for us by unwoman. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.800 You're not gonna try to spell that this this episode. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.240 I guess I could try to do it so I 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.920 could get it right this time. I swear I write 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:09.720 for a living you and wo M A N crushed it. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.520 Hell Yeah. This week we're talking about dogs. This is 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.240 part two. In part one, we talked about the bummer 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.399 stuff is a pun because bumber was then Oh that's perfect, Yeah, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.240 thank you. We talked to the domestication of dogs. We 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.160 talked about why dogs and humans belong together and why 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.720 mass euthanasia is not the most effective thing that's ever 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.479 happened in terms of fixing some of the problems between 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.440 humans and dogs. Today, we're gonna talk about riot dogs. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:36.560 Where are we starting. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:43.959 We're starting in Greece. Did you read ahead. So there's 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.760 a neighborhood in Athens called Exarchia. I really like Athens 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.280 because there's an Athens in every fucking state. Yeah, but 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.440 this is the og Athens Athens, Greece, they have a neighborhood. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.920 They neighborhood's called Exarchia. It is the anarchist neighborhood. Is 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.840 one of the only ways you will find the word 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:06.560 anarchist in mainstream newspapers, honestly, is if they talk about Exarchia, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.920 you kind of can't. That's how anarchist it is. You 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.000 can't not say it. There's all these jokes in twenty 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.520 twenty about anarchist jurisdictions. Actually they weren't jokes. There's all 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.960 these strange accusations made about why the government should kill 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.520 everyone in various cities in the United States for being 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:30.720 anarchist jurisdictions. But exarchia anarchists present about as much political 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.520 power as the actual government does, and that balance goes 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.360 back and forth all the time. Right now, Airbnb is 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.760 fucking it up, and I haven't entirely kept up with 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.680 how things have changed in the ten years or so 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.600 since I've been there. But there are or were dozens 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.120 of squattish social centers. These are huge buildings. Anarchists there 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.160 house refugees and immigrants and physically stop any attempts by 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.080 police to deport those immigrants. They run pay what you 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.800 want cafes. They have open air movie screenings, health clinics, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.480 and language classes for migrants. Even the restaurants you have 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.000 to pay for often give out free food during the 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:13.480 general strikes. Greece loves a good general strike, and because well, 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.639 it means literally the birthplace of rule by the people, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.800 so they like finding out ways to do that. There 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.080 is a large squatted park there called Navarino's Park that 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.600 is run by anarchists. Tourist guides say a self managed 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.600 park run by locals, which is technically true. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.800 What a great spin on that, I know. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.280 It was built in two thousand and nine when folks 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.160 just smashed up the concrete and planted flowers and trees 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.440 because they were like, you know what would be better 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.800 than another building is if this was a park, we 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.840 can just do that. And the rules of the park 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.280 are be respectful and clean most of the time. In practice, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.240 it gets a little trashed during the week and then 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.880 every Sunday volunteers come to the park and clean it up. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.240 In garden. Police tend to only come into Asarchia in 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.360 large numbers because when they do they're often met with 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.600 molotovs and rocks. People try to solve problems through self organizing. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.880 While I was there, I went to the weirdest anarchist 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.800 demonstration I've ever been to, which was the most like 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.880 the anarchists are in Charge demonstration. Yeah, it was a 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.480 reclaim the streets demonstration. Normally, a reclaim the streets demonstration 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.680 is when you reclaim the streets from like government and 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.440 capitalism by having a big parade. This time it was 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.039 a demonstration led by anarchists of all ages to reclaim 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.640 the streets as public space to be shared by all. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.599 Because there's a problem with some of the younger punks 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.080 in the neighborhood were harassing older people, and so the 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:47.239 anarchists through it, like leave the old folks alone, new assholes. Yeah, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:48.840 it was beautiful and it was just and the way 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.680 they did that wasn't They showed up and like we're 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.720 going to fuck up any of the young punks. No, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.880 they just like showed up with like food and shit, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.440 and they were like, look, the streets belong to all 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.359 of us. We are all part of this neighborhood. We 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.800 all live here together, like. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.640 A real community, real mutual aid. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.560 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Controversially from a US perspective where we 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.839 have the war on drugs, they also drove out the 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:14.920 heroin dealers, who are seen as a scourge and yeah, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.360 and it is argued that currently the dealers are coming 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.760 back with police assistants, and I don't know the actual 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.719 mechanism of that. As an article in The Daily Beast 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.479 put it, the freedom and ease of life in Exarchia 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.120 is preserved by the constant and immediate will to set 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.359 shit on fire, throw tear gas canisters back at the police, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.159 maintain esthetic control of the neighborhood, and use petrol bombs 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.480 to remind everyone. The place is not for sale. It 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.200 has been under anarchist control for about half a century, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 as far back as far as I can piece together. Literally, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.680 it's coming up on its fiftieth anniversary. Because in order 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.720 to talk about stray dogs, we're going to talk about 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.599 Greek military junta. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.040 You'll love context. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:01.239 I do. I love it so much because from nineteen 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.680 sixty seven to nineteen seventy four, Greece was ruled by 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.520 what's called the Greek Kunta, or more poetically, the regime 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.880 of the Colonels. Just a right wing military dictatorship. Yeah, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.479 it probably goes back even further. It goes back to 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.600 the Civil War nineteen forty four, when Greece was liberated 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.320 from the Axis Powers. Was a civil war between the 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.760 communists and the government's and exile. The communists lost. The 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.000 right and the left had been really polarized in Greece 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.000 ever since, maybe since before then, but that's as far 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.600 back as I traced it. In nineteen sixty seven, the 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.839 right wing staged a coup. In nineteen sixty eight, a 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.080 centrist guy tried to assassinate the military leader, but he 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.360 sadly failed. There were large demonstrations, but nothing that really 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.960 shook the dictatorship to the core until nineteen seventy three. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.200 Nineteen seventy three, a fuck ton of people were like, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.920 are you just serious? Are you serious? We have a dictatorship? 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:57.479 Fuck this an entire battleship. The H and S Velos mutinied. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.240 Literally the commander was part of the mutiny. Know that 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.760 I could still kind as a mutiny, but I guess 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.760 if the entire ship mutinies against the higher naval thing right, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.640 they refused to return to Greece. Meanwhile, the students are 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.560 fighting against conscription. In nineteen seventy three, students barricaded themselves 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.840 into the University of Athens. This is in February, the 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:20.240 first one of these, and the cops were brutal, they 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.080 tortured people, they did all that stuff. This didn't stop 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.480 the students overall. It probably stopped individual students because of 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.880 the death and the torture. In November, students at the 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.960 Athens Polytechnic, a university in Exarchia, they went on strike 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.880 and their motto was bred education and liberty. Forty years later, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.360 I was inside the Polytechnic while students were preparing for 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.520 another demonstration, and I saw one of my favorite pieces 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.920 of graffiti ever, which translates to anarchy and stale bread, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.600 with the argument like subtextas I could live off of 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.960 only anarchy and stale bread. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.320 I do love that. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.200 Yeah, I'd also love bread. Education at liberty, I know, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:02.800 I know. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.640 In nineteen seventy three, the students took over the university, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.360 and the two big political groups in the university, the 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.040 two leftist groups, including the Soviet Aligne Marxists, were like, no, no, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.520 we don't endorse this because they're trying to keep their 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.680 heads down because the whole point of the military junta 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.200 was to like crush communism, and so the Marxists are like, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.360 oh fuck, oh fuck, and the rest of the students 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.000 were like, all right, Soviet stands, stay the fuck out 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.280 of our way. And so they barricaded the place and 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.480 they held the cops off for a night and the 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.560 second day and this is some shit out of a movie, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.760 I fucking swear is now what's called celebration day. Thousands 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.040 of people showed up to support them, and it I 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.120 believe this is like basically like when the protests really 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.120 got large against this dictatorship, a radio tower inside the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.640 occupied university that they cobbled together like literally out of 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.920 like the thing I read was translated was like out 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.760 of pieces from the lab, like the science lab. They 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.880 just fucking put together radio tower and they started spitting 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.200 out demands for freedom, and for the first time, molotods 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.760 started showing up at protests in Athens, and the junta 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.760 freaked out. They declared martial law, which they had like 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.480 kind of I think walked back a little bit because 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.360 they'd been around for a little bit. They drove a 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.560 tank through the gates of the university. Twenty four people 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.720 were killed. And this is the part of this is 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.600 like the last words heard from the occupied radio station 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.640 before it went dead were hail freedom, spoken in an 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.559 adolescent voice. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:32.480 Hmm. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.200 And I like, I like that. I mean, I don't 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:36.400 like that. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.360 It's powerful but very cinematic. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.319 Yeah, totally. And that's like, I mean, that's one of 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.000 the things I keep running across with history is like, oh, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.520 we actually all live these very cinematic lives. It's just 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:53.520 a matter of understanding what's happening and framing things. And anyway, 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.720 the existing junta was falling in fast. There was another 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.280 right wing counter coup, that is to say, another right 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.160 wing coup top all the existing right wing coup. They 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.520 started cracking down even harder on their own people. This 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.679 fells apart. In nineteen seventy four, there were free elections 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.280 in Greece once more. A referendum to install the monarchy 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.559 failed and Greece became a republic. And the students were 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.760 fucking heroes. They had destroyed a dictatorship, I mean, alongside 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.280 a ton of other people. So for almost forty years 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.160 there was a law that said cops weren't allowed to 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.680 enter universities because people were like, oh, I don't know, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.040 maybe giving students defensible spaces as good for democracy because 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.560 it was destroyed dictatorship. This was the nineteen eighty two 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:41.080 academic sanctuary law. In twenty nineteen, a right wing government 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:41.840 scrapped that law. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.839 Yeah, but. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:51.319 Yeah, but exarchia centered around not centered whatever the polytechnic 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.400 is in Exarchia, and this became like kind of how 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:59.520 this neighborhood became under anarchist control. Yeah, And in the 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.880 nineteen eighties, tens of thousands of anarchists we're living in 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.839 the neighborhood, drawn from around the country, and anti state, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.600 anti capitalist politics have been seen as a legitimate force 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.280 in Greek society for a long time. There's also a 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.120 lot of stray dogs there, not just I was. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.800 Like, when are we getting back, We're back to the dogs. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.000 Dogs, there'd be dogs, and I told this would be 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.640 a happy dog episode. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.280 It is. There's going to be more. There's still more 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.800 in between every big stories of its stories, the Russian 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:33.720 Nestine Dolls of the podcast world. So there's a lot 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.840 of stray dogs in Athens. Greece tries to vaccinate, sterilize, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.560 and track the stray dogs. They don't they don't euthanize, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.040 and they haven't had the success of the Netherlands so far, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.760 but they do actually have done a lot of work 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.160 in this direction. Cool, and it's going to be a 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.040 story about the dogs, but now we're going to talk 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.079 about the riots that made those dogs famous. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.880 So you tease me by saying the word dog a 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.840 couple times, and now we're okay. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.959 Talking about a guy again. Human. Yeah, there's molotovs. I 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.559 was like, almost as good as a dog. It's like, okay, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.080 it's like yeah, but there's like there's a big gap 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.480 right between molotovs and dogs, but there's not a lot 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.920 of stuff between them. You know, there's like people and 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.480 they're okay, and then there's molotoss are good, and then 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.360 there's like lots of dead air, and then there's dogs 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.440 at the top of everything in the hierarchy of trying 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.240 to get. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.280 Sophie's all right, just get on with it. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.920 There's this fifteen year old kid who likes hanging out 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.680 in the streets of Xarkia named Alexandro's Grigoropolos. And on 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.200 December sixth, two thousand and eight, Alexandros was hanging out 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.120 in the streets with his friends when they got into 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.720 a verbalttercation with the cops. The cops actually got orders 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.080 from higher up to leave it alone, and the cops 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.760 were like, now, fuck that, they parked, They came over, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.280 they started yelling at the kids. The kids didn't back down, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.680 and the cops murdered Alexandros. They murdered a fifteen year old. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.640 They claimed that their shot was a ricochet. The autopsy 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:07.600 disagree it. Yeah, shocker there really, yeah, really total news 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.400 to everyone. Within an hour, the riots started. Within two days, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.080 there were twenty eight cities across Greece that were on fire. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.360 Basically Athens was burning, Malthous were everywhere. The police station 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.360 Outpost Nicksarkia was firebombed by a crowd of one hundred people. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.839 Students went on strike everywhere. Labor unions went on strike. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.160 Air traffic controllers shut down dozens of flights because they 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.960 went on strike. And it was about Alexandro's but it 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.280 was about more than that. It was about the failing economy. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.720 Two thousand and eight, as everyone will recall, was a 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.920 really great time for everyone economically. It was about increasing 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.839 financial inequality, and it was about authoritarian control of the state. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.719 It was about people's demands to live lives of self determination. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.360 So a private company that kept records of individual debt 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.720 was burned. Their records were burned. Protesters shot out the 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.280 tires of a police bus with AK forty seven. By 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.240 the end of this even some cops went on strike 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.360 and protested against this. Is this like actually surprised me. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.960 The cops went on strike and protested against the cops. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.880 Yeah, that's so dope. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:23.320 They intended to quote totally, intending to quote state categorically 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.440 that social problems are not solved by repressive measures. Oh 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:32.440 do you tell cop, Yeah, there is a line at 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.400 which some cops will stop wanting to do that. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.240 Apparently this might not. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.800 Be dogs, but I've enjoying myself a little bit more 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.280 and I thought it would be all right. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:47.280 See see, the riots lasted in full fervor for three weeks. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.280 They lingered longer after that. There's like famous photos or 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.000 just like search like grease Christmas tree fire, and there's 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.400 like just a massive Christmas tree that they set on fire. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.440 It's very dramatic. The police response was brutal. Isolated protesters 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.600 were beaten to an inch of their lives. A friend 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.880 of mine was actually curb stomped by police and Athens. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.400 I think it was during this, but it might have 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.880 been during some of the protests a little bit later 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.040 than that. I talked to a Greek friend about this time, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.360 and his perspective was that in the minds of the 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.640 average Greek person, the anarchists were about as legitimate of 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.600 a force within society as the police. Like some people 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.080 supported the anarchists, some people supported the police, and the 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.880 rest were like, well, both sides have a point, and 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.400 that is not a situation that I have ever experienced 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.000 anywhere else. A Greek woman, quoted by The Daily Beast 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.080 put it quote the day we don't tear things down 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.600 because the government murdered a child is the day we 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:43.160 are no longer human? And I don't know. I think 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.000 about how often people have to do that all over 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.680 the world, you know, in these clouds of tear gas. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.800 Amongst the rock throwing, molotov throwing anarchists who were supported 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.040 by a surprising percentage of the Greek population, a hero emerged, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.000 a hero named Canelos, the first modern riot dog. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.320 Hell yeah. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.240 And because every story is really complicated, it might have 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.880 been to as Heyday was before this. There's lots of 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.120 conflicting reports about exactly when he first showed up. But 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.520 this is the story we're going with. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.800 But first, it's time four and ad break. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.680 Oh okay, what's another thing you like? 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Canelos was a mutt, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.080 of course, he was a mutt. No offense to dogs 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.199 that had the misfortune of being pure bread. It's not 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.399 their fault. But of course the first ride dog is 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:56.879 a mutt. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:58.000 Yeah. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.040 His medium size and yellow and his name his name 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:01.880 means cinnamon. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:02.639 Oh cool. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.720 And he was on the front lines of every protest 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.440 for years. One time he tripped cops as they ran 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.840 down the steps of Syntagma Square, just like the main Yeah, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.439 let's go. Yeah. He was legendary. He was in papers 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.679 across the world. He was inspiring and an icon. He 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.679 was also a way that journalists used to like flatten 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.040 the struggle right, because they'd be like, I don't know, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.840 Greeks are rioting. Here's a dog that is not his fault. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.280 It's not fault that he was also adorable, I know, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.520 I know. Like every legend, it's hard to peace out 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.080 what's true and what's not. There are three famed and 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.520 named riot dogs from Greece from the twenty eight or 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.120 twenty twelve and possibly earlier than that, and they all 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.560 look really similar. Sometimes people claim they are related, Sometimes 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.400 people claim they are the same dog. Sometimes the heroic 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.679 deeds of one are conflated with the deeds of another. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.760 I'm certain I will get some stuff wrong here across 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.800 and every source I could they all disagree and they're 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.560 all anecdotal. It's possible that Canelos actually died in two 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.960 thousand and eight before these particular protests, and it was 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.879 one of his other yellow dogs that was these ones. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.119 But all these dogs were loved, and all these dogs 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.040 fought hard, and we're going to talk about how they fought. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.160 Canelos he ruled. He gave people hope, and he basically 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.320 was like, hey, the street dogs are street dogs are 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.360 with you. As he aged, he started to get arthritis, 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.000 and student protesters got him a wheelchair for his back 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.120 legs and then helped him along for more marches. There's 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.040 photos of him like being helped along on these marches, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.200 and he's just happy and old. He retired and lived 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.720 inside the Polytechnic, the university that brought down the fucking dictatorship. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.560 At one point, the dog catcher was called on him 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.280 and the students were vaulted until he was freed good 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.040 and he lived among the students until his death at 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:58.840 roughly seventeen years old. Next to Rise, Yeah, next to 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.960 Rise in fame Leucanicos, who is sometimes said to be 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.800 Canelos's kid. That might be true, I don't know, but 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.320 street dogs are often sterilized in Greece, and I think 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.119 Lucanicos at least was sterilized based on it did a 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.960 lot of weird research. I was like reading the pieces 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.000 written by the people who handle the stray dogs in Greece, 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.640 as I was trying to figureut which dogs are which 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.000 Lucanicos is the next generation famed riot dog and since 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.280 this is Greece, the next generation of riots is less 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:28.080 than three years later. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:29.080 Yeah. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.800 In twenty ten, the Greek economy was fucked, so it's 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.840 leaders were like, hey, what if we got the International 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.119 Monetary Fund to bail us out in exchange agree to 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.600 all kinds of austerity measures that entirely fuck over everyone 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.160 living in the country. And the other leaders they all 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.399 nodded their heads and were like, this is indeed a 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.680 wise course of action, and not only will it be good, 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:54.760 but people will accept it all right. Shockingly, they were wrong. Yeah, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.760 the Greek population was like, actually, we like having a 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.360 social safety net and a society that believes in taking 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.240 care of one another instead of all pretending like we 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.360 want to be America but poor and fuck each other 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.280 over all the time, people saw no reason why they 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.399 had to pay for unpopular and bad decisions made by 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.120 their leaders, and they had no interest in going along 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.000 with these austerity measures. So you've got what's called the 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:19.400 anti Asterity movement, and it was riots and general strikes 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.600 starting in a militant fashion. In June twenty eleven, when 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.119 the Greek Parliament voted to agree to the austerity stuff. 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.479 The protests started out kind of peaceful. Cops were soon like, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.040 fuck you get the fucking line, We're going to hit 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:32.960