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Occupy Greek TV: The Fight to Keep the Country's Only Public Station on the Air

Inside ERT, where workers continue to broadcast news even though they've been shut down by the government.
Reuters

Earlier this week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras shut down the state-run network ERT, leaving Greece without a publicly funded channel.

But ERT's 2,000 fired employees quickly defied government orders to shut down, occupying company headquarters and broadcasting an internet feed of makeshift news and talkshows. One ERT broadcaster, shocked by the move, told EuroNews, "not even the military dictatorship did this when I was young."