Anti-Obama Protests Rise Up in Greece Amid Farewell Visit

Just as US President Obama kicks off his ‘Farewell’ tour across Europe, his 2 day planned visit to Greece is interrupted by 7,000 Greek Protesters.

In a political themed speech President Obama gave earlier in the day, he warned of a dangerous rise of nationalism that is seeded in radical racism and fear of multi-culturism that is set to over turn the ‘New World Order’.

Some 7,000 people took to the streets of central Athens on Tuesday to protest Obama’s visit to the Greek capital, Reuters reports. The demonstrators initially planned to walk all the way to the US Embassy located in another part of the city, but the procession was disrupted as protesters clashed with police officers.

All public gatherings were banned in the central part of Athens due to Obama’s two-day visit. Riot police parked buses along Obama’s route and erected cordons.

“We don’t need protectors!” one of the banners carried by the demonstrators read. Some could be heard exclaiming: “Yankees go home!”

Οι φοιτητές καίνε την Αμερικάνικη σημαία και ενώνονται με #skouries ενάντια στον Ιμπεριαλισμό. #obama_athens #ObamaGr pic.twitter.com/qVC2uOKZCI

— Chris Avramidis (@Chris_Avramidis) November 15, 2016

Protesters are rallying against US policy that is “creating tensions” with various countries around the world, starting with China and Russia, as well as against the US attempts to “overthrow the government in Ukraine,” Greek journalist Aris Chatzistefanou told RT. Apart from that, protesters are blaming the US for supporting“Islamic extremists”which led to“well-known consequences.”

“While the Greek government is trying to present the visit of Obama as a visit of a peacemaker, thousands of demonstrators came onto the streets to protest US policy in [such] parts of the world from Latin America to Middle East, Afghanistan and Syria,” Chatzistefanou said.