"Kanellos" the Greek Protest Dog

[sharpsteve2003]

"Kanellos" the Greek Protest Dog

A dog that has been seen at nearly every demonstration in Athens over the last two years has turned up again during the recent protests against new austerity measures.

Greek photographers capturing riot footage started to notice the pooch when he kept appearing in their negatives. Their photos show the mutt appearing at nearly every clash between angry locals and the police in Athens. Not surprisingly, he surfaced again during the recent protests during a nationwide strike.

The pup is seen in a variety of dangerous places: bravely lying down before lines of demonstrators, running at police, barking at riot cops prepared to shoot, and even dodging tear gas:


YouTube - Protest Dogs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_-ilfaMCI)


YouTube - Kannelos the Greek protest DOG !! The only dog who fight the police ! Chaos in Greece 5/5/2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yax-adLCTgg)

[devil21]

I saw him on enterprisecorruption.com the other day and wondered if it was legit. Cool dog!

πολύ ζήστε η αντίσταση

[Dreamofunity]

If that dog ever gets shot/beat/etc prepare for massive shitstorm.

[Paulitical Correctness]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riot-Dog/112204342124708

[Paulitical Correctness]

http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs073.snc3/14123_125129237499302_124668000878759_325072_78469 63_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs543.ash1/31782_421037620959_526145959_5318719_3198886_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs633.snc3/31782_421034315959_526145959_5318585_627609_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs543.ash1/31782_421032850959_526145959_5318527_7576914_n.jpg

edit - an interesting comment...


I live in Athens, in exarxeia and this dog is very famous and everybody feeds and loves this animal.BUT his name is LOUK,from Loukanikos a word that means sausage,because he used to eat sausages all the time.He lives on the street,he has no master and he, allong with 4-5 other dogs comes to every demonstration here in ahens.You will find him every day in MESOLLOGIOU street,where ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOULOS,a 15 year old student was shot by the police.

KANELLOS was another dog that used to act the same,but he died two years ago and now he is buried by comrades inside the Polytechneio university in Athens,where the uprising against dictatorship took place,in 1973.The members of Indymedia athens,used to feed him.Also when Kanellos was caught by the dog catcher 4 years ago,a demo of 400 people took place and we released him from the dog catcher!You can find his grave inside the university.Kanello RIP!

These dogs live in Exarxeia and they don’t belong to nobody.We call them”the dogs of the movement” and there many of them, such as ROZA,DICK,RIBO,PETROS,LOUCY.Its funny but they are our comrades,we protect and feed them and they protect us as well.

Here are some videos of comrade Kanellos,a legend of Exarcheia!
YouTube - Kanellos A song for Kanellos ΤÏ�αγοÏ�δι για σ. ΚανÎ*λο (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FTaVgqSiIk)
YouTube - Kanellos Ο σ. ΚανÎ*λος πεÏ�νάει καλά kanellos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWk1-jMNR6k&feature=related)

EDIT: Some clarification for the folks linked here: Exarchia is an anarchist neighborhood in Athens. The blue and black star by my name means I'm part of the transhumanist tendency within anarchism. You can follow english translations of the insurrectionary efforts within Greece here.

[Anti Federalist]

Good thing Kanellos doesn't live here.

He'd have been shot by SWAT long ago.

[jclay2]

If that dog ever gets shot/beat/etc prepare for massive shitstorm.

I wouldn't give that dog 6 months in that type of an environment. Watch Athens be burnt to the ground over a dead dog. LOL

[Baptist]

YouTube - The Legendary Athens Greece Riot Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HPb46aK7hM)

[amy31416]

There's a good lesson in PR to be learned here...

[Linus]

"Only the dog knows for sure"

[sharpsteve2003]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riot-Dog/112204342124708
Thanks for the link.

[dannno]

Mystery dog becomes Greek-riot mascot

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/bravest_protester_is_mystery_mascot_j8JKFQgwu6hm6Y fgAOaj2O