Members of a labor union occupied Greece's finance ministry building in central Athens early Thursday, hanging a massive banner from the top to protest harsh new austerity measures designed to pull the country out of its financial crisis.
Dozens of union activists holding flags and chanting slogans blocked the entrance to the building, which stands on the capital's central Syntagma Square, preventing employees from entering. They unfurled banners reading: "Rise up - everyone in the streets against the anti-popular measures."
The union, the communist party-linked PAME, planned a demonstration in Athens later in the day. Separately, former Olympic …
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