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Greece: Break dancing against the far right

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October 23, 2013

Members of the hip-hop scene in Athens are taking up arms of a sort to fight the far right: music and dance.

"WaveOmatics" is a young Greek break-dance group with high ambitions. They practice on the streets in the middle of the old city center because they can't afford professional rehearsal space, and they earn a bit of extra money in doing so. The young artists are regularly confronted by violent thugs from the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which is said to be behind the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.
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