'We Won't Pay' Movement Brings Guerrilla Electricity to Poverty Stricken Greece

As Greeks continue to suffer under harsh austerity policies and a “Troika” friendly government, a statement of both refusal and solidarity is getting louder within struggling Greek communities. One group who portrays this sentiment is calling itself “We Won’t Pay,” an organization made up of thousands of guerrilla electricians who illegally reconnect services to Greeks who can no longer afford their utility bills.

The story, as reported by Russian news agency RT on Thursday, portrays a group, growing in both popularity and size, that combs communities in Greece to reconnect electricity for families for free, who have had their services previously shut off.

“We must violate or not respect a law which says thousands of people will have no electricity to cook, no electricity to see water, to see TV, no electricity, to switch on AC,” an economist from Varna Free University of Cyprus, Leonidas Vatikiotis, told RT in regards to the movement.