Greece Betrays The No Vote

Greece’s Syriza-led government agreed to a massive new €13 billion (US$14.34 billion) package of austerity measures yesterday evening, less than a week after Sunday’s landslide “no” vote in a referendum on European Union (EU) austerity.

The proposal would be the deepest package of cuts since the EU austerity drive began in Greece in late 2009. It goes well beyond the proposed €8 to 9 billion in cuts initially demanded by the EU in talks with Syriza.

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/10/gree-j10.html

Here is a pictorial summary of the new proposal:

So why did they even have the referendum in the first place?

Note well that most Western governments make a habit of betraying We The People. So, how do we go about initiating a "regime change" which benefits us this time?