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A Raw video that shows some of the events that took place on the 15th of December demo. The last 2 minutes are outside GSEE as I explained you on my previous post.



Also a video that clearly shows men with covered faces being together with the police and making arrests. Undercover police dressed up like demonstrators.
 
This is not "the people versus the police". This is one hijacked faction versus another hijacked faction. "The people" stand in the same relation to the thugs in society and the police as sheep stand in relation to wolves. And "the people" are crazy to imagine that the thugs in their midst have their interests at heart any more than the thugs in the police do.

I don't know if ordinary Greek people could have prevented the hijack of both sides of their political process by thugs. I do think they gave the thugs the opportunity and the oxygen they needed, by abandoning any prospect of democratic reform and allowing themselves to be led like sheep into a state of general disorder by thugs having no regard for anything but their own interests.

This stuff really matters. Greece represents the leading edge of the one-way process all European states have begun - financial collapse, social disintegration and a general reduction of living standards.

Few in this forum will argue that it is the structure of our institutions that has created this process. But now we have two choices: reform those institutions, or destroy and replace those institutions.

Those institutions are captured by a number of very powerful vested interests, and reform is very hard. But the fatal flaw in the "destruction and replacement" choice, which I perceive to be the Greek choice, is that it creates a vacuum. And the list of people for whom a vacuum is a much preferable arrangement than "reformed institutions" - thugs, organised criminals, extremists and the feckless - is very long indeed.

Greece will now never make it to the other side. Instead of circling the wagons to buy time to strengthen them against the wolves, they decided to burn the wagons. Now: imagine you are a wolf ...

The really interesting question is: will the other European countries learn from the sheep-like Greeks? In Britain, we recently witnessed the spectacle of wealthy "students" choosing to desecrate monuments to working class people who died so that they could have that choice. The prospects are not good.

Sadly, the same people salivating for a violent end to our institutions probably have no idea the role those institutions - however unsatisfactory they may be in their current form - play in providing the heat, light and food upon which they depend as they plan their destruction. And, for a large number of them, even less idea or interest in what they should be replaced with.

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Verbal disagreement. Escalated.
 
I think that this has been discussed over and over on this thread but also on other relevant threads in this board, for example the London student demos thread. Of course I completely disagree with you but I will not get in this discussion here because it will only go round in circles and will finally derail the thread. I will continue the informatory manner that I have started, if you do not agree read the BBC version on their website and do not bother with me.

I would like to personally thank all of you who have sent me private messages asking me to continue posting here. I do not need to name you, you know who you are.

As the most of you may remember a few days ago we discussed about some letter bombs that were sent to various european embassies. The group named "The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" had taken responsibility of those attacks and had issued a communique calling for an international revolutionary front. You can see the translation of that communique on the previous page of this thread.

Therefore an Italian group this time, decided to act accordingly to that communique so they sent 2 letter bombs to the embassies of Chile and Switzerland in Rome on 23/12/2010, that had as a result the injury of two officials. The responsibility was taken by the organisation "Federazione Anarchica Informale - FAI - Revolutionary Cell Lambros Fountas". Also an another letter bomb that was sent yesterday to the embassy of Greece in Rome again by them, it was detonated by the police with no injuries.

Lambros Fountas, whose name appears in that group's name, was a member of the group "Revolutionary Struggle" who was shot dead by a cop after an armed conflict with the police I think less that a year ago. 3 other people member of that group have been arrested and are now in jail.

These 3 issued an announcement about the attacks to the embassies. Here is a translation of that announcement.

"About the letter - bombs which were sent to the embassies of Chile and Switzerland in Rome on 23/12/2010, that had as a result the injury of two officials and the responsibility was taken by the organisation "Federazione Anarchica Informale - FAI - Revolutionary Cell Lambros Fountas", we have to state the following:

As Revolutionary Struggle we were always chosing to bring out actions which a political aim. We were always aiming on the status - quo, the structures and those who represent and protect it. We were organising them (our actions) in such a way, so that to avoid injuries of people who were not among our political targets and we would have never brought out actions which could result the injury for example of a random embassy official, as it happened in the cases above with the letter - bombs.

The above framework has always been a principle of action for us all and of course a principle of our dead comrade - member of the organisation, Lambros Fountas. For this reason we ask for not happening actions of such type in the name of our comrade.

Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis, Kostas Gournas"
 
32-year old Egyptian migrant Emad Aziz dies while working without insurance at the Greek Ministry of Employment

On Sunday 19/12 32-year old Emad Aziz, from Egypt, slipped off the third floor of a building of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security in central Athens. Emad, who was cleaning the exterior windows at the time, worked with no social insurance. He was immediately transferred to hospital where he passed away.

Vlasia Papathanasi, the general secretary of the Union of Cleaners and Domestic Workers, stressed that the cleaning of the building had been commissioned to a labour recruitment office which used a loophole in the law in order to employ Emad without offering him social insurance.

Emad was the father of four children. The Cleaners Union called for a gathering on Wednesday 29.12 at 6 pm outside the building where he died at number 4, Korai Street in Athens.

Here are some photos of this gathering : http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1243488

Although the gathering was called in very short notice, a few hundred people appeared with a relatively big police presence accompanying them.

The fact that the poor man died on 19/12 and it got known only 2 days ago, 10 days after his death, clearly shows that the ministry was trying to cover up the whole story.


Our state murders and does that in a number of ways. They murder civilians even teenagers as it happened in Alexis case, they murder workers as they employ them without social insurance working in hours out of schedule, they "murder" the whole greek society as they lead us to poverty with their austerity measures.
 
Something different now. Because of the general strike and the whole demo and movement, I have failed to inform you about an another development that took place in an area near Athens, called Keratea. There since 11/12 local residents of the area of Keratea in Attica (Greater Athens) have been engaged in a fierce battle with riot police (MAT). The riot police are there to protect the construction of a waste burial site (HITA). Such burial sites have not only been judged to be illegal by European courts but additionally, the site in Keratea is of archeological significance.

Riot police arrived at the site to protect the ongoing construction works from the enraged locals. Clashes quickly erupted, with locals attacking the police with sticks, stones and scores of molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas while for the first time ever in Greece, water cannons also made their appearance . On Sunday evening, gunshots were aimed in the direction of the police from nearby hills.

A video from a corporate TV channel can be seen here :
Clashes against the police continued for days. No matter the fact that a court order got issued that said that the works in the area are illegal, RIOT police did not leave the area and are still there as I am typing this message. During all these days thousands of locals, citizens of the area were guarding the place and in a lot of occasions were engaging in clashes with RIOT police that never left the spot. Arrests have been made, on the first day of the clashes even the mayor of Keratea got detained by the police and was later released.

None of the legal requirements were even met in order these construction works to start, the area belonged to the city but was never given compensation or bought by anyone, the construction of HITA is now ILLEGAL anyway, the area is of archeological importance therefore you cannot dump rubbish there but still the ministry gave orders for the HITA to be constructed and sent more than 600 police officers including RIOT police as well as undercover police, in a clear attempt to terrify the public and construct this illegal waste burial site.

on 23/12 plastic bullets were also used against the gathered citizens. A photo here

Some photos :

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A policeman of the “DIAS” motorcycle police ran over a 6-year old roma girl in the area of Menidi in NE Athens. According to eye-witnesses, the six-year old girl was run over as she was on the streets, where she was signing the carols with other children (in Greece, children sing carols on the eve of the Epiphany day, Jan 6). The eye-witnesses also claim the policeman dragged the girl along for 150 meters and did not stop to offer any help.

The policeman who killed the girl is at the nearby police station of Nea Ionia, yet his status is yet unclear. Around 100 people gathered at the spot of the assassination and attacked the riot police once the news of the girl’s death broke out. Riots are still taking place as we speak, more info as it comes.

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On occasions I also upload photos on athens indymedia so you may see my photos as well when I post you links here.

The policeman who killed the girl is based at the nearby police station of Nea Ionia.

Mainstream media reported that the policeman was arrested and set free on bail by a prosecutor general.

In response to the killing and immunity offered to the policeman, an impromptu anarchist demonstration was held in the northern city of Thessaloniki, while an information gathering was held in the city of Larisa and a demonstration was called in the city for 4 pm tomorrow.

It is possible (though yet unconfirmed) that similar actions might be called for other cities – including Athens itself.

In Athens a gathering of about 150 people got formed and decided to start a demo in Exarchia area. There more people citizens of the area joined the demo and all of them (about 400 people) moved towards the police department of Exarchia and then to the polytechnic where the demo ended.


I also want to give you more information about Keratea. The police there remains although the construction of the waste burial site is now not allowed with a court order. Police on the night of the 5/01/2011 decided to attack the gathered citizens in order to break the gathering that is also there, for nearly 1 month now. While they attacked they damaged some of the cars of the gathered citizens so the situation got very very tense. Riots started, people throwing petrol bombs and stones against the police, who responded with chemicals. A group of angry citizens decided to attack the police station of Keratea in order to get a "revenge" from the earlier police attack against the gathered citizens.
You can see a video of the events here :
 
Dimitris said:
I will not get in this discussion here because it will only go round in circles and will finally derail the thread. I will continue the informatory manner that I have started
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Thanks, Dimitris. You may not have noticed, but I was talking about you, not to you, and no discussion is necessary.

In fact, I get my information directly from (Greek) friends, who have an entirely different view of the extent to which you are being led like sheep by forces on both sides who are not in the least bit interested in your welfare. Those forces find your "informatory manner" most helpful.
 
Hospital doctors have occupied part of the ministry of health since 1/2/2011. After they were brutally attacked by the riot police during their protest in front of the ministry’s building the hospital doctors and students of medicine moved into the ministry’s central lecture theatre where they remain until now.

The doctors protest against the new law which puts forwards the plans for privatization of the health system and the end to the free public health care. The hospital doctors union (EINAP), the Medical Doctors Association of Athens along the rest of doctor unions and health-related professional associations including pharmacists have announced strikes against the new legal act.

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Banner from inside the ministry’s occupation reads: ‘OCCUPATION withdraw now the legal act of Loverdos’ (the minister’s name)


Apart from that, farmers seem that are going on road blockades of the greek motorway from Monday at various points in all over Greece. They object to the reforms on greek agricultural policy as it has been forced by the IMF and the greek government.

Also a lot of strikes are taking place in public transport. Drivers and technicians of the tube, buses and trolleys are on strike for days now, resisting to the privatization of public transport.

Finally, I should inform you about the growing "I DO NOT PAY" movement here in Greece. Daily more and more people decide not to pay at the toll stations in the motorway, the tube and the busses. The prices for tickets have risen up to 40% on the same time that the income of the most of us is continuously dropping, so we refuse to pay for the crisis that they have created.

I expect that pretty soon we will see people not paying anything, not even taxes or bank loans.
 
KERATEA 2011


If you scroll up on this page you will read some information about the struggle of the people of Keratea, against the construction of a waste burial site in their area. The citizens have formed road blocks and for nearly 2 months now they are battling against the RIOT police (MAT) in order to guard the area and prevent the beginning of the constructions.

Things developed very badly though yesterday. Undercover secret police raided in a house in Keratea and arrested a 30 year old man, accusing him of constructing petrol bombs and taking part in the riots of the last months. The reaction of the citizens was spontaneous, a lot of people gathered outside the house of this man and confronted the police. Some people were even fighting with their own hands against the secret police officers. A secret police officer at a point pulled out his gun and pointed it against the citizens. Photos of that event here :
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259447

After this event about 1000 citizens of the area gathered and moved against the police station of Keratea. There RIOT police was waiting and very quickly classes against the police started that got spread nearly to the whole town. Police used chemicals and stud grenades and were responded by a big number of petrol bombs, stones, citizens were throwing them water with water hoses, trying to do everything they possibly can in order to prevent the police attack.


Also something else. On December 2008 in this thread I had informed you that the greek army had bought riot control gear (shields, masks, chemicals etc) and that they were training how to control riots. Since December 2008 every year there is a specific army training called "KALLIMAXOS" where special army units are trained how to control demos and riots. Our government was always officially denying that they were planning or thinking to use the army on the streets, but this year a video has leaked that shows this training taking place.

This is the video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlF-URQfuoA&feature=player_embedded

After the 3rd minute of this video you can see soldiers pretending to be protesters who had formed a road block to attack against the other soldiers who are "riot control".

This matter has now also reached to the greek parliament with the minister of defense answering that this special unit is a part of a European unit that has been created and its main aim is to provide humanitarian aid and to prevent groups of people from fighting with each other.
 
A very sad development after the news I posted you on the previous post. Unfortunately an unborn child will never manage to be within us. As the police was throwing stud grenades and spraying chemicals in the neighborhoods of Keratea, 2 frightened kids fainted as they got terrorized by what they were witnessing and they could not breathe because of the chemicals. Their mother, pregnant with her 3rd child, got shocked as she viewed her 2 children to faint in front of her and crashed to a nervous breakdown. As a result of this her pregnancy got affected and she miscarried.

Her 3rd child will never get born, all because the state continuous to support the construction of an ILLEGAL waste burial site at the area of Keratea and sends RIOT police to suppress any kind of reaction. For more than 2 months now the citizens of Keratea are daily facing RIOT police and clashes against the police are very very frequent.

I really wonder when we will witness more victims in that area.
 
GENERAL STRIKE ON THE 23RD OF FEBRUARY.

Our interventions in neighborhoods and on a local level are all well and good but they are appropriate for other days in the year, not for the February 23d. On that day all local, labor issues need to meet up on a central level.

All everyday resistance, struggles at Mass Media, in Keratea, the struggles over health issues, the “I won’t pay” movement, the migrants’ hunger strike, the neighborhood movements, the academic struggles, the occupations, the struggle for land and liberty, political prisoners will all meet-up in a crucial day, right in the center of the city.

February 23d is a day of general strike: on that day production is paralyzed.
All of us, workers, unemployed, students, pensioners, we will join up in a huge human river that will head to Parliament.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH

WE DO NOT PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS.

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Hello from Athens.

Finally I was not arrested, minutes after that post earlier though the police that had surrounded us decided to attack and move us out the street.

Anyway I will try to update you about what happened throughout the day. I am very tired and please excuse my english, I may do mistakes.

The main idea today was to move towards Syntagma square (the main square of Athens in front of the parliament) and to try to hold there as much as possible. In a lot of peoples mind there was a scenario similar to Egypt to try and hold the main square of Athens. The police understood that though and their main aim was to push the people out of the square the soonest possible.

The general strike was successful. All public services in all country were not working, banks were not working, shops and other companies were also closed down. In a number of towns in all over Greece demos had been arranged and the turn out was quite big nearly everywhere.

I attended the main demo in Athens as usual. At about 14:00 o clock thousands of us were gathered at the center of Athens at Propylaia. People of all ages turned out, a lot of grassroots unions, left groups and movements, the "I do not pay movement", citizens of Keratea, anarchists and anti authoritarians. The turn out was MASSIVE I do not agree with the 30,000 estimation that the BBC is giving I cannot estimate the number also but I am very sure that we are talking about for more than 100,000 people or even more than 150,000 actually. It was definitely the biggest demo that I have been for the last years as it was very very dense and very long. The communist union PAME had also called for their own demonstration as usual (they always do separate ones) that was also very very big and started before us.

We started moving slowly on about 14:30 to 15:00 o clock but as the demo was moving towards Syntagma square, more and more people were gathering to Propylaia, forming blocks and moving as well. When the head of the demo reached Syntagma, there were still thousands at Propylaia that had not started moving yet and even more were arriving. The head of the demo reached Syntagma and other parts of the demo, mostly grassroots blocks and left movements were also reaching.

On about 15:40 to 16:00 o clock the main part of the demo was in Syntagma square, blocking all the street all the square and the roads around and more people were moving towards the area. This is when the police decided to hit. They started spraying with a big number of chemicals, using stud grenades and generally being very aggressive. The demonstrators responded with stones and petrol bombs and for quite long the whole city center of Athens was a big war zone. The demo broke in many parts and clashes against the police were taking place in Syntagma square, the near by streets, but also at Propylaia at the very start of the demo as some people were still there and were clashing with the police. There was a scenery with riots happening in a lot of places and the police did not really know where to go exactly. Finally after more and more chemicals were sprayed they managed to move the main part of the demo out of the square and about 3000 of us stayed there without moving. The whole area was a huge gas chamber, it was very very difficult to breathe but it was our decision to stay.

There was a decision that we would stay there as much as we could and try to call for more people to come back at Syntagma square. Some left movements though decided to leave instead of staying so after they left about 1500 of us remained. People who had moved to Propylaia were returning back towards Syntagma square but they were attacked by police as they reached there and never managed to reach us. The police managed to isolate all the entrances of the square battling with people on the streets that were trying to move towards us and managed to make a very big circle around the square. Their decision was to contain the remaining people on the square and to attack again and again in order to break us completely.

On about 18:00 police on motorbikes decided to storm against us and try to break us. On previous posts in this thread I have reported you similar actions of the police. They tried to do that again this time but they did loose one motorbike as its driver was trying to hit one demonstrator but he was attacked by petrol bombs and had to abandon his bike. Some photos of that event here : https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1265709

The police continued to attack us though, more and more people had to flee as they were sprayed with chemicals and finally about 300 of us remained at the main avenue exactly in front of the parliament building. The police had made a cordon in front of the parliament building since the beginning of the demo, and others were blocking the sides of the avenue. We stayed there and started a fire in order to keep us warm, to clear out the area of the chemicals but also to keep us together. There was a coffin there (at the beginning of the demo some people had put a coffin in front of the police with a black banner saying "we are dying") and we broke that coffin and put fire on that. Also some of us broke some wooden benches that existed on the square and put them on the fire as well. For more than half an hour we were gathered there making a circle around the fire but then the police cordons moved and kettled us very closely. I was not sure if they would chase us or try to arrest as many as possible, but finally they attacked.

Here is a photo of the kettle just before the police attack, this is exactly when I sent the mobile update here on the boards. The photo is from a roof top on the area where a live camera was installed and was broadcasting over the internet.

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As they attacked the main part of the gathering (with me as well) we moved down the street towards Propylaia and stayed there in order to form an assembly and decide what to do next. About 50 people though remained in Syntagma square, started a new fire but then the police kettled that bit as well and finally chased them towards Ermou str.

23 people got detained in total, 9 confirmed arrests. About 15 policemen injured, also some demonstrators got injured some badly but I do not know the exact number yet.

A video from Russian TV here, greek journalists are on strike so there is not video by greek media.

A lot of photos here : http://www.babylonia.gr/index.php?o...d=2907:------230211&catid=52:apergies&lang=el
 
Please show your Solidarity for our martyrs in Greece

web site for info in English : http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/2011/03/01/these-hunger-strikers-are-the-martyrs-of-greece-asylum-seekers-willing-to-die-in-the-face-of-expulsion-after-shame-and-exploitation-bear-witness-to-a-higher-truth-than-life/

action of electronic civil disobedience for today after 9.00 am English time (solidarity is our we@pon/ 2 March 2011,Wednesday …After 11:00 a.m greek time
2 Marzo 2011,Miercoles ….Desde 11:00 a.m. hora griega
2 Marz 2011,Mittag…Von 11:00 a.m. griechische Uhr

/ info from here : http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/2011/02/27/solidarity-is-our-wepon-abroad/

also emails/ fax/ letters info from here : http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/2011/02/20/act-now-hunger-strike-300/

for Thessaloniki's hunger stikers info from here : http://allilmap.wordpress.com/category/different-languages/english/

Solidarity is our weapon
 
78 hunger strikers in hospital, with the number growing by the hour

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/03/02/78-hunger-strikers-in-hospital-with-the-number-growing-by-the-hour/

The act of disobedience worked, the relevant sites were down for some time!!! photo : https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1268630

Please show your solidarity emails/ fax etc : http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/2011/03/02/232011-78-hunger-strikers-in-hospitals/

Solidarity is OUR WEAPON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
98 hunger strikers in hospitals (Wednesday 2nd of March)

"press release: solidarity to the 300 migrant workers on hunger strike

March 2, 2011

SOLIDARITY TO THE 300 MIGRANT WORKERS ON HUNGER STRIKE
300 migrant workers in Athens and Thessaloniki are now on their 37th day of hunger strike. Even though the consequences for their health have by now become very serious, posing imminent risks to their lives, the Government maintains the same absolute position.

The insistence of each government on overlooking the factual reality of thousands of humans to whom Greece has become the center of their vital relations, who live and work here, who form bonds with their local communities and whose stay can in no way be seen as being characterised by temporariness, has led a significant segment of the migrant population in our country to a dead end.

These are people who do not exist for the Greek authorities as far as the enjoyment of any right is concerned, but who do exist in order to exploited and be used as an escape goat for many our country’s problems. As visible the product of their work, as invisible their existence as humans.

The particularly restrictive conditions of previous laws on regularisation which narrowed significantly their scope of application, the loss of residence status by those who had nevertheless managed to fulfil the initial requirements but were unable to keep up with the suffocating renewal requirements, as well as the lack of a continuous regularisation procedure under which migrants would be able to legalise their stay by fulfilling certain criteria, without the need of irregular retrospective schemes, characterise the unsuccessful policy which has been followed until this day.

The Government’s presumption that the primary aim of a migration policy must be the deterrence of entry into the country and the removal of all those who do not hold legal residence documents combined with the absolute refusal to provide for any regularisation prospect, deliberately overlooks the reality which has been formed. It deliberately refuses to admit that this reality cannot be dealt with repressive measures, that it leads to flagrant human rights violations and that it creates situations of extreme exploitation and social marginalisation. Ultimately it ends up reinforcing employer unaccountability and uninsured migrant work.

In view of the State’s responsibilities for the creation of this situation and in view of the absolute value of the right to life, which cannot be subject to any constraints and any exceptions, we consider compelling the adoption of a solution which will be fair, holistic and in accordance with the rule of law.

Athens, 2 March 2011

GROUP OF LAWYERS FOR THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES


http://omadadikigorwnenglish.blogspot.com/

sites for info and support/ solidarity :

http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

for faxes/ emails to the greek authorities (sample letter) :
http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/2011/02/20/act-now-hunger-strike-300/


SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
 
Last night, the migrant hunger strikers’ assembly issued the following announcement in response to a bogus government “proposal” for them to end the hunger strike, which would see them face deportation (!) after a year, despite the fact they have settled in the country for years.

from contra-info

1. We hunger strikers, from the places of our strike in Athens and Thessaloniki and from hospitals, unanimously reject the government’s proposal for a regime of tolerance, because it does not respond to our claim for legalization with freedom of movement, work-based renewal and all other rights that legal immigrants have in Greece and Europe.

2. We reject the request of the minister of Health to transfer all Athens’ hunger strikers to hospitals due to weather conditions’ worsening. As we have done for 39 days with cold and floods, we continue the hunger strike in Hypatia building (Patission Ave, and Ipirou Str.), and of course those who are in critical condition will be transfered to hospitals under our doctors’s orders.

3. We stress once again that the nationwide hunger strike is our struggle, that we take the decisions on all issues, and we demand the lies and slander to be stopped.

The 300 hunger strikers in Athens and Thessaloniki, 4 March 2011
 
DON'T VISIT GREECE! Please publish, print and spread the following text

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2011/03/114291.html

By 'All Immigrants of the World'

10th of March: Worldwide solidarity action day with the 300 hunger strikers immigrants-workers in Greece



Latest Greece travel advises:

You might have heard that Greece is a beautiful country to visit with delicious food and people with great hospitality. Be careful: this is not the whole truth. The reality for hundreds of thousands of visitors is completely different. There is a general threat of human rights’ violations. Expatriates and visitors, who cross the Greek borders, can be departed or transferred in detention centres for 2–4 months or longer. If and when these visitors are released, they are forced to work in agriculture, local industry, organized crime, or as street salesmen, without documents or any civil rights whatsoever. Visitors of Greece are warned about abuse, intolerance, hatred, slander and indiscriminate violence by the Greek State.

Greece is exploiting approximately 500,000 illegal immigrants and refugees to raise the nation’s miserable economics. Last year, nearly 140,000 immigrants crossed the Greek borders in a hope of better life. Most of them are going to be illegalized for years and treated as unwelcome contemporary slaves.
Since the 25th of January, 300 immigrants who work and live in Greece for many years started a nationwide hunger strike in Athens and Thessaloniki. They claim the legalization of all undocumented immigrants of Greece. Their struggle is a struggle of all immigrants, workers and citizens of the world.
The 10th of March will be the 45th day of their hunger strike, but the Greek State has not yet responded to their rightful claims!

We call people in Greece and throughout the world to carry out civil disobedience actions on the 10th of March in solidarity with the 300 hunger strikers. We ask everyone to target their actions against Greek soft spot-tourism: 15% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product is coming from tourism. In fact, tourism and migration are two sides of the legal right of freedom of movement.
We suggest an easily attainable target that you people can find almost in every country: Greek National Tourism Organization. You can e.g. demonstrate, blockade, squat, spread leaflets or carry out other creative actions in front, inside or around GNTO offices.
The addresses of the GNTO offices aboard are here: http://internezia.net/addresses.html
If you don't have a GNTO office at your city, you can target your actions against the Greek embassies or enterprises, or simply demonstrate in crowded public places or on media.

300 MURDERS OR LEGALIZATION

[ More information about the hunger strike of 300: http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net ]
 
3 migrants (from Bangladesh) dead 35 taken to hospitals 11 still missing

From the ship "Ionian King" that arrived to the port of Souda (Crete) from Tripoli, Libya 49 citizens of Bangladesh jumped to the sea in order to avoid capture and return to their country. 3 of them lost their lives 35 were taken to hospital and 11 are still missing. Research of the missing migrants has resumed since dawn. from greek newspaper this morning : http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=257242
 
oh you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears

 
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