10th of March: Worldwide solidarity action day with the 300 hunger strikers immigrants-workers in Greece
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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 deported 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 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 abroad are here: internezia.net/addresses
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: hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net ]
‘All Immigrants of the World’
also here: nyc.indymedia.org
in Finnish: takku.net
No Comments “DON’T VISIT GREECE!”
I stay in South Africa. An opponent of apartheid just to see an even more hypocrytical and corrupt government in its place. We need to be fair. Have you considered the tax & rent paying trader having to compete with an illegal vendor (who pays no tax, no vat,no operating costs) of cheap copycat products outside his doors? You obviously dont have a shop.
When I was in Mykonos as a massage therapist as a Greek Euro national I was hounded by the police, while the Chinese who were doing half assed work were getting off scott free and laughing at me.
Have you also considered that people have paid taxes and social welfare all their lives and now have dwindling health benefits and laughable disappearing pensions while increasing amounts are spent on immigrants, legal and illegal? That degreed Greek citizens are on a minimum wage of 500Euros, if they are lucky enough to be employed? That Greeks struggling for employment for their families cannot compete with groups of foreigners who live ten to a room and can thus afford to work for a wage unsustainable to a house keeper?
Charity can only start at home. The Greeks are the most generous people in the world, without fail donating more in proportion of per capita national income than any country in the world.
Greece was also the most crime free country in Europe, and one of the safest and most crime free countries in the world. While no doubt syndicated crime is run by Greeks, attacks on innocent civilians, mugged and killed for ‘a piece of bread’never existed in Greece and is no doubt the domain of mainly foreigners who do not have a family support system, cannot be tracked down and feel no sense of community in a foreign country.
Back to home, I have on numerous occasions hosted people in my home, even when struggling financially. But don’t expect me (or any body else) to do it when my child is not eating properly.
The Greek people, just like all other people, especially smaller, less wealthy communities have the right of survival and a preservation of their lifestyle, language and culture and are under no obligation to those who come, uninvited from afar.
I am a social and environmental activist, and have travelled to numerous countries on humanitarian and environmental issues. I support the Greek people, the Lybian & Serbian people and all others bearing the onslaught of the propaganda, banksters, nwo mobsters.
I have seen things from all angles and thus have earned the right to talk.
To quote ayurvedic wisdom. We must all seek cures where we are, not elsewhere. If a snake bites you the cure lies within a radius of 50 paces.Just as a Greek should stay in Greece and help his people, and not seek greener pastures away, so should all others look to blossom in their own back yard and not go and seek pickings elsewhere unless they are invited and have something to offer.
Now stop being a traitor and chasing tourists away. Do you think that illegal foreigners are treated any better in any other country? Are you suggesting that neighbouring Turkey has a human rights record more deserving of a visit? Maybe you should tell that to the few remaining Turkish as well as Greek Cypriots in the occupied north of Cyprus, and to their own ethnic minorities, Kurds, Armenians etc.
Or Italy whose coast guard has sunk ships of refugee women and children out at sea? The Germans, Americans, other nations?
Be balanced and realistic.
You are supposedly against the government of the day. Who do you think all the foreigners root for and increasingly have the opportunity to vote for?
Greece and Cyprus are Awesome countries, as are their people. The Hellenic culture is the Light of the World and always honoured the ways and religion of others. It in turn however is now under threat of extinction and has every right to defend itself.
btw, I see my comment is ‘up for moderation’. Does this mean that any views which do not concur with yours will be excluded? Do you find free speech threatening? That is one thing that even the present government does not do (even though it controls the mass media) and the height of facism.Really scary.
Violence begets violence. Unless we each take responsibility for our own ‘dark side’ and learn to care and love one another, we are merely projecting our own shadows, and one violent system will beget another, playing straight into the hands of those who we allow to pull our strings…We need to focus not on what we dont want, but what we desire, for whatever you focus on, love, fear, hatred, grows. Stop being against, and start focussing our time & energy For something better.Clearly visualise and work towards a Better World. All we need is the ‘critical mass’ or ‘100th monkey effect’. Then nobody can stop us.