In the centre of Athens, inside the building of the Law School (in Solonos Street), the hunger strike of 250 immigrants-workers has begun from Monday, 25 January 2011. Similarly, 50 immigrants-workers hunger strikers inside the Labor Centre of Thessaloniki claim the obvious: unconditional legalization for all immigrants who live and […]
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On Sunday, 23 January, 300 immigrant workers arrived at the port of Piraeus from Crete island (more photos | videos) to begin a nationwide hunger strike. On the same day 50 of the 300 immigrants arrived at the Labor Centre of Thessaloniki in order to participate in this hunger strike.They […]
On Sunday, 23 January, 250 immigrant workers arrived at the port of Piraeus from Crete island to begin a nationwide hunger strike. On the same day 50 of the 300 immigrants arrived at the Labor Centre of Thessaloniki in order to participate in this hunger strike.
We are immigrants and refugees from across Greece. We came here persecuted by poverty, unemployment, wars, and dictatorships. Western multinational companies and their political servants in our countries, left us with no choice but to risk our lives ten times to get to the door of Europe. The West which […]
11 January: Three detainees present their view on prisoners’ abstention from meals and hunger strikes during November 2010 The recent abstention of prison food and the hunger strike of thousands of prisoners who are stacked like animals in Greek prisons today, highlighted as much as possible the problems and our […]
December 10th 2010: 1,200 prisoners on Hunger Strike Seven Corfu prisoners sewed their mouths Another prisoner died in Kassaveteia prison No doctor in most prisons Prisoners’ demands Ongoing mobilizations in Greece’s prisons. More than 9,000 detainees and prisoners (out of a total prison population of approximately 12,600 nationwide) are struggling […]
Nikos Maziotis, an anarchist imprisoned in relation to the Revolutionary Struggle case, has gone on hunger strike. Below is a translation of his letter announcing the commencing of the hunger strike.The treatment reserved by the state for the imprisoned revolutionaries and its political enemies is standard: Revanchist actions, sadism, physical […]