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.
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.
