February 24, 31st day of the hunger strike The press conference was opened by Euclidis Tsakalotos, an economist from the University of Athens, who said: «I think that in a situation such as this, intellectuals have a duty to give voice to those who have no voice. It saddens me that at my university we didn’t give asylum to the immigrants – to those who only want to have their voices heard. Secondly, intellectuals have an obligation to highlight the hypocrisy of establishment words, the words of those who govern us, of the elite and ruling classes. The hypocrisy is that they use immigrants in their homes, for their children and elderly, in their vineyards and factories. Their hypocrisy,...
Επίσκεψη του Αλέν Κριβίν στους μετανάστες απεργούς πείνας
For us, legalisation is neither a generic nor an abstract slogan. We don’t want proposals to be heard without us. For us legalisation means many and very specific things. Between those, first and foremost:
Yesterday evening, two strikers were taken to hospital
We, the 250 migrants, who have entered already the 3rd day of hunger strike inside the Law Faculty of Athens demanding our self-evident right to be legalised, hear about the discussions which are taking place with regard to our demands, and about the lies, the inaccuracies and the deliberate distortion of the truth.