Συνεχίστε την ανάγνωση 37 ευρωβουλευτές εκφράζουν την αλληλεγγύη τους
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35 Ευρωβουλευτές εκφράζουν την αλληλεγγύη τους
Υποστήριξη στον αγώνα των μεταναστών απεργών πείνας στην Ελλάδα
Εκφράζουμε την ανησυχία μας για την υγεία και τη ζωή των 300 μεταναστών που κάνουν απεργία πείνας από τις 25 Ιανουαρίου σε Αθήνα και Θεσσαλονίκη.
Πρόκειται για μετανάστες που ζουν και εργάζονται επί σειρά ετών στην Ελλάδα και διεκδικούν ίσα δικαιώματα με τους Έλληνες και Ευρωπαίους εργαζόμενους.
Zητάμε να αλλάξει η μεταναστευτική πολιτική της Ένωσης ώστε να γίνονται σεβαστά τα δικαιώματα των μεταναστών και μεταναστριών. Εκφράζουμε την υποστήριξή μας στον αγώνα των 300 μεταναστών για αξιοπρέπεια και καλούμε την Ελληνική Κυβέρνηση να ακούσει προσεκτικά τα αιτήματά τους και να δώσει λύση στο πρόβλημα.
Support to the 300 immigrants on Hunger Strike in Greece
We express our concern for the health and life of the 300 immigrants that are on a hunger strike since the 25th of January, in Athens and Thessaloniki.
They are immigrants that live and work for many years in Greece and they request equal rights with the Greek and European workers.
We request the modification of the migratory policies of the EU in order to respect the rights of the immigrants. We declare our solidarity to the struggle of the 300 immigrants for dignity and we ask the Greek Government to carefully listen to their demands and give a solution to the problem.
Πρώτες Υπογραφές:
1. Rui Tavares (MEP GUE/NGL, PORTUGAL)
2. Ulrike Lunacek (Co-Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament, MEP GREENS/EFA, AUSTRIA)
3. Νικόλαος Χουντής (MEP GUE/NGL, GREECE)
4. Μιχάλης Τρεμόπουλος (MEP GREENS/EFA, GREECE)
5. Patrick Le Hyaric (MEP GUE/NGL, FRANCE)
6. Jacky Henin (MEP GUE/NGL, FRANCE)
7. Joe Higgins (MEP GUE/NGL, IRELAND)
8. Marisa Matias (MEP GUE/NGL, PORTUGAL)
9. Eva – Britt Svensson (Chairwoman of the European Parliament FEMME Committee, MEP GUE/NGL SWEDEN)
10. Helene Flautre (MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
11. Willy Meyer (MEP GUE/NGL, SPAIN)
12. Bairbre de Brún (GUE/NGL, IRELAND)
13. Marie Christine Vergiat (MEP GUE/NGL, FRANCE)
14. Sabine Lösing (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
15. Takis Hadjigeorgiou (MEP GUE/NGL, CYPRUS)
16. Sabine Wills, (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
17. Nicole Kiil – Nielsen (MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
18. Heidi Ruehle (MEP GREENS/EFA, GERMANY)
19. Isabelle Durant (Vice-president of the European Parliament, MEP GREENS/EFA, BELGIUM)
20. Jean Luc Mélenchon (Vice President of Foreign Affairs Committe of the European Parliament, MEP GUE/NGL, FRANCE)
21. Kartika Liotard (MEP GUE/NGL, NETHERLANDS)
22. Jurgen Klute (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
23. Dennis de Jong (MEP GUE/NGL, NETHERLANDS)
24. Canfin Pascal ((MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
25. Catherine Grèze ((MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
26. Thomas Händel (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
27. Helmut Scholz (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
28. Gabriele Zimmer (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
29. Michèle Rivasi (MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
30. José Bové (MEP GREENS/EFA, FRANCE)
31. Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (MEP GUE/NGL, CYPRUS)
32. Cornelia Ernst (MEP GUE/NGL, GERMANY)
33. Raül Romeva i Rueda (MEP GREENS /EFA, SPAIN)
34. Miguel Portas (MEP GUE/NGL, PORTUGAL)
35. Franziska Keller (MEP GREENS/EFA,GERMANY)
Ψήφισμα Τζο Χίγγινς, ευρωβουλευτής Ιρλανδίας (CWI)
7 February 2011
To the ‘300’
Dear Friends and Comrades,
I applaud your courageous struggle for full ‘legalisation’ status and equal rights. I learned about your plight and your [Συνέχεια…] protest hunger strike from my comrades in Xekinima, the Greek section of the Committee for a Workers’ International. A hunger strike is obviously not something anyone embarks on lightly and can only have come about as a desperate struggle by people who feel they are left with no other options.
I understand that many of you were stripped of residence and work permits, despite having lived and worked in Greece for several years. Now that Greece faces a deep economic crisis, the bosses, whose system caused the crisis, no longer need cheap immigrant labour to exploit.
Greece, just like Ireland, is in economic crisis because of the policies of successive pro-market governments and in both cases working people are expected to pay for this crisis of the capitalist system through huge austerity measures. We will not accept this – let the big banks and big business pay for their crisis!
The treatment that immigrants face from the Greek authorities is nothing short of barbaric. I understand that in Athens’ parks and squares immigrants are to be found – homeless, jobless, undocumented and hungry.
The Greek government, the main political parties, the far right and the pro-establishment mass media are more than happy, of course, to blame immigrants for Greece’s economic and social ills and, in doing so, try and ‘divide and rule’ working people.
Your refusal to accept this treatment and to resist outrageous intimidation by the authorities – including forcing hunger striking protesters out of the Athens University Law Department buildings – is an inspiration for the most exploited and vulnerable people everywhere.
I also salute the solidarity actions of Greek working people, which I am told has led to five Greeks from the Solidarity Committee threatened with legal charges for practically aiding your struggle. The full might of the Greek trade unions and other workers’, social and youth organisations need to be brought to bear against the government on this critical issue. The workers’ movement in Greece and everywhere need to fight for workers’ unity and jobs, homes, decent pay, education and health for all.
I pledge to urgently highlight your struggle, to do all I can to alert the workers’ movement in Europe and internationally and to call for them to urgently take action to further your demands.
Yours,
Joe Higgins MEP