Έντυπη Έκδοση Ελευθεροτυπία, Δευτέρα 11 Ιουλίου 2011
Της ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΣ ΔΑΜΑ
Ενας ακήρυχτος πόλεμος εξελίσσεται τα μεσάνυχτα από την Ομόνοια μέχρι το Μοναστηράκι. Αστυνομικά μπλόκα στην οδό Μενάνδρου προσάγουν μετανάστες χωρίς χαρτιά για έλεγχο. Κάποιες άλλες ομάδες με πολιτικά ρούχα κάνουν τις δικές τους εκκαθαρίσεις. Κυνηγούν με μοτοσικλέτες μετανάστες, τους εγκλωβίζουν κι όποιος γλιτώσει γλίτωσε…
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Interview with the refugee N., from Eritrea
23rd of May 2011, Komunisia
by infomobile
N. spent a very long time in the mountains of Igoumenitsa. With 10 months he belongs to the experienced men on the mountain. He has been deported from Italy several times. Still he never lost his hope that one day he will get out.
The truck to the other Europe
How long are you in Igoumenitsa?
In Komunisia here? I have longer than ten months. More than ten months here!
What did you expect from coming here to Igoumenitsa?
You know, the reason for my coming to Komunisia, I am suffering too much bad in this country. I need to leave this country. For this reason I came to Komunisia. Unfortunately, during these days we are suffering from a very bad situation: from the police and from the racist people, from the civil society here in Komunisia.
Interview with the two refugees A. and Y., from Sudan
21st of May 2011, Komunisia
by Infomobile
A. and Y., refugees from Sudan talk about their living-conditions in Igoumenitsa, the second largest port from Greece towards Italy. We are sitting in the mountain, looking at the port-area of “Komunisia” how the refugees call it. A few hundred refugees from all war-zones of the world are living on this mountain. Some days ago, at the 3rd of May, the refugees’ settlements in the mountain have been attacked by fascists out of a demonstration.
Waiting room Komunisia: One minute feels like one year on this mountain
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The municipality of Patras destroyed in a recent police raid the train shelter of migrants in St. Dyonisios, opposite to the port of Patras. They left behind the migrants, who will have to sleep under the stars of the sky without any protection in the following nights. The police invaded the area of the train company due to the ‘inhuman living conditions’ of the migrants and for reasons of ‘public health’. The hypocracy of the state continues in the name of ‘law and order’.
Press Release of the Antiracist Group Thessaloniki concerning the police raids of the last weeks in the centre of Thessaloniki
Street vendors from a variety of countries face since years severe repressive measures in the urban centres of Greece, since they have no opportunity to get work permits for their trade. At the same time informal street vending is one of very few ways to economically survive in Greece. The street vendors from Bangladesh denounced the situation at the 11th of April in the municipal council of Thessaloniki.
Antiracist Group Thessaloniki – Public Release about Street Vendors (in Greek)
At the 27th of April 2011 a new wave of police raids started in the centre of Athens. The repression against the sans-papiers continues. The police of deterrence is expressing itself in the most violent ways…..
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=270792
After a preparative meeting the municipality of Igoumenitsa, the local initiative “struggle” (consisting of inhabitants that live in the areas Ladohori and Grekohori where many of the homeless sans-papiers live too amonge the olive trees of the Greeks and on the mountain) and some other groups and organisations of the city announced that they will close the international ferry-port at the 3rd of May 2011 to protest against the many sans-papiers who daily try to leave Greece through the second largest port of exit. 
The desperate refugees live under degrading conditions in the mountains along the rims of the city. Recently rising conflicts among them and the reigning chaos along and inside the port have been used to spark the fire on migration issues in the city: specifically this lead to re-intensified protest mobilisations by the local population, fascist propaganda and growing measures of repression by the authorities.
http://www.thebest.gr/news/index/viewStory/64858
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/9/40912
14.09.2010: Pakistani workers go on strike after police raid
Today, hundreds of Pakistani immigrants living and working in Skala, Laconia took the decision to go on strike after the pogrom that was unleashed against them earlier.
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