KEERFA-Κίνηση Ενωμένοι Ενάντια στο Ρατσισμό και τη Φασιστική Απειλή
Grève antifasciste et rassemblement
Arrêt de travail de la Confédération de la Fonction Publique de 8h30 à 11h30
MERCREDI 7/10
Jour où sera entendue la décision du jury au procès de Chrissi Avgi
Devant la cour de cassation à 9h30
Avenue Alexandras et rue Loukareos
Rendez-vous à 9h au métro Ampelokipoi
Les néonazis de Chrissi Avgi en prison
Solidarité avec les réfugiés

Open Meeting
to organize the mobilization against refugee evictions and the government’s racist campaign
Thursday, June 11, 7pm, at the roof of 47 Aiolou str.

With the inspiration and rage of the US’s uprise against racism, following the murder of George Floyd, we fight against Trump’s friends  in Greece: Mitsotakis and Mitarakis.
We have started the fight against the evictions, which Mitarakis stated will begin in June 2020, of 11000 refugees from the camps and the ESTIA apartments. We will not allow them to move forward with this disgrace, by kicking thousands of families, single women and disabled people out in the streets and parks, and take children away from their schools. Instead of assimilating them in our society, without social and racist prejudice, teaching them Greek, and offering them access to work and housing, Mitarakis is attempting to unfold a refugee extermination plan, building new concentration camps on islands and in the mainland, and throwing refugees out in the streets.
At the same time, he stops the refugees’ allowance from the first month they are granted asylum, while the asylum seekers will only be able to buy products from super markets, instead of getting an allowance.
The refugees are fighting for a house for their family, not for evictions. The solidarity movement demands that the municipalities provide housing for all: refugees, Roma and homeless people.
The government used the CoViD-19 pandemic to spill its poison against the refugees. They held thousands inside closed camps, with no sanitary provision, instead of evacuating the camps and giving houses to everyone. Meanwhile, their access to healthcare is getting even more difficult, with the abolition of the granting of AMKA (Social Security Number).
The government is trying to escalate its racist campaign, with Police “sweeps” of immigrants without papers, the expansion of Evros’ wall, illegal deportations through a parastatal mechanism, with a mock asylum granting process, for which the conditions for asylum qualification have become unreachable.
Now is the time to be heard, for the workers’ movement, the youth, the solidarity to those fleeing wars, hunger, dictatorships and climate change.
KEERFA, along with refugee committees from the camps, is calling the immigrant communities, the workers’ and students’ unions, people of science and art, solidarity movements, women’s and LGBT+ movements, environmental movements and municipal parties to an open meeting, to organize two days of action, June 26-27, featuring an anti-racist demonstration on Friday, June 26, at Syntagma, and a big festival on Saturday, June 27.
Called by KEERFA - Movement ‘United Against Racism and the Fascist Threat’, Refugee Committees from the camps, the Pakistan Community of Greece ‘Unity’, the Cameroon Community of Greece, people of science and art, municipal parties, unions.
To take part remotely, you can connect via Zoom.
Reach us at Tel.: 6932828964, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Evacuate the camps!
Housing for the refugees!

Watch live, on KEERFA's Facebook page.

- Communication with refugees and solidaries from the camps of Corinth, Malakasa, Schisto, Moria.
- Abdul Aziz, Nauru island detainee for 7 years
- Workers from refugee facilities
- Thrasos Avraam, Journalist of “Sto Nisi”, Lesvos
- Juana Stavrianou, hotel employee, Anti-capitalist Movement of Workers in Food Provision and Tourism “Kamariera”
- Katerina Thoidou, City Counselor in Nikaia-Renti
- Nikos Hatzaras, Help at Home, Central Macedonia
- Petros Constantinou, Coordinator of KEERFA

-Ulrike Schmidt, Amnesty International UK

Weyman Bennett, Stand Up to Racism

The government that detained thousands of refugees in all its Morias and Amygdalezas, is cynically ignoring the danger of CoViD-19’s spreading through the dangerously congested camps. The solidarity movement, along with unions and municipal parties, the international movements, Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders urgently demand the evacuation of the camps.

The government is voting harsher laws regarding the asylum, courting its far-right audience, but they are weak. They were forced to take back their decision to create two new, closed camps, at Malakasa (outside Athens) and Kleidi (Serres), and to freeze the asylum application processes.

There is an alternative: To transfer the refugees to hotels that are not in business, as well as houses. The Ministry of Labour has publicly owned hotels and houses that can be used immediately.

Join us on our event, that will be streamed live, via KEERFA's Facebook page!

“Crowding and inhumane living conditions inside the refugee camps on the Greek islands are the ideal factors for the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic” warn the Doctors Without Borders, in a recent announcement. And yet, the Greek government wastes millions to hire border patrols for keeping the borders of Evros sealed and pushing back boats arriving to the islands, and to imprison refugees with fences around the camps and the hiring of security companies. Meanwhile, they do not bother to hire doctors and nurses to upgrade the public health system, which is the only shield protecting the poor from the virus. For the asylum seekers, the migrants and refugees from the camps to the strawberry fields of Manolada, it is impossible to maintain even the most basic preventive measures, such as frequent hand washing, proper ventilation of closed spaces and frequent cleaning with disinfectants and cleaning products. Instead, in most camps, there are dozens of families living in tents, unable to enroll into programs for housing, social support and healthcare. Communicating with the 24hour Helpline of the National Public Health Organization, as the Ministry of health suggests, is obviously impossible for people living piled inside the concentration camps of shame. It is outrageously racist of the government to claim/pretend that the fast-tracked building of closed holding facilities, such as the ones at Kleidi, Serres and the Gerakini military camp at Malakasa, will act as a deterrent to the spread of the Coronavirus. As if the refugees were to blame for the pandemic. In reality, new closed holding facilities equal only to new death traps for the refugees, along with Amygdaleza, Corinth and Paranesti. We will not allow it! Public Health is NOT a personal responsibility, and above all is NOT a privilege of the few. To save our Public Health, and to put the lives of locals and migrants above their profits, we demand: Closing of the camps of shame, and transport of all refugees - documented and undocumented - to houses and hotels within the cities, with responsibility of the public and municipal care structures, along with mass hires of permanent staff. Free access to hospitals and all public sector services for everyone.

SUPPORTED BY:

REFUGEE COMMITIES FROM THE CAMPS OF MORIA, MALAKASA, SCHISTO, DIAVATA, ELEONAS, CORINTH, AMYGDALEZA

KEERFA (MOVEMENT ‘UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND THE FASCIST THREAT’)

PAKISTAN COMMUNITY OF GREECE ‘UNITY’

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