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.
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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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«La promiscuité et les conditions de vie misérables dans les camps de réfugiés situés sur les îles grecques produisent les conditions idéales pour la propagation de l’épidémie du coronavirus», prévient Médecins sans Frontières, dans un communiqué récent. Pourtant le gouvernement gaspille des millions pour embaucher des garde-frontières, pour fermer la frontière de l’Evros, pour repousser les bateaux de réfugiés qui arrivent dans les îles, et pour enfermer des réfugié(e)s en créant des barrières autour des camps, et en payant des compagnies de sécurité, qui font de ces camps des ghettos inaccessibles. Dans le même temps, le gouvernement n’embauche aucun médecin et infirmier(e) pour renforcer le système de santé public, seul bouclier de protection de la grande majorité des pauvres contre le coronavirus. Pour les demandeurs d’asile, les immigré(e)s et les réfugié (e)s des camps, aussi bien que ceux qui travaillent dans les champs de fraises à Manolada, il est impossible de respecter les mesures de prévention ELEMENTAIRES, comme se laver souvent les mains, bien aérer les lieux intérieurs, éviter la promiscuité dans des lieux fermés, et procéder à des nettoyages réguliers avec des antiseptiques et des produits de nettoyage. Au contraire, dans la plupart des camps il y a encore des dizaines de familles qui vivent dans des tentes, sans pouvoir s’inscrire dans des programmes de logement, de soutien social et de soins médicaux. La communication téléphonique 24/24 avec le EODY, comme le conseille le Ministère de la Santé, est bien sûr impossible pour des gens qui sont entassés dans ces camps de la honte. Le gouvernement fait preuve d’un racisme extrême lorsqu’il prétend que la construction immédiate de structures fermées, comme à Kleidi près de Serres et le camp Gerakini à Malakasa, est un stratégie dissuasive contre la propagation du coronavirus. Comme si les réfugiés étaient responsables de la propagation de la pandémie. Au contraire, la construction de prisons fermées va avoir pour conséquence la propagation de nouveaux lieux-pièges, de morts et d’extermination des réfugié(e)s, en plus d’Amygdaleza, Corinthe et Paranesti. Nous ne les laisserons pas faire! La santé publique N’EST PAS une responsabilité individuelle et surtout elle N’EST PAS le privilège de certains. Afin de sauver la santé publique, afin de mettre la vie des habitant(e)s, Grecs et immigré (e)s avant leurs profits, nous exigeons :

- que ferment immédiatement les camps de la honte et que soient transférés les réfugié(e)s (enregistrés ou non) dans des maisons et des hôtels dans les villes, sous la responsabilité de structures municipales de soins, qui impliquent d’embaucher massivement du personnel en CDI.

- accès libre et gratuit pour tous et toutes dans les hôpitaux et tous les services sociaux!

SOUTENU PAR

DES COMITÉS DE REFUGIÉ(E)S DES CAMPS DE MORIA, MALAKASA, SCHISTO, DIAVATA, ELAIONAS, CORINTHE, AMYGDALEZA

KEERFA - MOUVEMENT UNIS CONTRE LE RACISME ET LA MENACE FASCISTE

COMMUNITÉ PAKISTANAISE EN GRÈCE «L’ UNION»

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