Athens Olympic Park Becomes Camp for Refugees Trapped in Greece
The European Union and Turkey aim to finalize a deal this week to stop the flow of migrants traveling from the Turkish coastline to Greece. Over 100,000 people have arrived in Greece so far this year. Henry Ridgwell traveled to a makeshift refugee camp in Athens and spoke to some of the refugees about their thoughts on the deal.
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Athens, Greece: Riot policemen get trapped by protesters during the austerity riots (19/10/2011)
Striking images of the anti-austerity movement that took over the city center (approximately 100, 000 protesters) of Athens, Greece during a two days general strike against the second memorandum on 19 and 20 October 2011, against a new round of harsh austerity measures that were being voted at the time by mps inside the greek parliament, aimed once again against the lower income classes rather, than the banks and the wealthy.
The self-proclaimed socialist government of PASOK (at the time) in co-operation with the right wing party of Nea Dimokratia, after repeated rounds of belt-tightening, unleashed a new class war, voting in favor of new tax hikes, further cuts to pensions, firing thousands of public servants and reduced pay for 30,000 that remained, as well as, and the suspension of collective labour contracts, amongst other measures, while creditors had demanded the measures in order to provide the government with €110bn package of bailout loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
And as if a life with no future wasn’t enough, the streets of Athens were filled with thousands of riot policemen to impose fear on people daring to protest. During the 48-hour protests the tens of thousands of protesters were literally constantly bombarded with asphyxiating gas, while the people that were evacuated by ambulances surpassed the number of one hundred, amongst them many that had been injured during the riot police attacks.
It has to be noted that policemen and military personnel were the only public servants in Greece that did not suffer any layoffs or reduced pay during the capitalist crisis, and even if some of their subsidies were reduced later, soon they were paid back in full.
50 trapped animals found at collector's house in Athens, Greece
Last week 34 dogs and 16 cats were found trapped in critical condition living in a house near Spata, Athens with two elderly ladies. It was discovered that the two women lived amongst piles of garbage and all sorts of waste, while the 50 animals lived in the basement of their house in very poor condition, as they were facing starvation and multiple health risks. These pets were thankfully rescued by a group of volunteers while the two elderly ladies were transported to the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens to receive medical treatment. Despite being rescued from the house, the dogs and cats still need your help, as some of them suffer from diseases such as ehrlichia, many female dogs and cats are pregnant while most of them face the danger of starvation. In order for us to provide for them the appropriate medical care and help them stand up on their feet again it is urgent that we raise 2.000 euros to cover the veterinary expenses. So what are you waiting for? All of us can donate the minimum amount of 1 EURO to ensure that these little animals will live a happy and healthy life from now on! If we all contribute to this campaign we will be able to save 50 precious lives and put an end to their misery. Donations via Paypal at info@dogsvoice.gr
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Βοηθάμε 50 ζώα σε ανάγκη που σώθηκαν από συλλέκτη στα Σπάτα
Την περασμένη εβδομάδα, 34 σκύλοι και 16 γάτες βρέθηκαν να ζουν εγκλωβισμένα και σε άθλια κατάσταση στο σπίτι δύο συλλεκτριών στα Σπάτα. Οι δύο γυναίκες διαπιστώθηκε ότι ζούσαν μέσα σε βουνά απορριμμάτων και σκουπιδιών, ενώ στο υπόγειο του σπιτιού τους είχαν φυλακίσει 50 ζώα, υποσιτισμένα και άρρωστα. Τα ζώα αυτά διασώθηκαν από μια ομάδα εθελοντών, ενώ οι δύο γυναίκες μεταφέρθηκαν στο Ψυχιατρικό νοσοκομείο Αττικής “Δρομοκαΐτειο”.
Όμως 34 σκύλοι και 16 γάτες χρειάζονται άμεσα την βοήθεια σου καθώς πολλά από τα ζώα πάσχουν από ασθένειες όπως ερλίχιωση και ψώρα, 6 είναι έγκυα ενώ άλλα είναι βαρέως υποσιτισμένα. Είναι επείγον και αναγκαίο να μαζέψουμε 2.000 ευρώ για να καλυφθούν τα βασικά έξοδα της κτηνιατρικής τους φροντίδας με φιλική προσφορά από την κτηνίατρο Δέσποινα Κοτρομαγιά που τα έχει αναλάβει.
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Trapped In Greece
Alan Mohammad and his sister Gyan are disabled Kurdish refugees in Syria who fled with their mother, brother and sister to Iraq in 2014 and then via Turkey to Greece. They travelled via horseback, in the back of a van and in a dinghy.
They are now trapped in Ritsona camp, 1 hour north of Athens in Greece, whilst their father and another sister are in Germany. Both Alan and Gyan suffer from muscular dystrophy, are in wheelchairs and unable to do the most basic tasks which makes living in the camp very difficult for them. They would like to join their father and other sister in Germany.
Moustafa Khalozai - Afghan Refugee in Athens
Old airport in Athens becomes home for trapped refugees
Thousands of people have arrived on Greece’s shores this year, and with the cash-strapped government struggling to cope with the influx, an abandoned airport has become home for many in limbo in the country.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Athens.
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Greece: Teachers and police come to blows as Athens demo escalates
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Demonstrators and police clashed outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on Monday as teachers continued their strike in protest of a proposed law which would change how staff are hired.
Footage shows police in riot gear and masks using tear gas and batons to push protesters back as they tried to enter the parliament grounds. Protesters fought back with sticks and fire extinguishers.
The teachers' strike and subsequent demonstrations, which started on January 11, are in protest of a proposed law which would set benchmarks for how teachers are appointed, which, they say, values qualifications over experience.
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Migrants In Greece Try To HANG Themselves In Athens Square!!!
Migrants In Greece Try To HANG Themselves In Athens Square!!!
Greece has warned it would not be turned into ‘warehouse of souls’ by the rest of the Europe after tens of thousands of migrants were left trapped in the country.Two desperate men yesterday attempted to hang themselves in a square in the centre of Athens as frustrations grew with border closures that have stopped people leaving.one of the men, a Pakistani, was left unconscious after tying a noose made from twisted lengths of fabric to a tree and was taken to hospital.At a makeshift migrant camp in one of the capital’s suburbs, hundreds queued for food.Greek officials estimate 20,000 migrants have been stranded there after neighbouring Macedonia abruptly shut its border on Monday to anyone not Syrian or Iraqi.With all migrant centres full, Greek authorities have started using stadiums as temporary accommodation.The UN’s refugee agency yesterday announced it is looking to lease entire hotels with hundreds of rooms for at least nine months.More than 800,000 people last year arrived from Turkey on the Greek islands, where they got boats to Athens and then headed to the Balkans and continued their journeys up through Europe.
But the tough new restrictions being enforced by Macedonia, which is only letting 200 people through a day, have created a bottleneck with thousands continuing to arrive each day in the country but with no way to leave.The Greek Prime Minister has warned his country will block future EU agreements if other member states refused to share the burden of refugees.Alexis Tsipras said Greece: ‘Will not accept turning the country into a permanent warehouse of souls with Europe continuing to function as if nothing is happening.’
Refugees trapped in Greece call for open borders
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Piraeus port, Athens - 17 March 2016
1. Various of migrants and refugees protesting at Piraeus port
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hamayoon Haidary, Afghan refugee:
Believe me they (the Afghan families) are facing the big challenge of the security point of view. Recently, you could see from after the Taliban, the Daesh group is exactly existing (since their existence). I personally understand that more (most) families here, I understand more (most) families, they exactly, they lost three, more than three or four members of their family here (from the families that are here).
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Schisto transit camp, Athens - 17 March 2016
3. Various of migrants and refugees queuing for food
4. Various of Afghan refugee Ziamal Wafa going into tent
5. Wafa sitting with others in tent
6. Close of Wafa's hands
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziarmal Wafa, Afghan refugee:
When I worked with American soldiers, there is no problem and nobody said to me, nobody take me warning (nobody warned me) and no Talib (members of Taliban), no warner peoples (no one warned the people), right now everybody is in danger, danger people (people are in danger) in my area. Now I want to the peoples (the politicians of the EU summit), please help me, help to be out from this case, from the this problem, from this risk.
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Piraeus port, Athens - 17 March 2016
8. Various of Iraqi refugee Outhman Al Abas with his family
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Outhman Al Abas, Iraqi refugee:
I come from 2003 (he means 2013) in Turkey, I take all the documents for UNHCR and UNHCR has not accepted me, and not accept my family, so I leave (left) Turkey and come here. I want to go to Europe, I want a nicer future for my family.
10. Various of Outhman talking with Syrian refugee Abdul Salam Ahmed and his family
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Salam Ahmed, Syrian refugee:
Syrian and Iraqis have war in their country, and we have left our country and wish to go to Germany, to see a nicer future in Germany and when Bashar's (Syrian President Bashar Assad) war is finished we will go back to Syria.
12. Various of protest
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Refugees trapped in Greece held peaceful protests in the country's main port on Thursday, demanding that European countries open their borders to let them reach the continent's prosperous heartland.
About 350 people from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan took part in the peaceful protests at Piraeus, the port of Athens, where some 4,000 people are stranded.
They held up signs reading Open the borders and We are humans too.
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GREECE: FOREIGN TRUCKERS REMAIN TRAPPED AS FARMERS BLOCKADE ROADS
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Hundreds of foreign truckers remain trapped in Greece as protesting farmers blockade key roads out of the country
More than 100 barricades continued to block highways, byways and railroad tracks across the country, preventing the truckers from moving out.
For the farmers it is a struggle to survive against government policy that they feel is emptying their pockets and endangering their way of life.
Although some European truckers are moving past the farmers' blockade in Greece, at least one group of Turkish, Bulgarian and Iranian truckers in Tempi aren't so lucky.
Without money or much food to eat a group of truckers have been stuck in a town 400 kilometres north of Athens for almost two weeks with the feeling of being forgotten.
The major roads are blocked so the truckers have nowhere else to go and so stay put.
The 30 to 40 truckers depend on food that is dropped off by the police once a day.
To keep warm the truckers are cutting and burning branches from nearby trees.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
We've been here 13 days without water, without toilets, without showers.
SUPERCAPTION: Svetam Vasilev, Bulgarian Trucker
Without a reliable source of water the truckers have had to resort unconventional ways of hygiene.
The truckers themselves come from all over.
UPSOUND: (Bulgarian)
There are Iranian Turkish and Austrian truckers here.
SUPERCAPTION: Daniel Nikolof, Bulgarian trucker
The truckers cargo of perishable foodstuffs rotted away 11 days ago.
What makes matters worse is that they feel no one cares about their plight.
About 40 Kilometres away in Larissa is the largest blockade of Greek farmers in the country.
At the barricades the stench of rotting oranges adds to the smell of campfires.
On the roadsides is the debris of two weeks of roadblocks.
The farming village of Amygdalea a few kilometres away is a typical piece of rural Greece. Here there is a burning resentment and blame against the government in south which they feel has neglected them.
Farmers camped out on the highways around this agricultural capital say bitterness over years of rural abandonment forced their three-week blockade of the nation's road network.
They are demanding higher subsidies, cheaper fuel prices and a write-off of debts owed to state owned debts.
Farmers last month rebelled against Premier Costas Simitis' Socialist government's decision to further tighten austerity policies designed to bring Greece in line with European Union plans for a single currency.
Their revolt was fanned by a storm of public protest over the government's 1997 state budget which slashes tax benefits and imposes new levies.
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For the film stars, the government gives millions, but for the farmers, they get nothing. For 15 days the tractors are running around in the rain. And he (Premier Simitis) has got up and left (to the EU conference in Dublin)
SUPERCAPTION: Andrea, 80 years old
Simitis pledged to implement programs to educate farmers about production, but the protesters at this barricade say promises are not good enough.
The farmers' wives are working the fields while their husbands man the blockades.
Markets in Salonica, north of here are beginning to feel the pinch as less fresh produce manages to get through the blockade.
Athens, the capital, so far has not been seriously affected by the blockade because fresh produce and raw materials are shipped through its nearby port of Piraeus.
But the farmers are showing no signs of giving up, which could force the government to eventually revert to force in an attempt to break the blockade and restore the country's normal economic life.
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Greek farmers fight police in Athens over tax hikes
Greek farmers armed with shepherd's crooks and stones fought riot police in a violent protest against tax hikes outside the Ministry of Agriculture in Athens.
More than 1,000 farmers, many of whom had traveled overnight from the island of Crete took part in the protest while police used tear gas and stun grenades and arrested at least three people.
As protesters are angry at increases in their tax and social security contributions, a number of farmers smashed windows of two police buses and burned a flag of the ruling party SYRIZA.
Athens, Greece, 08 March 2017.
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Anarchists attack the riot police outside the greek parliament (Athens, Greece – 17 May 2017)
“We won’t live like slaves - The only lost battles are the ones that they have not been given”.
On Wednesday 17 May 2017 thousands of people joined the general strike protests all over Greece, against the new harsh financial measures of 4.9 billion euros incorporated in the 4th Memorandum signed by the greek government, aimed once again against the lower income classes rather, than the banks and the wealthy.
The self proclaimed left government of SYRIZA in co-operation with the right wing party of ANEL have unleashed a new class war, this time specifically aimed against people with disability and pensioners that have worked all their lives and paid their share under the false notion -as it seems- that during the time when they will be most vulnerable, they would have free public health services and subsidies that would help them get by. On the contrary after 23(!) severe cuts in pensions and allowances during the 8 years of the financial crisis in Greece (amounting to more than 50 billion euros in pension and allowances cuts during the last 7 years), that has forced people to live like beggars, a further 18% cut will be imposed on pensions under the 4th Memorandum being voted in the greek parliament these days and a “freezing” of even the slightest raise in pensions until 2022.
And as if a life with no future wasn’t enough, the streets of Athens have been filled with thousands of riot policemen to impose fear on people daring to protest during the general strike of 17 May 2017. Thus, during the protest in Athens anarchists attacked the riot police brigades in Syntagma Square around the greek parliament, whilst inside politicians were discussing the new harsh financial measures to be imposed on the people, without the people. More protests will take place tomorrow 18 May during the voting of the measures in the greek parliament.
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Unemployment in Greece remains stuck near record highs, but even many of those with a job are struggling financially.
Newly released figures show nearly 30 percent of workers in the private sector are earning less that 600 euros a month.
Theodoros Anastasopoulos left university three years ago, but the only job he can get is as a public opinion pollster:
He told euronews: Two years after I completed my studies, I found this part-time job which pays me 250 to 300 euros a month. Obviously, I cannot afford to rent anywhere to live, I stay with my mother and my sister and the money we make covers only the food, utility bills and taxes.
The Greek Labour Ministry says there are 1,371,450 people employed by private companies in the country.
Twenty percent of them - 274,000 - earn less that 500 euros a month, mostly working part time. Another eight percent - that's 100,000 people - have a monthly income of 500 to 600 euros.
Most of the rest earn between 1,000 and 2,000 euros. Labour costs have fallen as unemployment has been rising.
Anna Hatzioannidou told us: I finished my architecture studies a year ago. I have sent out over 100 CVs, I have only had a couple of job interviews. Now, I work as a part time photographer, taking pictures at night clubs and bars, for 240 euros per month.
Dramatically lower wages have not meant more people in work.
In September unemployment inched up to 27.4 percent of the workforce from 27.3 percent in the previous two months. Almost 52 percent of young people are without a job.
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Greece: Police tear gas students protesting business reforms in Athens
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Police deployed tear gas to disperse students protesting governmental business reforms in Athens on Thursday.
Clashes occurred between police and protesters who had marched on the Hellenic Parliament.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is reportedly introducing the changes to stimulate investments helping the Greek economy emerge from a long stagnation period.
Students and unions oppose the measures, given that the new laws would affect workers' rights and affect state universities diplomas compared to the private schools' degrees.
A similar protest took place in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki.
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Trapped in Greece
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Athens square becomes temporary camp for stranded refugees
The Greek government is warning that up to 70,000 refugees could soon be stranded in Greece.
It says it's considering bringing in the army to deal with the situation.
Mohammed Adow reports from Athens, where thousands continue to arrive, only to be stranded.
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