International Solidarity-Need for signatures!
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Nikos Kapitsinis
Nov 22, 2012, 9:59:23 AM11/22/12
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Dear all,
I would like to ask from you to spend a little of your time and read the following statement. I kindly ask from you to support with your signature three unionists in Greece who were arrested because they were protesting. On Novemb
I would like to ask from you to spend a little of your time and read the following statement. I kindly ask from you to support with your signature three unionists in Greece who were arrested because they were protesting. On Novemb
er 16th 2012 the police arrested three unionists accusing them for participating in the protests against the German deputy labor minister, Fuchtel, in Thessaloniki the day before. Two of the arrestees are municipal workers and the third one is a primary-school teacher - known figure of the Left and the Labour movement as well as an elected member of the teacher's Union Board. The teacher was arrested within the premises of his school and in front of his pupils. All three, were sent to court the day after. According to the prosecutor's decision the process was closed for the public. The solidarity mobilization for the three arrestees was massive and the trial has been postponed for December 19th. One day later, during the demonstrations for the commemoration of the people's revolt against the dictatorship in 1973, sixteen young people were arrested when the police invaded the University in a brutal way.
This is a petition in support of the three unionists and the sixteen young people, who are prosecuted because of their participation in the mobilizations in Thessaloniki against the visiting German deputy labor minister, Fuchtel, and the demonstration for the commemoration of the people's revolt against the dictatorship in 1973. The following statement was announced in the three unionists' trial, on Monday 19 November.
PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT
On November 17th 2012, thirty-nine years after the Greek people revolted against the military junta (dictatorship) demanding bread, education, and freedom, the arrest and forced trial of three union activists in Thessaloniki, with the hypocritical and unsubstantiated criminal charges of “illegal violence” as well as the similar treatment of sixteen youth arrested inside the University after the demonstrations for the commemorations of the events in the Polytechnic School in Athens, constitute an insult to our historical memory.
We want to stress the serious responsibility of the government which, in an attempt to implement at all costs its anti-popular politics, assumes the responsibility of an open anti-democratic political assault, targeting those political liberties achieved through struggle and bloodshed. The constant heightening of state repression, police abuse, torture of protesters at the Central Police Headquarters in Athens, employers’ terror in workplaces, racist pogroms, and state support of Nazi and fascist gangs make up the “arsenal” they use against the popular workers movement in an attempt to subjugate them.
People’s right to fight remains non-negotiable, particularly at a time when civil rights, democracy and people’s rule are at gunpoint. The fact that the arrests followed almost immediately after German Chancellor Merkel’s statements about “violence in Greece” is revealing. Was such the eagerness and subservience to please our partners-lenders-prosecutors?
We invite all political forces, unions, organizations and other stakeholders to mobilize immediately towards a common coordinated struggle to subvert the terrorization of workers’ struggles that is reminiscent of the darkest times of this country’s history.
WE DEMAND THAT ALL ARRESTED UNION ACTIVISTS AND YOUTH ARE SET FREE AND THAT THEIR UNACCEPTABLE PROSECUTION CEASES
Please support them by signing in the following link (the above statement is in Greek in this site but for signing it there are english instructions in the bottom of the page):
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!!
This is a petition in support of the three unionists and the sixteen young people, who are prosecuted because of their participation in the mobilizations in Thessaloniki against the visiting German deputy labor minister, Fuchtel, and the demonstration for the commemoration of the people's revolt against the dictatorship in 1973. The following statement was announced in the three unionists' trial, on Monday 19 November.
PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT
On November 17th 2012, thirty-nine years after the Greek people revolted against the military junta (dictatorship) demanding bread, education, and freedom, the arrest and forced trial of three union activists in Thessaloniki, with the hypocritical and unsubstantiated criminal charges of “illegal violence” as well as the similar treatment of sixteen youth arrested inside the University after the demonstrations for the commemorations of the events in the Polytechnic School in Athens, constitute an insult to our historical memory.
We want to stress the serious responsibility of the government which, in an attempt to implement at all costs its anti-popular politics, assumes the responsibility of an open anti-democratic political assault, targeting those political liberties achieved through struggle and bloodshed. The constant heightening of state repression, police abuse, torture of protesters at the Central Police Headquarters in Athens, employers’ terror in workplaces, racist pogroms, and state support of Nazi and fascist gangs make up the “arsenal” they use against the popular workers movement in an attempt to subjugate them.
People’s right to fight remains non-negotiable, particularly at a time when civil rights, democracy and people’s rule are at gunpoint. The fact that the arrests followed almost immediately after German Chancellor Merkel’s statements about “violence in Greece” is revealing. Was such the eagerness and subservience to please our partners-lenders-prosecutors?
We invite all political forces, unions, organizations and other stakeholders to mobilize immediately towards a common coordinated struggle to subvert the terrorization of workers’ struggles that is reminiscent of the darkest times of this country’s history.
WE DEMAND THAT ALL ARRESTED UNION ACTIVISTS AND YOUTH ARE SET FREE AND THAT THEIR UNACCEPTABLE PROSECUTION CEASES
Please support them by signing in the following link (the above statement is in Greek in this site but for signing it there are english instructions in the bottom of the page):
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!!
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