European activists are planning to stage a march from Patras to Athens May 2, 2012 to May 11th 2012 in the framework of showing solidarity to the Greek people, and once in Athens they plan to participate in the international protest meetings which are set to take place between May 12-15th.
On their website, weareallgreeks.tumblr.com they said that the reasons backing this initiative are because they cannot accept that Greece's political and economic sovereignty is forfeited to the dictates of financial lenders, while the profiteers and perpetrators of the crisis remain untouched.
"As Europeans we cannot sit idly and watch while the Greek people are deprived of their future. Because the forcibly imposed austerity measures are, in fact, a coup d’état to remove European democracy, and a deliberate suffocation of civil society. The world’s most powerful banks have caused humiliation, especially in Greece – both morally and materially!
We stand in solidarity with the striking workers of Greece!
We stand in solidarity with the people in Greece, and with the occupations of and self management of city hospitals and factories by the workers!
We stand in solidarity with Greek agricultural workers and those in the tourism industry, who earn a pittance.
-Incidentally, in Germany, as well as in other European countries many people are no longer able to survive from their jobs, because of the minimum wage is too low. And above all, we are in solidarity with the most vulnerable: the elderly, the sick and unemployed youth!
-We also must not forget the refugees who had to leave their country and seek protection in Europe.
These are the reasons we are marching!
We, the people, want to show our solidarity, we want to stir things up, towards a European Revolution! United we are strong!
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