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From the StopCartel Newsdesk:
The “fast-track” eviction process in Greece supports state terrorism by robbing citizens of their dignity and their homes.
In Athens, a large family of six with unemployed and disabled members are facing the imminent threat of being thrown out onto the street. Their landlord took actions against the family by taking advantage of a corrupt judicial process that places evictions on a fast-track procedure. This means that if a judgement is made against this family, they have 3 days to remove themselves and their belongings from their home of 14 years.
The family requested that the landlord, who resides in the same building, give them more time to seek shelter elsewhere. They just want to leave their home of 14 years with dignity, without bailiffs and police arriving and exerting violence on the family, throwing the family’s possessions onto the street, and violently forcing family members outside of the home and making them homeless with three days’ notice.
This story is characteristic of the humanitarian catastrophe facing Greek citizens. The term defines a country that is without welfare protection for the thousands of families that are thrown into the street with fast-track eviction procedures. At the same time, there are thousands of empty properties belonging to the Church and the State. Fast-track is used to exploit citizens without justification. This does not benefit members of society and only adds to the problem of homelessness.
Some preliminary data on the family of Glyfada who will be left homeless:
- Father – career scientist, age 62, unemployed
- Gyos – severe physical disabilities, university education, unemployed
- Other children with university degrees and unemployed mother
A call for solidarity with all struggling people to be announced later.
A shout out to the judges:
- No citizen in the street
- No homeless in Greece
- End the brutal fast-track eviction procedure
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Original article in Greek: http://stopcartel.info/2012/12/05/ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΑ/Πολύτεκνη_οικογένεια_με_άνεργους_και_ανάπηρο_πετιέται_άμεσα_στο_δρόμο/8742.html
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A friend told me that his aunt, a judge in Greece, has had her salary slashed (half, I think he said) and has been transferred to a place that requires her to commute. The pay cuts might make judges more susceptible to bribery, and the transferring, if this is common, make them less likely to know or identify with the victims.
Elegant and evil.
The father in this family is a heart surgeon. He retired and received his pension for 6 months and then the payments just stopped entirely!!! He only had two months to be reinstated to his previous position. That no longer being an option, he started a private practice but the manufactured IMF humanitarian catastrophe left people with no money for a private physician.
In order to work in the system again – the only alternative left for a doctor who is a citizen in a country where health care is socialized – he has registered with the government for a post. The problem is that 40% of the public servants are going to be fired, on top of 2 previous brutal redundancies. Half the public servant are demonstrating and half are going to work and not working. The whole system has come to a grinding halt.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking and the bills go unpaid because there is no income for this family. The two under-25 members of the family with university degrees are unable to find work because youth unemployment is over 50%.
The Troika took down Greece in three years! It’s a humanitarian catastrophe of gigantic proportions. The Greek people need immediate relief!
Greece is just the test case, too. They will not stop until we are all gone. My friend’s family are sending money to his grandfather whose pension has also been cut, by half, IIRC. He has a bit of land, too, and some olive trees so there is that, but he are old and — well, strong, young and desperate people could take it away from him by force.
You say that
But this really is a crime in progress, and justice is what is needed. Greek citizens are being penned and starved, literally robbed and left for dead, all for the sake of money — I suppose that is the reason for most pre-meditated crimes. This will require a massive uprising of the people and the cost will be many lives.
The good news (such as it is) is that all us 99%ers are on the kill list, so we are allies. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, “We must all hang together or we will all starve separately.”
The question, of course, is what to do? Organize, organize, organize. Thank you for keeping this information coming to us.
I agree that justice is needed but in the meantime, the Greek people need relief now.
It’s the Grapes of Wrath all over again:
http://www.tiengiang.edu.vn/FileUpload/Vanban/File8128.pdf