Since the day I got informed about Nikos Romanos' hunger strike, no day can pass without finding me skeptical, isolated in my room, lost in my thoughts about what is happening back in my beloved country.
I cannot remember when was the last day in Greece where its nation was happy.
Year by year things get worst instead of getting better: Young people are forced to migrate abroad in order to find a descent job instead of working 12 hours for 300 euros after even obtaining MSc or Phd.
The center of Athens is not sustainable anymore because of the number of immigrants that of course did not migrate their country in order to come and sleep on a bench in Omonia square but this is all they got - and this is the best case scenario for an immigrant- after the European countries that were their goal, sent them back where they came from.
Old people get help from Golden Dawn in order to go and get money out from the bank without becoming a thief victim of these "bad immigrants".
On top of that, more and more people get to vote this far-right political party and start parroting their (by far inhuman) beliefs.
Six years ago, a 15 years old boy, Alexis Grigoropoulos got murdered by a policeman while he was going to buy something to eat with his friend, Nikos Romanos. He left his last breath on the hands of Nikos.
What is happening now:
Romanos, who is serving a 16-year sentence, began a hunger strike last month after being refused prison leave to attend lectures.
He passed university entrance exams to study business administration in Athens while he was awaiting trial for armed robbery of a bank and a post office, but was refused educational leave after his conviction.
I keep waking up with the thought of this boy. You can see the anger of this abused young soul in the following photos. Up in the left it's him waving to the people that stand for him outside of the hospital during this hunger strike.
What are they waiting for? Do they want him dead too? Why?
Why not giving him the educational leave?
When did the fascism come and take the lead of this corrupted government and at which point democracy in Greece started to be seen only in books as an idea?
Authorities even took the decision after a court to force his feeding!!!
What is all this shit?
Since when education stopped being a right for prisoners?
Since when someone has no longer the right to go on hunger strike?
Today I read the text of a teacher in his prison who is willing to escort him in the university and bring him back.
I also read a text of 75 alumnus from his private school in which they stand by him and ask for his right to education to be accepted.
Later on I saw the following photo from last Saturday's demonstration in Athens (The day of Alexis' death):
with the comment "This girl is now in the hospital with broken teeth and several serious injuries".
FOR HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE ACCEPTING THIS DICTATORY?
WHEN POLICEMEN ARE GOING TO BE AGAIN THERE FOR OUR SAFETY INSTEAD OF THESE SERIOUS ATTACKS ON PEOPLE WHO J U S T DEMONSTRATE PEACEFULLY IN THE STREETS FOR THEIR LOST RIGHTS AND THEIR LOST DEMOCRACY?
I really do not know where all this is going to lead us.
I really do not know how we could change the things at the moment.
I am so far away and yet so close mentally.
I feel for my nation, I feel for my country and I have tons of anger too which I don't know how to manage at the moment.
I was not taking part of these demonstrations or occupations of universities etc but I have the feeling but now I would do so.
Goodnight and good luck Niko. Goodnight and good luck to all Greek people who feel for him, their nation and their country which bleeds constantly.
Let's hope the Greek revolutionary part of us will wake up before it's too late.
Let's hope a bright day will come ASAP.
Otherwise, Greece will become a memory from a cart postal even for us the Greeks.
I cannot remember when was the last day in Greece where its nation was happy.
Year by year things get worst instead of getting better: Young people are forced to migrate abroad in order to find a descent job instead of working 12 hours for 300 euros after even obtaining MSc or Phd.
The center of Athens is not sustainable anymore because of the number of immigrants that of course did not migrate their country in order to come and sleep on a bench in Omonia square but this is all they got - and this is the best case scenario for an immigrant- after the European countries that were their goal, sent them back where they came from.
Old people get help from Golden Dawn in order to go and get money out from the bank without becoming a thief victim of these "bad immigrants".
On top of that, more and more people get to vote this far-right political party and start parroting their (by far inhuman) beliefs.
Six years ago, a 15 years old boy, Alexis Grigoropoulos got murdered by a policeman while he was going to buy something to eat with his friend, Nikos Romanos. He left his last breath on the hands of Nikos.
What is happening now:
Romanos, who is serving a 16-year sentence, began a hunger strike last month after being refused prison leave to attend lectures.
He passed university entrance exams to study business administration in Athens while he was awaiting trial for armed robbery of a bank and a post office, but was refused educational leave after his conviction.
I keep waking up with the thought of this boy. You can see the anger of this abused young soul in the following photos. Up in the left it's him waving to the people that stand for him outside of the hospital during this hunger strike.
What are they waiting for? Do they want him dead too? Why?
Why not giving him the educational leave?
When did the fascism come and take the lead of this corrupted government and at which point democracy in Greece started to be seen only in books as an idea?
Authorities even took the decision after a court to force his feeding!!!
What is all this shit?
Since when education stopped being a right for prisoners?
Since when someone has no longer the right to go on hunger strike?
Today I read the text of a teacher in his prison who is willing to escort him in the university and bring him back.
I also read a text of 75 alumnus from his private school in which they stand by him and ask for his right to education to be accepted.
Later on I saw the following photo from last Saturday's demonstration in Athens (The day of Alexis' death):
FOR HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE ACCEPTING THIS DICTATORY?
WHEN POLICEMEN ARE GOING TO BE AGAIN THERE FOR OUR SAFETY INSTEAD OF THESE SERIOUS ATTACKS ON PEOPLE WHO J U S T DEMONSTRATE PEACEFULLY IN THE STREETS FOR THEIR LOST RIGHTS AND THEIR LOST DEMOCRACY?
I really do not know where all this is going to lead us.
I really do not know how we could change the things at the moment.
I am so far away and yet so close mentally.
I feel for my nation, I feel for my country and I have tons of anger too which I don't know how to manage at the moment.
I was not taking part of these demonstrations or occupations of universities etc but I have the feeling but now I would do so.
Goodnight and good luck Niko. Goodnight and good luck to all Greek people who feel for him, their nation and their country which bleeds constantly.
Let's hope the Greek revolutionary part of us will wake up before it's too late.
Let's hope a bright day will come ASAP.
Otherwise, Greece will become a memory from a cart postal even for us the Greeks.
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