Hunger Striker Nears 130 Days in Defence of Athens Prosfygika Community
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Hunger striker nears 130 days in defence of Athens Prosfygika community
Aristotelis Chantzis has entered the 130th day of a hunger strike in defence of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in central Athens, as concerns continue to grow over plans to evict residents and redevelop the historic neighbourhood. The second hunger striker, Suzon Doppagne, who joined the protest in solidarity on 1 May, is approaching 50 days of her hunger strike. More members of the community, some of them with serious health problems, hav…
Threatened by a rehabilitation project that its inhabitants denounce as an expulsion and gentrification operation, the self-managed district of Prosfygika in Athens is trying to warn Europe. According to the delegation who came to Brussels, this project, partly financed by European funds, could undermine the right to housing of several hundred inhabitants. In Belgium, this struggle particularly moved Liège, the hometown of Suzon Doppagne, a loca…
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