Agricultural mobilizations – “Rendezvous” in Athens are given by farmers
The “cycle” of mobilizations is opened by the farmers and stockbreeders of the country, who organize rallies and gatherings in the center of Athens.
Thus, the farmers from Crete, as well as the raisin producers of the Peloponnese, organize their descent to Athens on Friday, November 5. The next day, on Saturday, November 6, at a rally in Syntagma at 12 noon, he calls the Panhellenic Committee of Blocs for the disasters from the floods, the frosts, the earthquakes.
Specifically, farmers from Crete are organizing a mobilization at the Ministry of Rural Development and Food protesting against the reduced subsidies of OPEKEPE, which came to add to the accumulated problems of the rural world.
On the same day, the raisin producers of the Peloponnese call for mobilization, with the central slogan “We say no to the abandonment of raisin cultivation”. In a relevant call, they denounce the “complete indifference of the minister and their tolerance in the trade union to the detriment of our interests”, demanding the withdrawal of the raisin stock and the parallel support of the raisin producers.
The next day, on Saturday, November 6, the Panhellenic Committee of Blocs gives an “appointment” to the Constitution, which calls on the farmers and stockbreeders affected by the natural disasters and “their lives are lost in the fury of fire, water and of. earthquake “to participate en masse in the nationwide rally held on the initiative of fire-affected, flood-affected and earthquake-affected areas.