Athens: Gathering of the disabled, chronically ill and parents of disabled people at the Syntagma (PHOTO)
The disabled, chronically ill and their families honor today’s International Day of the Disabled with combativeness and assertiveness.
in Athena, concentration concentration in Syntagma Squarewith the participation of the disabled, chronically ill and their families.
The mobilization takes place after her call Disability Struggle Coordination Committee and his of the Unified Association of Parents with Disabilities. Their banner reads: “Disabled people in the struggle with the people, for a life with rights. So that we don’t freeze, don’t get impoverished. No more trade with our needs”.
They demand: No house without electricity, without essentials. Abolition of the VAT on consumer goods, the fuel tax, the Energy exchange. Increases now in wages, pensions, benefits. No to the hat baskets, the 250 euros of alms. No to the extreme Health bill that puts our lives in the bargain.
It also participates Women’s Federation of Greece, unions and bodies of disabled people and workers in Special Education. The mobilization is attended by GG her KE of KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas.
Similar demonstrations today in Thessaloniki at the Ministry of Macedonia – Thrace and in Serres on the pedestrian street K. Karamanlis.