The “CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT STRUGGLE for Healthcare” invites the impovrished masses, workers, the unemployed, immigrants, class trade unions, healthcare providers and scientists, every poor and oppressed fellow citizen, to unite and move forward together through organized action and solidarity on issues that relate to healthcare and the impact this has on our lives. The very right to life is at stake for hundreds of thousands of workers. Those who fall ill and cannot afford access to hospitals and basic care will find themselves being marginalised and are in danger of being driven to despair, to suicide, to death.
Charity and hand-me-downs are not enough to close the gaping wounds of a society that is hemorrhaging from this unprecendented social and economic crisis. We do not believe that the state, the church, NGOs, the industrialists and the mass media can save us. They act with the utmost hypocrisy, they try to appease us by tossing a few crumbs our way and then simultaneously try to take whatever we’ve accomplished through years of struggle and sweat, they try to take our very lives even.
The “CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STRUGGLE for Healthcare” is a collective that fights to support those who require assistance and access to care, without discriminating against those in need in any way. We all must claim our right to healthcare, to our rights in life in general. The challenge for us is to emancipate and free ourselves from all the shackles we are bound by, not to renegotiation these terms that have led to exploitation, humiliation and indignity.
On Saturday, March 30th 2013, at 17.00, at the club LE.F.KA, Promitheos 73-75 (Kato Patissia, train station), we will inaugurate the opening and bringing into operation of the clinic and advisory center on health issues. We will gather, get to meet one another, discuss these important issues at hand and self-organize against the social destruction and desperation we all face.
We claim our right to health and healthcare!
We take our lives into our own hands, here and now!
No one stands alone in the face of despair and destruction!