Demonstrations are taking place across the country in connection with the death in Tempe.

A mass rally by ADEDY, trade unions, student associations and leftist organizations is taking place in the center of Athens as part of the 24-hour nationwide strike of civil servants announced today. With the central slogan “March 8, International Women’s Day. Our lives matter. End the privatization policy,” the demonstrators march towards the Constitution.

In particular, the ADEDY Executive Committee, in accordance with the permission of the General Council, decided to call a 24-hour nationwide strike of civil servants for today, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, turning the suspension of work due to International Women’s Day into a strike with the main demands that the privatization policy be completed and real responsibility for the Tempe train accident be made.

Mass meeting in the center of Athens in connection with the tragedy in Tempe. Constitution 14:00 pic.twitter.com/EEI92IYk44

— Lukas Velidakis (@UrbanRat7) March 8, 2023

At the same time, PAME is holding a large and massive meeting at this time. According to APE, a number of trade unions, labor centres, student clubs and students have gathered in the Propylaea and are heading towards Parliament. PAME’s main demand is to “impose real responsibility and punish those who are really responsible for the Tempi accident.”

Mass meeting in the center of Athens in connection with the tragedy in Tempe. Constitution 14:30 pic.twitter.com/HYDdqJEcOD

— Lukas Velidakis (@UrbanRat7) March 8, 2023

In addition, extra-parliamentary left organizations and trade unions have gathered in Hauteyi and are marching towards the Constitution. At the same time, the Athens Labor Center will gather in Syntagma Square as part of its announced 24-hour strike.

At the moment, traffic has been stopped along Vasilisis Amalias Avenue from the pillars of Olympian Zeus, along Vasilisis Sofias from the Sekeri height, along Universidad and Stadiou streets. According to EL.AS. At the moment, 15 additions have been made.

Mobilization in Thessaloniki

Under the central slogan “Never again”, thousands of people gathered today, Wednesday (8/3) at the intersection of Egnatia and Aristotelous streets in Thessaloniki to protest against the accident in Tempi.

“Send when you arrive, he never came, we will avenge the Senane Micre,” shouted many of those gathered who flooded Egnatia at that time, going down the road.

At the call of the Thessaloniki Labor Centre, trade unions, agencies, workers’ associations, federations and several collectives are participating in today’s grandiose mobilization.

According to GRTimes.gr, middle and high school students and EPAL students are also protesting about this. There are also members of feminist groups who, in addition to protesting against Tempi, also participate in actions within the framework of International Women’s Day.

At around 2:00 pm, incidents between hooded policemen and MAT took place outside the New Thessaloniki railway station.

Great participation in meetings in Heraklion and Chania

Participation in the strike meeting held in Eleftherias Square in Heraklion was great. Participants in the strike mobilization from the public and private sectors expressed outrage at the tragedy in Tempi and demanded “to impose eternal duties on the guilty and to end the policy of privatizing public wealth on the altar of profit.”

Holding banners with slogans like “Why?” or “Never mind again: let’s go anywhere” demonstrators demanded safety in public transport and opposed the privatization not only of transport, but also of healthcare and education.

Public sector unions, teachers, health professionals, administrative workers, Heraklion Labor Center unions, student and student associations and pensioners took part in the protest rally and march in the main streets of Heraklion that followed.

A rally was also held in Chania, which was attended mainly by students. The mobilization participants gathered at the Municipal Market Square of the city, where the speeches took place, and then marched through the main streets of Chania towards Eleftherias Square, outside the offices of the vice-region and ended through Irun Polytechnic and Eleftheriou Venizelos Streets, Municipal Market Square.

According to APE, during the march, students raised white balloons into the sky. In addition to schoolchildren and students, representatives of trade unions from the public and private sectors, as well as citizens, were “present”.

Big congregation in Larissa

At the same time, on the central Larisa Square, in the context of today’s strike.

Under slogans such as “Tears dried up and turned to rage, the new generation does not forgive you” and “New news steals your life, war has been declared on you, your war too”, students hold banners demanding not to cover up responsibility for fatal accidents .

Protest rally in Patras

A large-scale protest rally and procession through the central streets took place today in Patras in the context of the strike mobilization of the Labor Centre, ADEDY, unions and trade unions with the main demand that the real responsibility for the deadly railway accident in Tempi be attributed.

The meeting was attended by students, public and private sector workers, teachers, healthcare and municipality workers, institutions, collectives, etc., while shops remained closed for two hours, APE reports.

After speeches by representatives of unions and associations, a procession led by a black construction with the message “Mom, I have arrived” and the Patreon municipality orchestra followed.

The march took place at the Patras railway station and ended at the Labor Center on National Resistance Square.

During the march, there were minor incidents when a group of anti-authoritarians attacked UAF platoons near the railway station. In particular, the anti-authoritarians at the end of the procession pelted the police with wood, paint and stones, and the VHT “answered” with the use of chemicals.

Large mobilization in Lamia as well

A particularly large protest rally was organized by student associations in Lamia, and over 2,000 people filled the city center.

“Tears have dried up and turned into rage, the new generation does not forgive you” – that was the central slogan, and at the same time, slogans and slogans demanded not to cover up responsibility for the unjustly lost human lives.

It is characteristic that this is the third mobilization in recent days in the city of Lamia and one of the most massive in the last 20 years, which indicates that the tragedy in Tempi affected all of them, students and pupils of the area and, together with social institutions, organize and participate in these mobilizations .

Today at 12 noon, students, students, teachers, workers, railway workers and pensioners, as well as workers’ organizations and two labor centers were found on the Lamia Park Square.

Initially, it was defined as a protest action in connection with today’s strike, but very quickly it turned into a protest about the tragedy in Tempe, and the slogans associated with this particular tragedy actually became dominant.

Then the assembled organized a particularly long march, which also dates back to the 90s, passing through the central streets, they passed almost all the squares of Lamia, in the same way demonstrating their desire to continue their mobilization until measures were taken.

“Our classmates were on this train, our classmates, they were our parents. Any of us could be in their place. We will continue on our way. We will not allow this crime to be repeated,” student representatives emphasize during speeches in the central square of Lamia.

In addition, Lamia students are organizing a new rally today at 18:00 in the same square in connection with the tragic incident in Tempe, and since the morning five secondary schools in Lamia have been under symbolic occupation. This is the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th general lyceum, and since yesterday the gymnasium with secondary school classes in the New Domokos Monastery has also been occupied.