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Victoria Mindova

"We stay on Syntagma!" This is what the supporters of the Movement of discontented stated who were again on their posts in front of the parliament a day after the big riot. People of all ages and jobs do not leave the most central place of the Greek capital. They want a change, they want an explanation of how Greece ended up here, they want a better life without corruption, lying politicians and empty promises. But they do not know how to achieve all this and their persistence to meet in front of the parliament every day is the only way to express their protest against the face of modern Greece, which they do not want to be part of.  

"I lost my sleep over the past two years," said the young Anna in a conversation. She is 29 years old and is a marine biology graduate. Anna has been unemployed for a long time and in the last two years she felt like a rat in a hole. " I lied down every day and I could not sleep because I thought of where things are going. You could feel that things went wrong even before the recent events. There is no work for the young people, those who have jobs have found it because they know the right people and nothing was ever so wrong. " She says that the companies in which she can work close one after another, or transfer their activities elsewhere.

She has started searching for a job abroad a few months ago and sent her CV to various foreign companies. However, once she has heard about the movement of the discontented she stopped searching. "Finally, I realized that other people feel like me and are ready to go out and express their discontent. I have been waiting for this moment too long to leave the country now. We live in historic times." She says she wants the movement to reverse the mode of governance of the country. Decisions should not be taken by a handful of people with questionable morals, but all should have an equal voice for the future of the nation. I could not refrain but asked whether such an idea is not quite utopian in today's reality. "Yeah, maybe, but I know that if I do not do anything, nothing will change," confessed the 29-year-old Anna.
 
GRReporter talked with other supporters of the movement, who participated in the largest protest of the Greek unions on Wednesday. They have formed organizational groups that take care for the various needs of the protesters. Dimitris and Argyris are responsible for the health centre of the doscontented that gave first aid to those who needed it on the day of the mass strike. They told about an incident during the strike when the special forces unit attacked the health centre, despite their warnings. "We helped more than hundred people. Many of them had breathing problems, others were slightly injured during the clashes, while others were simply panicked and needed psychological support to overcome the fact that a peaceful protest turned into a battleground,"  said Argyris.

Dimitris, who is in the health centre every day, also said that the police was particularly brutal in the campaign to "clean up" the square despite their warnings. "We are out on the streets and squares, because we do not want to live the way we are forced to date. I am a surgeon, I work constantly and have no certainty that I will not end up on the street tomorrow. Almost all my friends are unemployed. We are out of breath." He was adamant that he will remain and will continue to be one of the millions discontented until something in the country changes drastically. I asked him: "What is the thing that should happen to make you feel that your efforts pay off and you can go home? For example, if the government falls?" Dimitris said: " It depends on who will come."