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notified the dean and made arrangements with student organisations and try not to trouble anyone," said Nikos Giannopoulos – representative of the initiative in support of strikers – at a press conference at the Athens Law School .
"The immigrants themselves took the decision without intermediaries. We, from the Forum of Immigrants, know most of them. They live with us and work on our fields... We will support them and will not close our eyes... We are talking about a very terrible strike - only water, tea and sugar, and it will not last long – just as long as the body endures," said Marcos Hadzisavas from the Forum of Immigrants in Crete.