They could just as well have been chanting: We want our free societies back, we want Europe’s future back.

“Greek islanders strike against migrant camps,” DW, January 22, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios are the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis. Islanders have run out of patience, demanding their government empty the overflowing reception camps and return their islands to them.

Residents of the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios went on strike on Wednesday, angry at the overflowing migrant camps.

Under the slogan “we want our islands back, we want our lives back,” the islanders shut stores and closed public services, as people demonstrated on the streets, waving Greek flags.

DW correspondent Max Zander tweeted that there was a “massive” turnout at the anti-migration policy protest in Mytilini, Lesbos.

Trade unionists and regional lawmakers demanded that the Greek government immediately transport the thousands of migrants stranded at camps to the mainland after registration. Some of the camps are at 10 times the intended capacity.

Protest organizers said they are also seeking more information on the government’s announcements that it will build more camps on the islands.

‘Our island can no longer be the site of lost souls’

“We can’t continue to put up with this situation in our small town,” said Giorgos Stantzos, mayor of Vathy, the main town on the island of Samos.

“Our island can no longer be the site of lost souls and suffering people,” the regional governor of the northern Aegean Sea region, Kostas Moutzouris told Greek broadcaster ERT Open….