An occupied hotel in Greece models how to welcome refugees

``Activists and refugees had another idea of how to respond. On April 22, 2016 they took over the City Plaza [Hotel] -- which, like many businesses since the economic collapse, had been abandoned for six years. Along with eight other self-organized shelters occupied by refugees and activists around the city, the hotel offers displaced people a safe and dignified alternative to the miserable, unhygienic and cruel conditions of the detention facilities. "What comes first?" asked Yorgos Maniatis, one of the Greek activists supporting the project. "The lives of homeless refugees or the unused private property of the hotel's owner?"''