In
recent years in Greece, there is an increase in fur farms in the region
of West Macedonia.West Macedonia is divided into the regional units of Florina, Grevena, Kastoria, and Kozani.
In 2011 there were 43 fur farms in Greece.
According to the figures
from the Ministry of Rural Development and Food (March 2014), fur farms
have increased to 105!
" Άνθρωποι που κάνουν πραγματικό έργο, βοηθάνε και αγωνίζονται για τα
δικαιώματα μας και οι πράξεις τους συνάδουν με τα λόγια τους τα οποία
"μεταφέρουν" έξω από την ασφάλεια του καναπέ τους. Δεν φοβούνται και δεν
κάνουν πίσω με την δικαιολογία του "δεν βαριέσαι τίποτα δεν θ'αλλαξει". Ρομαντικοί? Ίσως...
We demand that all citizents have access to all social public goods (i.e. education, transport, health, beaches, jobs, shelter, cultrural activities, energy, water, etc) and at a qualitative level.
These are all paid directly or indirectly through the taxation, and are supposingly intended for these social purposes.
We fight every day through solidarity actions, with the final cause that all people around the world may access qualitative social goods.
We are aiming at the society that everyone expresses themeselves freely and may access all that they need, all they can dream of, within the context of justice and the prerequisite that no man will take advantage of another one, or nature.
We call everyone to contribute to the change of these self-explanatory rights and logic.
The incident took place during the cops manhunt on 17th of November, at Exarcheia Square, Athens. In the framework of terrorising protesters and all citizents passing by, Greek Riot police is stealing a bottle of water from a kiosk in Athens, and damaging the owner's kiosk, just because he asked the thief policeman to pay...
From the start in 1967, the junta, trying to control every aspect of
politics, had interfered with student syndicalism, banning student
elections in universities, forcefully drafting leftist students and
enforcing non-elected student syndicate leaders in the national
student’s syndicate, EFEE. These actions eventually created a fierce
anti-junta sentiment among students that was first manifested by the
suicide-protest against the junta of geology student Kostas Georgakis in
1970 in Genoa, Italy.
"The Worldwide Fur Free Friday is one of largest global days of action
in the history of animal rights organizations.
We have had
demonstrations numbering up to 200 locations around the world: Held on
the Friday that is the beginning of the big holiday sales.
Demonstrations (against businesses and shops that sell fur) are held
globally, in one united voice, to save the voiceless victims of the
cruel fur trade.
This year, to take place on November 28th."
Greece will follow with a demonstration on November the 29th, with a Fur Free Saturday (details will soon be announced).
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Η Fur Free Friday είναι μία από τις μεγαλύτερες παγκόσμιες ημέρες
δράσης στην ιστορία των οργανώσεων για τα δικαιώματα των ζώων.
Έχουν
διαδηλώσει μέχρι και 200 διαφορετικά μέρη σε όλο τον κόσμο:
Πραγματοποιείται την Παρασκευή που ξεκινούν οι μεγάλες εορταστικές
εκπτώσεις των καταστημάτων.
Οι διαμαρτυρίες (κατά των επιχειρήσεων και
των καταστημάτων που πωλούν γούνα) γίνονται
σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, με μια ενωμένη φωνή, σε μια προσπάθεια να σώσουν
τα θύματα του αποτρόπαιου εμπορίου γούνας, μιας και οι δικές τους
κραυγές δεν ακόγουνται.
Φέτος, θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 28 Νοεμβρίου.
Η Ελλάδα θα συμμετάσχει το Σάββατο 29 Νοεμβρίου με ένα Fur Free Saturday (οι λεπτομέρειες θα ανακοινωθούν σύντομα).
Eine Information über die WIR ZAHLEN NICHT - Bewegung! Die WIR ZAHLEN NICHT Bewegung hat in Griechenland begonnen. Ist nun in den Niederlanden angekommen und verbreitet sich nun auch in Deutschland. Eine neue Qualität des Widerstandes in Form von
VOM PROTEST ZUR DIREKTEN AKTION! hat sich etabliert...
Adrianne, an unemployed mother of 8 children joined us along with her husband in our weekly open assembly on Thursday 30/10/14.
The family is trying to cope to everyday's needs, as the National Electricity provider (ΔΕΗ) stopped the provision of electricity power.
I Don't Pay Movement reacted to the family's urgency by reconnecting the power back on, as a solidarity action to the family.
(Sutton
County, Texas) – Hundreds of violent and predatory sex offenders are being
transferred from multiple correctional facilities all over Texas to a
specialized medical research facility where they will spend the rest of their
lives being used as subjects in medical experimentation and testing.
Photo - Sex
Offenders At The Huntsville Unit Line Up For Transport To The Sutton County
Human Research Facility...
Draconian Internet laws in Turkey are deepening yet once again with a
new reform package that will bring new measures against freedom of
speech in the country. Previously, the government had already tried to
silence the masses through censorship measures, surveillance of
Netizens, blocking access to Web sites,...
Clashes between Kurdish protesters and riot police across Turkey.
October, 2014
The Turkish government must act to stop the spiralling violence which
continues to rock the predominantly Kurdish south-east of Turkey where
19 people were killed and many injured during protests prompted by the
advances of the armed group that calls itself the Islamic State towards
Syria’s border with Turkey....
It’s no secret that an
opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state
brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to
shut it down. Each one of the community members were initially
handcuffed at gunpoint. It was called “The Garden of Eden Community,”
and was totally self sustainable.
This time, it’s Robin Speronis that’s
come under fire. She lives off the grid in Florida, completely
independent of the city’s water and electric system. A few weeks ago,
officials ruled her off-grid home illegal. Officials cited the International Property Maintenance Code,
which mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a
running water source. That’s just like saying our dependency on
corporations isn’t even a choice. The battle to live without most
utilities has been ongoing for Robin, the self-sufficient woman has
lived for more than a year and a half using solar energy, a propane
camping stove and rain water.
The video, shot by the man’s cellphone, shows his
interaction with officers as he attempts to pick up his children from
New Horizon Academy in downtown St. Paul. As the officers force the man
to put his hands behind his back, he drops his phone and the video goes
black, but the audio continues and we hear the man crying for help and
proclaiming that his kids are watching.
Both officers in the video are
white.
“Why do I have to let you know who I am?” the man tells the first
female officer at the beginning of the video. “I don’t have to let you
know who I am if I haven’t broken any laws.”...
With a Eurozone record of 27 percent of Greeks unemployed, people are
taking a pro-active approach to the crisis. Activists from the ‘I Don't Pay’ movement', which boasts 10,000 members, are illegally
reconnecting power to hundreds of homes.
Tough austerity measures have left many people in Greece unable
to pay their electricity bills.
The ‘I Don't Pay’ movement', which
has over 10,000 members helps many of those by illegally
reconnecting power to their homes, despite legal action against
them.
The movement has been gaining new support, despite being targeted
by over a hundred law suits. The government warns refusal to pay
fees and taxes will only starve Greece of money it needs to get
out of debt.
Members of the ‘I Don't Pay’ movement, demands alternatives to the
austerity measures that, as many argue, have deepened the
recession and made unemployment unbearable.“The vast majority of the public is sunk into poverty, and a
few families across the world have 99 percent of the wealth.
That's not something we want to bear, that's something we want to
overthrow here in Greece and across the world” .
Members the group, that began in a village of 3,000 people,
reconnect electricity to homes and disconnect power from road
tolls, making them free for motorists. Sometimes they also target
the Athens metro system.
In 2011 the supporters refused to pay highway tolls and rode
buses and the metro in Athens without tickets in protest against
an “unfair” 40 per cent increase in fares.
Many in the country are unable to pay for Greece’s state-run
electricity. With one in four Greeks currently unemployed,
Christina is not the only person to have their electricity cut
off two years ago.
“As the bills began piling up, I had to make my priorities -
and this is where food comes first. I want to pay the bills and I
want to be ok with the state, but the state hasn't been ok with
us,” she told RT’s Egor Piskunov.
Greek incomes have been severely squeezed, cut by about 30
percent on average since the crisis started in 2009.
Greece's unemployment rate has tripled since 2009, as hundreds of
thousands lost their jobs or businesses. Up to a thousand Greeks
have been laid off daily, according to the ELSTAT statistics
service.
Unemployment rose to nearly 27 percent in April, the highest
reading since ELSTAT began publishing jobless data in 2006. It’s
more than twice the average rate in the euro zone, which hit 12.2
percent in May.
In July Greece unlocked 5.8 billion euros ($7.7 billion) of
bailout funds in European aid by putting 25,000 public sector
workers on reduced wages by the end of the year. The move sparked
a new wave of anti-austerity protests in Athens.
Many say the ‘I Don't Pay’ movement,is likely to go on, because
it has a strong legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
“We must violate or not respect a law which says thousands of
people will have no electricity to cook, no electricity to see
water, to see TV, no electricity, to switch on AC,” an
economist from Varna Free University of Cyprus, Leonidas
Vatikiotis, told RT.
Bailout money for Greece, which has already received about 90
percent of the 240 billion euros earmarked to protect it from
default and possible exit from the euro zone, will run out at the
end of next year. According to experts, the country is likely to
need further relief to make its debt sustainable.
On Saturday in Athens, students, teachers and their supporters
participated in a massive march and rally with demands for free and
public education for all.
In contrast, the Ministry of Education has imposed deep austerity
measures on education and has drastically cut funding for schools.
The
results of the draconian austerity policies have lead to multiple
closing or merging of schools, cutting programs, and the elimination of
bus service for school children.
Clearly, austerity measures are slowly
destroying the culture and society and only serves the financial
interests of private colleges and schools.
Altogether we can fight for a better future for ourselves and our
children – a future with free access to quality education for all people.
Students protest against the government project "Athina" that wants to
unify and to cut off funding from the Public universities to benefit
private universities.
An 80-year-old granny have lived for 6 months without electricity when Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the power to her home due to an outstanding debt of 200 euro.
Her pension is just 150 euro, the woman told reporters of the civic movement “I don’t pay” and an activists group that illegally re-connected the power. An elderly living in modern Middle Ages in Patissia district of Athens, an area considered to be almost downtown.
Underlining that with her thin income she was unable to pay her debt to PPC, the woman explained how she lived in her one-bedroom home for a long period of time: No fridge, no heating, no shower, no light at night.
Greek democracy is in peril and much of the fault lies with the EU's hard stance
When those madcap Scandinavian satirists awarded the Nobel peace prize to the European Union,
they let everyone in on the joke by praising its commitment to
"reconciliation, democracy and human rights". If the committee's 2012
citation were anything other than a spoof, you would have read
denunciations of the rise of oppressive state power and neo-Nazism in
Greece from concerned Euro commissioners long before now.
The EU denounces threats to freedom of speech in Viktor Orbán's
Hungary with vigour. European politicians worry with good reason about
the fate of independent institutions that stand in the way of the
rabble-rousing regime. They notice the fascistic element in the new
Hungarian right's flirtations with antisemitic and anti-Roma hatreds and
its willingness to indulge the revanchist fantasy that Hungary can
regain the lands it lost after the First World War.
On the fate of Greek
democracy there is silence, however, although there is much that
Europe's leaders might talk about.
You spot the pressure points of
a failing state by looking at what it censors. In the case of Greece,
the authorities' prosecution last week of Kostas Vaxevanis
showed that he had hit a pressure point with the accuracy of a doctor
sticking a needle into a nerve. While Greeks live with austerity without
end, while Greek GDP has shrunk by 4.5% in 2010 and 6.9% in 2011, and
will shrink by a predicted 6.5% this year and 4.5% in 2013, the list of
the names of 2,000 Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland Vaxevanis
published, suggested that the well-connected were escaping the burdens
that fall on the masses.
"Instead of arresting the tax evaders and
the ministers who had the list in their hands," thundered Vaxevanis in a
call to arms that stirred the blood, "they're trying to arrest the
truth and freedom of the press."
His acquittal on privacy law
charges, though welcome, was less important than it appeared. It did not
mean that freedom of the press was secure in Greece. Even in good
times, independent journalism has rarely been a force in the land. Most
Greek TV stations and newspapers are owned by either the state or
plutocratic corporations, neither of which likes seeing corruption
exposed. The leftwing daily, Eleftherotypia, which for all its faults and flirtations with terrorism at least challenged the oligarchs, filed for bankruptcy last year.
Few
of the employees of the remaining Greek news organisations reject the
notion that they should keep quiet in the interests of holding on to
their pay cheques. The state is hounding too many of those who do. "We
still have freedom of expression recognised by the law at a theoretical
level," said Asteris Masouras, one of the free speech monitors at Global Voices.
"On a practical level, well..." And he proceeded to give me a list of
instances of menacing forces intimidating reporters that would go on
into the New Review section if I ran it in full.
Where to begin?
How about the self-defeating austerity policies the troika of the
European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary
Fund have forced on Greece? The authorities used an old warrant to
arrest Spiros Karatzaferis,
after the journalist threatened to reveal confidential emails, that
might have explained how the troika's alleged "rescue package" had
pushed the country into depression.
Police brutality is another
pressure point, undoubtedly. The Greek left makes persistent allegations
of collaboration between the supposed forces of law and order and the
thugs in the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement. The Guardian
ran reports that the police had beaten up anti-fascist demonstrators
after they had confronted Golden Dawn. Yes, I know leftists call
everyone "fascists" from headteachers to their mums and dads, but as
Golden Dawn is building a mass movement while marching under a swastika,
the term is correct on this occasion. The following day, Greek state TV
replaced Kostas Arvanitis and Marilena Katsimi, the presenters of its morning news show, after they told managers they planned to follow up the Guardian's
claims. Another state TV reporter, Christos Dantis, has joined the
ranks of the vanishing journalists. His editors assigned him to cover
the celebrations of the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki from
Ottoman rule. He was about to report on popular protests against the
presence of the Greek prime minister and president in Greece's second
city when his masters turned off the camera and cut to a more amenable
hack.
All the Greek journalists I spoke to, emphasised that Athens
was not Beijing or Tehran, but they described how the liberal
certainties they once held now appeared flimsy. Helena Smith, our superb
Athens correspondent, says that she feels as if she is standing on
shifting sands. If the centrist coalition fails, and the troika's
punitive demands have condemned it to failure, then the left opposition
in Syrzia will probably take over. After that, Golden Dawn, maybe? No
one knows. Nothing is unthinkable in a climate of fear and hopelessness.
One
can say with certainty that old alliances between extreme political and
extreme religious movements are reviving. Hence, last month Christian
fanatics and neo-Nazis (and the difference between the two is fine)
protested against a "blasphemous" play with a homosexual theme in
Athens. The theatre's management duly pulled it. Greek television cut a
scene from Downton Abbey that featured a gay kiss. No one can explain why but a country that censors Downton Abbey on any grounds other than literary taste is in grave trouble.
British
Eurosceptics do not understand that the European Union once offered an
escape to a liberal future for the peoples of Europe. When I visited
Athens in the early 1980s, the old could remember fighting the Nazi
occupation and the young had grown up in and on occasion fought the
military dictatorship the colonels imposed. Joining the European Union
meant saying goodbye to all of that. Now poverty, fear, suppression and
state intimidation are back.
You can blame the corruption Greek
society tolerated.
You can blame the bankers for the crash. But you must
also apportion blame to Europe's politicians and bureaucrats who
accepted Greece (and the rest of southern Europe) into a single currency
area that has put them at a permanent competitive disadvantage and
refused to write off debts Greece can never repay.
No wonder they
stay silent about the abuse of the human rights the Nobel prize
committee insisted European integration guaranteed. Greece is the
Eurocrats' very own Weimar on the Aegean. They helped build it.
The I Don't Pay movement against austerity measures "Den Plirono" was at Agioi Anargiroi region of Athens, in order to inform Greek people about the current political situation and our role in reversing it for the profit of the 99% of people, through political disobedience actions.
The “Save the homeland of Aristotle and the getaway to the Holy
Mountain” campaign calls for citizens all over the world to raise their
voice in condemnation against the development of mining activities and
the installation of gold extraction heavy industry, chemical byproducts
and toxic waste ponds in the holy land of the philosopher Aristotle,
which is the natural gate to the monastic community of the Holy
mountain.
In this unique environment, the Greek government has allocated 317000
acres of land to mining<!--more--> companies that aim to transform a highly valued
ecological paradise to a huge mining center. Their target is to create
numerous surface and underground mines, set up a sulfuric acid chemical
plant, dig for gold, silver, copper and other metals and use an ancient
forest ecosystem to place their toxic waste ponds.
If we allow this to happen, the result will be a non-reversible, of
the first magnitude economic, ecological and cultural disaster of the
area with our forests and rivers full of toxic waste, our sea
contaminated with heavy metals and the air we breathe fouled by
hazardous airborne particle dust while enormous reserves of water will
be drained...
The Greek women of Skouries in Northern Greece stand up to the rioting police who have been dispatched by the Greek government to attack the local citizens with chemical weapons, beatings and arrests at the behest of a private multinational gold mining company.
Athens: Social Meltdown - Greek subtitles from Ross Domoney on Vimeo.
Dr Dimitris Dalakoglou explains the social meltdown which took place in Greece between May 2010 & June 2012 that is on going. This film contains videos and photos shot on the streets, often containing violence and paints a portrait of widespread economic hardship endured by a cities inhabitants. This film is part of an ongoing research project, which looks at the rapid structural changes which Greece is undergoing.
Produced & Directed by Ross Domoney
Interview: Dimitris Dalakoglou
Filmed, Photographed & Edited by Ross Domoney
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ΚΑΛΕΣΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΎΗ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΛΕΙΣΙΜΟ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ CAN PIELLA ΣΤΗΝ ΒΑΡΚΕΛΩΝΗ. ΥΠΟΓΡΑΨΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΔΩΣΤΕ ΕΔΏ (http://bit.ly/SygwGf ΚΑΙ http://bit.ly/T5U5Ct)
THE SQUAT FARMHOUSE CAN PIELLA COULD BE EVICTED NEXT WEEK...
Can
Piella is a squat, a XVII century farmhouse located in the Barcelona
outskirts, occupied for 3 years, after being abandoned and inhabited
during the last 10 years. Tha farmhouse has been then rehabilited and the sourrounding field are now tilled.
Can Piella wants to build and to spread - by autonomy, collective
work, self-management - alternatives to the present model of
society, in order to contribute to the social change that will lead us
to a "better world, more altruistic, sustainable, ecological and
solidary with a a clear restatement of consumption and where relations
of domination will be a small imperfections and not the general trend".
As
we can read in their web site : "the project integrates the residents
of nearby towns, who wanted to start working the land collectively,
groups of critical thinking, research initiatives in alternative energy
systems, dens and leisure, among others". Can Piella is actually a space
for reflection, debate and community work.
Now this place
suffers an eviction threat: the Court has ordered that the occupies
leave the farmhouse October 15th, even if the owner is not going to give
any use to it. In this case the procedure to evict Can Paiella has
been started by an entreprise of the Real
Estate Group Alcazar. His former owner has been protagonist during
decades of several corruption investigations and accusation, and the
actual one - his first-born - seem do not have any idea of what Can
Piella is.
At the same time two petitions have started to stop the eviction. Everyone could sign it in the web site of Can Piella (http://www.canpiella.cat/ )
"The
problem recalls the evacuation Can Piella is a global problem in our
society that constantly confronts the myth of progress with a social
degenerates, in favor of a purely economistic"
Fifteen people arrested in Athens says they were subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation
Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in
Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn
have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate
(GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what
their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation.
Members
of a second group of 25 who were arrested after demonstrating in
support of their fellow anti-fascists the next day said they were beaten
and made to strip naked and bend over in front of officers and other
protesters inside the same police station. A protester shows his injuriesSeveral
of the protesters arrested after the first demonstration on Sunday 30
September told the Guardian they were slapped and hit by a police
officer while five or six others watched, were spat on and "used as
ashtrays" because they "stank", and were kept awake all night with
torches and lasers being shone in their eyes. Bruising on the protester's legSome
said they were burned on the arms with a cigarette lighter, and they
said police officers videoed them on their mobile phones and threatened
to post the pictures on the internet and give their home addresses to
Golden Dawn, which has a track record of political violence.
Golden
Dawn's popularity has surged since the June election, when it won 18
seats in parliament; it recently came third in several opinion polls,
behind the conservative New Democracy and the leftwing party Syriza.
Last month the Guardian reported
that victims of crime have been told by police officers to seek help
from Golden Dawn, who then felt obliged to make donations to the group.
One
of the two women among them said the officers used crude sexual insults
and pulled her head back by the hair when she tried to avoid being
filmed. The protesters said they were denied drinking water and access
to lawyers for 19 hours. "We were so thirsty we drank water from the
toilets," she said.
One man with a bleeding head wound and a
broken arm that he said had been sustained during his arrest alleged the
police continued to beat him in GADA and refused him medical treatment
until the next morning. Another said the police forced his legs apart
and kicked him in the testicles during the arrest.
"They spat on me and said we would die like our grandfathers in the civil war," he said.
A
third said he was hit on the spine with a Taser as he tried to run
away; the burn mark is still visible. "It's like an electric shock," he
said. "My legs were paralysed for a few minutes and I fell. They
handcuffed me behind my back and started hitting and kicking me in the
ribs and the head. Then they told me to stand up, but I couldn't, so
they pulled me up by the chain while standing on my shin. They kept
kicking and punching me for five blocks to the patrol car."
The protesters asked that their names not be published, for fear of reprisals from the police or Golden Dawn.
A
second group of protesters also said they were "tortured" at GADA. "We
all had to go past an officer who made us strip naked in the corridor,
bend over and open our back passage in front of everyone else who was
there," one of them told the Guardian. "He did whatever he wanted with
us – slapped us, hit us, told us not to look at him, not to sit
cross-legged. Other officers who came by did nothing.
"All we
could do was look at each other out of the corners of our eyes to give
each other courage. He had us there for more than two hours. He would
take phone calls on his mobile and say, 'I'm at work and I'm fucking
them, I'm fucking them up well'. In the end only four of us were
charged, with resisting arrest. It was a day out of the past, out of the
colonels' junta."
In response to the allegations, Christos
Manouras, press spokesman for the Hellenic police, said: "There was no
use of force by police officers against anyone in GADA. The Greek police
examine and investigate in depth every single report regarding the use
of violence by police officers; if there are any responsibilities
arising, the police take the imposed disciplinary action against the
officers responsible. There is no doubt that the Greek police always
respect human rights and don't use violence."
Sunday's protest was
called after a Tanzanian community centre was vandalised by a group of
80-100 people in a central Athens neighbourhood near Aghios Panteleimon,
a stronghold of Golden Dawn where there have been many violent attacks
on immigrants.
According to protesters, about 150 people rode
through the neighbourhood on motorcycles handing out leaflets. They said
the front of the parade encountered two or three men in black Golden
Dawn T-shirts, and a fight broke out. A large number of police
immediately swooped on them from the surrounding streets.
According
to Manouras: "During the motorcycle protest there were clashes between
demonstrators and local residents. The police intervened to prevent the
situation from deteriorating and restore public order. There might have
been some minor injuries, during the clashes between residents,
protesters and police."
Marina Daliani, a lawyer for one of the
Athens 15, said they had been charged with "disturbing the peace with
covered faces" (because they were wearing motorcycle helmets), and with
grievous bodily harm against two people. But, she said, no evidence of
such harm had so far been submitted. They have now been released on bail
of €3,000 (£2,400) each.
According to Charis Ladis, a lawyer for
another of the protesters, the sustained mistreatment of Greeks in
police custody has been rare until this year: "This case shows that a
page has been turned. Until now there was an assumption that someone who
was arrested, even violently, would be safe in custody. But these young
people have all said they lived through an interminable dark night.
Dimitris
Katsaris, a lawyer for four of the protesters, said his clients had
suffered Abu Ghraib-style humiliation, referring to the detention centre
where Iraqi detainees were tortured by US soldiers during the Iraq war.
"This is not just a case of police brutality of the kind you hear about
now and then in every European country. This is happening daily. We
have the pictures, we have the evidence of what happens to people
getting arrested protesting against the rise of the neo-Nazi party in
Greece. This is the new face of the police, with the collaboration of
the justice system."
One of the arrested protesters, a quiet man
in his 30s standing by himself, said: "Journalists here don't report
these things. You have to tell them what's happening here, in this
country that suffered so much from Nazism. No one will pay attention
unless you report these things abroad."the guardian:
Explore
a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite
imagery. The Amazon rainforest is shrinking at a rapid rate to provide
land for farming and raising cattle. Each frame of the timelapse map is
constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting an
annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The
Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the
Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific
information about our changing planet.
Photos from today's voluntary blood donation, from the I DON' T PAY MOVEMENT
Many fellow fighters and friends of the I Dont't Pay Movement gathered thiw morning and gave blood to enrich the blood bank of the
movement. The blood collected will be handled in the following (obvious)
logic: The blood has no national or racial composition...
I used to frequent Athens as a teenager with my parents. We were always transit visitors, en route to Kano, Nigeria where my late father used to work. Those visits where quick, two days in Athens, visiting ancient monuments, museums, tavernas, cafes, friends, and relatives. You see, post 1974 and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus a number of our refugee relatives and friends made their way to Greece and particularly Athens to begin again the reconstruction of their lives. Athens looked big, busy, exciting, expressive and glamorous through my youthful eyes. Athens looked like those old movies that Finos Film (Greek Production Company, 1943 – 77) used to make and exported to Cyprus and the Greek Diaspora. I am not Greek, I am Cypriot. I am a Greek Cypriot that grew up on Greek culture, and can speak, write and read Greek relatively well, at the expense of never getting to know Turkish culture or language. Let’s leave...
Members of the Greek "I Dont Pay" movement demostrate in
front of the 7th Periferal Hospital in the Patisia region of Athens, in
solidarity with the employees and people of Patisia arguing against the
goverments plan to close the hospital. Submitted by Giorgos Panagakis
