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A great friend of mine became a Greek citizen recently. After years of headache and heartache, he went to swear his pledge of allegiance. He is Muslim but, surprise surprise, he was sworn in using the Bible. Now correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it was now unnecessary in Europe to swear [...]
This song has been with me almost 20 years and inspires me as much now as it did when I first heard it. Washing the floors to send you to college Staying at home so you can feel safe What do you think is the soul of her knowledge What do you think that makes [...]
I wrote a whole piece today and accidently quit Safari and lost the whole thing. Anyway, I will try and re-create some of it. I have no intention of using this weblog simply to have a go at Greece for it’s rather appalling record in addressing Racism and Xenophobia. I am also not denying the [...]
This was the rant that became a song that became a blog that became an ongoing project that I want to stage sometime in the future THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY Knock back dumb frightened felt kicking straws blind panic full thought never time to ease my mind fearful flow, Gunshot. Bubbles my new fish [...]
Although this is a story from 6 years ago, it illustrates the points I was making in my post THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY 28/4/1998 TOPIC: “RACIST MURDER OF A NIGERIAN IMMIGRANT” The cooperating organizations Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group – Greece condemn the brutal murder of the Nigerian salesman Outse Okbonezi in [...]
For further reading and reports specifically on Greece, go to THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Tweet
For full Amnesty International reports on human rights abuses in Greece (including abuses against the Roma communities, Albanians and other minorities, the torture of assylum seekers, the persecution of conscientious objectors and more) PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK Tweet
People blog for all kinds of reasons.Why do I want a weblog. Here’s the thing. THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY It started as a rant about living in a foreign place and then become a Bad Mathematics song that has become quite popular. I want to expand the idea to become a full scale project [...]
COUNCIL OF EUROPE FINDS RACISM IN GREECE Minorities in Greece are subjected to racism, discrimination and intolerance by society, despite recent positive developments taken by the State to combat racism. This was the main finding of a 12-page report released by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the Council of Europe’s expert body [...]
On October 31, 2004, the Archbishop of Athens Christodoulos declared, in a sermon at the Agios Panteleimonas Ilissou church on Sunday, said people today cannot tolerate one speaking of death, the truth and sin. Giving an example of the decadence of society, Archbishop Christodoulos referred to the case of Franco Butiglione, whom he termed a [...]
For those of you who think that Greece is non-racist the read this article from the BBC highlighting the Albanian issue. Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis needs a large dose of reality. Wake Up George. By no means think these are a few isolated incidents. The flag bearing argument comes up with alarming regularity. An [...]
I have spent about two hours now pontificating about how to start this weblog. In the end I’ve decided to just plunge in and start. I have been reading a lot of blogs these days especially some coming out of Iran. In fact, I was inspired to start this after reading the one by HOSSEIN [...]
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