I’m so angry and tired of this. Please go and read and comment here on phylax. (WARNING: It’s hard to read because of the design as well as the content). I feel like I just went 10 rounds with ethnocentrist and don’t want to take this on today. This cannot go unanswered though. I don’t [...]
I am slowly adding categories to this blog. It was getting too big to find posts about a particular subject. I will still post everything here, but I will post a duplicate in the category it belongs to. It’s a long process but I will get there in the end. I wonder if it’s worth [...]
I’m just going to have a rant here about my own situation. I just got back from a 30 minute round trip, on foot, to get my kid to school. In three and a half hours I will be setting off again to pick him up. Yes, he is only in school from 8am [...]
A new and welcome entry from Fluxistan. Telling it like it is. Go and read it and have your say in the comments.
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Cyprus Action Network has news about a racist beating on the island. The member of Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) is on trial for attacking two Cypriot friends (one Turkish and one Greek). For more on this follow this link. The site also has news and information on human rights issues in Cyprus.
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I took my email address off this blog because of unwanted mail, so from now you can send messages only via my forum. Also to keep confusion to a minimum in the discussions on this blog, please post all “off subject” comments on the forum.
The link is in the sidebar.
Roma housing rights abuses go on as ever in Greece. Here is an updated report at the European Roma Rights Centre on the appeal to stop these illegal practices.
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Read this article from the Athens News about the government ordering civil servants to be nice to immigrants! I would think it would be better for these people to be educated about racism and xenophobia. Then again so does the government. Handing out directives to smile at the foreigners is just ridiculous.
“A study conducted [...]
From the GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR (Minority Rights in Greece) 2005
In every court room, there is an icon of Jesus Christ behind and above the presiding judge’s head. To every participant in the proceedings, this gives the impression that they are not in a Greek state court (which would have been signified by a [...]
Phantasmak at Heck to Pay sent me this link to a discussion (in Greek) on the Hatewave meeting and whether these voices should have a platform in a democratic country.
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This article from Kathimerini reports on the findings of the Greek Alpha Bank in relation to migrants and pensions. Read it here
And read here for an article on migrant saving and borrowing.
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As Thanos quite rightly says in his comment Greece is clearing mines. However…
Read this BBC article from May 2005
And this from the Independent Race and Refugee News Network 2005
“as we all know from press reports, accidents keep occurring - people keep dying and being injured on the Evros minefields. It is estimated that over [...]
Further to my post yesterday on the drowning deaths of migrants and asylum seekers, here is a BBC article from 2003 on landmine deaths in Greece.
Also an article on the Independent Race and Refugee News Network entitled How can I leave? I have no legs
Please also visit the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for further [...]
An article from Kathimerini on the plight of migrants and asylum seekers at sea entitled Human Rights drowning at sea
Kofi Anan’s attack on Fortress Europe in 2004 as reported in the Guardian.
“Your asylum systems are overburdened precisely because many people who feel they must leave see no other channel through which to migrate,” he said. [...]
I am now a team member at collision///commentary. It is collaborative political blog that features opinion and entries from all major political ideologies/affiliations.
Many of these ideologies are in complete oppostion to my own but the reason I started blogging was to have a dialogue. It seems pointless to me to discuss politcs only with people [...]
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