It's the weekend and we lucky people in Greece get a three day holiday because May Day is tacked on the end. Yeah. So here's the sad search for the month of April. In categories this time.
YOU LOT NEED HELP
nazi great gatherings (There's no such thing as a great nazi [...]
I missed last night's documentary the beginning of the series "Small Odysseys" on ET-1 (Greek TV channel), but I have seen the rapper Arban who was the focus of it, live on stage here in Athens. Watching out for him in the near future. Thank to Scarf + for the write up. Watch out for [...]
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[Geeky aside:I quite like messing about with a bit of html so I was up for the challenge of making a new sidebar box to match the others. Wordpress is dodgy for this kind of [...]
This article appeared in Ethnos (Greek newspaper) last Sunday written by the UNHCR representative in Greece, Karen Farkas. It is the story of Ahmadi, a refugee from Afghanistan and his journey to Greece. Tragically, his younger brother died on the way and he arrived here alone as an unaccompanied minor. It took four years, but [...]
I haven't seen the film so I am not going to comment on it except to say that Alan Moore, who wrote the comics, wants nothing to do with it and his name does not appear in the credits. This is because of a long-standing argument with DC comics. That aside, I have the graphic [...]
On May 9th voting will be taking place for Human Rights Council candidates at the UN. Greece has put forward it's pledge. Despite the rosy picture the pledge paints, Greece has a
long list of often rather serious human rights violations that indicate that Greece’s human rights record, when compared with other EU countries, leaves a [...]
Is it possible that…
Greece could become the twelfth country in the European Union to legalise the civil unions of same-sex couples.
Let's join the 21st century shall we ?
For years, local gay and lesbian advocacy groups have been calling for legal recognition of homosexual partnerships, especially as regards taxation, inheritance, pensions and health care.
But some [...]
For those of us living in Greece, there is a new documentary series entitled Small Odysseys which will start on ET-1 from the 27th April. Each episode will include two human stories of a foreigner in Greece and of a Greek in a foreign country.
I have deleted the troll comments. For anyone [...]
It's Easter holidays here, so I am taking a blog break until monday. (I will be reading and responding to comments though. Be warned)
I wrote a long post with a ton of links that wordpress lost! Ahhhhhh. Did I make the right decision to move? Hmmm.
To cut a long story short… a very happy holiday [...]
This is something I wrote at the lowest point of my blogging experience. That time has passed, though I am sure I will experience it again. I am sharing it now because so many of my blog friends are closing down and struggling and really suffering. So. Deep breath. Here it is… This is [...]
Video footage of plain clothes policemen arresting and beating two men in Cyprus, has been obtained by Amnesty and they are calling for steps to be taken prevent this happening again. Many complaints have been brought against the police for brutality but this latest case with evidence captured by the passerby seems to have spurred [...]
It's a beautiful sunny day and my garden is calling, so I leave you with this.
I am full of memories. I am drowning in images. Pictures and words have confused my eyes and ears. Songs and music have filled my life with passion and heartache. Television has burned my brain with characters and lives desperate [...]
Contrary to what I believed was the end of Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi), it seems they are still around as an organisation. I read that they had disbanded and that their members had been told to join other parties. Apparently not.
This story from Kathimerini about the attacks at Panteion University in Athens yesterday. Three [...]
Inspired by anonynous (your spelling not mine)
It took me my whole life, so far
to understand that your grades and marks meant nothing
that I could be simple and brilliant in a single breath
and even though I never graced your hallowed classrooms
my insistence you could never forget
and long days and fears and tears have passed
since [...]
I don't know where I am now and I don't have the strength to find out
it's not dark
just deep and and far away
I cannot describe what's here because I don't know the names for everything I see
and I am really, really angry
so mad that you cannot imagine why
and nor can I.
it is waking up without [...]
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