School finished today for children at state schools here in Greece. A whole three months off for them. We are fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood that provides all day activities and programmes up until the end of July. That will be an enormous help to stave off the boredom children feel when they [...]
The body of Alex Meshivili has still not been found and it is unlikely we will know what really happened because of a bungled police investigation and a media frenzy that has developed around this tragedy. Kathimerini has a series of articles today about bullying and violence in school. The first tackles the issue of [...]
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Via Athens News The government is in the process of drawing up new measures on the intergration of immigrants. At a two-day conference organised by the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) in Samos, Deputy Interior Minister Athanassios Nakos outlined the role of local government For the first time ever, our new Municipality and Community Code [...]
I am upgrading to Tiger and this is a test using my cute little dashboard widget to post here. It’s been a bit of a long process but I am almost done. Normal posting will resume shortly… Technorati Tags: blogging Spread the Word Hide Sites
I have just spent a couple of days out in the countryside and far away from the computer. Fantastic. I will be catching up here later today and also posting some more “wildlife” pictures over at The Other DD. Technorati Tags: photography Spread the Word Hide Sites
I have been following many blog discussions on the issue of hatemail, threats and the need for moderation. Many female bloggers are facing huge problems, spending much of their time moderating and deleting malicious emails from their inboxes. It is no accident that I do not have a contact button on my blog, even though [...]
Please bear with me. WordPress forced me to update my datebase and has messed up my sidebar and now tells me I don’t have permission to update links. Good grief. I feel like throwing something…. Ahhhhh! Technorati Tags: blogging, wordpress Spread the Word Hide Sites
Via ERT Alex Meschisvili has been missing since February. Five children confessed to killing him. Some of them have now retracted their statements. Their lawyers said that they were coerced by police. His body has not been found in the place the children said they had buried him. There is much speculation that at least [...]
The 5th Radical Women of Color Carnival is up at the wonderful Fabulosa Mujer. The subject this month is activism. Fabulosa writes: Surviving and not dying internally and physically in hopelessness is the utmost genuine form of activism. The different forms of tools for change are dissected, demonstrated and criticized in the following bloggers entries [...]
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Via Kathimerini Greece has made some progress in the problem of human trafficking, according to the 2006 US State Department report. The country has been removed from the watchlist of places that are not doing enough to combat this crime. I am not entirely sure if this is a good thing. I hope that this [...]
Ok. This might be a bit silly but several people have asked for live chat so I activated a Gabble Box (link under DD Live). I’m going to leave it up for a couple of days and I’ll see how it goes. Technorati Tags: chat, DD live Spread the Word Hide Sites
I started this blog almost exactly a year ago. My very first post was about the racist attacks that occured in October 1999. Pantelis Kazakos took to the streets around Omonia in Athens and shot 9 people he saw as foreigners. He killed 5 of them and injured four others. I went on to write [...]
Another disturbing story of a woman being held in prison while awaiting deportation. Olga Kuznetsova is legally residing in Cyprus, her permit valid until 2009. She is in prison because… she lost her job. From Cyprus Tales A Russian woman formerly employed with an offshore company is now behind bars as she awaits her deportation [...]
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