You have 2 days left to submit your favorite blogs to the BOB awards. I want to thank Teacher Dude for nominating me and all those who voted for me too. If you do want to add your vote to THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY, please go here. I have to be honest, I would [...]
DD live is tonight. Bring along some snacks and a sense of humour. No need to dress up but don’t get caught out wearing boring trousers. See you later Tweet
Full report at Scotsman News Someone just notified me of this shocking incident. A group of immigrants have accused the Greek coastguard of throwing them into the sea after their boat was intercepted. Six people drowned and three others are missing. One of the survivors, Muhammedi Alti, said Greek security forces threw us into the [...]
Gazmend Kapllani has a book out and I went to the launch last night at the Hellenic American Union. It is called “Μικρό ημερολόγιο συνόρων” (Small diary of borders) and is published by Livanis Publications. The executive director of the HAU, Leonidas – Phoebus Koskos wrote this about Gazmend and the book: With roughly fifteen [...]
The wonderful Flubberwinkle is a year old. She has a post up here about her first year of blogging. the resplendency of blogging is exactly that: Adding YOUR voice, your own, unique voice to the pile Congratulations and all the best for the future. Tweet
I was searching for Greek blogs yesterday and I came across the Athens Daily Photo. There is a whole network of daily photo blogs from around the world. I love this idea. Check out Brighton or New York. These blogs are not about great photography necessarily but as Ham writes at London Daily Photo Some [...]
I got a lovely email today saying that I had been nominated for a BOB award (Best of the blogs). Well, that is really cool and thank you to whoever it was who nominated me. There are only five days left to send your submissions so go here and do it. To vote for this [...]
Thank you to Kevin at Slant Truth for pointing out this amazing little plugin that automatically links keywords in your posts. Fabulous. And it looks really cute too. What do you think ? Tweet
Via Kathimerini Antonis Androutsopoulos, a senior member of the right-wing extremist group Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), was jailed for 21 years on three counts of attempted murder. In 1998 he attacked three left-wing students leaving one of them with severe head injuries. He claims he is innocent and that he is a nationalist not a [...]
The illegal evictions of Roma families continues unabated and completely ignored by the powers that be. Not one minister has responded to the latest round of evictions in Patras and in Hania, Crete. Today, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) sent an open letter to Prime Minister Karamanlis condemning the Patras “cleaning operations” [...]
Yvette Jarvis, the first black woman to hold public office in Greece, is looking to win a second term. This time she is affiliated with New Democracy rather than Pasok (socialist) but as she told Athens News, her campaign remains unchanged. improving life in Athens for all its residents, including immigrants who have no vote [...]
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, was in Greece this week and I went to hear her speak on Wednesday night. The title of the evening was The Human Rights Movement :Challenges and Opportunities. The main issue was the gap between rhetoric and action and how AI has changed (and is still changing) to [...]
Don’t forget, it’s DD live tonight. Information on how to join the frolics is at the top of the page as always. See you later Tweet
Every year the US State Department (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) issues an International Religious Freedom Report. The one for 2006 was published on September 15th. The last time I posted one of these reports on Human Rights, the first comment was That’s all we need, America telling Greece what to do So [...]
The funky spellcheck for comments is no longer available (not that we all used it anyway) It seems that it was eating people’s paragraphs and making everyone seem like they were ranting (although that’s not an excuse everyone can use). Let me know if your comments are now appearing as you intended. Also, if anyone [...]
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