Teacher Dude has written this excellent email for you to copy/paste and send to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) being held in Athens. Please take this action and spread the word.
To the Internet Governance Forum,
It seems that the Greek state has joined that illustrious list of enlightened regimes that feels that it can use the [...]
I received an email today from an international journalist who is here in Greece for the Internet Governance Forum. He requested contact information for Antonis Tsipropoulos, the owner of blogme who was arrested as reported here.
If anyone has contact information for him, his lawyers or anyone connected with the case, please email me.
Technorati Tags: blogging, [...]
I picked up this meme from G Bitch. It’s a tag yourself one, so if you fancy doing it go ahead. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to post your sentances here in the comments.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of [...]
The outcry about the censorship of the Greek search engine blogme.gr is growing daily. Hundreds of Greek bloggers are protesting and getting the message out to the rest of the world. This is turning out to be a powerful indication of the power of blogging. There is a comprehensive list of Greek and English language [...]
It’s that time of the week again… Drop by tonight for our regular chat and silliness (or in-depth discussions if we feel like it). Dress code: Snazzy Jumpers.
Details on how to join in are at the top of the page under “dd live“. Please let me know if you would like me to send you [...]
No, I didn’t get through in the end but thank you to everyone who nominated me. The good news is that a blogger I respect a great deal did get to the finals. Go and vote for Sokari at Black Looks in the Best Weblog English
Technorati Tags: blog awards
I’m back on May 26th, 2009Community News [...]
The Greek blogger x-psilikatzoy is putting the word out about the owner of a Greek blog aggregating service BLOGME who is being sued for hosting a blog with some satirical material about a famous person.
In Greece of 2006 we have the first sue against a site that (through rss) published some satirical posts (from a [...]
This years SEEMO (South East Europe Media Organisation) award for Human Rights and Mutual Cooperation has been won by Abdulhalim Dede. He has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and is a member of the Turkish-Muslim minority living and working in Western Thrace, Greece. He is also a Human and Minority Rights [...]
Via the International Herald Tribune
During the recent municipal elections in Patras, a banner was hanging in the city centre that read ” No more Roma in Riganokambos ” The city, which is the European cultural capital this year, had promised to promote cultural diversity but instead
efforts have focused on attracting foreign musicians and performers to [...]
It’s that time of the week again… Drop by tonight for our regular chat and silliness (or in-depth discussions if we feel like it). Dress code: Serious Socks.
Details on how to join in are at the top of the page under “dd live“. Please let me know if you would like me to send you [...]
I received a copy of the letter, via the Greek Helsinki Monitor, from the people detained at the camp in Chios. They are pleading for help from anyone who can do something. I am not sure who the letter was originally given or sent to but it has found its way out of that place. [...]
Here are some of the hundreds of children who are being denied birth certificates because they are the children of immigrants. These children were born here in Greece and know no other country.
They are being denied the right to live and intergrate in the only country they have ever known. They are being denied a [...]
Via the Balkan Human Rights List
A desperate plea for help has been sent to the authourites by a group of 225 migrants who are being held in the disgusting conditions in Mersinidi, Chios (East Aegean). I have posted about this detention centre before and it seems that since the Amnesty International report and urgent [...]
Via the Balkan Human Rights List
A desperate plea for help has been sent to the authourites by a group of 225 migrants who are being held in the disgusting conditions in Mersinidi, Chios (East Aegean). I have posted about this detention centre before and it seems that since the Amnesty International report and urgent [...]
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