I have to admit, I was quite surprised by the outcome of this Eurobarometer survey considering the amount of disagreement I hear on this blog. Especially when I point out some of the human rights and equality laws that Greece blatantly flaunts. Perhaps it’s easier when it comes from Greek people themselves ? What do [...]
Even though this has to do with big business and Bill Gates (who we all hate?), this could be a good thing for the kid and his classmates… don’t you think ? Again… here’s hoping…
From Reporter
Greece signed an agreement with the world’s biggest software company, Microsoft to establish IT development centres in an effort to [...]
2007 was not a great year for me personally but 2008 has been unkind so far. We’ve had a run of misfortunes and accidents that have left me feeling very low and pessimistic. I wanted to share it with you so that you will understand my silence and disappearances recently.
The move to the new [...]
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Just over two years ago, I had 10.000 hits party.
My blog was less than 6 months old !
I don’t look at my hits that much these days but I saw that post today and I looked !
140.902 hits as of just now.
I am not very good at mathematics but that’s a big jump [...]
Here’s the truth.
I am pretty fed up with what is going on here.
I have one or three people who have taken up residence and for all the hard work I do, researching issues and current affairs here in Greece (and it is work), I am getting the same responses over and over [...]
An article by Spyros Karalis in Kathimerini looks at the humanitarian crisis in Arta for some 3000 foreign workers.
Photo by Yiannis Bardopoulos
Following the revelation in Kathimerini earlier this month of the degrading living conditions being experienced by foreign workers in Arta and their exploitation by human traffickers and some citrus farmers, as local residents and [...]
Every time I see Martin Luther King JR speak, I cry.
Every time I hear Martin Luther King JR speak his words, I cry.
Every time I think of what Martin Luther King JR did, and stood for and spoke out against, I cry.
Today I feel the need to keep his words alive. My only wish is [...]
I would like to urge all readers of this blog who care about human rights to read this post in full and take action in this case. Please also consider posting this information to your blogs (or websites / myspaces / facebooks) to help spread the word. You can download the complete word document from [...]
There has been an outpouring of help and support following an open letter that was sent to local newspapers about the appalling living conditions of migrant workers. Priests from several villages in Arta (northwestern Greece) got together and wrote about their disgust, saying that there was
a total lack of charity and shame has allowed [...]
From Kathimerini
Xenophobia in Greece is on the rise
The head of a parliamentary committee on immigration said yesterday that racism and xenophobia are growing in Greece while stressing that some 550,000 legal migrants are contributing positively to the country.
The committee, led by New Democracy MP Elsa Papadimitriou, presented figures showing that some 500 migrants arrive [...]
Via Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Attacks on human rights activists in Greece by supporters of Plevris.
Since the end of the trial, K. Plevris launched a series of legal actions against P. Dimitras, GHM activist Andrea Gilbert and the four members of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) Moses Konstantinis, Benjamin Albala, Abraham Reitan, and [...]
Well, there’s this that makes me laugh
My blog is worth $38,953.26.How much is your blog worth?
And this makes me proud
Most users online 77 !
Top Black blogger… number 82 ! Wow !
Thank you all.
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From Kathimerini
Priests from seven villages in Arta, northwestern Greece, have written an open letter to local newspapers decrying the treatment of migrants by farmers and businessmen in the area, it was revealed yesterday.
The priests took action following a fire on Christmas Eve at an abandoned chicken shed in the village of Kostakioi. Some 120 Romanian [...]
Following my post about the demonstration at Mount Athos, I did a bit of research into the subject and came across this YouTube video. The comments that follow are typical of discussions of this type.
Can I also remind people that the demonstration by the local residents was focused on the illegal land seizure. but it [...]
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