I am going to take a few days away from my blog, to enjoy the holidays with my family. I wish you all a happy, hopeful and loving time.
Enjoy, be well and see you in a few days.
Peace
DD
From BBC News
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church has warned the country’s new socialist government that it faces a major battle over removing religious symbols from schools.
The European Court in Strasbourg has ordered Italy to take down crucifixes from its classrooms, and Greece’s justice minister has acknowledged that it may have to follow suit. [...]
This video was shot at the Mandra settlement I visited and wrote about here.
From the YouTube page
Directed by Dutch Director Aldo Smit, this video was shot in Greece for Amnesty International, Europe in No1’s favorite Dutch holliday country. The video was shot about 30 minutes driving from Athens. I have been traveling around the world [...]
On the same day as I re-visited the Roma settlement at Psari Aspropyrgos, I went to the camp at Mandra. The contrast between the two places was stark. I was transported back three years, to my first visit to Votanikos. The above photograph gives you some idea but cannot hope to illustrate exactly how it [...]
Via Kathimerini
Masked vandals early yesterday broke into a building in the Cretan port of Hania that accommodates a center for immigrants, set fire to furniture and painted swastika symbols on the interior and exterior walls, according to witnesses. The fire set by the vandals was small and fizzled out before firemen arrived at the scene, [...]
Via the Athens News
The need for a new education policy to respond to the country’s increasingly diverse student body was stressed by Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou during a recent meeting with a group of immigrant students.
The nation’s public schools are feeling the impact of the major demographic changes on Greek society. Few public school [...]
Honestly people, I’m sick of this.
The next person who tells me how I should run this blog is banned. If this bickering and harping on about the past doesn’t stop, you will be banned. I have only banned three people from this blog in four and half years but enough is enough. I have deleted [...]
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I had the great fortune to be able revisit the segregated Roma school that I wrote about in January 2007 and to take more pictures. Following over a year and a half of negotiations, it has been decided (for now) that it is better for the school in Psari Asproprygos to remain as a ghetto [...]
Via the International Freedom of Expression eXchange
IFJ condemns outbreak of violence against media
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today strongly condemned an outbreak of violence against media in Greece after a series of bombings targeting the office and home of union leaders. The IFJ/EFJ condemnation follows two attacks [...]
Over the past few months, you may have noticed a significant drop in the number of posts here each week and my lack of participation in many of the “discussions”. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I am trying to make some very important decisions about my real life and it is proving to [...]
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