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Twitter - Tar and feathering for the modern age?
It seems that even in the 21st century we still need a vat of boiling tar and a sack of feathers on hand to punish those considered to have violated the rules of their community. In times gone by the hapless transgressor would have been covered in sticky tar and then rolled... Greek law and order minister says police out of control
Greek police have been accused of heavy handedness and over - reaction following a raid on a bookshop in central Athens following a book reading by the author Dimitris Papachristos (video here). Shortly after the... Greek police fail to learn lessons of December
Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country... Greek PM's visit met with mass street protests
The arrival of the Greek prime minister, Costas Karamanlis in the northern port city of Thessaloniki was met with demonstrations by trade union, political parties and other groups unhappy with the ruling... Protesters turn pirates in immigration centre demo
In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini).... Athens Fires: Wildfires engulf Greek towns and villages
Forest fires are continuing to rage out of control in the Attica region of southern Greece, threatening towns and villages in the area. Agios Stephanos, Dionysios and Palia Pendeli have all reported that the fire...
created by Teacher Dude | 11 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
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333 views | 78 recommendations | 2 comments
Indymedia sites worldwide go down
Earlier today most of Indymedia, which is a collective of independent media centre went offline could not be accessed. Initially bloggers and Twitter users in Greece suspected that the disappearance of Indymedia... Greece's disappearing child refugees raise concern
Questions still remain about the fate of 12 under age refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq who disappeared from a shelter in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. According to reports in the Greek press the 12 were...
created by Teacher Dude | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago
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272 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
Putting a human face on immigration in Greece
Manos was born in Greece in 1977, his parents immigrants from Iraq. He studied in the 17th primary school, Peiria and the 2nd junior high school, Renti. Everything went smoothly until 1992 when his father died. Manos was just 15 years old when his mother, unable to deal with...
created by Teacher Dude | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago
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180 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
Greek government's forced deportation provokes anger
Amidst protests by local human rights activists refugees on the Greek island of Chios were taken to detention centres on the Greek mainland in handcuffs. Around 60 recently arrived immigrants were taken by ferry...
created by Teacher Dude | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago
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116 views | 22 recommendations | 3 comments
Greek human rights protesters block deportations
Human rights activists on the Greek island of Lesvos last night successfully blocked the transfer of refugees held at the island’s detention centre when they blockaded the ferry that was to take them to the...
created by Teacher Dude | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago
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100 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
Athens Acropolis museum hit by censorship row
Just months after its opening the Acropolis museum in Athens, Greece, has found itself embroiled in a row over censorship of the monument's turbulent history. Responding to calls by Archbishop Ieronymous, Greece's... Kindle controversy turns up the heat on Amazon
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."Francis BaconObviously the good people at Amazon.com follow the golden... Greek police raze refugee camp to the ground.
Early on Sunday morning hundreds of members of the Greek police force raided an unofficial refugee camp in the Greek port of Patras as part of an nationwide 'clean sweep" operation. The camp which has been in...
created by Teacher Dude | 17 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
202 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
202 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
