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By Krystallia Kalachani It is late afternoon, June 2011, the temperature in Athens is high. I am still at work giving a last look at my social media accounts before I leave for home, there is calling for a gathering in Syntagma...

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Go to jail, do not pass Go

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What do these young people really want?

By Krysta I am commenting on a recent article on the site Ανιχνεύσεις (“Η Νεολαία του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ ζητά να καταργηθεί η πρωινή προσευχή στα σχολεία“). I...

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The importance of being earnest

By Krysta Kalachani “But two stories this week reminded me that media freedom is not just an issue beyond our borders, but also something we must defend here in the EU.” A small but interesting text from Vice Presid...

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What’s that? New York is not Greek?

By Krysta Kalachani Here is a lovely little article full of irony and mockery. Just the way to start my day. The staff at To Kolouri dare to mock members of Golden Dawn in New York City, pointing out that they have committed su...

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Blockupy

Newsworthy, I think… “Our main goal is to show that the regime that is governing Europe through this crisis is neither democratically legitimate nor acting in any responsible way for the people. It’s really workin...

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Let them eat cake

By Krysta Kalachani I was surfing online today, looking to book tickets to see the opera on Tuesday, and I came across this story about unemployed citizens given the opportunity to attend the general rehearsal of Wagner’s...

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ROAR Magazine

By Krysta Kalachani I have been following this website from time to time for a year or more, and particularly one of the contributors, Jerome Roos, who started writing when the Syntagma gatherings started taking place. Here is ...

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After the storm

By Krysta Kalachani In business transactions, as in all transactions that one desires to be fruitful, productive and of mutual benefit all interested parties are supposed to establish a ground of mutual trust first. Mutual trus...

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Nai se ola

By Krysta Kalachani Pitsirikos writes for Unfollow Magazine, a pretty decent magazine, although if it was not so leftist sometimes it might be better… Pitsirikos is a blogger known for his sharp way of writing. I am not s...

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Una fatsa (una faccia)? Is Italy headed toward a “Greek-style” crisis?

By Krista Kalachani I just found a small gap to write a couple of things about what is happening in Italy. If you checked the newspapers in Italy this week, apart from the Pope’s election which is probably the most import...

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Man of the hour: Beppe Grillo

By Krysta Kalachani A quick search online relative to the elections that took place in Italy earlier this week will return to even the most inexperienced internet user hits that include words and phrases like “paralysis...

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Is this news newsworthy?

By Krysta Kalachani A couple recent articles, the one in Proto Thema, the other in To Vima, relate to an older (2011) news story about a big fraud that was taking place at the Kallithea office of IKA. One of the employees expos...

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Who were the aganaktismenoi?

By Krysta Kalachani Who were the aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignados? They were mostly people who were not supporting strongly any ideology or party. They might have been coming from all parties and all ideologies, meaning th...

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A world that doesn’t shame your heart…

By Krysta Kalachani “I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free.” “And what is the highest command? Deny all consolations-gods homelands, ethical, truths – and be left to conjure, with only your power, a ...

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Feministiki protovoulia

By Krysta Kalachani Feministiki protovoulia. A number of women’s groups participate in this blog. They are serious and active in a number of worthy causes, with a focus on violence against women. The blog itself suffers f...

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GoodNews is good news

GoodNews is a collection of good news related to or coming from Greece, to “whoever contributes to Greece and its citizens, whatever makes life in their country unique and drives it forward.” Their goal is to launch...

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Indymedia: a different sort of public service

Indymedia. The website is on the Politechnic’s server, or at least was in the past. From time to time the people that write there are accused of being anarchists. Whoever likes can write on the website. They started as in...

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Human Rights Watch on Greece’s other crisis

Excerpts from a post yesterday on the Human Rights Watch site. “Partly hidden within [the] turmoil [of Greece’s sovereign debt crisis] is another crisis threatening to spin out of control – xenophobic violence aga...

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The Stick: safe to leave home without it?

In a less than tongue-in-cheek account, Bloomberg’s Megan Greene recounts conversations she has had of late with former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou in an attempt to make sense of what happened to the data sti...

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