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A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

 
 

 
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Happy birthday, coalition

By Nick Malkoutzis It is one year to the day since Greece held its second general election in two months and third in three years. What better way to celebrate the occasion than trying to relive the uncertainty and tension we e...
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One click off

By Kathryn Lukey-Cout​socostas* Globalization has us readily accepting goods from other lands into our homes. But can countries absorb imported citizens just as easily? Whenever I join the crowd to criticize a line-jumper in ...
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She faces the music

By Maria Patsarika “She faces the music” – I can’t think of a better way to express my own thoughts about Kiki Dimoula, a great (the greatest?) poet of our times, and the uproar that her apparently xenop...
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Saving Indy Media?

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Seeds of revolution

By David Wisner Anger and despair. The words do not do justice to the display of emotion I had just beheld. A lady in the flower of her years, seated in an auditorium, had just broken down into bitter tears of recrimination and...
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Open Government, E-Government, and Government 2.0

The MPA program at the University of North Carolina has a really useful “Citizen’s Guide to Open Government, E-Government, and Government 2.0.”  They conclude that Open Government is here for the long haul. &...
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What to do about getting the story out and getting the people organized

By  Maria Kalogeroudi Two speakers with a common concern: acting against racial prejudice. The one, a journalist, the other, a community organizer. Meet Damian Mac Con Uladh. Damian is an activist journalist who used to work f...
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WEF Creative for good

“As much as world change may be about politics or economics, at its heart it’s a creative proposition.  It’s about insight, engagement and persuasion.  It’s about ideas that are imagined, communicated and delivere...
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Greece: an emerging market?

Is Greece an emerging market? Strange as it may seem, an American firm named Russell Investments believes so. Is this good news? In an analysis by Mat Lystra and Ryan Naranjo entitled Greece: Reemerged, explains in detail the r...
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The new global populism

By John Judis ‘Something is happening and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?’ Bob Dylan sang. Mr. Jones was the typical suburban ‘square,’ and the ‘something’ that was happening ...
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