A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015
Editor’s Choice: Event of the week
Parallaxi, a free-press magazine inThessaloniki who began the well known “ThessalonikiAllios” are organizing the 2nd annual effort to clean up the city ofThessaloniki. Thessaloniki Allios willbe reviving an area of Thessalo...
Catalan Way Toward Independence
A recent press release on the Catalan New Agency describes an interesting form of citizen activism. “This coming 11th of September – which is Catalonia’s National Day – pro-independence supporters have organised...
Dukakis Lecture 3/11/13
The Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service Cordially invites you to attend a Dukakis Lecture Featuring Dimitris Katsoudas Former Secretary General for European Affairs, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign...
Business and Politics in Greece
The lines separating the worlds of business and politics in Greece have often been blurred. Businesses are not free from state intervention, on the one hand, but, on the other, business interests have often played a preponderan...
Event of the week: Anatolia Christmas charity drive
On Dec 19 the Anatolia Christmas charity drive will take place. Volunteers will be collecting food with a long shelf life (packaging must be intact) and personal hygiene products and household detergents (used and half full ite...
Around the town: 5/15/13
This weekly feature offers a glimpse of what is happening in and around Thessaloniki. Compiled by Laura Strieth. Thu 16th to Sun 19th May- 10th Thessaloniki Book Fair- The institution of the Thessaloniki Book Fair has establish...
Citizen conductors
By David Wisner The latest initiative from the group Improv Everywhere in New York: citizen conductors! What a great idea! Here is the description from their website: “For our latest mission, we put a Carnegie Hall orches...