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This winter, website Kala-Nea.gr [Good News] reports on Ksyla.gr [el], a new platform that aims to reduce the cost of heating, by serving as an aggregator on different types and prices of solid fuel: firewood, pellets, briquettes, coal. Traders can join the project, providing data for their products and the areas they deliver to. Customers can search for the best prices based on product categories and delivery areas.
Two brothels sponsor a local football team in Greece (screenshot from “GiveMeFootball” video)
In a blog post entitled “Crisis wedding in Greece”, Belgian freelance photographer Nick Hannes posts the story of a bride and groom in Patras, Peloponnese who decided to hold their wedding party at the groom's petrol station. “This is how we respond to the crisis”, a family member said to him. The entire image gallery can be viewed in the blog.
On October 29, two journalists, Kostas Arvanitis and Marilena Katsimi, were fired by the Greek Public Television (ERT) after analyzing claims by British newspaper The Guardian of police torture of Greek anti-fascist protesters in Athens, and criticizing the Greek Minister of Public Order. Explore this and other recent censorship examples.
Economic crisis and the Nazis in Greece. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff (used with permission) first appeared on Brazilian OperaMundi [pt].
“Unemployment”. Photograph by Absent.
In blog post entitled ‘Cirque de Grece’ (Greek Circus), Kostas Kallergis shares an Athens poster mocking the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, which is inspired by a poster for Cirque de Soleil's ‘Alegria‘ show. More »
Screenshot from a video in which members of Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party pose as police to check migrant market traders’ papers – and then attack a stall.
Twitter users are promoting an international petition to urge a full criminal investigation into the Golden Dawn party in Greece.
On Saturday, September 1, an anti-racism demonstration took place in central Athens. Hundreds of demonstrators, mainly anarchists, gathered to protest recent events such as violent, even lethal, attacks against immigrants.
Anti-nationalist sticker from Athens reads [el]: “We want Albanian classmates, Afghani coworkers, Nigerian neighbours and kicks to fascists.” Source: Facebook page of Europeans against the political system.
On August 15, 2012, as user @northaura points out: ”Greece celebrates the Assumption of Mary, one of the biggest Greek orthodox days”, yet “2 people are found murdered thrown in a dustbin”. Journalist and human rights activist @NikoAgo had earlier tweeted [el] about the discovery of two murdered people in an Athens neighbourhood, probably of Polish or Romanian origin [el]. One of them was found inside a dustbin [el] tied up with wire.
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Franco was monorchid, cuñaooo
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