If anybody doubts that Irony is a greek word, Syriza has apparently come out in opposition of the destruction of the refugee squats in Thessaloniki. In case you are not following greek politics very closely, Syriza is the major partner in the Greek coalition government. So Syriza is condemning their own government.
Hypocrisy is another greek word as well…
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given, than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.…… Continue Reading
At least 40 people drowned this morning off Turkey when their boat capsized and sank while they were trying to cross to Greece. At least 244 people have died while trying to make it to Europe so far in 2016… When you wake up to news like that day after day it is easy (and…… Continue Reading
This is what my daughter jokingly told me after spending 12 hours in the women’s clothing tent, at the self-organized Platanos camp in Skala Sikamenias Lesbos. She had spent our first day here having helped fold and organize clothes and then working with women to find appropriate clothes among the sorted boxes and piles of…… Continue Reading
Maybe he liked Lego or feared the dark. Maybe he would have been the next Mozart or a good baker or an average Dad. But he had a name: Aylan Kurdi, three, from Kobani. via Alex Andreou. Photo by Reuters #SayTheirNames #TearDownTheBorders I don’t like the fact that this is the only photo of Aylan…… Continue Reading
So much of the rhetoric and the media coverage in and about the EU lately seems to be focused on a Greece vs. Germany narrative. The Germans are hardworking and thrifty or they are moralistic authoritarians bent on the Fourth Reich. The Greeks are oppressed and are fighting against the evil of austerity or they…… Continue Reading
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Racism. Police brutality. Global warming. Never ending war. Students kidnapped and most likely killed. Refugees drowning in the mediterranean while looking for some hope of a future. Austerity. Rise of fascism and religious fundamentalism. State and corporate surveillance. Rape. Homophobia and transphobia and the violence that often accompanies it. Indiscriminate suppression of dissent. The list…… Continue Reading
If you are truly interested in non-violence then you will ask and expect it from everyone. The government, the community, the police, the national guard, the KKK, the protesters. But if you are only asking for non-violence from the protesters and are ok with violence on the part of the state then it isn’t non-violence…… Continue Reading
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as…… Continue Reading