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Athens: Public Transport Strike & Car-Pool Alternative, Sept 23

Athenians experience another day without major public transport mean, as the Metro, the Urban Train-HSAP and the Tram are on 24-hour strike, on Friday, September 23rd 2011. This morning the traffic jams of desperate motorists trying to reach their work places were incredible. Meanwhile, residents of Athens with or without …

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Athens: New Acropolis Museum Events Free of Charge, Sept 23

The New Acropolis Museum celebrates the European Days of Cultural Heritage today, Friday, September 23rd 2001. It will be open from 8 am until midnight.  At 8 pm,  Monsieur Minimal Full Band and Marietta Fafouti Band will entertain the visitors with live music. Museum visit and event are free of charge. …

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Students Protested Outside Greek PM’s Home (video)

Some 150 school and university students protested outside the home of Greek prime minister George Papandreou on Thursday morning. Six riot police squads were immediately sent to the Castri area in the north suburbs of Athens. Cordoning the area, the police hindered the students to near PM’s home, at a …

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Athens: Car Pool at Public Transport Strike via Twitter

There is an unofficial service initiated by the website Athens Transport via Twitter. It runs in Greek but you can post your message, offering or seeking a Car Pool in the hashtag #carpoolgr. Also KTEL-Buses operate between downtown Athens and the Airport every 30 minutes. Ticket €5. Please, share in …

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Athens: All Public Transport and Taxis on Strike, Sept 22

Taxi owners decided to join the strike of public transporters and will pull their vehicles’ brakes tomorrow, September 22nd 2011. Boycotting the commerce? Blocking people from going to work? Who cares? Some interest groups do care only for their pockets, in times when the Greek society has lost its balance and …

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(Upd) Athens: All Public Transport on Strike, Sept 22

Residents of Athens will experience a tough day as all public transport will be on strike. No Metro, no Urban Train-HSAP, no Tram, no Blue Buses, no Trolley, no Proastiakos, not even TRAINOSE. The 24-hour strike will take place on Thursday, September 22nd 2011. Workers at public transport means threaten to take more actions depending …

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Students-Teachers Protest Turned Ugly as “Hoodies” Riot

Students and teachers flocked to downtown Athens to peacefully protest the shortages in primary and secondary education schools. However a group of hooded “youth” (?) mingled with the protesters and soon the area turned into an area full of broken glass and debris. News portals report in fact of a …

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Greek Taxis on New Strike, Sept 12-13

Taxi owners have announced a new 48-hour strike for September 12th and 13th 2011. The strike will start Monday at 5 am and end on Wednesday 5 am. In the context of their strike taxi owners and drivers plan several actions and will make their presence felt at various points which …

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“Indignant” Greeks Re-Start Protests, Sept 3

“Indignant” Greeks are ready to restart! As summer vacations are over and temperatures have dropped a bit, ‘indignant’ Greeks have called for restarting the protests in front of the Parliament at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens today, Saturday September 3rd 2011 at 7 p.m. And not only! With the slogan “The …

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Athens METRO & Urban Train on Strike, Sept 2

Hardly is the summer vacations period over and strikes started to hit Greece or correctly to say… the residents and tourists in Athens. The Metro and the Urban Train HSAP are on a 24-hours strike on Friday, September 2nd 2011. The workers oppose the employees’ transfers as scheduled by the bill …

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Dissidents enter Libyan Embassy in Athens

Following closely the developments in Tripoli, a group of members of the Libya community living in Greece, invaded this morning the Embassy of Libya in the north suburbs of Athens. Several men entered the embassy building chanting anti-Gaddafi slogan, took down the official flag of the country and hoisted the one of …

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Go Out and Scream!

Oh, I’m so sorry! The right post-title should be “Go Out and Swim!” Let the cool water embrace your body, let the salt make you feel like a human …quilt. Stretch out your arms and legs and let the soft waves carry you away.  Dive in the nature. You may feel a pinch in …

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Hired per eGovernment, Fired by eMail

Gradually Greece’s current events start running again and become interesting as the politicians returned to Athens bringing an end to summer indolence. In view of the upocoming difficult politically and economically fall – not to mention the ice-cold tax winter – it seems that the landscape-cleansing between ministers and associates have started too, …

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Greece’ Greeks’ “Greek Week”, Aug 15

Greece’s Greeks’ “Greek Week”, the peak of the summer holidays season,  is the vacation week that ends or starts on August 15th. It is the summer high week, when every Greek feels obliged to be on vacation. For early leavers summer holidays will end today, for late leavers next weekend. …

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Watching Greek news, Aug 9

The stuffed eggplant lays a bit heavily in my stomach and I firmly believe that it is time to make a confession hoping for some relief. I suffer from an incredible difficulty to resume posting on a daily basis. My mind is filled with images of villages and seas, my ears …

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Athens Mayor Clears “Indignant” Greeks’ Camp at Syntagma Sq

In a big scale operation Greek police cleared the camp of Indignant Greeks in the early morning hours of Saturday. While the Indignant Greeks were sleeping, Athens municipality employees in the presence of prosecutor and police forces started removing the camp tents and banners and load them on trucks. There …

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