Workers at Athens, Metro, Tram and Urban train ISAP will launch a series of warning work stoppages to protest that public transport organizations will be transferred to the new Privatization super-Fund. The schedule for the work stoppages for the next 15 days are: Monday, June 6th: begin of morning shirt …
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Athens Homeless: 71% forced to streets in last 5 Troika Years, 47% after Losing Job
Seventy-one percent of homeless ended up on the streets of Athens in the last five years and 21.7 percent alone in last year, a survey conducted by the Athens Municipality found. Forty-seven percent ended on the streets after losing job. Average age is 48. According to the study findings: 62% …
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Correction! Workers at Athens Public Transport & Ports on strike May 26/2016 (see schedule)
Workers at metro, tram, urban train ISAP, buses and trolley buses will launch work stoppages on Thursday, May 26th 2016. Metro, Tram, Urban train will not operate between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m Buses, Trolley buses will not operate between 11 am and 5 p.m. The work stoppage aims to …
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Anarchists order passengers out & set trolley bus on fire in downtown Athens (video)
A group of some 20 people wearing hoodies raided a trolley bus on Friday night, ordered passengers to get off and set it on fire with molotov cocktail bombs. Eyewitnesses said that the passengers were in panic and that the moment the group entered the bus the first thing they …
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Athens: Public transport workers on 24h & 48h strike, May 21-23/2016
Workers at urban train ISAP, metro and tram will launch a 48-hour strike from Saturday morning, May 21st until Monday morning May 23rd 2016. Workers at blue buses and trolley buses will join with a 24-hour strike from Sunday morning until Monday morning (22-23 May 2016). The strikes begin and …
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Athens: Tax officers occupy the … Finance Ministry!
A group of some 70 tax officers has been occupying the Greek Finance Ministry in downtown Athens since 8 o’ clock in the morning. The occupation reportedly aims to protest that the General secretariat of Public Revenues turns into an “independent authority.” This morning I heard on Greek TV that …
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Athens: Driver forces blind woman and her guide dog out of public bus, although the law says otherwise
Unbelievable but perfectly applicable in a country where a good portion of its population has absolutely no culture of any kind. A bus driver in Athens demanded that a blind woman and her guide dog get of the bus because he felt annoyed by the dog’s presence. Despite reactions by …
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Athens: Rioters throw molotov cocktails at riot police during anti-austerity protest – live stream
Rioters wearing hoods started to throw molotov cocktail bombs at riot police during anti-austerity protest in downtown Athens. The cocktail bombs however landed also among the private and public sector protesters who had gathered outside the Parliament on Sunday afternoon. Within minutes, the peaceful protesters were dispersed trying to seek …
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Riot Police protects Greek Parliament from protesting Policemen (video)
Nice scenery outside the Greek Parliament on Sunday: policemen, firefighters and members of the Greek Coast Guard, some wearing their uniforms and some in civilian clothes, take position along the side entrance of the Parliament in downtown Athens. They hold banners against the Pensions Reform and the new Taxation, two …
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Greece’s Public transport means strike & work stoppage schedule, May 8/2016
Below you see the Public transport means strike & work stoppages schedule for Sunday, May 8th 2016 Buses, Trolley buses will operate between 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Metro will operate after 9 a.m. – however up to <Doukissis Plakentias> station and not to/from Athens Airport due to Proastiakos strike …
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Greece’s parliament votes Pensions Reforms, Taxation – A Hell of a Protest Day
Protest rallies against the Pensions Reform and the new taxation system started already at 10 o’ clock on Sunday morning with thousands of Communist KKE union PAME-members to have gathered at Syntagma square outside the Greek Parliament. An hour later, members of private sector unions umbrella GSEE started to flock …
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UPD: Greece on Strike: Public transport means strike schedule May 6-10/2016
Athenians with no private vehicle or no money for taxi have to stay at home today as all public transport means are on strike. Metro, urban train ISAP, tram, buses and trolley buses are on a 48-hour strike that started on Friday morning and will end on Sunday morning. Oh …
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Energy high on the agenda, when Russian President Putin visits Greece on May 28/2016
A visit with heavy political weight. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected in Athens on May 28th 2016. Expectations in bothe countries are high, with Russia to eye a partner in promoting its new geopolitical strategy and Greece to try to use the “Russian card” as a pressure tool in …
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Greek Orthodox Easter: Holy Light made mysterious appearance again, was flown to Greece
For one more time, The Holy Light mysteriously appeared in the sealed crypt of Christ Grave in Jerusalem. Thousands of Greek Orthodox had gathered in order to light their candles directly from Patriarch of Ierosolyma Theophilos, the only high-ranking official of the Greek Orthodox Church to have access to the …
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Shops, Banks, Public Services operation schedule over Easter days, April 29-May 3/2016
Shops, public services and banks will remain close from Sunday to Tuesday as the holiday of May st has been transferred to May 3rd. As we all know, May 1st is not a holiday but a strike day. Below the schedule: April 29: shops, supermarkets 1 pm – 7 pm …
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Greek Atheists call for “Meat Supper” on Good Friday, April 29/2016
Greek Atheists Association is organizing a Meat Supper event on Good Friday, the day when Greek Orthodoxes are supposed to keep a very strict Lent avoiding to consume even oil. “We refrain from mourning and fasting but not from logic, and especially from the representatives’ commands of alleged supernatural beings,” …
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Anarchists attack police station in Athens, cause damages in train station, raid supermarket
Α group of some 40 people attacked with Molotov cocktail bombs the police station in Exarchia late Sunday afternoon. According to reports, the group threw at least 10 molotov cocktail bombs and stones at the police station at 3:30 p.m., causing material damage at the building front and the guard’s …
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Ellinikon Camp: Teenager migrant girl, 17, dies in ICU
A 17-year-old migrant girl from Afghanistan died in the Intensive Care Unit of Laiko Hospital in Athens where she going undergoing treatment for five days. According to Greek media, the girl was suffering from severe abdomen and stomach pain and she was taken to the hospital. She was allegedly suffering …
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Faliron: Necropolis with 80 skeletons in chains, buried in array – Indications to Cylonian Affair in 632 BC?
Eighty dead, eighty men buried in array. All but one have their hands tied on their backs with iron chains. One skeleton has his feet chained. The remaining of Ancient Greeks have been laying in a big area of Falirikon Delta in South Athens for more than 26 centuries. Digging …
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Why did F-15 and F-16 Fighter Jets do over the Acropolis?
The sound was loud and had many Athenians rush to their windows and look up to the sky. What they saw were fighter jets performing low flights over the Acropolis. No, it wasn’t an invention by a foreign country. It was just two US F-15 and two Greek F-16 flying …
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