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Greek Unemployed Cut Off From Medical Treatment
By that time, her had grown to the size of an orange and broken through the skin, leaving a wound that she was draining with paper napkins. “When we saw her we were speechless,” said Dr. Syrigos, the chief of oncology at Sotiria General Hospital in central Athens. “Everyone was crying.
Our present is your future
Fantastic series of short documentaries from Reel News about the crisis in Greece and the working class response. Featuring interviews with participants it paints a picture of the whole movement of community assemblies, workplace occupations, self-organisation and solidarity going on in Greece. First Cut Preview: Community Organising from Libcom Dot Org on Vimeo . From the teargas clouds of Syntagma Square emerged a new approach to the crisis. Community kitchens, clothing exchanges and other acts of practical solidarity.
Economic Crisis Triggers Wave of Suicides in Greece
On July 16, a businessman and father of three hanged himself in his shop on the island of Crete. A 49-year-old man from Patras was found by his son. He had also hanged himself. On July 25, a 79-year-old man on the southern Peloponnese peninsula hanged himself with a cable tied to an olive tree. On August 3, a 31-year-old man shot himself to death at his home near Olympia. On August 5, a 15-year-old boy hanged himself in Pieria.
A Greek farmer tends the crop on his tomato farm in Velanidi, 200 miles west of Athens. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP In his day job, Dimitris Koutsolioutsos crunches numbers for his uncle's firm, which deals in jewellery and duty-free. In the early mornings and late evenings, he helps people become farmers. Not literally, but it does seem to be catching on.
Greek farmers rent patches of land to citydwellers in scheme to combat crisis | World news
17 February 2012 Last updated at 13:49 GMT Watch Paul's Newsnight report from Greece in full The breeze block homes that cling to the sides of the cliffs above Piraeus harbour are painted typical Greek colours: cream and pink.
Struggling Greeks losing belief in the state
In recent weeks, Theodoros Mavridis has bought fresh eggs, tsipourou (the local brandy: beware), fruit, olives, olive oil, jam, and soap. He has also had some legal advice, and enjoyed the services of an accountant to help fill in his tax return. None of it has cost him a euro, because he had previously done a spot of electrical work – repairing a TV, sorting out a dodgy light – for some of the 800-odd members of a fast-growing exchange network in the port town of Volos, midway between Athens and Thessaloniki. In return for his expert labour, Mavridis received a number of Local Alternative Units ( known as tems in Greek ) in his online network account. In return for the eggs, olive oil, tax advice and the rest, he transferred tems into other people's accounts. "It's an easier, more direct way of exchanging goods and services," said Bernhardt Koppold, a German-born homeopathist and acupuncturist in Volos who is an active member of the network.
Greece on the breadline: cashless currency takes off | World news
A young man eating outside a soup kitchen in Athens: it is estimated some 400,000 Greeks now visit a soup kitchen daily. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA It used to annoy Xenia Papastavrou, the way Greek tavernas always give you loads of bread, way more bread than you can eat. She started taking it home, just to avoid the waste.
Greece on the breadline: how leftovers became a meal | World news
Μπορούμε (Boroumé) - "Nous Pouvons" : la solidarité en marche en Grèce
(…)Et l’augmentation de la pauvreté a provoqué une autre solidarité. Le mouvement Boroumé (« Nous pouvons »), partie de l’idée simple que le pain jeté en fin de journée par les restaurants pourrait servir aux plus faibles est également en train de faire des émules. Né en mai 2011 et en plein développement, ce mouvement propose de faire le lien entre les restaurants, boulangeries hôtels et autres enseignes et les associations qui distribuent de la nourriture.
Ilias Tsolakidis, 54, (source : washingtonpost) qui fait partie d’un groupe de bénévoles dans le nord de la Grèce, a, dit-il, contacté un agriculteur de pommes de terre dans le nord de la Grèce la semaine dernière et a mis en ligne une publicité sur Internet offrant la possibilité de commander directement auprès du producteur au prix coûtant. Il a été submergé par les réponses : le mercredi, les 24 tonnes de pommes de terre de l’offre avaient été vendues, pour 534 familles. La récolte est ainsi vendue au prix coûtant de 20 cents le kilogramme. Lefteris Kostopoulos, l’agriculteur qui a mis ses patates en vente samedi, n’a pas fait de profit sur la transaction. Mais, dit-il, « au moins, il a réussi à vendre plus de la moitié des produits qu’il avait stockés dans son entrepôt ».
La révolution des patates !
Grèce : avec la crise, sale temps pour la presse
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Traduit par Mandi Gueguen Sur la Toile : Publié dans la presse : 26 janvier 2012 Mise en ligne : lundi 6 février 2012 Eleftherotypia , le quotidien de référence grec, est au bord de la faillite.By Jeffrey Andreoni , Ameripean / Eurican Digital Journalist, an independent thinker, writer and social interrupter based in Athens . Athens - Despite the crisis in Greece, there are a plethora of sustainable, ecological and ethical initiatives being offered throughout the country. Already in Athens the alternative economy is starting to catch on. People who have had to sacrifice many of life's little pleasures because of financial constraints are discovering that you don't always need money to get what you need. My partner and I were just shopping for a therapeutic massage on an alternative currency website. After some comparisons we found a professional masseur who would come to our house and give a one hour massage for the affordable price of 35 Ovolos .
It's Not All Bad News From Greece - Athens ''frappebabel''
Athènes, Anke Stefan/InfoSud - La pilule est dure à avaler pour les Grecs. Depuis le début de l’année, les malades sont contraints de payer de leur poche les médicaments. Une décision qui frappe Athènes et d’autres villes du pays. Un choix difficile à prendre pour les pharmaciens, mais inévitable. « Nous ne pouvons plus continuer à accorder des crédits, même pour un jour supplémentaire », reconnaît Konstantinos Lourantos, président de l’Ordre des pharmaciens d’Attique, la région qui englobe la capitale grecque. En manque drastique de moyens, l’Etat ne rembourse plus les apothicaires qu’au compte-gouttes.
Les Grecs paient de leur poche les médicaments (s'ils en trouvent) | Rue89
Amid Economic Strife, Greeks Look to Farming Past
Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times Vassilis Ballas and his wife, Roula Boura, extracted the gum from a mastic tree on their 400-tree farm in Chios, Greece. As Greece’s blighted economy plunges further into the abyss, the couple are joining with an exodus of Greeks who are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich rural past as a guide to the future. They acknowledge that it is a peculiar undertaking, with more manual labor than they, as college graduates, ever imagined doing. But in a country starved by austerity even as it teeters on the brink of default, it seemed as good a gamble as any. Mr.En quête d'un avenir meilleur, des Grecs quittent la ville De Eve SZEFTEL (AFP) – 22 nov. 2011 ATHENES — Un nombre croissant de Grecs touchés par la crise quittent la capitale Athènes pour retourner dans leur village ou leur île d'origine, voyant dans la crise l'occasion de prendre un nouveau départ. Les jeunes diplômés sans travail dans un pays en récession depuis quatre ans s'exilent nombreux à l'étranger, mais leurs aînés ont tendance à retourner au village natal, avec lequel la plupart des citadins grecs ont conservé un lien. Elisabeth Kokoreli, 40 ans, et son compagnon Vanguelis Tsprounis, 42 ans, ont quitté Athènes pour s'installer depuis la rentrée scolaire dans leur maison secondaire sur l'île d'Eubée, où il a grandi.
En quête d'un avenir meilleur, des Grecs quittent la ville
A Veria, dans le nord de la Grèce, un collectif de militants rétablit le courant à ceux qui n’ont plus les moyens de payer l’électricité. “On redonne un peu de dignité aux gens”, disent-ils. Eleftherotypia | Dina Karatziou | 20 octobre 2011 | Paru dans