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Greece's people show the politicians how to fight Golden Dawn | Daniel Trilling | Comment is free
Golden Dawn members carry out a Greeks-only food distribution outside their party HQ, after being prevented from holding it in Syntagma square, central Athens.
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Students protest in Athens against unemployment.
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Golden Dawn’s Popularity Rising Rapidly in Greece
Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters People received cartons of milk and other groceries from the Golden Dawn party in Syntagma Square in Athens in August.Members of the party have also attacked immigrants.
Posted by Ross Domoney Athens: Social Meltdown from Ross Domoney on Vimeo .
Aletheia Photos - Blog - New Documentary: Athens; Social Meltdown
One small step for womankind in an all-male Greek state | Dawn Foster | Comment is free
View of the holy Mount Athos monastery and coastline, Greece.
Over the weekend, more than 45 buildings across Athens were set ablaze by violent protesters. The fires began as the Greek Parliament passed a strict package of austerity measures, in an effort to meet demands by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Athens in Flames - In Focus
On 26 April 1941, the day before the German army raised the swastika over the Acropolis, Homer Davis, president of Athens College, was entrusted by the Greek War Relief Association with changing two million dollars into drachmas – money raised by his fellow Greek-Americans.
Richard Clogg · In Athens · LRB 5 July 2012
[The following statement was issued by a group of Greek academics regarding the ongoing crises in Greece.] Greek society is suffering both from the crisis and the responses to it, which have reached a dead-end. Major social and political institutions that were created with enormous struggles and sacrifices in post-War Greece — social security, the public health care system, public education, public transport, the natural and urban environment, the right to live a safe existence, and various elemental goods and services that underwrite the very existence of an already curtailed and devalued Greek state — are all being utterly dismantled so that Greek society is now dying of asphyxiation.
From Greece: Declaration for the Defense of Society and Democracy
Struggling Greeks losing belief in the state
17 February 2012 Last updated at 13:49 GMT Watch Paul's Newsnight report from Greece in fullSotiris Pastras gave up a career as a champion swimmer to pursue something more practical: a job in the media.
Greece’s Youth in Crisis
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.
Amid Economic Strife, Greeks Look to Farming Past
At some point, I asked Hadjigeorgiou how the crisis was affecting him personally.
The Way Greeks Live Now
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou seemed to grasp what others in Europe are missing: finances are only a symptom of Greece's broken society Reuters In August 1992, a man named Stefanos Manos landed a job as the finance minister of Greece.