A warrant for Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis’ arrest was issued today [Ed. 28 October 2012] for the alleged crime of “violating privacy legislation” related to his bi-weekly magazine HOT DOC which published a list of 2,059 names and associated...
Image: Golden Dawn on the Streets “Reclaim our cities”. “Self-organise”. “Take neighbourhood action”. Consider these slogans for a moment. Sound familiar? Indeed they should, echoing as they do a body of scholarship (e.g. Amin & Thrift, 2005; Butler, 2012;...
I am thinking of the 77 year old Greek pensioner who took his life earlier today in Syntagma square, Athens.1 I am thinking of JFK’s 20th of January 1961 inaugural address speech where he uttered these well cited words: “ask not what your country can do for you...
Today in Greece a 77 year old pensioner shot himself in Syntagma Square. In his letter he explained that the government was robbing him of his dignity and that he had no choice but to commit suicide or start living out of bins. He didn’t want to leave his...
Greg Smith’s resignation letter in the New York Times yesterday,1Printed also in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/14/goldman-sachs-why-i-resigned announcing a bridge-burning departure from his position as Executive Director of...
