FILM SCREENING and POLITICAL DISCUSSION about GREECE:  "Are Greek elections, on January 25th, threatening Europe?" Date: 17 January 2015, 14.00 until 21.00 Location: LAB111 FILM & ETEN, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam Schedule: 14.00 - 16.00: Film screening 16.00 - 19.00: Political discussion organised by ReINFORM 19.00 - 21.00: Break + Film screening A detailed schedule and a newsletter of th ...

Athens, Paris, 18 December 2014 – Austerity measures adopted in response to the economic crisis have adversely impacted human rights, such as the rights to work and health, and curtailed fundamental freedoms in Greece, denounce FIDH and its member organisation the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) in a report released today. The report gathers findings from a mission of investigation carried out by ou ...

Doorbraak has published a lot of articles on the issue of forced labour for benefit claimants. The emphasis has mainly been on the regime they have to work under. But equally important is the substitution of regular paid work that is the consequence of forced labour. This substitution undermines the entire system of paid labour: why should an employer pay for workers when it is becoming easier all the time ...

Door Herbert Ploegman (Herbert Ploegman is als cultureel-antropoloog afgestudeerd aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. Momenteel bereidt hij een onderzoek voor naar nieuwe vormen van samenleven in de crisis in Griekenland.) In Athene is de hongerstaking van anarchist en wegens een bankoverval gedetineerde Nikos Romanos een gebeurtenis van belang geworden in de strijd die regering en protesterende burgers ...

On 6 December 2008 the Greek government armed the mind and hand of the policeman who murdered the 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, sending the message that the State will do anything to prevent the youth from questioning its policies. Alexandros' friend, Nikos Romanos, watched him dying right in front of him. In February 2013, at the age of 20, Nikos Romanos was arrested together with five other young ...

Greece’s justice minister, Haralambos Athanasiou, has been accused of homophobia after unequivocally denouncing gay marriage. In an outburst that startled human rights defenders and activists in the country’s increasingly visible LGBT community, the minister, Haralambos Athanasiou, said he was virulently opposed to same-sex marriage as it posed dangers to a society that “respected traditions”. “I won’t disc ...

Deputy prosecutor decides there are no legal grounds to review the decision by a Patras court in July which acquitted the farmers and had sparked outrage at home and abroad. Greece’s supreme court has upheld a decision by a jury court of appeals in the city of Patras to acquit the farmers who opened fire, last year, on 28 unpaid Bangladeshi strawberry pickers, seriously wounding four of them. Deputy public ...

'Dat óók Shell niet 'schoon en veilig' kan fracken blijkt uit onderzoek van Milieudefensie in Oekraïne en Argentinië, dat daar stuitte op een flink aantal dubieuze praktijken' Door Ike Teuling, Campaigner Energie bij Milieudefensie Een delegatie van Tweede Kamerleden bracht begin deze week een bezoek aan schaliegasboorlocaties van Shell in de Verenigde Staten, om meer te weten te komen over de impact van sc ...

The fundamentalist extremists of the so-called "Islamic State" have massacred thousands. The government of Iraq has been unable and unwilling to stop them. The Syrian Kurdish PYD has put up strong resistance. They have helped Ezidi's to escape and to organize self-defence groups against IS. They have proven to be the most effective resistance against the fundamentalist terror. For weeks, IS has been attacki ...

On Thursday, October 16th, 20.00 at IIRE ( Lombokstraat 40, 1094 AL Amsterdam) Grenzeloos and Borderless organize a discussion meeting on the Rojava experience, the current situation, the role of Turkey and the Netherlands as well as the ways of concrete solidarity with the resisting people of Kobane. The event will be in English and Dutch. Confirmed speakers: Sheruan Hassan (PYD Spokesperson) Nuri Karabulu ...