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Showing posts with label Hadjidakis. Show all posts
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Saturday, 1 June 2013

Informativo semanal desde Grecia #34 - 01 Junio 2013




En las noticias de #rbnews internacional de esta semana

  • Una canción del famoso compositor Manos Hadjidakis fue objeto de censura.
  • Ataques racistas violentos se observaron por primera vez en el centro de Salónica, mientras que los socios de la coalición gubernamental discuten sobre el proyecto de ley contra el racismo
  • La privatización de la compañía de aguas de Salónica da un paso hacia adelante con la aprobación del fondo de privatizaciones de dos inversores potenciales.
  • Las tres activistas contra la minería que fueron arrestadas en Skuriés y condenadas a libertad condicional, pero apelan la decisión del tribunal.
  • Las fusiones de las bibliotecas y otras instituciones del Estado llevarán al despido funcionarios públicos.

Friday, 31 May 2013

Complaint of censorship of a Hadjidakis song in the classroom goes viral, sparking controversy

Source: Manos Hadjidakis's official site
By @Inflammatory_ and @IrateGreek

The latest case of censorship in Greece found an unlikely target in a song by famous Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. 

Deputy Minister of Education Theodoros Papatheodorou ordered last night an ex officio investigation into claims by a primary school music teacher in Thessaloniki that the principal of her school forbade her from teaching Hadjidakis's song Kemal to her 5th-grade class. This was followed today by a question in parliament by New Democracy MP Giannis Michelakis, who called upon the Ministry of Education to take an official position on the matter and condemned the school principal in the harshest of terms, calling the incident "a monument of ignorance, fanaticism and stupidity."

Update 19:35 EEST: The preliminary investigation of the Ministry of Education appears to show that the teacher's claim is correct. The principal has been asked to give a written explanation for her reaction.