Police attack on a demonstration for K. Sakkas (and my arrest for a video) - by @_giant_

By @_giant_, re-posted from Omnia TV and translated from Greek by @potmos

On Wednesday, July 10, a demo near the Acropolis was arranged in order to inform people about Kostas Sakkas’s hunger strike.

During the march, in which were about 150 people, slogans were written and leaflets were distributed, mostly in English, since the place is mostly a tourist destination.

When the march was stopped from continuing towards the Acropolis by police forces, it went on to Thissio through the pedestrian road, without an incident.

After a while, under the pretext that slogans were being written on walls, the march was attacked by a motorbike-mounted police force (DELTA), and arrests were made.

People protested the arrests and were attacked with flash-bang and teargas grenades.

LGBT rights in Greece: one new case of State censorship and discrimination

Posted by @IrateGreek

The Athens Pride denounced on Thursday 16 May the decision by the National Council for Radio & Television to ban all Athens Pride publicity spots until the plenary session of the Council can discuss the appropriateness of their broadcast. The reason for given by the Council is the fact that the spots include a lesbian kiss.

This is the second such incident of censorship and discrimination against the LGBT community on Greek media in recent months. In October 2012, State TV channel NET had chosen to edit a kiss between two men out of a episode of Downton Abbey. After viewers reacted angrily on social media, most importantly on Twitter with the hashtag #puritaNET, the channel's director Kostas Spyropoulos had argued that the scene was cut because of the time of the broadcast and the "suitable for all" rating of the show, whereas late-night re-runs would include the scene - ignoring a 2003 ruling by the Council of State which condemned the Council's decision to censor a gay kiss scene on Mega TV channel.

Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

We are re-posting below the video produced by Vice UK on the prevalence of a new, cheap addictive drug in crisis-hit Greece. The report was prepared by Henry Langston, Elektra Kotsoni and Alex Miller. Radiobubble friend Yiannis Baboulias worked as an assistant on this project.

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Part 2



You can also read the text companion to the video, prepared by Alex Miller, here.

De 14 jarige Ismael uit Afghanistan, slachtoffer van racistisch geweld

Oorspronkelijke post geplaatst door @IrateGreek, vertaling @iptamenos33


De 14 jaar oude Ismael uit Afghanistan werd op 6 mei in Athene aangevallen door in het zwart geklede mannen,  die hem in zijn gezicht sneden met een gebroken bierflesje. Hieronder volgt zijn relaas in een video die werd gepubliceerd door de organisatie Médecins du Monde (Dokters van de Wereld). De Nederlandse vertaling ervan vindt u onder de video.

14-year-old Ismael from Afghanistan, a victim of racist violence

Posted by @IrateGreek

14-year-old Ismael from Afghanistan was assaulted on Easter Monday in Athens by men in black who slashed his face with a broken bottle of beer. You can watch below his description of the attack in a video released by Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) and read the English translation of the dialogue. 

Alex, el griego vago

Por @galaxyarchis, traducido por @Pexlibanis, revisado por @mpatman 

El equipo Omikron Project, que trata, a través de videos y anuncios, de romper los estereotipos europeanos sobre Grecia y los griegos en el contexto de la crisis financiera, ha completado su segundo capitulo de dibujos animados. El protagonista del video es Alex, un obrero griego, que se describe como perezoso por los medios de comunicación internacionales y por lo tanto se percibe como que mereca la pena de la austeridad impuesta sobre él por la Unión Europea.

Alex the lazy Greek

By @galaxyarchis, translated by @IrateGreek

The Omikron Project team, who seek to break, through video spots and ads, the various European stereotypes about Greeks and Greece in the context of the financial crisis, completed their second cartoon. The video's protagonist is Alex, a Greek worker whom many international media describe as lazy, and who therefore is perceived as deserving the punishment of austerity imposed upon him by the European Union.

You can activate subtitles in multiple languages in the video above. 

The #MAT1236 photo exhibition in Finland (videos)

Posted by @IrateGreek

The photo exhibition #MAT1236 about the brutality of the Greek police opened on 02 May 2013 in Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Greek activist Anna Gartagani sent to us videos from the inauguration and the panel discussion that took place after the opening. You can watch them after the jump.