Posts Tagged with ‘poverty’
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The Poor, the Rich and the Reporters
01 Nov 2012
Having lived in central Athens for a month now, I've got a bit more of an idea of the conditions that people live under. The continual police harassment, especially of migrants and political activists. The fear of the Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) and its violent attacks. The dangerous levels of …
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Athens: Overview
06 May 2012
This is going to be my last post on Athens, but I wanted to sum up a few things. Several people have expressed interest in going to see the political situation there for themselves and I'd really encourage anyone who wants to to do so. It is amazing. I'm definately …
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Athens: Visible Poverty; Visible Repression; Visible Resistance
30 Apr 2012
Having only arrived in Athens last night, I haven't had much of a chance to explore, but you don't have to go far to realise that this isn't your average European country. From the moment you step out at Syntagma Square station, the poverty can be seen. Homeless men with …
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Greece: Teetering on a Precipice
13 Feb 2012
Last night, while hundreds of thousands took to the Athens streets in protest, the Greek parliament approved yet another austerity bill. No one has any illusions that these measures or the loan extensions granted the EU will grant on the back of them will have any positive effect on the …
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Housing Benefit Changes: Crisis and Effects
04 Jan 2012
New research was published by Shelter this week revealing that approximately 1 million people - 2% of the adult population, have taken out at least one payday loan to help pay their mortgages or rent this year. Approximately 7 million (15%) have taken on debt of one form or another …
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Lives for Sale
19 Jun 2005
WHEN Live8 tickets were offered to the highest bidder on eBay this week, there had never been a clearer demonstration that to Make Poverty History you need to first make capitalism history. Within hours of the first text messages being sent out to those lucky people who had won a …