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29/04/2021
After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business.
On this week's PUSHBACK Talks episode, Leilani Farha and Fredrik Gertten sit down with our co-founder and data journalist Sotiris Sideris to discuss who is buying up all the foreclosed properties in Athens and the greek part of the cross-border collaborative investigation .
Greece Without the Greeks - When the Vultures Grabbed Athens - PUSHBACK talks After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business. In a country where homeownershi...
"We see that, once again in the face of a total threat, what is being done is the pursuit of profit."
Konstantinos Troupakis, co-founder of Contentativa, a non-profit company of advocates, researchers, and activists, reminds us that the only model that will be able to give us the solution and discover the vaccine to halt the pandemic is solidarity, unity, and cooperation.
Follow the link to find out more about Contentativa and their services: https://bit.ly/34Ygr8K
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Follow the U.S. premiere of “TIED” at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
Available on Thu, Oct 15, 2020 12:00am PST
(Virtual): http://lagff.org/tied/
The documentary captures the struggle of 320 unpaid seamen of NEL Lines, one of Greece’s most historic maritime companies, in 2015. With many trapped in the company’s vessels in Drapetsona, a part of the Piraeus port, and away from the spotlight, the camera captures their efforts to receive their wages for 7 months during the most critical times in Greece’s modern history. To this day they have received less than half of the wages owed to them and their case is still before the court of appeal.
Production: Tassos Morfis
Cinematography: Yannis Drakoulidis
Editing: Gerasimos Domenikos
Photography: Angelos Christofilopoulos
Color grading: Dinos Vamvakousis
Original score: Giannis Papaioannou / ION
A co-production: ATHENSLIVE - ΑΘΕΝΣΛΑΪΒ A.M.K.E. - Fosphotos - RosaLuxgr funded by Auswärtiges Amt
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Our documentary “ΔΕΜΕΝΟΙ - TIED” is premiering in Athens this Thursday at Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας • Athens International Film Festival. The venue is Τριανον the time 19.45pm.
You can book tickets here: http://www.aiff.gr/ellinika_ntokimanter/arthro/demenoi_tied-15554539/
The documentary captures the struggle of 320 unpaid seamen of NEL Lines, one of Greece’s most historic maritime companies, in 2015. With many trapped in the company’s vessels in Drapetsona, a part of the Piraeus port, and away from the spotlight, the camera captures their efforts to receive their wages for 7 months during the most critical times in Greece’s modern history. To this day they have received less than half of the wages owed to them and their case is still before the court of appeal.
Production: Tassos Morfis
Cinematography: Yannis Drakoulidis
Editing: Gerasimos Domenikos
Photography: Angelos Christofilopoulos
Color grading: Dinos Vamvakousis
Original score: Giannis Papaioannou / ION
A co-production: ATHENSLIVE - ΑΘΕΝΣΛΑΪΒ A.M.K.E. -Fosphotos - RosaLuxgr funded by Auswärtiges Amt
13/09/2020
On Saturday, protested on the streets near Kara Tepe, asking for evacuation to as they don't want to be transferred to a closed type camp on .
Families and children were sheltered on the street for the fifth night, while access to basic resources is still very limited - especially with regard to .
Photos by Angelos Christofilopoulos from on the ground.
The Aftermath of the Moria Fire: Protests, Tear Gas and Limited Aid In response to the ongoing peaceful protests held by those who have fled Moria, riot police fired tear gas.
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