21 February 2012, 6:27 pm
Here it is ! Done ! The workers at Eleftherotypia, one of the biggest and most prestigious Greek daily newspapers, go forward undertaking the great endeavour of editing their own newspaper Workers at Eleftherotypia!
From Wednesday, Feb. 15th, kiosks all over the country are displaying one more newspaper next to the usual ones, a newspaper written by its own workers. This is a newspaper which not only aims at bringing the fight of Eleftherotypia’s workers to the fore, but also seeks to be a newspaper giving real information, especially at such critical times for Greece.
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17 February 2012, 10:47 am
Yiorgos Vassalos from the Corporate Europe Observatory writes:
The real news in Greece is not about riots, but of a growing number of people who have broken away from fear and decided to fight back against the austerity imposed by the ‘Troika’ of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
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10 February 2012, 3:48 pm
Last week’s NUJ Policy Committee discussed the worsening situation in Hungary and the continuing attacks on media freedom and the right to report. So far there has been no reply to my letter sent last November to the All Party Hungary Group in the UK Parliament (reported in my blog dated 31 December 2011). In it I asked that the Group raise these concerns with their Hungarian colleagues in the group. The NUJ office is now seeking a reply. At the meeting it was reported that our Irish colleagues were organising a lunch-time demonstration in Dublin outside the Hungarian Embassy at Fitzwilliam Place in Dublin on 10 February. See the NUJ protest in Dublin at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slZmDBWvIjw
The following EFJ statement has been issued:
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