‘In November 1973, during the students’ uprising at the Athens Polytechnic Institute, the cry was “Bread, Education, Freedom.” It is ironical that today, 15 months after the junta, the students are still shouting the same slogan.‘ But the real irony…
“A GREAT GOOD PLACE”
Community… Latin…noun… from communis, meaning fellowship, community of relationships or feelings. (The compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 1971) The urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his Great Good Place talks about the gathering places where the members of a community hang out for…
TAMING THE WILD
The history of humanity is closely linked with the taming and domestication of wild plants and animals. Of course it was the long and laborous work of Neolithic people behind them. The labor was worth: Neolithic humans satisfied their hunger…
DECEMBER, 2008
There is a small hole in my heart. Protests and clashes over shooting of 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer continue unabated. Greek police run out of teargas and approached Germany and Israel for urgent supplies. Police…
1st of May
29 April 2008 – The current food crisis threatens to undo all the recent efforts to lift people out of poverty around the world and could spark related economic, social and political crises, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today at the…