An important documentary based on Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. A study of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on disasters, war and terror in order to establish its dominance.
Today Greek society seems ...
“Debtocracy” is a documentary that seeks the causes of the Greek crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. Watch it below with English subtitles:
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Debtocracy website: http://www.debtocracy.gr/indexen.html
An extremely interesting documentary from VICE network about the recent riots last month in Athens: On the eve of the biggest Greek strike since the right-wing junta was overthrown almost three decades ago, VICE travels to Athens to meet up with the people ...
On April 26, 2012 at 20:00 let’s turn off the TV and turn to an alternative source of information.
The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary viewed by millions of people around the world, present their new production, entitled CATASTROIKA.
They analyze the ...
Thousands of ordinary European citizens have joined their voices to the "Movement of Nantes." demanding double nationality!
People all across Europe who want to express their support to Greece during this difficult period of crisis, started the "Movement of Nantes" and ...
Solidarity protests for Greece are organized in many European countries for this Saturday! People will protest against economic crisis and its effects on the Greek society.
As noted in an online call to the international audience, the austerity measures that the ...
Every year, on the 17th of November, Greeks but especially Greek students memorialize the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta. Students prepare school celebrations, and a big march starts at the Athens Technical University and ends in the American Embassy, ...
Within the framework of the second memorandum in June, we expect new measures required by the Troika.
The Center for Economic Research of Greece, at the behest of the government, wrote the report contained in government expenditure intended to drastically cut.
Interventions of the measures of June include the following areas:
Education - Reduction in salary of kindergarten teachers, teachers, high school professors and academics, possibly with a parallel increase in their working hours.
Thousands of complaints by workers for non-payment the Christmas bonus salary! According to the Special Secretary of the APR, Michael Halaris,the number exceeds 2,000.
Specifically, the complaints received this year's have to do with more than 1,500 companies. An increase of 500% from last year where complaints were around 300.
After completion of the audit of the complaints, the APR will continue with the process of the lawsuit against the companies.
According the law, an employer who fails to pay the early Christmas bonus salary can be punished with up to six months imprisonment and imposing a penalty which can not exceed 50% of debts nor be less than 25% of the amount payable by the employer to employees.
The haircut appears to be the worst possible decision for the insurance bureaus.
Difficult times for the Insurance bureaus in Greece due to the fact that haircut will seriously influence their funds.The Ministry of Employment and the heads of the Bureaus are claiming this is caused due to the financial crisis and non payments of insurance taxes.
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