Beautiful horse mural found in abandoned factory

Beautiful horse mural found in abandoned factory, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Economic recovery: Designed in Germany, built in Greece

Economic recovery: Designed in Germany, built in Greece, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Ex-mayor of Greece's second largest city sentenced to life forembezzlement

The writing is on the wall, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

"Vasilis Papageorgopoulos, champion-sprinter-turned-politician, got the maximum penalty for embezzlement during his term in office."

Full story here via Eleutherotypia's English language edition.

Greek priest for town protesting controversial mining project speaks topress

Greek priest for town protesting controversial mining project speaks to press, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Here is the community's  protest blog (in Greek) 

And in English (via Google Translate)

Residents in the northern Greek region of Halkidiki protestcontroversial mining project.

Residents in the northern Greek region of Halkidiki protest controversial mining project., a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

My first Big, Big Book of economics by George Osborne

My first Big, Big Book of economics by George Osborne, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Austerity's child

Austerity's child, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Resistance Now!

Resistance Now!, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek general strike 2013 - Thessaloniki

Greek general strike 2013 - Thessaloniki, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

International Citizen Audit Network (ICAN) Meeting - Thessaloniki, Greece 2013

Iolanda Fresnillo - International Citizen Audit Network (ICAN) Meeting, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

"European activists meet in Greece to discuss the debt problem, coordinate resistance strategies and
propose alternatives.

The International Citizen Audit Network (ICAN) holds its third meeting in Thessaloniki from February 15th to 18th 2013, with the participation of activists against debt and austerity measures from Spain, Italy, Portugal, France,Belgium, the UK and Greece. ICAN brings together, from April 2012 and under the slogan "We don't owe! We won't pay!", movements and networks in different European and North African countries fighting austerity measures and debt problems through Citizen Debt audits."

cadtm.org/IMG/article_PDF/article_a8811.pdf

Life on Mars

Life on Mars, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Life On Mars - David Bowie

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It's on Amerikas tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

Greek pensioner demanding his rights

Greek pensioner demanding his rights, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Valentine's Day in Greece

Valentine's Day in Greece, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Death of the welfare state in Greece.

Employees of the social security system protests 450 lay offs - Thessaloniki, Greece, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Employees of the social security system protests 450 lay offs - Thessaloniki, Greece.

Greek pensioners from ex-USSR protest cuts in pensions - Thessaloniki,Greece

Greek pensioners from ex-USSR protest cuts in pensions - Thessaloniki, Greece, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek protester

Greek protester, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek students protest against Project Athena which will see 100's of higher education departments closed or moved to other cities

Poverty in Greece - Welcome to austerity's collateral damage

Poverty in Greece - Welcome to austerity's collateral damage, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

RESISTANCE NOW - Senser

RESISTANCE NOW - Senser, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Resistance Now - Senser

Mobilise and motivate
Your body is the grain that tips the scales 
of hate's accumulated weight
Your mind is a gate, brutal regimes we will not tolerate

Question the given line, stay independent

Little by little the flows gain momentum
Picture the place, the potential awaits
Free from the shackles of nation states
Free from the hate, free from the herd and its mewling for blood
Because what we need is:

Resistance now

Resistance against war and the blood that flowed upon the earth and occupation of all lands
Security for every human and humanity within religion

On se mobilise et en plus on resiste toute les aggressions et actions fascistes

Contre les pouvoirs qui veut controler notre destinie, j'oublirai jamais

This is operation cyclone in your own home

Strong counter action cause their methods are known

Censorship by omission, polish a lie 'til it gleams and bring the riddle to fruition
H is for history's Moebius strip
Turning full cycle for others to witness the shift

Those who resist strong in your midst
Ever equipped and we'll never forget this:

Resistance Now

Use your head as your defence
Pushing only weakens and prevents you from acting on the thrust of the action that you must Against the power that you thought you trusted and their sentiments are thus

It's all pointing inwards, the action is employed

It's all pointing inwards, the action employed

Desert storms tear at your skin
This is the fear that you've been feeling
And your reasons are not unreasonable
This is a crisis, ask yourself who you are
How small...

Resistance Now

You live your life in tacit silence
Feel this is not your crime, gaze down
Until the noose is tightened around your neck. Gun levelled at your eyes, where now?

Don't you lie down and die!

Your voice holds the key to your society
Expose the ones who want to fuck it up for you and me

No more of settling for what they feed
The time has come to put the pressure up against the greed.


SENSER

Greek winter sunset

Greek winter sunset, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek police officer orders out student protesters from high school in Thessaloniki

Greek police officer orders out student protesters from high school in Thessaloniki, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek students protest project Athena.

Greek students protest project Athena. A plan to gut higher education in the name of austerity, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek students protest project Athena. A plan to gut higher educationin the name of austerity

Greek students protest project Athena. A plan to gut higher education in the name of austerity, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek law and order minister denies police mugshots were Photoshopped.

Greek law and order minister denies police mugshots have been Photoshopped., a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek police ‘Photoshop away’ signs of brutality from mugshots.

"Greek authorities must investigate accusations of torture after mugshots of four bank-robbery suspects were doctored to remove signs of injury, Amnesty International said today."

Amnesty International

www.amnesty.org/en/news/greek-police-photoshop-away-signs...

1.19 Pig

1.19 Pig, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Your own personal Jesus

Your own personal Jesus, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

With youth unemployment at nearly 60%, Greece's young look to emigrate.

With youth unemployment at nearly 60%, Greece's young look to emigrate., a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greece's last Junta era prisoner given a hero's funeral by far right.

"General Dertilis Lived as he died, on his feet" . Dertilis was convicted on the summary execution of a student in the 1970's, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Nikos Dertilis who served with the Greek military during the country's far right Junta was buried this week in Athens after dying at the age of 92 in jail. The ex-general was last member of The Regime of the Colonels to be held in prison following the restoration of democracy in 1974.The dictatorship ruled Greece with an iron fist from 1967 till 1974 and was widely condemned for its widespread use of torture and other abuses of human rights.

Dertilis was convicted of the murder of a student during the Polytechnic Uprising by students in Athens in 1973, however, unlike other jailed junta prisoners he refused all compromises with the country's subsequent governments and remained in prison despite repeated offers of early release.

His funeral yesterday was conducted by Greek Orthodox Bishop Amvrosios who compared the disgraced general to independence war hero, Kolokotronis and the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates. The service was attended by 200 far right supporters including six Golden Dawn MPs.

The post's headline is a translation of  today's edition of The Eleutheros Kosmos (Free World) newspaper also had free with today's issue a copy of Robert Bolton's Revolution From Above complete with Nazi designed anti-Semitic poster as its cover (see photo above).

Even more mainstream Greek media such as conservative daily, Kathimerini gave Dertilis a glowing obituary which described him as a "good officer".

www.elkosmos.gr/2011-11-29-16-11-20/politismos/ekdoseis/1...