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Daily Archives: May 4th, 2012

Communismos 2.0 calling: Thessaloniki, May 25-27, 2012

English original Communismos 2.0 calling Festival     Communismos 2.0       From circulation of capital, patriarchy and nationalism to circuation of struggles, commons and micro communisms       25-27 May 2012 at Fabrica Yfanet squat  Thessaloniki – Greece

16 HIV-positive sex workers are jailed and pilloried by the Greek state and mainstream media, as discourse in the country takes a purely Nazi turn

In a stunning move toward an openly sexist and nazi-like discourse, the Greek ministry of health along with workers from KEELPNO (the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention) have been storming prostitution houses across Athens, examining and arresting sex workers inside. Astonishingly, the pretext for the raids was to protect (in the words of the minister [...]