Greece: Breaking the glass ceiling when you’re a Afro Greek singer
Popaganda met Idra Kayne, who’s an Afro Greek singer. She hold back herself for many years and always felt that there was glass ceiling that she needed to break. At first, she sang only in English as it was more compatible with her skin colors but now that she feels more empowered and confident, she […]
Greece & Spain: a precarious health system
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of a strong public health system. Since 2010, both Greece ans Spain have suffered cuts in their public systems due to severe measures proposed during the crisis. Popaganda and El Salto analyze the effects these measures had during the Covid crisis.
Greece: the rarity of a Queer household in Athens
Marios Sergios Iliakis is an artist, former LGBTQ+ rights activist and a gay father. He had his child, Dimitris, with one of his best friends from school, a straight woman and they are raising him together. Marios explains how it feels to be part of a family away from the heteronormative style.
Greece: the antidote to Greece’s housing crisis
CoHab Athens is an exchange platform for urban researchers, activists and anyone interested in claiming housing as a right and exploring alternative housing models through self-management and collective ownership. CoHab Athens uses participatory workshop methods in order to diagnose local needs related to housing. The organization seeks to create the first project of cooperative housing/collective […]
Italy & Greece helping drug addicts
The road unit of the Villa Maraini Foundation brings help to drug addicts and fragile people through damage reduction in the most at risk places in Rome, Italy. The goal is that drug addicts don’t contract HIV infections, hepatitis or other sexually transmitted diseases through the exchange of syringes. Okana, is the largest anti-drug organisation […]
Greece: living in a refugee’s building from the 60s
Greece has among the highest energy prices in the EU, while basic wage is one of the lowest in the block. Energy poverty is, on one hand, the inability to pay energy-related bills and on the other hand, the fact that we have so many needs, we can no longer meet them. Homes are either […]
Golden Dawn: the Nazi party that terrorized Greece
Golden Dawn was a Nazi organization, it had the ideology of national socialism and tried to mimic Hitler’s party in Germany with the NSDAP squads enforcing policy through crime and violence. The arrest of the Golden Dawn leader was not enough to stop the violence, the murdering or to dismantle the organization. Popaganda met journalist Dimitris […]
Greece & Poland: the illegal pushbacks of migrants
An illegal pushing back through the border of people who have just crossed it, without allowing them to apply for refugee status or asylum. This is what a pushback is.
The Greek Souvlaki hit by inflation
Souvlaki, a filled pita bread, is the country’s most popular and, until now, the cheapest food option. But with rampant inflation related to the war in Ukraine, not anymore. Its price has skyrocketed, which is a tragedy for the locals, especially people who are more affected by the multiple crises.
The fight to save one of the last Athens’ rivers
Dimitris is a citizen that fights for preserving one of the last remaining “green lungs” of Athens, the Pikrodafni Stream. For Dimitris, “this is almost a life-long fight, a fight for the environment, a fight for our children’s future.” @Popagandagr followed him and shows you his fight for a safe stream.
