"The Overseer Class is a deeply rooted yet approachable analysis of how race in America is often a telemetric shorthand for class and interest, but remains only a shorthand. That, as Thrasher says, “skinfolk ain’t always kinfolk (and that people who don’t share the color of our skin might still fight for the values of our kin).” That the racism, the various oppressions of today’s world, won’t be solved with one person climbing the ladder to receive the nuclear codes. Instead, Thrasher pushes for a solidarity that is so encompassing, so solid, that the overseer class is rendered impotent and irrelevant." Grateful for this thoughtful review of THE OVERSEER CLASS in @inkstickmedia.com by an Athenian journalist (I have never met), Moira Lavelle https://inkstickmedia.com/steven-thrashers-impassioned-call-to-oust-the-overseer-class/

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Steven Thrasher's Impassioned Call to Oust the 'Overseer Class' In 'The Overseer Class: A Manifesto,' Steven W. Thrasher's call to overthrow the 'overseer class' starts with looking beyond reform.

"The Overseer Class is a deeply rooted yet approachable analysis of how race in America is often a telemetric shorthand for class and interest, but remains only a shorthand." Grateful for this thoughtful review of THE OVERSEER CLASS in @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/steven-thras...

In a new book, journalist Thrasher pulls apart the myth that diversity reforms unjust systems.

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At Inkstick, @moiralavelle.bsky.social reviews @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country,' out next month.

'For Your Freedom and Ours': The Lessons of the Jewish Bund In a new book, author Molly Crabapple examines the story of the revolutionary Jewish Bund — and the lessons for resistance today.

In her forthcoming book, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social "writes to make you fall in love with the Bundists — with their charm, their surety, their steadfastness, their loquaciousness — but more so to make you fall in love with their ideas."

A new review by @moiralavelle.bsky.social

The official accounts tell one story. Survivors tell another.

Our investigation into the deadly collision off Chios looks at the inconsistencies surrounding the deaths of 15 people.

with @moiralavelle.bsky.social & Giorgos Christides

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Taner Balat was last seen in Orestiada 2 months ago, and his family has been searching for him since. Greek officials state there is no record of the 23-year old Turkish citizen anywhere in the country. But the family has video evidence.

W/ @vedatyeler.com

Threatened With Jail for Offering Blankets to Migrants Twenty-four aid workers in Greece are being tried on trumped-up smuggling charges after they gave blankets and water to migrants. Some have been in pretrial detention for months in a case highlighting the EU’s authoritarian clampdown on migrant rescue.

24 aid workers in Greece are being tried on trumped-up smuggling charges after they gave blankets and water to migrants.

Some have been in pretrial detention for months in a case highlighting the EU’s authoritarian clampdown on migrant rescue.

Greeks Challenge EU-Backed Fish Farms Amid Environmental Concerns - Inside Climate News The country is one of the top producers of farmed fish in the EU, which has promoted aquaculture as an environmentally sustainable option for food security within the bloc.

Across Greece, fish farms are set to expand by 24 times their current acreage, supported by subsidies from the EU. Some Greeks are pushing back, arguing that aquaculture is damaging to the seagrass and the marine environment.

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Fish farms are expanding across Greece, backed by hundreds of millions in EU subsidies. But this green-economy priority is damaging to seagrass and marine environments.
I spoke with Greeks taking the expansion of these farms to court for @insideclimatenews.org
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In Greece, Demonstrators Want the US Military Out From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.

From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades, writes @moiralavelle.bsky.social

In Greece, Anti-War Advocates Want the US Military Out From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.

From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.

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In Greece, Anti-War Advocates Want the US Military Out From US intervention in Iraq to Israel's war in Gaza, an American base in Greece has facilitated conflict for decades.

This past weekend thousands of Greeks protested the US military bases in Crete and their reported involvement in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

There is a long history of opposition to American bases in the country.

My latest for @inkstickmedia.com:
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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.

"The Greek ban on people arriving from North Africa from claiming #asylum is a policy as illegal and failed as its 2020 iteration for refugees arriving from Turkey."

Minos Mouzourakis, lawyer at RSA @jacobinmag.bsky.social

✍️@moiralavelle.bsky.social @vedatyeler.com

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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.

«Η 🇬🇷 απαγόρευση υποβολής αιτήματος ασύλου από Β.Αφρική είναι μια πολιτική εξίσου παράνομη &αποτυχημένη με την αντίστοιχη απόπειρα του 2020 για #πρόσφυγες από Τουρκία.»

Μίνως Μουζουράκης, δικηγόρος στην RSA @jacobinmag.bsky.social
@moiralavelle.bsky.social @vedatyeler.com
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“We didn’t come here for fun; we had no choice,” Mahmud from Syria

“When I see young people arriving now, I understand them,” said Theodor, who fled 🇬🇷’s junta in the 70s

Odyseas: “No one is here to take your land or your money”

New piece w/ @moiralavelle.bsky.social

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Greece Is Shutting the Door to Refugees Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union is hardening its borders, even if it means trampling on its own laws.

Greece has announced it will suspend asylum for the next three months for people arriving form North Africa. It is another revelation that its government aims to reduce the protected right to asylum to smithereens.
Reporting with @vedatyeler.com
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EU Proposes Rule to Send Asylum-Seekers to 'Safe' Third Countries They've Never Been To This will open avenues for the use of “return hubs” much like the one created in Albania at the impetus of a deal with Italy.

EU proposes rule to send asylum-seekers to ‘safe’ third countries they’ve never been to:

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Greece’s Surrogacy Sector is Open for Tourists, or at Least Some of Them - tovima.com These “surrogate matching” programs rely on the fallacy that there are hundreds of women happy to travel to Greece to engage themselves in the demanding process of surrogacy and pregnancy for sheer al...

Wrote a bit about Greece’s surrogacy tourism industry, and the legal structure that makes it possible:

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Explaining Greece: Athens' Housing Crisis and History In this episode we explore the history of housing in Athens, and look into how forces like Greece’s protracted economic crisis and short-term rental platforms like Airbnb have impacted the city's soci...

Why is Athens facing a housing crisis? Why do so many of the apartment buildings look alike? And what does "vertical segregation" mean in the context of the city?

In this podcast I spoke with Social Geography prof Thomas Maloutas about housing in Athens:
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The report from @bordercrim.bsky.social, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social and BVMN can be found here: www.mobileinfoteam.org/police-stati...

Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in GR Police Stations A report by Border Criminologies alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws.

"A report published by @bordercrim.bsky.social, a research team based at the University of Oxford, alleges that #Greece regularly uses prolonged #detention of #migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws."
by @moiralavelle.bsky.social
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Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in GR Police Stations A report by Border Criminologies alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws.

Wrote about the latest report published by @bordercrim.bsky.social, which alleges that Greece regularly uses prolonged detention of migrants in police station cells in violation of its own laws:

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