General News
Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Thousands of protests and strikes against more than 8 ½ years of austerity haven’t worked but Greek demonstrators took to the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki during a 24-hour strike Nov. 14 to demand wage hikes and increases to pensions repeatedly slashed by successive governments.
The action was called by the civil servants’ union ADEDY which has sponsored numerous similar protests, all of which have failed and with strikes limited to 24 hours or sometimes only a few hours without affecting the politicians who make the decisions.
The union’s demands also include the abolition of the so-called Katrougalos Llaw overhauling the Greek pension system and of the ENFIA property tax surcharge that Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said he would end but continued and then hiked.
The strike was “The beginning of an escalation in the fight against memorandum policies,” organizers said with no explanation why that hasn’t happened since 2010. Successive governments, including the coalition led by Tsipras which includes the pro-austerity, marginal, jingostic Independent Greeks (ANEL), have hammered workers, pensioners and the poor with big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions, and worker firings, exempting Parliament workers, while politicians, the rich and tax cheats have largely escaped with impunity.
While most civil servants have suffered a range of pay cuts, Finance Ministry workers and managers were recently given raises.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".