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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.
WASHINGTON, DC – On November 26 at 12 noon, a herd of injured PETA “donkeys” in bandages and slings will “collapse” in front of the Embassy of Greece, 2217 Massachusetts Avenue NW (at the intersection with Sheridan Circle N.W.) in Washington, DC, to call for an end to Santorini’s notoriously inhumane donkey rides. The protest follows the release earlier this month of new undercover footage revealing that—one year after an explosive PETA expose of abused donkeys on the island sparked international outrage—the animals are still being beaten and forced to give rides without food or water.
Investigators on Santorini found donkeys and mules suffering with open sores, raw skin, and bloody injuries from ill-fitting and makeshift saddles. Often, the animals are hit with a stick by a handler while being forced to carry tourists up and down more than 500 slippery steps. When they’re not being forced to give rides, most of the animals are tethered in the scorching sun so tightly that they can’t even reach the one bucket of water available to them. The video also shows blatant flouting of the new 220-pound weight restriction, despite veterinary recommendations that donkeys shouldn’t carry more than 20% of their own—approximately 110 pounds.
“Donkey abuse on this tourist island is a disgrace to Greece,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Pregnant, lame, exhausted animals struggle to carry people up hundreds of stone steps all day long as if they were machines, not flesh and blood.”
The protest is the second of several that PETA and its international affiliates are holding at Greek embassies around the world.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.