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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.
ATHENS – Continuing their onslaught with near-impunity, members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) attacked the tax office of Psychico, an affluent suburb north of Athens, early on July 22 in protest against foreclosures being pushed by Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras who swore he would never allow “a single home in the hands of banks” but reneged on that promise along with essentially every one he made.
The group made a video of the attack, the latest among dozens of similar raids and assaults on targets that have also included the offices of SYRIZA – once the darling of anarchists and whose party is still riddled with them – as well as foreign embassies, politicians offices and other Capitalist symbols to protest austerity measures the country’s lenders demanded in return for three bailouts of 326 billion euros ($382.41 billion).
The bailouts include a third for 86 billion euros ($100.88 billion) that Tsipras sought and accepted in the summer of 2015, months after taking office and swearing he would defy the country’s creditor before surrendering to them, angering Rouvikonas and other opponents of the government coalition that includes the pro-austerity, marginal, jingoistic Independent Greeks (ANEL) of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
After imposing an avalanche of tax hikes and new taxes he swore he’d reject, Tsipras also agreed to new taxes on previously exempt low-and-moderate income families and individuals set to begin on Jan. 1, 2010.
The video of the tax office assault showed a small group of helmeted men smashing windows on the building’s front at 5:15 a.m. and also splashing paint on the building, another trademark of the group.
In a post on the same anarchist website where Rouvikonas posted the video of the incident, the group says the attack was in protest at the foreclosures it said were being brought by banks because homeowners could not afford to pay after eight years of pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and worker firings.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.