With 400 million in debt, you are Greece's governing party, with 15,000 in debt you are homeless

Dear reader,

This is our weekly round-up from Greece.

The eviction of a low-pensioner journalist from her house over a law of credit card debt caused a wave of outrage throughout the country. Thanks to people that acted in solidarity, the woman is still in her house. But this will not be for long. Nor would she be the only person left homeless because of being indebted due to the economic crisis.

Do you remember that Greece ranked 108th on the RSF Press Freedom list? Well, the ND government does its best for the country to slip even lower. An award-winning photojournalist was arrested while doing his job and kept incommunicado in the police department. Plus, it was revealed that the State News Agency APE head works as a ghostwriter in a government-affiliated newspaper.

Finally, the Greek government is pushing ahead with criminalizing solidarity with refugees. Panagiotis Dimitras of Greek Helsinki Monitor and Epaminondas Farmakis of Human Rights 360 appear to be the latest targets in a sui generis conflict.

But first, let us update you

on what happened at the latest Berliner Gazette conference

After an inspiring local event in Berlin at the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Opens in a new window) , the Berliner Gazette has launched the “After Extractivism” conference as an “asynchronous online event” and expansive resource site with video talks, projects, texts, and audios tackling the Ecological-Economic Complex, Green Capitalism, and Transition Justice. Check out the website here. (Opens in a new window)

In our capacity as the project’s outreach partner, we are presenting below some of the “After Extractivism” material that is most vital to our own program. Fighting for debt cancellation and environmental justice in the Global South, the question is how we can wager our future on the legacies and claims of those who – then as now – have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex. In his contribution to the Berliner Gazette’s video talks series “After Extractivism,” economic anthropologist Julio Linares is looking for answers in Latin America (Opens in a new window).