This week on #rbnews international, radiobubble contributor @Jaquoutopie and I discussed the Greek health system in the time of the crisis: the chronic issues, the cutbacks, and their impact on the population. Deep down, we wondered if the Greek health system is still serving its purpose of providing care but also protection for patients.
You can listen to the podcast below.
Part 1: News bulletin (download)
Part 2: Health in the time of the crisis (download)
This week, on the occasion of the upcoming appeals trial of Kostas Vaxevanis, the journalist who was arrested and tried once already in November 2012 for publishing the Lagarde list in his magazine HOT DOC, the #rbnews international show focused on the issue of freedom of the press in Greece. We were able to interview Kostas Vaxevanis himself, but also Dimitris Trimis, chairman of the Athens Daily Newspaper Editors’ Union, Marios Lolos, chairman of the Greek Photojournalists’ Union, and his colleague Tatiana Bolari, and Angélique Kourounis, a correspondent for various French-speaking media in Athens, who also acts as the local representative of Reporters Without Borders. This show is part of a series prepared by the radiobubblenews team, which will carry on across the coming week and will seek to discuss the various impediments to the realization of this essential democratic liberty.
You can listen to the podcast, as usual, after the jump.
In this week’s edition of the #rbnews international show, we continued our series about fascism and antifascism in Greece with an interview with @Chiguire79. @Chiguire79 is a lawyer and friend of radiobubble, and he explained to us the existing legal framework against racism and its shortcomings but also what we can expect from the new proposed bill against racism, which was finally brought to parliament yesterday.
You can read more about the proposed bill here. You can also find the rest of the shows in this series under the tag fascism and antifascism series.
And of course, you can listen to the podcast after the jump.
On #rbnews international on 29 December, we reviewed the key events of 2012 with (almost) the whole international team in the studio and contributions from radiobubble’s citizen journalists, listeners and friends.
Special thanks to @doltsevito, @catalternative, @harrisxan, @sotomi, @ypopto_mousi, @serk01, @ailatank, @pexlibanis, @antigoldgreece, @galaxyarchis, @zoemavroudi, @Polyfimos, @ManinaF, @mpatman, @Krotkie and @Jaquoutopie for their input. And special thanks to all those – named and unnamed – who contributed lies on Christmas Eve.
You can listen to the podcast after the jump.
On the #rbnews international show on 01 December 2012, our guest was @ypopto_mousi. We dicussed at length the issue of gold mining in northern Greece and in particular the Skouries forest in Halkidiki.
In tribute to the struggle of the people of Halkidiki, who are threatened by a massive environmental disaster should the mining project materialize, the music we chose to play this week is taken from a compilation of traditional songs produced by the Cultural Association of Ierissos in the 1960s.
You can listen to the podcast after the jump.
The Irate Greek 