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“SISIFOS: Art as a Therapeutic Tool”

This project is an inspired encounter between photographer Angelos Christofilopoulos and visual artist Maria Karathanou, aiming to deliver inclusive events of visual artworks and exhibitions, created for the public space.

A production by ATHENS LIVE AMKΕ.
With the financial support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Iasonas Apostolopoulos, a rescuer onboard SAR vessels in the Med was supposed to be honored by 's president Katerina Sakellaropoulou for his humanitarian work as the country celebrates 47 years since the restoration of democracy.

A few hours before the ceremony and after governmental interference he was informed that his award was refused by the president. The presidency hasn't commented on the incident so far.

Here's what he told us in 2018 about his work.

Iasonas Apostolopoulos - Greek rescuer onboard Aquarius Iasonas Apostolopoulos is an Athens-born humanitarian worker and civil engineer. He was working as a rescuer on board Aquarius 2, one of the largest rescue v...

After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business.

On this week's PUSHBACK Talks episode, Leilani Farha and Fredrik Gertten sit down with our co-founder and data journalist Sotiris Sideris to discuss who is buying up all the foreclosed properties in Athens and the greek part of the cross-border collaborative investigation .

Greece Without the Greeks - When the Vultures Grabbed Athens - PUSHBACK talks After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business. In a country where homeownershi...

Housing is becoming less affordable across European cities.

During a period of more than seven months, a team of over 25 investigative and data journalists and visualisation experts from 16 European countries, have been working on the cross-border collaborative project Cities for Rent: Investigating Corporate Landlords Across Europe.

Τaking the city of as our starting point, Reporters United and AthensLive set out to analyze and map the evolution of residential property auctions throughout .

How has the process of defaulting Greek NPLs transformed the human right to housing into a profitable business, and how has debt collection become a new form of investment in the housing markets of European peripheries and also of capital extraction from households?

Cities for Rent Investigating Corporate Landlords across Europe.

If you live in the U.S., over the next few days you'll have the chance to watch our documentary TIED at SEEfest. The film is capturing a shocking story from the innermost depths of 's maritime industry and is competing in the feature-length category. You can buy tickets here: https://seefilmla.org/portfolio/tied/

Greek startup Code4thought builds technology that tests AI systems for the existence of bias and explains the reasons as to why they came up with a given result. In other words, they strive to give us, the people an instrument with which we can evaluate whether an AI system can be trusted or not. This week they plan to demonstrate their technology to the community and we would like to ignite discussions at Mozilla's . Yiannis Kanellopoulos explains.

In Algorithms We Need To Trust; Not There Yet Artificial Intelligence is impacting our lives for good, so we need to take a closer look

"Mrs. Bekatorou chose to do just that. She revealed wrongdoing that she had witnessed, during the past, while serving as an athlete of a professional national institution. Such wrongdoing was likely to be repeated and continue to cause harm to our society. There are two categories of whistleblowers. They are the ones that have direct information (directly witnessed wrongdoing) or indirect (hearsay, told by someone else). Mrs. Bekatorou is both a direct and indirect whistleblower."

Sophia Bekatorou Is A Whistleblower, Too Why indivisibles such as Olympic Sailor Mrs. Bekatorou should be considered whistleblowers

Here's another opportunity for those who haven’t seen our documentary “TIED”. It’s free from today until Sunday, November 29, through the official page of the Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικού Ντοκιμαντέρ Χαλκίδας - DocFest. You can also vote TIED for the Audience Award! Visit the link https://www.docfest.gr.
Click on docfest online.
All you need is one minute to create a free account and then you can watch the program and follow the online activities of the Festival.
https://online2020.docfest.gr/

On Saturday, protested on the streets near Kara Tepe, asking for evacuation to as they don't want to be transferred to a closed type camp on .

Families and children were sheltered on the street for the fifth night, while access to basic resources is still very limited - especially with regard to .

Photos by Angelos Christofilopoulos from on the ground.

The Aftermath of the Moria Fire: Protests, Tear Gas and Limited Aid In response to the ongoing peaceful protests held by those who have fled Moria, riot police fired tear gas.