Update: Automatic Earth for Athens Fund

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Marion Post Wolcott Main Street. Sheridan, Wyoming 1941 Just about exactly three days ago, I wrote an article telling you that I will be going to Athe
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[John Day]

Well, I know it is quite modest, but I just sent the same to Doctors Without Borders for their work in Yemen, and also to Bernie Sanders, for his Quixotic and valiant efforts here.

[jal]

The media is giving hints that the illegal immigrants are suffering more than the greeks.
I’m sure that your reports will not need to make up “bad scenes”.

[Ceteris Paribus]

Sent a modest donation in Euro. Good luck on this journey to Greece. I am hoping that the country will come out of this tailspin and recover sooner rather than later.
What we need is a general, world-wide Jubilee, and let the chips fall (and losses occur) where they may.

[Ceteris Paribus]

Now that I’ve finally taken the trouble to register (though I’ve been a longtime reader) let me say how much I enjoy your site and especially those thought-provoking, beautiful old photos.

[pietro]

just sent donation to greece keep up good work

[Charles Alban]

i’ve made a small contribution. but as we know, money never solved anything. there has to be a better solution. the people need to band together in small self-supporting bands, and get access to land to practice intensive permaculture. we all need to wean ourselves off this dependence on money. we need to bring back a tribal culture where groups of people take care of each other without dependence on government. the romans had a legal structure called a “gens”…a legal “tribe”. this concept should be reexamined. the greeks are already doing this to some extent with one pension check supporting a whole group of people.

and interesting parallel is the US. here we have many people struggling to live on pension checks averaging $1100 per month or $13k per year. they can’t make it, what with rent payments, medications and so on. then you look at a community like Twin Oaks in Virginia, where 100 people live comfortably on $500k per year, or $5k per head.

so 100 pensioners are bringing in a total of $1.3 million per year (!). if they were to band together and live like the people at Twin Oaks, they could support another 160 people who have no income at all, and they would all live much better than they currently do. the power of sharing.

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Thanks, Charles.

The Greeks are much better than Americans at community and sharing, or the misery would be much worse. They go a long way towards Twin Oaks. Whole families living on a single pension, that sort of thing. Entire hospitals more or less run by volunteers. And much more. But in a city things are harder at the same time. I know it’s not about money, but short term it’s not going to hurt. Hungry kids is a no-no.

[koso_man]

Tbh I love this website and I truly appreciate the sacrifices illargi must be making on a daily basis but I really have to express my resentment at this idea that has been put across the last few blogs in which the poverty and distress the Greeks are suffering is inexcusable simply because they’re are European and inside the European Union.

The country I’m from, Kosovo, is also geographically in Europe. The unemployment rate for the last decade has been 40%! Kids are dieing from cancer on a reoccurring basis due to the uranium bombs dropped during the war and they aren’t even given a fighting chance due to the horrific health system.

This is how the world is for a shamefully large percentage of people yet it’s suddenly inexcusable that the Greeks have joined the club. I don’t know but I find that abhorrent.

Anyway, please don’t take this as an attack on your character illargi, I’m sure you mean well and I have massive respect that your practising what you preach by going to greece and I can only wish you success in your endeavours there…what’s happening to the poor in Greece is terrible.

My only point is that poverty, indignity and distress is inexcusable no matter who is suffering from it.

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

koso man

I know what you’re saying, and I know it’s not just Greece, and I’m as much a victim of media focus as the rest, but just because it happens somewhere else too doesn’t mean it’s alright that it happens in Greece. The entire EU is immoral -or amoral-. So write to me about Kosovo, about what goes on where you live.

[SeanG]

I’ve made 2 small donations: one to help cover Ilargi’s personal costs getting to Greece and another for the Athens Fund. In the back of my mind is the fact that Greece was the major super-power 2400 years ago. It’s Mediterranean neighbours Rome(Italy), Portugal and Spain also had stints as world super-powers and each of their currencies were the accepted reserve currency at the time. They are all among Europe’s struggling nations today. The UK has experienced the same rise and demise in some of our lifetimes. The current world super-power and it’s citizens should take stock and realize how fleeting this powerful privileged position can be.

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