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\nLooks like home, doesn’t it? \u00a0And sometimes it feels like we are the only country struggling with these issues of immigration. \u00a0But guess what. \u00a0This poster isn’t from Arizona, or Florida, it’s part of a sign on a wall on Ermou Street in downtown Athens.<\/p>\n
\n \nIt’s not the only one, either. \u00a0The country is under terrible economic pressure and it’s fraying things.\u00a0According to our very sweet taxi driver, \u00a0despite the rumors of wild spending on services, Greece does not provide for the homeless or the poor – at least not enough. \u00a0And the people coming into Greece want jobs and “a better life” but “they aren’t taking any food from me!” \u00a0 He’s with the marcher s- but there are plenty on the other side too. \u00a0We know it’s true in France and Germany — and that Mohamed is one of the most frequent names for new babies in many European countries. \u00a0But as you can see the sympathy hasn’t completely eroded. \u00a0In addition to these posters, there are many stencils, borrowed from Paris, look like the one below, also from a wall in our neighborhood here.<\/p>\n \nFor more evidence of how bad things are \u00a0— look at this sure coal mine canary: Squeegee men vintage NYC in the 1980’s – all over town.<\/p>\n \n \nI’ll keep you posted as we move through the islands – assuming things will be different there. \u00a0Would write more but it costs the earth to use the web on this “yacht.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See this? Looks like home, doesn’t it? \u00a0And sometimes it feels like we are the only country struggling with these issues of immigration. \u00a0But guess what. \u00a0This poster isn’t from Arizona, or Florida, it’s part of a sign on a wall on Ermou Street in downtown Athens. It’s not the only one, either. … Continue reading Greece’s Pain: It’s not Greek to Us – It IS Us!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,9,78,52],"tags":[155,150,148,156,152,153,151,149,154],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-travel","category-weblogs","tag-arizona-immigration","tag-athens","tag-greece","tag-greek-economy","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-poverty","tag-ship","tag-squeegee-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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