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Church Jacks up Dues on New England Parishes Clergy-Laity O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEKLy GREEK AmERIcAN PUbLIcATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 13, ISSUE 664 July 3-9 , 2010 $1.50 Greece Reeling in Wake of Protests and Strikes; Tourism Hit Hard Public Opposition to Cuts to Bonuses and Pensions Propels Nationwide Protests By Andy Dabilis Minister George Papandreou’s TNH Staff Writer Draconian play to drastically overhaul the pension system, ATHENS – If ever there was a cutting benefits and making scene that captured the eco - workers stay in their posts until nomic and emotional gridlock at least 65 years old. It ran of Greece, it was the frightening counter to his campaign image of Communist union promises that got him elected members standing in front of a in October last year but he is ferry boat, wielding wooden forging on and has barely ac - staves in menacing gestures, knowledged the mood in the barring the way for Greeks and streets. “There has been talk foreign tourists to get to the fa - that some may revolt from bled islands, just as the summer within the government's parlia - season got underway. It was the mentary voting bloc because second time in two weeks the many of the reforms are con - workers blocked the boats, un - trary to ruling Socialist Party dercutting Greece’s hopes to ideology. But the Prime Minister bring tourists, who represent is determined to ram these re - 17% of the country’s $315 bil - forms through and he carries a lion economy. Frustrated and big stick because he can fuming tourists sat on their bags threaten to go to early elections, on the pier, helpless to do any - so he will eventually get his thing but wait, while Greek trav - way,” public commentator elers got in the faces of their George Sefertzis told The Wall countrymen, an ugly scene pit - Street Journal. ting the working class against About 44.6 percent of the each other. people surveyed said Papan - It came a few days after dreou was honest, hard working teachers and other public work - and efficient, while 51 percent ers found their summer bonus believed he was too yielding to AP PHOTO/ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS – part of two months annual the country's foreign lenders. In Strikers block the entrance of a ferry at the port of Piraeus, the job in a nationwide general strike that disrupted transport, bonuses to subsidize low pay – June 29, as public services shut down and workers walked off and left hospitals operating on emergency staff. was cut 70% and some discov - Continued on page 9 ered their pensions could be cut more than 50%, starting a stam - pede of teachers rushing for early retirement to take advan - Church Jacks up Dues on New England Parishes tage of higher pensions now, Suicide which will be reduced in the fu - ture for those who can’t leave By Theodore Kalmoukos parishes were not reporting all for the 72 churches under its ju - ing to a list posted by the Me - now. Jumper’s TNH Staff Writer their annual income or keeping risdiction, an average hike of tropolis of Boston on its Internet It’s been a year of strikes that double sets of records in order about $2,012 per church. Most site under “administration.” have shut down public trans - BOSTON - The annual allocation to disclose how much money had sharper hikes, while some The issue was brought The portation, the ports, airport, Bitter End of the New England parishes has they were bringing in, short- were kept the same and a few National Herald’s attention by a public offices, blocked ferry been sharply increased for this changing the church. were lowered. number of priests, parish coun - boats and tankers too, and year over last year, with across- The demand has forced The amounts of the hikes cil presidents and members, mostly working class despera - By Theodore Kalmoukos the-board hikes jumping up the many parishes to scramble to vary from parish to parish, but, who provided the list to The tion and fear, as unemployment and Constantine S. Sirigos required 15% of annual ex - find contributors and conduct for example, Transfiguration Herald. has hit 10% and is rising. Last TNH Staff Writers penses contributions set in 2006 various fund-raising ideas, such Church in Lowell, Massachu - The 25% of the total amount week, a relatively limp protest at the Clergy Laity Congress in as bigger festivals, bingo games setts, which paid $38,000 in that the parishes contribute to of about 12,000 people passed NEW YORK – Late in the after - Nashville, Tennessee. That for - and bake sales. The increases 2009, now must pay $41,000, the Archdiocese returns to the by the Parliament but made no noon of Monday, June 21, 48- mula was changed from 15% of amount to $144,890 and would and St. George’s, in Lynn, Mass., Metropolis of Boston as is the attempt to storm the doors as year-old Steve Koufakis was income because the church hi - bring the required donations to which paid $78,000 in 2009 has happened in May, although law - alone with his thoughts and his erarchy believed that many the Metropolis to $1,900,280 been hiked to $88,000 accord - Continued on page 6 makers were debating Prime conscience, God, and his inner demons on the George Washing - ton Bridge. It’s where he wanted to be and he knew what he wanted to do. When police en - Justice for Stathis’ Killer? croached on a solitude riven by despair and lost hope, he jumped into the Hudson River below, and Her Godson Knows, but was killed. A snapshot of the for - mer Wall Street trader’s life showed a man wrestling with - Her Family Wonders and losing - a life that turned from picture book to horror show after losing his job, facing di - By Bob Nicolaides mother, Thalia Stathis, 28, a vorce, and, finally, court-ordered TNH Staff Writer waitress, was snatched away separation from his two sons, from him, killed in a senseless aged 5 and 9 years. At about 5 FT. LEE, N.J. - Eight-year-old act by someone who should p.m., he left a court hearing re - Jason John Nicolopoulos may have worshipped her for the lated to his pending divorce and not completely understand what kindness she’d shown him in headed for the bridge. His last causes people to become mur - their two years together. As words and thoughts were in a derously violent. Yet he does un - young as Jason is, he knows that text message to friends they derstand that his young god - he will never get to see her wouldn’t reveal. again, never have the cherished According to one, it was bad relationship that exists between enough to hear his wife Evie’s ex - a spiritual mother and the child she baptized while on a short Continued on page 5 Stavridis on journey to Greece, the land of her parents. Nicolopoulos, also Stathis’ youngest cousin, with Lessons of the limited knowledge of an el - ementary student, sat down and Students wrote a letter to Judge Harry Salamis Carroll, the man who on July 23, a little before 2 p.m. will be Meet Land handing down the sentence By Constantine S. Sirigos against Hughes Francois, the TNH Staff Writer Haitian man convicted of killing of Dreams his godmother, not of murder, EUROKINISSI SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – When but of aggravated manslaughter, An early summer’s night’s dream By Andy Dabilis and students hear about the Battle which can bring a lesser sen - Antoni Kratsis of Salamis from his teacher, they tence, a lot less than her family Even in these troubled times, there are moments of beauty and grace in Greece and Athens, and TNH Staff takes notes so they can get a wants. He had also been con - a concert at the ageless Odeon of Herodes Atticus under the Acropolis is one of them, especially good grade. But when Admiral victed of another killing and on a summer night. On June 30, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam performed ATHENS- Some were agog at James G. Stavridis, NATO’s sexually assaulting a 14-year- Mahler’s Fifth Symphony on the stage where Greek plays have been performed for centuries. the sight of the Acropolis and Supreme Allied Commander in old girl, and was convicted of the Parthenon, an image in Europe, makes a presentation disturbing human remains by books and video for them, or of - about that famous ancient bat - dumping Thalia’s body on a ten described by their parents tle, they pay attention. All ears New York highway. or grandparents. Others were on deck. The letter Nicolopoulos Clergy-Laity Congress Déjà vu taken aback by the beauty of On the grounds of the church wrote is still under wraps and Mykonos or Delos, or the trea - of Kimisis tis Theotokou in will not be revealed until sures in the Benaki Museum. All Southampton, New York on Sat - handed to the judge to read, BOSTON - If Archbishop chate of Constantinople. Prepa - first day of conference proceed - loved meeting Greek students. urday, June 26, the highest moments before he passes sen - Demetrios’ address to the Greek rations were delayed as well, ings July 5. For most of 17 Greek American ranking Greek American in U.S. tence. But Thalia’s mother, Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - with the registration packet hav - The conference will begin students visiting Greece as part military history shared his in - Joanne Stathis, allowed the Na - ica’s 40th Clergy-Laity Confer - ing been sent to parish commu - with Archbishop Demetrios’ of the Heritage Greece program sights with an audience that in - tional Herald a peek into what ence in Atlanta sounds familiar nities only a few weeks ago.
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