SYRIZA Wins in a Rout but Markets Downgrade Greece Tsipras Unites with Selma Shows Kammenos; Takes Arch
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S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 18, ISSUE 903 January 31 - February 6, 2015 $1.50 SYRIZA Wins in a Rout but Markets Downgrade Greece Tsipras Unites With Selma Shows Kammenos; Takes Arch. Iakovos Oath Without Bible As Champion By Andy Dabilis ATHENS – The stunning victory Of Civil Rights of the Radical Left SYRIZA party in Greek elections has put the country on a collision course By Constantinos E. with international lenders and Scaros led credit agencies to down - grade its credit rating amid fears The lessons of history re - it could be forced out of the Eu - veal that the most profound rozone. and perennial change comes Prime Minister and SYRIZA from within. Such was the leader Alexis Tsipras said he case centuries ago, decades would seek a renegotiation of ago, and remains the case harsh austerity terms that came today. with two bailouts of 240 billion LINCOLN euros ($272 billion) from the The end of slavery in Troika of the European Union- United States – a practice International Monetary Fund- that originated on this land European Central Bank (EU- long before it was even IMF-ECB) or walk away from at known as the United States least half the debt, which has – did not come to an end be - rattled the Eurozone, fearing the cause of a slave revolt. financial bloc could be jeopar - Rather, the change can from dized. within: from the very seat While he was assembling a of power itself, Washington Cabinet and named anti-auster - DC, in the form of the ity hardliner, economist and Emancipation Proclamation, blogger Yanis Varoufakis as Fi - America’s most famous ex - nance Minister, Tsipras said he ecutive order. Issued by wants a revision of the measures President Abraham Lincoln but at the same time wants to in 1863, the Emancipation keep Greece in the Eurozone, encouraged America’s AP PHOTO/THANASSiS STAvrAkiS without explaining the contra - slaves, mostly in the South, ABOVE: Greece's Prime Min - diction. which had recently seceded ister Alexis Tsipras (R), takes The Administration, a coali - and formed the Confederate a secular oath to the Greek tion that includes the far right- States of America, to aban - President Karolos Papoulias wing Independent Greeks, sig - don their masters’ planta - at the Presidential Palace in naled the country would tions and fight for the North. Athens, Monday, Jan. 26. backtrack or scrap a series of Their abandoning the fields Radical left leader Alexis budget measures its Eurozone thwarted the South’s lucra - Tsipras has been sworn in as creditor nations had demanded tive cotton production: to Greece's new prime minister, in exchange for bailout loans. put it in context, cotton was becoming the youngest man The move fueled market con - as important to the South’s to hold the post in 150 years. cerns of a tough confrontation military machine as oil is to Tsipras broke with tradition with Eurozone countries, whose al-Qaeda’s and ISIS’ nowa - and took a secular oath loans are keeping Greece from days. rather than the Greek Ortho - bankruptcy. Stock and bond The slaves’ rebellion, in - dox religious ceremony with markets in Greece plummeted. spired by Pres. Lincoln’s which prime ministers are Tsipras described the coun - usually sworn in. try’s bailout budget commit - Continued on page 4 LEFT: An employee of the ments as “crushing and unob - S i Stock Exchange walks next tainable,” while his finance r u to a display showing stock minister called the bailout O k price movements in Athens, agreements a “toxic mistake.” A N N Wednesday, Jan. 28. Greece's “Today we are turning the A i new government on Wednes - page on that mistake that cost The Zangakis G S day signaled the country human lives, that were lost or O r T would backtrack or scrap a undermined,” he said. He ar - E P / series of budget measures its gued that the main problem was Bros.’ Photos O T eurozone creditor nations not that Greece received rescue O H P had demanded in exchange P Of the World A for bailout loans. Continued on page 11 By Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer Community Leaders Respond to Impact of Election Educators’ CHICAGO- It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the Near East, during the Victorian By Theodore Kalmoukos establishment. Grk. Letters Era, is now largely seen through and Constantine S. Sirigos Some expressed great disap - the eyes of the Zangakis broth - TNH Staff Writers pointment in the outgoing ers. Active from the 1860s to the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras Celebration 1890s, the Zangakis brothers BOSTON and NEW YORK – and blamed him for running an were commercial photographers The people of Greece have spo - ineffective campaign based on based in Egypt. The images ken by elevating the far-left fear rather than solutions in the By Constantine S. Sirigos these men created were not lim - SYRIZA party to power, and the face Tsipras’ “Hope is coming” TNH Staff Writer ited to Egypt alone but also in - Greek-American community has message. cluded photographic work in Al - responded with an expected mix In his letter of congratula - NEW YORK – The Hellenic giers and Palestine. The of misgivings, hope and pledges tions to Prime Minister Tsipras, American Educators Association Zangakis brothers principally of continued support for the Philip Frangos, the Supreme affiliated with the United Fed - catered to the growing Western homeland during its crisis. President of AHEPA, said “as eration of Teachers hosted its tourist market in the Near East. The National Herald spoke you strive to meet the chal - 2nd annual Celebration of Their pictures captured the local with community leaders about lenges Greece faces, the entire Greek Letters Day at Holy Trin - sights and antiquities inclusive the new page in Greece’s history. AHEPA family of organiza - ity Cathedral in Manhattan on In addition to their perspectives tions…is committed to being the January 23. Continued on page 7 on Alexis Tsipras’ victory most sturdy, dependable bridge that The poetry reading and expressed frustration that Greek has solidified the United States vasilopita cutting was the per - expatriates could not vote. and Greece relationship for fect bi-lingual celebration of the The third place finish of nearly a century.” Greek language in America. For subscription: Golden Dawn was described as Nick Larigakis, the President Demetra (Deme) Savopolis 718.784.5255 a sad if not frightening phenom - of the American Hellenic Insti - welcomed the guests who filled [email protected] enon for Greece. Although they tute (AHI) has met with the new TNH/COSTAS BEJ the alcove outside the parish Li - were relieved that its share of Prime Minister several times. Kaloidis Parochial School Open House brary and Fr. John Vlahos, the the vote is not increasing, they “We congratulate him and wish Dean of the Cathedral, blessed attribute some citizens’ turn to him much success in his very Principal Francesca Mannino addresses guests at the open and cut the vasilopita. George extremist groups to their anger house for the Dimitrios & Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School of over the failures of the Greek Continued on page 9 Holy Cross in Brooklyn. Classes range up to 8th grade. Continued on page 2 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2015 GREEKS AROUND THE US GOINGS ON... n FEBRUARY 5 n MARCH 12 Reflecting on the Greek Community of Westminster MANHATTAN – The Permanent MANHATTAN – In Celebration Mission of Cyprus to the UN cor - of Women’s History Month, The dially invites you to a screening Officers and Directors of The As - TNH Staff Located in Carroll County Carroll Historical Society, “how north central Greece (Amprazis, of the film The Faces of Phlam - sociation of Greek American Pro - near Baltimore, the town re - did immigrants from Greece and Letras, Lefteris, and Pappas). oudhi, a documentary by Rupert fessional Women (AGAPW) re - WESTMINSTER, MD – Say the cently experienced an influx of Turkey find their way to West - “Most of our ancestors, we Barclay based on the book of quest the Pleasure of Your name Westminster and images Greeks to attend the funeral of minster to start businesses and have found, arrived by ship at the same title by Ian J. Cohn Company at Our Signature An - of the Thames River’s Northern Zoe Amprazis Sirinakis, whose raise their families? That’s the Ellis Island in New York, then Thursday, Feb. 5 at 6PM at The nual Greek American Woman of Bank, near London, might come parents established a lun - question the current generation moved wherever jobs were plen - Cyprus House 13 East 40th the Year Award Gala Honoring to mind. cheonette there in the 1940s, a of Greek-Americans has been re - tiful—Manchester, New Hamp - Street in Manhattan. A discus - Ms. Paulette Poulos, Executive And here in the United States, staple of the Westminster Greek searching this past year. shire, Philadelphia, Baltimore, sion between the filmmaker, Director Leadership 100. An Ex - where numerous cities take the community, the Baltimore Sun “Our ancestral homes are Chicago. Some had family or film editor Kyri Evangelou, and cellence Tuition Scholarship will names of their British forebears, reported. spread across the Mediterranean: friends already in the U.S., while the author/ photographer will be Awarded in Honor of Ms. Pou - Westminster is no exception. As the Sun mentioned, one of from northern Turkey (Sharkey others simply took a leap of immediately follow the screen - los.