S o C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weekly Greek-AmeriCAn PuBliCAtion 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 970 May 14-20, 2016 c v $1.50 Cielo Gala Jim Gianopulos Takes Acclaims 20th Century Fox into Daskalakis’ The New Millennium Leadership By Vasilis Papoutsis the sinking of the Greek Navy cruiser Elli that was hit by an LOS ANGELES, CA – For the Italian submarine in August TNH Staff last 16 years Fox Filmed Enter - 1940 while anchored on the is - tainment Chairman Jim Gianop - land of Tinos. His survival was NEW YORK — Dr. Demetre ulos' innovative leadership has solely a matter of luck and tim - Daskalakis, Assistant Commis - been instrumental in producing ing, as he was on a higher part sioner of the Bureau of Oscar-winning movies such as of the vessel when the torpedo HIV/AIDS Prevention and Con - Avatar, Titanic, Sideways, and hit the Elli’s bottom. A few trol of the New York City De - The Martian. months later, Italy invaded partment of Health and Mental In 2000, he became co-Chair - Greece after Ioannis Metaxas re - Hygiene, was honored at the man of Fox Film (formerly 20th fused to surrender. Cielo Gala on May 6 at Cipriani Century Fox and 21st Century When Nikos Gianopulos ar - in New York. Fox) along with Tom Rothman, rived in the United States in The annual benefit gala for and he is now sole chair. 1951, he created the American the Latino Commission on AIDS With the distinction of hav - Ship Repair Co. that provided paid tribute and recognized the ing served so long at such a replacement parts to interna - leadership of Dr. Daskalakis large and influential movie stu - tional commercial fleets. The with the Esperanza Award. Es - dio, Gianopulos has enjoyed an company has remained a family peranza in Spanish means hope. extensive and illustrious career owned business ever since. The self-proclaimed gay health in the film industry, and shared HELLENISM AND THE warrior is tireless in his efforts his thoughts in an interview HERALD to expand HIV testing to high- with The National Herald. Nikos created the company risk communities in New York GREEK ROOTS even though he did not speak City. The Gianopulos family story English at the time. He received Commission President is one of survival and success. all his news, in Greek, from this Guillermo Chacon said, “Dr. AP Photo/Petros GiAnnAkouris His father, Nikos, came to the newspaper’s sister publication Daskalakis has been a fearless Tensions are on the Rise as Brawls Break out in Greece Refugee Camps United States as an illegal alien Ethnikos Kyrix-National Herald. warrior in the battle against HIV right after then end of WWII ''My father anxiously awaited for and AIDS, and a defender of People walk on their way to Idomeni camp, Greece, after trying to cross the Macedonia's border, and the Greek Civil War. But for the evening edition of the Na - public health throughout his ca - Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Around 9500 stranded refugees and migrants are camped at the Nikos even to arrive here, he reer. His dedication and initia - makeshift refugee camp of the northern Greek border point of Idomeni. Story on page 11. had first to miraculously survive Continued on page 6 tive to engage patients and those at risk of HIV are personal qualities that give us hope that we will overcome the AIDS epi - demic.” Reforms Done, More Austerity Looms The Esperanza Award recog - nizes leaders in medical re - search, public health, and treat - ATHENS – Having rammed Government spokeswoman cut them – on fuel, coffee, In - ment dedicated to fighting HIV more austerity through Parlia - Olga Gerovasili said the dis - ternet connections, pay TV and and AIDS. The award was es - ment, Prime Minister Alexis bursement of the next loan, ex - others across-the-board, includ - tablished in 1996. Previous hon - Tsipras said it signals the begin - pected to be around 5.7 billion- ing in the critical tourism mar - orees include the late Dr. Helen ning of a recovery although the euros ($6.5 billion,) will likely ket, the country’s biggest rev - Rodriguez-Trias, the first Latina country’s lenders have yet to re - be in June. Without it, Greece enue engine President of the American Public lease more monies from a stag - won’t be able to make a 2.3-bil - The government must also Health Association and women’s gered 86-billion euro ($98.03 lion euro ($2.62 billion) loan pass legislation introducing a health advocate. billion) third bailout. payment in July to its creditors, mechanism for automatically When asked about receiving Eurozone finance chiefs the Quartet of the European cutting state spending if Greece haven’t decided yet over the dis - Union-International Monetary misses budget targets or it will Continued on page 2 bursement but Tsipras is hoping Fund-European Central Bank- have to make another 5.4-billion they will act on May 24 at their European Stability Mechanism euros ($6.16 billion) in contin - next meeting in Brussels. (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM). gency austerity. In a speech to his Cabinet, Despite fury and protests THE DARK DAYS Tsipras, leader of the Radical over his reneging on anti-aus - Tsipras said he believed his Afya Provides Left SYRIZA, spoke of “a bene - terity campaign pledges, Tsipras commitment to austerity that he ficial result for the Greek econ - is preparing yet more, including said while out of office had de - omy” while his coalition partner more privatizations – which he stroyed Greece would be the sig - Med. Supplies Panos Kammenos, chief of the promised to reject – letting nal the lenders need to talk pro-austerity, far-right national - banks chase debtors who can’t about serious debt relief, al - For Refugees ist Independent Greeks (ANEL) pay because of big pay cuts, tax though Germany has ruled it said the new austerity and re - hikes, slashed pensioners, and out. form heralded “Greece’s exit worker firings. Greece has also pushed for a AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAkis By Eleni Sakellis from an era of creditors,” There will also be a bevy of Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during his government Kathimerini said. new taxes – he had promised to Continued on page 11 cabinet meeting in Athens, Tuesday, May 10, 2016. The Afya Foundation is a nonprofit organization that helps countries around the world who are in desperate need of medical supplies and Charalampopoulou on Another Look equipment. Through donations of surplus medical supplies and equipment mostly from the Tris - At Pergamon tate Area, Afya (which means Hand at Feeding 5000 “good health” in Swahili) works At the MMA with the people on the ground TNH Staff number from a resource and to ensure the most efficient dis - greenhouse emissions perspec - tribution of supplies, equipment With so many people starv - tive, but all the more galling in By Eleni Sakellis and humanitarian aid possible. ing in the world, wasting food light of the roughly 49 million Afya’s focus in the past has is a growing problem in devel - Americans who live in food in - Pergamon and the Hellenistic been on developing nations in oped countries around the secure households, not knowing Kingdoms of the Ancient World the Caribbean and Africa, and world. where their next meal is coming opened at the Metropolitan Mu - on areas affected by natural dis - In the United States, charities from. seum of Art (MMA) on April 18 asters, but most recently, Afya like City Harvest attempt to In efforts to shed light on this and runs through July 17. The has been helping the island of remedy the problem through critical issue and its solutions, exhibition covers the art and Lesbos deal with the man-made food drives and programs in Feedback, an environmental artistry of the Hellenistic era, refugee crisis. partnership with various groups, non-profit organization, based the time period after the death Afya Founder and Executive collecting food and distributing in London, dedicated to ending of Alexander the Great in 323 it to those in need. News reports food waste at every level of the BC until the suicide of the Continued on page 5 of food waste by local supermar - food system, held the opening Egyptian queen Kleopatra VII kets and chain restaurants only Feeding the 5,000 event of its (the famous "Cleopatra"), in 30 reveal a small portion of the US campaign, with support from BC. Hellenistic art, once dis - problem. The Rockefeller Foundation and missed as decadent, has recently For subscription: Recent research has revealed in partnership with a coalition received more attention from 718.784.5255 that the United States spends of more than 40 like-minded or - scholars and archaeologists ex - [email protected] tnh/CostAs BeJ $218 billion a year growing, ganizations and chefs, to “Take cavating Hellenistic sites. The New Consul General Visits The National Herald processing, and transporting food waste off the menu.” reevaluation of artwork that re - food that is never eaten. Up to Greek-born Niki Charalam - mained relevant and influential Greece’s new Consul General in New York, Konstantinos 63 million tons of perfectly edi - popoulou, Managing Director of across the Roam Empire for Koutras (left) with TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris. ble food ends up in American Story on page 5. landfills each year – a troubling Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MAY 14-20, 2016 Francesco Portelos to Run for UFT President as a Reformer TNH Staff He studied civil and environ - homes and now they love whistleblower retaliation, in - parked, but he was rotated all mental engineering at Polytech - graphic design and editing.” cluding having his computers over Staten Island in short-term NEW YORK – Working within nic University and worked in the “The principal loved me, and seized at work and home.