The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday May 27th, 2022 – National Fish and Chip Day
National Fish and Chip Day commemorates this fundamental meal of the working class throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. And while its roots may lay on Britannia’s foggy shores, there are few places in the world that this comfort food hasn’t found its way to.
An Expose Of Cultural Practices & Beliefs Of Modern Greeks by Nikos Laios
Now, when one thinks of modern Greeks, one thinks of a positive picture of an exuberant joyful people bursting with life, and celebrating life like it’s their last day; shop owners business people, diaspora Greek communities integrating into their adopted homelands seamlessly. This image that we have of Greeks is all true, but there’s also a negative side to modern Greek culture, and a discussion and a candid revelation is necessary here for the growth of modern Greek culture and its further integration into a prosperous modern western world. The inspiration for this article was the death of the writer’s mother in October of last year, the unconventional funeral choices that the family made, and the subsequent strident criticism and ostracism that this writer and his family accordingly received from the Greek diaspora community here.
Now for the purposes of compositional efficiency and authenticity, this writer at times will write in a first person voice. But this article is not a confessional article, but a serious review of various cultural practices and beliefs in modern Greek culture. In writing this article, there will be repercussions for this writer; a loss of Greek friendships and also relations with certain relatives severed. so the risk to this writer is great in writing and publishing this article. But the views, practices and facts exposed by this writer here are all true, and it comes from someone who has been a part of the Greek community back in Greece, and now as a member of the Greek diaspora community, an insider. Many Greeks both in Greece and in the diaspora also think and support these same views, but do so in silence out of fear of retribution from their own families and of the potential ostracism from their own Greek communities. Here, I am the voice for all these silent Greeks that dare not speak out.
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Coyote Whisperer #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“In a moment of absolute abandon…
warmth from the sun’s first rays
caress bare skin
rush of cool water
from a mountain stream”
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Peter Dutton’s Defamation Defeat by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The occasions when an activist, writer or commentator triumph over defamation lawsuits launched by a thin-skinned politician are rare in Australia. When it comes to matters regarding the law of reputation, Australia remains a place whereparliamentarians, as a species, thrive in the knowledge they can use favourable provisions to protect their hurt feelings and soiled reputations.
The country, in also lacking a bill of rights protecting free speech and the press, has further emboldened politicians. At best, the Australian High Court has only left an anaemic implied right“to protect freedom of communication on political subjects”, which should really be read as a restraint on executive and legislative power, never to be personally exercised.
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Ghostin’ #036 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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