Melbourne Greeks Mark 100th Year of Thessaloniki Liberation

[Peshoshnitsa Lerin]

Greek Australians have never forgotten their roots, their history or culture and those in Melbourne are organizing a public lecture to celebrate the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki in 1912 from the Ottomans. The lecture will be held on Sept. 30 at the Melbourne Town Hall.

The speaker will be Katia Zikou, President of the Thessaloniki Association of Melbourne, called The White Tower after the famous landmark of Greece’s second-largest city.

The Florinian Choir of Melbourne will perform under music director Elizabeth Exintaris and the Greek dance group OPA will perform regional folk dances. Admission to this event is free and open to all.

The lecture will be presented in Greek with English translation on screen and will begin at 5 p.m. the Swanston Hall, of the Melbourne Town Hall, on the ground floor on the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets.

http://au.greekreporter.com/2012/09/13/melbourne-greeks-mark-100th-year-of-thessaloniki-liberation/

Fuck this shit!
who wants to help orgenise something like this to happen?
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come'on guys now is our time to make a stand i know its not much notice but lets make it happen as best we can!

[George S.]

Liberate ny foot more like a liberation of a land grab!!PL maybe people from melbourne can do something,like peacefull demonstration .

[Peshoshnitsa Lerin]

How could we go about orgenising something like this?
should we make a flyer and put it up around melbourne and mabe make a facebook event page on it and send a text to every macedonian we know in melbourne and tell them to pass it on?

[EgejskaMakedonia]

The 'Florinian Choir of Melbourne,' what a bunch of pushkari. It would be difficult to organise something and gather a bit of a crowd on such short notice. I'm a bit surprised the Australian Macedonians haven't organised anything to recognise this event.

Problem is, if a group of Macedonians were to gather near the town hall it is likely the grkomani at the 'celebrations' will cause trouble. No doubt if that were to occur, the negativity and blame will be directed towards the Macedonian community.

[Peshoshnitsa Lerin]

EM i was verry frustrated when i saw this thats why i was thinking how can we let them get away with celebrating the day the stole 51% of our home, the only way is to go down there and make our word herd by australia and hopefully if it has eneough impact the world will be talking about this theiving nation (greece)