Impoverished by austerity yet generous to refugees

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Length: 0:28:45
Uploaded: 21 Feb, 2016

Recording Date: 21 Feb, 2016
Recording Location: Athens and Kos, Greece; Amsterdam, Brooklyn. Denman Island
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #44-15 Greeks Bearing Gifts by Mindy Ran, Sheila Dallas Katzman, and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #44-15 Greeks Bearing Gifts
Description: A Greek Parliamentarian tells international women journalists of the ravages of austerity on her country; a resident of the Greek island of Kos describes the generosity of islanders towards the many thousands of refugees that appear on their shores without food, water, shoes, or legal status after fleeing Syria and other countries.

Host(s): Frieda Werden, Mindy Ran, Sheila Dallas Katzman
Featured Speakers/Guests: Ioanna Gaitani, former member of the Greek Parliament for Syriza, whose presentation is covered by Mindy Ran; Ketie Presbety, founding member of Solidarity Kos, interviewed by Sheila Dallas Katzman. Intro by Frieda Werden

Credits: Segments produced by Mindy Ran and Sheila Dallas Katzman, with editing by Howard Katzman and WINGS Series Producer Frieda Werden.

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