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...better times, Christos Kortzidis never skips a meal. Yet, for most of this month, the mild-mannered mayor of Hellenikon, a seaside suburb south of Athens, has sat squat in a rusting folding chair in his office, surviving on water and fruit juice. "Starvation," he says, "was my last resort in order to pressure authorities to save the [Greek] beaches from further exploitation." Elected on an independent ticket last October, Kortizidis has lobbied for years against the privatization of Athens' prime beachfront, urging the centre-right government to take on the nightclub owners and entrepreneurs whose leisure venues along...
...past heaping piles of cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial dance honed over decades, fascinating and charming in its own way but also corrupt, unhygienic and highly inefficient...
...Cabot residents have “reason to believe you are lying to us”. “Someone from Cabot WILL shit on the floor Mather Lather on Saturday. I mean that literally,” Kumar wrote in response. “Someone is going to squat and take a UC-funded, eco-friendly dump in the middle of your foam party...
...pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave, so Big Lin made preparations in 1997 to go abroad, too. More than anything, he recalls, he wanted to see more than the rice paddies, potato fields and squat factories of his hometown. "I wanted to make lots of money," he says, "but I also wanted to have fun and see the world...
...family are soon to be evicted and their home is to be bulldozed. "I couldn't believe it. It was like something hit me here," he says, tapping his heart and slowly rocking his ailing son. When the eviction is enforced, Prasad and his family will have to squat elsewhere-in a place where living conditions are even worse. In Fiji, the Prasads won't be the only ones...