WHAT DOES AHEPA STAND FOR?

If AHEPA was truly dedicated to the protection and promotion of HELLENISM, IT WOULD BE PROMOTING TO ITS MEMBERS and the broader HELLENIC COMMUNITY around the WORLD, the “HELLENIC NATIONAL RELIGION and HONOUR, instead of the “Jewish Christian Religion” it is promoting!!!!!!

ARE AHEPANS PUPPETS,PAWNS AND SERVANTS OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH and ITS CLERGY?
We believe that A.H.E.P.A. should also allow Greeks who are members of the “HELLENIC NATIONAL RELIGION & HONOUR- FAITH” to become members!
The rule stating that one should be a Christian in order to be able to become a member should be modified, so that it states that one should either be a “Christian” or a member of the “Hellenic National Religion” to be able to become a member.
Furthermore we believe that at its meetings passages from the works of the ancient Greek philosophers should be read out to the members instead of readings from the Old and New Testaments!
After all the ancient Greek philosophers are the true fathers of the Hellenic Nation and the Hellenic people!
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ΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΑΧΕΠΑ;

Αν η ΑΧΕΠΑ ήταν πραγματικά αφιερωμένη στην προστασία και την προώθηση του Ελληνισμού, θά προωθούσαν στα μέλη τους και την ευρύτερη Ελληνική κοινότητα ανά τον Κόσμο, την «ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ και ΠΙΣΤΗ, αντί την «εβραϊκή Χριστιανική Θρησκεία" που προωθεί!!

ΕΙΝΑΙ οι AHEΠANS μαριονέτες, πιόνια και δούλοι τις ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ και του Κλήρου της;

Πιστεύουμε ότι A.H.E.Π.A. πρέπει επίσης να επιτρέπει Έλληνες που είναι μέλη της
"ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΣ & ΠΙΣΤΗΣ" να γίνουν μέλη του!

Ο κανόνας που να δηλώνει ότι κάποιος πρέπει να είναι Χριστιανός, προκειμένου να είναι σε θέση να
γίνετε μέλος θα πρέπει να τροποποιηθεί, ούτως ώστε να διευκρινίζει ότι πρέπει κανείς:
είτε να είναι «χριστιανός» ή μέλος της "Ελληνικής Εθνικής Θρησκείας" για να
να είναι σε θέση να γίνει μέλος.
Επιπλέον, πιστεύουμε ότι κατά τις συνεδριάσεις της, αποσπάσματα από τα έργα των
αρχαίων Ελλήνων φιλοσόφων θα πρέπει να διαβάζουντε στα μέλη αντί
αναγνώσεις από την Παλαιά και την Καινή Διαθήκη!
Μετά από όλα αυτά, πρέπει επιτέλους να αναγνωρίσουμε ότι οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες φιλόσοφοι είναι οι αληθινοί πατέρες του Ελληνικού Έθνος και του Ελληνικού Λαού!

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COMMUNISM – A MASSIVE FAILURE –

After the massive failure and collapse of COMMUNISM some 20 to 25 years ago, it is totally incomprehensible for logical people to understand how one can still believe in COMMUNISM!!!!! It is totally irresponsible for one to believe in communism and to call themselves a communist!!!! What we now need more than ever is HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM, (not communism, not socialism and not “The Law of The Jungle” capitalism), with a “Democratic Parliamentary System of Government” and an element of strong “human rights and a free press”.

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WHAT IS HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM?


WHAT WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN

1. We do not believe in dictatorship of any kind as a system of government.
2. We do not believe in the “Law of the Jungle capitalism” whereby a foreign government (power) invades another country or supports a coup de tar to overthrow a government in order to bribe the new government to give its corporations (its companies) the ownership of its resources’ or give its companies unjust favorable contracts whereby these countries miss out on fair and just prices for their countries national wealth and whose people are left in poverty, despair and starvation.
3. We do not believe in the “law of the Jungle capitalism” whereby the rich and powerful trample over the rights and opportunities of those not so well off.
4. We do not believe in corporate greed and excesses.
5. We do not believe in corporate greed and corruption.
6. We do not believe that 1% of the world’s population should own 99% of the world’s wealth.
7. We do not believe in a globalization whereby nations and their democratically elected governments are diminished and their sovereignty is compromised and lost.
8. We do not believe in one world government.
9. We do not believe in the nationalization of private property.
10. We do not believe that big corporations should control and direct elected governments.
11. We do not believe in, and are against slavery, and all forms of inhuman exploitation of people, especially that of children.
12. We do not believe that Multi-national Companies should be allowed to instigate, promote and finance coup de tars, or civil wars in countries that in turn are responsible for horrible crimes against humanity to be committed, in order to obtain (steal) or achieve lucrative contracts to exploit the (national) natural wealth i.e. minerals, gas or oil etc. in these countries.


WHAT WE BELIEVE IN
1. We believe in the family unit as the foundation stone of a healthy society, stable nation and a decent civilization.
2. We believe in a democratic parliamentary system of government, with a strong element of human rights and a strong decentralized free press (mass media).
3. We believe in private enterprise as a corner stone of a nations well being provided an opportunity is given for as many people as possible to participate and benefit from private enterprise i.e. good and just laws to enable this to be possible, monopolies are not allowed to get out of control whereby it becomes impossible for small business to exist.
4. We believe in strong and just laws to regulate the excesses, greed and corruption of big corporations.
5. We believe in a strong and sound judicial system whereby corrupt people from all walks of life are treated swiftly and with the full weight of the law for the good of the nation and its people.
6. We believe in the freedom of the individual, freedom of expression, freedom of worship i.e. religion.
7. We believe in a fair and just taxation system which allows for development and growth of the individual and the nation, whereby the nation’s wealth is shared fairly by all its citizens.
8.We believe that new international laws are needed to be created to prosecute and hold to account the directors and boards of Multi-national companies who commit the crimes mentioned above (number 12 in section what we do not believe in).
We believe these directors and board members should be charged for fraud, rape, murder and genocide. They should be charged for “crimes against humanity” and dealt with, by the full force of the law.
9. We believe in HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM (H.C.).
When we have more H.C. we have more benefits for the nation’s citizens. When we have less H.C. we have fewer benefits for the nation’s citizens.

FOR THESE THINGS TO BE MADE POSSIBLE WE NEED

GOOD GOVERNMENT (SOUND DEMOCRACY).
HONEST AND DECENT POLITICIANS.
STRONG AND SOUND JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF JUSTICE.
STRONG, EFFICIENT AND HONEST PUBLIC SERVICE.
CONSTUCTIVE, RESPONSIBLE AND DISCIPLINED TRADE UNION MOVEMENT.
LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.
A STRONG PHILANTHROPIC ETHOS AND TRADITION.
A TOP EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH A WELL EDUCATED AND SKILLED POPULATION.
A VERY STRONG AND HONEST ORGANIZATION TO FIGHT CORRUPTION.
A HEALTHY AND HONEST WORK ETHIC BY ALL THE CITIZENS.
A WELL THOUGHT OUT, COMMITMENT AND INVESTMENT IN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR INDUSTRIES AND UNIVERSITIES.
A TRADITION OF ENTERPRENUAL EFFORT IS EXERCISED BY THE CITIZENS.
WHEN THE LAND AND ALL ITS RESOURCES ARE USED WISELY AND EFFICIENTLY FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION AND ITS PEOPLE i.e. when a nation is rich in natural resource it has a much better opportunity to provide for more HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM for its people provided all the above is put in place and is adhered to and implemented. In another words more benefits can be made available to the citizens.
WHEN ALL THE ABOVE IS MISSING IT IS MUCH HARDER TO PROVIDE Humanitarian Capitalism.
Depending on the quality of the above criteria a country may provide better or less HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM, more or less benefits for its citizens. When all the above is missing a country can easily slip into the abyss and go BANKRUPT.


THIS IS HUMANITARIAN CAPITALISM!!!!


TURKEY: A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

Turkey is a huge problem for Greece and its national security. We are forced to buy billions of euros in armaments every year from France and Germany. In other words because the E.U. does not protect and guarantee its borders, Greece is blackmailed by the E.U. i.e. France and Germany to borrow billions of euro's from France and Germany to buy these weapons from France and Germany. Is it any wonder that along with a corrupt political system (politicians &  public servants) and a corrupt population, Greece is now bankrupt?
It is quite clear that some countries in the E.U. are benefiting at the expense of some others. Yes the E.U. needs fiscal repairing, and much more. If the E.U. is to become a success story it must create a truly level playing field for all its members.
THE EXPLOITATION OF SOME MEMBERS for the benefit of OTHERS must be brought to an end!!!!!


ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ και ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ

ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ ΟΠΟΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΣΩΣΤΌ 'ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΝΑ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΟΎΝ ΤΟ ΙΣΡΑΉΛ, ΈΤΣΙ ΑΚΡΙΒΩΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ ΠΩ Σ ΔΕΝ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΣΩΣΤΌ ΕΒΡΑΊΟΙ ΝΑ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΟΎΝ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΤΡΊΔΑ ΜΑΣ.
Δεν θέλω Εβραίο πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας, δεν θέλω Εβραίο πρωθυπουργό, δεν θέλω Εβραιούς βουλευτές στη βουλή των 'Ελλήνων. Θέλω 'Ελληνες να κυβερνούν την ΕΛΛΆΔΑ.!!!!!!!!
Η Εβραίοι συμπολίτες μας είναι εμπροσδέχτη με μεγάλη χαρά να ζήσουν μαζί μας με αξιοπρέπεια.

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GREECE NEEDS A NEW CONSTITUTION

The current constitution is rotten to the core and outdated. The current constitution has been tailor made by corrupt politicians to serve the needs and desires of these same politicians and their corrupt political parties. It is not a well drafted document to serve the needs and national aspirations of the country and its people!
Greece therefore needs to have a constitutional convention that will research the current constitution to discover those clauses which need to be abolished, those clauses which need to be modified and strengthened and also to create new clauses to cover the many areas which the current constitution does not cover.
Above all Greece needs to have a new constitution which will protect the rights of its citizens, a constitution which will be tailor made to serve the needs and aspirations of the country and the needs and aspirations of its people. A forward looking document with a vision for today and the next 100 years. A constitution which is approved by the people after a huge public debate and a national referendum. A constitution which will have a clause stipulating that it cannot be changed or altered without the approval of the people by a national referendum.

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H ΕΛΛΆΔΑ χρειάζεται ένα νέο ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑ

Το σημερινό σύνταγμα είναι σάπιο και και ξεπερασμένο. Το σημερινό
σύνταγμα είναι κατασκευασμένο από τους διεφθαρμένους πολιτικούς για να εξυπηρετήσει τις ανάγκες
και τις επιθυμίες των ίδιων των πολιτικών. Δεν είναι σωστό συνταγμένο έγγραφο να
εξυπηρετήσει τις ανάγκες και τις εθνικές επιδιώξεις της χώρας και του λαού της.
Η Ελλάδα χρειάζεται συνεπώς να έχει μια συνταγματική συνέλευση που θα ερευνήσει
το σημερινό σύνταγμα για να ανακαλύψετε αυτές τις ρήτρες που πρέπει να καταργηθούν,
αυτές τις ρήτρες που πρέπει να τροποποιηθούν και να ενισχυθούν και να δημιουργήσουν
νέων ρητρών για την κάλυψη των πολλών περιοχών που το τρέχουσα σύνταγμα δεν
καλύπτει.
Πάνω απ 'όλα χρειάζεται Ελλάδα να έχει ένα νέο σύνταγμα που θα προστατεύει τα
δικαιώματα των πολιτών της, ένα σύνταγμα το οποίο θα είναι εξατομικευμένο για την εξυπηρέτηση της
ανάγκες και τις προσδοκίες της χώρας και τις ανάγκες και τις προσδοκίες του λαού. Ένα προσανατολισμένο στο μέλλον έγγραφο με ένα όραμα για το σήμερα και τα επόμενα 100
χρόνια. Ένα σύνταγμα το οποίο θα έχει εγκριθεί από το λαό μετά από μία τεράστια δημόσια
συζήτηση και ένα εθνικό δημοψήφισμα. Ένα σύνταγμα που θα έχει μια ρήτρα
που προβλέπει ότι δεν μπορεί να αλλάξει ή να τροποποιηθεί χωρίς την έγκριση του
λαού από ένα εθνικό δημοψήφισμα.

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Ο ΟΡΚΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ

ΕΝΩΜΕΝΟΙ ΜΟΝΟ, ΕΝΩΜΕΝΟΙ ΘΑ ΖΗΣΟΥΜΕ
ΤΙΜΩΝΤΑΣ ΤΙΣ ΑΡΧΕΣ ΜΑΣ
ΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΓΟΝΟΥΣ ΜΑΣ
ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΜΑΣ
ΜΕ ΣΕΒΑΣΜΟ
ΣΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΜΑΣ
ΣΤΙΣ ΕΠΟΜΕΝΕΣ ΓΕΝΙΕΣ

THE VANISHING OF CONSCIOUS HELLENISM

THE VANISHING OF CONSCIOUS HELLENISM
Minas Savvas, Ph.D.
Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing
San Diego State University, California

I was invited as a participant in a panel discussion entitled “The Future of Hellenism in America.” The other panelists were a professor of philosophy and a professor of ancient history. The professor of philosophy spoke about the modem borrowings and inspirations that sprang from the glorious achievements of the ancient Greeks. He enumerated some of the plays, operas, musical compositions and artistic works in subsequent centuries that would not have been possible without the legacy of Hellenism. The historian, the only non-Greek in the panel, echoed the philosopher, praised the ancient thinkers that all people must cherish and expressed his optimism for the Hellenic ideals.
When my turn came, I spoke about Greek America by reminding the audience that we are addressing our remarks on the future of genuine Greekness. Pessimism, of course, has never been popular, so I was obliged to qualify my remarks by explaining that my kind of Hellenism is not just history and culture in their bare reality, in their invulnerable substance. Such Hellenism is bound to survive, in spite of the barbarians at the gates – the afrocentrsts, multiculturalists and cultural relativists. My Hellenism, I explained, is impassioned knowledge. It is a compulsive affection, not unconditional (as chauvinism would be) but persistent and true. It is getting a lump in your throat when the Greek national anthem is heard or when you read some lines from George Seferis or Yiannis Ritsos. It is the Hellenism that will bring those involuntary tears to your eyes when a Greek village girl stands on the Olympic winner’s platform while the Greek flag is raised and the flutters on the high mast. It is the gloating and rejoicing when you read Sappho’s lyrics or Thucydides judicious prose. It is the urge to wish to fight back when you hear or read Greece and the Greeks are unfairly denigrated. {It would be chauvinism, however, if one did so when the criticism was fair}.
Far from chauvinism, my Hellenism is an instinctive, patriotic love for a vulnerable, much-tormented, achievement-rich, little country where I first saw the sun’s light. Yes, I am cautiously pessimistic about my kind of Hellenism in, say, the year 2060. What with intermarriage [ estimates of Greeks marrying outside of their ethnic origin now range from 65% to 80% ], with no migrants from Greece, and with the third and fourth generation having their consciousness rapidly and most noticeably diminish, I see no light in the end of the proverbial tunnel.
While some of us among the more ethnically vigilant, for instance, puffed our chests with pride because a Greek by the name of Tom Pappas was to represent the United States in the decathlon in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the blond athlete himself was hardly aware that he was Greek. An article a few months after the Olympics, in the weekly The Greek American who interviewed him, pointed out that, “Toms only connection to his Greekness was his name.” (December 9-10, 2000). Tom is, in my view, the mainstream direction of the future, and, judging from similar examples, the future in some respects is already here.
Projections indeed suggest that even by 2040 Greek-American communities as we know them will be shadows of their former selves. AHEPA, the Pan Cretans, the Pan Arcadians, and other such organizations are already becoming geriatric. The lament “Where are the young? Is constant and persistent in specifically Hellenic organizations. Intermarriage and assimilation, already rampant, are bound to increase and though Greek names will still remain and may raise a knowing eyebrow or two, the throbbing musculature of Hellenism, that which is informed by passion and pride, is on its way to becoming a crumbling, osteoporotic skeleton. In certain pockets of America, I presume, even 50 years from now, we will still have the superficially Greek parochial festivals, with those Hellenes who are largely attracted by the catnip of mousaka and tsamiko. Yet, even these, I predict, will be smaller than and only remotely as Greek as we have come to know them in the twentieth century.
As for the role of the Greek Orthodox Church (if it will still be called “Greek Orthodox”), it will have – as it has for almost three decades – turned its back to ethniticity in general. I know there are exceptions, but the liturgy performed increasingly in English , the Church’s distance from secular celebrations, the galloping multiplications of converts, in both clergy and laity, should lead us to some conspicuous conclusions. Patriarch Bartolommeo’s recent unfortunate comment that the Church needs to be divorced from Hellenism is indeed a portent of the future. That the Phanar recently did not permit the patriotic Archbishop Christodoulos to lead the Greek Independence parade in New York should not surprise us.
Though my cynicism does not consort with some strident anti-clerical Greeks who think of the Church as the perennial enemy of Hellenism, there are those who will even argue that in general the Church in America has been trying to subvert Hellenism for decades, forgetting the inextricable connection of the language of the Gospels with the essence of Orthodoxy or of the importance of Hellenic (even if pagan - Hellenic National Religion and Faith) thought to the precepts of the early fathers and of Greek Orthodox theology. But I do surmise that here and there in the Orthodox churches of the future there will still be encouragement for those festivals. Such celebrations, after all, will help to raise funds and those for whom the name Aristotle can only mean Onassis will be parishioners who will have to understand that such ethnic affairs must emphasize more than Hellenism and that in themselves they are unnecessary to being a good Orthodox steward.
I hope, of course, that I am mistaken in my pessimism. And I do wish that my optimism were not so overwhelmed by my pessimism. Oh, yes, I do hope that if there is light at the end of the tunnel it is not the oncoming train. I even could here find it possible to light a candle, besides cursing the darkness. Though diluted and with some of the passion diminished, genuine Greekness may survive with people, Greek or non-Greek, who will concentrate on its values and its ideals. Some of the young Orthodox converts may indeed see beyond the religiosity; some non-Greek mates may move beyond the culinary and such and become truly interested in the essence of their partner’s ethnicity
Non-Greeks, in general, may indeed out-Hellenize the shallow Hellenes as they become what Isocrates called “participants in our education” (“tis imeteras paideias metehontes”). In turn (and I have met such people) they may indeed promulgate the glory and ideals of Hellenism with an intellectual (even if not patriotic) zeal. It may be that our secular organizations will soon be alarmed enough to institute and subsidize schools – tutorial or of any other kind – that will teach the young their Hellenic heritage and culture. Perhaps, as well, such organizations will initiate closer and more frequent contact with the motherland.
Concurrently, the Greek government itself will have to increase its serious involvement in such endeavors. One can also hope that there will be more and better sponsored trips for our youth to Greece, organized by both the Greek state and our diaspora organizations, and all in consonance with the accelerated program of Greek teaching in the language, the culture and the history of mother Hellas. In this regard, a genuine, continuous dialogue between Hellas and the Hellenic diaspora is bound to enrich both. There is also a ray of hope in the “Greek Chairs” being instituted in American universities, though I do wonder how committed their graduates will become to their acquired Hellenism.
The Greekness whose gradual loss I lament here is a mode of thought and the love and passion that accompany it. For a culture to persist, its past and simple nostalgia, though very important, are not enough. To sustain themselves, traditions must stand fast at their core but ought to carve new pathways into the future. The diminution of Greekness does have much to do with the imperatives of evolution. Each generation, by the very nature of things, is bound to adopt its beliefs, its own priorities and its own perceptions. And yet, in my constitutionally-protected opinion, the Greek Americans, though commendable in many ways, have not done enough to sustain what is significant in their ethnicity; to pass on to their offspring the pride that comes from knowing who they are. Even if something of what had been may be salvaged, as I have here suggested, overall, I am sadly compelled to feel that we are headed toward “the cursed misfortune” of succumbing to their fate.
MONDO GRECO
THE GREEK-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
FALL 2001 – SPRING 2002

WILL THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE DIASPORA CONTINUE TO GROW AND FLOURISH?

WILL THE HELLENIC PEOPLE IN THE DIASPORA DISSAPEAR AND BECOME EXTINCT?
Aristotellis Alexandridis

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In the Diaspora, it would be absolutely wonderful if in Australia and other countries around the world, where there is a significant number of Greeks to see thousands of Greeks join the two largest political parties. In Australia it would be great to see thousands of Greek Australians join the Liberal Party and the Australian Labour Party. It would be great to see them supporting and helping each other and net-working together in α spirit of love and harmony!!!

This is the dream of forward thinking Hellenes!!!

Στην Διασπορά, δηλαδή θα ήταν υπέροχο στην Αυστραλία και σε άλλες χώρες σε όλο τον κόσμο, όπου υπάρχει ένας σημαντικός αριθμός των Ελλήνων να δούμε χιλιάδες Έλληνες να ενταχθούν στα δύο μεγαλύτερα πολιτικά κόμματα. Στην Αυστραλία θα ήταν υπέροχο να βλέπαμε χιλιάδες Ελληνό – Αυστραλούς να ενταχθούν στο Φιλελεύθερο Κόμμα και το Εργατικό Κόμμα Αυστραλίας. Θα ήταν υπέροχο να τους βλέπουμε να υποστηρίζουν και να βοηθούν ο ένας τον άλλο, να συντονίζονται και να εργάζονται μαζί με απόλυτη αγάπη και αρμονία!

Αυτό είναι τι όνειρο των σύγχρονών Ελλήνων!!!