Video on fascist attacks against migrants and refugees in Greece
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The particular video offers testimonies of migrants who have fallen victims of fascist attacks in Greece. (Press cc for subtitles) … |
Occupy Copenhagen – May 12th solidarity action
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In solidarity with the Occupy Movement’s Global May Manifesto, the Danish faction manifested today a parade in the streets of Copenhagen. The procession was centred around a four-meter tall effigy of a politician controlled with strings by actors parodying fatcats … |
Greece's media crisis
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An 8 minute video from Al Jazeera’s ‘Listening Post’ discussing Greek mainstream media’s role in the current economic crisis and more broadly, the media’s political role in Greek society and their upper class biases. Mainstream media have been propagating the … |
Barcelona March 29th: General Strike
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On March 29, 2012, millions of people across Spain went on strike. The strike, which was the first general strike since September 2010, brought the country to a near halt. The situation in Spain has grown increasingly difficult with 1 … |
Manson and Douzinas discuss the crisis and the new social movements
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Paul Mason author of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions and a panel including: Prof Deborah Mabbett (Birkbeck), and Prof Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) discuss the global Occupy movements, coalition policy on the City and financial regulation and … |
On the State of Press Freedom in Greece
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On Thursday, 5th April 2012, Marios Lolos, a photojournalist, was hit on the head by a police truncheon while covering a peaceful protest in response to the recent suicide of a 77 year-old man in protest to austerity measures. … |
Slavoj Žižek – interview for Catastroika
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Slavoj Žižek speaks about the new, post-democratic era of capitalism, in an excerpt of the upcoming documentary Catastroika. He claims that …what it shares with authoritarian east regimes is the cancelling of democracy. …the technocratic model (when things get … |
