Monthly Archives: October 2009
Side by Side Film Festival: Was NTV Planning a Provocation with Fascist Thugs?
Last year around this time, we posted Sergey Chernov’s interview with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell when he was a guest at the Side by Side International LGBT Film Festival in Saint Petersburg. The focus of their conversation was the vigorous attempt … Continue reading
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“Unsere Uni!”: University of Vienna Occupied
More info on the occupation (including a live video stream from the main lecture hall and updates from other Austrian universities) here (mostly in German). The following communiqué was posted on Indybay.Org: We, students from all disciplines at the University … Continue reading
2+2/Practicing Godard (The Story of the “Communal Life” Seminar)
2+2/Practicing Godard (Part I) I was inspired to make this film after the police forced me to delete video footage of the OMON raid on our seminar in Nizhny Novgorod. I was struck by their brazen confidence that they could … Continue reading
“Strange Culture” (Berlin)
Art Laboratory Berlin in cooperation with the Arsenal – Institute for Film und Video Art e.V. presents: The film Strange Culture documents the Kafkaesque case of the well-known artist and art professor Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble). When Kurtz called … Continue reading
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Occupied!
On Tuesday, October 20, 2009, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was squatted. Here is the statement and the demands of the occupants: The Bologna process aims at an extensive convergence of European universities with the Anglo-American education system. The … Continue reading
Afghanistan: The Arrogance of Liberalism
Simon Jenkins: Western leaders seem unable to resist the seduction of military power. They think that, because they could defeat communism and fly to the moon, they can get any poverty-stricken, tin-pot country to do what the west decides is … Continue reading
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Stop the Criminal Prosecution of Arkhangelsk Historians and Archivists
The following text is a translation of a petition appeal made on behalf of Mikhail Suprun and Alexander Dudarev, a university historian and an Interior Ministry archivist who face criminal charges for their work documenting Germans who were deported to … Continue reading
Stop Police Violence against Migrants and Activists in Greece
Twitter petition Sign here. To: The Greek Minister of Citizen Protection Following the December revolts in Greece, police violence against migrants and activists in Greece is becoming more and more intense. The xenophobic turn of the mainstream media combined with the electoral … Continue reading
“Медный освободительный оркестр” делает Whole Foods
The Brass Liberation Orchestra Does Whole Foods. (Thanks to Stuffed and Starved.) Operation Hey Mackey: Flashmob Protests Whole Foods’ CEO in Oakland Branch Feeling conservatives had “usurped” the limelight in the debate over healthcare reform through a series of high … Continue reading
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Babi Badalov: A Voice from the Asylum Jungle
We’ve posted here a couple of times about the travails and triumphs of our good friend the gay Azeri artist and activist Babi Badalov. Babi is now alive and well and seeking asylum in France. The other day he sent … Continue reading
