The fashion designer and former punker Westwood decided to drive a tank to the home of prime minister Cameron in the UK…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Sunday, September 20, 2015
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Direct action is useful to uphold your rights. In Minnesota First Nation American Indians of the Anishinaabe were…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Saturday, September 19, 2015
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Mass protest in Iraq
Biggest mobilisation in a decade in Iraq:
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Why is there such an amazing mobilisation of solidarity with refugees throughout Europe now, not earlier? I think there…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Friday, September 11, 2015
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Law as tool of resistance
It is a good attempt, and creative, using the formal rule of 100 000 petitioners which forces the government and the…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Sunday, September 6, 2015
Miners in Chile use a tactic that is effective, a sit-down in the mines, and by that blocking all activity. After several demands were met, they came up again.
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Sunday, August 30, 2015
It seems like Lebanon is on the way getting its second peaceful revolution the last decade. What started as protests…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Monday, August 24, 2015
Watch this short movie of how 1 500 climate justice activists shut down one of the biggest coal mines in Europe. It is…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Sunday, August 23, 2015
Since I wrote this on Facebook it turned out that the Macedonian government made the smart decision to not do the dirty work of the EU but instead (like Greece) let all refugees pass through the border (since everyone knew they didn’t want to settle in Macedonia, or for that matter in Greece) but wanted to continue to pass borders towards the center of Europe. This just makes the activists in Berlin that gives practical support to the refugees so much more hopeful.
In stark contrast to the "security forces" that attack refugees in Macedonia, German activists in Berlin are organising…
Posted by Stellan Vinthagen on Saturday, August 22, 2015
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Banksy 2.0
The mother of all cool street artists, Mr Banksy himself, still living in anonymity and escaping “justice”, has succeeded to overdo himself and made a theme park, open to everyone (although visitors will be less entertained than chocked): “Dismaland”, an ironic and truer version to social reality than the big lie of the Western World created in Disneyland. Banksy is simply brilliant and one of the major political activists of our time. Check it out!