Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn is increasingly influential among members of the country's political mainstream. Student Konstantinos Georgousis filmed party members on the streets of Athens.  Warning: this video contains highly offensive and racist language Golden Dawn, the extreme right-wing party in Greece, won 18 seats in the country's last election. Since then support for the party has doubled as it push ...

Tijd voor protest!   Demonstratie ‘Geen vluchteling op straat of in de cel’ – 23 maart – Amsterdam Mars vertrekt 13:00 vanaf Vluchtkerk Amsterdam Erik de Roodestraat 16 – goed bereikbaar via tram en metro. Manifestatie op het Museumplein vanaf 14:30 Sprekers, actie en een ééndaags tentenkamp. ...

Trade School is an alternative, self-organized school that runs on barter. It works like this: 1) Teachers propose classes and ask for barter items from students. For example, if you teach a class about making butter, you might ask students to bring heavy cream, jars, bread, music tips, clothes, vegetables, or help with something like finding an apartment. 2) Students sign up for classes by agreeing to brin ...

Yesterday,  Saturday March 2nd, the latest Reclaim the Streets (RTS) took place in Zurich. It was only in September 2011, when the youth of Zurich gathered the streets to claim their right for non commercial spaces and parties (which is called Reclaim the Streets here, a demonstration concept invented somewhere in the 90ies) as they met on central places in the city with sound systems to make a big party, w ...

Many things are said the last few weeks about the Greek debt problem and the attitude of the Hellenic State and its citizens collectively. As an artistic vehicle of Greek origin Nightfall take the opportunity to offer music people -who may lack proper information about the political and financial matters ruling everyone’s life these harsh days- a brief view of current events. Firstly it is worthy to mention ...

(Reuters) - Germans may accuse spendthrift euro zone southerners of too much play and not enough work, but they enjoy the most generous annual holiday time in the European Union, a study released on Wednesday showed. Reporting by Eric Kelsey, editing by Paul Taylor Workers in Germany enjoy 30 days of paid holiday a year on average, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions ...

By Manfred Ertel in Athens Greece is tightening its belt -- and the number of people living in poverty is surging as a result. Thousands line up in front of food banks and resort to rifling through rubbish bins. The country's financial crisis is rapidly turning into a social one -- while wealthy tax evaders manage to get off scot-free. This time, the fight for survival last exactly 29 minutes. At precisely ...

Message from Spain: Greece is not alone from Acampada Córdoba... Message from Spain: Greece is not alone from Acampada Córdoba on Vimeo. ...

Struggling under an impossible burden after its IMF bailouts, Buenos Aires knew its one hope was to stop paying its debts and become a pariah – and so it proved By Heather Stewart, July 10 2011 Protesters on the streets of Athens this summer have been brandishing banners depicting a panicky helicopter airlift. Not Saigon at the height of the Vietnam war, but Buenos Aires in 2001, when Fernando de la Rúa fle ...

by Jérôme E. Roos on July 11, 2011 Economic collapse and police brutality bring back painful memories of years of military dictatorship and decades of financial hardship. Syntagma Square, Monday July 11th Like so many other words in the English language, the words trauma and crisis trace their roots back to classical Greek: τραῦμα literally means ‘wound’, while κρίσις means so much as a ‘turning point in a ...