some of my photographs from monday’s concentration in front of the parliament to fight Portugal’s austerity plans. as can be seen, this film has been to hell and back, which actually seems to suit the scene. what follows is an excerpt of a text distributed amongst protesters on 15O. “If you’re photographing a demonstration, make…
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still from Dogtooth In Greece, Police decided to ban all forms of gatherings and demonstrations happening tomorrow, October 9th, between 9am and 10pm in downtown Athens for the fat queen’s coming to town. It’s just as saying: I’m sorry, democracy is down for the moment, we’ll be back in a few hours… This is not…
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┐ we’re all in deep shit IV └
┐ Global Noise – October 13th └
┐ we’re all in deep shit III └
Yesterday, September 26th, in the Streets of Greece during general strike day
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© Susana Vera (Reuters) After midningh, the Basques and the Greeks go on general strike!
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© Sérgio Pérez (Reuters) live streaming of the protests of the 25S movement in Spain, surrounding the Congress update, live also here, via El Pais
Read More┐ “””hard-working home-owners””” └
© Graham Smith, (Boy) George O’Dowd at Great Titchfield Street squat. 1980 © Graham Smith, Kim Bowen at Warren Street squat 1980 © Graham Smith, Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) at a Warren Street squat, 1981 This weekend a new law came into force that makes squatting – the occupation of empty buildings by otherwise homeless…
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photo taken from Le Chat Noir Emeutier “Violent clashes between youths and riot police in the northern French city of Amiens have left 16 officers injured and several public buildings torched in some of the worst rioting in the area for years – reopening the fraught political debate about France’s troubled housing estates. Rioting broke…
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┐ Direct Action └
photo by © Javier Barbancho LEADERS of a workers’ union in southern Spain staged a massive raid on two supermarkets on Tuesday, filling at least 30 trolleys with staple foodstuffs to give to the poor. They gave their entire haul to local ‘food banks’ which supply hampers to families who no longer have any income…
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┐ “ how is it possible to be making art in the middle of a shit storm?” └
photo by © Theodore Wan, Bridine Scrub (For General Surgery), 1977 (…) Therefore, when contemporary art or contemporary art theory uses terms of contemporary liberal democracy, a meaningless democracy given that the only right surviving today in fact is the right to dominance (I have the right to assert dominance, power), then, in reality, (art)…
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things will start growing in the right direction, even if for now it all needs to be destroyed. All eyes on Greece! © Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Grow Homes, 2010 Installation View: 64 Houses on Stilts with local wild plants inside Wood, Inkjet Prints, Soil, Plants, rotating Grow-Lamp System
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┐ Modern Battlefields └
photo by @ Juan Manuel Serrano/Associated Press, more images here and here miners struggle for working conditions in Asturias, Spain. It’s been going on for weeks… You can read a personal account of what’s happening here “The total absence of limitation to the thirst for power which wants to hold everything under its thumb, even…
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A must see! Full video here This is a trailer for our upcoming feature length documentary based in Chile and the Mapuche indigenous territory of Wallmapu. The concept for the film was born with the death of a former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet. His regime murdered thousands and tortured tens of thousands after the military…
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You come home in the evening, tired, you put on tv some stupid show like Cheers or Friends and you just sit and the tv even laughs for you. And, unfortunately, it works That’s how those in power, the European establishment, want to see – not only Greek people but all of us – just…
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Protest in Montreal against the rise of tuition fees in Quebec and the new law 78. Every evening at 8pm people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can. The song (INTUITION #1 – Avec pas d’casque / avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/album/astronomietranslated) reads something like this: You will say, you…
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┐ The police, Brecht and the Greeks └
“The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.” Bertold Brecht In a letter obtained by Reuters Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of “…blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty” and said one target of its warrants would…
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┐ An-My Lê └
© An-My Lê, M-246 Semi Automatic Weapon, Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal, Iraq, from the series Events Ashore, 2007 © An-My Lê, US Marine Expeditionary Unit, Shoalwater Bay, Australia, from the series Events Ashore, 2005-08 “Shot in coastal waters and regions from Iraq to Antarctica, An-My Lê’s latest series of photographs examine intersecting themes of…
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© Oliver Ressler, from the series We have a situation here, 2011 © Oliver Ressler, from the series We have a situation here, 2011 “We have a situation here” is a standard line in disaster films when an actor faces a challenging situation. The three photographs show people lying on top of each other and…
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