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The Anarchist Library on torrent

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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The whole archive of theanarchistlibrary.org
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Athens the Truth about Democracy

Category: Documentary
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Athens is revered as the birthplace of Western philosophy, art, science, the innovative but seriously flawed political ideal of all time -- democracy. This fascinating documentary narrated by historian Bettany Hughes. As she takes a glimpse behind some of the myths of Athens' golden age. What we find is a very warlike and aggressive state, which was also capable of terrible mistakes, misdeeds and atrocities 2007 UK TV Two parts 120 minutes in total
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Democracy Now! Thursday, April 10, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Report: Top Admin Officials Approved Assault, Waterboarding of CIA Prisoners 4 Killed in US Attack on Sadr City Baghdad Under Curfew on 5th Anniversary of US Seizure Iraqi Judiciary Calls for Release of Bilal Hussein from US Military Jail Dems Seek Delay of Colombia Trade Pact Fighting Renews in Gaza Jimmy Carter to Meet Exiled Hamas Leader Haiti Food Protests Enter 2nd Week IMF: US Mortgage Crisis Worse Shock Since Great Depression Clinton, Wal-Mart Founder Trade Praise in 1991 Video Lawmakers Urge Probe of Alleged Cover-Up on Halloween Photos Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier -- Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More Babak Pasdar is a computer security expert who was hired in 2003 to help restructure the tech infrastructure at a major wireless telecommunications company. What he found shocked him. The company had set up a system that gave a third party, presumably a governmental entity, access to every communication coming through that company’s infrastructure. This means every email, internet use, document transmission, video, text message, as well as the ability to listen to and record any phone call. [includes rush transcript] China's Great Leap: Human Rights Watch on the Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges Thousands of protesters turned out in San Francisco to protest the Olympic torch relay and this year’s Beijing Games. Similar protests condemning China’s human rights abuses have attempted to disrupt the torch along its earlier stops in Athens, Istanbul, Paris and London. We speak with Human Rights Watch’s Minky Worden, who is editor of a new book, China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. [includes rush transcript] Justice Department Increasingly Avoiding Corporate Prosecutions The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than fifty companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. The decline in prosecutions is seen as a deliberate and dramatic shift in policy. While the news reported in a front-page article in the New York Times surprised many, the Justice Department’s use of so called “deferred prosecution agreements” is nothing new. Back in 2005, a report released by the Corporate Crime Reporter profiled dozens of these cases and warned against their use. We speak with Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter. [includes rush transcript] Report: 40 Years After King, Little Progress in Closing Economic Inequality Gap Between African Americans and Whites In the late 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King recognized that the next phase in the quest for civil rights and equality would focus on the economic divide. A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies titled “40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream” lays out key elements of the inequality that African Americans still experience in the United States around education, employment and wealth accumulation. We speak with the co-author of the report, Dedrick Muhammad. [includes rush transcript]
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[VideoArt]For Sore Eyes by Anders Weberg

Category: Misc
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FOR SORE EYES // by Anders Weberg duration 2min17sec / 2006 Fore sore eyes is another exploration of the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered (dis)order. It is a suggestive reflection of life in the pyrotechnic in sanatorium of consumerism freedom. But what is really freedom? Format: mov Size: 13,5mb 480x360 SCREENINGS 2008 March 8-21: French Cultural Centre André Marraux, Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovia. 2008 February 29: The Cineculture Club at California State University, Fresno, US. 2008 February 27: Another Roadside Attraction, London, UK. 2008 February 22-24: Nothern Wave Film Festival , Grundarfjörður, Iceland. 2008 February 15-17: CeC & CaC, The Academy of Electronic Art, New Delhi, India. 2007 December 7-9: «Video Art – Start from Zero», Festival Miden in Athens, Alekton artspace, Athens Greece. 2007 November 24: Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 6.0. Nicosia, Cyprus. 2007 November 21: 20th Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France. 2007 November 21: Laptopia experimental art festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 2007 November 16-18: Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain. 2007 November 15-17: NewMediaFest2007 & 3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario, Argentina. 2007 November 2-4: The Amsterdam Film eXperience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2007 November: Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium. 2007 October: 00130Gallery, Korkeavuorenkatu 27 sisäpiha, Helsinki Finland 2007 October 27: Isfilmu Nakts (IN), Latvia. 2007 October 18-21:Transvisualia Mediascream 2007, Gdynia, Poland. 2007 August 28-31: New media, performance, video festival, Pilsen, Czech Republic 2007 August 4: FlashFlood: International Video Art Festival. Curated by Brookhart Jonquil The Museum for Polydimensional Research , Tucson, Arizona, US. 2007 July: Festival Miden - Contemporary video art screenings in Kalamata, Greece. 2007 July: P’Silo / Festival Images Contre Nature Lices, Marseille, France. 2007 July: AEM Videoscreenings, CK Zamek, ul.SW.Marcin. Poland. 2007 June: Vertical Festival in Caldes de Montbui, Spain (Cartes Flux) 2007 May: a room (with a view) Arenbergschouwburg Antwerpen, Belgium. 2007 May: Simultan03, Video and New Media Festival, Timisoara, Romania. 2007May: Film Festival 600, Stara Elektrama, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2007 April: Athens Video Art Festival 07, Athens, Greece. 2007 April: CARTES Flux, The Centre for Art and Technology CARTES, Espoo, Finland. 2007 April: Coachella Music and Arts Festival [PAM], Empire polo field, CA, US. 2007 April: artDC Art Fair [PAM], Washington D.C, US. 2007 April: Derapagé 7, Centre de Design, Montréal, Canada. 2007 March: namaTRE.ba, Gallery Fine Arts Academy, Trebinje, Bosnia - Hercegovina 2007 February: Scope NYC [PAM], Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York 2007 February: Imagine Party Toronto, The Mod Room, Toronto, Canada. Guest Curated by [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine: Co-organized by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Aaron Miller and Chris Borkowski 2006 December: ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO, Festival of new film and video., Novi Beograd, Serbia. 2006 December: Art| Basel, Miami, Florida, US. 2006 December: Scope Miami, Miami Florida, US. 2006 October: Scope London, England. 2006 September - Oktober: the Split Film Festival in Split, Croatia. 2006 Name Festival in Lille, France 2006 Scope Hampton Art Fair July, US. 2006 Scope New York Art Fair, US Other 2007: Selected for the Australian Tapeprojects DVD compilation and will be released in December. 2007 : Featured in Issue One of Atomic Unicorn, a new online magazine for art and new media to be launched in the beginning of December 2007. 2007: Programmed at Art Channel - Television as Art, Paris, France. 2007: Part of the 00130gallery video library, Helsinki, Finland. Anders Weberg (1968, Landskrona - Sweden) works in video, sound, new media and installations. Specialized in the expressions that digital technologies provide and aim to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of visual media. Lives and works in in the small coastal town of Ängelholm in the south of Sweden, and has exhibited at numerous art festivals, galleries, and museums internationally, including Transmediale08, Conspire, Berlin, Germany; [10th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan; 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; File Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil; Scope New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santa Fe, Argentina; Pocket Films in Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris; The 2nd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China; etc. see http://www.andersweberg.com for full info.
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Greek University Students protest

Category: News & Current Affairs
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This video was shot on June 8 2006 in Athens during a protest of Greek University Students. It was the largest demo of a series in May and June. Over 15.000 students protested. It was shot by students of University of Pireaus . Here you can find some info on English: http://athens.indymedia.org/features.php3?target=en http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6607 http://news.moak47.info/html/article/11 http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip...reek%20students and a greek site: http://www.edopolytexneio.org/ Background Info Certain clauses in the Greek Constitution (stating, among others, that education has to be public and free for all and that no police forces are allowed to enter university grounds) have made the enforcement of a neo-liberal agenda to the country's higher education institutions particularly difficult. However, the Conservative government is now attempting to push forward crucial changes in the functioning and role of the country's Higher Education institutions. A so-called "committee of experts", appointed by the government itself, has released a list of proposed changes, which include: * De-registration of students after (X times 1,5) years - where X is the minimum number of years required for completion of their course (now unlimited) * Limiting the number of times allowed to sit for a module to four (now unlimited) * Allowing for easier police access to university grounds, the long-term aim being the complete erasure of campus sanction (to date, police are not allowed to enter university property unless specifically instructed to do so by the university's "asylum committee", with the latter's decision-making process being rather complex) * To end the free distribution of academic books to students (since the Constitution states education has to be free for all, universities have to provide required readings to their students free of charge) * To end student transfers (To date, students meeting certain economic, social and/or health criteria can apply for a transfer to the academic department closest to their area of residence) * To introduce managerial positions in the universities (To date, all administrative decisions fall under the juridistiction of academic staff) The above have been incorporated into a law proposal which, according to media reports, will be brought forward by the government and the Education Ministry in July. Another crucial point of the proposed law includes the editing of Article 16 of the Constitution (currently stating that all education should be public and free for all) in order to allow for the foundation of Private Universities in the country.
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