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“Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.” — Howard Zinn, (2012) The Historic Unfulfilled Promise, p.208, City Lights Publishers
acTVism Munich on May 9, 2018
On the 6th of May 2018 we organized an event in Munich with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0”.
This is the second installment of an event series that we started in 2017 in Munich that included Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill and other leading experts.
[Abby Martin begins at 11:33 minutes in; Jill Stein at 39:46 and Glenn Greenwald at 1:15:25. Discussion and Q&A with Martin and Stein on the possible solutions at 1:52:51.]
from the archives:
Red Alert: Don’t Let The Internet Turn Into Cable TV
Facebook Scandal Blows Away “Russiagate” by Finian Cunningham
Chris Hedges and David North: Organizing Resistance To Internet Censorship
Abby Martin: Colombia, the Deadliest Country for Unions and Social Leaders
Leave Jill Stein Alone by David Swanson + Jill Stein Denounces Probe over ‘Collusion with Russians’
Abby Martin: All This Shit Doesn’t Matter–Every Issue Must Be Seen Through the Lens of the US Empire
Abby Martin: Supermarkets to Black Markets in Venezuela
Abby Martin Interviews Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa On His Legacy and Critics
Abby Martin: Chevron vs. The Amazon – Inside the Killzone, Part 1
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