Archives by Tag 'revolution'
Posters of the 1989 Velvet Revolution
November and December 1989 saw student protest’s in Prague and other cities that led to the Sametová revoluce ( velvet revolution) that saw the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Last year the release of a bi-lingual (Czech and English) book with some of the posters that were seen all over the cities accompanied by [...]
No need to panic over the far-right EU election gains
The far-right managed to gain some seats across the union, considering there are 736 seats and they did not even gather 50 altogether their voices are not going to be the most heard. The turnout was at a very low 43.39% in total amongst the 27 countries. Looking at some of the countries that did [...]
Vapnet – En Berättelse Om Tidens Gång
Today I received through the post a DVD of a short animation within a spaceship environment. The animation is very good for a debut by a small team that set out to do this purely for fun. Taken from the back of the DVD… “Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in [...]
Are the left failing ?
After yesterdays local elections in England, I have been reading a thread on the urban75 forum where quite a few of the posters are claiming the left are failing. A couple of comments include : The soporific effect of consumerism has weakened ideological politics on the left and the right. In a period of strong [...]
Free will
I have this conception in my mind what it is, we are free to do what we want with our self and mind. However is this really true? In life their are constraints put on us, what we can and cannot do. Its put on us through various means, weather its a dreaded religion, morals [...]