I recently moved to my university town Erlangen – and started a new project there with a bunch of people. We want to establish a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA, or German: Solidarische Landwirtschaft, SoLaWi) For this reason we have planned an evening for introducing ourselves to people who are interested, promoting the idea of CSA …
I am very happy to announce that I will talk at the “New Left Debate” in Vilnius/Lithuania at the Institute of Critical Thought “Demos” on March 27th. The topic will be “Food Sovereignty, Animal Rights and the Commodification of Life” – from an activist point of view. The “theory-part” will be covered by the Italian …
The 4th international Degrowth-Conference took place from the September 2nd til 6th in Leipzig/Germany. I was there in order to write about it for a paper and had the chance to see some of the very interesting panels and scientific debates. Degrowth questions the mainstream economic idea of constant growth which is supposed to be …
Last weekend was a big date for the German urban gardening scene – the third nation-wide urban gardening meeting took place. And it was a big day for me particularly, as me and my urban gardening team in Nuremberg had the honour to host this big event. We had about 80 guests from more than …
Published in the Studenpaper of the University of Iceland, November 2013.
Out for coffee with a Young Pirate Iceland was wowing the German press, as well as dozens of commentators on the big newspapers’ websites, with their seemingly very basic democracy. They are working on a constitution for and by the people, holding referendums on bailing the banks out and even have the Pirates in parliament. …
It’s been a while since my last post and that is mostly due to the visit of my beloved. Another reason is the fact that I feel the last two posts were pretty good – and I do not feel able to achieve that again at the moment. Still, it is time to get back …
That Russia is not the upholder of human rights is generally known. Just last night the director of the privately owned “museum of power” in St. Petersburg, Tatjana Titowa, was put to jail and interrogated the whole night before she was freed today just to be arrested again a couple of hours later. And this …