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interview // german // 2:49 Min // 18.06.2008
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It was a bagatelle that brought me in front of the court martial in Africa. If they had known what I really did, I would have been summarily executed. But as it was, I was taken to the court martial and condemned to the punishment battalion in Africa. That was horrible because you were totally isolated and because you were often sent out in front of the tanks – as cannon catch, so to say; near the Highfalla Pass, near Tobruk. I was seriously wounded after six weeks in the punishment battalion. I was unconscious for two days and then came to Athens and there my eye had to be removed. The one side of my face is paralysed because of this one injury. I was not fit for war any more and was then retrained as a radio operator. In spite of all my bad luck, this was the best that could happen, because radio operators were not only privileged. Due to their occupation they were able to listen to what BBC or the station ‘Freies Deutschland’ were broadcasting. Every radio operator did that, regardless whether he was a Nazi or an anti-fascist. Everyone did that, when searching for his remote station he had to contact as ordered to. If he came across any other station he listened into that. But that wasn’t the only thing a clever radio operator could do. He could also get in touch with another radio station where a comrade sat. My big advantage was that I gave and received the highest speed when I was retrained, that is to say 140 characters per minute, which was the police radio. The highest speed that was generally used in the ‘Wehrmacht’ was 120 characters, giving and receiving. Because I gave 140, I was of interest to the generals. They knew, the police radio was not intercepted by the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’. The generals who did not agree with Hitler, also wanted to correspond with each other via radio. For that they needed people who gave 140 characters - and I was one. Insofar I got to the highest post and had contact to generals, who were anything but anti-fascists. But they were objectors to Hitler for many reasons. As a radio operator I was able to do a lot more illegally than before and that went on until the end of the war.
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In Casanare, a region in the southeast of Bogotá, oil was discovered in the 90'. Paramilitary troops and regulary armed forces have since then killed 2600 people, to secure BP the access to the oil in place.
The people try to resist their replacement and demand justice and compensation - whithout any success so far. |
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length: 51 min
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please translate this description: Seit 2008 ist Norditalien Schauplatz ungewöhnlicher Ereignisse. Unternehmen, Politik und Medien nutzen den Kriseneinbruch, um die ohnehin schon bröckelnden Arbeiter_innenrechte weiter auszuhöhlen; auf der anderen Seite formiert sich jedoch gerade am untersten Ende der Lohnskala ein lebendiger ... more |
length: 3,43 min
| date: 18.05.2015
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Through militant strikes over the last four years, the mostly migrant workforce in the logistics sector in Italy have managed to substantially improve their working conditions. Treated with violent arrogance and regularly defrauded out of a part of their salary in the past, they've now won 'normal' working conditions in most workplaces.
Because of these achievements, more and more workers are ... more |
length: 61,77 min
| date: 10.04.2014
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We are showing here an interview with the workers of the factory Dita, whose protest was a trigger to the whole movement that is sometimes referred to as the Bosnian Spring.
The workers of the detergent factory Dita told us that they had been on strike for more than a year and tried different forms of peaceful protests (including a hunger strike) that did not lead anywhere. When they demonstrated with ... more |
length: 8,3 min
| date: 21.02.2014
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please translate this description: 01.11.2011, Berlin - Zweiter Diskussionsabend in der Veranstaltungsreihe "Was tun mit Kommunismus?". Auf dem Podium: renate Hürtgen, Helmut Bock, Christoph Jünke, Ralf G. Landmesser, Anne Seeck, Harry Waibel.
Veranstalterin: Selbsthilfegruppe Ei des Kommunismus (SEK) |
length: 150 min
| date: 20.12.2011
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please translate this description: "Im März besetzten 30 Frauen, Männer und Kinder ein leerstehendes Wohnhaus und ehemaliges Fabrikgelände. Sie wollten bezahlbaren Wohnraum und Platz zum selbstbestimmten Leben und Arbeiten. Von Anfang an waren sie im Kiez aktiv: Kino, Kultur und Kinder-Angebote organisierten sie sowohl für ... more |
length: 1,77 min
| date: 09.11.2011
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In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving. |
length: 10:56 min
| date: 24.02.2011
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please translate this description: Live-Auftritt von Holger Burner
In dem Stück wird die fragwürdige Debatte um die »Unterschicht« in der BRD thematisiert.
Diese wurde erst in Folge der zunehmenden Reichtumsschere in der BRD im Jahr 2006 von Kurt Beck (SPD) benannt und ausgerufen und dann umgehend wieder im ... more |
length: 3:20 min
| date: 28.08.2009
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Greek hospital under workers' control
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"The occupation of our hospital in Kilkis by its workers started on Monday, February 20th, 8:30 local time.
This occupation is not only about us, the physicians and the workers at the Kilkis Hospital. Neither is it only about the Greek National Health System, which is collapsing, indeed. We are in this fight because what is in real danger now is the human rights and our lives."
28.02.2012 hits: 19049
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How I spent my Sunday in Fukushima
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This morning Pieter, Xeni and I (pictured above) set out with Miles, along with father/son superteam Joe and Bryan Moross. The plan was to drop off a few Geiger counters with volunteers and try to cover some new ground, perhaps near the exclusion zone. But it ended up being so much more.
10.08.2011 hits: 12826
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Tunis, Algiers, Cairo, …Shahajanpur?
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On 1st of February 2011 – while riots rocked the Kasbah and downtown Cairo – around 150,000 young people arrived in Bareilly, near Shahajanpur in Uttar Pradesh, India. They came in order to apply for 416 vacancies at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Facing the enormous mass of applicants the local administration called off the hiring procedure. The angry youth started smashing the place up, burnt cars, government and media buildings.
16.03.2011 hits: 11945
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Die Geschichte eines jungen Arbeiters
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We met a 20 years old worker who lives and works in Manesar, near Gurgaon. It is his individual story, but it is at the same time the story of a dominant part of global working class today ...
(GirgaonWorkersNews January 2011)
30.12.2010 hits: 13238
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