Here’s the story of how the Danish government and police, acting on behalf of an extreme right-wing religious cult group with mucho kroner, tore down the building at Jagtvej 69, Copenhagen, where International Women’s Day was first organized in 1910 by such legendary feminist fighters as Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg:
and the determined resistance of the young people, artists, hippies and anarchists that tried to save the “Ungdomshuset”, or Youth House:
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Categories: Anarchism · Culture · Politics · Punk
No, it’s not another silly name-recognition 2008 horserace poll. It’s not even another case of Bush falling to all-time lows, sweet as those are. This is more significant. It’s not about American attitudes toward the war in Iraq, or even Iraqi attitudes toward the US occupation. It’s even more significant than any of those, and it contradicts much or all of the conventional wisdom about American attitudes about the world.
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Categories: Peace · Politics · War
