acTVism Munich Online TV Program October 2016
Welcome to our online TV program for October 2016. Here you will find everything you need to know about our upcoming videos and projects. This month’s video releases include: Joseph Gerson, Yanis Varoufakis, Noam Chomsky, Edward Snowden and Ernst Wolff.
As an independent and non-profit organization with a very limited budget, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to release the announced content in multiple languages or on the dates stated below. Please consider helping us achieve these targets by supporting us with a donation: Click here.
We will start into the month of October with the release of our interview with Joseph Gerson. Gerson serves as the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) disarmament coordinator, as director of programs in New England, and as director of the Peace and Economic Security Program. He has worked with AFSC since 1976. In 1947, AFSC was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The following questions will be addressed by Gerson in this video:
What role have US military bases traditionally played for US foreign policy architects?
Was President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima in May of 2016 a step forward given that it was the first official visit by the US since it dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in World War II?
What function does the US Air Base in Ramstein, Germany serve and what should grassroots activists take into account when demonstrating against such bases peacefully?
Language: German and English
In our second video release, we will translate and voice-synchronize into German part II of an event that featured Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky and was organized by the New York Public Library. In this part, renowned linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky, and former finance minister and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement Yanis Varoufakis discuss the rise of economics in academia and education as well as its shortcomings.
The following questions will be addressed in this part:
Languages: German and English
Our third release of the month will feature Ernst Wolff. Wolff is the author of “Pillaging the World. The History and Politics of the IMF” and will address the following questions:
For Part I, click here.
Languages: German and English
On the 25th of October, we will continue with our “Reexamining History” series and feature an interview that we held with Prof. Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky will focus on historical developments that seldom, if at all, appear or are discussed in Western mainstream historical literature.
The following questions will be addressed in this video:
Languages: German and English
For our last video of the month, we will translate and synchronize into German the fourth part of an event that was organized by the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences called “A Conversation on Privacy”, which hosted Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky.
In this part the following questions are addressed:
For the previous parts, click here.
Languages: German and English
acTVism Munich plans to continue translating the event organized by the University of Arizona, “A Conversation to Privacy” that hosted Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky. We Munich believe that privacy is a central ingredient to democracy and creating awareness on it on a global scale is of utmost important for the future of human freedom and liberty. We will also continue to translate an event organized by the New York Public Library (NYPL) that hosted Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky. This event took place on the 26th of April, 2016, and focused, amongst other issues, on the state of European democracy; the underlying problems confronting it and the solutions required for meaningful change.
Secondly, acTVism Munich will gain full access to the German government’s national press conference in Berlin in the fall of 2016. This will provide us an opportunity to pose critical questions directly to the German government which will foster awareness on a host of issues seldom discussed in the mainstream media. The attempt is to translate and synchronize the question and answers in English as well.
We lack technical and financial resources to translate the events and press conference mentioned. Furthermore, we will only be able to attend the press conference once in 3 months due to the high costs of travelling and lodging.
Lastly, acTVism Munich received Edward Snowden’s confirmation about participating in a future event known as “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues – Connecting the Dots”. This Event is planned for 15. January 2017 and plans to bring leading experts together to discuss the connections between various issues and reveal the system at work. We believe that we can only arrive at viable solutions by increasing public awareness of the principal and structural faults of our system.
We lack the necessary financial and technical resources to execute the projects, trips and events mentioned above. Since we are a non-profit and independent media outlet that has a strict policy against accepting advertisements, government or corporate support – we depend only on you, the public.
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