In this video Glenn Greenwald analyzes the Internet’s potential. He considers it as as an “incredibly valuable tool” for democratic participation & liberalization but also surfaces the dangers that it can pose if it falls into the hands of unaccountable & concentrated power. According to Greenwald there’s a “battle that is being waged” between the […]
Greenwald: Social Media, Edward Snowden, Activism & Journalism and Solutions Glenn Greenwald is an American lawyer, journalist and author. In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programs, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. The series […]
In this video acTVism Munich interviews William Binney to talk about his experience at the National Security Agency (NSA) where worked for circa 36 years and how he uncovered fraud, crime and corruption at the agency. Other issues that are discussed in detail include the role & significance of whistleblowers in society, scope & capacity of the US intelligence state and solutions that the government as well as the individual can employ to reform the NSA.
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Today I spent some time around local grassroots organizers/activists and the hundreds of #refugees coming into Munich thanks to one of the organizers, Judith Pawlos. At the moment, the support system for refugees is ice thin as there is no guarantee for the core team that volunteers will show up the next day as well. […]
James Galbraith, author of The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth, answered questions that acTVIsm Munich put to him about the crisis in Greece. He provides his analysis on the voting results of the Greek referendum, austerity and its effects on the Eurozone. VIDEO: Interview with James Galbraith Transcript: This is […]
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As much as President Obama needs President Putin’s help on Syria, Iran and other global hotspots, he has fallen in line behind U.S. hardliners in seeking to ratchet up the confrontation over Ukraine and now is trying to bring the Europeans along at the G-7, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. The “G-7 summit” at a resort […]
On the 18th of April 2015, Bündnis STOP TTIP organized a STOP TTIP-Demonstration against transnational agreements such as #TTIP, #TISA and #CETA. An estimated 19,000 people took part in the demonstration. In this acTVism report, we asked experts about the underlying contradictions and problems of free trade agreements and accompanied them with solutions that the individual can implement. […]