{"id":1564,"date":"2016-05-25T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:58","slug":"varoufakis-privatization-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/varoufakis-privatization-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanis Varoufakis talks about Privatization, Human Rights &#038; Capitalism with acTVism Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p>In this interview with the former finance minister of Greece and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/diem25.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DiEM25 <\/a>(Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis, a host of issues are discussed which\u00a0 include privatization, human rights, media, his experience with the EU and capitalism\u2019s ability to reform.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will privatization schemes, that are being implemented by the Troika, benefit the Greek people?<\/li>\n<li>Is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/economy_finance\/assistance_eu_ms\/greek_loan_facility\/pdf\/01_mou_20150811_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorandum of Understanding<\/a>\u201d signed by the Greek government last year following the OXI vote compatible with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/UDHR\/Documents\/UDHR_Translations\/eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Declaration of Human Right<\/a>s\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>What should the left do to counter the attacks of the centrist-right media?<\/li>\n<li>What can Varoufakis tell us about the negotiations, which were barred from the public discussion , that he held with the Troika?<\/li>\n<li>Is capitalism reformable?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these questions are addressed in the video below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis Interview<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yanis Varoufakis on Privatization, Human Rights, Media, EU Negotiations &amp; Capitalism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-US9w0Nm8K0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Notable quotes from the interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis on the privatization schemes in Greece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No Greek government since 2010 has owned its economic and social reform policy agenda &#8211; leads to colonial type deals which in the end do not benefit the economy and make the people of the country feel that effectively they have been reduced and exploited and this is never a good feeling to have when you want to reform a country.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis on the issue of writing off Greek debt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>let&#8217;s not forget that Germany was given an opportunity to pick itself up from the boot straps in 1953, only due to the American&#8217;s insistence that the London Conference in 1953 should write off more than 60% of German debt in order to allow this country to fulfill the speech of hope that secretary Barnes issued in Stuttgart. If we condemn a whole generation to permanent poverty because of debts that should have never been accumulated, we are doing a major disservice to Europe.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis on the negotiations that he held with the Troika in 2016 as the Greek finance minister:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I even proposed a debt break, which is a very German thing and it was ignored. Look let&#8217;s be clear about this &#8211; there was never any intention by the other side to reach a normal agreement with us. The only objective was to humiliate a government that dared say to their face that the program that the troika had been implementing for the last 5 years in Greece had failed. It&#8217;s that simple. It was naked power politics of the 19th century type.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis on the establishment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you have an agenda in favour of redistributing from profits to wages, if you have an agenda for taxing the top 0.1% ,in order to bolster low pensions \u2013 you have an uphill battle, because there is a \u201ctriangle of sin\u201d ,as I call it, that is going to oppose you to the end, which is perfectly normal and perfectly natural. The triangle comprises: The media owners, the banking establishment financial sector and those who have a very cosy relationship with the state in terms of procurement and development and so on and so forth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To read the interview transcript,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/031516_Varoufakis_Interview_Transcription_Raza1.pdf\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To watch acTVism Munich\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhxITUni9OWfCYbsCcTSm98MhcLqR0wcn&amp;feature=iv&amp;src_vid=7V5u5xck3v8&amp;annotation_id=annotation_1429857235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video playlist on Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><b>Donate to support independent, non-profit and investigative journalism!<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to support independent and non-profit journalism with a donation!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1283 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"Banner Spende Webseite_E\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-700x233.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E.jpg 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why donate to acTVism Munich?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1381\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chomsky-Snowden-Greenwald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1381 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chomsky-Snowden-Greenwald-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky &amp; Glenn Greenwald\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chomsky-Snowden-Greenwald-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chomsky-Snowden-Greenwald-700x357.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chomsky-Snowden-Greenwald.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky &amp; Glenn Greenwald<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>acTVism Munich plans to continue translating the event organized by the University of Arizona, \u201c<i>A Conversation to Privacy<\/i>\u201d that hosted Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky. acTVism Munich believes that privacy is a central ingredient to democracy and\u00a0 creating awareness on it on a global scale is of utmost important for the future of human freedom and liberty. Secondly, we plan to begin translating an event that was 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 moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>We lack technical and financial resources to translate both of the above mentioned events.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1562\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wikileaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wikileaks-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"wikileaks\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wikileaks-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wikileaks.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the 19th of June 2016, acTVism Munich is planning on travelling to Berlin where WikiLeaks is hosting an event for their founder, <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Julian-Assange\/135936113104134\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=135936113104134\">Julian Assange<\/a>, who has been barred from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London on allegations which have been proven to be false. In this event, the significance of whistleblowing and investigative journalism will be brought to lig<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ht and acTVism Munich will produce a report which will include interviews with Sarah Harrison (Lawyer for Wikileaks), Jacob Appelbaum (Founder of Tor), Hans Christian Str\u00f6bele (Privacy adocate), PJ Harvey (Musician) and Angela Richter (Theatre Director). This event will also be broadcasted globally via the internet in locations such as New York, Sydney, Naples, Quito, London and Geneva. We are anticipating, as with previous events, a media blackout, and hence acTVism Munich aims to cover all the developments that unfold during this event. <\/span>This trip requires your assistance \u2013 from transportation, lodging, food, production and translations costs \u2013 it will be very difficult for our volunteers to raise the necessary financial capital to undertake this trip.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-966\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-966 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/132-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Snowden on acTVism Munich\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/132-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/132-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/132.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lastly, acTVism Munich received Edward Snowden\u2019s confirmation about participating in a future event known as \u201c<i>Freedom &amp; Democracy: Global Issues \u2013 Connecting the Dots<\/i>\u201d. In this event we plan 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.<\/p>\n<p>We lack the necessary financial and technical resources to execute the projects, trips and events mentioned above. 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