{"id":6095,"date":"2020-02-28T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:44","slug":"julian-assange-yanis-varoufakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/julian-assange-yanis-varoufakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange &#8211; Belmarsh Prison visit by Yanis Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Julian Assange &#8211; Belmarsh Prison visit by Yanis Varoufakis<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>23rd of February, 2020: In this video we talk to Yanis Varoufakis at Belmarsh Prison in London and gain insights on the condition of Julian Assange. Yanis Varoufakis visited Julian Assange with John Shipton (father of Assange) earlier on the same day. In addition we discuss the position of the German government towards Assange and examine the future of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>To view the our recent videos on this topic,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0Julian Assange &#8211; Belmarsh Prison visit by Yanis Varoufakis<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julian Assange - Belmarsh Prison visit by Yanis Varoufakis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rDs78JLgiQ?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>To watch more of our videos with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT YANIS VAROUFAKIS &amp; DiEM25<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3911 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400.jpg 400w\" alt=\"Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Yanis Varoufakis<\/strong>\u00a0is a professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). Varoufakis is also the author of several books on the European debt crisis, the financial imbalance in the world and game theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DiEM25<\/strong>\u00a0is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats that is focused on addressing the economic and social problems faced by Europe today. It provides an alternative to austerity policies that it\u00a0 argues are dividing the continent and fueling the rise of \u201cinternational nationalists\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video we travel to the Belmarsh prison in London and talk to Yanis Varoufakis to gain insights on the condition of Julian Assange. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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