Reverend Billy made it onto the ballot

Great news for New York City. Reverend Billy’s dedicated street team has managed to collect 18,000 signatures and thereby cleared the path for at least one trustworthy candidate at the upcoming election for the mayor position in the worlds greatest city. From the newsletter: “More than 100 of you collected over 18,000 signatures. We are […]

Violent police raid against Iraq fugitives in Copenhagen last night

Last night, Danish police raided Brorsonkirken (Brorson Church), which has served as shelter for a large group of Iraqis that have been denied political asylum and are awaiting being sent back to Iraq. The case is highly controversial and has split the country into two groups; those in favor of the repatriation and those – […]

Climate Greenwash Award winner announced: Vattenfall!

This weekend, an alliance consisting of Corporate Europe Observatory, Attac, Klimabevægelsen (Danish for ‘Climate Movement’), KlimaX and NOAH held the so-called ‘Climate Greenwash Award’-show in Denmark. A satirical event aimed at creating critical awareness of the Business Summit held in Denmark the very same weekend. From the Climate Greenwash Award website: Big business is keen […]

Police beating up G20 protesters – and bystanders

What is it with some law enforcement officers and their absurd way of keeping peace during protests against financial summits such as the recent G20-meeting? It seems that the people protesting against hypercapitalism are considered as outlaws by just being present. How many examples of police brutality against such rallies have we seen in recent […]

Fictitious Capital

Was Marx right? Richard Metzger asks in this thought-inspiring post at the Boing Boing blog. Here’s an excerpt: “Watching the news with the G20 protesters in London carrying banners reading “Capitalism Failed Us” and “Marx was Right!” I felt quite good about the day’s events. In 1983 and 1984, I was living in London and […]

Save the Union Square Pavillion

Since moving back to Denmark from New York City in February 2008, I’ve followed the public debate of the Union Square Pavillion closely. In short, the great landmark is facing privatization by being sold to private entrepreneurs that will turn it from being a public accessible building into becoming a up-scaled restaurant. If you have […]

Remixes of British anti-terror posters

Time for another funny post based on dead-serious background: The brilliant Boing Boing blog has thrown a remix challenge, where it’s readers were asked to “mock the ridiculous new ‘anti-terrorism’ posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors.” Here are the best 25 of what people came up […]

Reverend Billy for mayor of New York!

Reverend Billy, of the advocacy group Church Of Life After Shopping (previously Church of Stop Shopping), has announced running for the position of mayer of New York City for the Green Party of the United States! While his chances are slimmer than zero, I can think of no New Yorker I would rather see sit […]

Bonnichsen receives another idealist prize

Former head of Danish law enforcement intelligence agency PET, Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, has received another idealist prize – this time given by the Livia Foundation, a proliferation of Center For Konfliktløsning (Danish for the Conflict Resolution Center). Read the piece in Danish newspaper Politiken. For those unfamiliar with Bonnichsen, he is known to be an […]

Brave New Films

I would like to present a great phenomenon that I’ve learned of recently (from reading an article in Danish newspaper, Information – it’s in Danish, read it here). The phenomenon is a small compony by the name of Brave New Films, an Los Angeles-based independent film production company, founded by Robert Greenwald, specializing in creating […]