Here a selection of sites offering information about the Berlin elections:
Bessere Welt Links - Berlin Election 2011 Link List
Website of the City-State of Berlin Election Commission (in German)
For non-EU citizens who want to vote - period. And EU nationals who would like to cast their ballots for the city-state parliament, not just in the local Continue Reading

Tuli Kupferberg, 86 year old member of the legendary New York underground band The Fugs, has had a stroke. Because of the stroke he has lost his eyesight. There is hope that America will soon revamp their health care system. But many chronically ill people cannot pay their astronomical doctor bills. Kupferberg continues to work Continue Reading

Here’s some more information from the gallery
“We are delighted to be presenting in cooperation with »basis« the exhibition “videotape is not television” from Mar 27-May 8, 2010. This group exhibition brings together works by some of the most important US American video collectives of the 1970s.
In their different ways the collectives Raindance, Ant Farm, T.R Continue Reading

Verdict Announced!
… The five judges at the bank tribunal have announced their verdict. Accordingly to the results, the indicted governments were co-responsible for the bank crisis as well as for their inadequate response to it. Also, the financial institutions were in no way simply “driven by the market”, but were guilty of grossly neglecting their Continue Reading

The short film is based upon Zinn’s essay of the same name and narrated by none other than Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award nominated actor who starred in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eastern Promises (the film that got him the Oscar nomination), Hidalgo and much more. (Mortensen’s rumored next project is the title role Continue Reading

Joan Braderman, whose 80s stand-up media critique classic JOAN DOES DYNASTY is on realeyz.tv, has just released her latest film Heretics. It’s a stylish and insightful documentary about legendary collective second wave feminist journal Heresies.

More information about the project here.

Watch a 10 minute teaser below.

Source: THE SIXTIES blog
 
Rock pioneers THE FUGS - the world’s first major underground/punk group - will release their final, and arguably best-ever studio recording - BE FREE! FINAL CD (PART 2), on February 23, 2010.
 
BE FREE! delivers 14 tracks of pure sonic joy, from the opening psych-rocker “Be Free”, to the transcendent, chill-inducing closer “Greenwich Continue Reading

On realeyz.tv, you can watch CLASS DISMISSED , Howard Zinn’s Paper Tiger video that discusses the way history is taught US schools. Howard Zinn also gives a statement in AXIS OF EVIL, a film that looks at the way politics defines “evil”.
An interesting overview on the life of Howard Zinn, with commentary by Noam Chomsky Continue Reading

The International Erich Fromm Society recognizes with this award the lifework of Noam Chomsky, especially his - from public opinion uninfluenced - political convictions, which center on the right to life and dignity of all of mankind, especially perhaps the powerless. As did Erich Fromm, Chomsky boldly and deliberately speaks a language of reason that Continue Reading