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How to lose friends and alienate people. Five lessons from Uber
The popular ridesharing app has been at the centre of numerous controversies in the past months. ‘Delete Uber account’ has become a more and more popular search term as the truth about the company is slowly uncovered. But what caused such a strong international backlash towards the world’s most valuable start-up?Borders
Mikheil Sakashvili’s guide on how to pass the border without a passport
Mikheil Saakashvili and his supporters marched through the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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Poland
The Puzzle of Poland
A quiet but fierce war rages in Poland today for the hearts and minds of the citizenry. The Law and Justice Party appears to have a long-term plan to solidify power by weakening all the levers of democracy and civil society.CEE Weekly Digest
Weekly Press Digest – September 18
Political Critique's weekly selection from the Eastern European press.
Military training and less computer science. Students return to schools in Poland
“We want education, not lies”. Around four hundred people gathered in front of the Ministry of National Education in Warsaw. But even that couldn't stop the government from passing the education bill.
Katrin Nenasheva: As a child, I wanted to become either a clown or a journalist
Ever since the detention of Pussy Riot five years ago, arrests of artists for non-sanctioned spontaneous performances have become the norm. Katrin Nenasheva was detained five times over the last two years — in particular for her anti-war protests.
Ende Gelände: The battle for coal on the potato field
Rhineland, Germany. More than three thousand activists fighting for climate justice tried to close the coal mines and stop power plants. Riot police intervened.
Occupy Lesvos: Refugee resistance at the heart of the border regime
Recent acts of dissent within Moria have met with harsh police violence, and few positive outcomes. So the Afghan protesters …
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Talk Real in Rijeka: Building Coalitions of Power
We travelled to Croatia to talk to activists and scholars about how social movements and other grassroots movements can expand their political influence.PoliticalCritique.org:
The largest Central and Eastern European liberal network of institutions and activists. It consists of the online daily, a quarterly magazine, publishing house, cultural centers and activist clubs in a dozen cities in Poland (and also in Kiev and Berlin), as well as a research centre.
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