March 2009
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French Sony Workers Hold Boss Hostage →
“Taking a boss hostage is becoming an increasingly common protest gesture in France. Last year, the English boss of a car-parts factory in eastern France was held for 48 hours in his office, sleeping on a massage table and being provided with blankets and sandwiches. He said he felt like “a prisoner in Alcatraz”.
In another incident last year, police stormed an ice-cream...
Madagascar troops refuse to fire on protestors →
“On Sunday the depth of the crisis and the level of social discontent in Madagascar directly affected a group of soldiers of the Army Corps of Personnel and Administrative and Technical Services who had been ordered to move against protestors on the streets. The soldiers refused to obey orders to fire on the people and repress anti-government demonstrators. Following this, they then...
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can...”
– Schopenhauer
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Shepard Fairey Threatens Trademark Infringement →
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“It is not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.”
– David Merrick
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France Refuses Sale of Debord's Personal Archives... →
“The French state has refused to allow the personal archives of the founder of the Situationist International to leave France. The injunction of 29 January [2009], signed by the Minister of Culture, Christine Albane, and published on Thursday in The Official Journal, stipulates that the archives assume “a great importance for the history of the ideas of the second half of the 20th...