Speaking of great videos here's another one that recently caught my attention:
Isn't it absolutely hilarious?! This really is activism at its very best!! :-)
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Monday, July 14, 2008
Austrian politics meets blogging
It's funny how I recently said that I don't like writing about politics but here I am again doing just that. The reason is that a recent blog comment (German only) by Christoph Chorherr from the Austrian Green Party which called for ideas and suggestions for posters for the upcoming elections has been meet with an incredible response: Within 3 days lots of people submitted great designs and the story was quickly picked up by the German blogosphere (ha, Google's spellchecker doesn't recognize the word!). Here are three of my favourites:
Stop smoking
Do more sports
Drink less
Vote Green
Finally do something sensible!
Even with a good economy not everyone is doing good.
We also see it that way.
A grand coalition will fail again.
We also see it that way.
I'm not one to wear clothes with messages advertising political parties but I could almost go for a t-shirt with the top-most design as I certainly think this is a cool slogan.
In general I've been following Christoph Chorherr's blog for probably 1 1/2 years now and most days it's a pretty good read. I certainly consider him to be one of the most interesting and best politicians in Austria. (Admittedly the overall level is so low that this isn't really all that hard.)
Anyway, the jury ist still out there as to whether this thing will have any impact whatsoever on the campaign by the Austrian Green Party. Personally I somewhat doubt it but it's still a cool thing to watch evolve and maybe maybe also a sign of things to come with regards to the role of the Internet as a medium in Austrian politics.
Vote Green
Finally do something sensible!
Even with a good economy not everyone is doing good.We also see it that way.
A grand coalition will fail again.We also see it that way.
I'm not one to wear clothes with messages advertising political parties but I could almost go for a t-shirt with the top-most design as I certainly think this is a cool slogan.
In general I've been following Christoph Chorherr's blog for probably 1 1/2 years now and most days it's a pretty good read. I certainly consider him to be one of the most interesting and best politicians in Austria. (Admittedly the overall level is so low that this isn't really all that hard.)
Anyway, the jury ist still out there as to whether this thing will have any impact whatsoever on the campaign by the Austrian Green Party. Personally I somewhat doubt it but it's still a cool thing to watch evolve and maybe maybe also a sign of things to come with regards to the role of the Internet as a medium in Austrian politics.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Austrian coaltion falls apart
I normally try to stay clear of talking about politics on this blog even though some of my entries are definitely set in a political context.
Regardless of that I do have to say that I wasn't really surprised this morning when I checked the Web sites of Austrian newspapers to find that the current coalition had falled apart and we're very likely to have new elections come September. Obviously I haven't followed the politics back home too closely over the past 3 months but I did notice that there seemed to be no progress whatsoever on any of the important issues at hand. Plus this coalition never really clicked anyway, from day one back in January 2007 up to the very end the whole thing very much felt like a forced marriage.
Now obvious question is: what's next? The likely answer is: Not much.
We're going to see a similar campaign as in the past elections in autumn 2006. Some faces might have changed but overall it's still the same party-politics like 10 years ago. The opposition parties will as always try to make some noise and they will likely fail to achieve anything. The one and only thing that I'm as always afraid of is that (one of) the Austrian right-wing parties could again end up in government. Overall it's different elections, same s***.
It's hard not to be frustrated with politics in this kind of messed up situation and as ever so often I'm coming close to ignoring the whole damn thing in order to focus on other things that matter.
Regardless of that I do have to say that I wasn't really surprised this morning when I checked the Web sites of Austrian newspapers to find that the current coalition had falled apart and we're very likely to have new elections come September. Obviously I haven't followed the politics back home too closely over the past 3 months but I did notice that there seemed to be no progress whatsoever on any of the important issues at hand. Plus this coalition never really clicked anyway, from day one back in January 2007 up to the very end the whole thing very much felt like a forced marriage.
Now obvious question is: what's next? The likely answer is: Not much.
We're going to see a similar campaign as in the past elections in autumn 2006. Some faces might have changed but overall it's still the same party-politics like 10 years ago. The opposition parties will as always try to make some noise and they will likely fail to achieve anything. The one and only thing that I'm as always afraid of is that (one of) the Austrian right-wing parties could again end up in government. Overall it's different elections, same s***.
It's hard not to be frustrated with politics in this kind of messed up situation and as ever so often I'm coming close to ignoring the whole damn thing in order to focus on other things that matter.
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